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Standing firmly, foursquare, on the theory that English is the artistic medium for opera in the U. S. the Chicago Opera Company presented earlier this season Charles Wakefield Cadman's Witch of Salem, a U. S. opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...Polish art. It has always been welcome. Yet to many Americans, a native pride has long cried out for musical interpretation of America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged by an American, Charles Moor, sung, in the tenor role, by an American, Charles Hackett...
Composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...Belmont, led the group of fifteen nominees, and accordingly will serve as Chairman of the Committee. The other elected committeemen are. Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston; William Partridge Ellison of Newton; Bayard Livingston Kilgour of Cincinnati, Ohio; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John New bold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Colorado...
John Newbold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island...