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Music
Hutchinson, Hubeard | February 12, 1930 issue

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The recent and excellent performances of the American Opera Company again raise the vexed question, and seem to answer it by their success. At the cost of time and research they have secured new translations. People who would never brave a symphonic concert flock to its doors because it offers them a "story," that most immediate appeal to the imagination. It cunningly persuades them in with the promise of a tale to be told and then, quite aware of its inability to make that tale clear, traitorously hands them the sop of a plot synopsis and goes about its chief business--the unfolding of a structure of sonority.

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BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; MUSIC; OPERA; DRAMA; CONCERTS; UNITED States
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