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Music
Finck, Henry T. | April 4, 1918 issue

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It is a singular fact that while many countries have added to the world's stock of good music, only four of them have produced first-class operas: Italy, France, Germany, and Austria. Some years ago the directors of the Metropolitan Opera House decided to open its doors to American composers. Victor Herbert had previously composed an excellent opera "Natoma," produced by Chicago Opera Co., which has sung it thirty-five times. The sensation of Herbert's opera was the native "Dagger Dance." To match this, Charles Wakefield Cadman has, in his opera, a quartet of medicine men singing an aboriginal song with the accompaniment of gourd rattles.

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OPERA; HERBERT, Victor; DRAMATIC music; SONGS; MUSIC; ITALY
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