A Forgotten Heritage: Arias and Scenes from Earlier American Operas

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dc.contributor.authorZiegel, Aaron
dc.contributor.programMusic for the Stageen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-20T20:17:57Z
dc.date.available2017-11-20T20:17:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-28
dc.description.abstractThis selection of recordings presents six arias and scenes excerpted from Romantic-era American operas performed by Towson University’s “Music for the Stage” ensemble as part of a scholarly symposium entitled “Composing American Opera” held in February 2015. Each number is a representative highlight drawn from little-known and undeservedly forgotten contributions to the early operatic heritage of the United States. Arias from Arthur Clifton’s The Enterprise and George F. Bristow’s Rip Van Winkle illustrate 19th-century trends, especially the ways in which composers grappled with the imported influences of Italian bel canto and German Romantic opera. Selections from Frederick S. Converse’s The Sacrifice, Mary Carr Moore’s Narcissa, Henry Hadley’s Azora, and Charles Wakefield Cadman’s Shanewis illustrate the development of a distinctively American operatic idiom during the 1910s. During this decade, for the first time in the nation’s history, numerous new scores were regularly and consistently being composed, published, produced, critiqued by the press, staged in multiple cities, and sometimes even heard in excerpts on recordings. The U.S. was at last engaged in the making of operatic history, rather than simply receiving it second-hand from Europe. The rarity of this repertory is highlighted by the fact that none of the selections presented here are currently available in commercially released recordings. -Dr. Aaron Ziegel, Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultureen_US
dc.genrecommentaries
dc.genrelibrettos
dc.genreoperas (performances)en_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2TM72272
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7453
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.titleA Forgotten Heritage: Arias and Scenes from Earlier American Operasen_US
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dc.typeSounden_US

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