Identifier: morechaptersofop00kreh (find matches)
Title: More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923
Subjects: Opera
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of loveand AllHer falser self slipt from her like a robe,And left her woman, lovelier in her moodThan in her mould that other when she cameFrom barren deeps to conquer all with love. But even here it requires but a word to loose the fanaticaldemon within her. Gwynn had pleaded his love and wonher to a confession of tenderness. He is glad and wishesher to know that she has fashioned her countrys happinesswith her own: Gwynn: This nightThou hast saved Britain! Mona:Britain. . . . Let me go! It was only as an opera composer that Professor Parkerwas a novice, and since the production of Mona he haswritten another opera which had a production before a gath-ering of musical clubs in Los Angeles, California. Of itsmusic I shall not speak, for, though it marked a materialdeparture from that of Mona, I have but seen it on theprinted page, and only hearing is believing in the art ofsounds. Before he essayed the dramatic field, however, hehad written much and well in nearly all the forms, large
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Louise HomerIn Mona PROFESSOR PARKERS METHODS 263 and small, except the symphony, his only essay in this de-partment, I believe, having been made in his student daysat Munich nearly a generation ago. In all this music,whether vocal or instrumental, he had been a frank andgraceful melodist, a respecter of form, and a masterly con-trapuntist. It surprised his friends not a little, therefore,that in his first adventure in the operatic field he was willingto forego to a large extent his characteristic lyricism andin its place to substitute dramatic declamation over an or-chestral part restless in ever-shifting tonality. At timesthis orchestral part achieved symphonic consistency andfluency and rose to eloquence in the climacteric moments,as in the love duet, the final speech of Mona, and when pro-pelled by the rhythmic pulses of the Roman march itbrought agreeable and much-needed energy into the score,which had suffered from long stretches of monotony im-posed by the interminable dialogue

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