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- Dr. Harlan Jennings, associate professor of music at Michigan State University, presents "Horace Tabor, Baby Doe, and Denver's Tabor Grand Opera House." Jennings examines the role of the railroad in spreading opera to the West during the late 19th century and the early stagings of opera in Colorado as a preface to exploring the rise and fall of Horace Tabor and his Grand Opera House in Denver. Jennings explores Tabor's rise to wealth in the silver mines of Leadville, Colorado and his affair with Baby Doe which led to his eventual downfall and the sale of his Grand Opera House. Jennings answers questions from the audience after the presentation. He is introduced by MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-10-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor of Music Harlan Jennings delivers a talk at the MSU Main Library entitled, "Her Majesty's Opera Company in Kansas City". Jennings describes the nineteenth century cross country tours of British impresario James Henry Mapleson and Henry Abbey's Metropolitan Opera, as they compete for crowds, popularity and operatic supremacy in the heartland of the United States. A question and answer session follows. MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen introduces Jennings. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Marcie Ray, ethnomusicologist and assistant professor of musicology at the Michigan State University College of Music, delivers a talk entitled, "Love, sex and greed : reflecting gender and class in French comic opera," at the Michigan State University Museum. Ray describes the history of the French aristocracy, beginning with King Louis XIV, and the role it played in the development of French opera. Ray answers questions from the audience. Ray is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center. Part of the University's Project 60/50. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Professor of Music Harlan Jennings delivers a talk entitled, "Nebraska Memories: Opera and Willa Cather." Jennings describes how Nebraska's Platte River Valley served as the Midwest's first interstate highway, attracting not only pioneers but some of the nineteenth century's greatest singers. He explains the draw of opera in the late nineteen and early twentieth centuries calling the performers the "rock stars" of their era. Jennings talks about the chronicler of plains life novelist Willa Cather, who as an undergraduate English major at the University of Nebraska, wrote critiques of those renowned performers for local newspapers. Jennings profiles various performers and reads excerpts from Cather's critiques. A question and answer session follows. MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen introduces Jennings. Held at the MSU Main Library. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-10-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection