He tells how Abbey's first disastrous Italian season was followed by seven seasons of German Opera under Leopold Damrosch and Stanton, how this was temporarily eclipsed by French and Italian, and then returned to dwell with them in harmony, thanks to Walter Damrosch's brilliant crusade,-- also of the burning of the opera house, the vicissitudes of the American Opera Company, the coming and passing of Grau and Conried, and finally the opening of Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House and the first two seasons therein, 1906-08.
"The most complete and authoritative ...

pre-eminently the man to write the book ...

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Delightfully engaging manner, with humor, allusiveness and an abundance of the personal note."-- _Richard Aldrich in New York Times Review._ ROMAIN ROLLAND'S JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DAWN.

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