Albert Kinross

Name: An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9
Author: Albert Kinross

An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

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“An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9”, published in 1900, is a work by Albert Kinross. It explores elements such as Sopwith, Harvey and Isabella.

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ As for the unannounced effects which followed, the audience's contributions, their additions to the official harmonies, he had taken these lightly, more as an interested spectator than as something affecting himself.
When, after the finale, the Hopgood-Smyths had vented vain applause, Harvey had smiled incredulously and helped the Countess into her cloak; at Sopwith's unexpected reappearance, curiosity had blended with his scepticism. The gallery's rising disapproval made him pause.
"Surely it wasn't bad enough for all this fuss—heaven save a man from such friends!" ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ There was, indeed, no cause for shame in the effort; its public appearance was its one sin, it had no right to thrust itself thus brazenly upon a busy world. The conscientious and scholarly critic in the stalls viewed the thing not altogether unfavourably. Of that whole audience, perhaps he and Harvey alone knew Isabella's proper place, assessed it at its real value. It had taught its author how to write. Matter, direct and sure emotion, the great sanity, might come with the years.
The curtain had fallen amid a stubborn silence that ended in a sigh of relief. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ Harvey, quick to feel the workings, the several provocations which had given rise to this tumult, sympathised momentarily with the upper circles, the outraged deities above. Momentarily, however; for at last the sublimity of his own position reached him, crowned this bevy of unrealities with the one essential, the one deep-rooted fact. He recognised in himself the unseen dramatist. It was he who had set these players in motion. Without him, all this theatre, with its perspiring audience, disordered composer, performers and management, had been but an empty shell. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ A sudden fall of the curtain hid him from the audience, ended the hubbub, and he was left alone upon the boards to face the furious management.
Thus ended the first and last performance of Sopwith's initial effort towards the regeneration of the British Operatic Stage; in a scene memorable alike to spectators and participants, a scene that afforded the critics even more scope than the work itself, the musical world an even greater degree of delectation. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ Harvey, impassive as a Beethoven, displaying even some of that master's greatness in the stoicism with which he received impact after impact, a succession of shocks that would have doubly and trebly destroyed the composure of a lesser man, had looked on imperturbable, through the final act, with its succeeding engagement, rout, débâcle. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ Here the lovers were imprisoned. Francesca opened the Act with Isabella's recitative, lamenting her own and her lover's impending doom in very similar terms to Isabella's account of the vision. Paolo interrupted this mournful declamation with Lorenzo's answering tones, transposed, more robustly set—for he was not singing from somewhere underground. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ Francesca of Rimini, with all its faults, was of native growth, was deserving of sympathy as the plucky though unsuccessful attempt of a British composer to attain to a place beside the pre-eminent foreigner. More in sorrow than in anger, therefore, did the multitude prepare for departure.
In the boxes and stalls, however, a different and a less sentimental spirit prevailed. Here the decorum, the self-respect of the upper circles was replaced by a far-spreading display of foolishness. Sopwith's friends and patrons, the Mrs. ”

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Albert Kinross, An Opera and Lady Grasmere — BOOK II. Chapter 9 (1900)

“ What if he should cry "Silence!" from his box and explain that he was the real culprit, the identical; that they were wasting their energies, their wind and muscle upon an innocent man; that the wretch they were hounding was altogether blameless ”

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