New World's John Bray: The Indian Princess/Raynor Taylor: The Ethiop is a combination of a key LP issued in 1978 featuring musicologist Victor Fell Yellin's reconstructed performances of the earliest two surviving works of musical theater in American history. While opera performances were already underway in the Spanish-speaking New World by the first years of the eighteenth century, it wasn't until the Chestnut Street Theater opened in Philadelphia in 1791 that operas were given in North America. Music for the Chestnut ...
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New World's John Bray: The Indian Princess/Raynor Taylor: The Ethiop is a combination of a key LP issued in 1978 featuring musicologist Victor Fell Yellin's reconstructed performances of the earliest two surviving works of musical theater in American history. While opera performances were already underway in the Spanish-speaking New World by the first years of the eighteenth century, it wasn't until the Chestnut Street Theater opened in Philadelphia in 1791 that operas were given in North America. Music for the Chestnut Street Theater was composed by able, Scottish-born composer Alexander Reinagle, but all of the music for such productions perished when an arsonist burnt down the Chestnut Street in 1820. That leaves two works of the early nineteenth century to answer our curiosity about such milestones, Boston-born actor/composer John Bray's 1808 effort The Indian Princess and older, English-born composer Raynor Taylor's The Ethiop (1814), both of which were originally heard at Chestnut Street as well....
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John Bray; Raynor Taylor. Poor. Used-Acceptable, withdrawn library disc(s) with liner notes. Disc(s) should play great without any playback issues. Disc(s) & liner notes may contain typical library markings like stickers, protective label covers, & writing. Discs may be repackaged in library style casing. Back artwork & any other promo material not included.
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