Bluebeard; a musical fantasy

pubOne.info present you this new edition. More than a dozen years ago musical scholars and critics began to illuminate the musical darkness of New York with lecture-recitals explanatory of the more abstruse German operas. Previous to this era no one had ever thought, for instance, of unfolding the story, or the "e;Leit motive"e; (if there happened to be any! ), in "e;The Bohemian Girl, "e; "e;Maritana, "e; or "e;Martha. "e; These and many other delightful but thoroughly third-class works unfolded themselves as they went along, to the entire satisfaction of a public so unbelievably care-free, happy, thoughtless, childlike, uninstructed, that it hardly seems as if they could have been our ancestors.