Identifier: romanticdaysinol00lccraw (find matches)
Title: Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life 19th century
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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spire a large number of peoplewith such belief in the success of his undertakingthat they were willing to become its financialguarantors. Accordingly, a wooden building ofgood acoustic properties was erected about wherethe Copley Plaza now stands, — a buildingcapable of holding fifty thousand persons, in-cluding a chorus of ten thousand and the greatorchestra already mentioned! The first question which arises in connectionwith this monster festival is — where didthe ten thousand trained chorus singers comefrom.f^ The answer is from all over NewEngland. This was the era of the Yankeesinging school and of the so-called musicalconventions. On these latter occasions famousoratorios were usually given, and young singerslike Annie Louise Cary, — who died only lately,— found a favorable opportunity to begin theirsolo career. Nearly every oratorio worthy ofmention was thus known, either entire or inpart, to music lovers throughout New England.And nearly all these people were ready and
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