<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi Matthew, </div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Have you read <span style="color:rgb(10,10,10)"><i>Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980 </i>by Venus Green? It's not connected to Opera per see but it is related to your research and an excellent read. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><ul><li><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Green, Venus. 2001.<b> <i style="box-sizing:inherit">Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980</i></b>. Durham: Duke University Press.<br></font></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Here are some other books that might interest you:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><ul><li><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Henson, Karen, ed. 2013. <b><i style="box-sizing:inherit">Technology and the Diva: Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age</i>.</b> Cambridge Studies in Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031240">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031240</a>.<br></font></li><li><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">London Opera House (London, Ont.). 1900. <i style="box-sizing:inherit"><b>London Opera House, Programme: Matinee and Night, Saturday, April 21st ... the New York Casino's Greatest Success 'the Telephone Girl', a Musical Comedy in Two Acts ..</b>. </i><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Written by Hugh Morton, Music by Gustave Kerker</span>. <br></span></font></li><li><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thorau<font color="#000000">, Christian, and Hansjakob Ziemer, eds. 2018. </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries</i>. </b><font color="#000000">Oxford Handbooks Online. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. (</font><font color="#38761d">this talks about the opera-telephone in Munich</font><font color="#000000">)</font><br></span></font></li><li><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kość Grzegorz, and Krzysztof Majer. 2009. <b><i style="box-sizing:inherit">Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice</i>. </b>Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.</span></font></li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Feel free to reach out anytime. Happy to help.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Kirsten</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div dir="auto"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#a64d79">Kirsten Hawson</font></b><font color="#666666"> </font></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">Artist-Scholar | Voice & Dialect Coach</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">PhD Candidate - McGill University</font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.kirstenhawson.com/" target="_blank">www.kirstenhawson.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 19:40, Matthew Tomkinson <<a href="mailto:matttomkinson@gmail.com">matttomkinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Candrama subscribers,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am currently researching "opera by telephone" in BC, and have only come across one or two productions so far that incorporated this technology. <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In 1893, G.C. Hodge (manager of the Burrard Inlet and New Westminster Telephone Company) set up a few receivers in the rafters of Herring's Opera House in New Wesminster. In doing so, he claims to have invented the first proto-radio in the province.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A couple years later, in 1895, he did the same for a performance of <i>The Pirates of Penzance</i>, which was broadcast to Vancouver, Ladner, Cloverdale, Whatcom, Seattle, and St. Mary's hospital just down the street from the theatre.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I'm wondering if anyone might have further info about this short-lived period of media history, or any potential leads re: earlier and/or later examples of the theatrophone in action.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks!<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Matthew</div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:black">___________________</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="color:black">Matthew <span><span><span>Tomkinson</span></span></span> </span></b><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b><span style="color:black">PhD</span><span style="color:black">, Theatre Studies,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> UBC</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br>
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on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the
qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), and
sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations.</span></font></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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