[Candrama] Question re: Theatrophones

[Kirsten Hawson]

Hi Matthew,

Have you read *Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell
System, 1880–1980 *by Venus Green? It's not connected to Opera per see but
it is related to your research and an excellent read.

   - Green, Venus. 2001.* Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology
   in the Bell System, 1880-1980*. Durham: Duke University Press.


Here are some other books that might interest you:

   - Henson, Karen, ed. 2013. *Technology and the Diva: Sopranos, Opera,
   and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age.* Cambridge Studies in
   Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031240.
   - London Opera House (London, Ont.). 1900. *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 ... *Written by Hugh Morton, Music by Gustave Kerker.
   - Thorau, Christian, and Hansjakob Ziemer, eds. 2018. *The Oxford
   Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries. *Oxford
   Handbooks Online. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University
Press. (this
   talks about the opera-telephone in Munich)
   - Kość Grzegorz, and Krzysztof Majer. 2009. *Tools of Their Tools:
   Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice. *Newcastle
   upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.

Feel free to reach out anytime. Happy to help.

Kirsten

*Kirsten Hawson*
Artist-Scholar | Voice & Dialect Coach
PhD Candidate - McGill University
www.kirstenhawson.com

On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 19:40, Matthew Tomkinson <matttomkinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Candrama subscribers,
>
> I am currently researching "opera by telephone" in BC, and have only come
> across one or two productions so far that incorporated this technology.
>
> 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.
>
> A couple years later, in 1895, he did the same for a performance of *The
> Pirates of Penzance*, which was broadcast to Vancouver, Ladner,
> Cloverdale, Whatcom, Seattle, and St. Mary's hospital just down the street
> from the theatre.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks!
> Matthew
> ___________________
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