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AMERICA, SAYS SIB THOMAS • BEECHAM. : "]
(Received sth November, 2.30 pan.} ' LONDON, 4th November.' Concluding his remarks on music >$ England, Sir Thomas Beecham' saifl:—• "The home for English opera will bo America, not England. We had plenty; of money after the war, but wasted it in strikes. Germany has 100' .opera houses, and 150 orchestras. InJjJam you can scarcely find room at the'h!ghfc» ly concerts, and so ; it is everywhere' bu in England. This country is at its enojj it is the twilight of the gods." ' The British Broadcasting Cbmpanjfc said Sir Thomas Beecham's castigatkwnj were too ridiculous to wararnt 'scriodf consideration.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8
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