Music: Modern

Recently music lovers and joyous undergraduates alike, were pleased at the news that Arthur Honegger, famed modern French composer, is constructing an opera about the theme of a U. S. football match. He has already done a "symphonic movement" representing a locomotive, "Pacific 231." Last week Herbert M. Johnson, manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, landed from Italy in Manhattan, announced that Mary Garden "is tremendously enthusiastic over the potentialities of still another new opera Judith which is to be her piece de resistance in the coming season,"— the Judith of Arthur Honegger.

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