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5 unusual facts about Charles Wakefield Cadman


Angelo Badà

At the Met he sang in the world premieres of several operas, including Giacomo Puccini's, La fanciulla del West (1910), Umberto Giordano's Madame Sans-Gêne (1915), Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis (1918), Puccini's Il tabarro (1918), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (1918), Albert Wolff's, L'oiseau bleu (1919), and Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson (1931).

Blair Fairchild

Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Charles Sanford Skilton, Arthur Nevin, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he is sometimes grouped among the Indianists, although he had only a marginal association with their work.

Luigi von Kunits

Another von Kunits's pupil of note was the U.S. composer Charles Wakefield Cadman, Canadian composers Harry Adaskin and Murray Adaskin.

Marie Tiffany

She performed in several world premieres at the Met, including Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims (1917), Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis (1918), Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico (1918), Albert Wolff's L'oiseau bleu (1919), and Henry Kimball Hadley's Cleopatra's Night (1920).

Thurlow Lieurance

He is frequently classed with a number of his contemporaries, including Charles Wakefield Cadman, Arthur Nevin, Charles Sanford Skilton, Preston Ware Orem, and Arthur Farwell, as a member of the Indianist movement in American music.


Indianist movement

Chief practitioners of the form included Charles Sanford Skilton, Arthur Nevin, Arthur Farwell, and Charles Wakefield Cadman; many other composers were also involved in the craze at various points throughout their careers.

Marie Sundelius

She also created roles in several world premieres at the Met, including Johanna in Reginald De Koven's The Canterbury Pilgrims (1917), Amy Everton in Charles Wakefield Cadman's Shanewis (1918), the Monitress in Suor Angelica (1918), and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi (1918).


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