Music: In Quebec

If music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival.

For this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours.

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