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'The Doctor of Alcantara': History Makes a House Call

Sometimes, if you want to hear a certain kind of music, you have to put it on yourself. This was true in 1873, when the Colored American Opera Company, Washington's first resident opera company, mounted an operetta called "The Doctor of Alcantara," by Julius Eichberg. And it is still true in 2008:...
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Shelley Brown
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Millicent Scarlett
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