The Wreckers (opera) her friend Mary Dodge. Describing the opera in the "New Grove Dictionary", Stephen Banfield notes "Its greatest strength is in its dramatic strategy, strikingly prophetic of (Britten's) "Peter Grimes" in details such as the offstage church service set against the foreground confrontation in Act 1." However, Amanda Holden makes the point that, musically, Smyth is "no Wagnerite, she makes use of his motivic technique, while the texture, orchestration, and even some of the music's dramatic density, show knowledge of the works of Richard Strauss ... but it also slips too readily into operatic convention." Old tales of Cornish villages where,
Mason Grimes Mason Grimes Mason Douglas Grimes (born October 21, 1992) is a Guamanian international footballer who plays as a defender, most recently for Tulsa Roughnecks and the Guam national football team. Grimes played college soccer at California State University San Marcos between 2010 and 2014. Seeing action in all four years with the Cougars, Grimes was a starter for the Cougars his final two years. During his junior season in 2013, Grimes started all 17 games at the center back position and helped CSUSM to 7 shutouts and a 0.86 goals against average. In his senior season in 2014, Grimes anchored