Word: bacchus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening night began with a loud and brassy treatment of Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia," and closed with a loud and brassy treatment of "Stars and Stripes Forever." In between, the orchestra played the usual Pops potpourri ranging from Tchaikovsky to Irving Berlin. The musicians, all members of the B.S.O., played well on the whole, with the exception of their rather lackadaisical reading of Komzak's "Girls of Baden" Waltz. The highlight of the program was Milhand's clever little Fantasy for piano and orchestra, with the young and brilliant Eugene List as soloist...
Included in the program are Handel's suite from the music for the Royal Fireworks; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude, by Honegger; Bacchus at Ariane, from Roussel's Ballot Second Suite, Opus 43; and Beethoven's Symphony Number Three in E-flat major, the Eroica, Opus Number Five...
...Saunderstown, Thompson is famous for everything. Everything, that is, except being a Harvard professor and widely known composer. He has, for example, a reputation for being an outstanding charade player, a distinction he gained by such escapades as twining himself in ivy leaves to play Bacchus and giving a performance of the "Dying Swan...
Advocate officers are still considering the role of the Annex representatives. One of them mused last night, "We have a Pegasus, a Bacchus--there's room for a Nymph...
...elections last night ending the Advocate spring candidacy, Fred J. English '51, David Gordon '51, Geore Kelley '53, and Charles Neuhauser '53 were elected Literary Associates. Robert H. Cole '52 was elected to the Business Board, and B. N. Joyner '52 was elected Bacchus...