Word: britannia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the repeat performance of the original "Rule Britannia" tonight, the Adams House Musical Society will close its concert, its season, and its short but brilliant career. For over a year it has provided music rarely heard, from early madrigals to the one Gilbert and Sullivan opera nobody over hears. It has proved that music seldom heard can be fun to hear and fun to perform. Now it graduates...
Died. Edward Agar Horatio Nelson, fifth Earl Nelson, 90, great-great nephew of Britain's Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) and last to get the "perpetual" ?5,000-a-year pension to Nelson's heirs; in London. The Socialist government unilaterally canceled Britannia's promise to the man who made her Mistress of the Seas...
...liquids had their effect, and some escorts and escortees were reported to have driven back to Boston singing such ditties as "Alouette," "rule Britannia," and "God Save the King...
...Britain Conquered!" Acta began by reporting the year 55 B.C. because there was plenty going on then. CLASSIS ROMANA INGENS PARATUR (BIG ROMAN ARMADA GETTING READY), Screamed its headlines. "Quando Caesar ad Britanniam navigaturus est?" (When will Caesar sail for Britain?) Three issues later, Acta bannered BRITANNIA VICTA! (BRITAIN CONQUERED'). By last week, the editors were up to 49 B.C. Gaul had been subdued. Caesar had crossed the Rubicon...
...time the Adams House Chorus had thundered the final chorus of "Rule Britannia" Friday night, it had proved two things: first, that Adams House has more than a swimming pool and good food, and second, that little-known music can find as receptive an audience as the more hackneyed stuff...