Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressure from the state legislature forced the administration of the University of Texas to withdraw a Negro student from the cast of the college opera: Dido and Aeneas...
Barbara Smith, a freshman at UT, was cast six months ago as Dido, but one week before opening she was told by the administration that she would not appear in the opera. The reasons given were: "to insure Miss Smith's well-being and to quelch any possibility that her appearance would precipitate a cut in the University's appropriations in the state legislature...
...representatives, according to Wilson, contacted him the day after the University's decision to suspend Miss Smith from the cast. Wilson was quoted as saying that legislative opinion "had no bearing on the decision...
Good & "Loverly." Because there are so many eager applicants for the workshop, roles are often double-cast; e.g., at last week's rehearsal there were two Rodolfos (Lindsey Bergen alongside Tenor Surface), and all of the singers double as members of the chorus. In all, nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles...
Evidence introduced at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society here has cast doubt on conclusions drawn in 1914 by Percival Lowell '76 which later led to the discovery of the planet Pluto...