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Elliott H. Pendleton, '82, is president of the Cincinnati Appolo Club. He expects to get up a musical festival for that city this winter, at which Mr. George Riddle may read the "Tempest" with Sullivan's music, and the "CEdipus" with Prof. Paine's music, the composer conducting...
Mendelssohn's music to Sophocles "$CEdipus at Colonus" will be given at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, May 2d, with a male chorus of nearly two hundred voices, and the full German orchestra. George Riddle, of Cambridge, Mass. who has made so marked a success in representations of this description, says Progress, will assist...
When it was authoritatively announced that a company of professional actors would produce the "$CEdipus," there were many doubts expressed as to the artistic success of the undertaking. If we ourselves entertained any such thoughts, we must confess that all fears in that direction were dispelled upon attending the rehearsal which took place yesterday at the Globe Theatre...
With the exception of that of $CEdipus all the parts are rendered in English; we had expected, with many others, that this use of two languages would seriously mar the beauty of the work, but we find that for a promiscuous audience it will only enhance the interest and enable them to better gain the needful understanding of the tragedy. The actors, all carefully chosen, enter thoroughly into the spirit of the great work which they are to perform. It is needless for us to speak of the wonderful acting of Mr. George Riddle, whose fame has already been established...