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AYLWARD -- Radcliffe Choral Society, Assistant Manager (1967-68), Manager (1968-69); Radcliffe Freshman Chorus, Publicity Manager; Radcliffe Athletic Association, Secretary; Leverett House Opera, The Fantasticks, Cosi Fan Tutte; R.G.A. Representative (1966-67); Senior Sister; Major: Far Eastern History...
This can be most readily seen in the phenomenon of Harvard musical stage productions. Since Cosi fantutte at Leverett two years ago, there has been a steady escalation in the size and difficulty of productions. Last year there were productions of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Britten's The Turn of the Screw: this year it was hard to decide whether to be more impressed by Leverett's production of The Marriage of Figaro or the Bach Society-Music Club concert performance of Fidelio. The more ambitions these projects become, the more time, money...
Ever since Mozart's Cosi Fan tutte was produced at Leverett House two years ago, musical theatre at Harvard has suffered from a bad case of escalation. L'Histoire du Soldat, Don Giovanni; and The Marriage of Figaro followed-in quick succession, and one shuddered to think where Harvard musicians would go from there...
...loose on a masterpiece that is easily maimed in performance and only too notorious for its structural lapses and dramatic incongruities. Far sounder cases can be made for the recent Lowell productions, House Afire, the Paisiello Barber, and the forthcoming Turn of the Screw, and for the Eliot-Leverett Cosi fantutte of last year...
...eight members to perform over a Southern TV station. The management of the station refused to let Epps sing, and Epps quite legitimately cried discrimination. But his musical penchant has had a brighter side also, and Epps is advisor of the Leverett House Opera Society which produced Cosi Fan Tutti last year and is now presenting Don Giovanni...