Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welcome, good people, watch and listen To a play in praise of the prophet Daniel, Beloved of the Lord. Long has he dwelt In brick Babylon, built by a river, Far from Jerusalem, his real home...
...liveliest off-Broadway hits in Manhattan last week was a 12th century music-drama with a 20th century box office sparkle. The drama: The Play of Daniel, which used to be performed annually by the students of the Cathedral of Beauvais between...
...Daniel was traditionally performed in church to celebrate the New Year, but it is really a thinly disguised popular musical play. Its richly colored music was transcribed for the scholarly New York Pro Musica group (which first revived the play last year) from a 13th century manuscript unearthed in the British Museum. With costumes derived from medieval illustrations and dialogue in the original medieval Latin and French, the current production makes one concession to modern audiences in the form of a skillful English verse narration by Poet W. H. Auden that outlines the action...
...Daniel unfolds in a series of carefully stylized joyous and pathetic sequences, superbly staged (in the chapel of the Intercession of Trinity Parish in Manhattan) to give the effect of scenes from an illuminated manuscript. The action is accompanied by music suggestive of everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, played on reproductions of such authentic medieval instruments as a psaltery, a rebec, a minstrel's harp...
Adams House Dramatic Society has also announced its spring production. The group will present Henry IV, Part One late in March or early in April, according to Daniel Seltzer 4G, adviser to the AHDS...