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Though Latin is the language on the plate, discussions do not revolve solely around lofty classical themes and poets but spill out like any mealtime conversation. It was sort of fun discussing the election last yearBush as a frutex and that sort of thing, explains grad student Noah Dauber. More recently, Latin ruminations on the war in Afghanistan lapsed into a What would the Greeks/Romans do? hypothetical. But most often, explains Whittington, the students talk about their personal lives. Weve developed into a community of friends, Leah says. And that is the ideal of learning...
Elkies' and Dauber's opera Yussele Solevey, an adaptation of a book by the same name by Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, is the first original opera performed by the Lowell House opera...
...Dauber said he chose to adapt Sholem Aleichem's short story Yussele Solevey to the operatic form because he knew of no Jewish operas, and he felt the story would adapt well to opera...
Elkies mentioned the project to Dauber, who had graduated from Harvard and begun working towards his Ph.D. in Hebrew and Yiddish Literature as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University...
Work on the libretto began two years ago, Dauber said...