Word: dido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employing Radcliffe girls in their many female singing and dancing parts and even in the orchestra, the Lowell House Musical Society will give Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" under the direction of Courtlandt canby, Conductor and Alan Downer, Dramatic Director, at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell Dining Hall...
...leads of the production are Norma Nasmyth as Dido and David McAllester '38 as Aeneas...
...Lowell House Common Room is a bedlam a few minutes before eight these evenings. But when Courtland Canby '37, 1G lays aside his pipe, sheds his coat, and raps for attention the fifty-odd people assembled there get down to the business of rehearsing for Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas...
Most famous of the arias in "Dido and Aeneas" is that sung by Dido just before she dies: "When I Am Laid in Earth." But easily as worthy of fame is the closing chorus of the work, which we feel to be one of the peaks of choral writing...
...anyone who attends the performance of "Dido and Aeneas" we promise an enjoyable experience...