Word: dido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space of 25 hours Britain set a record by launching three new cruisers: the 8,000-ton Nigeria and Mauritius and the 5,450-ton Dido. Within the next several months the Navy will also launch two 35,000-ton battleships, the Duke of York and the Beatty; two new 23,000-ton aircraft carriers, the Victorious and the Formidable; four more cruisers, a destroyer depot ship and several destroyers and submarines...
...King Arthur" a dramatic opera written by John Dryden and Henry Purcell, with a cast of over 100 actors, dancers, and singers, will be put on the boards Tuesday March 14, and Wednesday March 15 by the Lowell House Musical Society. Like last year's "Dido and Aeneas," the performance will be given in the Bellboys' dining hall...
...Dido and Aeneas (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Henry Purcell's ijth-Century masterpiece of English music-drama in its first full radio performance...
...fault of enthusiasm or lack of practice could be heard in the Lowell House Musical Society's performance of "Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
...most ambitious musical program ever attempted by a House, "Dido and Aeneas" promises a future series of musicals of a very high type. Perhaps some year an entirely original opera will be performed, and when that happens, Harvard will be matured musically as it is on other parts of its culture...