Word: dido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. A land of deserts, mountains and rich coastal valleys, Tunisia (pop. 2,608,313) has been a world trouble spot since antiquity. Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
...Since 1939 Spartanburg has been staging spring music festivals with a fine exploring, self-sufficient spirit. It has no rich backers, no imported stars; it keeps to its promise of "no performances of hackneyed works." Instead it has put on with local talent such rarities as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Requiem. So last week, again festival time in Spartanburg, saw the production of Ernst Bacon's A Tree on the Plains...
...Lowell House Musical Society, which for the past four years has specialized in resurrecting forgotten masterpieces of English opera like Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and "King Arthur," Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and Blow's "Venus and Adonis," has struck out on a new path this year. It has chosen to do perhaps the one thing better than reviving an old masterpiece, and that is to introduce a new one. For if Randall Thompson's "Solomon and Balkis" is not quite a masterpiece, it is the nearest thing to it the American opera has seen yet. That the Musical...
Cruisers: Liverpool, Orion, Dido, Delhi...
...smallest U.S. cities to support an annual music festival. Thanks to the present boss of the music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century England's great Henry Purcell; Tchaikovsky's Eugene One gin; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater; a Mozart concerto for three pianos...