Word: dido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing against low temperatures and a drizzle, Alfred Nash Patterson conducted a worthy semi-concert version of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, probably the finest British opera since Purcell's Dido...
Away with Illusions. Wilson's reign has had its dark spots. The student paper is still automatically censored because it came out against the Harris natural-gas bill, and the case of Coed Barbara Louise Smith-the soprano who was removed from the leading role in Dido and Aeneas because some legislators objected to the fact that she is a Negro (TIME, May 20) -still rankles. But in general, Logan Wilson has, fortunately, no illusions about how far his university must go. "I think," says he, "we need frankly to face up to the fact that our competitive academic...
Warmed-Over Virgil. Actually, The Trojans is really two operas in one. The first part tells the story of the fall of Troy, while the second describes the tattered survivors at Carthage and the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The Berlioz libretto is warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources...
...honor to the students of the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts who boycotted Dido and Aeneas because Barbara Louise Smith, a Negro, was removed from the cast because of her race...
...opera." Later another segregationist. Representative Joe Chapman, phoned the university's President Logan Wilson to discuss the matter. Though he denies threatening Wilson, the fact remained that the university's appropriations were about to come up before the legislature. Result: President Wilson suddenly decided that Dido must be white...