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...Hasty Pudding display the first club operetta. "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister and presented in 1882, is represented by the original playbill and a photograph of the cast. The club gave its first stage production in 1845, a burlesque called "Bombastes Furioso," held in a member's room in Hollis Hall. Many Hasty Pudding show books are displayed, including the "Famous Fakirs" of 1908, its first modern musical comedy, and "The Sphinx," the only show staged professionally after its Harvard appearance...
Grand Opera comes to Lowell House on April 20 when the House Musical Society presents "Dido and Aeneas" by the English composer Henry Purcell. The opera will be given in the dining room...
...tomorrow's program, which will be brought to a close with selections from Purcell's opera, "King Arthur, or the British Worthy." Certainly this early English composer's music should be heard more often, and it is encouraging to note in passing that Lowell House is planning to present "Dido and Aeneas" in April...
...program for Cambridge and for the week-end concerts in Boston is the same, and consists of five numbers, two of which are his own arrangements. The Prelude and Final Air from the opera "Dido and Aeneas" by the seventeenth century English composer, Purcell, arranged by the conductor, is to open the program. Following that is another Mitropoulos orchestration -- Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp minor, opus...
...Mutton 1 of Tyre, fled from her brother's tyranny and founded Carthage ("New City"). Hence she was called Dido ("The Fugitive"). She entertained Aeneas, runaway from Greek-destroyed Troy, before he went to Italy where his descendants founded the Roman Empire...