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...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...
...leads of the production are Norma Nasmyth as Dido and David McAllester '38 as Aeneas...