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Harvard College figures in several recent Christmassy records. The renowned E. Power Biggs can be heard playing Twelve Noels by the eighteenth-century French composer, Louis Claude Daquin, on the reedy, mock-sixteenth-century Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture (Columbia ML 5567). And the Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a loyal label a handsome election of the more worth while --Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose." Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the Sussex Carol and "The Holly...
That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in former years, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...Goldsmith, though he was undoubtedly right in his opinions, was one of those whose love of good theatre outstrips their creative talent; and in his one successful comedy. She Stoops To Conquer, he was scarcely able to reverse the dismal, tear-stained course of eighteenth century comedy. Though he looked back discerningly to the broad humor of the "the last age" (he meant the Elizabethans), his work fails to recapture the extravagant buffoonery of their plays...
...part isn't as funny, but that is surely no reflection on her abilities, which are considerable. She handles the difficult scene in which she first meets her awkward lover with grace and ease; and she switches from the charming squire's pride and joy to the wild little eighteenth century B-girl with equal facility...
While at the University, Sherburn became the "dean of the eighteenth century." His courses were taught within that period, and his chapter on the 18th century in the Literary History of England is regarded as the standard source on the fiction of that...