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...DIED. FREDERICK FENNELL, 90, conductor credited with inventing the contemporary woodwind ensemble; in Siesta Key, Florida. His innovative recordings for Mercury Records, starting in the 1950s, helped create a model for the more than 20,000 wind ensembles in U.S. schools...
...Pirates of Penzance is one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operettas. Frederick is a duty-bound young man mistakenly apprenticed to a dreaded band of pirates called the Pirates of Penzance. When he turns 21, Frederick decides to leave the band and devote his life to the extermination of the pirates, but dewey-eyed maidens, bungling policemen and soft-hearted pirates thwart his efforts in a hilarious, topsy-turvy plot. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, evening shows for $8 and matinees for $6. Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...great 20th century British ballerina who popularized ballet in Britain and beyond; in Bath, England. In 1925 she became the youngest member of Ballets Russes, then the world's premiere company, and went on to work in Europe and the U.S. with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout the world...
This is not to say, however, that the lead actors were not equally talented. Arlo D. Hill ’08 delivered a strong performance with a strong vocals as the overly duty-conscious Frederick. His anachronistic use of his hands to “quote” and the to-be invented wrist watch only served to heighten the comedic effect. Chelsey J. Forbess ’07 played Mabel, the love interest, and displayed a good sense of comedic timing, especially in the song “Poor Wandering One!” where she coyly delays Frederick?...
...Pirates of Penzance opens its winding tale with Frederick, played by Arlo D. Hill ’08, a boy forced into servitude on a pirate ship at the age of eight. Upon his release at the age of 21, Frederick falls in love with Mabel (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07), the daughter of Major General (Jeff W. Howard ’08). As the pirates threaten to capture Mabel and her sisters—and Major General lies to spare them—Frederick is obliged to return to the pirate ship due to an unfortunate loophole...