Word: hacketts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion. Illusion was to be the monopoly of the self-sufficient music. His music...
...first American presentation of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" will take place in Symphony Hall this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The second performance will be tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. The program will be under the leadership of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. Arthur Hackett, tenor, and Marguerite Matzenauer of the Metropolitan Opera Company will be supported by the University Glee Club which, upon invitation, has taken the part of the chorus...
...American Legion visitors, The Barber of Seville was given with U. S. artists in all the principal roles. Those who pleased most were Madame Luella Melius, coloratura soprano, and Theodore Karle, tenor. Applaud- ing in the audience sat: Frieda Hempel, Ganna Walska, Madeleine Keltic, M. Fitzhugh, Charles Hackett, William Martin...
...College Department of Music, and Ralph L. Baldwin, Supervisor of Music in Hartford public schools, will consider the question of "How to Stimulate the Appreciation and Practice of Good Music". The discussion will be led by Otis W. Caldwell, of the Lincoln School of New York City, Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country Day School, New York, and Eugene R. Smith, of the Beaver Country Day School of Chestnut Hill...
...insists upon an old Puritan hymn, it has no particular American characteristics, being essentially just melodious, good, pleasant music. The love duet of the first act is probably the best example of its kind in American Opera. Sung in English, the words were intelligibly projected by the singers; Charles Hackett, particularly, excelled in clarity of diction...