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Through the years, however, productions have become increasingly elaborate and today, at the Society prepares for the American premiere of Handel "Semele," it faces the problem of making the heroine disappear in a flash of lightning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Lowell Production of 'Semele' Met With Difficult Staging Problem | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

...Goethe: "Keep your arm linked in mine; they must make room for us, not we for them." Yet in 1812 the man who had liberated music from its classical bounds, and raised composers to something more than servants of a court, wrote to a friend, "Do not rob Handel, Haydn, Mozart of their laurel wreaths: they deserve them; I have not yet earned mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bear from Bonn | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...American premiere of Handel's opera "Semele" will be presented by the Lowell House Musical Society on March 26 and 27, President David M. Dawson '52 announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell to Present First American Performance of Handel's 'Semele' | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Written by the Restoration dramatist William Congreve and set by Handel in 1743, the work has since been converted into a secular oratorio, and excerpts from it are often heard. But the Musical Society's presentation of the operatic version will be the first such performance in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell to Present First American Performance of Handel's 'Semele' | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...only possible objection to an otherwise enjoyable concert lies in the programming. A program devoted entirely to Christmas music is a fine thing, but why not include a modern composition? An evening of Schutz, J. C. Bach, and Handel is just a little too much...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Christmas Concert | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

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