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James Perrin '50 and Marguerite E. Willauer of the New England Conservatory of Music will play the title roles in the Lowell House Musical Society's forthcoming production of Handel's "Acis and Galatea," Bradford F. Herzog '50, president of the Society, announced yesterday...
Herzog disclosed that Handel's opera "Acis and Galatea" will be presented in the Lowell Dining Hall during the week of March 13. Production will begin next term...
When plump little Italian Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani walked onstage for her New York debut, she got an unexpected ovation. It overwhelmed her so much she could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could...
...that he was by nature a painter, spent years turning out mediocre canvases and damning art critics who had never heard of the "great" artist (a 16th Century Fleming named Jean de Wespin, alias Giovanni Tabachetti). He composed minuets, gavottes and fugues in the manner of Germany's Handel. He translated the Iliad and the-Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer...
Last evening members of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes, presented an exceptionally fine performance of selections from Handel's "Messiah" before a full house at Sanders Theater...