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Among the Glee Club selections will be the Bacchanale from "Belshazzar" by Handel, "The Defense of Corinth" by Elliot Carter '30, and "Tarheel Fantasy" by Melville Smith '20. The evening will end with the singing of "Fair Harvard...
...Lowell House Musical Society, which for the past four years has specialized in resurrecting forgotten masterpieces of English opera like Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and "King Arthur," Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and Blow's "Venus and Adonis," has struck out on a new path this year. It has chosen to do perhaps the one thing better than reviving an old masterpiece, and that is to introduce a new one. For if Randall Thompson's "Solomon and Balkis" is not quite a masterpiece, it is the nearest thing to it the American opera has seen yet. That the Musical...
...palace by stamping his foot--and did. Thompson has dramatized the story as simply as possible, and produced a delightful blend of humor and fantasy. Musically his work is no less simple, being based on a halfdozen or so leading melodies. The music at times smacks strongly of Handel, especially in the spirited little military prelude with its trumpet flourishes, and in the long sensuous string melodies that recur so frequently. At other times it recalls the jazz idiom of composers like Kern and Gershwin. On occasion it is extremely lovely, but it is always ingratiating and vocal, and expertly...
...directing of S. Leonard Kent, the conducting and music directing of Malcolm Holmes, and to the stage designer John Holabird, whose brilliant sets perform miracles in creating an atmosphere of gaiety. The opera itself, ideally suited to the production it gets here, and unencumbered by the artificialities that made Handel and Purcell so fussy to stage, may unhesitatingly by classed as the Society's most triumphant venture to date, something to take pleasure in now, and something to look back on in years to come when such productions may no longer be possible...
...this whimsical tale, which marches like the King of France up to the inaudible stamp, then back again, Thompson added a fresh, unaffected, transparent score packed with singable melody. Listeners, noting the conventional harmonies, the archaic touches, the occasional flavor of Handel's music, decided that Thompson in his music, as Kipling in his story, was turning to the past...