Word: harems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musician touched the strings of the golden harp which was decorated with lapis lazuli shells. A dozen young ladies of the harem lay on their backs in two parallel rows; they were dressed alike, with fascinating headbands, large earrings of gold, veils held in place by slender copper pins. Guardsmen stood at attention. In the offing was the great king's chariot, drawn by two asses. Grooms held the reins; another flunky was in attendance. Gaming boards with dice, copper bowls, tumblers, and other diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter...
...straight vaudeville in Russian and French, and here and there cracked English. It was new. Neither the famed wooden soldiers nor the well remembered Katinka played their parts. A concentration of Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received. As always it was fresh, delicate; strange to slangy Manhattan. Four weeks it will linger in the city and then start in Washington a tour of population centres reaching to California...
...Canadian musicians, seemed worthy of a huge endowment, by which the Eastman school of music is supported, in association with the University. As a result, young singers are trained, presented in English Grand Opera in a repertory that includes Mozart's Abduction From the Harem, The Marriage of Figaro; Puccini's Madame Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From a financial point of view, the second two did better than the first. On the whole, the venture into professional entertainment met with fair...
Madame Butterfly, The Marriage of Figaro, are well known. The Abduction From the Harem is not. The story is simple: A Spanish maid kidnaped by pirates and sold to a Turk, almost rescued by her lover, is finally released from the harem through the courtesy of the speakable Turk. The music is Mozartean, was rendered with grace and spontaneity by the cast which excelled as a ombination rather than individually. The im- pression of critics was that the group performed well, that opera in English could be sung intelligibly, that the University of Rochester maintained an advanced school of music...
...Maharanee cf Kapurthala: "I was reported last week to be living apart from the Maharaja because he will not give up his harem and slaves...