Word: hecuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it ultimately achieves a kind of wry grandeur, the play does so on its own ironic rather than on any customary dramatic turns. Tiger displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental...
...Radcliffe chorus alone presented Gustav Holst's "Hecuba's Lament" with the contralto, Eunice Alberts, as soloist. Miss Alberts gave a flawless performance; her voice never lost the rich color heard in the sustained "Lo" which opens the work. Expressive phrasing endowed her cry to Priam with genuine tragedy. The highly dramatic character of the "Lament" was maintained throughout by the carefully controlled voices of the Radcliffe chorus...
Featured on the same program will be "Hecuba's Lament" by Holt, two choruses from "Solomon" by Handel, and a chorus from Bach's 16th cantata...
...Hecuba's Lament," by Gustav Holst will be the featured work with Eunice Alberts singing the solo and Judith F. Haskell '51 taking the solo dance part...
...search for Helen of Troy has ended with the selection of Connaught O'Connell '52. Others in the cast include: Theodore L. Gershuny '54, Hector; Joanna Brown '52, Andromache; Charles Humpstone '53, Paris; David Bowen '51, Ulysses; Christopher C. Beels '53, Priam; June Garfield, Cassandra; Jane Johnson '52, Hecuba; and Michael Mabry '53, Ajax...