Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopping arias. The voice parts, in their way, are likely to resemble instrumental parts, as they did in the golden age of Italian-style vocalism (up through the days of Handel). Modern composers find this kind of singing more expressive than the vocal thunder of a Celeste A'ida...
Also taking action on the basis of the false report, the Poet's Theatre and the cast of "Princess Ida" have suspended performance until further notice. "When one of the arts is struck," said a Poet's Theatre spokesman, "we all suffer. God, how we suffer...
Although Princess Ida is by no means vintage Gilbert and Sullivan, it is obviously enough in the tradition of the acknowledged masterpieces to be familiar and enjoyable ground for the G. & S. lover. In most of their operettas, for instance, there is one piece which hearkens back effectively to the music of England's "Golden Age" of Purcell and Byrd. In Ida, the lovely duet-minuet sung by Melissa and Lady Blanche becomes, not so much from the quality of the singing as from the grace and obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance...
King Gama's mustachioed sons, Jonathan Levy, Peter Duren, and Don McIntyre, made the most of choice roles. Their delightful hamminess was emulated by a well-trained chorus which obviously enjoyed Princess Ida. So will weekend audiences...
...peace under a blue sky. In the living room of her one-story frame house, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Hodges, a pleasant, plump housewife of 32, was napping on a sofa. She was lying on her side, covered with two quilts, one hand resting on her hip. Her mother, Mrs. Ida Franklin, was sewing in the next room. Her husband, Hewlett, a telephone company tree surgeon, was away at work...