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...dangerously modern interpretation of a dangerously modern opera, originally written by Bertolt Brecht and translated into English by Marc Blitzstein. LHO’s show will run March 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Dining Hall.Set in mid-eighteenth century Soho, London, the opera nonetheless captures the moral ambiguity and social insecurity of Weimar Republic-era Germany, the time period in which it was written. The story follows the extremely likable anti-hero Macheath (Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into...
...hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because of his now admirable striving after knowledge...
Throughout its history, Harvard College has suffered the effects of a "social cleaver." In the mid-eighteenth century the college president personally listed students, when they enrolled, in order of their social rank or, to be precise, "to the Dignity of the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." The social list was printed in the college catalogue for all to see. The creme de la creme were placed at the top, followed by the social outcasts who attended Harvard because of academic merit. The social list determined precedence in table seating and service during meals, position in academic processionals...
...heightened and almost anal-retentive detail of earlier etchings soon expands to include looser, more casually rendered portraits (such as the mid-eighteenth century "Preste de la Loy") and quick political caricatures (such as those of eighteenth-century Britain). The medium is particularly effective on the larger scale for which this specific printmaking process allows. In Giovanni Piranesi's eighteenth-century "Arch of Ianus Quadrifons," the sheer size and weight of the severe values combine with intense detail, resulting in a piece of surprising presence...
Edward Higginbottom, a music director and faculty member of New College at Oxford, has come to Harvard for a week to guide the singers through the mid-eighteenth century piece...