Word: musically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York is to give a dramatic production at Berkeley Lyceum on the evening of April 18. The women's parts are to be taken by graduates and undergraduates of Vassar while the male characters are to be taken by undergraduates of Columbia. The Columbia Banjo Club will furnish music...
...play hears the additional title "The Sport, the Spook, and the Spinster." The very ingenious libretto has been written by G. B. Blake '93, and J. A. Wilder '93, while the words to the songs have received exceptionally good treatment at the hands of S. F. Batchelder '93. The music by P. L. Atherton '93. E. H. Abbott '93, and F. S. Converse '93 has almost all been written within the last month. It is varied and excellently adapted to the purpose in hand. It will whistle well. As for the scenery, which has been designed by J. H. Parker...
...matter of music for the play has offered the greatest difficulties thus far. The trouble has been to hit upon music of a form which will be appropriate and sufficiently exact for the play and which yet will not be ludicrous. After much discussion and many experiments, Professor F. D. Allen has made a scheme which is thought to be near enough to the ancient music and yet will not be too strange to our ears. For the Greek play a full chorus and unaccompanied dialogues answer well enough, but this is not true of the Latin play which...
...person can little realize the difficulties which are ever presenting themselves. The point which has constantly to be kept in mind is to give as exact a reproduction of the play as possible, at the same time to make it accord with the culture of to-day. In the music, particularly, it is very hard to reconcile the many difficulties. A strict following of the old forms would hardly pass with a modern audience; it would sound ridiculous at the least, while it would be certainly pointless to introduce music as it is now. These obstacles, it is understood, have...
...WATERS,Capt.MANDOLIN CLUB. - Rehearsal tonight at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Bring parts of music...