Word: musics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, an organ recital will be held in Appleton Chapel. Miss M. R. L. Burchell, organist of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newtonville will give the recital. She will be assisted by Mr. C. S. Rempstead, who is Director of Music in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hempstead is a tenor...
...ensemble of singing actors they claim to be, and an ensemble of singing actors they are," Edward Ballantine, Ed. '07, assistant professor of Music and tutor in the Division of Music, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, speaking of the American Opera Company, which will feature "Harvard Night" at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening with its production of Gounod's "Faust...
...Most of the chorus singers are soloists who take their turns in individual roles. As members of the chorus they are individualized in action, and, being a company which has worked together for four consecutive years, they bring out the dramatic value of the operas as well as the music...
...carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less originally, made...
...prologue and epilogue to the play take place in the present, and present some excellent dancing, and a general tempo which in most ways suit the taste of the average musical comedy public better than the swinging, soft atmosphere of the body of the play. Nevertheless, the music throughout it distinctly tuneful, and considerably above the average of the usual offerings. On the whole, by no means an exciting evening, but a pleasant one. In spite of the camouflaging effects of crinolines, the chorus established itself as one of the most restful the eye could demand...