Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy schedule has been planned for the University Glee Club for this month; the Club will give a Young People's Concert next Monday, the Annual Symphony Hall Concert on February 16, and is now preparing "Oedipus Rex," Stravinsky's latest composition, which is to be sung under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, who possesses the rights for the first performance of that work in America...
About the end of February, the Glee Club will present, in conjunction with Mr. Koussevitsky and the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex". April 1 has been set as a tentative date for the performance of "King David", a striking oratorio by Arthur Honegger, in which the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and famous soloists will take part. Separate rehearsals for this concert are now going on, and joint rehearsals will begin in Paine Hall next week. The third of the annual concert series in Symphony Hall will be given on April...
Both Prophet and Mother were superb in voice and gesture, last week, and their passions soared above Bertha ''Leonora Corona) with a spiritual fervor exceeding the carnal dynamics of Oedipus...
Another lecture of more than usual interest will be Professor Gulick's on "Oedipus the King" in Greek 11 at 12 o'clock in Sever 26. Of the trinity of Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, Sophocles is generally regarded as the greatest. He lacks the stiffness, yet retains the force of Aeschylus, and although he does not have the breadth and finesse of Euripedes, he does not lose the power which Euripedes, in his development of the tragedy has lost...
...years later, however, the tremendous enthusiasm, which greeted a London production of "Agamemnon" by Oxford students again, aroused the interest of Harvard men. So it was, that in the fall of 1880, work was started on "Oedipus Rex", a unanimous decision having been made in favor of the famous tragedy of Sophocles...