Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anonymous gifts which have made possible the arrangements set forth by the Harvard Opera Association are dependent upon a sufficiently large enrollment before April 14. Consequently the committee wishes once more to urge all members of the University who have not yet joined to pay their 50 cents annual dues and sign up immediately at the Union or Leavitt & Peirce...
This opportunity is such an exceptionally good one that all interested in music and the opera should avail themselves of it. Members are entitled to the privilege of obtaining $2 seats for 75 cents apiece for every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening performance throughout the season. There will be twenty seats for each of these performances. Four orchestra seats for Wednesday evenings will be placed at the disposal of members for $2 apiece. If the enrollment surpasses the expectations of the Committee, it is hoped that additional seats in the orchestra, besides some in the first balcony can be offered...
Through the generosity of the Boston Opera Company management, the undergraduate Opera Committee has been able to announce a method by which all Harvard undergraduates may procure Opera seats next year at very much reduced rates. At present the offer from the Boston company is that all members of the Opera Association, so-called, shall have the privilege of obtaining $2 seats for 75 cents on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. Also four orchestra seats for Wednesday evenings will be placed at the disposal of the Association at $2 each. Seats may be reserved one week in advance...
...most important provision in this generous offer, however, is that the number of $2 seats to be placed on sale at the reduced rate of 75 cents, will depend wholly on the interest shown by the size of the Opera Association on April 14. The CRIMSON has believed ever since it first gave voice to this movement, that a large number of music-loving undergraduates would take immediate advantage of just such an offer as has been made. Let us not alone show an easily expressed interest in Grand Opera, but also demonstrate our gratitude for the Company's generosity...
...Ripley '12 then outlined the plans for bringing about closer relations with the opera. He arranged two committees to which the work should be entrusted. The graduate committee is composed of H. Blanchard '98, G. R. Fearing, Jr., '93, H. S. Thompson '99. The following compose the undergraduate committee: M. Fremont-Smith '13, K. Hadden '14, N. Roosevelt '14, H. B. H. Ripley '12 and C. H. Hoskins...