Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brief that he holds for the value of musical comedy to our civilization but more significant is his suggestion of its exaltation to a higher plane. Is it not true that the two peculiarly American dramatic forms, the mu- sical comedy and the melodrama of the Grand Opera House, simply await a master's hand in order to be transformed into literary genres of enduring worth? Mr. Nickerson would have strengthened his argument if he had indicated the possibility of developing the spectacular side of musical comedy into the work of art that it was in the plays of Aristophanes...
...request of the patron of the Boston Opera House through whom the rebate was made, the distribution of order-slips will be temporarily suspended until further notice. It will be resumed again; but on account of a business arrangement, the box office will not honor the order-slips for the present. As soon as the arrangement is resumed notice will be given in the CRIMSON, and the Opera Ticket Committee of the Student Council will resume its office hours in Brooks House...
...accordance with the announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON, tickets to the opera may be obtained at one-half the regular price by applying to the opera ticket committee of the Student Council, which will hold office hours at Phillips Brooks House at the following times: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 8.30 to 9 A. M., 10 to 11 A. M., and 5.30 to 6 P. M., Tuesday and Thursday, 8.30 to 10 A. M. and 11 A. M. to 12 P. M. All applications must be made in person, and it should be understood that no seats are recovered...
Through the generosity of a patron of the Boston Opera House, the Student Council is enabled to offer members of the University orders on the Opera House, entitling them to seats at half price. Not more than two seats will be given to any one man for the same performance, and only $1 and $2 seats will be included in the arrangement, which will apply to all performances except those on Saturday nights. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Student Council yesterday afternoon, the following committee was appointed to manage the assignment: W. C. Greene '11, chairman...
...will read a commemorative poem, and other addresses will be made. The musical features will be furnished by a chorus of 80 male voices, partly composed of members of the University, under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, the college organist; 50 members of the Boston Opera House Orchestra; and a chorus of 75 blind children...