Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy-gurdy score with its plinky-plink banjos, but it is played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between the prostitute Jenny and her pimp. To a wistful tango melody they...
Robert E. Barnett. Winthrop; varsity basketball; House committee; bus. mgr., House Operetta...
...captivates all Paris, though, with his operettas. Unhappily for Paris the source of Offenbach's inspiration becomes his leading actress, Hortense Schneider. And Hortense, a broad minded girls, finds emperors and generals as attractive as composers, and inspiration fails Offenbach. He then writes an operetta satirizing the vagaries of wandering Hortense; and the operetta, La Belle Helene, is a grand success. Offenbach is content. Hortense is content. Paris is content...
...concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted by Gounod as a love song). Also banned: Oh, Promise Me, from De Koven's operetta Robin Hood; Because ("secular"); I Love You Truly ("profane...
...aroused, and who do not make the Harvard Glee Club next week, will not strictly "have no chance to continue singing." There exist the Bach Society Chorus, the Music Club Chorus, Alfred Nash Patterson's Chorus Pro Musica in Boston, church choirs throughout the Cambridge and Boston areas. The operetta choruses have in the past actually had a majority of non-Glee Club singers, and, as in the case of the Winthrop House Opera last spring, additional Glee Club members have been solicited only after the interest from non-Glee Club sources proved insufficient...