Word: operettas
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...Socially and artistically, the Houses were flourishing. In 1951, for example, Adams House put on Johan Strauss' operetta "Gypsy Baron." Students in Dunster House--known as "Funsters"--staged Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." In Eliot House, the play that year was Ben Johnson's "Every Man in His Honor." After selling out "H.M.S. Pinafore" the year before, Winthrop House put on Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeoman of the Guard...
...Broadway composers went West and wrote tunes that were the most popular of their day and still play in the nation's memory-jukebox; Harold Arlen's score for The Wizard of Oz is entrancing TV audiences 60 years after it was written. Pop music shared center stage with operetta (in Jeanette MacDonald's films) and boogie-woogie (in shorts showcasing such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington...
...away for the weekend to a land of hilarity, fantasy and adventure-otherwise known as England, at least in the hands of Gilbert and Sullivan-then make your way to the Agassiz Theater for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' latest production: The Pirates of Penzance. Perhaps the most famous operetta of all time, Pirates has it all-swash bucklers, police, pretty maidens and, of course, the very model of a modern major general. Tickets are going fast, so hurry soon to Radcliffe Yard...
...drop of a hat," says historian and Truman biographer David McCullough, whose son Bill is married to Graham's daughter Cissy. When grief-stricken Miamians took to the streets two weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian's mother emerges slowly from the ocean, her gown drenched, and softly, in a voice that gradually grows louder, she sings of her loss. "She's like the commentator in Evita," Graham explains, humming a few bars...
...imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band in 1880, Sousa always longed to write for the stage. Set during the Spanish-American War, The Glass Blowers recalls an era of unabashed patriotism and sentimentality. The 43 performances run from July 7 through...