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Attempting to develop his organization into a "concert band." Malcolm H. Holmes '28, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music and a band associate since his undergraduate days, plans to add well known classical scores to its repertoire. The "Orpheus Overture," Rossint's "William Tell Overture," and possibly Bach's difficult "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" will see production...
...Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
...Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were it not that in moments of insanity he murdered friend and foe alike...
Israel's David, Greece's Orpheus and Hollywood's Harpo Marx are probably the three best-known harpists of all time. Nevertheless, in these effete times harp-playing is virtually a female monopoly, and 99% of America's 4,000 harpists are women...
Marriage Revealed. Marian Anderson, 38, famed Negro contralto; and Orpheus Hodge Fisher, 43, Negro war-plant draftsman, peacetime New York architect, her oldtime beau; last July 17; in Bethel, Conn...