Word: pepusch
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Pepusch-Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Glyndebourne Opera Company, with small orchestra conducted by Michael Mudie; Victor; 12 sides; $6.50). Poet John Gay's gusty ballad opera, with tunes of the day (1728) arranged by Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch, here gets a nearly complete recording. Well sung but mumbly, and Victor has neglected to supply printed lyrics...
...mournful, melodious Mozart Requiem, the lusty John Gay-Christopher Pepusch Beggar's Opera, many another choice piece of music were heard last week in a Southern cotton-mill town. Rarely are such works performed in big cities. Spartanburg, S.C. (population: 32,500) is one of the smallest U.S. cities to support an annual music festival. Thanks to the present boss of the music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century...