Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hessian Miracle Play" will be presented by the Dramatic Club in the Germanic Museum this evening, at 8 o'clock. This play was translated for the first time from the German by D. F. Robinson...
...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year this miracle play is being performed for the first time in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants...
...technical staff of the Dramatic Club have been occupied in providing an artistic production of the miracle play, which has become an annual presentation...
...Harrington '30 is directing the Christmas play of the club for a second time. The musical part of the play has been under the supervision of J. S. B. Archer '30. The cast includes: Julia Bygrave '30, of Radcliffe, as Mary: H. G. Meyer '30, as Gabriel: and R. H. Jones '30, as Joseph. Robinson has aided in the direction of the work...
...bookseller, he was taught music by Mily Balakirev and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later...