Word: purcelle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The fortunate exception to the new company's conservatively cautious program was an excellent production of Purcell's "Fairy Queen." This piece, officially a "masque," is an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Purcell and an anonymous poet and has not been produced (except for a short...
The Covent Garden Opera Co. opened its first opera season shortly before Christmas-not with an opera but with a 255-year-old musical revue, The Fairy Queen. In 1692 Composer Henry Purcell and an anonymous playwright dashed off a travesty on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's...
Typical of the light Idler touch was the use of period music for this Jacobean comedy. An exceptionally competent quartet of string players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the...
Phonograph albums-like books, lithographs and neckties-were on sale last week in limited editions. A new company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell...
The owner of the Varsity Liquor Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be...