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Purcell's "King Arthur" will be the Lowell House opera this year, David B. Lewin '54, president of the Music Choral Society, announced last night.
The 30 boy sopranos and altos had tones as clean as their well-scrubbed faces. Moreover, they sang with ease and confidence, never wavered from pitch, and phrased with the subtlety of master musicians. With heavier vocal underpinnings from 18 grownup "gentlemen of the choir," they sang a cycle of...
Known to have been prominently considered within recent weeks are the following: Provost Paul H. Buck, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, John P. Coolidge '35, director of Fogg Museum, Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School, and Edward M. Purcell, professor of physics.
This year's production is the first opera buffs to be given by the 22-year-old musical organization. The Musical Society was founded in 1931 to sponsor small concerts by House members. The first opera performed by the group was Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in 1938.
The six-man faculty group is headed by Provost Buck. Other members are: Dean Edward S. Mason of the Graduate School of Public Administration; Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School; Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature; George P. Baker, James J. Hill Professor of...