Word: purcelle
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No fault of enthusiasm or lack of practice could be heard in the Lowell House Musical Society's performance of "Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate...
Employing Radcliffe girls in their many female singing and dancing parts and even in the orchestra, the Lowell House Musical Society will give Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" under the direction of Courtlandt canby, Conductor and Alan Downer, Dramatic Director, at 8:30 o'clock this evening in...
With violinists warming up on "In the Still of the Night," members of the Radcliffe Dance Group practicing in the corners, and a gallery of Bellboys scrambling for seats, the Lowell House Common Room is a bedlam a few minutes before eight these evenings. But when Courtland Canby '37, 1G...
The opera was written in 1689 by Purcell and Josiah Priest for production by a girls' school. Hence the preponderance of ballet. "Purcell and Priest were an operatic team like Gershwin and--well like Gershwin," Canby explained.
But this is hardly fair. We must remember that this composer was writing for the pleasure of the court, and the pleasure of the court is fickle. Thus a work would be performed, enjoyed, laid aside, and in the wild search for something novel would be completely forgotten. Thus the...