Word: roi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tours-Tours-Tours" Saboly Carol, "A Dream of Christmas" Holst Scripture Reading--Luke 2:1-20 Carol, "Good King Wenceslas" Carol, "Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming" Praetorius Carol, "Christ is born of maiden fair" Congregational Hymn, "Adeste Fideles" J. Reading Carol, "Chanson joyeuse de Noel" Chorus, "Le Roi David" Honegger Carol, "Le Miracle de St. Nicholas" Chorus, "Let their celestial concerts all unite" (from "Sampson") Handel Benediction Organ Postlude "Hallelujah Chorus from "The Messiah" Handel
Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, Princess Palatine, Duchesse d'Orleans, known at the Court of Louis XIV as "Madame," lived through most of the long reign of the Roi Soleil, which was fittingly commemorated many years later by Voltaire's Louis Quatorze...
...century by Prince Charlie. And if it was revealed in the Middle Ages by the continued existence of a king of the Romans it is no less apparent now in the prolonged life of the French Royalist party. But the latest reports, that the fiery Camelots du Roi are in fact petit bourgeouis whose families have arisen since the Revolution is slightly disconcerting to one who has pictured them secretly trailing the rusty awords and moth-eaten pupple of their titled ancestors...
...Metropolitan, Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore was given its first showing one evening last week. As a stage spectacle, it was ultra-magnificent. Boris Anisfeld, most vigorous of modern Russian 'decorative artists, given a free hand with Eastern temple scenes and Oriental Gardens of Paradise, had splashed his paint regardless. The story, too, had its points as melodrama. Alim (King of Lahore), Scindia (Prime Minister), Timur (High Priest), the god Indra, rajahs, priests, fakirs, soldiers, dancers, bayaderes, slaves, musicians united in scenes of love and war to produce a scheme of action, ending gloriously in two suicides...
...Roi de Lahore is one of Massenet's early operas, done in 1877, a year after Verdi's Aida, came to Paris. Its music was not written for the soul, but for pearly necks and starched bosoms...