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...Solomon and Balkis", the one-act opera version of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" story "The Butterfly That Stamped", goes on the Lowell House boards tonight for its first stage premiere...
Operatic climaxes are usually marked by surging strings, blaring brass, rumbling kettledrums; but this time, when the crucial moment came, there was silence. Composer Randall Thompson had a good reason. He had made into a one-act, three-quarter-hour opera the last of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories: The Butterfly That Stamped-and the climax came at the earth-shaking but quite inaudible stamp of the butterfly...
...Solomon and Balkis," written by Randell Thompson '20, Director of Music at the University of Virginia, will be given at Lowell on April 14 and 15. The libretto is based upon Rudyard Kipling's "The Butterfly That Stamped," from his Just-So stories...
Written by Randell Thompson '20, Director of the Division of Music at the University of Virginia, "Solomon and Balkis" is the product of a commission from the League of Composers and CBS to write an opera suitable for performance in colleges and conservatories. The libretto is based on Rudyard Kipling's Just-So story "The Butterfly That Stamped...
Thus, according to Rudyard Kipling, sang the great sleek Callorhinus alascanus, the fur seal, of his summer home in the Bering Sea, the barren volcanic islands of the Pribilof Archipelago. To these islands each May the males come first, from their winter haunts in the north Pacific-huge, scarred 600-lb. bulls, full-coated three-year-old "bachelors." By the time the females arrive from the south with their pups, weeks later, the bulls have battled themselves ragged and bloody fighting for places to set up their harems on the rocky ledges of the rookery. Each bull takes some...