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Munro's starting lineup will probably be without right halfback Charlie Steele, a stalwart on defense all season. Steele has a hyperextended leg that has not responded to treatment, and his status is doubtful. Bill Driver will start in Steele's absence...
...Saturday chronicled the first meeting of Harvard and Brown in football. In many ways it was the most satisfactory game of the season, not because Harvard made her this year's record in number of points won, but because the eleven was given an excellent test of its defensive work." So said the CRIMSON on Oct. 30, 1893, after the varsity had crushed the Bruins, 58 to 0, in the series inaugural...
Each of last season's presentation's (La Boheme, Barber of Seville, and Gay's The Beggar's Opera) pointed out that Operation Opera most needs improvement in orchestral performance. The instrumentalists are almost entirely chosen from the ranks of the Boston Symphony but they play without adequate rehearsal and sound like members of the Boston University Orchestra (a compliment to neither organization). Miss Caldwell adds to the confusion by conducting incompetently...
...only the Gay work could be called a novelty but its lukewarm popular reception intimates that such experimentation will be curtailed. This is unfortunate because smaller operatic groups ought to be daring where the large-scale expensive enterprises that the Metropolitan must attempt prove impossible. The second work this season will be Offenbach's well-tried operetta Voyage to the Moon, which was prepared by Miss Caldwell for the Boston Arts Festival in the summer of 1956. One can only hope that the spring offering, yet to be announced, will fulfill this group's responsibility to imaginative repertory. After...
...Boston doesn't have an opera house, at least it once again has a resident opera company of some merit. With an expanded season and improved musical performances, Operation Opera may become a significant new addition to the sparsely covered American operatic...