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...excellent production of Purcell's "Fairy Queen." This piece, officially a "masque," is an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Purcell and an anonymous poet and has not been produced (except for a short revival at Oxford and Cambridge in the '20's) since the seventeenth century. The adapting was rather liberal and none of Shakespeare is actually put to music. But in keeping with the tradition of the masque (an early and predominantly English musical form of combined opera and ballet) Purcell includes many exquisite dances, very ingeniously performed by the Sadler Wells Ballet Company...
English 300r. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Assistant Professor Baker...
...points in four games places him behind Lavelli. The Crimson has played in only two league engagements, so that none of its scorers rate high on the league ladder. George Hauptfuhrer leads Bill Barelay's squad with 25 points in Ivy action, a figure which nets him seventeenth place at the moment...
Opening its 1946-47 season, Radcliffe's Idler club revives John Fletcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" tonight at Agassiz Theater. A string quartet of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will supply incidental music for the three-night stand of the seventeenth century comedy...
...illustrate the emergence of modern concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional concepts of atmosphere as a vacuum to the modern one of a weighable and elastic entity...