Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar...
Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
...Friday, February 24, and on Saturday, February 25, the Harvard Glee Club, along with the Symphony Orchestra, will give "Oedipus Rex", the oratorio by Stravinsky. This is the first time it has ever been sung in America. On April 1, the Glee Club, again in concert with the Symphony Orchestra, will give Arthur Honegger's "King David." To both these concerts noted critics from New York and Washington have signified their intention of coming...
...heavy schedule has been planned for the University Glee Club for this month; the Club will give a Young People's Concert next Monday, the Annual Symphony Hall Concert on February 16, and is now preparing "Oedipus Rex," Stravinsky's latest composition, which is to be sung under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, who possesses the rights for the first performance of that work in America...
...trouble His Majesty still further, came last week at St. Cuthbert's church, Darwen, Lancashire, an actual beginning of physical strife over the great spiritual issue. When the Rev. F. B. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, attempted with pro-Catholic technique the "sung Eucharist," some 200 pro-Protestant parishioners rose up with loud, spontaneous hymns to drown the chanting of the Eucharist. Soon they fell to shouting extracts from the old Prayer Book, to shaking angry fists. Police, hastily summoned, got Vicar Lauria safely away, but not until a booing mob of 1,000 had collected wrathfully...