Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in May 1939, an audience of Czechs and their Nazi masters packed Prague's National Theater. At the concert's end, Czechs and Germans began applauding. After a while the Germans stopped; the Czechs went on clapping stolidly - not cheering, just beating their hands together as if they would never stop. The Germans looked baffled and angry. Finally, Conductor Vaclav Talich held up the score, kissed it and, with an expansive gesture, presented it to the audience. It was Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country}, a cycle of symphonic poems breathing Czech patriotism...
...Handel's most powerful opponent was Frederick, Prince of Wales. He and his young friends, who scorned everything his father, George II, chose to favor, set up an Opera of the Nobility to rival Handel's theater. Handel's enemies organized bands of hoodlums to tear down his posters, gave parties on the nights of his oratorios to make sure no one would attend. Sometimes Handel played to nearly empty houses ("My music will sound the better so!" he snorted). Sometimes, the King and his party made up nearly the entire audience. Quipped Lord Chesterfield on leaving...
Rolling Stone. For the opening address of the Crusade, Milan's Lyric Theater had been jampacked, and thousands more heard loudspeakers in the square outside. On the stage Father Lombardi stepped from behind the red curtains, nervously rubbing his hands-a tired-looking, unimpressive little priest. When he spoke, his listeners forgot what he looked like...
Christian Charity. When Father Lombardi left the theater, the crowd forced him to the top of a parked truck. "Down with Communism!" they roared...
Glee Club white ties and Radcliffe Choral formal gowns will get their last look at Sanders Theater tomorrow and Wednesday nights when the two societies join forces to present a program of Handel and Randall Thompson in the annual Sanders Concert...