Word: vaughan
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LOWELL HOUSE OPERA SOCIETY will present the second performance of RIDERS TO THE SEA by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an adaptation of the one-act play by J.M. Synge, Ronald C. Perera '63 and David S. Cole '63, directors. G.B.S.'s MAN OF DESTINY will appear on the same program. Dining Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $3.00, $2.25 and $1.50. At the Coop; reservations may be made by calling KI 7 - 7569. Through Sunday...
Other composers since Wagner have sought to construct a similar classification. Although Ralph Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea is undoubtedly a music drama in the Wagnerian sense, it probably derives more directly from Mussorgsky or Debussy (whose Pelleas et Melisande it most closely resembles...
...Wagner's operas are characterized by unendliche Melodie, Vaughan Williams' piece was written in unendliches Rezitativ-- and the closest thing to a leitmotiv is the broken and falling voice of the sea itself. The lines follow the natural intonations of the human voice as closely as possible, breaking only at rare intervals into a supple and more melodic arietta. The orchestration, furthermore, is designed only to emphasize the emotions of the speakers (the violins quaver in apprehension, the oboe sonorously heightens the women's grief...
RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY, under the direction of Eliot Forbes '40, in a repertoire concert that will include works by Brahms, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Beveridge and Le Jeune. Paine Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $1.00; $.50 for undergraduates. At the Coop, Holden Chapel, or at the door...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA SOCIETY will present RIDERS TO THE SEA by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an adaptation of the one-act play by J.M. Synge. Ronald C. Perera '63 and David S. Cole '63, directors. G.B.S. MAN OF DESTINY will appear on the same program. Dining Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $3.00, $2.25 and $1.50. At the Coop; reservations may be made by calling KI 7 - 7569. Through Sunday