Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last someone is willing to admit that Sanders Theatre has theatrical possibilities. The man who dares make this dubious assertion is the director of a forthcoming opera, The Mother of Us All. And he has unqualified backing from the work's composer: "If I had to design the set," Virgil Thomson '22 once said, "Sanders is how it would...
...opera has a history of three performances, and composer Virgil T. as he is called in the libretto, laments that there has yet to be a definitive production. "Every other time it was performed in a setting that wasn't right," he says. Virgil T. will come up from New York on March 9 to enjoy the "scenery" and look for his "definitive production...
...much effect this reminiscence had when Gertrude S. got together with Virgil T. in 1946 to write their third major opera is unknown. The influence of the indefatigable Miss Anthony, whose 86-year life span is the opera's subject, seems certain. Librettist Gertrude S. hints at the link in Scene Four of The Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long...
Results: Destruction of Troy. However, the Trojans got their revenge: Aeneas, with the help of Aphrodite, his mother, escaped from falling Troy with his father, the blind Anchises, on his back. He sailed to Italy, and there, according to Virgil's Aeneid, founded the city of Rome, which in turn conquered Greece...
...When any schollar is able to read and understand Tully, Virgil or any such ordinary Classicall Authors, and can readily make and speake or write true Latin in prose and hath skill in making verse, and is Competently grounded in the Greeke language: so as to be able to Construe and Grammatically to resolve ordinary Greeke, as in the Greeke Testament, Isocrates, and the minor poets, or such like, having withall meet Testimony of his towardlinesse, hee shall be capable of his admission into the Colledge...