Word: cherubini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one Saturday last May, a thin, grim line started forming outside the Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden. All through the long Whitsun weekend it sweltered and swelled, until, the following Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea in 89 years. Within three hours every seat in the house was sold out. Last week the lucky ticket holders finally got a look at what they had battled so tenaciously to see: Maria Meneghini Callas in the role of Euripides' savagely tormented heroine...
...twelve curtain calls, earned, mighty critical bravos ("terrifying," "elemental," "chilling") for a superb dramatic display. As for her voice, critics as usual found it uneven; the Daily Telegraph judged it "disappointingly small and lacking in resonance." But without the Callas dramatic presence, critics agreed, Medea would have been what Cherubini predicted in 1815: "Too severe for English tastes...
Among other Experimenters to "pioneer" countries, Michael A. Curran '60 will be a member of the Experiment's first group to Cracow, Poland, and Thankful D. Bailey '61 will be the first Radcliffe Experimenter to travel to Nigeria. The Experiment awarded a Stettenheim scholarship to John Cherubini '60 for his trip to Italy...
There are many "unknown" works in musical literature whose neglect is unfortunate, but nevertheless understandable. Cherubini's second Requiem Mass, which the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra performed last night with the Williams Glee Club, is one of these...
...Cherubini was an important figure in musical history, due mainly to his work in the early romantic opera and the fact that he was an influential composer in the early 19th Century. Today, his works, with few exceptions, are praised but unperformed, the D minor Requiem being a case in point. It contains moments of great beauty, and dramatic power; but these are moments only, and the total impression of the work is that of formless wandering, held together by the text rather than any musical coherence...