Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That three centuries have neither soured the emotion nor blighted the charm of one of the most delightful of English operas was proven last night in the Lowell House Musical Society's production of Venus and Adonis by Dr. John Blow. The old wine of Dr. Blow's music tasted as sweet in the new bottle as it ever could have at a court performance in Restoration England, and its freshness rang welcome on ears tired by the flourishes of grand opera. The story of the mythical lovers, somewhat perverted to Restoration conventions, is told with only three chief characters...
LONDON -- Great Britain, cheering passage of the American Lend-Lease bill as a major blow to Hitler's hopes of victory, tonight revealed a huge program to speed up production of ships and munitions...
...annual opera, the Lowell House Musical Society will produce "Venus and Adonis"' by John Blow, next Tuesday and Wednesday nights...
...Lowell House Musical Society this year continues its delightful series of English operas with a presentation of Venus and Adonis by John Blow, next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in the House dining-hall. To my mind the Society has done an impressive job during the past years in resurrecting the wonderful English operas--anyone who knows the beauty of these little operas will realize that it is only their peculiar hybrid form which has held them in relative obscurity. Somehow or other, grand opera as it grew up on the continent never clicked in England. Even after the Italian style...
...conventions, the educational air was heavy with storm clouds. In Philadelphia, where 4,000 Progressive Educators met, and in Atlantic City, where 12,000 school administrators prepared to meet, delegates felt it coming. Many had already felt squalls in their home towns. Before the week was out, the Big Blow broke...