Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paine's "Oedipus Tynannis" prelude is far ahead of the work of most American acedemicians. A less matter-of-fact reading of it would have made this clear to many who remained untouched by yesterday's performance...
...number on this evening's program of unusual interest will be the prelude to the "Oedipus Rex" of Sophocles, which was composed by John Knowles Paine, h. '69, after whom Paine concert hall in the Music Building is named. Professor Paine, now dead, composed this prelude especially for a production of "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Harvard students in 1881: This production was given that year in Sanders Theatre, and in the original Greek...
Monsieur Pierre Monteaux, who is with the Boston Symphony for his last year, will conduct. The program for this evening's concert follows: Overture to "Der Freischutz" Weber Concerto No. 2 in B flat major for Pianforte and Orchestra, Opera 83 Brahms Intermission Prelude to the "Oedipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles Paine "Pelleas and Melisande," Suite from the Stage Music to Maeterlinck's Tragedy, Opera 80 Faure Polovtsian Dances from the Opera "Prince Igor" Borodin
...great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only to the boxes but to what we call in England the pits and galleries. 'Oedipus Rex' is the greatest play ever written,--and, incidentally it has in it the greatest part...
...even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...