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<p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;<a href="/index.php/Acis_and_Galatea" title="Acis and Galatea">Acis and Galatea</a>&#039;&#039; is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastora...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>''[[Acis and Galatea]]'' is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a &quot;little opera&quot;, an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio.<br /> <br /> ==Performance history in South Africa==<br /> <br /> 1949: Presented in costume by the [[Cape Town Municipal Orchestra]] on 10 November 1949 in the [[Cape Town City Hall]]. [[Geoffrey Miller]] conducted this production and [[Albina Bini]], [[Boris Rome]] and [[Gregorio Fiasconaro]] were the soloists, the chorus consisting of members of the Philharmonic Choir under [[Leslie Arnold]], and the Diocesan College and Madrigal choirs under [[Claude Brown]]. <br /> ==Sources==<br /> <br /> [[Sjoerd Alkema]]. 2012. &quot;Conductors of the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, 1914-1965: a historical perspective&quot;. [[University of Cape Town]]. Unpublished PhD thesis.<br /> <br /> ==Return to==<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]<br /> <br /> Return to [[Main Page]]</div>

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