SECOND OPERATIC CONCERT

The second in the series of historic operatic concerts will be given under the auspices of the Boston Opera Company and the Department of Music in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Professor W. R. Spalding '87 will lecture on French, English, and Italian composers, with the music of the seventeenth century. A musical program will be presented by the following artists: Miss Elizabeth Amsden, soprano; Miss Bernice Fisher, soprano; Miss Jeska Swartz, mezzo-soprano; Mme. Maria Claessens, contralto; Mr. Rafaelo Diaz, tenor; Mr. Edward Lankow, basso; Mr. Gaston Barreau, baritone.

The program of this evening's concert is as follows:

Jean Baptiste Lully, Florence (1633-1687)

"Bois epais," from the opera Amadis.

Mr. Barreau.

"Monologue et Deploration d'Oriane," from the opera Amadis.

Miss Swartz.

Aria, "Amour, que veux-tu de Moi?"

Mme. Claessens.

Jean Phillippe Rameau, Dijon (1683-1764)

"Air d'Aphise," from the opera Dardanus.

Miss Amsden.

"Grand Air de Venus," from the Prologue to the opera Dardanus.

Miss Fisher.

"Acanthe et Cephise."

Miss Amsden.

Gavotte, Duet from the opera Dardanus.

Mr. Barreau and Miss Fisher.

"Deploration."

Mme. Claessens.

Henry Purcell, London (1658-1695)

"What shall I do to shew how much I love her?"

Mr. Diaz.

"Nymphs and Shepherds."

Miss Fisher.

Recitative, "Dido's Lament," from the opera Dido and Aeneas.

Mme. Claessens.

"I attempt from Love's Sickness to fly."

Mr. Diaz.

George Frederick Handel, Halle (1685-1759)

"Lascia ch'io Pianga," from the opera Rinaldo.

Miss Swartz.

(a) Recitative and Aria, "Hear me! Ye Winds and Waves," from the opera Scipio.

(b) "Ombra mai fu," from the opera Xerxes.

(c) "Revenge, Timotheus cries," Air from Alexander's Feast.

Mr. Lankow.

"My Father! ah, methinks I see!" from the opera Hercules.

Miss Amsden.

Course tickets for the series of con- certs are on sale at the main store of the Co-operative Society, the Boston Opera House and Herrick's, at $3 for members of the University and at $4 for the general public.

The programs of the concerts have been arranged with the co-operation of Mr. Wallace Goodrich of the Boston Opera Company, and will afford a comprehensive view of the development of grand opera from its earliest days