Word: allegros
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...Technically Readers Offer and Redmond are right. But let them consider Classicist John Milton's language in U Allegro...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Scherzo from the Octet Mendelssohn *Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana *"A Victory Ball" Scholling (Conducted by the composer) *Planoforte Concert No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 MacDowell I. Larghetto calmato II. Presto glocoso III. Largo; molto allegro Soloist: Jesus Maria Sanroma "The Incredible Flutist" Piston (Dance play by Hans Wiener) Mass Wiener and his Dancers with Orchestra *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...March from "The Queen of Sheba"Gounod *Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Bach Goes to Town," A Fugue in Swing Templeton Orchestration by Henry Brant *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss Concerto for Pianoforte No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 Rubinstein I. Moderato II. Moderato assai III. Allegro assai Soloist: Selma Pelonsky Songs by "Smiff en Poofs" *Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies *Prayer of Thanksgiving, Old Dutch Hymn Valerius-Kremser *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage Allegro Cristiano (quick but Christian), confessed he did not know whether it was "musique sacrée ou sacrée musique" (sacred or accursed music), made one tenor solo, Domine Deus, sound like a swashbuckler's serenade, and directed that the composition should be sung by "three sexes...
...been to celebrate the second Stuart rising against the House of Hanover in 1745), is a powerful and exhilarating piece which suffers in performance only from the cruelly high and long trumpet parts typical of the early 18th century. There are three movements: a grave introduction and quasi-fugal allegro, a fine slow movement with oboe solo, and a rousing finale...