Word: allegros
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...seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes of orchestration with the usual tinklings and thumpings of percussion. The movement opens with an adagio scored for the brasses and flows into a passacaglian allegro which alone seems really successful. The composer seems to attempt a harmonious union of classical convention and contemporary complexity, but the piece at hand seemed to suffer from lack of the essential unconscious drive behind all its consciousness to put over what...
...Monday, December 11, at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon. The concert will be given by friends of the Fogg Museum and will consist of compositions by Bach and Schumann only. Included in the repertoire of Bach's pieces will be Concerto Grosso in D major-Op. 18, Allegro, Adagio affettuoso, and another Allegro. Four works of Schumann will be played...
...world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...program will be as follows: Overture to "Oberon" Weber Symphony in D Major No. 104 (London) Haydn Adagio-allegro Andante Menuetto Allegro spiritoso Interval ;Petite Suite Debussy En Bateau Cortege Menuet Ballet Andante eantabile from the Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" waltzes Johann Strauss "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda" Ponchielli
...Allegro assai...