Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Austrian March, Zach. 2. Overture, "Freischutz," Weber. 3. Waltz, "Thousand and One Nights," Strauss. 4. Overture, "Tabasco," Chadwick. 5. Danse Macabre, Saint-Saens. 6. Ballet Music, "Boabdil:" (a) Prelude; (b) Malaguena;" Moszkowski. 7. Suite, "Peer Gynt:" (a) Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...
...first number on the program was Beethovens Symphony No. 8 in F. sometimes called the "little" symphony. Beethoven was in a quiet Austrian town when he composed it, in one of the dreariest periods of his life. Yet the Symphony contains more of the light and lively element than any of the other eight. The first movement has very little complexity of theme and is comparatively simple in detail. The second movement is the finest of the four though the end is surprising and perhaps disappointing. The minuet movement is certainly disappointing, Berlioz says of it, "somewhat ordinary." The finale...
...January number of the Century is very strong in papers of out-of-the-way adventure or travel told from personal experience. One of them is the concluding paper of Mrs. Pennell's Account of her adventures among the Austrian gispsies, another is Miss Alice C. Fletcher's "Personal Studies of Indian Life" setting forth the "Politics and Pipe-Dancing" of the tribe of Omaha Indians, and a third is two papers on "The Great Wall of China" giving good pictures in text and illustration of that wonderful wall. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has an interesting article on Whittier, with...
...fiction of the number is good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready...
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