Word: azara
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Overture to the opera, "The Improvisatore," D'Albert, for the first time in these concerts: Concerto for the violin. Brahm: a solo by Miss Maud MacCarthy: Ballet Music from the opera, "Azara," Professor J. K. Paine h.'69; Symphony, "Harold in Italy," Berlioz...
Professor J. K. Paine's opera, "Azara" was given its first public performance in Chickering Hall last evening, before a large and interested audience. The opera treats a powerful theme, and at times rises to the highest pitch of dramatic power and lyrical expression. The concerted parts of the opera were particularly effective and stirring, and of great richness of tone and harmony. The accompaniment to the opera was performed on the piano, which fact, in itself somewhat of a detriment, gave indication of the possibilities which orchestral accompaniment would afford...
...first public production of the new opera "Azara" by Professor J. K. Paine h.'69, will be given in concert form in Chickering Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The larger part of the three acts will be sung by soloists and a chorus, with a piano accompaniment...
Scenes from the opera "Azara," composed by Professor J. K. Paine '69, will be sung in concert from by a chorus and soloist at Chickering Hall, on Thursday evening, May 7, at 8 o'clock. Tickets at $1 are on sale at the hall, or may be ordered by mail from E. Cutter, Jr., 153 Tremont street, Boston...
...will certainly interest the lovers of music in the University and all who may be interested in the development of music in America to learn something more of Professor Paine's opera "Azara," from which the ballet music has recently been performed in Boston and Cambridge with such brilliant success. It may not be generally recognized that during the last few years a work has been created here in our midst which makes a permanent contribution to the modern opera. In fact "Azara" is the first grand opera on an original subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American...