Word: bargemen
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...branches. Nightingale, thy sweetest song sounds when night is darkling. From you hills the torrent speeds, and the rain ne'er ceases. Secret nook in shady spot mong the waving grasses Drake's Drum Coleridge-Tayler The Glee Club Symphonic Poem, "Danse Macabre" Saint-Saens Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia March, "Veritas" Densmore The Orchestra
This evening's program follows: March, "Cruiser Harvard" Strube Overture, "Maximillian Robespierre" Littolff Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel Simmons Songs Fantasia, "Carmen" Bizet Largo from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia Rustic Dance, "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakow Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern Invitation to the Dance Wener-Berliez American Patrol Meacham
This evening's program follows: Prelude to "Carmen", Bizet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Nicolai Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", J. Straus Fantasia, "Pagliacci", Leoncavalle Suite, "Nuteracker", Tschaikovsky Organ Solo, (Prof. H. D. Sleeper). Liebesfreud, Kreisler Overture to "Tannhauser", Wagner Selection, "Orange Blossoms", Herbert Volga Bargemen's Song, arranged by Agide Jacchia. "Home, Sweet Home", Bishop-Jacchia
...finest and most eloquent of all the programme was the Glee Club's third Russian Folk song: "At Father's Door". The Volga Bargemen's song arrangement is original and convincing; the "Fireflies" very effectively done. But the third one more than any of the others is worthy of the great powers of the Glee Club; in it, the listener felt the pent-up energy, the restlessness, the subterranean mutterings, the whole background of the Russian Revolution; the Glee Club vivified this remarkable feeling to an extreme degree. No one who heard them will ever doubt their greatness everyone...
...least (to be trite), came Glazmov's "Steuka Razine". It is a fine work, equally enjoyable with or without the program. It shows clearly to a Boston audience the difference between artistic treatment of a folk-song and melodramatic claptrap, in its version of the droning Volgar bargemen's song...