Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Overture, "Coriolanus." Beethoven; concuto for violoncello, Davidoff; two movements from suite no. 1. Maszhowski; Symphony no. 5 in E minor, Tschaikowsky. Soloist, Mr. Alwin Schroeder...
...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...
...Beethoven Society of Wellesley will give their last concert for the winter next Monday evening...
...great work of the evening was Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. which was written in 1802 when the composer was but thirty-two years old. The Symphony is a happy one, is the expression of the emotions of a man who is "at peace with himself and the world, happy in his art and not yet stirred to his very soul by the sorrows of life." An exceedingly odd effect is produced in the first movement by leading the mind gradually on and on till it demands a climax and dropping it just where the climax is expect d. This...
...programme concert to be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45 is as follows: Suite, Dvorak; Aria from "Der Tod Jesu," Graun; Symphony No. E. Beethoven; Aria from "Hamlet," Thomas; Overture, Euryanthe, Heber. Soloist, Miss Priscilla White...