Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Beethoven's third Leonore overture opened last night the last Symphony Concert of the season in Cambridge. The overture was finely rendered by the orchestra. The two selections from Godard were the third and fourth movements of his "Symphonie Orientale," a symphony descriptive of poems by De Lisle, Hugo and Godard. The first. Nikia's Dream, has a beautiful melody for the oboe, taken up by the violins, and then changing to a subject employing the whole orchestra. In the second, In the Hammock, the pricipal theme is introduced by the clarionet and worked out by the strings...
...concert was ended by a superb and stirring presentation of Beethoven's third symphony. This symphony was completed in 1804, and dedicated to Napoleon, but the news of the latter's assumption of the title of emperor so angered Beethoven that he tore off the title page, and restored it only when Napoleon died at St. Helena. The term "heroic" is applied to it, not in the sense of a military hero, but in that of a perfect man. The four movements depict man's various sensations: in the first, youthful and active emotions, followed by the mournful and solemn...
...programme for the last of the Sanders Theatre Concerts which begins at 7.45 this evening consists of Beethoven's Leonore Overture, No. 3; Liszt's "Mignon," a song with the orchestra; two movements from the Symphonie Orientale by Godard; songs with the piano, and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, No. 3, in E flat. Miss Lena Little will be the soloist...
...Glee Club sang "Hark, hark, my soul" and "Abide with me." After Prof. Peabody's address, J. D. Merrill, L. S., sang a portion of an anthem, "For they are in peace." Mr. Locke began the services with Beethoven's March on the Death of a Hero, and closed with Chopin's Funeral March...
...concert closed with a remarkably spirited performance of Schubert's great C major symphony, which is the only symphony ever composed, except Schubert's other, in B minor, and some of Schumann's, that can rank with the best of Beethoven's. The magnificent passages for the trombones in the first movement, one of the finest things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with...