Word: berlioz
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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BOSTON MUSIC HALL. - This evening, at 7.45, will be given Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust," with the famous Georg Henschel as Mephistopheles; Miss Bailey, as Marguerite; Mr. Winch, as Faust; and Mr. C. E. Hay, as Brander. Chorus of 300; orchestra of 60; under the direction of Mr. B. J. Lang...
...work, emphatically remarkable when we consider that the composer died at thirty-six years of age, and that this work was only op. 9. It is essentially poetical and even dramatic in the intensity of emotion, keenly imaginative and wrought out in orchestration that is worthy of Wagner or Berlioz. Indeed, its intensity is perhaps too great to express its motto...
...orchestra did excellent work in the performance of this number, as also in their rendering of the Andante and Menuet from Mozart. Miss Ita Welsh sang "The Captive" by Berlioz, and an Aria from Mozart's Figaro, in a very tasteful manner; the last of these was particularly appreciated by the audience, and won a merited encore. The first is a very remarkable piece of tone-painting, in which the orchestration of the accompaniment plays an prominent part as a means of interpreting the text...