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...Philharmonic started business in 1860 with a program that included such contemporary crowd rousers as the overtures to Michele Carafa's La Prison d'Edimbourg and Francois Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche. Most of the time since, it has stuck to a rigid amateur policy; only the conductors and guest soloists are pros. Part of the orchestra's success stems from its organization; its governing board is made up of playing members, and each of the orchestra's 95 instrumentalists must survive an annual audition; if any player does not measure up, he loses...
Eyeing the hand of Conductor Damrosch, the entire congress began to play, with sonorous tutti, Saint-Saens' Variations on a Theme by Beethoven. Then Mines. Hess, Leginska and Mérë sat jowl to jowl at one piano, played Boieldieu's overture to La Dame Blanche. Laughter and applause. Mr. Brailowsky opened the preamble of Schummann's Carnaval, passed it on to Mr. Gabrilowitch, and so the music leaped from instrument to instrument "till all marched against the Philistines...
...program follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director" Bigelow Overture to "The Calif of Bagdad" Boieldieu Waltz, "Imperial" Strauss Ballet Egyptain Luigini 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Allegretto 3. Andante sostenuto 4. Andante espressivo Serenade Drigo Three Dances from "Henry VIII" German 1. Morris Dance 2. Shepherd Dance 3. Torch Dance Cortege Gounod
...program for the concert this afternoon is strictly classical and symphonic in character, cousisting of compositions by Dvorak Debussy. Gounod, Luigini, chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Boieldieu...
...Rhapsody, No. 2, Liszt 5. Ballet Music from "La Gioconda," Ponchielli 6. Soli for 'Cello, a. Cantilena, Goltermann b. Tarentella, Popper (Mr. Joseph Keller.) 7. Faun Dance from "Pan and the Star," E. B. Hill 8. Selection, "Carmen," Bizet 9. Waltz, "Wiener Bonbons," Strauss 10. Overture, "La Dame Blanche," Boieldieu 11. Suite, "Peer Gynt," Grieg a. Anitra's Dance. b. In the Hall of the Mountain King. 12. Marche Lorraine, Ganne