Word: concert
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee, Mandolin and Banjo Club will give a concert at Melrose, March...
...VARSITY MANDOLIN CLUB. - Rehearsal tonight at 6.30. All must attend. Concert tomorrow night...
...seventh concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was given in Sanders Theatre last night. At the suggestion of Mr. Higginson, it was a memorial concert to George William Curtis, and the numbers on the programme, especially the aria from Sampson, the Unfinished Symphony, and the funeral march from Gotterdommerung, were such as arouse in our minds associations of solemnity. In this respect the programme was an admirable exposition of the manner of expressing the same emotion by three widely different schools of musical composition,-the strictly classical school, the romantic school and the school of what fifteen years...
...selections from Wagner are interesting as concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings...
After the concert, a reception was given to Mr. and Mrs. Nikisch at Professor Norton...