Word: coriolanus
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...concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this evening the following program will be played: Mendelssohn, Overture "Melusina"; Tschaikowsky, Concerto for violin: Beethoven, Overture to "Coriolanus"; Schuman, Symphony...
This is a magnificent program which affords a rather unique oportunity to compare two different types of descriptive music--the Mendelssohn "Melusina" and the Beethoven "Coriolanus," each its kind a pure work of genius. In the "Melusina we find the same Mendelssohn as in the "Midsummer Nights Dream" music and in the "Fingal's Cave," with his wonderful poetic power of suggesting the phenomena of nature...
...soul. The agitated opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert. Soloist: Mr. Otto Roth. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m. Programme: Beethoven, Overture to "Coriolanus"; Bruch, Concerto for violin, in G minor; Wagner, Waldweben from "Siegfried"; Tschaikowsky, Symphony No. 5, in B minor...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Soloist: Mr. Otto Roth. Sanders Theatre, 7.45 p. m. Programme: Beethoven, Overture to "Coriolanus"; Bruch, Concerto for violin, in G minor; Wagner, Waldweben from "Siegfried"; Tschaikowsky, Symphony No. 5, in E minor...