Word: fantasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FANTASIA AND FUGUE ON B. A. C. H. rendered on the organ of Westminster Cathedral for the English Gramaphone Co. by Guy Weitz is interesting. One of those tremendous things that ties you into a knot...
Program to be conducted by Arthur Fiedler March, "On the Mall" Goldman Overture to "Oberon" Weber Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Songs with Orchestra a. Pax et lux F. E. Dow '09 b. Victory Song W. N. Rose '12 c. Tuftonia's Days F. W. Hayes '16 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Entrance of the Gladiators Fucik Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Ballet of the Hours from "Gloconda" Ponchielli The Lost Chord Sullivan (Trumpet solo: Georges Mager) Mississippi Suite Grofe a. Father of Waters b. Huckleberry Finn c. Old Creole Days d. Mardi Gras Selection, "Good News" De Sylva Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt American Patrol Meacham Stein Song
CONQUISTADOR. American Fantasia ? Philip Guedalla?Harpers ($3). "Tall, unlikely towers steep suddenly out of the mist . . . group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla...
...Significance. Author Bennett has written what he calls a fantasia; mainly for his own amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley...