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...program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall for Friday evening is as follows: Second Wagner Night. 1. March, "Hoch und Deutschmeister,"Ertel 2. Intermezzo, Act III., the Madonna," "The Jewels of Wolf-Ferrari 3. Faun Dance from the Pantomime, "Pan and the Star," E. B. Hill 4. Selection, "La Boheme," Puccini 5. Prelude to "Lohengrin," Wagner 6. Isolde's Liebestod, Wagner 7. Selection from "Die Meistersinger," Wagner 8. Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner 9. Overture, "Sea-calm and Prosperous Voyage," Mendelssohn 10. Meditation, Bach-Gounod Violin, Mr. Hoffmann; Harp, Mr. Holy; Organ, Mr. Marshall. 11. Waltz, "Artist's Life...
...Deutschmeister," Ertel 2. Overture, "The Black Domino," Auber 3. Meditation, Bach-Gounod (Violin, Mr. Hoffman; Harp, Mr. Holy, Organ, Mr. Marshall.) 4. Hungarian 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
Lord Stonbury, who is the centre of an artificial social group, is just about to commit suicide partly from financial losses and partly from what appears to be chronic ennui when the Faun appears. Led by a desire to know what men are like, the Faun has come to England from a convenient Mediterranean country, and agrees to give Lord Stonbury tips on the horse-races provided that the Lord will introduce him into society. The first act closes on the rather humorous attempts of the Faun to adopt the dress and manners of conventional society...
Once among men, the Faun brings about all manner of changes by preaching the gospel of naturalism and free self-expression. In the second act he brings together two lovers who had been separated by a difference in social rank, and reawakens the idea of love in a converted suffragette by a genuinely Werther - thunderstorm - Klopstock method. Little happens in the third act except the completion of the two incipient romances and the final return of the Faun to the realm of nature...
...play is unusually well mounted--the thunderstorm and the sunrise deserve much credit. Mr. Faversham makes the Faun singularly attractive and entertaining and at the same time sensible and convincing. A less capable actor would make his speeches on free self-expression and unsatisfied affection seem anarchistic or worse. But Mr. Faversham's Faun is sane even while he is radical. Altogether the play is a delight to those who have a thinking interest in the theatre, and a credit to Mr. Faversham, Mr. Knoblauch and what has been called the "school of Harvard dramatists...