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Most of the best music has been composed in Europe. But the greatest virtuosos, composers, conductors, turn toward the U.S. for a living. They come, Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, Poles, with their Italian, German, French, Polish art. It has always been welcome. Yet to many Americans, a native pride has long cried out for musical interpretation of America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged...
Posterity has excused the crimes of Strafford and Hastings; they were committed for the sake of great public interests and were justified by their efficacy. Fall's greatest crime was his hopeless incompetency If it were possible to try an official for utter incapability, he would merit the maximum sentence: He is a living argument that idiocy should be a statutory offense...
This, the greatest of Handel's works, probably the greatest and certainly the best loved of all oratorios, will be given Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, and Monday night at 3.15 in Symphony Hall, by the Handel and Haydn Society under the direction of Emil Mollenhauer. No Vagabond who has ever heard it will miss it, and no vagabond who has not, should...
...numbers chosen from a large group of excellent compositions, seem to deserves especial mention the concrete of Grieg and the Marche Hongroise of Berlioz. Grieg's work, concrete for piano and orchestra of which only the first of the three movements will be played, contains passages of the greatest beauty, particularly in the duets between the piano and oboe and the contrasts between the strings and the piano. It is a work which has not been played in Boston for some ten years, but should prove as popular tonight as it was a decade...
...light of his ideals in the splendor of his achievements in the high perpetual cheer of his example pledge the university whose calerglary he was, our best; and our best to the country whose greatest private citizen he has been for more than a generation of years; and with this, our pledge to what he loved best and most, we leave...