Word: gregoriano
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...gave its opening concert. At just the appointed time Conductor Eugene Goossens, trimmest of all conductors, sent floating through the spaces of the Eastman Theatre the honest harmonies of Weber's Oberon Overture, the enchanted woods of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi, Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, new to Rochester, stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair too deep...
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