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...program for the "Pops" Concert tonight follows: 1. Overture to "The Beautiful Gala-tea" Suppe 2. Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song" Strauss 3. Ave Maria Bach-Gounod (Solo violin, harp, organ and strings) 4. Dance of the Hours from "La Gicconda" Ponchielli 5. Suite Rameau-Mottl Minuet--Musette--Tambourin 6. Dubinushka Arranged by Jacchia 7. Chinese Dance Crist 8. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 9. Fantasia "II Trovatore" Verdi 10. Hindu Song Rimsky-Korsakoff 11. Military March Schubert-Jacchia
Tonight's program wil be as follows: 1. March. "Cruiser Harvard" Strube 2. Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven 3. Fantasia, "Alda" Verdi 4. College Songs Intermission 5. Baechanale from "Tannhauser" Wagner 6. Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky 7. Ave Maria Schuber-Wilhelmj (solo violin. Harp. Organ and strings.) 8. Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszi 9. Selection, "Rose-Marie" Frimi-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Tros Jolie" Waldteufel 11. American Fantasy Berbert
...eyes might say to that man when they meet. This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most...
...stage of Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, was set for a concert. On it loomed no pianoforte's harp-shaped shadow; no fiddlers tried their strings; no brisk conductor raised his arm. It was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. At the back of this bare stage, there stood a huge screen, black-bordered; down by the footlights were certain metal boxes, each topped with a keyboard of sliding buttons. Before the concert began, a man made a speech. He was Thomas Wilfred, Danish singer, who invented the instrument so curiously composed of the metal boxes, the great screen...
...shadowy halls and at the gates of cities, under thatch, under rafter or with no roof but their caps between them and the gaping pocket of night, men played the harp-princes, captains, jongleurs, beggarmen. Their fingers wandered the strings, their heads bent to their music. Last week, the harp was played in Chicago. Enrico Tramonti, harpist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was permitted by Conductor Frederick Stock to play a solo on his instrument. Widor's Chorale et Variations he played. It is a good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest...