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Best general references: Stanton, Behring Sea Controversy, ch. IX; Amer. Hist. Leaflet, No. 6. Letters of Mr. Blaine, Foreign Rel., 1890. pp. 437, 477; Correspondence between the U S. and Great Britain, Bering Sea, 24 93; E. J. Phelps, Harp. Mag. LXXXII, 766, (Apr. 1891); H. H. Bancroft's Alaska ch. XXI; Wharton, Internat. Law, I pp. 70, 109, 113; Welling, B. S. Arbitration...
...have generously volunteered. Mme. Kathinka Paulsen White, Soprano; Miss Louella Wagner, Alto; Mr. Eliot Hubbard, Tenor; Signor Guiseppe Campanari, Baritone; and the following soloists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Franz Kneisel, Concert Meister and Violin Soloist; Mr. Leo Shulz, Cello; Mr. Charles Mole; Flute; Mr. Heinrich Shnecker, Harp; Mr. Max Zach, Accompanist; and Orchestra of 60 Pieces. Mr. John C. Mullaly, Conductor. Tickets now on Sale...
...Suite, "L' Arlesienne" No. 1. The opening movement is a swinging march with the air by the cellos and a peculiar counter theme in the wood wind. In the second movement the flutes carry the air with an accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst of sound from...
After Mrs. Nikisch had sung a group of songs the orchestra played Handel's familiar "Largo." The air is taken up by the French horns with harp accompaniment. Then the solo violin takes the air and finally all the violins end with a great fortissimo passage. Though the Largo is familiar, the audience became unusually enthusiastic, and forced Mr. Nikisch to repeat part...
...people, said he, have been so low in social conditions that they have not felt the need of some expression of the peculiar temper of their age. Even in the midst of the British invasions upon England, the harp and song accompanied and perpetuated the deeds of these rough warriors. There is no question that there existed before the arrival of the Romans a distinct Celtic literature which gained its peculiar character from the domination of the Druids...