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...program at Tuesday's sight reading rehearsal will include Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Haydn's "London" Symphony, Dvorak's Sinflonietta, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor, and a Suite by Bach...
...linked sweetness long drawn out, the last bright notes of a Haydn string quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played...
London's famed Sadler's Wells company was putting on a new ballet. The orchestra struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly...
...program being presented Friday night includes two Boston premieres: Haydn's 77th Symphony and the Overture to Schubert's Opera "Alfonso and Estrella." The Radcliffe Dance Group, under Anne A. Cameron's direction, will perform in several battles including one of the Orchestra's perennial stand-bys, the "Variations on Mary Had A Little Lamb," by Edward Ballantine '05, associate professor of Music emeritus. Other works to be performed are Danius Milhaud's modern arrangement of Couperin's "Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe...
...World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...