Word: liszt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be given at the Pops Concert in Symphony Hall tonight: "Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg" from "Tannhauser" Wagnor Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert Roumanian Rhapsody Euesco College Airs front Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan Marche Joyeuse Chabrier "The Bartered Bride", Overture Smetana Valse Triste Sibelius Overture to William Tell Rossini First Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strause Overture Solennelie, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...effective style it outlines the life of a delicate young man of extreme refinement, attending rather to the dates on which he commenced his amours than to those on which he composed his mazurkas. Nothing is added to biographical data. Persons who liked the De Pourtales life of Franz Liszt, L'Homme d'Amour (TIME, Jan. 31), may find in this a less rhapsodic concentration, a more balanced treatment...
...proceeds to detailed accounts of Wagner's amorous adventures. He was the adorer of many women but most notably three: Minna (Wilhelmina Planer), a stupid, clamorous, third-rate actress whom he married; Mathilde (Mme. Weson-donck) who inspired Tristan; and Cosima (Frau von Bülow, natural daughter of Franz Liszt) who provided the stimulus for the Ring series and whom Wagner loved most of all. In his relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced...
...Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...
Tonight's pops concert, to be held in Symphony Hall, will begin at 8.15 o'clock. The program follows: Marche Militaire Schubert Overture to "Ruy Blas" Mendelssohn "On the Steppes of Middle-Asia" Orchestra Sketch Borodin Orchestral Sketch Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Overture to "Sicilian Vespers" Verdi Symphonic Piece from "Redemption" Franck Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg First Hungarian Dance in G minor Brahms Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser" Wagner