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Like his contemporaries, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 1), Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...
Richard Wagner can hardly be called a light composer, and Gustav Mahler is certainly about as weighty a symphonist as it is possible to find. The combination of the works of these two men into this week's concerts by the Boston Symphony is therefore somewhat ever-powering...
...former is to be represented by excerpts from "Die Walkure" and "Die Meistersinger" which includes Wotan's Farewell with the ensuing Fire Music, the Ride of the Valkyries, and the Introduction to the Third Act of "Die Meistersinger." Mahler's Fifth Symphony, only surpassed in size and gargantuan qualities by his Eighth Symphony, is also to be performed. It was composed in the years 1901-02, and has three divisions which are subdivided into five movements. It is hoped that the followers of these two composers will attend the concerts en masse and then hold their peace for the rest...
Other Freshmen who took part: Peter L. Bernstein, Parko N. Bossart, George F. Butterworth, 3rd, Jesse W. Croach, Jr., Robert B. Hayden, Robert L. Heilbroner, Albert H. Labastic, Frank L. McLanathan, John I. Mahler, Halford W. Park, John C. Perham, Fred A. Rico, Manning A. Williams and Massao Yatsuhashi...
Honduras: Louis K. Benjamin '39, chairman; Lawrence F. Ebb '39; John C. Wahlke '39; George F. Bogardus '39; John I. Mahler '40; and James Tobin...