Word: midsummernight
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...Mendelssohn, Overture. Midsummernight's Dream...
...Overture to Midsummernight's Dream was played with remarkable delicacy and distinctness. The playing of the difficult motions by the strings was perfection itself and could only be accomplished by strings such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra possesses. The Concerto for pianoforte was performed by Mme. Anna Clark-Steiniger in rather a lifeless manner. The Concerto is thoroughly Mozart in character and rather tedious than interesting. Mme. Steiniger was very well received by the audience, and was given an encore. The Hungarian rhapsody, No. 2. of Liszt, was also well rendered, the weird character of the piece being carefully observed...
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