Word: minors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...overtures. We have so long been accustomed to hear the heavy strokes of the strings in the first part played with a disagreeable rasping quality that the clear and noble tone attained by the orchestra was particularly delightful. The next piece was Schumann's concerto, for piano in A minor, played by Mr. Carl Faelton. This concerto, composed just fifty years ago, is incomparably finer than any concerto that has been composed since. It was last played in Cambridge in January, 1888, by Miss Aus der Ohe. It gave Mr. Faelton abundant opportunity to display his brilliant technical skill...
...like hypothesis would throw light upon the remarkable distinction in emotional character between the two forms of consonant chord, the Major and the Minor Triad. The former presents, through its fundamental tones, and their difference tones an approximately complete musical note; the Minor on the other hand gives fragments of three different notes. The Minor Triad is thus equivocal and unsatisfying, and to this fact may be due its tinge of melancholy...
...programme for the concert this evening is of a purely classical character and yet the styles of the composers represented are sufficiently varied. The first number will be Beethoven's dramatic overture to Egmont. Mr. Carl Faelten will play Schumann's familiar pianoforte concerto in A minor. The concert will close with the grand Schubert Symphony...
Three volumes of "Annals of the Observatory" have been completed and published during the year; the publication of eight others is in progress, several of them being very nearly complete at the close of the year and thirty minor publications were made in astronomical periodicals or separately...
...Thayer then spoke of the influence the Jews had on the people among whom they lived. These extra-Palestinian Jews (or as they are technically called, the Dispersion), were very widely scattered all over the Western world. They appeared in Asia Minor and along the northern coast of Africa. A large portion of the cities of Alexandria and Rome were populated by Jews. These Jews clung firmly together, and established synagogues wherever they happened to be. They adapted themselves wonderfully to their surroundings, as was own by the way their Jewish ideas were mingled with the Greek Philosophy...