Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Club gave a group of college songs, but with a certain lack of life. One feature was a tenor solo by Mr. Willard, who sang the "Russian Song" with much delicacy. The "Bill of Fare" quartette "took" as usual. The Pierian is certainly ambitious in attempting the andante and minuet from Mozart's E. 6 symphony, but they were not far behind in success; the Minuet was given with a vigor seldom heard in the organization. The Glee Club gave as its glees "Dearest Awake" and "Heinz von Stein." The latter made quite a hit, and was repeated...
...Suite is a very graceful composition and the Minuet and Finale have decided character and were splendidly rendered...
...clarinets and in some movements without flutes, yet with these simple means some very charming effects are produced. One notable instance occurs in the andante, where the horn has a few notes against a scale figure in the violins; another is a tutti in the second two of the minuet. The performance was a little rugged at times, perhaps owing to the presence of several new members among the violins. Rheinhold's prelude, minuet and fugue presented a very pleasing quality of light music, all except the fugue, which was rather wanting in true fugal character. The overture to Tannhaeuser...
...Minuet, Boecherini Mr. C. B. Perkins...