Word: minuetting
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...Davison's program for his organ recital this morning will be as follows: Handel, Minuet, Bach, Fugue in G minor...
Thursday--Handel, Minuet; Bach, Fugue in G minor...
...program for the "Pops" Concert tonight follows: 1. Overture to "The Beautiful Gala-tea" Suppe 2. Waltz, "Wine, Women and Song" Strauss 3. Ave Maria Bach-Gounod (Solo violin, harp, organ and strings) 4. Dance of the Hours from "La Gicconda" Ponchielli 5. Suite Rameau-Mottl Minuet--Musette--Tambourin 6. Dubinushka Arranged by Jacchia 7. Chinese Dance Crist 8. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 9. Fantasia "II Trovatore" Verdi 10. Hindu Song Rimsky-Korsakoff 11. Military March Schubert-Jacchia
...Score. The music never interprets the fantasy, but plays with it, mocks it-rolls it ahead like a ball, follows after on subtle feet. The work is, in pattern, like those opera ballets of the 18th Century. Everything is a dance ; the chair-song a minuet; the fire-talk a gigue; dragon flies weave to the slow air of a waltz; the teapot chortles in a foxtrot. It is music that smiles over its shoulder, that caresses only with the tips of its fingers, and laughs at itself in its own mirrors...
...superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which is in reality "no more creative than a virtuoso's playing of a Chopin minuet...