Word: moorish
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Programme: Mendelssohn, Overture, "Melusine"; -- (Aria, to be announced); Humperdinck, Moorish Rhapsody (first time at these concerts); -- (Aria, to be announced); Wilhelm Berger, Symphony in B-flat major, op. 71 (first time at these concerts...
Programme: Mendelssohn, Overture, "Melusine"; ---- (Aria, to be announced); Humperdinck, Moorish Rhapsody (first time at these concerts); ---- (Aria, to be announced); Wilhelm Berger, Symphony in B-flat major, op. 71 (first time at these concerts...
...been received during the year except those derived from the original Fogg endowment, the best specimens of art have not been acquired. But the comprehensive collection of some twelve thousand photographs, which shows the history of the fine arts, has been materially enlarged. More than a thousand photographs, illustrating Moorish art in Spain, have been received, as well as views taken in France, Italy and Egypt...
...becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when the present Alcayde was but an infant. By this agreement Don Manuel is to wed the Moorish prince Kazooka on attaining his majority, and it is on his twenty-first birthday that the action of the play takes place...
...this stage the Moorish princess and her fierce brother, Abu Abdela, appear upon the scene to claim, in accordance with the ancient contract, the young Alcayde, Don Manuel. The Grand Inquisitor is unable to produce Don Manuel, at which Abu flies into a terrible passion, and makes things extremely unpleasant for Seville's chief magistrate...