Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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We understand that the leader of the brass band is having no little difficulty in getting the men in the band together for practice. The college depends on the band, not, to be sure, for the winning of some new championship from Yale, but rather for some good outdoor concerts...
Prof. Paine's lecture last night was devoted to following the development of instrumental music down to the time of Bach. Instrumental music naturally came after vocal music, men being endowed by nature with voices, and instruments being a matter of ingenuity and invention. It developed slowly, the church being...
Saint Saens ingenious Danse Macabre, though not finely played, so took the audience as to call forth a demand for its repetition, which Mr. Gericke unwisely yielded to. If the rule against repeats is to be broken, it would seem as if a piece of more real musical merit might...
The first of Prof. Paine's series of historical concerts was given last evening in Sever 11, before an audience which comfortably filled the room; undergraduates were largely represented, while there were many Cambridge people also present. The musical part of the programme was furnished by six excellent singers, of...
We are glad to see that the usual round of college lectures and readings is to be varied by a series of historical concerts, to be given by Prof. Paine, in Sever 11. The name of Prof. Paine is of itself a sufficient guarantee that these concerts will be of...