Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andre Marchal, celebrated blind organist of the Church of St. Germain des Pres in Paris, is giving a recital on Friday evening, December 2, at 8:15 o'clock on the famous baroque organ of the Germanic Museum. The program will consist of music by Clerambault and Bach, and of improvisation on a given theme...
...seems rather futile. Yet last year there was a highly successful discussion in Eliot House comparing the scientific method with that of the social sciences. Perhaps more feasible, however, is a joint discussion among kindred fields. Next week, for instance, the tutors and tutees in History, History-Literature and Music will approach the question of patronage of the arts, presumably from three different points of view...
...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...
...symphonic poems intended to illustrate Byron's dramatic poems intended to illustrate Byron's dramatic poem of the same name in three acts, begun in 1816. Those who are annoyed by the program of Berlioz's "Symphonic Fantastique" will find the combination of Byron's story and Tschaikovsky's music even less to their taste. The scherzo, which is mostly a representation of an Alpine waterfall, is very fine and strangely restless in mood, with admirable orchestral effects; but the other three movements are quite bad. Still the first half of the concert is well worth hearing...
...alone held over a note two beats that was staccato for the rest of the chorus. Woody looked up; Vag joined the others in looking around and leered scornfully at the innocent man sitting next to him, then resumed singing. This time he would pay attention to the music, he thought. What was he singing for if he kept thinking about other things? After all, the "Missa Solemnis" was the greatest choral piece, so Woody said; at least one of the greatest ever created. Yes, Beethoven was undoubtedly a great composer, even if he did have syphilis...