Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bird and the Rose; the Jolly Musician...
...Glee Club gave the "Serenade" and "The Jolly Musician," and as before were encored by the audience. The "Waltz from Serenade" by the string instruments of the Pierian was well executed. Mr. Longworth, '91, concluded Part I by a very fine exhibition of violin playing. His work was remarkably skilful and finished, and he gives promise of becoming a very strong player...
...class of '86, Boston Latin School, had an annual dinner a Young's last evening. The officers of the class were: President, J. Vila; vice-presidents, H. E. Burton; secretary, C. H. Taylor, Jr.; treasurer, G. V. Leahy; poet, F. W. Maley; historian, C. G. Morgan; musician, H. G. Fuller; orator, D. D. Kearns; toastmaster, J. E. Rourke...
...prevailing figure suggests the sound of horses' feet and the triangle the sleigh-bells. The other two movements are exceedingly gloomy in character. In the first a lovely second subject gives some relief which is wanting in the last. As a whole the symphony is exceedingly interesting to the musician, but the average listener would probably receive more pleasure if the prevailing tone were somewhat brighter...
...Mozart. The tendency in music had begun to be from objective to subjective ideas, from the general to the personal. Vocal music is the objective, and came first; then came instrumental giving freer play to the unrestricted imagination of the writer. The older music was peculiarly formal; the musician had to precede the poet in working out the shape and form of which more beautiful ideas should be presented. Bach was the first to direct these architectural forms of their stiffness, then came Haydn and Mozart, his logical successors...