Word: obbligatos
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...Music Merchants and the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers' Association, but also the National Association of Musical Merchandise Wholesalers and a sizable collection of manufacturers, who brought along the biggest agglomeration of musical wares ever assembled. For four days, deals, discussions, and congratulations were drowned by the cacophonous obbligato of their competing demonstrations. The 2,500 instruments on display were worth...
...himself emasculated. Learning that he had come to New York, hired a room for a single day near the Gedeon apartment and disappeared the night of the murders, the police settled on him as the murderer and began a nation-wide search. Thus this perfect story, playing a lurid obbligato to the Supreme Court and the Sit-Down in Manhattan's lively press, flamed on into another week of joy for the city editors...
...indeed the program which the Glee Club presents tonight could hardly be improved upon. Two or three numbers demand particular mention. One of the most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...
...complete evening's repertories follows: 1. Darest Thou Now, Oh Soul Williams Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Flute Obbligato by Mr. George Laurent O, Vos Omnes Vittoria The Harvard Glee Club 2. Suite in A minor Bach Prelude Sarabande Bourree I and II Gigue Sonara quasi una fantasia, Op. 27. No.2. Beethoven Adagio Allegretto Presto Mr. Bauer 3. Hark All Ve Lovely Saints Weelkes Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line...
They played Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Brahms' Quartet in C minor; then, after a rest, they smiled among themselves, stroked the glossy wood of their instruments, began to play a strange composition. It was Ernest Schelling's Divertimento, for string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events...