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Tonight is Maine Night at the Pops Concert which will take place at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
Weber: Overture to Oberon...
...heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will arrive at something like this: 'The Symphar-monic Orchestra gave a concert last night in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than he should, sentimentalized the second, was too slow in the third and was superb in the fourth. The concert ended with the Tannhauser overture as usual...
...courteous musicians remained obstinately seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which the world affords to the thoughtful. They did not want anyone to think that, had Miss Leginska merely said to them: "Gentlemen, I wish you would play the Oberon overture, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and the Meistersinger overture," the performance might not have been so very different...
...Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck Jaernefelt Berceuse Two Sentimental Tangos (for dancing) Vigil Thompson '22 "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" Purcell "Wie bist du meine Koenigen" Brahms Cartner "Love is Mine" (C. T. Leonard '23, accompanist.) Prelude to second act of "Louise" Charpantier Overture to "Oberon" Weber Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Cooperative Society, Herrick's, and the Copley Theatre. A few are also available at the Pierian Sodality office in the Music Building...