Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final concert of the year of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Cambridge will be given in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The program will be as follows: Symphony in A major, "Italian" Opus 90, Mendelssohn Overture to the Opera, "The Barber of Bagdad," Cornelius Concertante Symphonie for Violin and Viola, Mozart (Mr. Anton Witek, Violin, and Mr. Emile Ferir, Viola). Overture to "Tannhauser," Wagner...
...Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...
Members of the University are wanted to act as "supers" during the engagement of the Metropolitan Opera Company at the Boston Opera House from April 3 to 22. Any men wishing to do this should register in the Lobby of the Opera House tomorrow afternoon between 3 and 5.30 o'clock...
...country our only very appreciable progress has been professional. professionalized music, bought and sold like any other commodity of luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part two-fold: that of the popular brand of music, which we respect according to the amount...
...Second Part of "Henry IV" will be given by Delta Upsilon at the Providence Opera House in Providence tonight. The play will be presented under the auspices of Brown University as the first event in its program commemorating the Shakspere Tercentenary...