Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas...
...jazz "Poem" for pianoforte and orchestra was performed last November by the Rochester Philharmonic, while a symphonic prelude, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" was performed this season by the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Poem" for pianoforte and orchestra, transcribed for two pianofortes Miss Blanche Brocklebank and Miss Jean Wilder
...orchestras which will furnish the music for the occasion are Roy Lamson's Harvardians and Bert Lowe's Hotel Statler Orchestra, assisted by Billy Lossez. At 12 o'clock, supper will be served by the Freshman Dining Halls Committee in the Smith Halls quadrangle...
...Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride and groom enter bed. Erotic exaltation of all company. The shadows grow darker. The whole company is immobile as if transfixed. Father of bride sings the final magnificently eloquent phrase, interrupted at irregular intervals by bell-like crashes from the orchestra." Friend or foe, none can deny Stravinsky's fame...