Word: orpheus
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...mother would repeat the entire score of 'Orpheus' over and over until dawn appeared in the studio window...
...ardent listening, may rest, looking ahead with anticipation to the advent of evening, when he may listen enraptured, to the annual Sanders Theatre Concert of the Glee Club, to begin at 8 o'clock. Here he will hear, among other charming renditions, Gluck's "Two Choruses and Ballet from 'Orpheus'", and Mozart's "O Isis and Osiris from 'The Magic Flute'". To the Vagabond who is not historically inclined, and who, at 12 o'clock, is not entirely worn out, the following lectures will be of interest...
...given on Sunday afternooon at 4 o'clock. The program for the two concerts follows: I. Fair Harvard II. Darest Thou Now, O Soul Williams Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres III. Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheus" Gluck O Isis and Osiris from "The Magic Flute" Mozart Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan IV. The Nightingale Tchaikovsky The Hundred Pipers Arthur Whiting How Beautiful are the Feet from "The Messiah" Handel "The Messiah" Handel...
...sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than the semitone. Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones...
...program, a particularly variea one, contains some especially fine selections, of which the most noteworthy is two Choruses and Ballet from Gluck's "Orpheus...