Word: ossianic
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...follows: Come, Thou, Oh Come, Bach Ecce, Quomodo Moritur, Palestrina Glory to God, Pergolesi Glee Club. Apres un Reve, Faure Chanson Norwegienne, Fourdrain L'Heure Silenclouse, Staub La Belle du Roi, Miss Williams, Holmes Salamaleikum, Cornelius Far O'er the Bay, Franck (Soprano solo by Miss Williams.) Song from Ossian's Fingal, Brahms Chant de Guerre, Glee Club. Shmitt A Memory, Ganz I Feel Thy Breath, Rubinstein A Dream, Grieg Pierrot, Watts Song of the Open, Miss Williams. La Forge Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph, Morley The Broken Melody, Sibelius Let Their Celestial Concerts, Glee Club. Handel
...country; hence his appreciation of nature. He was surrounded by the warmest family influences; hence his tenderness and also his confident and sunny Christinity. At the age of sixteen, he left his studies and led the life of a country gentleman. His reading consisted of the Bible, Ossian, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Bernardin de Saint Pierre; especially Chateaubriand who gave him his taste for melancholy; finally Plato and Petrarch to whom he owed his contion of love considered as a religion...
...first number on the programme was the Overture "Ossian' by Niels W. Gade, one of the most gifted of living composers. The Overture won for him in the year 1841, a prize offered by the Copenhagen Musical Union, and after its first performance, he was immediately taken into royal favor and treated with the greatest distinction. Scenes from the tales of the old bards, of peace and war suggest themselves to the bearer as he listens to the soft, melodious parts by the violins and the harsh discordant flare of the brass instruments...
...programme for the Symphony Concert in Sanders Theatre at 7.45 this evening is as follows: Overture, "Ossian," Gade; "Invitation to the Dance," Weber Berlioz; Solo for the Violoncello. Rhenish Symphony, Schuman. The soloist is Mr. Alwin Shroeder, the leading violoncellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners, two or three having belonged to Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order of the Passover" in Hebrew, and two or three of the "Officium Beatae...