Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Overture, "Poet and Peasant." Suppe...
...Music Hall is as follows: 1. Coronation March, Svendsen. 2. Overture, "Sakuntala," Goldmark. 3. Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song," Strauss. 4. Selection, "La Fille de Madame Angot," Lecocq. 5. Prelude, "Lohengrin," Wagner. 6. Valse Caprice, Rubinstein. 7. Le Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge, Massenet. 8. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 9 Waltz, "Toujours on Jamais," Waldteufel. 10. Selection, "Mikado," Sullivan. 11. Polka, "Violonta," Knecht. 12. March, "Fatinitza," Suppe...
...Ballet Music, "Boabdil:" (a) Prelude; (b) Malaguena;" Moszkowski. 7. Suite, "Peer Gynt:" (a) Aase's Death;" (b) In the Halls of the King of the Dovre Mountains. The Imps are chasing Peer Gynt; Grieg. 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire-charm, from "Die Walkure," Wagner. 9. Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe. 10. Selection, "The Knickerbockers," De Koven. 11. Espana, Waldtenfel. 12. Persian March, Strauss...
...Look a little more closely at nature and at history. Has it not often happened that what has seemed to come to an end and to have accomplished nothing has really been of great value? If we look at the mission of Christ on earth, we see a young peasant collecting round himself a band of disciples, gaining considerable fame by his teaching and by his wonderful works. Suddenly he is seized by the authorities and put to an ignominious death. All his followers are scattered and all his teaching seems to amount to nothing. His enemies are satisfied that...
...wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion of a possible truth; it is something between the two which is the true representation of our ideal...