Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Miss Lena Little was the soloist, and sang for her first selection Liszt's "Mignon" with orchestral accompaniment. She has a clear dramatic soprano, excelling rather in its lower notes. She sang with much taste and feeling. Her songs with the piano were happy selections, sung with expression and showing her voice to good advantage. She was sympathetically accompanied by Mr. Nikisch. She made a favorable impression on the audience and was compelled several times to bow her acknowledgements...
...programme for the last of the Sanders Theatre Concerts which begins at 7.45 this evening consists of Beethoven's Leonore Overture, No. 3; Liszt's "Mignon," a song with the orchestra; two movements from the Symphonie Orientale by Godard; songs with the piano, and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, No. 3, in E flat. Miss Lena Little will be the soloist...
...stringed instruments a particularly good chance to display their purity of tone and their finished style of playing. Although Cherubini wrote this overture many years ago, he uses the trombones and other instruments in quite modern style, and introduces several grand climaxes. The second piece was a concerto for piano in C minor, by St. Saens. Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler played the solo part in a very brilliant manner, overcoming with little effort the technical difficulties of the work. Her tone and touch were sympathetic and thoroughly musical, while her dashing style of execution carried the audience with her from...
JOHN ELLIOTT,Of the firm of Elliott and Duvey, Furniture and Piano Movers...
...trombones in the first movement, one of the finest things in all orchestral music; the opening passage on the hourns; the half-comic theme of the wood instruments, all were splendidly played. The andante conmoto, a long slow movement, is a trifle monotonous when played on the piano, but in the orchestra, with the ever varying varieties of tone-color of the different instruments, the effect is far differenct...