Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classical overtures. We have so long been accustomed to hear the heavy strokes of the strings in the first part played with a disagreeable rasping quality that the clear and noble tone attained by the orchestra was particularly delightful. The next piece was Schumann's concerto, for piano in A minor, played by Mr. Carl Faelton. This concerto, composed just fifty years ago, is incomparably finer than any concerto that has been composed since. It was last played in Cambridge in January, 1888, by Miss Aus der Ohe. It gave Mr. Faelton abundant opportunity to display his brilliant technical skill...
...fact that in notes with fractional overtones there is always interference between the various pitches constituting the total mass of sound, while in notes of the integral class this does not occur except when very high overtones are present. They are absent in flute notes, those of the piano and sweet voices; their presence gives their sharp quality to string and reed instruments and their crashing timbre to instruments of brass. The next lecture will suggest that some supplementary considerations are needed fully to explain the aesthetic differences in notes...
...programme for the Sanders Theatre Concert this evening is as follows: Mendelssohn, "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage;" song by Raff, "Traumkonig und sein Lieb;" Tschaikowsky, Andantino and Scherzo from Symphony No. 4, in F minor; songs with piano; Schumann, Symphony No. 1, in B flat. Mrs. Arthur Nikisch will sing...
...rooms down stairs are the meeting room in which are the piano and large window seat; the library, where the valuable reference books and classics of the Institute library will be; the breakfast room and the butler's pantry. The kitchen is in the basement. Up stairs there are a secretary's room, overflow library, bath room and pool room. The latter will contain at one end the pictures and scores of the '92 teams; the rest of the room will be decorabed with various team pictures. It is hoped that as men leave college they will give pictures...
WANTED.- A second-hand upright piano in good condition. Address X. Y., care of letter carrier...