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Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall night: 1. "Pomp and Circumstance," Military March No. 1, Elgar 2. Waltz, "Gross-Wien," Strauss 3. Selection from "Romeo and Juliet," Gounod 4. Overture, "Orpheus aux Enfers," Offenbach 5. Prelude to Act I and III, "Lohengrin," Wagner 6. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 7. "Neapolitan Mandolin Players," Reinecke 8. Selection from "King Dodo," Luders 9. Ballet Music from "Le Cid," Massenet a. Aragonaise; b. Madrilene; c. Navarraise. 10. Country Dance. Orchestrated by G. Strube, Nevin 11. Waltz Tzigane, "Loin du pays," Berger 12. March, "Hussar Drill," Zach
Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall Monday night: 1. "Pomp and Circumstance," Military March No. 1, Elgar 2. Waltz, "Gross-Wien," Strauss 3. Selection from "Romeo and Juliet," Gounod 4. Overture, "Orpheus aux Enfers," Offenbach 5. Prelude to Act I and III, "Lohengrin," Wagner 6. Waltz, "Vienna Blood," Strauss 7. "Neapolitan Mandolin Players," Reinecke 8. Selection from "King Dodo," Luders 9. Ballet Music from "Le Cid," Massenet a. Aragonaise; b. Madrilene; c. Navarraise. 10. Country Dance. Orchestrated by G. Strube, Nevin 11. Waltz Tzigane, "Loin du pays," Berger 12. March, "Hussar Drill," Zach
...they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon...
...precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems...
...higher classes gets a foreign name-flour. Thus we find a principle of caste established in our language by the mere necessities of the case. To bury remains Saxon, because everybody must at last be put in the earth, but as only the rich and noble could afford any pomp in that sad office we get the word for it-funeral from the Norman. So also the poor man was put into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn only by the nobel, have French names, while the weapons...