Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony "Pops" Concerts will be featured by a special Wellesley program tonight. The concert will be open to the public as usual. The program is announced as follows: Comp and Circumstance Nigar Waltz, "Vienna Blood" Strauss Overture to "William Bell" Rossini Songs by Wellesley Glee Club First Hungarian Rhapsody Lissi Barcarole from "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach Procession to the Cathedral, "Lohengrin" Wagner Wellesley Fantasy H. C. Macdougall Fantasis, "Aida" Verdi Whispering of the Flowers Blon Second Regiment Connecticut Reeves
...immediately after this Boston engagement, so says the program, Balieff and his Chauve-Souris Company, are sailing for Paris to begin an engagement at the Femina Theatre. Here, in December 1920, the vastly, fat and vastly diverting Russian first gathered together the fugitive members of his original Bat Theatre of Moscow. It has been an eventful and profitable four years, in which the inimitable Balieff and his company of singers, clowns, and dancers have journeyed from Paris, to London, to America, and back to Paris again, finding everywhere the same joyous welcome...
...only a step from the sublime to the silly: that is one of Balieff's own favorite sayings. And Balieff takes that step half a hundred times in the course of a single evening of the Chauve-Souris' program of jumbled beauty and absurdity. That is perhaps its greatest merit. Either sublimity or absurdity by itself soon tends to become tiresome. The endless foolery of a straw-hat comedian soon grows dreary. The lengthy sublimity of a five-hour opera by Wagner is almost as boring. But in the Chauve-Souris the clowns are artists, and the artists...
...program for tonight at the Symphony "Pops" Concert is the same as that played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra 43 years ago. It is being played as a special "Music Week" program. It is as follows: Polonaise from "Eugen Onegin" Tschaikovsky Overture to "Raymond" Thomas Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strause Fantasia, "Tosca" Puocini Ballet from "Rosamunde" Schubert Largo Handel Adagio Cantabile from the Sonata Pathetique Beethoven Jacchia Rhapsody, "Espana," Chabrier Ride of the Valkyrics Wagner The Lark Glinka-Jacchia American Fantasy Herbert
...concert tonight will be led by Dr. Davison and after the regular program is completed, college songs will be sung by the Glee Club and the audience together. Harvard Hymn Paine Jesu Dulcis Memoria Vittoria In Harvest Time Merikanto The Foggy Dew Irish Folk Song Rantin', Rovin' Robin Scotch Folk Song Suabian Folk Song Harmonized by Brahms Chorus from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan College Songs