Word: saen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fourth concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre will be held next Thursday evening, January 11, at 8 o'clock. The soloist will be Miss Irma Seydel, a promising young violinist, who will play Saint-Saen's Concerto for violin, No. 3. She has worked under Charles Martin Loeffler in Boston, and has studied harmony under Andre Maquarre, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has played in Germany and was to make a tour of Europe when the war broke out. She has since appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at several of its small town performances...
...Saint Saen's septet for trumpet, strings and piano, formed the piece de resistance, a work which in spite of obvious defects has a strange attraction considering the archaic and persistently impersonal character of its musical sentiment. It is, however, well worth hearing, if only to mark the enormous advance in chamber music achieved by modern French composers. The performance was exceptionally good as to ensemble, especial distinction is due Mr. Anderson for his trumpet playing, and to Mr. Clifton for his sensitive and well-balanced reading of the piano part...