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...sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and opens with Studentenmusik Suite No. 2 by Johann Rosemuller (1620-1634). Also to be heard are Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor; Gluck's Sinfonia to the ballet-pantomime, "Don Juan"; Bach's Cantata No. 202, "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten"; Two Instrumental Pieces by King Henry VIII; and Gretry's Overture to "Le Rival Confident." The music is certainly unusually interesting and gives further proof of the admirable energy which Mr. Holmes has constantly shown both with the Pierian Sodality and the Wellesley Orchestra...
...Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...