Word: scherzetto
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...minute than he will stand to in a month." Yet Rounds delivers his delicate and dazzling "Queen Mab" aria in a leaden manner, with lots of pauses. Vivace has become andante. I've said before--and I repeat--that the best guide here is the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz's symphony. Furthermore, for a man who revels so in words, Mercutio should know that "lamentable" is accented on the first syllable. It is a clever idea, though, for his dying curse--"A plague a' both your houses!"--to be treated as an ironic toast, with...
Both Smithers and Landau should be made to listen to the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz' "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet before Smithers sets foot on the Festival stage again. In fact, no director should essay this play until he has studied all of the Berlioz masterpiece, the only work based on Shakespeare's play that surpasses the original. Significantly, in his Sunday appraisal of this production, the New York Times' Brooks Atkinson was also moved to invoke the Berlioz work. Although he made some inaccurate statements about both Berlioz and his symphony, his basic point...
...clock this afternoon in Appleton Chapel by Mr. R. C. Robinson, organist of the Central Congregational Church of Boston. The program of the recital will be as follows: Maestoso--Allegro (Second Symphony) Vierne Invocation and Prayer. Londonderry Air Arr. by Sanders Toccata in D minor (Doric) Bach Silhouette Dvorak Scherzetto Vierne Fantasia in E-flat Saint-Saens "The Enchanted Forest" Stoughton Valuations on an Ancient Christmas Carol Dethier
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