Word: scherzo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...programme for the Symphony Concert tonight in Sanders Theatre will be as follows: Overture, "Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn; Concert stuck for Pianoforte and Orchestra in F minor, Weber; a - Scherzo, b - Notturno (from Midsummer Night's Dream), Mendelssohn; Soli for Pianoforte - a, nocturne, b - scherzo, chopin; Symphony No. 2 in C major Schumann. Soloist -Miss Minnie Wetzler...
...Scherzo Waltz from "Boadbil...
...Scherzo, molto vivace...
...fourth number consisted of three solos for Violincello with piano accompaniment, "Sarabande" by Bach; "Moment-Musical" by Schubert and a Scherzo by Klengel. In these pieces Mr. Schroeder showed the greatest feeling and sympathy; he had to give less attention to mere detail and was able to enter more fully into the spirit of music. The first is a slow and rather melancholy movement and the other two are opposite in character and together they make a hard test of the soloist's powers...
...ending, then, quietly, in a soft passage. The second movement is odd in every way, even in its name, "Valse Melancholique," itself a seeming contradiction. The waltz time is sustained but the music is rather funereal than bright. The third movement, the exact opposite of the second, is a "scherzo." There is no regular theme, but an entanglement of a lot of minor ideas which produce no impression but that of confusion. The final movement, a theme with variations, is a technical work of little interest to the ordinary hearer...