Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...repletion by an enthusiastic audience of students on Professor Paine's first recital, and the second and third were equally successful. To the lovers of classical music there is no more precious opportunity than this. Here we can renew our acquaintance with our old friends Chopin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Sebastian Bach, and all the chief classical masters. I cannot be too urgent in my appeal to all to embrace this opportunity to hear the best classical music; for nothing so elevates and purifies a man's soul, and stimulates all that is noble and manly...
...defect, the Hundred Guilder piece is a truly powerful composition, and no one who studies it with attention can escape its influence. The deep velvety black which sets forth the central group casts a shade of gloom and mystery over the whole, and the effect is like that of Schumann's music, - say one of his Romanzas...
...selections of the Glee Club were rather too heavy, in our opinion; but their performance was creditable, especially in the renderings of Ab's "May Night" and Schumann's "Dreamy Lake...
...play the overture, Le Lac de Fees, by Auber, the Inman Line March, Grafenberger waltzes, minuet by Mozart, solos for the cornet and violoncello, and a piano-forte duet. The Glee Club will try conclusions with May-Night, by Abt, Trooper's Song, by Gade, the Dreamy Lake of Schumann, Love's Call, by Becker, and The Spring again Rejoices, by Durrner. The price of admission tickets will be fifty cents; reserved seats, seventy-five cents...