Word: soft
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number on the programme was Mendelssohn's Overture "Hebrides." The work opens with the introduction of a theme which is repeated, again and again, by different instruments, a sort of answering from the wood instruments to the brass. In the middle is introduced a duet for clarionet with a soft accompaniment by the rest of the orchestra. At the end of each variation of the main theme the whole orchestra works up to a climax so that the effect of the whole on the hearer is that of repeated strokes which die away so quietly that their frequency...
Tschaikowsky's Suite, the third number, was finely given throughout. The first movement opens with a theme by the flutes, which is taken up by the whole orchestra, and developed into an intricate maze of short phrases worked to a climax and 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...
...varsity nine played a short practice game on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, and no one but the batteries did any indoor work. The ground was a little soft and the men found it difficult to manage the wet ball with cold hands, but in spite of these drawbacks the practice was much more satisfactory than work in the cage...
...have found after many years that in photographing rooms or interior work of any kind, much better results can be obtained when the ground is covered with snow, giving a soft diffused light in many rooms that would without snow make hard black and white effects. We trust that all the men who desire work of this kind will take advantage of this tip at once. No better souvenir can be had of college than a well made picture of one's room. Appointments can be made now at Pach's Studio...
...PARKER '91, 32 College House.WE have found after many years that in photographing rooms or interior work of any kind, much better results can be obtained when the ground is covered with snow, giving a soft diffused light in many rooms that would without snow make hard black and white effects. We trust that all the men who desire work of this kind will take advantage of this tip at once. No better souvenier can be had of college than a well made picture of one's room. Appointments can be made now at Pach's Studio...