Word: soloiste
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...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss
...Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "der Freischutz" Weber *Fugue a la Gigue Bach-Holst Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March-Schuhplattler-Hog Dance-Zwoaschritt *Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise-Intermezzo-Gypsy Dance *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Bizet *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Allegro con fuoco "Smoke Drift" Peggy Stuart Piano soloist: PEGGY STUART (First performance) *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *First Slavonic Dance Dvorak
John W. Brainerd '40 president of the society, announced that Miss Eleanor Baker, leading soloist of last year's opera, will play the principle feminine lead Galatea. Harrison M. Rainie '40 will take the part of Acis...
...developed. Handel decided upon the latter. Let the concerto be a show piece for the player's virtuosity, by injecting the element of display. Not only did Handel introduce many decorative passages, but in many places he supplied a figured bass, leaving the interpretation to the soloist. Then he went still further by putting a pause at a given point in the music over the rest in the accompaniment, with the words, "Organun ad Libitum" which meant that the player was free to improvise. This was one of the first attempts at the development of the cadenza. Both of Handel...
...white-haired, senatorial Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct a Saengerjest held by St. Louis' song-loving German-Americans. Billed as soloist on his program was a tall, buxom, blonde St. Louis soprano named Helen Traubel. When he heard her sing he excitedly mopped his brow, advised her to apply for a job at Manhattan's Metropolitan. In 1937, when Conductor Damrosch's opera The Man without a Country was premiered during the Metropolitan's minor-league spring season, Helen Traubel sang its leading role, and springtime critics gave her top marks...