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...Physical Colloquium. "Wilson: on a Theory of Spectral Series," by Professor G. W. Pierce A.M. '99, in Room 25, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...first number, Wagner's Overture to the "Flying Dutchman," is based on an old legend, well-known in seafaring nations, in which the action centres about a spectral seaman, whose appearance to a ship's company was a signal for great confusion and fright. The weird quality, of which Thayer is such a master, is very prominent in this whole opera, and readily suggests his subject. Like most of his music this Overture cannot be described, as so much music is nowadays, by comparison with a smooth, gliding stream; there are in it several themes separate and distinct...
...Above, the spectral glaciers shone
...Sees a spectral camp-fire shine...
...spectral lights, the midnight...