Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. March, "Merry Soldiers," Sabathil 2. Overture, "The Bronze Horse," Auber 3. Waltz, "Vienna Beauties," Ziehrer 4. Selection, "Traviata," Verdi 5. Selection, "Samson and Delilah," Saint-Saens 6. "Zug der Zwerge" Grieg 7. Andante for String Orchestra, Tschaikowsky 8. Overture, "Orpheus," Offenbach 9. Overture, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Nicolai 10. Pizzicato Arabesque, Fauchetti 11. Selection, "Prince of Pilsen," Luders 12. March, "Boston-1915" Strube
...baseball game with Colby Saturday afternoon turned out to be a batting bee for the University team. Ex-Captain Lanigan's charges did not appear to have progressed very far in their study of the science of baseball, and the second-string pitcher used against Harvard was a very easy proposition. It simply became a question of how hard Harvard wished to work to make runs, and sufficient energy was displayed by the members of the University team to complete the circuit 18 times...
...most encouraging features of the game was the style in which the second string men on the squad played when they were put into the game in the fifth inning. It might be expected that with the score so much in Harvard's favor there would have been a tendency to relax a bit, but such was not the case, and not an error was made by the University team...
Rameau's "Ballet Suite" imposes a searching test upon a string orchestra, and it is not too much to say that the Pierian strings acquitted themselves most creditably by reason of their firm attack, rhythmical precision, and sensitive nuances...
Perhaps "The Glorious 17th" was a sermon on home ethics--who knows? Isn't there a sort of heart-string appeal in the placid features of the old man and the worried expression of his spouse? The fact that this group is of a race which the author forgets to name is simply because the 17th of March happened to be the most timely holiday to portray. If the issue had come next month, the "27th of April" would have done, being observed as a holiday among the Madagascans...