Word: symphoney
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Wild Horses of Fire)--Symphoney Cinema...
...valedictory. The plasticity of musical idioms was clearly responding to a mellower comprehension of what had happened to man as a result of the conflagration. Composers were succeeding in speaking in the distorted world of Kafka and Wilfred Owen. Berg's works, directly descended from Mahler's Ninth Symphoney, perhaps the supreme symphonic masterpiece of the century, formed a melancholy Agnus Dei. A most moving expression of this mood of lachrymose serenity is found in "The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow" set by Mahler in his Das Lied von der Erde...
...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphoney Hall this evening: Harvard Night. 1. March, "Cruiser Harvarid," Strube 2. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 3. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 4. Husarenritt, Spindler 5. Overture, "Sphinx," Thompson '92 6. Selection, "The Title Seekers, De Golyer '08 7. Selection, "The Fate Fakirs," Sweet '08 8. Selection, "Red Mill," Herbert 9. American Fantasy, Herbert 10. Waltz, "Jolly Fellows," Vollstedt 11. Fair Harvard. 12. March, "Up the Street," Morse...
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