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...interest throughout. Some of the numbers put a pretty severe test upon the orchestra, but it was found lacking in very few places. What deficiencies there were, were chiefly in the Ruy Blas overture, a little unsteadiness being occasionally noticeable in some of the sudden and trying changes of tempo; and Mr. Gericke's reading seemed to arrive at the climax rather too soon, there not being a sufficient gradual working up to the close. The soloist was Mr. M. Loeffler, and it was a great pleasure to have him again here this winter. His performance a year ago will...
...movement which was dreadfully ragged, each man playing independently, so that it was hard to catch the conductor's interpretation. The remaining three numbers were, however, as well played as we have ever heard the orchestra play Beethoven, except that in the third movement the sudden change to the "tempo primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern...
Rondo alla Polacca. (Tempo di Rondo. Allegro; Tempo primo...
...part of the first scene, much to the surprise of Prof. Dippold, who expected they could do nothing with it. In fact, he did not believe second-year German scholars could understand him at all, but thought he should have to repeat all he said several times, retarding the tempo, and finally translate the whole...