Word: themes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT. Soloist: Miss Nina Fletcher. Sanders Theatre 8 P. M. Program: Schubert, Unfinished Symphony; Brahms, Variations on a Theme of Haydn; Bruch, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2; Sibelius, "Finlandia...
...series of eight concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be given in Sanders Orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Nina Fletcher will be the soloist. The following program has been arranged: Schubert, Unfinished Symphony; Brahms, Variations on a Theme of Hydn; Bruch, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2; Sibelius, Finlandia...
...tendency towards melodrama one forgives for the sake of the actual interest. Two of the others belong also to well-recognized types: "Jack's Affair with his Conscience" recalling a familiar episode in Mr. Flandreau's book, and "A Symphony in D-Minor" being a variation on the familiar theme of Mr. Owen Wister's "Philosophy 4." The fantastic tale with a touch of symbolism which H. C. Brown attempts in "And the Greatest of These" needs better technique than the author at present commands to give it the power of holding the reader which is necessary to atone...
...afraid of the mouse, or was he only too lazy to sweep up the crumbs himself? G. K. Munroe's "Castles" has undeniable music, but most of the sense is beyond me. H. T. Pulsifer's sonnet on Lincoln is, like much of the verse on the theme published during the last month, a trifle too high-pitched to suggest absolute sincerity; and to be insincere about Lincoln is a crime. The American people have doubtless been much moved in recalling their great hero, but it is only the poets who have been blinded by "a veil of sudden falling...
...limitation of our theme will exclude all narrative and religious teaching of the Gospels. The ethical teaching is inexplicably interwoven with the religious, and Jesus never separated the two, but for the sake of convenience an arbitrary division has been made. The great proportion of the teachings of Jesus are ethical with a religious background...