Word: wagner
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Very interesting will be the pair of Wagner concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to be given at Music Hall next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, with which the season will close. Mr. Gericke has arranged a programme of extraordinary interest, including selections from "Die Gotter-dammerung" and the Paris version of "Tannhauser." The vocal numbers will be sung by Mme. Lehmann and Mr. Kalisch...
...programme for this week's symphony concerts in Boston Music Hall is as follows: Arthur Foote, Overture (In the Mountains); Aria, M. Moszkowski, first suite, op. 39 (first time); Songs, R. Wagner; Vorspiel (Die Meistersinger). The soloist will be Mr. Emil Fisher...
Following is the program for the symphony concerts this week in Music Hall: J. Brahms, Symphony in F, No. 3; J. Gluck, Aria (Armide), Fr. Lehmann; A. Krug, Symphonic Prologue to Shakspere's Othello; L. v. Beethoven, Aria (Fidelio), Herr Kalisch; R. Wagner, Vorspiel and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde); sophrano, Fr. Lehmann. The soloists will be Fr. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann and Herr Paul Kalisch...
...Wagner's symphony in C was the last number. The introduction contained a few bars of chords, full but staccato; the attack was perfect and was fine work. The allegro is worked out on a short motive, reminding one of the first movement of the fifth Beethoven Symphony, and ends with a fine stratto. The adagio was in slow march time, a beautiful theme with elaborate ornamentations and canonic imitation between the strings. The Scherzo was a bright, quick movement. The finale was a very joyful composition. The whole was given with much life, but not with the delicacy...
Following is the program to be presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the concert in Sanders' Theatre next Thursday evening: Overture (Ruy Blas) Mendelssohn-Aria (Armide), Gluck-Sherzo Capriccioso, Dvorak-Ario (Fidelio), Beethoven-Symphony in C. Wagner. The soloists will be Fr. Lilli Kalish, Lehmann and Herr Paul Kalisch...