Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Historical Concert. Subject: Wagner. Professor Paine, assisted by soloists. Sever 11, 7.45 P. M. Tickets at Sever...
...especially, he holds absolute pre-eminence. The idea, however, that Beethoven had worked out the view of purely instrumental music, tacitly acknowledging, in fitting words to his 9th Symphony, that a higher form uniting words and music was henceforth to be supreme, an idea advanced by several late writers, Wagner among others, Prof. Paine regarded entirely unforunded. The 5th symphony is as great as the 9th, and the purely instrumental forms since Beethoven are as worthy of admiration as the operas and symphonic poems of Wagner, Berlioz and Lizst. Beethoven's style was illustrated by the great trioop. 97, played...
Overture, (Meistersingers of Nuremburg), Wagner...
...large party of young ladies from Wellesley College, who came in to attend the Wagner concert on Thursday evening, found that they had missed the train on reaching the station to return home, and that they were obliged to stop in town for the night. Their chaperone was somewhat alarmed over the situation, but the young ladies thought it a jolly lark...
MECHANICS HALL.-Wagner Festival "Flying Dutchman" "Die Meistersinger" and "Parsifal' at 2. Beethoven's 5th Symphony and "Goetterdaemmerung...