Word: wagner
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...last Symphony Concert of the Cambridge series will be given in Sanders Theatre tonight at 7.45. The programme is as follows: Suite in D major, Bach; Symphony No. 5, Beethoven; Overture, "Taunhauser," Wagner...
Liszt's Symphonic Poems were composed differently from the general fashion consisting, as Wagner said "of the subject, the development, and the further development." "Les Preludes," played last night, is the third in number and was written about 1845. Like all of his poems it has a poetic basis - on a passage in Lamartine's "Meditations Poetiques." It is divided into six sections or movements, each for various instruments. The Andante, written for strings and flutes, has the theme, and the other movements are an Andante for trombones and basses, Allegro for violins and 'cellos, an Allegretto pastorale for harp...
Beethoven's Overture "Coriolanus." which opened the eighth Symphony Concert last night in Saunders Theatre, has been identified by Wagner with the scene "between Coriolanus, his mother and his wife on the battlefield before the gates of his native city, when the chieftain yielded to femine entreaties, refused to assault the place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great...
...selections from Wagner are interesting as concert pieces; but we realize by how much they fail of reproducing the orchestral effects intended by the composer when we remember that the funeral march as it occurs in the opera is scored for six harps and has fifteen instruments in the wind band, and seventeen in the brass, in addition to the usual number of strings...
...programme for to-night's Symphony Concert in Sanders Theatre is as follows: Overture, "Iphigenie en Aulis," Gluck; Aria from "Samson," Handel; Unfinished Symphony in Biminor, Schubert; Funeral March from "Die Gotterdammerung," Wagner; Wotan's Farewell and Fire Charm from "Die Walkure," Wagner...