Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three other composers represented, Goldmark, Wagner and Raff, the first may be said to be the pupil and imitator of the second. The dramatic overture to Goldmark's "Prometheus" shows signs of the master hand of Wagner. It was very graphic and rose again and again to such heights of feeling that one longed to know what it was all about...
...Waldweben from Wagner's "Siegfried" the story was written in the very notes of the music. The gentle swaying of the trees and rustling of the leaves in the woods, were unmistakable The clear notes of the bird singing out from among the branches were so skillfully introduced and worked up that it did not seem at out of place when these notes were finally played by the bass instruments. And yet some people say that Wagner is all mere noise; could these people have heard the selection played last night and still kept to their idea...
...programme for the seventh concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.45 will be as follows: Overture to "Prometheus" by Goldmark; first movement of a violin concerto by Brahms; "Waldweheu" from Siegfried by Wagner; Symphony "Im Walde" by Raff. The soloist of the evening will be Mr. Franz Kneisel, the first violin of the orchestra...
...programme for the second concert last night was as follows: Beethoven, Symphony in B flat No. 4; Wagner, Prelude, "Lohengrin;" Saint Saens, Danse Macabre; Saint-Saens, Rondo Capriccioso for violin; Mendelssohn, Wedding March...
...programme for the concert in Sanders Theatre at 7.45 this evening will be as follows: Beethoven, Symphony No. 4; Wagner, Prelude to "Lohengrin"; Saint Saens, Rondo Capriccioso for violin; Saint Saens, Danse Macabre; Mendelssohn, Wedding March. Mr. T. Adamowski will be the soloist...