Word: wagner
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Music at the funeral will be by the full choir of the cathedral. Malcolm Lang of the First Parish Church at Meeting House Hill will play the organ during the funeral. Selections from Tschaikowsky's "Pathetic Symphony" and Wagner's opera "Parsifal" will be included in the prelude. The hymns to be sung are "The Strife Is O'er", "Now the Laborer's Task Is O'er" and "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand". Burial is to be in the family plot at Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall, the fourth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Mr. Koussevitzky. The program is comprised of Weber's Overture to "Oberon", Roussel's Symphony in B-flat and three excerpts from Wagner: the "Venusberg music" from "Tannhacuser"; Siegfried's Funeral March from "Goetterdaemerung", and the Prelude to "Die Meistersinger...
...Roma. His latest offering, while it has never before been heard in Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky in it, and Puccini, Strauss and, above all, Wagner. But it was well and carefully delivered and welcomed with enthusiasm by the audience. A little perplexity was caused by the fact that, obviously a piece of program music, no key was given to its meaning. The orchestra itself is better than ever...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...
...Wagner, Vice President of Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio...