Word: allegretto
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...entire orchestra will make the trip. Malcohn H. Holmes '28 will be the conductor, while James Ulmer '30 leads the Colby musicians. Included on the program are three Rumanian folk-dances by Bartok, two solos from Carmen, Bizet's opera, Beethoven's Allegretto from Symphony Number Seven, Handel's Fireworks Music, Lecuona's Malaguena, and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
...evening's high point was the kitchen symphony (Messrs. Metzenger. Veseley, Sayers and Kopp) for which the four strange shoppers-the orchestra's percussion players-dressed up like chefs, stood between a big stove and a crockery-laden table and accurately tapped out note for note the Allegretto from Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. Oldtimers remembered that Theodore Thomas, father of Chicago's music, put on the same act 29 years ago. That the Orchestra will live to give it again was assured by the donations of last week's guests. At the farewell concert three...
Reporters were Einstein's chief worry. He was to play in Bach's Third Concerto for Two Violins, Beethoven's Allegretto for Piano, Violin and 'Cello, Mozart's G Major Quartet. He did not want any "funny business" in the papers, to have it said that his head wagged this way and that, that he flourished his bow or held it pinched. The newshawks, in evening dress for the occasion, agreed to behave. But afterward they reported that Einstein is a capable fiddler, that he became so absorbed in the music that with...
...Allegretto ma non Troppo...
Larghetto espressive--Allegretto agitato...