Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke's ballet Lysisprata...
...story is almost entirely nocturnal and consists chiefly in young Fitzalan's survival of the chess, the astrology, the hierophantastic bedchamber of his witch-hostess; the drugged diversions of his host. Composing a ballet-cantata to the solar system is all that keeps Fitzalan from succumbing to so much spiritual midnight. He tries to rescue Janet from the deathly mesh of the place, but fails. Wilfred Hough commits suicide, on a chandelier. All the Prides and the dog Death are horribly dead by the end of the book. Over Mordance Hall comes "a nest of ferns, crawling, vermiform...
...following program will be given at the Pops at 8:15 o'clock tonight. Overture to Oberon Weber Masonic Funeral March Mozart Minuet Boccherini Overture to "The Barber of Seville" Rossini Bergerie Stuart Mason Italian Caprice Tchaikovsky Ballet of the Horns from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner
...Carnavel," OvertureDvorak "Ballet of the Sylphs" from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selections by the Boston College Octetle Arthur J. Hagan, Baritone Soloist Irish Rhapsody Herbert "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana "Kikimora," A Fairy Legend Liadov "Marche Slave" Tchaikovsky Hungarian Dance No. 17 in F-sharp minor Brahms Intermezzo from "Amico Fritz" Mascagni Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
...Pops tonight: Overture to "Rienal" Wagner "L' Arlesienne" Suite No. 1 Bizet Prejude Minuet Adagietto Carillon Songs by James R. Houghton (Baritone) a. "Wanderlied" Schumann b. The House by the Side of the Road Gulesian "Tsar Saltan," Suite Rimsky-Korsakov "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana Spauish Rhapsody Ravel Ballet of the Hours, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar