Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hymn to St. Cecilia, Gounod...
Fantasio shows the fantastic character of the author's writing, both in Fantasio's conversation and in the strange method he takes to prevent Elizabeth's marriage. De Musset was one of the best painters of the young girl. Elizabeth is the type of the young girl of Romanticism. Cecilia is not a romantic type but a simple candid young girl...
...audience last night showed keen appreciation of the merits of the acting and of the music, which was rendered by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and by the Cecilia. Several bouquets of flowers were thrown over the footlights to the players, and at the end of the play the male chorus cheered the principals in turn...
...choral will be sung by the Cecilia society accompanied by an orchestra composed of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mr. B. J. Lang...
Yesterday afternoon the first rehearsal of Athalie with the musical accompaniment of the chorus was given in Sanders Theatre. Thirty members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra furnished the instrumental music and the Cecilia sang in French Racine's chorals. This musical chorus supplements and tones the strong moments of the play and is usually accompanied by the rythmic motions of the Radcliffe chorus which does not sing. Enriched by the setting of Eastern costumes against the temple scenery, these periods of the tragedy should prove very beautiful. The music of Mendelssohn is perfectly adapted to the sentiment and secret fervor...