Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pierian Sodality, at its annual concert in Sanders Theatre last evening, presented a comprehensive program of unusual interest and skilfull variety. Rameau's suite from the opera "Dardanus" supplied a classic foundation, the movement from Schumann's piano concerto made an agreeable link of "classic" romanticism towards the modern works of Sibelius, Humperdinck and the exotic Rimsky-Korsakoff, while Mr. Charles B. Roepper's "Ballet Scenes" entirely justified their inclusion in the program, alike by their intrinsic merit and the composer's recent association as a student in the Department of Music...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
...Pierian Sodality orchestra will give a concert at the Dorchester Colonial Club this evening at 8 o'clock. The program will consist of five selections from popular and classic music. Following the concert an informal dance will be given by the members of the Colonial Club to the members of the Pierian and a few invited guests. Admission will be by invitation only...
...study of an Idiot, Boy who inadvertently slew a pet cricket. The first two are by Mr. T. Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal. It was fought on Saint Patrick's Day, and there were in the audience, says that eminent feuilletonist, "nine lady sports all dressed in green." The seduction...
...third concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of expositions of classic and modern chamber music will be given in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Whiting will be assisted by the Flonzaley String Quartet. The concert will be open only to officers and students of the University, and there will be no charge for admission...