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...program is as follows: Pomp and Circumstance Elgar Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni College Songs Suite, "Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Serenade, Op. 3, No. 5 Rachmaninov Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Selection, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni By the Waters of Minnetonka Lieurance-Jascha Charge of the Bussars Spindler
Composer Carpenter is that happy combination, a businessman of artistic ability. True, he inherited the business (mill, railway and shipping supplies), but he did not drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...
...Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance; Mozart, overture to The Marriage of Figaro; Haydn, andante from Surprise Symphony; Sullivan, excerpts from Pinafore; Schubert, Unfinished symphony; MacDowell, To a Water Lily; Tchaikovsky, Pathetic Symphony; Grieg, Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt; Suppe, Poet and Peasant Overture, Wagner march of the Knights from Parsifal; Liszt, Second Hungarian Rhapsody; Sibelius, Finlandia; Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz; Rossini, overture to William Tell; Rimsky-Korsakoff, Song of India; Rachmaninoff, C Sharp Minor Prelude; Handel, Largo; Rubinstein, Kammenoi Ostrow; Beethoven, overture to Egmont; Tchaikovsky, Slavic, March; Moszkowski, Serenade; Strauss, Egyptian March; Offenbach, Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman; Dvorak...
...Overture "Light Cavalry" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito 4. "Tech" Songs 5. Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint Saens 6. Second Slavonic Dance Dvorak 7. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky 8. "Tech" Songs 9. Slection, "Rose Marie" Friml-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Dream of Love" Fahrbach 11. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar...
...children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices procured from the local free schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach...