Word: fugato
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...second movement ländler was appropriately rustic, while the rondo-burlesque, taken at an exciting but never hurried tempo, culminated in an electrifying outburst at its conclusion. In between the faster fugato sections were heavenly trumpet solos. While the third movement showcased the brass, the strings came through in the last movement, sustaining the intensity of the long phrases until the very end. Bernstein described the final page of the symphony as “the closest we have ever come, in any work of art, to experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page...
...like. Harnoncourt refuses to cut the length of the suites: he does not omit a single repeated section. This is an important consideration in the overtures, the first and largest movement of each suite. Standard procedure is to play the opening slow section twice, but then to play the fugato passage and closing lento only once, omitting the final repeat. By observing the repeat, the exact proportion of overture to the following dances is restored...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss
...Rakoczy March from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz *Overture to "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Fugato on a well-known theme McBride *Hungarian Dances (Nos. 5 and 6) Brahms Chorus with Orchestra: Harvard Glee Club--G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor March of the Peers, from "Iolanthe" Sullivan Two Italian Folk Songs Tarantella (Prologue to the Harvard Classical Club play of 1936) Elliot Carter '30 *Coronation Scene from "Boris Godounow" Moussorgsky *Bolero Ravel Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson '30 *The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Symphonic paraphrase by L. Cailliet) *"Up the Street," March Morse...
PIERIAN SODALITY CONCERT. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Mozart, Symphony No. 40, in G minor; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Allegro fugato from a Concerto in C minor, for harpsichord and strings; Christian Bach (supposed), Largo from Concerto for Flute and Strings (first performance); Johann Sebastian Bach, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for Clayler; Handel, Concerto in F. major, op. 6, No. 9, for two violins and violoncello, with string accompaniment. Tickets, with reserved seats, at $1.50 and $1.00 each, on sale at Kent's University Bookstore and at the Co-operative, Cambridge, and at Herrick's in Boston...