Word: majority
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Symphony No 1 in E flat major, Goldmark...
Concerto for Violin in C major, Moszkowski...
...Missouri the untiring efforts of Francis P. Blair, who afterwards served with honor as major general, defeated the secret attempts of the Governor to secure the state for the confederacy. Blair seized a camp of the rebels before their plans were matured, acting with Nathaniel Lyon. Lyon boldly disguised himself in the dress of an old lady well known in the locality and was driven all through the camp in her victoria, getting all the information required for success. Lyon and Blair continued their prompt action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners...
...list of works to be performed during the winter includes: Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"; Beethoven, Symphony No. 4; Schumann, Symphony No. 1, in B-flat major; Dvorak, Symphony in D minor; Brahms, Symphony No.2, in D major; Haydn; Symphony; Goetz, Symphony in F. op. 9; Tschaikowsky (first time), Symphony No. 6, Mozart, Symphony No. 9; Beethoven, overture, "Coriolanus"; Humperdinck, (first time) overture, "Hansel and Gretel"; Weber, overture, "Freischuetz"; Cornelius, overture, "Barber of Bagdad"; Rossini, overture, "William Tell," Berlioz (first time), overture, "Corsair"; Dvorak, (first time), overture, "Nature"; Dvorak, Capriccio; Goidmark, overture; "Sakuntala"; Volkmann, Fest Overture, Rezniceck (first time), overture...
...their village, and the minute men continued to swarm in from the country during the morning hours. They hesitated, however, from habit, from loyalty, and perhaps from wholesome fear, to put themselves in the attitude of rebels. But when the detachment at the bridge fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington...