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...overture to "Phedre" made a brilliant opening to the concert. This work shows Massenet as a master; it is colorful and has the force which "Thais" lacks. In the quieter and more plaintive passages it does not become the perfumed music we are accustomed to associate with Massenet...
...Kochanski was enthusiastically received. His tone, while light, was charmingly lyric, and the rapid and laborious succession of double-stopped chords showed what a fine master of technique he is. Why he should have chosen the Bruch Fantasy to play, we cannot imagine. It is far too long, and the accompaniment is so heavy that it completely drowns out the violin on many occasions. There is little evidence of any Scottish characteristics except when the folk tunes themselves appear. At times we are reminded of an inferir "Rheingold". The work, however, has always been a favorite with violinists...
...novel and piquant effects as in the trilling and warbling of the wind instrucments in the Cleopatra episode. It is interesting to note that the Rondo Infernale is a direct forerunner of the Katschei dance in Strawinsky's "Oiseau de Feu", and a good instance of the influence of master over pupil. Little wonder that "Mlada" is not well known. The scenic demands are enormous--from the Baltic to the Nile, as vast corps de ballet is needed to mime the spirits of the chief characters, and the score calls for a huge orchestra of some hundred men and such...
...annual Christmas service in Appleton Chapel will be held tomorrow and Wednesday evenings at 8.15 o'clock. The Reverend Edward Caldwell Moore will conduct the services. Under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06, Organist and Choir-Master, a program of Christmas music will be presented by the choir of Appleton Chapel assisted by the Choral Society of Radcliffe College...
...chapel of the Andover Theological Seminary on Francis avenue this evening at 8.15 o'clock, Mr. A. Vincent Bennett, Organist and Choir-Master of King's Chapel, Boston, will give the third of the series of organ recitals. He will be assisted by Mrs. Winslow Porter, soprano, who will sing a few religious pieces. The recital will be open to the public...