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There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting...
The program commences with Weber's "Overture to 'Der Freischurtz'," an overture of many themes of which the slow movement and the Allegro are sung everywhere. Below that is a long, groaning melody, thrown out by the clarinet, which is a novel contrast. Following the overture are two Debussy Nocturnes...
George M. Cohan will possibly act in a musical show written by himself and called The Melody Maid. He will also present a comedy of his authorship called The Home Towners.
The performance at the Scala last week ended with the death of Liu, the slave girl, the first scene in the last act, at which point Toscanini turned to the audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should...
12) What composer gave his last glorious melody to a slave girl ? (See p. 18.)