Word: musically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great strength lies in the rich and intelligent orchestration and in the intensely dramatic and vivid manner in which the fate Desdemona is portrayed. The composer has adhered to strictly his own ideas and by doing so he has given us a most delightful and refreshing piece of music. The overture to Tannhaeuser made a very fitting close. It was given with great warmth and vigor the conductor allowing the bass more freedom than is his wont-The audience were completely carried away by the music and applauded Mr. Gericke most heartily at the end of the piece...
...Music 6, Sever...
...Critic actually insinuates that the atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold...
Strangers from other institutions, even those from the largest and most famous universities of the country, invariably express their astonishment at the Oberlin music. Neither Harvard nor Yale, neither Amherst nor Ann Arbor can compare with us in musical advantages, and it certainly does not speak well. - Oberlin Review...
...initiate the ceremonies by the presentation of "Our Boys," the evening before. The Junior Cotillion will follow. The exercises on the following morning will consist of four orations, by representatives of the four classes, the Senior oration being a humorous and witty production. The college orchestra will furnish the music on this occasion. The winter sports will be held in the gym. in the afternoon, and in the evening a prize debate for the "class of '78 prize." The debate will be between four men, each class being represented...