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...twenty-second pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony this season will take place this week-end. The Eights Symphony of Anton Bruckner, late nineteenth century Austrian composer, which is rarely played, will be revived, and Mozart's interesting Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments will also be heard. Mabel Daniels, Boston composer, is to have her orchestral prelude, "Deep Forest", performed...
...contrast to the earlier, more lively moments of her childhood. Not only does the author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere we are wafted to the sordid dampness and depression of artists' studios on the Rive Gauche, with their moments of artificial happiness at the cost of bitter enmities and disappointments...
...splendiferous in its costuming and setting, "The Great Waltz" made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
Other bridal gowns, some bright green and red, and others which swathe the lady completely from head to foot, leaving only her toes visible, are also shown in the display, which is from early nineteenth century English and French costume books...
Citing Henry as an example of a great scientific organizer, Crowther said, "In total achievement Henry was the equal of Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Maxwell, and the other great scientists of the nineteenth century." During his thirty-two years as the first secretary, and later head, of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, Henry was responsible for its development...