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Mr. Copeland will read in Sever 11 tonight at 8 o'clock. The selections will include passages from Johnson and from Boswell's "Life of Johnson," Goldsmith's "Retaliation," and "Haunch of Venison" and the second act of Sheridan's farce, "The Critic." The reading will be open to members...
The fourth in the series of modern literary dramas which Mr. Blair's company is presenting, will be given at the Tremont Theatre this afternoon at 2.15 o'clock. The play selected is "The Storm," a Russian play by Alexander Ostroisky. It has unusual strength and interest and furnishes Miss...
Mr. T. M. Osborne gave the second of his lectures on Modern Music last night, his special subject being "Schubert and the Song." The substance of the lecture was as follows:
The essentials of music are three in number--melody, rhythm and harmony--having their effect upon the ear, the emotions, and the intellect. Music is also of three distinct kinds, which represent a gradual development,--first, pure music, expressing no thought, simple in its intrinsic beauty; second, "programme" music, supposed...
Mr. Osborne closed with a short account of Schubert's life.