Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Concertante for violin and violoncello, with orchestra, in A major, op. 33..............PAINE...
...Prelude. b. Choral. c. Organ Fugue in G minor. Adapted for Orchestra by J. J. Abert...................BACH...
...sixth subscription concert at the Sanders Theatre will be given on Tuesday evening, April 23, at eight o'clock, by Thomas's Orchestra assisted by Messrs. Brandt and Hemmann...
...justly given to the wonderful Introduction and Finale from Wagner's favorite and best music-drama, Tristan. The despair of hopeless love has never been, and perhaps will never again be so well expressed in tones as here. But in interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor...
...give the melody sufficient prominence. Mr. Thomas is to appear again at the next and last concert of the season, for which, among other things, are promised Beethoven's Overture to Coriolanus, Schumann's Symphony in B flat, and the new duo Concertante for solo violin and 'cello, and orchestra, by Professor Paine, which, as far as can be judged from the piano-score, promises to be a very interesting composition...