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...Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
...marked infringement of liberty and at the time when personal liberty is in danger. We must take account of where we stand or we shall go down as other nations have gone down." He reminded the country of two earlier laws which had been allowed to die-the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Fifteenth Amendment...
...Overture to "Preciosa" Weber 3. March, "Lambre et Meuse" Planquette-Turlet 4. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak Intermission 5. Suite, "Children's Corner" Debussy-Caplet a. Quincho's Lullaby b. Serenade for the Doll c. Golliwog's Cake Walk 6. Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet 7. Berceuse Slave Neruda-Jacchia 8. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Intermission 9. Fantasia, "Cavaleria Rusticana" Mascagni 10. Waltz, "Missouri" 11. Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms
...music that stole, with a mutter of muffled tom-toms, out of Africa. It hid with the Norway rats in the hold, of pitching slave-ships; it crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet...
Died. Charlotte Bell, 113, a slave belonging to Gen. Leonidas Polk until the end of the Civil War; in Columbia, Tenn...