Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Introduction to Lohengrin. Wagner...
...first Philharmonic Concert will be given in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evening, the 18th. Among the selections for the programme will be the Overture to Ruy Blas, by Mendelssohn; Beethoven's Eighth Symphony; Overture to Lohengrin, by Wagner. Single tickets, one dollar; six tickets, four dollars...
...Should WAGNER try upon the hills alone...
...WAGNER lost his wife, and went to Hades...
...place of honor on the programme was 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...