Word: weber
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth of the Symphony Concerts was given last night in Sanders Theatre. The programme was a varied one, including works for the Orchestra by Mendelssohn and Schumann. and for the piano by Weber and Chopin. Miss Minnie Wetzler, the soloist of the evening, who came here unknown to many of the audience, made a very favorable impression both by her technical skill and by her intelligent interpretation of Chopin. It may be interesting, by the way, to the Cambridge people to know something of Miss Wetzler She is but eighteen years old and has studied for seven years with Clara...
Miss Wetzler played Weber's Concert stuck in F minor with accuracy and precision. The work makes more demand on ability to play accurately than on an artistic sense, and consequently gives the soloist a chance to show excellence of only one sort...
...programme for the Symphony Concert tonight in Sanders Theatre will be as follows: Overture, "Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn; Concert stuck for Pianoforte and Orchestra in F minor, Weber; a - Scherzo, b - Notturno (from Midsummer Night's Dream), Mendelssohn; Soli for Pianoforte - a, nocturne, b - scherzo, chopin; Symphony No. 2 in C major Schumann. Soloist -Miss Minnie Wetzler...
...Programme of the Symphony tonight will be at to lows; Symphony No 3, in F-major. Brahms; Wanderer Fantasie" for Piano and Orchestra, Schubert-Liszt; two movements from "La Damnation de Faust," op. 24, Berlioz; Polacca Brillante for Piano and Orchestra, Weber-Liszt: Overture, "Genoveva," Schumann. Soloist Mr. W. H. Sherwood...
...Weber's Overture "Euryanthe" was composed in 1823, Strange to say its first presentation was a failure. The violin parts are exceedingly intricate and this with the immense number of unexpected modulations caused a disastrous break in the performance. Since then the work has been given much less than its due share of attention. It certainly is full of beauty having as it does such a wealth of modulation and harmonic effect. Parts of it are weird and ghostly but it all comes out well in a shout of triumph, a fitting close for so excellent a concert...