I have heard the chimes of Oxford playing their symphony in a golden autumn morning, and beautiful it was to hear.
Beethoven, after Napoleon made himself Emperor, tore off the dedication of his "Eroica" symphony to Napoleon.
Symphony orchestras could no longer properly interpret Mozart and Beethoven.
And that rule is the law of projection which projects the symphony into the language of musical notation.
These three led to Meyerbeer, a cunning fellow who profited by everything, introducing symphony into opera after Weber, and giving dramatic expression to the unconscious formulas of Rossini.
Did you notice, monsieur, in Beethoven's Symphony in A, that knell which ever and ever comes back and beats upon your heart?
Cots at symphony concerts may yet command the highest premiums.
His first appearance was at the Argyll Rooms, in Regent Street, at a concert of the Philharmonic Society on May 25, when his 'Symphony in C minor' was performed.
Higginson, then the junior partner in the banking house of Lee, Higginson & Company and soon to be widely known as the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, undertook to look after the small patrimony which James had inherited.
I have done almost absolutely no visiting this winter, and seen hardly anyone or heard anything till last week, when a sort of frenzy took possession of me and I went to a symphony concert and thrice to the theatre.
G)--LP Under the Direction of Sir Thomas Beecham Mendelssohn--Symphony No.
Under the Direction of Bruno Walter Barber--Symphony No.
Dismissing John and the car upon her arrival, she said that she would later walk to the home of a friend near by, where she would remain until it was time for the Symphony Concert.
Her first impulse, of course, was to pull her own symphony ticket from her muff and hurry forward with a "Here, take mine!
For instance: a fellow I know was feeling all cut up last Friday because he was just too late to get into Symphony Hall on the twenty-five-cent admission.
A world-famous pianist was to play with the Symphony Orchestra that afternoon.
Then you've missed one of the sights of Boston if you haven't ever seen that long line of patient waiters at the door of Symphony Hall of a Friday morning.
Three were studying what was probably the score of the symphony or of the concerto they expected to hear that afternoon.
It was when, with Aunt Hannah, they were having tea before the fire a little later, that Billy told of her adventure the preceding Friday afternoon in front of Symphony Hall.
We country farmers' wives, not having the opportunities of our more fortunate city sisters, such as witnessing plays from Shakespeare, listening to symphony concerts, etc.
Have you ever noticed, Aunt Sarah, what a symphony in green is the yard?
Or that effect) and see that no tick, tock Is out of time or tune, or soon or late, This is the only symphony which I Can ever hope to operate.
I'd rather hear my baby's coo, That little gurgling coo, Than rarest song or symphony Born out of music's mystery Which once did woo.
On the completion of his conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
So youth with its love-note dies; And beauty fades in the air, To make the master-symphony immortal, And find new life and deeper wonder there.
At a recent rehearsal with the Symphony Orchestra, I told the men I would quietly run through the concerto I was to play, merely indicating the effects I wanted.
We also have the artist conductor, with opera, symphony or concerto at his finger-tips.
If I listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, or to the Kneisel Quartet, when these organizations are giving an incomparable performance of some masterpiece, I am entirely wrapt up in the music; am I not then in a musical atmosphere?
As soon as my season closes here I shall go to London and bring out my second piano concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, under Nikisch.
It also expects that you will, in the course of your stay in England, write a new Symphony and a Concerto, to be performed here, but to remain your own property.
This is the case with his ninth Symphony with Soli and Chorus.
On one occasion, when he was present at a performance of his Symphony in A major, by the orchestra of the great music meeting in Vienna, he was very much displeased at the too rapid time taken in the second movement, the Allegretto.
Spieker took away with him to Berlin my last great Symphony with chorusses; it is dedicated to the King, and he made me write the dedication in my own hand.
I gladly accept the request of the Philharmonic Society to write a new Symphony for them; although the terms offered are not what they ought to be, and what the English might afford, in comparison to other nations.
As it is, I must certainly wait until my terms for the Symphonybe made payable here.
The piano-forte score of theSymphony in A must not come out till the month of June; the publisher here cannot be ready before that time.
In the second Symphonyin D major, the manuscript score of which Beethoven gave me, something very striking occurs, in the Larghetto quasi Andante.
Three days after the receipt of your last, he was much excited, and would have his sketch of the Tenth Symphony brought to him, concerning the plan of which he talked to me a great deal.
As yet I have not seen anything of yourSymphony dedicated to me.
I have already observed that Beethoven marked the second movement of the A major Symphony with the direction Andante, quasi Allegretto.
Had Edwin told the little gentleman anything about his symphony or comedy, and was this lecture on contentment intended to put a damper on his fruitless zeal?
Only two bars of the symphony and an act and a half of the comedy are finished.
If your ironical symphony is anything more than a jest--you will always find me at home in the morning, between twelve and one o'clock.
Like the symphony of an angelic chorus, the Ten Commandments vibrated throughout the ethereal spaces, reclaiming the people from their torpor, to be overawed by a wonder exceeding anything they had yet seen.
Cordosa's tears flowed freely; the symphony proved too much for his heart.
Bernard Shaw out-Wagners Wagner in denunciation, and declares the C symphony childish, inept, mere Rossini badly done.
The whole of this paper might have been devoted to a discussion of the technical side of Tschaikowsky's music, for the score of this symphony is one of the most interesting I know.
One can scarcely say with truth that Tschaikowsky is popular: only his "Pathetic" symphony and one or two smaller things are popular.
On the other hand, a more splendid reading of the first movement of the Fifth symphony I have never heard; but the rest of the movements were hardly to be called readings at all.
It caught the public fancy as no other work of his caught it, and on the strength of its popularity many of the critics do not hesitate to call it a great symphony, and on the strength of the symphony Tschaikowsky a great composer.
Passionately though that symphony is admired, hardly any other of his music can be truly said to get a hearing; for, on the rare occasions when it is played, the public thoughtfully stays away.
In 1832 Schumann composed his first symphonyin G minor.
One movement of this symphony was played at a concert, and the pianist was none other than the wonder-child, Clara Wieck.
Every moment that he spent among his law books was hard work for Schumann; but he would practice a sonata or a symphony for hours at a time and consider it mere play.
One time a symphony of his was played at a concert.
The first was an intimation from the misogamist German Professor that he had persuaded another of his old pupils to include a prize-symphony by Lancelot in the programme of a Crystal Palace Concert.
I could not get to St. James's Hall to hear your friend's symphony at the Henschel concert.
The man who has the greatest joy in a symphony is: First, the man who composes it.
The play, the picture, and the poem and the novel and the symphonyhave all been the outgrowth of Eve's infinity.
It was like listening to the most spiritual symphony of Beethoven the divine, to watch the harmonious flow of lines.
As a symphony simply is a sonata for orchestra, it follows that through the sonata and thus through the pianoforte the form in which the classical composers cast their greatest works was established.
They are clear and serene, and for any one who thinks a symphony is something very abstruse and wants to be gradually familiarized with its mysteries, they form an easily taken and innocuous dose--the symphony made palatable.
Even with Beethoven, the symphony is still simply enlarged chamber music, the orchestra being treated in a pianistic spirit which unfortunately shows itself even in the orchestral work of Schumann and Brahms.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra also has a fine record as regards the performance of Richard Strauss's works.
