"Symphony orchestra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his shepherd pipes, Jupiter with his thunderbolts, Apollo with his harp, and the songstress, Sappho, appeared in spirit with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which returned to Evansville Monday afternoon and night on its annual tour. The whispering winds of the reed section, the passionate love pleadings of the cellos, mixed with the blatant fury of the trumpets, the rumble and thunder of the kettle drums, and instruments portraying all the varying ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... praise ... seeing gorgeous or delicate colours and hearing the voices of orchestral instruments, it is no wonder that Mr. MacDowell is a pianist of rare fascination." On January 28, 1893, the "Hamlet and Ophelia" was played, for the first time in Boston, by the Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Nikisch; but a more important event was the first performance[6] two months later of the "Sonata Tragica," which MacDowell played at a Kneisel Quartet concert in Chickering Hall. Concerning the sonata Mr. Apthorp wrote: "One feels genius in ...
— Edward MacDowell • Lawrence Gilman
... is the verdict of the public is shown by the fact that, whenever of late years Faust has been given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it has had to be repeated ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding |
