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Searched for overture (6 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1931-05-27

    ... midday, by chance, a record of the overture to The Barber of Seville, performed by Toscanini! Inimitable in the performance of the eighth-rests in the Allegro. Mr. and Mrs. Hoboken from 6 to 7; they say goodbye. Radio: transmission from Leipzig ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-11-16

    ... has mislaid our telephone number. From Furtwängler (letterOJ 11/16, [13]): wishes to come today at 7:30. Kromer brings the Brahms pages and Egmont, but without the overture; speaks about Hoboken’s plans. Furtwängler from 8 to 12:30: also speaks about ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-09-29

    ... check; don’t worry about the Urlinie! Radio: big records of Russian composers! In the evening, Pranger: cheerful and good. Symphony Orchestra: in the evening, overtures to Weber’s Preciosa; Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Smetana’s The Moldau. I ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-12

    ... shade is not correctly imparted. It was only right, then, that neither the Beethoven symphony nor the Mozart concerto made much impression on the audience. – Volkmann's Overture to King Richard III: neither on the high level of the purely musical ...

  • Diary entry for 1933-02-11

    ... accomplishment. The Barber of Seville from Rome – already in the overture the conductor goes wild: distortions of tempo in spite of such melodic construction! ( At 9 o’clock (on the 11th) broadcast from Rome, Barber of Seville: felicitous singing!! ) ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-05-06

    ... functions as an introduction! In truth, no overture to the work expresses the greatest wrath that has yet descended upon the world! Even this wrath passed unnoticed by the world, which can afford at best translations, elucidations, extracts, representations ...

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