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Overture
WaglUr
Selection ,I Tannhauser JJ
Mr. H. C. MICHELL.
Popularr w. Corn · Exchange,
SinlJ.ers- Miss SARA SILVERS.
NEWBURY.
THE NOMAD GLEE SINGERS. Goneet1t
• , SINGERS:
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I Miss GRACE STAPLES, Saturday, November 14th, 1914,
r Mr. P. LINDLEY.
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at 8 p.m.
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" Iphig.,emie en Aulide," Gluck - wlckenham Town. ' to T . k you re welcome
OVERTURE \VIC enham Town,"
(1714- 1787) The ff:rryman's sr
f ' ) 1m and the O.llOi-ye_ho H I '
errymall 5 YOlll1O"
• Glucl" the bi.centenary of whose birth is celebrated this year, lived just a
A !l d lle's' t ~J , for ~h~ fe~~;'?U re too late
century before Wagner, 'and anticipated his ide als and theol'let> most strildngly, tl JUS a-soft twano- in
1eturnofhi - t b . (1 he bnar's in bud d
His caI'ly cal'cel' was spent in Vienna, writing the Ol'dinary Italian operas of And he's fresh as a S ,OI1:?llC, sun'" an the
And I ', S gOlllg down)
the day, but, as Sir Hubert Pal'I'y ~ays :-" hc was a mali of the rarest brown as b piPPIn, and
1~1 5, not rowing quick and
a erry
gcnius x x x and refuscd to put up with the shams which the n::st of the world \ A nd JtiS .
but ' ny to lC s not r o ' ,
T . k a pen YouJd think }t\\,~~:g, steady, •
found q~lite good enough to amuse them," The later pal't of his life was \\ Ie en ham Tmvn.
Twiekcnhalll 'l)ourlJey to
thcl'cfol'c engaged in expounding Ulld illustrating his schemes of a I'eformed OWn.
opera, He found a more congenial sphere in PaI'is, and thcl'c won his
o hoi-ye-ho I
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celebrated vietol'Y (with his last and fines t opera" Iphigenie en Tauride ") over } you may
( I he briar's· in bud I IIea as you "'lil-
Piccinni, an Italian composer who was brought forward to challenge him, sun " anr the The moo' .
'A I ' s gOing down) n IS ansino-
" fphigenic en Aulide " was written earlier , in 1774 , and was in fact" the I1C Its late as it is A d Petersham l-I ill "on
fi l'st practical illustrat ion of his theories, " The wailing sou od, of the oboe and haven't a ' and I 11 With love like a I ,
And how sha)lenlnj', st f fose m the
violins in the overture give a forecast of t1'rtgedy ; its present clo,e was added T . aet me to Tl ,e.l'Il 0 the, wherry
by \\'agncr , Gluck's sincere admirer, fO!' concert pur'poses, w!('kenham T~wn ?" lere s danger 1I1 cros '
T . k SlOg to
\VIC enharn TOWIl.
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, That !'he \\'hds in distress may
And th e las,s that loyes a ::;ailor. 14, Hule Britannia,
find
Some of these tunes are
SO!li~drank ( the !Zing J and some· Such friends as ne'er will fail traditional and some by
his brave ::;bips, her. } well known British
Hul the ~landi·ng toast} etc, composers of ,the 18th
And some I the Constitution,' century.
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