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The second University Concert, which took place last evening, was deserving of a much larger audience than was in the theatre to enjoy it. That concerts of such quality and so convenient of access should be so miserably supported is a most humiliating disgrace to the College and the Cambridge public. The programme was as rich in variety as it was strong in single numbers, the most prominent feature being the posthumous Symphony of Goetz. It is a most striking and original work, emphatically remarkable when we consider that the composer died at thirty-six years of age, and that this work was only op. 9. It is essentially poetical and even dramatic in the intensity of emotion, keenly imaginative and wrought out in orchestration that is worthy of Wagner or Berlioz. Indeed, its intensity is perhaps too great to express its motto:-
Into the holy tranquil realms of feeling,
Must thou escape from out the press of life!"
The orchestra did excellent work in the performance of this number, as also in their rendering of the Andante and Menuet from Mozart. Miss Ita Welsh sang "The Captive" by Berlioz, and an Aria from Mozart's Figaro, in a very tasteful manner; the last of these was particularly appreciated by the audience, and won a merited encore. The first is a very remarkable piece of tone-painting, in which the orchestration of the accompaniment plays an prominent part as a means of interpreting the text.
A GOOD deal of trouble has been given lately to the Secretaries of numerous College associations, by the apparently malicious removal of notices of meetings; &c., from the trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the Cambridge police force, taking down one of the H. A. A.'s posters from a tree on Main Street, and inquiries at the police headquarters revealed an old city ordinance, recently ordered to be enforced, which reads as follows:-
"SECTION 31. - No person shall . . . paint or draw any words or figures; or post any written or printed matter upon the property of any private person or corporation, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof; nor upon any property of the city, without the consent of the mayor."
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement of Dr. Tourjees Conservatory of Music on page vii. This establishment is well adapted to meet the musical wants of Harvard men.
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