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Identifier: programme2122bost (find matches)
Title: Programme
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Subjects: Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert programs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Boston Symphony Orchestra
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Symphony Orchestra

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sciatc motive. A harp cadenza brings the return to the first allegrotempo, in which the Lasciate theme in combination with the twoHell motives is developed with grotesque and infernal orchestration.There is this remark in the score: This whole passage should beunderstood as sardonic blasphemous laughter and most sharply definedas such. After the repetition of nearly the whole of the opening sec-tion of the allegro the Lasciate theme is heard///. II. Pur gator io and Magnificat. The section movement begins An-dante con moto, D major, 4-4. According to the composer there isthe suggestion of a vessel that sails slowly over an unruffled sea. Thestars begin to glitter, there is a cloudless sky, there is a mystic stillness.Over a rolling figuration is a melody first for horn, then oboe, theMeditation motive. This period is repeated a half-tone higher.The Prayer theme is sung by violoncello, then by first violin. There isillustration of Dantes tenth canto, and especially of the passage where

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