Overture to "Tancredr". Rossini "poem, figuration"
This season's orchestral concerts at the Lyceum Theatre seem to have produced a steady alternation of good performances and not so good. This impression may be borne of a faulty memory but the last two concerts support the theory, for last Sunday's was as fine as the preceding week's was poor.
The, symphony's luscious beauty was most pleasingly portrayed. This annual memory test for Professor Foa always goes well and leads one to speculate how much of its repeated excellence is due to the fact thet it is conducted without score, Probably quite a lot: for without the need of constantly glancing at the score a nimbler conducting and specially re-pensive orchestra, as on this occasion, results, It is unfortunate that memorizing a score is such a difficult feat.
Ravel's masterpiece, "Ma Mere l'Oye," a piece of sheer delight, was equally as satisfying as the symphony. This suite deserves a more frequent presezustien nere, not only because of its musical qualities but also because it is ideally instrumented for the orchestra.
Not so Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration" which is too large a composition for a supremely successful local performance, good though this one was. The second harp was missing and the percussion instruments were undermanned. It is rather absurd to expect a tympanist te sustain a roll on the drums for several bars and simultaneously to sound the gong on the first bar of each. The iransüguration," also, was not as elevating as it might have been by reason of a deficiency of strings, For no matter how brilliant the brussels are, the rising phrase that closes this work and that speaks so expressively of the soul's glorification must require a full soaring volume of violin-tone, The overture proved to be by no means as suitable a concert piece as the "Silken Ladder," an earlier "frst performance" of this season. There is a short introduction for strings, followed by a section for wood wind alone, then some attractive tunes from the opera and, to end, bars and bars of the tonic chord, the type of ending that denotes more exuberance than Tangee gives natural, alluring beauty to lips It's easy to make your lips reflect their natural loveliness. Tangee catches and holds a beauty that mea admire, For Tangee can't give a painted look; it isn't paint. Orange in the stick, it changes on your lips to blush rose, the shade most becoming to you. Its special cream base soothes and protects.
Try Tangee today. Then watch the glances of approval.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.