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And arter that you shall go aloft to old Sol Gills's room, and fall asleep there, like a angel. Captain Cuttle patted Diogenes when he made allusion to him, and Diogenes met that overture graciously, half-way.
Alone in this elemental overture to tempest I took no note of time, but felt, through self-abandonment to the symphonic influence, how sea and air, and clouds akin to both, were dealing with each other complainingly, and in compliance to some maker of unrest within them. A touch upon my shoulder broke this trance; I turned and saw a boy beside me in a coastguard's uniform.
There is a clap of thunder, and there enters the ghost of the Commandant in the form of his statue as seen in the churchyard. The music which has been described in connection with the overture accompanies the conversation of the spectre and his amazed host. Don Giovanni's repeated offer of hospitality is rejected, but in turn he is asked if he will return the visit. He will.
Can you by that time prepare an orchestral work for the purpose? perhaps your "Faust" overture for I should like to produce a new work by you besides the "Tannhauser" overture. Eduard Devrient wrote to me some days ago that the Court Marshal, Count Leiningen, who is a friend of mine, had spoken to him of the plan for a musical festival, to be conducted by me.
If Fenn could have known at this point that his adventures were only beginning, that what had taken place already was but as the overture to a drama, it is possible that he would have thrown up the sponge for good and all, entered Kay's by way of the front door after knocking up the entire household and remarked, in answer to his house-master's excited questions, "Enough! Enough!
I know it, I feel it! heart would have come into me and I should have been quite another man; nay, I might have carried it so far that when one or other of them asked, `What o'clock may it be? or 'What is it they are playing? I should have started up with light grace, and without overturning my glass or stumbling over the bench, but in a curved posture, moving one step and a half forward, I should have answered: 'Give me leave, Mademoiselle! it is the overture of the Donauweibchen; or, 'It is just going to strike six. Could any mortal in the world have taken it ill of me?
That body having considered the award as not obligatory and advised me to open a further negotiation, the proposition was immediately made to the British Government, but the circumstances to which I have alluded have hitherto prevented any answer being given to the overture.
Small time now for the long-delayed placing of his symphony: for the completion of the concert overture and the tone-poem already forming in his active brain! Better to wait, and take his chances in the musical world of Moscow. His work! His profession! Did this unexpected offer leave him free enough to develop the future of his dreams? Ah well! No use pondering that.
"My boy my wonder-boy!" "There goes the overture, ma." "Here, darlink your glass of water." "I can't stand it in here; I'm suffocating!" "Got your mute in your pocket, son?" "Yes, ma; for God's sake, yes! Yes! Don't keep asking things." "Ain't you ashamed, Leon, to be in such an excitement? For every concert you get worse." "The chairs they'll breathe on my neck."
The streets were almost impassable from the crowds of people who assembled about the theatre, but who were unable to gain admission. An excellent orchestra played an overture, especially composed for the occasion by a distinguished Norwegian composer, in which themes from the Star-Spangled Banner and from Norwegian national airs and folk-songs were ingeniously intertwined.
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