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The first act opens with a hurly-burly of tumult between the contending factions and the people. The finale is a tumultuous mass of sound, through which are heard the tones of trumpets and cries of the people. It is interrupted for a brief space by the ringing appeal of Rienzi "Erstehe, hohe Roma, neu," and then closes with an energetic andante, a quartet joining the choruses.
When one dies them, four or five times a week, he longs to hasten the course of events, to change the Andante to a Prestissimo. To Thayer's later mood, it seemed that, psychologically speaking, Valentine belonged to the ranks of the tenors. His riper manhood demanded something a little more robust.
The London Voluntaries of Henley, from which the above is a fair example, may have suggested something to Vachel Lindsay both in their irregular singing quality and in the direction, borrowed from notation, which accompanies each one, Andante con moto, Scherzando, Largo e mesto, Allegro maestoso.
'Adagio molto espressivo, sempre legato, she read next. O, here's another with some more. Andante patetico. And she began to glance over the music. 'O dear me, she thought, 'he must be terribly modern! It all seems discords to me. Let's try the air. It is very strange, it seems familiar. She began to sing it, and suddenly broke off with laughter.
It is stated on good authority that two of Boieldieu's pupils, Adolph Adam and Labarre, assisted him in the work, and that the lovely overture was written in one evening, Boieldieu taking the andante and the two others the remaining movements. Though a little old-fashioned in some of its phrasing, the opera still retains its freshness and beautiful sentiment.
The andante was also liked, but the last allegro still more so.
They placed her before the double quartette of players who were to give the accompaniment and prepared to hear her work. She would try the andante and finale from the Fourth Concerto, by Rode with accompaniment for violin, second, viola, and violincello. Here was her one grand chance. She must do her very best, stand just right, and remember everything Felix Simon had said.
Its first movement was allegro agitato, adagio, and allegretto scherzando, picturing each vivid phase of early boyhood; next came the requisite andante, a dreaming melody, expressing all the yearning, the vague melancholy of pre-adolescence; then the third: a rippling scherzo of youthful pleasures, gayety, young loves and joyous dances; finally a tempestuous finale: allegretto sforzando é appassionato the rising of the burdens of manhood, of new ambitions; the descending of the sadness of man's responsibility, the reluctant passing of the careless, heart-free joys of youth.
In the andante their is neither grace nor feeling: the music does not flow spontaneously, but is got along by a clockwork tick-tick rhythm. The best stuff is in the finale. Here we find at least sturdiness if not much character.
'Suppose we try one now, said Charteris. 'Now. A concerted piece, andante in six-eight time. Ready? The next moment the stillness of the lovely spring night was shattered by a hideous uproar. 'R.S.V.P., said Charteris to space in general, as the echoes died away.
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