He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count.
Production of Arthur Shepherd's overture "The Festival of Youth" by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Berlioz's overture to "Rob Roy" given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Sibelius's overture "Karelia" given by the Russian Symphony Orchestra in New York City.
Balakiref's overture on the theme of a Spanish March given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Henberger's overture to Byron's "Cain" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Nicolai's "Religious Festival" overture on the chorale "Eine Feste Burg" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Smetana's overture to "The Bartered Bride" given by Theodore Thomas, in New York City.
Beethoven's overture "Die Weihe des Hautes" given by the Philharmonic Society in Boston, Carl Zerrahn conducting.
Chabrier's Overture to "Gwendoline" given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The overture was ingeniously made up of the principal subjects of Paganini's concertos, ludicrously contrasted with counter subjects of a popular kind.
This movement is very much in Rossini Overture form.
Dame Fortune provided him with an overturefrom a party who wanted him!
Alone the overture is reserved; and even this often serves but as a pretext for the composition of a piece of instrumental display rather than as a description of sentiments and facts.
What, again, of the composer who could prefix a tragedy like "Othello" with an overture fit for an "opera bouffe?
The overture is delightfully quaint, and is occasionally heard at concerts.
The overture is the only number that has survived.
The overture is a delightfully fresh composition of a pastoral nature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the story.
I recollect myself hearing an important extract performed at one of the far-famed Conservatoire concerts, and the overture at one of Pasdeloup's concerts, in 1876.
He has not the slightest desire to promote any overture on the part of Cecilia towards intimacy with Elizabeth.
She does not consciously admit for a second the hope that in the present overture on the part of her companion lies any significance.
The overture ceased amid a murmur of approbation; she moved a little way from the shoulder she had instinctively approached.
Perhaps she hoped for some sign of weakness on Massingale's part, an overturethat would give her the confidence of a scornful rejection.
The first glamour of the intoxicating overture had been shattered.
But in the present overture this essential did not at once appear.
When Peter entered Madame Staubach's parlour he was again dressed in his Sunday best, as he had been when he made his first overture to Linda.
There seemed to be so much of truth in this that Madame Staubach yielded, and undertook to make the first overture to Linda on behalf of her lover.
The overture which comes to us from English advocates of arbitration is a cheering assurance that the tide of sentiment is turning in favor of peace among English speaking peoples.
Few events have more profoundly impressed me than the presentation of this peaceful overture to the President of the United States.
Conduct of the Audience When Mr Joseph Holbrooke was conducting the overture to Pierrot and Pierrette at His Majesty's Theatre he interrupted the orchestra in order to request some members of the audience to stop talking.
A statement of the number of times that Nicolai's overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor has been played in the theatres would stagger people; Gounod's Faust music and Edward German's charming dances from Henry VIII.
There were 80 ushers to attend to the occupants of the stalls; and at the commencement of the overture there was not one vacant seat.
Two nights afterwards I invited him to my box at the opera, scarcely hoping that he would come; but shortly after the overture had commenced I was surprised to find him sitting at my side.
Professor Taylor could find no trace of this overture excepting in the Theatre Ayres published by Mrs. Purcell in 1697, a collection which only gave string parts.
The overture to this ode is the same as that to the "Cecilia Ode" of the same year, transposed one note lower, from D to C.
It seems superfluous to add, that such concession, thus potent in reach, must have been a direct encouragement and overture to the Rebellion.
Every day an overture on his part was expected, but none came, and those who were in the secret were in a continual state of suspense and anxiety.
And Iztlil', after a low obeisance, withdrew; and then theoverture was fully discussed.
The evening after Iztlil's overture of marriage was deepening over lake Tezcuco; the breeze became murmurous and like a breath, and all the heavens filled with starlight.
Here the lack of an opening overture is made good by an extended instrumental introduction of real beauty and power.
Years ago a musical humorist in Vienna caused much amusement by writing the words of a quarrel of Jewish pedlers under the voices of the fugue in Mozart's overture to "The Magic Flute.
They have therefore a judicial sanction; and having been in overture before the people prior to the action of Presbytery, we subjoin them as a suitable supplement.
To some extent the sudden overture of the heir caused a cessation of hostilities between the two Lodges, and when Marese's second offer arrived they held a species of jubilee.
No sooner was this overture on the part of the heir received in America than both Lodges at once responded, and without a moment's hesitation fell into the snare laid for them.
Swedish Finland was stated to have been offered to Russia, Swedish Pomerania to Prussia, and Scania and Blekinge to Denmark; but theoverture was rejected.
It is here a general belief that his present command signifies another pacific overture from Bonaparte before your Parliament meets, or, at least, before the New Year.
Get back to your place," said the manager to Mr. Saltzburg, "and play the overture again.
The beginning was an overture by Cannabich, which, as it is one of his last, I did not know.
Joachim has written an extremely fine overture to Hamlet, and an equally original and effective concerto for violin and orchestra, which I can recommend to you with the warmest sympathy.
I heard theoverture to "The Bride of Messina" the other day in Hamburg, as you know.
He had tried his hand at an overture early in the year, and had worked through the spring and summer at a symphony, making his first attempts at instrumentation with the help of Grimm.
The suspense with which the overture was awaited found vent in a very storm of applause, which accompanied the opera from beginning to end.
The gay and wanton tone of the opera could scarcely be better suggested, the overture being in very truth the most perfect expression of careless gaiety.
Trombones are never used, and trumpets and drums only in the overture the march with a chorus (Act III.
The superficial device of making the whole overture an embodiment of different subjects from the opera, a custom introduced by Weber, would not occur to artists whose aim was to produce a consistent whole, working from within outwards.
The repetition of the passage in the second part of the overture is not written out.
These are the elements which in rapid and incessant alternation chase each other through the overture like feather balls tossed from hand to hand, until the merry game is interrupted by the phrase which gave birth to it: "Cosi fan tutte!
The belief that Mozart selected the severer musical forms for his overture in order to prefigure the serious mood in which he approached the opera, obtains confirmation from his employment of them again at the solemn moment of trial.
But the first glance at the subject of an overture to J.
Let me hear from you as soon as you have spoken with Hönigstein; write the dedication of the Overture in C [Op.
I request the Adjutant to lend me the score of the Overture in E flat, which I will return as soon as the performance is over.
Footnote 1: The Overtureto which he alludes is no doubt Op.
My brother, who keeps his carriage, wished also to profit by me; so without asking my permission, he offered this Overture to Boosey, a London publisher.
Do not forget in your letter to Galitzin to mention that the Overture is already announced and about to appear, engraved and dedicated to him.
I therefore leave it to the Society to choose what I am to write for them--a symphony (the 10th) lies fully sketched in my desk, and likewise a new overture and some other things.
The second day began with your new Symphony, followed by the Davide Penitente of Mozart, the overture to the Flaute Magico, and the Mount of Olives.
I send you an Overture in C, 6/8 time, not yet published; you shall have the engraved parts by the next post.
This Herr Thal will call on you, and he will also be at Herr Hönigstein's; you can give him the Overture if you think fit.
To convey some notion of faulty performances of the latter sort it will suffice to point to the way in which the overture to "Die Meistersinger" is usually given.
In the Allegro of the Egmont overture [Footnote: Beethoven: op.
However, it is difficult to understand why the close of the Freyschutz overture should be thus hurried and worried by Germans, who are supposed to possess some delicacy of feeling.
It is a significant trait in the Allegro of the overture to Don Giovanni that this restless movement ends with an unmistakable turn towards the "sentimental.
This overture was first performed at a concert at Leipzig, when I conducted it as described above.
The second theme of the overture to "Oberon," which does not in the least partake of the character of the Allegro, very clearly shows this contrasted peculiarity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
