She smiled at him but did not speak, for whatever quartet she was restating had to be finished first.
There was all that happy scene and a new quartet for her mother; and for Guy and herself there was a long walk this afternoon to wherever they wanted to go.
But I prefer to have circumstances determine form and so have written this quartet in the form which it itself demanded.
His fame rests upon his songs and descriptive pianoforte pieces; though in his Pianoforte Concerto, in his Peer Gynt Suite, in the Violin Sonatas and String Quartet he proved that he was not lacking in power to handle larger forms.
Smetana's significant work lies in his numerous operas, his symphonic poems and in the remarkable String Quartet in E minor entitled "Aus meinem Leben.
The Quartet in E minor, noted for its freedom and intimacy of style, has become a classic.
This quartet continued in its perfection for many years, with the after-substitution of Mario for Rubini, and was one of the most notable and interesting facts in the history of operatic music.
Another member of the celebrated "Puritani" quartet was Signor Tamburini.
We collected three quarters of our quartet and were directed to the mess-shack for the fourth.
There were some colored troops near by engaged in repairing the roads, and a number of us determined to get up a quartet to sing for the men.
If this stinking quartet takes it into its head to levy annual blackmail, where is the money coming from?
The quartet were now sitting in a circle, even Carl showing signs of life.
A huge paper bag was perched on the table, and the quartet were busily munching big, rosy apples, while close to the ashes four more were sizzling and sputtering in the heat.
If the quartet had failed to agree on the subject of Peggy's next-door neighbor there was no lack of unanimity as far as the picnic was concerned.
Peggy was the only one of the quartet who made any effort to conceal her merriment, Peggy having a singular theory that children should be treated just as courteously as older people.
The only occurrence in the Marshall life remotely approaching the regularity and formality of a real social event was the weekly meeting of the string quartet which Professor Marshall had founded soon after his arrival in La Chance.
It was on Sunday evening that the quartet met regularly for their seance.
And yet it was in connection with this very quartet that she had her first shocked vision of how her home-life appeared to other people.
This plan was carried out, and the young quartet watched with sparkling eyes the throngs of people on Christmas errands bent.
I have writhed beneath the dronings of Hatchardson's bass, on quartet or chorale an audible blemish, and in a rare composition now and then, the distorting and distracting point on which I was morbidly obliged to fasten my attention.
Mr. Davy was requested to bring a vocal quartet from his class, as none of the guests can sing in parts.
But if the solitary flute or bass render themselves absurd, they should be ridiculed far more in a general orchestra than in a particular quartet or so, for the effect of the master-players thus goes for nothing.
After leaving Dehn, Cornelius proved his independence by writing a trio in A minor, a quartet in C, as well as two comic opera texts.
In this latter year he wrote his famousquartet Ecco quel fiero istante.
Frank and Bluff would not be left behind, and quickly the entire quartet had reached the platform.
No further long jaunts came the way of the quartet during the school term, up to the Christmas holidays, when they received permission to undertake a trip to the Sunny South.
The fact that a woman was seen "leading" a quartet of performers that embraced the greatest players that Europe could produce, was one of intense significance.
When such an accompaniment is to be used, the leader should have at least one rehearsal with the quartet in order that there may be no hitches.
II It was only a year or two after the quartetof Emmett, Brower, Whitlock, and Pelham had shown the possibilities of the new form of amusement that troops of negro minstrels began to supply an entire evening's amusement.
The wild Hungarian czardas was carried off with a splendid swing by men and women born on the banks of the Danube; and an Irish quartet displayed their agility and their precision of time-keeping in a four-handed country-dance.
After finishing thequartet I will rest for a time, and only complete my ballet.
It is based on the first theme of the Andante in the quartet in B major, which Tchaikovsky composed while still at the Conservatoire in 1865.
On this occasion the programme included the Andante from Tchaikovsky's string quartet in D major, during the performance of which Tolstoi burst into tears.
I bought Glazounov's Quartet in Kiev, and was pleasantly surprised.
I am glad my secondquartet finds favour with you and Mademoiselle Maloziomov.
Such examples as we have heard of his music (with the exception of the flowing and piquant Quartet in D) offer a curious combination of originality and crudeness, of happy ideas and wretched affectations.
They played the Quartet (E flat minor) and the Trio; some songs were very well sung, but the programme was too long.
Almost simultaneously with the performance of the Fourth Symphony in Paris, Tchaikovsky's Quartet No.
Tourgeniev expressed great appreciation of Tchaikovsky's works, although he arrived too late to hear the chief item on the programme, the Quartet in D major.
Now your quartet by no means pleased these gentlemen, and they expressed some surprise that Jurgenson should dream of publishing a work which appeared destined to fall into oblivion.
On Sunday the Russian Quartet, that has brought out my quartet in D, is playing here.
I went to a Quartet Concert, at which I heard a quartet by an exceedingly gifted Italian, Busoni.
A Cathedral expresses one idea, but is indefinitely varied and elaborated in its parts; so is a symphony or quartet of Beethoven.
He got to know fairly well Mendelssohn's canzonet quartet and Schumann's pianoforte quintet Op.
But for an enforced leisure this quartet might never have been written.
Another attractive number, where all is so attractive, is the chattering quartet of women, at the end of the first act.
This exception is a Quartet in E minor for strings, which has been played on more than one occasion at the Monday Popular Concerts.
Justine Delande accompanied the happy quartet to Paris, and there, being joined by her sister, the faithful Swiss sisters remained as guests of Madame Berthe Louison, awaiting the return of the wanderers from Jitomir.
Towards Findlater's church a quartet of young men were striding along with linked arms, swaying their heads and stepping to the agile melody of their leader's concertina.
A quartet of them, soldiers of the ninety-seventh infantry regiment, sat at the foot of the cross and tossed up dice for the overcoat of the crucified.
Polonaise for piano and violoncello composed at Antonin with a subsequently-added introduction; and Prince Galitzin was one of the executants of a quartet of Rode's.
When seventy-six years of age (in 1836) he composed his fine Requiem in D minor for three-part male chorus, and in the following year a string quartet and quintet.
I never heard the quartet from Moses better sung; but Miss Gladkowska sang "O quante lagrime" at my farewell concert at Warsaw with much more expression.
They certainly improve,' she remarked, indicating the quartet with the tip of her fan.
A moment's perfect stillness, and thequartet began.
The quartet will give Beethoven's F minor, and Alma says it will be well done--the conceit of the child!
She had founded an Amateur Quartet Society, whose performances were frequently to be heard at the house in Fitzjohn Avenue.
She founded her Quartet Society, and queened it over amateurs, some of whom were much better endowed than herself.
But a lady, who had lived in a great house with many servants, who had founded an Amateur Quartet Society, the hem of whose garment had never been touched with irreverent finger--could she stand in peril of such indignity?
But at any rate some common bond had thrown the quartet together.
It was a mixed situation with the quartet whom we were watching.
