His A major Serenade is the younger, tender sister of the one in D lately produced by the Gesellschaft and is conceived in the same peaceful, dreamy garden mood.
Returning to Germany, Brahms appeared next at Mannheim, and, on December 12, conducted his D major Serenade and played Beethoven's E flat Concerto at the fifth Guerzenich subscription concert of the season at Cologne.
The serenade is a good idea," said Hans Pumpernickel, innocently.
I will make a speech," said the Mayor, "and our orchestra can serenade his Majesty.
One of the fellows that used to serenade you will marry you, you'll have children and you'll be a respectable woman.
I'll come back here with a BAND to-morrow night, and serenade the beautiful one.
Miss Anne Elliott's attractive voice had previously enabled me to recognise her as the young woman who had threatened to serenade Les Trois Pigeons.
Yet, I beseech you, for this once be not loud, but pathetic; for it is a serenade to a damsel in bed, and not to the Man in the Moon.
Come, sweet caramillo, This serenade shall be the Gypsy's last!
A Serenade at the Villa, which expresses a hopeless love from the man's side, has a special picturesqueness, and something more than picturesqueness: nature and life are seen in throbbing sympathy.
The virote failed not to serenade the negro, nor the latter to scrape at the gate-post till he had made a sufficiently wide hole, which he plastered up so well, that no one could perceive it unless he searched for it on purpose.
It has even reached my ears that my son Don Perequito is in love with her, and that not a night passes in which he does not serenade her.
This is meant for a love song, and is doubtless so accepted by the proper critics, but its rendition sometimes produces about the same effect upon a troop of Finches, which a cougar's serenade does upon a cowering deer.
This daytime serenade is vivacious, but not loud except in occasional passages,--a sort of chattering, ecstatic warble of diverse elements.
But after the same serenade had been repeated every evening as regular as the sunset, you would become accustomed to it, and at length trouble yourself no more about it.
If you were in some mysterious manner transferred to Tebbes, you would on the very first evening wonder what was the curious serenade which you heard from the desert.
The second movement (Adagio, F major, 2-4) has been compared to a serenade or a romanza.
Although Brahms's earlier works included not only compositions for the piano, songs, and chamber music, but also the Serenade for Full Orchestra in D, it was not till the spring and summer of 1854 that we find him engaged on a symphony.
The serenade which he sings before her tent is perhaps the most fascinating number in the whole work.
In the last act Levko is discovered singing a serenade to the accompaniment of the Little-Russian bandoura before the haunted manor house by the mere.
I am to understand, then,' said Mannering, 'that this was the author of the serenade at Mervyn Hall?
Next morning, at breakfast, I dropped a casual hint about the serenadeof the evening before, and I promise you Miss Mannering looked red and pale alternately.
Among others the midnightserenade at Mrs. Truscott's had been repeated.
In the followingserenade many of the peculiarities which I have just noticed occur.
Here is a serenade of a more impassioned character (p.
Three or four men serenade girls on summer nights because they love to hear themselves sing.
A flower or a serenade is almost equivalent to a proposal in sunny Spain.
The day after the foregoing conversation he wrote a note to her, wherein he said that if the Contessina de Lira would deign to be awake at midnight that evening she would have a serenadefrom a voice she was said to admire.
A serenade is an everyday affair, and in the street one voice sounds about as well as another.
Count, "what the devil is Taddeo doing there against the drapery, there like a jealous Spaniard at a corner of Seville, listening to a serenade given by his rival?
Harcourt, "but I think the serenade has been given, for his features express the most malevolent expression.
The serenade was sung with a tambourine accompaniment played by Lablache himself, concealed from the audience.
Jenny Lind was the first singer to whom the Danish students gave a serenade; torches blazed around the hospitable villa where the serenade was given, and she expressed her thanks by again singing some Swedish airs impromptu.
He alone - and it is to be noted, he was the worst singer of the three - took the music seriously to heart, and judged the serenade from a high artistic point of view.
Sir," said Leon, "the hour is unpardonably late, and our little serenade has the air of an impertinence.
