Music and Some Highly Musical PeopleTrotter, James M.
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Music and Some Highly Musical People
Trotter, James M.
African American musicians -- Biography; African Americans -- Music
As previously stated, Bethune plays full seven thousand pieces. From
the subjoined partial list, which I take from his biography, some idea
can be gained of the character, the ever-varied character, of the
music contained in his amazingly extensive _repertoire_.
[Illustration:
BLIND TOM'S CONCERTS.
PROGRAMME.
=Classical Selections.=
1. Sonata "Pathetique" _Beethoven_
2. " "Pastorale," Opus 28 "
3. " "Moonlight," 27 "
4. Andante _Mendelssohn_
5. Fugue in A minor _Bach_
6. " in G minor "
7. "Songs without Words" _Mendelssohn_
8. "Wedding March" "
9. Concerto in G minor "
10. Gavotte in G minor _Bach_
11. "Funeral March" _Chopin_
12. "Moses in Egypt" _Rossini_
=Piano-Forte Solos.=
13. "Trovatore," Chorus, Duet, and Anvil Chorus _Verdi_
14. "Lucrezia Borgia," Drinking Song (Fantasia) _Donizetti_
15. "Lucia di Lammermoor" "
16. "Cinderella," Non Piu Meste _Rossini_
17. "Sonnambula," Caprice _Bellini_
18. "Norma," Varieties "
19. "Faust," Tenor Solo, Old Men's Song, and Soldiers'
Chorus _Gounod_
20. "Le Prophete" _Meyerbeer_
21. "Linda"
22. "Dinora" _Meyerbeer_
23. "Bords du Rhine"
24. "La Montagnarde"
25. "Shells of the Ocean"
26. "La Fille du Regiment" _Donizetti_
=Fantasias and Caprices.=
27. Fantasia, "Home, Sweet Home" _Thalberg_
28. " "Last Rose of Summer" "
29. Fantasia, "Lily Dale," for left hand _Thalberg_
30. " "Ever of Thee," &c. "
31. " "Carnival de Venise" "
32. Reverie. "Last Hope" _Gottschalk_
33. La Fontaine
34. "Whispering Winds"
35. "Caprice" _Liszt_
36. Fantasia, "Old Hundredth Psalm"
37. "Auld Lang Syne," and "Listen to the Mocking-Bird"
(Piano-Forte Imitations of the Bird) _Hoffman_
=Marches.=
38. March, "Delta Kappa Epsilon" _Pease_
39. "Grand March de Concert" _Wallace_
40. "Gen. Ripley's March"
41. "Amazon March"
42. "Masonic Grand March"
=Imitations.=
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