Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ike the apple off without injuring the child. The tyrant, perceiving another arrow concealed under Tells cloak, asks him for what purpose it was in-tended. To which he boldly replies, To have shot you to the heart, if I had killed my son ! The enraged governor orders him to be hanged; but the Swiss, animated by the tyrant gessler such fortitude and patriotism, fly to arms, attack and vanquish Gessler, who is shot by Tell. Matilda and Arnold are united, and the independence of the country is assured. ■ 7 9Hf < 1- fl^f^l W • ^Rl -BERBER THE TYRANT VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA—ROSSINIS WILLIAM TELL THE OVERTURE This overture, which is played probably as often as any other single work at concertsthe world over, was called by Berlioz a symphony in four parts. It is a fitting preludeto a noble work and abounds in beautiful contrasts. The opening Andante depicts the serene solitude of Nature at dawn, and the music isenchantingly reposeful. From the slowly-climbing figure on the cello:
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the wayward, elusive air resolves after a time into a more definite rhythmic tune, soonlapsing into dreamy meditation, which continues to the close of the movement. Althoughthis first part is virtually a cello solo, the orchestral background is exceedingly beautiful, theclose being especially effective with its sustained shake on the richest string of the cello,while the orchestra slips gently away, downwards, climbing up to serenity again just at the last. The tranquil mood of the Andante is rudely interrupted by the beginning of the secondmovement—a string passage suggesting the distant mutterings of a storm. This comesnearer and nearer, until the full fury of the storm bursts upon the ear. The fortissimo pas-sage continues until the storm seems to have spent its force and the strain dies down intorefreshing calmness once more. To the Storm succeeds a beautiful pastoral with a delicious melody for the English horn,and as Berlioz says, with the gamboling of the flute above this cal

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