Chorus Misticus
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All things transitory But as symbols are sent; Earth's insufficiency Here grows to Event; The Indescribable, Here it is done: The Woman-Soul leadeth us Upward and on! |
[249] The way in which the Germans in the recent war have applied this doctrine raises, we must say, many searching questions.
[250] That this is the verdict of the public is shown by the fact that, whenever of late years Faust has been given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it has had to be repeated by popular request.
[251] For further comments on the work see Huneker's Franz Liszt, pp. 141-146 and the third part (on Program Music) of Finck's R. Strauss, The Man and His Works. Also Chap. VII passim in Vol. VI of the Oxford History.
[252] Weber and Schubert had, of course, done valuable pioneer work.
[253] Noted as being the original centre of national German opera and for its associations with the early career of Handel.
[254] Another very fine work in this class is the Tragic Overture, worthy of the deepest study.
[255] We cite Saint-Saëns, as one instance.
[256] "From the heart it has come, to the heart it shall go."