When the leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was asked to select a program which would be appropriate to a concert in memory of James Russell Lowell, he chose three works which were, as far as possible, the expression of all that is noble in man. By grouping together, representations of three types of character, all different, yet all pointing to one ideal conception of manhood, he showed what power the language of music has to express the different phases and emotions of the human character. From the romantic reveries of the imaginative, poetic Manfred overture, through the life portrayed in Schubert's unfinished symphony, a life beautifully calm, yet with its moments of sorrow, finally, to that magnificent expression of manhood in Beethoven's grandest symphony, culminating in the glorious burst of triumph of the last movement, through all the picture of varied experience, there ran a spirit that brought back to mind the beautiful character of the great man in whose memory, the concert was given.
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