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Carnegie Hall, New York CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK. BostoiiSijmpIiony Orchestra WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. Twentieth Season in New York. PROGRAMMES OF THE FIRST CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, AT ZA5 PRECISELY, AND THE FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1 1, AT 2.30 PRECISELY. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by Philip Hale* Published by C. A. ELLIS, Manager. l A PIANO FOR THE MUSICALLY INTELLIGENT Pianos divide into two classes, artists' pianos ]f and popular pianos. The proportion of the first class to the second class is precisely the proportion of cultivated music lovers to the rest of society. A piano, as much as a music library, is the index of the musical taste of its owner. are among the musically intelligent, the ^f If you PIANO is worth your study. You will appreciate the " theory and practice of its makers : Let us have an artist's piano ; therefore let us employ the sci- ence, secure the skill, use the materials, and de- vote the time necessary to this end. Then let us count the cost and regulate the price." H In this case hearings not seeing, is believing. Let us send you a list of our branch houses and sales agents (located in all important cities), at whose warerooms our pianos may be heard. iltam&ifamfittdk Boston, Mass., 492 Boylston Street New York, 139 Fifth Avenue Chicago, Wabash Avenue and Jackson Boulevard Boston Symphony Orchestra. PERSONNEL. Twenty=fifth Season, 1905=1906. WILHELM GERICKE, CoNrucTOR First Violins Hess, Willy, Concertmeister. Adamowski, T. Ondricek, K. Mahn, F Back, A. Roth, O. Krafft, W. Eichheim, H. Sokoloff, N. Kuntz, D. Hoffmann, J Fiedler, E. Mullaly, J. Moldauer, A. Strube, G. Rissland, K. Second Violins. Barleben, C. Schuchmann, F. E. Kurth, R. Kuntz, A. Akeroyd, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Goldstein, S. Fiedler, B. Fiumara, P. Marble, E. B Berger, H Traupe, W. Swornsbourne, W. W« Eichler, J. Edw. Vtolas. Zach, M. Sauer, G. F. Hoyer, H. Krauss, O. H. Ferir, E. Kolster, A Kluge, M. Gietzen, A. Heindl, H- Zahn, F. Violoncellos. Warnke, H. Loeffler, E. Barth, C. Hadley, A. Keller, J. Nagel, R. Heindl, A. Nast, L. Adamowski, J. Heberlein, H. Basses. Keller, K. Bareither, G Butler, H. Schurig, R. Kunze, M. Seydel, T Gerhardt, G. Elkind, S. Flutes. Oboes. Maquarre, A. Brooke, A. Longy, G. Sautet, G. Fox, Paul Maquarre, D. Lenom, C. English Horn Clarinets. Bass Clarinet. Miiller, F. Grisez, G. Mimart, P. Vannini, A. Fritzsche, O. Bassoons. Contra-bassoon. Sadoni, P Debuchy, A. Giinzel, F. H. Helleberg J. Regestein, E. Horns. Hackebarth, A. Lorbeer, H Hain, F. Hess, M. Phair, J. Schumann, C. Trumpets. Trombones. Kloepfel, L. Mann, J. F. Hampe, C. Mausebach, A. Brenton, H. E. Merrill, C. Kenfield, L. S Harp. Tuba. Tympani. Drums. Schuecker, H. Dworak, J. F Rettberg, A. Ludwig, C. R. Cymbals Triangle, etc. Bass Drum. Castanets. Librarian ' Senia, T. Burkhardt, H. Bower, H. Ludwig, C. F. Sauerque 1 ~®^ww usIa. PIANO that has been manufactured continuously for over Eighty-two years, which has been honored and distin- guished by States and Sovereigns, by learned societies and World's Expositions, by the greatest contemporaneous mu- sicians who have bestowed upon it the highest testimonials, awards, and decorations, embracing every known method of publicly recog- nizing distinguished merit. The public honors alone include 129 First Medals and Awards. A vast experience is thus exemplified in the Chickering Piano of to-day. CHICKERING & SONS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET BOSTON, MASS. aSK=3«r3EKZ20 Represented in New York by JOHN WANAMAKER DOStOn CARNEGIE HALL, Symphony i newvork. T Twenty-fifth Season, 1905-1906. OINCOGStTSi Twentieth Season in New York. WILHELM GERICKE,"Conductor. FIRST CONCERT, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Brahms Academic Overture, Op. 80 Dvorak . Concerto in B minor for Violoncello, Op. 104 I. Allegro. II. Adagio ma non troppo. III. Finale : Allegro moderato. " Richard Strauss . Tone-poem, Death and Transfiguration," Op. 24 Tschaikowsky .... Symphony No. 4, in F minor, Op. 36 I. Andante sostenuto. Moderato con anima in movimento di valse. II. Andantino in modo di canzona. " III. Scherzo, " Pizzicato ostinato : Allegro. IV. Finale : Allegro con fuoco. SOLOIST: Mr. HEINRICH WARNKE. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony. 5 PIANO THE genius employed for the past sixty- four years in the manufacture of these instruments has produced a piano with a pure musical tone. Besides possessing this tone they have a peculiar feature in that they actually improve with use. Established in 1842. Booklets of information. Hardman, Peck &f Co., Makers Fifth Avenue and 19th Street, New York Brooklyn .... No. 524 Fulton Street ; — —— Academic Overture, Op. 80 Johannes Brahm vs (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) Brahms wrote two overtures in 1880, —the "Academic" and the "Tragic." They come between the symphony in D major and that in F major in the list of his orchestral works. The "Tragic" overture bears the later opus number, but it was 'written before the "Academic,"—as Reimann says, "The satyr-play followed the tragedy." The "Aca- demic" was first played at Breslau, January 4, 1881. The university of that town had given him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (March 11, 1879),* and this overture was the expression of his thanks. The Rector and Senate and members of the Philosophical Faculty sat in the front seats at the performance, and the composer conducted his work, which may be described as a skilfully made pot-pourri or fantasia on students' -songs. Brahms was not a university man, but he had known with Joachim the joyous life of students at Gottingen, —at the university made famous by Canning's poem: Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U —niversity of Gottingen niversity of Gottingen the university satirized so bitterly by Heine. The first of the student-songs to be introduced is Binzer's "Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus"f: "We had built a stately house, : *"Q. D. B. V. Summis auspiciis Serenissimi ac potentissimi principis Guitelmi Imperatoris Augusti: Germanici Regis Borussicae, etc., eiusque auctoritate regia Universitatis Litterarum Vratislavieusis Rectore Magnifico Ottone Spiegelberg Viro Illustrissimo Joanni Brahms Holsato artis musicae severioris in Germa- nic/, nunc principi ex decreto ordinis philosophorum promotor legitime constitutes Petrus Josephus Elvcnich Ordinis Philosophorum h a. Decanus philosophiae doctoris nomen iura et privilegia honoris causa contulit collataque publico hoc diplomate declaravit die XI mensis Martii A. MDCCCLXXIX. (L. S.)" t "Wir hatten gebauet." The verses of A. Binzer, to an old tune, were sung for the first time at Jena, November 19, 181 9, on the occasion of the dissolution of the Burschenschaft, the German students' association founded in 181 5 for patriotic purposes. MINIATURE ORCHESTRAL SCOftES LATEST ADDITIONS HAYDN. Symphony in G, " The Surprise." " Symphony, " The Oxford." CHERUBINI. Overture, " Anacreon." " Overture, " Die Abenceragen." " Overture, " Der Wassertrager." " Overture, " Medea." GLINKA. Overture, " La Vie pour le Czar." " Overture, " Ruslan and Ludmila." CORNELIUS. Overture, " The Barber of Bagdad." " Overture, " Der Cid." SCHUMANN. Overture, " Genoveva." " Overture, " Manfred." MOZART. Fifth Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. " Sixth Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. " Twenty-sixth Piano Concerto (Coronation). TO BE HAD OF ALL LEADING DEALERS OR BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East 17th Street, NEW YORK Seventy Scottish Songs Edited with Accompaniments by HELEN HOPEKIRK Q To the student of folk-music Scotland has ever been one of the most fruitful and interesting of countries. The origin of Scottish folk-music is very remote, some of it dating from the time when the most primitive scale forms were in use. 1} Mention of Scottish music recalls to many merely a few such songs as " Auld Lang Syne," " The Blue Bells of Scotland," "Annie Laurie," etc. These, however, are not the most signifi- cant; in fact, the most beautiful songs are often the ones that are least known. The music of the Gael is most interesting on ac- count of its weird, emotional quality. Their melodies are full of the long, tender, melancholy northern twilights. I[ In her interesting prefatory essay on Scottish music the com- piler of this collection has endeavored to explain the misconception that has arisen from the association of two racially different peoples, the Celtic Scot and the Saxon Scot, so as to help to a better appreciation of their music. The translations from the Gaelic have been made with the greatest care or selected from sources less calculated to rob either words or music of their haunt- ing beauty. The banal " arrangements " found in most editions are conspicuously absent, for artistic accompaniments for each song have been written by Mme. Hopekirk,— written, too, with the deep sympathy and understanding of a Scot and with the artistry of an accomplished musician. €[ These Seventy Songs have been gathered from the Lowlands, the Highlands, the remote mountainous regions, and from the Western Isles, and are loved and sung wherever there beats a Scottish heart. €| Published in The Musicians Library in two edi- tions, for high voice and for low voice. ^ Price in heavy paper, cloth back, $1.50; in cloth, JP full gilt, $2.50, postpaid. OLIVER DITSON COHPANY, Boston C. H. DITSON & CO., New York J. E. DITSON & CO., Philadelphia LYON & HEALY, Chicago Order of your home dealer or the above houses ^MIHI^IHHBaBBBBBHBHagBIIMnHBBHi 8 and trusted in God therein through bad weather, storm, and horror." The first measures are given out by the trumpets with a peculiarly stately effect. The melody of "Der Landesvater"* is given to the second violins. And then for the first time is there any deliberate attempt to portray the jollity of university life.
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