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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON & MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office I | ^^^^ ^ ^ j^gg Branch Exchange I Administration Offices ) THIRTY-SECOND SEASON, 1912 AND 1913 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Jprogramm^ of % Third Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER — ^IpfiiMinpTnoi ** After the Symphony Concert" a prolonging of musical pleasure by home-firelight awaits the owner of a "Baldwin." The strongest impressions of the concert season are linked with Baldw^intone, exquisitely exploited by pianists eminent in their art. Schnitzer, Pugno, Scharwenka, Bachaus De Pachmann! More than chance attracts the finely-gifted amateur to this keyboard. Among people w^ho love good music, w^ho have a culti- vated knowledge of it, and who seek the best medium for producing it, the Baldwin is chief. 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Ave. BOSTON <Q VM k'M tftf tfv.kniiM tf¥ im tm im lifWtfy kn4¥W,trV¥W¥MVM tfW^,fi< 140 THIRTY-SECOND SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TWELVE AND THIRTEEN Slltrb S^If^arsal nnh (Hantttt FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, at 8.00 o'clock Prngrammf Bischoff Symphony in E major, Op. i6 I. Sehr schnell und fenrig. getragen. , II. Sehr ruhig und III. Presto; Ruhig. " IV. Allegro moderate. Wagner " A Siegfried Idyl" Weber Overture to "Euryanthe" There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who tvish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval 6©- tweert the numbers. City of Boston. 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It will afford us a pleasure to show them to our appreciative patrons. 24 WINTER STREET, BOSTON Jewelers for over ninety years Note.—The Electric appliances used about the table (shown at the Exhibition) are 142 Symphony in E major for Full Orchestra, Op. i6. Hermann Bischoff (Born at Duisburg on the Rhine, January 7, 1868; now living at Munich.) Mr. Bischoff's name does not appear in the latest German encyclo- paedias of music. The composer was invited late in 1907 to send a sketch of his life for publication in the programme book of January 4, 1908. Nothing has been heard from him. Yet it may here be stated that in 1887 he was a student at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music, where he took lessons of Jadassohn in com- position. At a Gewandhaus concert, as the story goes, he heard Richard Strauss's Symphony in F minor, and was so impressed by it that he sought the composer out, and, while he did not actually take lessons in theory and composition of him, he was associated inti- mately with him for three years in the study of scores and in the dis- cussion of music. Among BischofiF's chief works are: "Gewittersegen," for tenor voice, organ, and orchestra. Op. 9, a composition to which a prize of three hundred marks was awarded by the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein. It was performed at a concert of the thirty-fifth convention of this EDWARD MacDOWELL JUST ISSUED WITH SWEET LAVENDER SIX Transcribed for Violin and Pianoforte SELECTED SONGS BY INCLUDING LEOPOLD AUER Played by "To a Wild Rose" EFREM ZIMBALIST (Text by Herman Hagedorn) Transcriptions for Violoncello and Pianoforte High Voice Low Voice Thy Beaming Eyes Thy Beaming Eyes BY A Maid Sings Light The Swan Bent Low- To a Wild Rose To a Wild Rose JULIUS KLENGEL Deserted Deserted To a Wild Rose 50 Fair Springtide To the Golden Rod At an old Trysting Place . .50 Menie My Jean To a Water Lily 50 A Deserted Farm 50 Told at Sunset 60 Price $1.00. ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT 120 Boylston Street, Boston For Sale by all Music Dealers 143 society, at Dortmund, in May, 1899. The singer was Forchhammer. The text of this piece, which has the sub-title, "Psalm zwischen Wolken," is by Richard Dehmel. "Pan," an idyl for orchestra. Op. 14, played by the Kaim Orchestra, led by Sigismund von Hausegger, and performed at a concert of the thirty-eighth convention of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein at Krefeld, in June, 1902. This idyl is a musical illustration of Turge- neff's prose poem, "Les Nymphes," the thirteenth of "Petits Po^mes en Prose" in the edition entitled "Souvenirs d'Enfance" and published by Hetzel & Company in Paris. "Hyacintentraume," performed at one of Nodnagel's "Novelty" concerts at Berlin in 1898. " Tanzlegendchen " (Munich, season 1908-09). Six songs from Daumer's "Hafis" for voice and pianoforte, Op. i. Five songs of the Grand-duke Constantin Constantinovitsch for high voice and pianoforte (two volumes). Op. 2. Three songs of K. F. Meyer for low voice and pianoforte. Op. 3. Songs, Op. 7, 8, 10. "Der Weiher," five poems by Annette von Droste-Hiilshoff for high voice and pianoforte. Op. 11. Five songs for low voice and pianoforte, text by Richard Dehmel, Op. 12. "25 neue Weisen zu alten Liedem," Op. 15, for voice and pianoforte; "Orchesterlieder," among them "Bewegter See" (1903). A Symphony No. 2 which is said to be less striking than the first. * * * The Symphony in K major was produced at a concert of the forty- second convention of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, at Essen, May 24, 1906. The first performance in the United States was at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, January 4, 1908, Dr. Muck conductor. The symphony was played again that season in Boston (February 29,1 908) . The Theodore Thomas Orchestra performed it in Chicago, November 26, 27, 1909. The symphony is dedicated to Dr. Richard Strauss, "in grateful veneration," and scored for three flutes (one interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, two bassoons, double- bassoon, six horns, three trumpets, three trombones, bass tube, kettle- drums, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, harp, strings. 144 SSMfFu(fo. ^^^^"^ Opposite Boston Common ^^ j 154-155-155 TREMONT STREET FUR TRIMMED GOWNS ARE THE LATEST WORD FROM PARIS ATTRACTIVE MODELS ARE SHOWN BY E. T. SLATTERY CO. AT A MODERATE RANGE OF PRICES ALSO SPECIAL SHOWING OF CIVET CAT FUR COATS 145 There is no argument, no explanatory programme, published in the score. For the performance at Essen the composer wrote a statement about his intentions and also provided an analysis. "For some years many composers," Bischoff says, "have attached importance to explicit explanations in programme books. My piece has nothing to do with 'programme music' I believe, however, that there is no music, as there has been no music, which is not programme music in one way or another; inasmuch as there is no musical expres- sion which does not find an analogy either in the world of facts and ev^ents, or in that of poetic sentiments and sensations. Not to be out of fashion, I therefore insist that my symphony presents throughout programme music. It naturally lays claim to be shaped solely in accordance with musical principles. "In my mind is the story of a young man who, living a wild and debauched life, becomes acquainted with pure happiness when he is no longer worthy of it and therefore cannot possess it. "He seeks in vain to find peace in resignation (second movement). The ghosts of his misspent youth appear again, as Furies following him, pursuing him (third movement). Again appears that noble and beautiful womanly apparition (intermediate passage),* and the voices of darkness, hushed, are quiet. Love of the pure woman delivers us from the filth of life.