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Rehearsal and Concert SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON & MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office j j g^^^ ^ ^^^^ Branch Exchange I Administration Offices ) THIRTY- SECOND SEASON. 1912 AND 1913 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor prngramtttf of % Thirteenth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER — ^^^Iplkimpino "After the Symphony Concert" a prolonging of musical pleasure by home-firelight awaits the ov/ner of a " Baldwin." The strongest impressions of the concert season are linked with Baldwintone, 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 who love good music, who have a culti- vated knowledge of it, and who seek the best medium for producing it, the Baldwin is chief. In such an atmosphere it is as happily "at home" as are the Preludes of Chopin, the Liszt Rhapsodies upon a virtuoso's programme. THE BOOK OF THE BALDWIN free upon request. CHAS. F. LEONARD, 120 Boylston Street BOSTON, MASS. 818 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirty-second Season, 1912-1913 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Violins. Witek, A., Roth, 0. Hoffmann, J. Concert-master. Kuntz, D. Tak, E. Noack, S. CHICKERING THE STANDARD PIANO SINCE 1823 Piano of American make has been NOso favored by the musical public as this famous old Boston make. The world's greatest musicians have demanded it and discriminating people have purchased it. The Chickering Piano enjoys the distinction of being the recipient of I2g First Medals and Awards for Superiority Its wonderful tone and action call it to the studio to stimulate and encourage the pupil, and it is sought by teachers and musical people when the best is desired. Made in five sizes of Grands and three of Uprights. CHICKERING WAREROOMS 169 TREMONT STREET Opposite the Cummon 820 THIRTY-SECOND SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TWELVE AND THIRTEEN ®I|trte^ntIf S^if^arsal anb Qlnttr^rt FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, at 8.00 o'clock Owing to the illness of Dr. Muck Mr. Otto Urack will conduct Programme Berlioz . Overture to the Opera "Benvenuto Cellini," Op. 23 Debussy . Recitative and Aria of Lia, from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Strube . Two Symphonic Poems: "Narcissus and Echo"; "DieLoreley" Conducted by the Composer. First Performance Charpentier .... Air, "Depuis le jour," from "Louise" Dvorak Symphony No. 5, in E minor, "From the New World," Op. 95 I. Adagio: Allegro mol to. II, Largo. Ill Scherzo. IV, Allegro con fuoco. SOLOIST Miss MAGGIE TEYTE There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each tvumber on the programme. Those who wish to leave hefone the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be- tween the numbers. City of Boston. Revised Reiiulation of August 5, 1898.— Chapter 3, relatlnd to th« coverlnii of the head In places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusetDent, allow any person to wear upon the head a coverint which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in ainr seat tharein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low bead covering without projection, whies does •I •bstroct wash view, may be won. Attest: J. M. GALVIN. Q^ Clcfk. 821 L. P. HOLLANDER & CO. EXHIBITION of SPRING AND SUMMER DRESSES AND MILLINERY SUITS AND WRAPS We are now fully prepared to show a varied assortment of the above, advance models and copies of some of our first importations suitable FOR WINTER RESORTS /ISTOVELL6-CPIMG FINE CUT ELECTRIC GLASS LAMPS FortheTable Prices from and ^50 to Desk Horn 24 WIMTER ST- BOSTOW 822 OVBRTURK TO THE OpERA "BENVENUTO CELUNI," Op. 23. Hector Berlioz (Born at La Cote-Saint-Andr^, December 11, 1803: died at Paris, March 9, 1869.) This overture was composed at Paris early in 1838. Prudhomme says it was composed probably in January of that year. Berhoz wrote to Maurice Schlesinger, the publisher, on January 7, 1838: "It is absolutely necessary that I should rest and find a shelter from albums. For a fortnight I have searched vainly for three hours to dream at leisirre over the overttire of my opera. The inability to obtain them is a torture of which you have no idea, one that is absolutely insup- portable. I warn you then that if 1 were forced to live on bread and water up to the moment when my score would be completed, I do not wish to hear anything more about a criticism of any sort. Meyerbeer, Liszt, Chopin, and Kalkbrenner are not in need of my praise." The overture was performed for the first time at the first perform- ance of the opera "Benvenuto Cellini" at the Opera, Paris, September 10, 1838. Frangois Antoine Habeneck conducted from manuscript. The first performance of the overttue in Germany was at the opera- house at Brunswick, March 9, 1843, at a concert given by Berlioz when he conducted. The overture was performed in Boston at a Theodore Thomas concert, April 28, 1885. The programme said "(new)." The overture, when it was published in separate form, was dedi- cated to Ernest Legouve, who had loaned Berlioz two thousand francs, TWO NEW SONG COLLECTIONS LYRIC FANCIES Edward MacDowell A Selection of Songs SIX BY SELECTED SONGS INCLUDING American Composers TO A WILD ROSE FAVORITE SONGS BY (Text by HERMANN HAGEDORN) as sung at the Peterboro Festival Beach, Branscombe, Chadwick, CONTENTS Daniels, Foote, Hadley, Lang, High Voice Low Voice Lynes, MacDowell, Metcalf, Thy Beaming Eyes Thy Beaming Eyes Neidlinger, Park, Salter. A Maid Sings Light The Swan Bent Low To A Wild Rose To A Wild Rose Deserted Deserted HIGH VOICE LOW VOICE Fair Springtide To the Golden Rod Menie My Jean PRICE. $1.25 PRICE. »1.00 I ARTHUR p. SCHMIDT 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. For Sale by all Music Dealers that he might afford the time to complete the opera. It is scored for two flutes (the second is interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets (the second is interchangeable with bass clarinet), four bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, two cornets-a-piston, three trom-^ bones, ophicleide, a set of three kettledrums (played by three players), bass drum, cymbals, triangles, and strings. The opera was originally in two acts, and the libretto was by L^on de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. The cast of the first performance was as follows: Benvenuto Cellini, Duprez; Giacomo Balducci, D^rivis; Fieramosca, Massol; le Cardinal Salviati, Serda; Francesco, Wartel; Bernardino, Ferdinand Prevost; Pompeo, Molinier; un Cabaretier, Trevaux; Teresa, Mme. Dorus-Gras; Ascanio, Mme. Stolz. The story has been condemned as weak and foolish. It is also whoUy fictitious.* It is enough to say that in 1532 Cellini is in Rome, called thither by the Pope. He falls in love with Teresa, the daughter of Balducci, an old man, who favors another suitor, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor. Cellini attempts to elope with her, and neglects work on his Perseus, which he at last finishes in an hour's time, fired by the promise of Cardinal Salviati to reward him with the hand of Teresa. It should also be said that Cellini and his pupils and friends are disgusted early in the opera at a paltry sum of money given to Cellini by the Pope through Ascanio, but only after he had promised solemnly to complete the statue of Perseus. They decided to revenge themselves on the stingy and avaricious treasurer, Balducci, by im- personating him in the theatre. Fieramosca, who has overheard the plot, calls in the help of Pompeo, a bravo, and they plan to outwit Cellini by adopting the same costumes that he and his pupil Ascanio f will wear. The pantomime of "King Midas" is acted, and Balducci, among the spectators, recognizes in the king a caricature of himself. He advances to lay hands on the actor; Cellini profits by the confusion to go towards Teresa, but Fieramosca also comes up, and Teresa cannot distinguish her lover on account of the similarity of the masks. Cellini stabs Pompeo. He is arrested, and the people are about to kill him, when the cannon-shots announce that it is Ash Wednesday. The lights are turned out, and Cellini escapes. The thematic material of the overture, as that of "Le Camaval Romain," originally intended by Berlioz to be played as an introduc- tion to the second act of "Benvenuto Cellini," but first performed at a concert in Paris, February 3, 1844, is taken chiefly from the opera. The overture opens, Allegro deciso con impeto, G major, 2-2, with the joyful chief theme. This theme is hardly stated in full when there is a moment of dead silence. The Larghetto, G major, 3-4, that follows, begins with pizzicato notes in the basses and a slow cantilena, taken from music of the Cardinal's address in the last act: "A tons peches pleine indulgence." (The original tonality is D-flat major.) This is followed by a melody • It is true that there was a Giacopo Balducci at Rome, the Master of the Mint. Cellini describes him " that traitor of a master, being in fact my enemy "; but he had no daughter loved by Cellini_. The statue of Perseus was modelled and cast at Florence in 1545, after this visit to Rome, for the Duke Cosimo de' Medici.
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