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/ CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK. : Boston SumDtlonu Orchestra Mr. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor.. Nineteenth Season in New York,, PROGRAMMES OF THE FIRST CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, AT 8.J5 PRECISELY, AND THE FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 5, AT 2.30 PRECISELY. "With Historical and Descriptive Notes by Philip Hale. Published by C. A. ELLIS, Manager. 1 Established Established 1823 1823 CfjtttttTtng PIANOFORTE MAKERS RECIPIENTS OF One Hundred and Twenty-Nine FIRST MEDALS AND AWARDS These Celebrated Instruments are To-day better than ever REPRESENTED BY JOHN WANAMAKER, New York, N.Y. 1 " DOStOn , CARNEGIE HALL, Symphony | NEW V0RK - " y~fourth h Twent Season, 1904-J905- Orchestra Nineteenth Season in New York. Mr. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. FIRST CONCERT, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Beethoven .... Symphony No. 4, in B-flat major, Op. 60 I. Adagio ; allegro vivace. II. Adagio. III. Allegro vivace. Trio : Un poco meno allegro. IV. Finale : Allegro ma non troppo. Joachim . Concerto (in the Hungarian manner) for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 1 I. Allegro un poco maestoso. II. Roman ze : Andante; piu. moto, poco allegretto ; allegretto. III. Finale alia zingara : Allegro con spirito, presto. Dukas ..... Scherzo, " The Sorcerer's Apprentice " (After a ballad by Goethe.) (First time at these concerts.) • " Wagner . Overture to Tannhauser SOLOIST: Professor WILLY HESS. There v. ill be an intermission of ten minules after ihe symphony. 3 ; All Lovers of Music SHOULD NEVER FAIL TO BUY EACH SUCCEEDING ISSUE OF THE Musicians Library This library consists of a series of volumes which, when complete, will contain all of the masterpieces of song and piano music. Every volume is edited by the highest authority, and contains an elaborate biographical and critical introduction, together with the best obtainable portrait of the composer. 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FLANDERS, Manager, Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street, Boston, Mass. 6 Some now try to account for the postponement of the Fifth Sym- phony, begun before the Fourth, "by the fact that in May, 1806, Beethoven became engaged to the Countess Theresa The B-flat symphony has been mentioned as 'the most tenderly classical' of all works of its kind; its keynote is 'happiness' —a contentment which could have come to the master only through such an incident as the one above set forth—his betrothal." I do not see the force of this reasoning. No one has written more acutely, discriminatively, and with more poetic appreciation of the symphonies of Beethoven than Hector Berlioz, still the prince of critics. * * "Here Beethoven abandons wholly the ode and the elegy," —a ref- erence to the "Eroica" Symphony,—"to return to the less lofty and sombre but perhaps no less difficult style of the Second Symphony. The character of this score is generally lively, nimble, joyous, or of a heavenly sweetness. If we except the meditative adagio, which serves as an introduction, the first movement is almost entirely given up to joyfulness. The motive in detached notes, with which the al- legro begins, is only a canvas, on which the composer spreads the other more real melodies, which thus render the apparently chief idea of the beginning an accessory. This artifice, although it is fertile in curious and interesting results, had already been employed by Mozart and Haydn with equal success. But we find in the second section of this same allegro an idea that is truly new, the first measures of which captivate the attention; this idea, after leading the hearer's mind through mysterious developments, astonishes it by its unexpected ending. It consists of this : after a rather vigorous tutti the first vio- lins pick the first theme to pieces, and form with it a pianissimo dia- logue with the second violins, which leads to holds on the chord of the dominant seventh in B-natural: each one of these holds is inter- rupted by two measures of silence, which are filled out only by a light tremolo of kettledrums on B-flat, the enharmonic major third of the fundamental F-sharp. After two apparitions of this nature, the drums are silent to allow the strings to murmur gently other fragments of the theme, and to arrive by a new enharmonic modulation to the chord of the sixth and the fourth of B-flat. The kettledrums then enter on the same note, which is not now a leading note, as it was the first PH'^Cacoo, time, but a true tonic, and they continue the tremolo for twenty meas- ures or so. The force of tonality of this B-flat, scarcely perceptible at first, waxes greater and greater as the tremolo is prolonged; then the other instruments, scattering little unfinished bits of phrases in their onward march, lead with the continuous roll of the drums to a general forte in which the perfect chord of B-flat is at last established by the orchestra in its full majesty.