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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones { Ticket Office ) p id iao9 '^^'^^ ^^^ **^^ Branch Exchange ( Administration Offices ) Bostoim ^" THIRTY-SEVENTH SEASON. 1917-1918 Dr. KARL MUCK. Conductor :e] and Evening WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 14 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER 449 FROM the very beginning of a musical education, nothing is so important as a correct appreciation of tone. Hence the child should receive its early impressions from a Steinway Piano. The exquisite Steinway tone is recognized as ideal, and it has made this instrument world- famous. Superior craftsmanship builds the Steinway for lifetime usage, and all the strain of "prac- tice years" does not make its action uneven or lessen its sweet- ness and resonance of tone. Under these circumstances, no other instrument is "good enough to begin on." Consider, too, that a Steinway costs but Httle more than an ordinary "good" piano. 450 iostoia Thirty-seventh Season, 1917 1918 Dr. KARL MUCK. Conductor Violins. Witek, A, Concert-master. , .S^^'AjVIPICO' \jQeprodi ^ TnG aDsoluic jiScliit/ ^'\{\x >Vnicn ifire Von3er^>?t'oi;Kin^ AMPICO in me 'au(?r anS scores of omers ^iVcs us io3ai|, and prc^ scrVes for mixirG ^encraiions oj music loVers ciU \m poMv^er and Dcauiif of me infcrprciaiions oj^ eminentli living ariisis. AMPICO RECITALS am^^fd daifif in iAe CfflCKERING WAREROOMS 169 TREMONT ST., BOSTON to y^^hicfi i/ou arQ cordial/ij hri'ited. THIRTY-SEVENTH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN AND EIGHTEEN Mm me FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14. at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, at 8 o'clock Mozart Symphony, E-flat major (K. 543) I. Adagio; Allegro. II. Apdante. III. Minuetto: Trio. IV. Finale: Allegro. Handel Air, "Di ad Irene," from the Opera "Atalanta " " " " Ravel . Lever du Jour," Pantomime," Danse Generale" C Day-break," "Pantomime," "General Dance"), Orchestral Fragments from " Daphnis et Chloe," ballet in one act Beethoven Recitative, "Jehovah! Hear, oh, hear me," and Air, "Oh, my heart is sore within me," from the Oratorio "Christ on the Mount of Olives" Balakireflf " Thamar," Symphonic Poem for Orchestra after a Poem by Michail Lermontoff SOLOIST Mr. JOHN McCORMACK There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 7%e ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end oj a number. The doors oj the hall will be closed during the performance of each nuntben on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,—Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear u[x>n the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. CALVIN. City Clerk 453 Liflo Holiday Gifts We are featuring Useful Gifts at Moderate Prices GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, HOSIERY, NECKWEAR SILK and WOOL SWEATERS and SCARFS PARTICULAR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO THE ASSORTMENT OF KNITTING and SERVICE BAGS BOYLSTON STREET and PARK SQUARE, BOSTON ^mx^%mikx PIANOFORTES 395BoylsionSt. Boston 4S4 Symphony in E-flat major (K. 543). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791.) Mozart wrote his three greatest symphonies in 1788. The one in E-flat is dated June 26, the one in G minor July 25, the one in C major with the fugue-finale August 10. His other works of that year are of little importance with the excep- tion of a piano concerto in D major which he played at the coronation festivities, of Leopold II. at Frankfort in 1790. There are canons and piano pieces; there is the orchestration of Handel's " Acis and Galatea"; there are six German dances and twelve minuets for orchestra. Nor are the works composed in 1789 of interest with the exception of the clarinet quintet and a string quartet dedicated to the King of Prussia. Again we find dances for orchestra,—twelve minuets and twelve German dances. Why is this? 1787 was the year of "Don Giovanni"; 1790, the year of "Cosi fan tutte." Was Mozart, as some say, exhausted by the feat of producing three symphonies in such a short time ? Or was there some reason for discouragement and consequent idleness? The Ritter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died No- SONGS FROM THE PROGRAMMES OF BEACH, MRS. H. H. A. EXALTATION AH, LOVE BUT A DAY YEAR'S AT THE SPRING CHADWICK, G. W. NOCTURNE DEAR LOVE WHEN IN THINE ARMS BEFORE THE DAWN WHEN I AM DEAD COLERIDGE TAYLOR, S . LIFE AND DEATH AN EXPLANATION (Her Ups were so Near) foote, arthur memnon ganz, rudolph rise o star love and song the sea hath its pearls lang, margaret ruthven day is gone mac dowell, edward long ago, sweetheart mine MENIE MERRY MAIDEN SPRING AS THE GLOAMING SHADOWS CREEP JOHN McCORMACK THY BEAMING EYES THE ARTHUR P. HMIDT CO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON. MASS. For Sale by all Music Dealers 455 vember 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of two thousand florins. Mozart was appointed his successor, but the thrifty Joseph cut down the salary to eight hundred florins. And Mozart at this time was sadly in need of money, as his letters show. In a letter of June, 1788, he tells of his new lodgings, where he could have better air, a garden, quiet. In another, dated June 27, he says: "I have done more work in the ten days that I have lived here than in two months in my other lodgings, and I should be much better here, were it not for dismal thoughts that often come to me. I must drive them resolutely away; for I am living comfortably, pleasantly, and cheaply." He borrowed from Puchberg, a merchant with whom he became acquainted at a Masonic lodge: the letter with Puchberg's memorandum of the amount is in the collection edited by Nohl. Mozart could not reasonably expect help from the Emperor. The composer of "Don Giovanni" and the "Jupiter" symphony was unfortunate in his Emperors. We know little or nothing concerning the first years of the three symphonies. Gerber's "Lexicon der Tonkiinster" (1790) speaks appreciatively of him: the erroneous statement is made that the Emperor fixed his salary in 1788 at six thousand florins; the varied ariettas for piano are praised especially; but there is no mention what- ever of any symphony. /^NE might come to this shop and choose Rings with ^^ his eyes shut. He would get the very best that money can buy. However, the patron we appreciate most is he who sees most. One of our chief sources of satis- faction is to have the buyer look over our year's work from start to finish. That means choosing of the ring! $10.00 to $5,000. SON, KEMMARD iz CO. JEWELERS 25 STATE ST., BOSTON 456 ,u ON OUR 50TH CHRISTMAS WE ARE PREPARED nv' ^ WITH UNUSUALLY COMPLETE, SPECIALIZED ASSORTMENTS OF With Characteristic Slattery Individuality FOR MEN. WOMEN AND CHILDREN Handkerchiefs Fur Sets Neckivear Gloves Hosiery Hand Bags Toilet Articles Jewelry Watches Fans Soldiers' Kits Neckties Mufflers Smokers' jirticles Safety Razors Motoring Comforts Knitting Bags, Needles and Yarns Blouses Petticoats Sweaters Scarfs Negligees Dainty^ Underthings Infants* Wear Etc, Etc., Etc. EI Slattery Company TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASS ^->^'«0<^:>^'^^>^^:^^;^:^^<^$^i%0^^^ 457 The enlarged edition of Gerber's work (1813) contains an extended notice of Mozart's last years.- It is stated in the summing up of his career: "If one knew only one of his noble symphonies, as the over- poweringly great, fiery, perfect, pathetic, sublime symphony in C." This reference is undoubtedly to the "Jupiter," the one in C major. Mozart gave a concert at Leipsic in May, 1789. The programme was made up wholly of pieces by him. Among them were two symphonies in manuscript. A story that has come down might easily lead us to believe that one of them was the one in G minor. At a rehearsal for this concert Mozart took the first allegro of a symphony at a very fast pace, so that the orchestra soon was unable to keep up with him. He stopped the players, began again at the same speed, stamped the time so furiously that his steel shoe buckle flew into pieces. He laughed, and, as the players still dragged, he began the allegro a third time. The musicians, by this time exasperated, played to suit him. Mozart after- wards said to some who wondered at his conduct, because he had on other occasions protested against undue speed: "It was not caprice on my part. I saw that the majority of the players were well along in years. They would have dragged everything beyond endurance if I had not set fire to them and made them angry, so that out of sheer spite they did their best." Later in the rehearsal he praised the orchestra, and said that it was unnecessary for it to rehearse the accompaniment to the pianoforte concerto: "The parts are correct, you play well, and so do_;I." This concert, by the way, was poorly attended, and half of those who were present had received free tickets from Mozart, who was generous in such matters.