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Rehearsal and Concert SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON <S- MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _, , Ticket Office, 1492 ) , Telephones, i ^^^^„ ^^^„ J Administration Offices, 3200 [ TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor programme nf tijp Twenty-third Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER 1706 piANa Used and Indorsed by Reisenauer, Neitzel, Burmeister, Gabrilowitsch, Nordica, Campanari, Bispham, and many other noted artists, will be used by TERESA CARRENO during her tour of the United States this season. The Everett piano has been played recently under the baton of the following famous conductors: Theodore Thomas Franz Kneisel Dr. Karl Muck Fritz Scheel Walter Damrosch Frank Damrosch Frederick Stock F. Van Der Stucken Wassily Safonoff "Emil Oberhoffer Wilhelm Gericke Emil Paur Felix W^eingartner REPRESENTED BY 6. L SCHIRMER & COMPANYi 38 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mas& 1706 \i Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Twenty -seventh Season, 1907-1908 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Ji First Violins. Wendling, Carl, Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Krafft, W. Coruert-masUr. Kuntz, D. Fiedler, E. Theodorowicz, J. Czerwonky, R. Mahn. F. Eichbeim, H. Bak, A. Mullaly, J. Stnibe. G. Rissland, K. Ribarscb, A. Traupe, W. Second Violins. Barleben, K. Akeroyd, J. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Fiamara, P. Currier, F. Rennert, B. Eichler, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Kuntz, A. Swomsbourne, W. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Goldstein, H. Violas. Firir, E. Heindl, H. Zahn, F. Kolster, A. Krauss, H. Scheurer, K. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Sauer, G. Gietzen, A. Violoncellos. Wamke, H. Nagel, R. Barth, C. Loeffler, E. Heberlein, H. Keller, J. Kautzenbach, A. Nast, L. Hadley, A. Smalley, R. Basses. Keller, K. Agnesy, K. Seydel, T. Elkind, S. Gerbardt, G. Kunze, M. Huber, E. Schurig, R. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Maquarre, A. Longy, G. Grisez, G. 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CHICKERING & SONS PIJNOFORTE MAKERS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET Cor. NORTHAMPTON ST. Near Mass. Ave. BOSTON 1708 TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVEN and EIGHT Twenty-third Rehearsal and Concerts FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, at 2,30. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, at 8 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Mendelssohn Overture, " Sea-calm and Prosperous Voyage," Op. 27 Schubert Symphony in B-flat major, No. 5 I. Allegro. II. Andante con moto. III. Menuetto: Allegro molto; Trio. IV. Allegro vivace. D'Indy "Summer Day on the Mountain," Op. 61 I. Daybreak. First time in Boston II. Day (Afternoon under the Pines). III. Evening. The Mason & Hamlin Pianoforte. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony. The doors of the hall will he closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval he-^ tween the numbers. City of Boston. Revised Regulation of Au|{ust 5. 1898.— Chapter 3. relatinif to th« coverln|{ of the head In places of public amusement. Every Hceosee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a coverinf 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. GALVIN, City Clerk. 1709 L. P. Hollander & Co. FUR STORAGE We offer a Perfect System of Dry Cold Storage for Furs and Cloth Garments of all kinds. Dry cold air preserves the softness and lustre of the furs and destroys all moths. The Insurance guarantees against loss by fire, moths, or theft. 202 to 216 Boylston Street and Park Square, Boston sniTii PATTERSON CO. EVERYTfflNG INVITATiON BRIDESMMDS* AND YttD ^ ' lAHKOUNCEMOrr* vK USHERS CARDS GIFTS ilB&ZaCAR/ff xHF PKES^^S^ORj WEDDING IllL BRIDE AND RINGS GROOM WEDDING 52 SUMMER ST. BOSTON ! ! ! — OVERTURK, "vSRA-CAT<M AND PROSPEROUS VOYAGE," Op. 27. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Bom at Hamburg on February 3, 1809; died at Leipsic on November 4, 1847.) Two little poems by Goethe, "Meeres Stille" and "Gliickliche Fahrt," first published in Schiller's Mtcsenalmanach for 1796, suggested music to Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. The poems are as follows : MEERES STILLE. Tiefe Stille herrscht im Wasser, Ohne Regung ruht da§ Meer, Und bekiimmert sieht der Schiffer Glatte Flache rings umher. Keine Luft von keiner Seite! Todesstille fiirchterlich In der ungeheuern Weite Reget keine Welle sich. A profound stillness rules in the water ; the ocean rests motionless ; and the anxious mariner looks on a smooth sea round about him. No breeze in any quarter! Fear- ful quiet of death ! Over the monstrous waste no billow stirs. GLUCKLICHE FAHRT. Die Nebel zerreissen, Der Himmel ist helle, Und ^olus loset Das angstliche Band. Es sauseln die Winde, Es riihrt sich der Schiffer. Geschwinde ! Geschwinde Es theilt sich die Welle, Es naht sich die Feme; Schon seh' ich das Land The fog has hfted, the sky is clear, and the Wind-god looses the hesitant band. The winds sough, the mariner looks alive. Haste! Haste! The billows divide, the far-off grows near; already I see the land! Beethoven's " Meeresstille und gliickliche Fahrt," for four-part chorus and orchestra. Op. 112, was composed in 1815, performed at Vienna on December' 25, 1815, and published in 1822. Schubert's song,- "Meeresstille," was composed on June 21, 1815. NEW SONG CYCLES GEORGE H. CLUTSAM. Love Letters. Five Songs. 2 keys . Price, ;J!i. 00 net AMY WOODFORDE-FINDEN. Five Japanese Songs. 2 keys . Price, $1.00 net LIZA LEHMANN. Golden Threshold. Quartette Cycle . Price, ^1.50 net HERBERT G. LOVEDAY. 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Artistic Jewelry, Very Old Enylish Sterliny Silver, Chiminy Hall Clocks, Watches, fine Leather Goods, Bric=a=>brac, Tine Stationery. Art Rooms. Filled with choice antiques. Tiffany Room. Rare showiny of their beautiful yoods. Electric Department. J 47 Tremont Street^ Boston^ 1712 — ! — The translation, "Calm Sea and Happy Voyage," does not convey exactly the meaning of the original German. As Mr. Louis C. Elson says in his "History of German Song": "One of the strangest mis- nomers in all music has occurred with Mendelssohn's overture on the above subject. The English have translated it, 'A Calm Sea and Pros- perous Voyage,' which leaves each auditor under the impression that a thoroughly joyous picture is being presented, while the words, 'Becalmed at Sea and Prosperous Voyage,' would present the tremen- dous contrast as the poet intended it." Mendelssohn wrote the overture in 1828. His sister Fanny, in a letter to Kllingemann dated June 28 of that year, gave an account of the origin: "Felix is writing a great instrumental piece, after Goethe. He is going to bring together in it two pictures standing in contrast with each other." Mendelssohn first saw the ocean in 1824 at Doberan on the Baltic. He wrote to his sister: "Sometimes it lies as smooth as a mirror, without waves, breakers, or noise; sometimes it is so wild and furious that I dare not go in." When he went to London the next year, the voyage was long and stormy. He wrote home: "I passed from one swoon to another, merely out of vexation at myself and every- thing on board the steamer, bitterly hating England and especially my 'Calm Sea' overture."* * Thackeray described in "A Night's Pleasure" a singer whom he heard at the Cave of Harmony: "Mr. HofF, a gentleman whom I remember to have seen exceedingly unwell on board a Gravesend steamer, began the following terrific ballad: "THE RED FLAG. " Where the quivering lightning flings His arrows from out the clouds, And the howling tempest sings. And whistles among the slirouds, 'Tis pleasant, 'tis pleasant to ride' £ Along the foaming brine Wilt be the Rover's bride ? ~i V Wilt follow him, lady mine? Hurrah For the bonny, bonny^brine ! " etc.
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