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BOSTON SY^PnONY ORCnCSTRH TWCNT^-PlI^aT acAaoN ^ 1901-1902 PRoGRSnnE Emil Mollenhauer Conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society, Conductor of the Apollo Club, Conductor: of the Boston Festival Orchestra, Musician, Vio- linist, Pianist, writes to MASON & HAMLIN CO. December 12, 1901. Mason & Hamlin Co. Gentlemen,— The Grand pianoforte of your make which I purchased of you two years or so ago has proven itself a most superb instrument. It stands remarkably well, and, in fact, like a Stradi- varius violin, it improves with age. I am sure you are to be congratulated on your production, and I am sure the artist must be grateful to you for your production. The instruments you are now producing are not only fine pianofortes, but they are a potent influence working for the best in the highest of all the arts,— music. With admiration for the loyalty with which you work toward your lofty ideal, and with sincere wishes for your continued success, I am. Very truly yours, (Signed) EMIL MOLLENHAUER. Boston Symphony Orchestra* SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES. ( Ticket Office, 1492 > TELEPHONE, \ y BACK BAY. Administration Offices, 1471 ) TWENTY-FIRST SEASON, I90J-J902. WILHELM GERICKE, CONDUCTOR. PROGRAMME OF THE NINETEENTH REHEARSAL and CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE ^ jl ^ jt THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, AT 2.30 O'CLOCK. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, AT 8.00 O'CLOCK. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. (881) CHICKERING PIANOS IHE underlying princi- ples and generally ac- cepted theories of modern piano-building emanate primarily and to the great- est extent from the house of Chick- ering. Pianoforte construction in its various phases has attained its greatest development at the hands of Chickering & Sons. Results of the most artistic value are demon- strated to the highest degree in the modern CHICKERING Pianos. Chickering(^Sons 791 Tremont Street Boston (882) TWENTY-FIRST SEASON, J90J-I902. Nineteenth Rehearsal and G)ncert* THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, at 8.00 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Chcrobini Overture to ** Medea ** Grieg: . Concerto in A minor, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op, 16 I. Alleerro molto moderato. II. Adaerio. III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato. ^ Wagner .... " Good Friday Spell,'' from " Parsifal Saint-Saens .... Symphony in C minor, No. 3, Op. 78 I. Adaffio. Alleerro moderate. Poco adaerio. II. Alleerro moderato. Presto. Maestoso. Allegro. (Mr. J. WALLACE GOODRICH, Organist.) SOLOIST: Miss AUGUSTA COTTLOW. The Pianoforte is an Eiverett. Thefc will be an intermission of ten minutes before the Sympliony. 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The " Annales Dramatiques " (vol. vi., p. 201, Paris, 1810), thus speaks " of this opera : The subject of Medea is not, as you may readily see, one to awaken much interest. The distinguished men that have treated it could not save Jason from being base or Medea atrocious in crime. The composer had thfen to rely wholly on the riches of his art, and he has employed these with great skill. Overtures, for each act has one ; recita- accompani- tives, duo and trio in dialogue ; ensembles, marches, choruses, ments,— everything is rich in melody and perfectly adapted to the stage- action." Medea was ranked by Thomas Heywood among " Witches remembred by the Poets." And here is his account of her: — " Medea^ was the daughter of Ofes .and Isphaea king and queene of the Colchians, and sister to Cyrce : shee found out the vertues of many Hearbes, Plants, and Rootes, and tempered their juice to her divellish pur- poses, growing to that height of cunning, that by her incantations shee tamed the mad Bulls that from their mouths and nosthrills breathed fire and bellowed terror, charming asleepe the ever-waking Serpent that kept the Golden fleece, least they should hinder Jason her beloved in the purchase thereof: for which courtesie hee tooke her to wife, and by long travell arriving in Thessaly, yEson the father of Jason now growne decrepit through age, shee restored to his former youth and strength : notwith- standing, her husband forgetfull of this great benefit done to his father, forsooke her bed, and married Creusa daughter to Creon king of Corinth ; NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY SCHOOL OF OPERA UNDER THE DIRECTION Sig. 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Hand-painted Flower Sets for Waists. J4 karat Gold Brooch Pins, new designs, $3.00 to $ J 0.00. Inspection invited. 24 Winter Street, Makers and Finders of the Unusual. (880) : with which ingratitude Medea inraged (yet dissembling her malice) she after some insinuation presents Creusa with a glorious Mantle to the eye, which shee no sooner put on but her whole bodie was in a flame and she consumed unto ashes : after the same sort perished King Creon with his queene. This done, she murdered her children had by Jason, and being openly hurried by winged dragons through the Ayre, she fled to Athens, and there was married to King ^geus ; whose sonne Theseus, when she attempted to have poysoned in a cup of Gold tempered with Aconitum (gathered from an hearbe that grew from the fome of Cerberus) her trea son being discovered and prevented, by her Magick skill shee shut her selfe within a cloud in which with her young sonne Medus (whose father ^geus was) she escaped into Asia. Of her Ovid speakes, Propertius, Valerius Flacchus, Pliny, and many others." Heywood says nothing about her cutting her brother Absyrtus into little pieces and scattering them over the sea, that the Colchians pursuing her and Jason might stop to collect the fragments ; nor does he mention the grotesque yet terrible punishment she inflicted on the women of Lemnos, through her hatred of Hypsipyle, whom Jason had loved and abandoned, though some say the punishment came from Venus, wrathful on account of neglected sacrifices ; nor does he note the rumor that Medea was married to Achilles in the Elysian Fields. In Cherubini's opera the action begins with the betrothal of Jason and Creusa, who is here named Dirce ; and it ends with the flight of Medea after she has killed her children by Jason. The story is practically a long monody for Medea is an unimportant tenor, and Dirce is an ordinary ; Jason seconda donna. The opera was written for the Theatre Feydeau, which was absorbed in the present Opera-Comique. At this theatre operas were given in which the dialogue was spoken, and there was no ballet. When the JUST ISSUED. New Orchestral Scores. Three New Songs BY Wagner. Rheingold. Two vol- umes. Each . J86.00 Edward MacDowell. Wagner. Siegfried. Three Vol- No. I. Tyrant Love. umes. Each . 4.00 No. 2. Fair Springtide. No. 3. To the Golden-rod. Brahms. Four Symphonies. Each, 2.00 Sent Free. Catalogue containing Por- trait and Biography, also classification of compositions by Edward Mac= Strauss. Ein Pleldenleben . 3.00 Dowell. P. SCHMIDT ARTHUR CHAS. W. HOMEYER & CO, BOSTON : LEIPZIG. NEW YORK • 46 Boylston St. 136 Fifth Avenue 165 Tremont Street, Boston. (887) opera was performed in Germany, the dialogue was put in recitative by- Franz Lachner.