SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON 6^MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _, , , ( Ticket Office, 1492 1 o„„, x,^,. Telephones ^^*=^ ^^^ { Administration Offices, 3200 \ THIRTIETH SEASON, 1910 AND 1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor - Programme a( % Twenty-fourth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29 _ AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A.ELLIS, MANAGER 1753 WM. L. WHITNEY International School for Vocalists BOSTON NEW YORK SYMPHONY CHAMBERS 134 CARNEGIE HALL 246 HUNTINGTON AVE. CORNER OF 57th AND 7th AVE. PORTLAND HARTFORD Y.M.C. A. BUILDING HARTFORD SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONGRESS SQUARE 8 SPRING STREET 1754 [Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Violins. Witek. A., Roth, 0. Concert-master. Kuntz, D. 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Allegro molto vivace. IV. Finale : Adagio lamentoso. Wagner . "Good Friday Spell" from "Parsifal" Wagner Funeral Music from " Dusk of the Gods " Wagner Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The doors of the hall will be 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 be- ttveen the numbers, city of Boston, Revised Re({uIation of August 5, 1898.— Chapter 3. relatlnit to the covering of the head In places of puhiic amusement. Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon 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. 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The overture was published in 1808: "Ouverture de Coriolan, Tragedie de M. de Collin, etc., com- posee et dediee a Monsieur de Collin, etc." The other compositions of 1807 were the first Mass in C, the overture to "Leonore-Fidelio," No. I, which was published as Op. 138, the Fifth Symphony, the ariette, "In questa tomba," the violin concerto changed into a pianoforte con- certo, and probably the 'cello sonata, Op. 69. The tragedy by Heinrich Joseph von Collin was produced November 24, 1802, with entr'actes arranged from Mozart's music to "Idomeneo" by the Abbe Stadler. It was afterward revived with Lange as the hero and played often until March 3, 1805. From that date to the end of October, 1809, there was only one performance of the tragedy, and that was on April 24, 1807. Thayer concludes that the overture was not written for this performance, because the overture had been played at two concerts in March. These concerts were at the palace of Prince lyobkowitz in Vienna, and only pieces by Beethoven were performed, the first four symphonies, the "Coriolanus" overture, a pianoforte con- certo, and airs from "Fidelio." The overture was criticised most favorably in the Journal des Luxus find der Moden and Cotta's Mor- genblatt as a "new work." A correspondent of the Allgemeine Musik Zeitung wrote: "According to the inscription, the overture was intended for Collin's ' Coriolanus.' Thayer adds: "How nobly Beethoven comprehended the character of Coriolanus has long been known; but how wonderfully the overture fits in the play can be judged properly only by those who have read Grand Operas to be Performed this Season in NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO •GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST By •LA BOHEME." By G. Puccini G. Puccini Vocal Score. English text $3.50 Vocal Score. Italian and English $4.00 Piano Score a.00 Piano Score 2.00 Libretto. Italian and English . .25 Libretto. 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Wagner had no thought of von Collin, when he wrote: "If we recall to mind the impression made upon us by the figure of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's drama, and from all the details of the complicated plot first single that which lingered with us through its bearing on the principal character, we shall see one solitary shape loom forth: the defiant Coriolanus in conflict with his inmost voice, that voice which only speaks the more unsilenceably when issuing from his mother's mouth; and of the dramatic development there will remain but that voice's victory over pride, the breaking of the stubbornness of a nature strong beyond all bounds. For his drama Beethoven chooses nothing but these two chief motives, which make us feel more surely than all abstract exposition the inmost essence of that pair of characters. 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