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This is due to the Mason & Hamlin system of manufacture, which not only carries substantial and enduring construction to its limit in every detail, but adds a new and vital principle of construc- tion—The Mason & Hamlin Tension Resonator Catalogue Mailed on Application Old Pianos Taken in Exchange MASON & HAMLIN COMPANY Established 1854 <i Opp. Institute of Technolog^y 492 Boylston Street SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (S-MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Ticket Office, 1492 l„ ,„ TelephonesT»io«t,^«^o i Back Bay j Administration Offices, 3200 J TWENTY-NINTH SEASON, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Programme nf % Twentieth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A.ELLIS, MANAGER 1493 Mme. TERESA CARRENO On her tour this season will use exclusively Piano. THE JOHN CHURCH CO. NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO REPRESENTED BY G. L SCHIRMER & CO., 338 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 1494 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Twenty-ninth Season, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor First Violins. Hess, Willy Roth, O. HofiFmann, J. Krafift, W. Concertmaster. Kuntz, D. Fiedler, E. Theodorowicz, J. Noack, S. Mahn, F. Eichheim, H. Bak, A. Mullaly, J. Strube, G. Rissland, K. Ribarsch, A. Traupe, W. Second Violins. Barleben, K. Akeroyd, J. Fiedler, B, Berger, H. Fiiimara, P. Currier, F. Marble, E. Eichler, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Kuntz, A, Goldstein, H. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Werner. H. Violas. F^rir, E. Heindl, H. Rennert, B. Kolster, A. Zahn, F. Gietzen, A. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Forster, E. Kautzenbach, W. Violoncellos. Wamke, H. Nagel, R. Kautzenbach, A. Belinski, M. Wamke, J. KeUcr, J. Barth, C. Nast, L. Hadley, A. Smalley, R. Basses. Keller, K. Agnesy, K. Seydel, T. Ludwig, O. Gerhardt, G. Kunze, M. Huber, E. Schurig, R. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Maquarre, A. Longy, G. Grisez, G. Sadony, P. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. 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CHICKERING & SONS - PIANOFORTE MAKERS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET, Comer Northampton Street, near Mass. Ave. BOSTON >ai/M«^¥V'tfViAiVwWirw vwwwirw tfvin< iai ia<¥V¥w irw w^ in< mtf m^'i^C^ 1496 TWENTY-NINTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE AND TEN Twentieth Rehearsal and Concert FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL U at 2,30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, at 8 o'clock PROGRAMME Beethoven Symphony in F major, No. 6, "Pastoral," Op. 68 I. Awakening of serene impressions on arriving in the country: Allegro, ma non troppo. II. Scene by the brook-side: Andante molto moto. III. Jolly gathering of country folk : Allegro. In tempo d' allegro. Thunder-storm ; Tempest : Allegro. IV. Shepherds' song; Gladsome and thankful feelings after the storm : Allegretto. Tschaikowsky Francesca da Rimini," Orchestral Fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 a. Elegie and Musette from the Suite taken from the Incidental Music to Adolf Paul's Tragedy, Sibelius "King Christian II.," Op. 27 b. j Valse triste, Op. 44 ' First time in Boston Dvordk Overture, "Carnival," Op. 92 There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the Symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each nu7nber on the progratnnte. Those who wish to leave before t^e end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be- tween the numbers. City of Boston. Revised Reifulatlon of August 5, 1898.— Chapter 3. relating to th» coverlnii of the head In places of public 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 anvseat (herein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which docs not obsfruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City CU»k. 1497 '* GRANDupright" Size 4 feet 6 inches MAHOGANY CASE- BEAUTIFULLY VENEERED *550 to, %m6^e THE WORLD'S BEST PIANO is the one piano not only abreast of the times, but today, more than ever, is solely and purely representative of faultless con- struction, exceptional durability and that tonal sublimity that cannot be successfully imitated or equalled. C C HARVEY CO. 144 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON 1498 Symphony No. 6, in F major, "Pastoral," Op. 68. LuDwiG VAN Beethoven. (Born at Bonn,—December i6, 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) This symphony "Sinfonia pastorale"—was composed in the country round about Heiligenstadt in the summer of 1808. It was first per- formed at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, December 22, 1808. The symphony was described on the program as "A symphony entitled 'Recollections of Life in the Country,' in F major, No. 5" (sic). All the pieces performed were by Beethoven: an Aria, "Ah, perfido," sung by Josephine Kilitzky; Hymn with Latin text written in church style, with chorus and solos; Pianoforte Concerto in G major, played by Beethoven; Grand Symphony in C minor. No. 6 (sic); Sanctus, with Latin text written in church style from the Mass in C major, with chorus and solos; Fantasie for pianoforte solo; Fantasie for piano- forte, "into which the full orchestra enters little by little, and at the end the chorus joins in the Finale." The concert began at half-past six. We know nothing about the pecuniary result. * * * There was trouble about the choice of a soprano. Anna Pauline Milder,* the singer for whom Beethoven wrote the part of Fidelio, was chosen. Beethoven happened to meet Hauptmann, a jeweller, who * Pauline Anna Milder was born at Constantinople, December 13, 1785. She died at Berlin, May 29, 1838. The daughter of an Austrian courier, or, as some say, pastry cook' to the Austrian embassador at Constantinople, and afterward interpreter to Prince Maurojeni, she had a most adventurous childhood. (The story is told at length in von Ledebur's "Tonkunstler-Lexicon Berlin's.") Back in Austria, she studied three years with Sigismund Neukomm. Schikaneder heard her and brought her out in Vienna in 1803, as Juno in Susmayer's "Der Spiegel von Arkadien." She soon became famous, and she was engaged at the court opera where she created the part of Leonora in "Fidelio." In 1810 she married a jeweller, Hauptmann. She sang as guest at many opera houses and was offered brilliant engagements, and in 1816 she became a member of the Berlin Royal Opera House at a yearly salary of four thousand thalers and a vacation of three months. She retired with a pension in 1831, after having sung in three hundred and eighty operatic performances; she was also famous in Berlin as an oratorio singer. She appeared again in Berlin in 1834, but her voice was'sadly worn, yet she sang as a guest in Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. Her funeral was conducted with pomp and ceremony, and it is said that the "Iphigenia in Tauris," "Alceste," and "Armide," her favorite operas, were put into her coffin, a favor she asked shortly before her death. TO TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS. Educational Music in All its Branches. The Most Representative Music Publishing House in America. Sole Agents for ENOCH & SONS, London. ENOCH & CO., Paris. ELKIN & CO., London. G. RICORDI & CO.. Milan. E. DOTESIO & CO., Spain. BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth Street, NEW YORK CITY. 1499 L. P. Hollander & Co. Announce that their Spring IMPORTATIONSof FRENCH MILLINERY Are now on exhibition Also a complete assortment of Inexpensive Ready-to-Wear Hats For Ladies, Misses and Children BOYLSTON STREET EVERY BUSINESS MAN has some receptacle for valuable papers — an office safe or a vault in his office building. 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Antonia Campi, born Miklasiewicz (1773), was then asked, but her husband was angry because Miss Milder had been invited first, and he gave a rude refusal.