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CONVENTION HALL . BUFFALO Twenty-ninth Season, J909-19J0 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31 AT 8.15 PRECISELY COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER >^v Sent Free upon A Little Hand-Book Request For all Music Lovers Here is a little book with a big thought back of it. Henry T. Finck, the noted author and musi- cal critic, has done for music what President Eliot did for literature in his much discussed " five foot library." Taking the great PIANOLA catalog of over 15,000 titles, Mr. Finck has selected 130 choice pieces that he specially recommends. Moreover, he has grouped them into " Twenty Musical Evenings," so that they represent a fascinating plan for home entertainment. Each program is followed by interesting comments. The book is a sort of Pianolist's " Baedeker," guiding the novice in the selection of music which is both first-class and popular. 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TRACY BALCOM COMPANY 694 Main Street, Buffalo Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Twenty-ilinth Season, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor First Violins. \V. Hess, Willy Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Krafft, 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. Fiumara, P. Currier, F. Marble, E. Eichler, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Kuntz, A. Goldstein, H. Goldstein, S. Kurth, R. Werner, H. Violas. Ferir, E. Heindl, H. Rennert, B Kolster, A. Zahn, F. Gietzen, A. Hoyer, H. Kluge, M. Forster, E. Kautzenbach, W Violoncellos. VVarnke, H. Nagel, R. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Keller, J. Kautzenbach, A. 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. Mimart, P. 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Near Mass. Ave. BOSTON CONVENTION HALL . BUFFALO Inaton ^gmjrfjntuj (irrtfratra Twenty-ninth Season, 1909-1910 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31 AT 8.15 PRECISELY PROGRAMME " Weber ..... Overture to the Opera " Euryanthe Rimsky-Korsakoff . Symphonic Suite, "Scheherazade" (after "The Thousand Nights and a Night"), Op. 35 I. The Sea and Sindbad's Ship. II. The Story of the Kalandar-Prince. III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess. IV. Festival at Bagdad. The Sea. The Ship goes to Pieces against a Rock surmounted by a Bronze Warrior. Conclusion. Rachmaninoff . Second Concerto for Pianoforte with Orchestra, I. Moderato. Op. 18. First time in Buffalo II. Adagio Sostenuto. III. Allegro Scherzando. a. "Waldweben" ("Life and Stir of the Forest"), from Wagner ,. { "Siegfried," Act II. b. 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"Euryanthe," grand heroic-romantic opera in three acts, book founded by Helmina von Chezy on an old French tale of the thirteenth century, "Histoirede Gerard de Nevers et de la belle et vertueuse Euryant de Savoye, sa mie," —a tale used by Boccaccio ("Decam- eron," second day, ninth novel) and Shakespeare ("Cymbeline"), music by von Weber, was produced at the Karnthnerthor Court opera theatre, Vienna, October 25, 1823. The cast was as follows: Euryanthe, Henriette Sontag; Eglantine, Therese Gruenbaum (born Mueller) Bertha, Miss Teimer; Adolar, Haizinger; Rudolph, Rauscher; Lysiart, Forti; King Ludwig, Seipelt. The composer conducted. The opera was completed without the overture on August 29, 1823. Weber began to compose the overture on September 1, 1823, and completed it at Vienna on October 19 of that year. He scored the overture at Vienna, October 16-19, I ^ 2 3- Weber wrote to his wife on the day after the first performance : "My reception, when I appeared in the orchestra, was the most enthusiastic and brilliant that one could imagine. There was no end to it. At last I have the signal for the beginning. Stillness of death. The over- ture was applauded madly; there was a demand for a repetition; but I went ahead, so that the performance might not be too long drawn out." But Max Maria von Weber, in the life of his father, gives a somewhat different account. A grotesque incident occurred immediately before the performance. There was a tumult in the parterre of the opera house. There was laughing, screaming, cursing. A fat, carelessly dressed woman, with a crushed hat and a shawl hanging from her shoulders, was going from seat to seat, screaming out: "Make room for me! I am the poetess, I am the poetess!" 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The ensemble was faulty, —in some places the violins actually played false, —and, although a repetition was demanded by some, the impression made by the poetic composition was not to be compared with that made later in Berlin, Dresden, and the Gewandhaus concert in Leipsic." Yet Max von Weber says later that Count Brlihl wrote the composer, January 18, 1824, that the overture played for the first time in Berlin in a concert led by F. L. Seidel hardly made any impression at all. To this Weber answered, January 23: "That the overture failed is naturally very unpleasant for me. It must have been wholly misplayed, which I am led to believe from the remarks about its difficulty. The Vienna orchestra, which is in no way as good as that of Berlin, performed it prima vista without any jar to my satis- faction and, as it seemed, with effect." * The overture begins E-flat, Allegro marcato, con molto fuoco, 4-4, though the half note is the metronomic standard indicated by Weber.