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MUSIC HALL, BOSTON. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. Tenth Season, 1890-91 PROGRAMME OF THE Tenth Rehearsal and Concert FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, AT 2.30. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, AT 8.00. WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES PREPARED BY G. H. WILSON. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, Manager. (289) The MASON & HAMLIN PIAt\ Illustrates the same high standard of excellence which has always characterized th MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS, and won for them the Highest Awards at ALI GREAT WORLD'S EXHIBITIONS since and including that of Paris, 1865 SOLD ON EASY TERMS AND RENTED. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO BOSTON, Mason & Hamlin Hall, 154 and 155 Tremont Street.' Avenue. NEW YORK, 158 Fifth Avenue. CHICAGO, 149 Wabash Organ and Piano Catalogue sent free to any address. (290) Tenth Rehearsal and Concert Friday Afternoon, December 26, at 2.30. Saturday Evening, December 27, at 8.00, PROGRAMME. leethoven - - - - - - Symphony No. 8, in F Allegro vivace e con brio. Allegretto «cherzando. Tempo di minuetto. Allegro vivace. chubert - Symphony No, 8, in B minor (Unfinished) Allegro moderato. Andante con moto. lendelssohn - Overture, Scherzo, Notturno, and Wedding March, from " Mldsummernight's Dream." The Programme for the next Public Rehearsal and Concert will be found on ige 315. (291) : SHORE LINE BOSTON jn NEW YORK NEW YORK U BOSTON Trains leave either city, week-days, as follows, except as noted DAY EXPRESS at 10.00 a.m. Arrive at 4.30 p.m. AFTERNOON SERVICE at LOO p.m. London. Arrive at 7.30 p.m. Dining Car beween Boston and New "GILT EDGE" LIMITED at 5.00 p.m. Boston and New London. Daily, Sundays included, and arrive 1 1 p.m. Dining Car between at The last trains between the two cities to leave and arrive termini the same day. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS at 12.00 o'clock. from either City. Daily, Sundays included, and arrive at 7.00 a.m. The LAST TRAIN on Night Trains. Wagner Drawing-room Cars on Day Trains. 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Pass'r Agt CHAS. O. SCULL, Gen 1 Pass'r Agt., A.J. Boston, Mass. Baltimore, Md. 2" Washington St., York. C. P. CRAIG, Gen'l Eastern Pass'r Agent, New (292) Symphony No. 8, in F. Beethoven. Allegro vivace e con brio. Allegretto scherzando. Tempo di minuetto. Allegro vivace. The literature of the Eighth or " little " symphony is copious and interest- ing. The work was written in the summer of 1812, while Beethoven was seeking health * in a quiet Austrian town during what was one of the drear- iest periods of his career. But the symphony shows the profoundest dis- regard of melancholy, being the liveliest, cheeriest, and jolliest of the nine. Berlioz said of the lovely theme of the allegretto scherzando, that " it had fallen entire from heaven into the mind of the composer, and that he had written it at a single sitting." The origin of this tune was far more human than the rhetorical Frenchman conceived, for it was originally the subject " ! of a catch which Beethoven wrote to the following words : Ta, ta, ta, liebe? Malzel, lebewohl, sehe wo/il," on the occasion of a supper given to " Malzel," j 1 the inventor of the metronome. Beethoven's sketch-books show that he bothered quite as of eighth I much as usual with the several themes the symphony. j First Movement. The following has been compiled : Some critics hold that the first move- ment allegro vivace e con brio, F major, 3-4, is the least successful part of the symphony; but even they must grant that it opens with infinite fire and life, the full orchestra attacking the theme in a style which might have suggested to Mendelssohn the leading bars of his " Italian " symphony. * Though sick and deaf, Beethoven had an episode of the heart during his sojourn at Linz. En route from Vienna, he met Amalie Sebald. 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(294) ' The continuation of this could hardly have cost Beethoven much labor, but the second subject (in D modulating to C) may have taken shape slowly ! in his note-book. It is entirely characteristic, especially so in the closing ibars. A feature of its repetition by the wind is an arpeggio prolongation of the chord through six bars, and the occurrence therein j diminished seventh ?of a passage, the last three notes of which immediately serve as material con- necting the second theme with an episode in the dominant key. The codetta ; of this very succinct first part immediately follows, and has two noticeable features : first, a^" dominant chord, sustained through four bars by the full orchestra ; second, the occurrence of an entirely new figure (in octaves). All ithe foregoing is repeated. There are none but very broad and easily recog- 'nized features in the "working out." Note, for example, that the leading passage is made up of the figure last named, as a bass, above which the higher strings have sustained chords ; and above them still the wood-wind has the i first six notes of the leading theme, passing them from instrument to instru- ;ment, after which comes the four-bar ff chord noticed in the codetta. The ! composer seems to have a liking for this combination, and gives it three ; times in different keys, before passing on to further imitative treatment of ithe five notes, working up to a splendid climax, and the recapitulation of his 'subject-matter. Variations upon the original statement will readily be ob- • served as the repetition proceeds. Without citing these, let us pass on to ' the point corresponding to that in the first part, where the octave " figure made its appearance. Beethoven now employs this in a very interesting lead to the coda, finding his thematic material not in the first six notes of the first phrase, principal subject, but in the last five. The coda is most i characteristic at its end, the unison strings there gliding in with the now fa- miliar six notes upon the full tonic chords (pj>) of the wind. Second Movement. The praises of the French composer of the second movement are not a bit too strong. The leading theme of the allegretto is given to the first j LP VIOLINS, VIOLAS and 'CELLOS, Artist Italian Strings, Imported Silver G's. ARTIST BOWS By Knopf, Gand, Tubbs, Lamy, &c. Sole Agent for the BARZONI VIOLINS AND | VIOLONCELLOS. All styles of Plush Lined Leather Boxes, Paris Rosin, Sarasate G Strings, Weichold Tested Strings, etc. ^struments taken in exchange and sold • . on instalments. Artistic repairs by my own workmen. Spe- cialty of bridges and bass-bars. Bows re-haired. A fine Music Box for sale cheap, just imported. FREEMAN A. 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