SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (S-MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES . ( Ticket Office, 1492 Telephones^ , { ^^"^^„, ^^^n„„ j Administration Offices, 3200 } THIRTIETH SEASON, 1910 AND 1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Programme of % Sixteenth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRIjARY 18 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A.ELLIS, MANAGER 1165 WM. L, WHITNEY International School for Vocalists BOSTON NEW YORK SYMPHONY CHAMBERS 134 CARNEQIB HALL 246 HUNTINGTON AVE. CORNER OF 57th AND 7th AVB. PORTLAND HARTFORD Y. M. C. A. BUILDING HARTFORD SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONGRESS SQUARE 8 SPRING STREET 1166 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Violins, WItek. A., Roth, 0. Hoffmann, J. Canctrt-masUr. Kuntz, D. Krafft, F. W. Noack, S. 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"Don Quixote" (Introduction, Theme with Variations, and Finale): Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35 (Violoncello Solo, Mr. Warnke; Viola, Mr. Ferir) Beethoven Concerto No. 3, C minor, for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 37 I. Allegro con brio. II. Largo. III. Rondo. Allegro. Busoni Suite for Orchestra, from the music to Gozzi's "Turandot" First time in Boston I. The Execution, The City Gate, The Parting; 2. Truffaldino, Introduction and Grotesque March 4. Turandot ; 8. ; In the Manner of a Funeral March, and Finale in the Turkish Fashion. soLoisr Mr. FERRUCCIO BUSONI Chickering Piano Used There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the concerto 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- tween the numbers. 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The cast was as follows: Lohengrin, Beck; Telramund, Milde; King Henry, Hofer; the Herald, Patsch; Ortrud, Miss Fastlinger; Elsa, Miss Agthe. Liszt conducted. The tenor Beck found the first part of "Lohengrin's narrative" so exhausting that he was unable to sing the second; and, to quote Mr. Henry T. Finck's words, "Wagner, judging that this would probably be the case with most tenors, cancelled this passage altogether." The five additional verses are printed in the original orchestral score, but not in the score for voices and pianoforte, nor in the libretto. The whole narrative was sung at the Munich performance in 1869 with Nachbaur as Lohengrin. Some of Wagner's friends almost persuaded him to change the plot, and permit Lohengrin to remain with Elsa, just as Dickens was persuaded for the sake of "a happy ending" to change, and ruin in the changing, the final chapter of "Great Expectations." Beck, by the way, who, according to Richard Pohl, was wholly unable to do justice to the part, left the stage not many years after the first performance.* It was at Marienbad in the summer of 1845 that Wagner laid out the scheme of " Lohengrin." He wrote the libretto in the following winter, and conceived some of the melodic ideas. He began the actual com- position of the opera with this narrative of Lohengrin, "because the * Wagner, in a letter to Louis Schindelmeisser, written in 1853, declared frankly that Beck was "atrocious." Yet the Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, who heard him a few years after the first performance, was hysterical in praise of the tenor. Wagner wished his Lohengrin to be "young and radiant. He wrote with reference to one unhappy Lohengrin: "I had always fancied that people must be glad whenever I-ohengrin but tread the stage: on the contrary, it seems they were gladder when he left it." 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The score was not published for several years,-—to quote—from Mr. W. J. Henderson's "Richard Wagner" (New York, 1901), "be- cause Meser, who had printed the previous works of the composer, had lost money by the ventures. Breitkopf & Hartel subsequently secured the score at a small price, not because they were niggardly in offering, but because Wagner's works had no large market value _at the time, and he was anxious to sell, being in his chronic condition of financial embarrassment." The first performance of the Prelude in concert was on January 17, 1853, in the Gewandhaus, Leipsic, at a concert for the benefit of the Or- chestral Pension Fund. Julius Rietz conducted from manuscript. The first performance of "Lohengrin" (in German) in the United NEW SACRED SONGS BARTLETT, J. C. Low at Thy Feet. E& Ce6-g). C (c-f). B6 (b&-d) $050 Ditto With violin obligato .... .65 FRANKE-HARLINQ, W. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness. E (e-f^JS^). C (c-d) .50 HUHN, BRUNO Come unto Me. B6 (f-g). 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