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OOHARVEY @ " THE HOME OF HARMONY " 144 BOYLSTON STREET (opposite the Common), BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office $ \ in backD bay 14921jloo Branch Exchange ) Administration Offices \ bstoe Sjmiphomj Orel THIRTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1915—1916 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Programme ©if fth< bird WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 29 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER it Yes, It's a Steinway ISN'T there supreme satisfaction in being able to say that of the piano in your home? Would you have the same feeling about any other piano? " It's a Steinway."' Nothing more need be said. Everybody knows you have chosen wisely; you have given to your home the very best that money can buy. You will never even think of changing this piano for any other. As the years go by the words "It's a Steinway" will mean more and more to you, and thousands of times, as you continue to enjoy through life the com- panionship of that noble instrument, absolutely without a peer, you will say to yourself: "How glad I am I paid the few extra dollars and got a Steinway." Y & SO STEINWAY HALL 107-109 East 14th Street, New York Subway Express Station at the Door Represented by the Foremost Dealers Everywhere 130 YqDIUJ hi Thirty-fifth Season, 1915-1916 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Violins. Witek, A. Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Concert-master. Koessler, M. Schmidt, E. Noack, S. Mahn, F. Bak, A. Tak, E. Ribarsch, A. Habenicht, W. Fiumara, P. Griinberg, M. Kurth, R. ^nx^w. I ?atw CHICKEMNG PIANOfORTES , woe presented' t£e most QtnTostsensitive, responsive means expression /Gown nfn ^ sofany count WAREROOMS TREMONT BOSTON t<MKSSfi&i L 1 132 THIRTY -FIFTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN AND SIXTEEN Thiird Rehearsal amd Concert FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 29, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, at 8.00 o'clock Brahms Symphony in E minor, No. 4, Op. 98 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Andante moderate III. Allegro giocoso. IV. Allegro energico e passionate Schumann Overture to Byron's "Manfred," Op. 115 Chopin . Concerto in E minor, for pianoforte and orchestra, Op. n 1. Allegro maestoso. II. Romanze: Larghetto. III. Rondo: Vivace. Berlioz Overture, "Le Carnaval Romain," Op. 9 SOLOIST Mr. OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH MASON & HAMLIN PIANO USED 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. 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Although Mr. Gericke "did not stop the orchestra,"—to quote from a review of the concert the next day,—he was not satisfied with the performance, and Schumann's Symphony in B-flat was substituted for the concert of November 27. There were further rehearsals, and the work was played for the first time at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orches- tra on December 23, 1886. This symphony was composed in the summers of 1884 and 1885 at Miirz Zuschlag in Styria. The Allegro and Andante were composed during the first summer, the Scherzo and Finale during the last. Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells us that the manuscript was nearly destroyed in 1885: "Returning one afternoon from a walk, he [Brahms] found that the house in which he lodged had caught fire, and that his friends were busily engaged in bringing his papers, and amongst them the nearly finished. manuscript of the new symphony, into the garden. He immediately set to work to help in getting the fire under, whilst Frau Fellinger sat out of doors with either arm outspread on the precious papers piled on each side of her." A scene for the "his- torical painter"! We quote the report of this incident, not on account of its intrinsic value, but to show in what manner Miss May was able NEW PIANOFORTE COLLECTIONS NORWEGIAN FROM AN OLD GARDEN SONGS AND DANCES 8 7 COMPOSITIONS PIANOFORTE COMPOSITIONS BY BY 11 F i'SI OP. 10 OP 16 FIRST SERIES In Maytime Peasant's Dance Forget-me-not Daisy Larkspur Systein's Song Dance in the Vale Morning Glory Tranquillity Tore's Lullaby Heather Thistle Svanhild's Dance Speedwell Myrtle PRICE. 75 CENTS PRICE, 75 CENTS Characteristic touches of Norwegian melody Pleasing and musical in style. Easy to and rhythm. Skillfully written numbers of read —hold the attention to the end. only moderate difficulty. Musical Monitor. SCHMIOT BOSTON, MASS. 120 Boylston Street For Sale by all Music Dealers to write two volumes, containing six hundred and twenty-five octavo pages, about the quiet life of the composer. But what is Miss May in comparison with Mr. Max Kalbeck, whose Life of Brahms, not yet com- pleted, contains 1,823 pages? In a letter, Brahms described this symphony as "a couple of entr'actes," also as "a choral work without text." Franz Wiillner, then conductor of the Giirzenich Concerts at Cologne, asked that he might produce this new symphony. Brahms answered that first performances and the wholly modern chase after novelties did not interest him. He was vexed because Wiillner had performed a symphony by Bruckner, and he acted in a childish manner. Wiillner answered that he thought it his duty to produce new works, and a symphony by Bruckner was certainly more interesting than one by Gernsheim, Cowen, or Schar- wenka. Brahms was doubtful about the value of his fourth symphony. He wished to know the opinion of Elisabeth von Herzogenberg and Clara Schumann. He and Ignaz Briill played a pianoforte arrangement in the presence of Hanslick, Dr. Billroth, Hans Richter, C. F. Pohl, Gustav Dompke, and Max Kalbeck. He judged from their attitude that they did not like it, and he was much depressed. "If people like Billroth, Hanslick, and you do not like my music, whom will it please?" he said to Kalbeck. There was a preliminary rehearsal at Meiningen for correction of the parts. Biilow conducted it, and there were present the Landgraf of Hesse, Richard Strauss, then second conductor of the Meiningen orchestra, and Frederick Lamond, the pianist. Brahms arrived in time for the first performance. The symphony was most warmly applauded, and the audience endeavored, but in vain, to obtain a repetition of the third movement. The work was repeated November 1 under Billow's direction, and was conducted by the composer in the course of a three weeks' tour with the orchestra and Biilow in Germany and in the Netherlands. The first performance in Vienna was at a Philharmonic Concert, led by Richter, January 17, 1886. "Though the symphony was applauded by the public and praised by all but the inveterately hostile section of the press, it did not reach the hearts of the Vienna audience in the same unmistakable manner as its two immediate predecessors, both of which had made a more striking im- pression on a first hearing in Austria than the first symphony in C minor.