INFANTRY HALL, PROVIDENCE. BostonSympIiQnu Dictiestra WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. Twenty-fifth Season, 1905-1906. PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, AT 8.15. Hale. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by Philip Published by C. A. ELLIS, Manager, l A PIANO FOR THE MUSICALLY INTELLIGENT artists' pianos f| Pianos divide into two classes, and popular pianos. The proportion of the first class to the second class is precisely the proportion of cultivated music lovers to the rest of society. A piano, as much as a music library, is the index of the musical taste of its owner. are among the musically intelligent, the ^f If you PIANO is worth your study. You will appreciate the " theory and practice of its makers : Let us have an artist's piano ; therefore let us employ the sci- ence, secure the skill, use the materials, and de- vote the time necessary to this end. Then let us count the cost and regulate the -price" \ In this case hearing, not seeing, is believing. 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Concerto for Pianoforte, in E minor, Op. Allegro maestoso. Romance : Larghetto. Rondo : Vivace. Wagner " Waldweben," from " Siegfried" Beethoven Symphony in D major, No. 2, Op. 36 I. Adagio molto ; Allegro con brio. II. Larghetto. III. Scherzo: Allegro; Trio. IV. Allegro molto. SOLOIST t Mme. ANTOINETTE SZUMOWSKA. The pianoforte is a Mason & Hamlin, There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony. 5 HARDMAN PIANO THE genius employed for the past sixty- four years in the manufacture of these instruments has produced a piano with a pure musical tone. Besides possessing this tone they have a peculiar feature in that they actually improve with use. Established in 1842. Booklets of information. Hardman, Peck ^f Co., Makers Fifth Avenue and 19th Street, New York Represented in Providence by GOFF & DARLING 276 Westminster Street "' Overture, "In the Spring," Op. 36 Carl Goldmark (Born at Keszthely, Hungary, May 18, 1830; still living at Vienna.) This overture was first played at Vienna, December 1, 1889, at a Philharmonic Concert. Goldmark was then known chiefly as the com- poser of the opera, "The Queen of Sheba," and the concert overtures, ' ' ' ' ' ' • ' Sakuntala ' and Penthesilea. ' The overtures, ' Prometheus Bound and "Sappho," were not then written. There was wonder why Gold- mark with his love for mythology, his passion for Orientalism in music, should be concerned with the simple, inevitable phenomenon of spring, as though there were place in such an overture for lush harmonic pro- gressions and gorgeously sensuous orchestration. Consider the list of his works: his operas, "The Queen of Sheba," "Merlin," are based on legend; "The Cricket on the Hearth" is a fanciful version of Dickens's tale; the opera, "The Prisoner of War," is the story of the maid for whose dear sake Achilles sulked; and "Gotz von Berlichingen (1902) was inspired by Goethe. Of his two symphonies, the more famous, the "Country Wedding," might be celebrated in a pleasure- ground of Baghdad rather than in some Austrian village. And what are the subjects of his overtures? Sakuntala, who loses her ring and is beloved by the great king Dushianta; Penthesilea, the Lady of the Ax,—and some say that she invented the glaive, bill, and halberd,—the Amazon queen, who was slain by Achilles and mourned amorously by him after he saw her dead, the woman whose portrait is in the same gallery with the likenesses of Temba-Ndumba, Judith, Tomyris, Candace, Jael, Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, Semiramis, the Woman of Saragossa, Mary Ambree, Penthesilea, a heroine of Masochismus; Prometheus bound in a cleft of a rock in a distant desert of Scythia, defying Jove, the heaving earth, the bellowing thun- der, the whirling hurricane* the firmament embroiled with the deep; MINIATUfiE ORCHESTRAL SCOBES LATEST ADDITIONS HAYDN. Symphony in G, " The Surprise." " Symphony, " The Oxford." CHERUBINI. Overture, "Anacreon." " Overture, " Die Abenceragen." " Overture, " Der Wassertrager." " " Overture, " Medea GLINKA. Overture, " La Vie pour le Czar." " Overture, " Ruslan and Ludmila." CORNELIUS. Overture, " The Barber of Bagdad." " Overture, " Der Cid." SCHUMANN. Overture, " Genoveva." " " Overture, " Manfred MOZART. Fifth Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. " Sixth Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. " Twenty-sixth Piano Concerto (Coronation). TO BE HAD OF ALL LEADING DEALERS OR BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East 17th Street, NEW YORK Seventy Scottish Songs Edited with Accompaniments by HELEN HOPEKIRK Scotland has ever been one of the fflj To the student of folk-music most fruitful and interesting of countries. The origin of Scottish folk-music is very remote, some of it dating from the time when the most primitive scale forms were in use. fl Mention of Scottish music recalls to many merely a few such songs as " Auld Lang Syne," "The Blue Bells of Scotland," "Annie Laurie," etc. These, however, are not the most signifi- cant; in fact, the most beautiful songs are often the ones that are least known. The music of the Gael is most interesting on ac- count of its weird, emotional quality. Their melodies are full of the long, tender, melancholy northern twilights. 1§ In her interesting prefatory essay on Scottish music the com- piler of this collection has endeavored to explain the misconception that has arisen from the association of two racially different peoples, the Celtic Scot and the Saxon Scot, so as to help to a better appreciation of their music. The translations from the Gaelic have been made with the greatest care or selected from sources less calculated to rob either words or music of their haunt- ing beauty. The banal " arrangements " found in most editions are conspicuously absent, for artistic accompaniments for each song have been written byMme. Hopekirk,— written, too, with the deep sympathy and understanding of a Scot and with the artistry of an accomplished musician. C[ These Seventy Songs have been gathered from the Lowlands, the Highlands, the remote mountainous regions, and from the Western Isles, and are loved and sung wherever there beats a Scottish heart. IJ Published in The Musicians Library in two edi- tions, for high voice and for low voice. Cfl Price in heavy paper, cloth back, $1.50; in cloth, full gilt, $2.50, postpaid. OLIVER DITSON COriPANY, Boston C. H. DITSON & CO., New York J. E. DITSON & CO., Philadelphia LYON & HEALY, Chicago Order of your home dealer or the above houses Sappho, "the little woman with black hair and a beautiful smile," with her marvellous song "Made of perfect sound and exceeding passion." And for his latest overture, "In Italy" (1904), Goldmark endeavored to warm his blood by thinking of Italy. The composer of "Sakuntala," "The Queen of Sheba," and "The Country Wedding/' a composer of an overture to "Spring"! His music was as his blood, —half Hungarian, half Hebraic. His melodies were like unto the century-old chants solemnly intoned by priests with drooping eyes, or dreamed of by the eaters of leaves and flowers of hemp. His harmonies, with their augmented fourths and diminished sixths and restless shiftings from major to minor, were as the stupe- fying odors of charred frankincense and grated sandal-wood.