NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, WASHINGTON Twenty-sixth Season, J90^-J907 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor programme of % Fifth and Last Matinee WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19 AT 4.30 PRECISELY PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER 08SIP GABRILOWITSCH the Russian Pianist will play in America this season with the Principal Orchestras, the Kneisel Quartet, the Boston Symphony Quartet, Leading Musical Organizations throughout the country, and in Recital GABRILOWITSCH will play only the ifaun&ife PIANO ifejm&ifaittlhtdk Boston New York For particulars, terms, and dates of Gabrilowitsch, address HENRY L. MASON 492 Boylston Street, Boston 2 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL TWENTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1906-1907 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Willy Hess, ConcertmeisUr> and the Members of the Orchestra in alphabetical order. Adamowski, J. Hampe, C. Moldauer, A. Adamowski, T. Heberlein, H. Mullaly, J. Akeroyd, J. Heindl, A. Muller, F. Heindl, H. Bak, A. Helleberg, J. Nagel, R. Bareither, G. Hess, M. Nast, L. Barleben, C. Hoffmann, J. Barth, C. Hoyer, H. Phair, J. Berger, H. Bower, H. Keller, J. Regestein, E» Brenton, H. Keller, K. Rettberg, A. Brooke, A. Kenfield, L. Rissland, K. Burkhardt, H. Kloepfel, L. Roth, O. Butler, H. Kluge, M. Kolster, A. Sadoni, P. Currier, F. Krafft, W. Sauer, G. Debuchy, A. Krauss, H. Sauerquell, J. Kuntz, A. Sautet, A. Dworak, J. Kuntz, D. Schuchmann, F. Eichheim, H. Kunze, M. Schuecker, H. Eichler, J. Kurth, R. Schumann, C. Elkind, S. Schurig, R. Lenom, C. Senia, T. Ferir E. Loeffler, E. Seydel, T. Fiedler, B. Longy, G. Sokoloff, N. Fiedler, E. Lorbeer, H. Strube, G. Fiumara, P. Ludwig, C. F. Swomsbourne, Fox, P. W Ludwig, C. R. Fritzsche, O. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Gerhardt, G. Mahn, F. Traupe, W. Gietzen, A. Mann, J. Goldstein, S. Maquarre, A. Vannini, A. Grisez, G. Maquarre, D. Marble, E. Warnke, H. Hackebarth, A. Mausebach, A. Hadley, A. Merrill, C. Zach, M. Hftin, F. Mimart, P. Zahn, F. 3 Established Established 1823 1823 PIANOFORTE MAKERS RECIPIENTS OF One Hundred and Twenty-Nine FIRST MEDALS AND AWARDS These Celebrated Instruments are To-day better than ever WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE D. G. PFIEFFER, 1328 F Street B05t0t1 New National Theatre, Washington. Symphony f A Twenty-sixth Season, 1906-1907. {jf*£|']£Cf f*€] Sixty-seventh performance In Washington. Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor. FIFTH AND LAST MATINEE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, AT 4.30 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Berlioz ..... Overture, " The Roman Carnival," Op* 9 " Liszt .... Episode No. 2 from Lenau's Faust " : Scene in the Tavern (Mephisto Waltz) " Tschaikowsky . Symphony No. 6, Pathetic," in B minor, Op. 74 I. Adagio ; Allegro non troppo. II. Allegro con grazia. III. Allegro molto vivace. IV. Finale : Adagio£lamentoso. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony. 6 HARDMAN PIANO A tone that is rich, full, sweet, musically beau- tiful, and a strength and order of construc- tion that resist the strain of climatic changes, — this is the kernel of Hardman merit. Mod- erate prices and easy terms. Booklets of information upon request. HARDMAN, PECK & CO., Makers Established 1842 Fifth Avenue and 19th Street .... New York Represented in Washington by O. J. De MOLL & COMPANY 1229 G Street, N.W. Overture, "The Roman Carnival," Op. 9 . Hector Berlioz (Born at la Cote Saint-Andr6, December 11, 1803; died at Paris, March 9, 1869.) Berlioz's overture, "Le Carnaval Romain," dedicated to Prince de Hohenzollern-Hechingen, was performed for the first time, and under the direction of the composer, at the Salle Herz, Paris, on February 3, 1844. The first performance in Boston was at a Philharmonic concert, led by Mr. Carl Zerrahn, at the Melodeon on January 24, 1857. The overture then reminded Mr. J. S. Dwight of "Mr. Fry's 'Christmas' symphony." The chief thematic material of the overture was taken by Berlioz from his opera, "Benvenuto Cellini," which was originally in two acts. It was produced at the Op6ra, Paris, on September 10, 1838, when Duprez took the part of the hero, and Julie Aimee Dorus-Gras the part •of Teresa. The text was written by Leon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. The music was then thought so difficult that there were twenty-nine full rehearsals. The opera failed dismally. There were three performances in 1838, four in 1839. The opera, with a German text, was produced by Liszt at Weimar on March 20, 1852, with Beck as Cellini and Mrs. Milde as the heroine. Berlioz was not able to be present. He wrote on February 10 to Morel before the performance: ''They have been at work on it for four months. I cleaned it well, re-sewed and restored it. I had not looked at it for thirteen years; it is devilishly vivace." The 6pera failed at London on June 25, 1853. Chorley said: "The evening was one of the most melancholy evenings which I ever passed in any theatre. 'Benvenu to Cellini' failed more decidedly than any foreign opera I recollect to have seen performed in London. At an early period of the evening the humor of the audience began to show itself, and the painful spectacle had to be endured of seeing the composer conducting his own work through every stage r *! 'j LATEST SONG CYCLES Three Indian Songs, by Herbert Bath Dorothy's Wedding Day. A Song fof Three Baritone Songs, by Edward German four solo voices Four Songs from the Garden of Kama, by A Lover in Damascus, by Amy Woodforde- Alma Goetz Finden Six Characteristic Songs, by Joseph Hol- On Jhelum River. A Kashmiri Love Story, brooke by Amy Woodforde-Finden A Lover's Moods, by C. A. Lidgey A Cycle of Life, by Landon Ronald. Two Camella, by Graham Peel keys Three Shakespeare Songs, by Roger Quilter Songs of the Desert, by G. 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Chorley criticised the music of the opera apparently without prejudice and with keen discrimina- tion. The following quotation from his article bears on the overture; "The ease of the singers is disregarded with a despotism which is virtu- ally another confession of weakness. As music, the scene in the second act, known in another form as its composer's happiest overture, 'The Roman Carnival,' has the true Italian spirit of the joyous time ; but the chorus-singers are so run out of breath, and are so perpetually called on to catch or snatch at some passage, which ought to be struck off with the sharpest decision,—that the real spirit instinct in the music is thoroughly driven out of it." At this performance the chief singers were Mmes. Julienne-Dejean and Nantier-Didi£e, and Tamberlik, Formes, and Tagliafico. The opera was revived by von Biilow at Hannover in 1879 and afterward at other German cities, as Leipsic (1883), Dresden (1888), Carlsruhe. The original translation into German was by A. F. Riccius. The one used later was made by Peter Cornelius, the composer. The story has been condemned as weak and foolish. It is also purely fictitious.* It is enough to say in explanation of this overture that in 1532 Cellini is in Rome, called thither by the Pope. He falls in love with Teresa, the daughter of Balducci, an old man, who favors another suitor, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor. Cellini attempts to elope with her, and neglects work on his Perseus, which he at last finishes in an hour's time, fired by the promise of Cardinal Salviati to reward him with the hand of Teresa. The overture begins, allegro assai con fuoco, with the chief theme, * It is true that there was a Giacopo Balducci at Rome, the Master of the Mint. Cellini describes him. "that traitor of a master, being in fact my enemy"; but he had no daughter loved by Cellini. 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