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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 12, 1892 Boston Music Hall, Boston. cr Symphony TWELFTH SEASON, Orchestra 1892-93. ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST REHEARSAL and CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY WILLIAM F. APTHORP. Friday Afternoon, October 14, At 2 30 o'clock. Saturday Evening, October 15, At 8 o'clock. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. THE BEGINNING OF THE Musical Season of 1892-93. At this time many are beginning a musical education. To such, as well as to advanced pupils, who intend to study the pianoforte, we would respectfully urge a careful selec- tion, not only of a capable teacher, but also of a capable instrument. Because of an improvement in the method of stringing, the MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTES remain in tune much longer than those in general, and are ex- ceedingly durable. In every respect they are second to none. Fully illustrated catalogue mailed on ap- plication. Mason & Hamlin Company, 154 and 155 Tremont Street. (2) First Rehearsal and Concert. Friday Afternoon, October 14, at 2.30. Saturday Evening, October 15, at 8.00. PROGRAMME. Ludwig van Beethoven - - Symphony in C minor, No. 5, Op. 67 Allegro con brio (C minor), _ _ _ 2-4. Andante con moto (A-flat major), - - 3-8. ( Scherzo, Allegro (C minor), _ _ _ 3.4. ' Trio (C major), ------ 3-4. Finale, Allegro (C major), _ _ _ 4-4. Richard Wagner - Vorspiel and '* Liebestod " (Prelude and " Love- " death ") from " Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner - - - - Kaiser-Marsch (B-flat major), 4-4 The Programme for the next Public Rehearsal and Concert will be found on page 29. '" / SHORE LINE BOSTON Tr\ NEW YORK NEW YORK TOl\J BOSTON Trains leave either city, week-days, except as noted : DAY EXPRESS at 10.00 A.M. Arrive at 4.30 P.!VI. BUFFET DRAWING-ROOM CARS. AFTERNOON SERVICE at 1.00 P.M. Arrive 7.30 P.M. BUFFET CARS THROUGH. '* SHORE LINE FLYER" at 2.00 P.M. Arrive at 7.^0 P.M. PARLOR CARS ONLY. DINING CAR BOSTON and NEW LONDON. 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The date at which the C minor symphony was written is not quite certain ; but it was probably written in 1807 at Heiligenstadt and Kahlen- berg, Beethoven getting much of his inspiration, as was his wont, during long walks through the country lying between these places. It has been, for one reason or another, the work through which Beethoven has oftenest been made known to the public of the great musical centres in the world. Take any musical city in which Beethoven is played and loved, and L. P. HOLLANDER & CO. TRIMMED HATS I For 1L.A.13IE8, IMCISSES, and OHILtiliEIV. Completion of our Fall Importations of FRENCH HATS, representing the best Parisian taste. Also, English Round Hats, From, HENRY HEATH, of London. 202 BOYLSTON ST. and PARK SQ. (5) 'MlmA^ [A^IE;^' JaTlofO /^utumr} ai^d U/ipter, l802. NONA/ READY, our models and sketchesTo f street Gowns, JacKets and Wraps. SPECIAL NOTICE. 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(6) you will find, in four cases out of five, that the C minor symphony was the first of his orchestral works ever played there. To describe this wonderful work, we can do no better than to let Hector Berlioz speak. He says of it : — " The symphony in C minor is unquestionably the most famous of them all, and also, in our opinion, the first in which Beethoven gave free course to his vast imagination, without taking any one else's thought for his guide or his point of departure. In the first, second, and fourth symphonies he enlarged more or less forms that were already known, by poetizing them with every brilliant or passionate inspiration that his vigorous youth could discover. In the third (the ''Eroica") the form tends to expand itself, it is true, and the central thought rises to a great height ; but one can neverthe- less not fail to recognize in it the influence of one of those divine poets to whom the great artist had long since raised a temple in his heart. Beetho- ven, true to Horace's precept, "Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna," read Homer habitually ; and in his magnificent musical epic, which is said, rightly or wrongly, to have been inspired by a modern hero, recollections of the old Iliad play a part that is admirably fine, but none the less evident. "The symphony in C minor, on the other hand, seems to us to emanate )lew England Conservator]] of music (Founded by Dr. Eben Tourjee.) RICHARD H. DANA, President. CARL FAELTEN, Director. THE COURSES of STUDY are arranged with a view to giving a broad and comprehen- sive musical education. THE FACULTY has been chosen with reference not only to their standing as artists, but also with regard to their ability as teachers of the highest excellence. THE ASSOCIATED DEPARTMENTS of Music, Elocution, Fine Arts, and Modern Lan- guages provide the most ample means for acquiring a thorough and complete knowledge of one or all of these subjects at comparatively small cost. THE FREE COLLATERAL ADVANTAGES, consisting of the Faculty Concerts. Pupils' Recitals, Lectures, Chorus Classes, Orchestral Practice, etc., are of inestimable value to the student. Special classes in the Art of Conducting, the training of Boy Choirs and a Normal Course for advanced pupils who are preparing to teach, are now made prom- inent features of the work. Send for calendar, or call at the Institution. F. W. HALE, General Manager. FRANKLIN SQUARE, BOSTON, MASS. (7) directly and solely from Beethoven's genius. It is his own thought that he is to develop in it : his secret sorrows, his concentrated wrath, his dreams full of so sad dejection, his nocturnal visions, his outbursts of enthusiasm, will supply him with its subject; and the forms of the melody, harmony, rhythm, and instrumentation, will show themselves to be as essentially in- dividual and new as they are endowed with power and nobility. " The first movement is given up to the painting of disordered emotions which harrow a great soul that has become a prey to despair, — not the calm, concentrated despair that borrows the semblance of resignation, not that sombre and mute grief of Romeo when he learns of Juliet's death, but rather the terrible fury of Othello when he hears from lago's lips the envenomed calumnies that persuade him of Desdemona's guilt. It is now frantic delirium bursting forth mto frightful shrieks ; now an excessive dejection which finds only accents of regret, and is a thing of pity to itself. Listen to those hiccoughs of the orchestra, those chords alternating between the wind and stringed instruments, that come and go ever more feebly, like the painful breathing of a dying man, then make way for a phrase full of violence, in which the orchestra seems to rise up again, revived by a lightning-flash of fury, — see that shuddering mass hesitate a moment and then rush all together, divided into two unisons burning like two streams of lava, — and say if this passionate style is not foreign to and above all that had hitherto been produced in instrumental music.
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