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Rehearsal and Concert SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (S-MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _, , . ( Ticket Office, 1492 J „ , Telephones ^^'^^ ^^^^^ J Administration Offices, 3200 } THIRTIETH SEASON, 1910 AND 1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Programme nf % Nineteenth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE ^NOTES BYi^PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A.ELLIS, MANAGER WM. L. WHITNEY International School for Vocalists BOSTON NEW YORK SYMPHONY CHAMBERS 134 CARNEQIE HALL 246 HUNTINQTON AVE. CORNER OP S7th AND 7th AVE. PORTLAND HARTFORD Y. M. C. A. BUILDING HARTFORD SCHOOL OP MUSIC ' CONGRESS SQUARE 8 SPRING STREET Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Thirtieth Season, 1910-1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor Violins. Witek, A., Roth, 0. Hoffmann, J. Ceneert-master. Kuntz, D. Krafft, F. W. 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Prelude: Quasi adagio. II. "The Spinning Woman"; Andantino quasi allegretto. III. Molto Adagio. Goldmark Overture to "Sakuntala," Op, 13 Beethoven . Symphony in C minor, No. 5, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante con mote. III. Allegro : Trio. IV. Allegro. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who tvisli to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be- tween the numbers. City of Boston. Revised Regulation of August 5. 1898.— Chapter 3. relating to the covering of the head In places of public amusement. Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance iO'SUcb place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN. City Qerfc. 1397 L. P. HOLLANDER & CO. Announce that their Spring importations; of jFrencf) jWillinerp Are now on Exhibition Also a Complete Assortment of INEXPENSIVE READY-TO-WEAR HATS FOR LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN RANGING IN PRICE FROM $9.00 We invite the inspection of the ladies of Boston to the newly- remodelled show-rooms of this department, sumptuously refur- nished throughout. BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON Shreve, Crump & Low Company* Diamonds. Gems. A splendid showing oF Diamond Jewelry. Solid Gold Goods for the Library, Table, and personal use. Watches. Exquisite Chatelaine Watches. Old Sterling Silver. A maqniricent showing of ornamental Fancy Goods. A room filled with the superb Tiffang Glass . Rare Old Tapestries, Antiques, and Furniture. Finest Stationery. 147 Trcmont Street^ Boston. 1398 "Macbeth": Tone Poem for Full Orchestra (after Shake- speare's Drama), Op. 23 •. Richard Strauss (Bom at Munich, June 11, 1864; now living at Charlottenburg,—Berlin.) "Macbeth" was composed at Munich in 1886-87, when Strauss had returned from his ItaHan journey to take the place of assistant conductor at Munich under Hermann Levi and Franz Fischer. The tone poem was revised at Weimar in 1890. Although Strauss' "Don Juan "bears ah earlier opus number (20), it was composed after "Macbeth,"— in 1887-88 at Munich. In the original version "Macbeth" ended in D major with Macduff 's triumphal march. Hans von Biilow objected to this ending, and said that, while an "Egmont" overture might well end with Kgmont's victorious march, a "Macbeth" composition should not at the end glorify the triumph of Macduff. Strauss thereupon changed the ending and made certain changes. in the first sketch in the development. The first performance of "Macbeth" was in the Grand Ducal Court Theatre at Weimar, October 13, 1890, at the first subscription concert of the season. Strauss conducted from manuscript. The second performance was at a Philharmonic concert in Berlin, February 29, 1892, when Strauss conducted. The first performances in the United States were by the Chicago Orchestra, led by Theodore Thomas in Chicago, October 25-26, 1901. "Macbeth" was performed again in Chicago, October 12-13, 1906. The score and parts were published at Munich in August, 1891. "Macbeth" is dedicated to "my highly honored and dear friend Alexander Ritter." * It is scored for three flutes (one interchangeable * Ritter was bom at Narva, Russia, June 27, 1833; he died at Munich, April 12, i8g6. Although Ritter was bom in Russia, he was of a German family. His forbears had lived at Narva since the seventeenth century. In 1841, soon after the death of his father, he and his mother moved to Dresden, where he became the school-fellow of Hans von Biilow, and studied the violin with Franz Schubert (1808-78). Ritter afterward studied at the Leipsic Conservatory under David and Richter (1849-51), and in 1852 he was betrothed to ''GIRL of the GOLDEN WEST" PUGGINrS LATEST OPERA First performance in any country, early in December, by the Metropolitan Opera Co., New York Followed by performances in Boston, by the Boston Opera Co.; in Chicago, by the Chicago Opera Co. Vocal Score and separate numbers, vocal and instrumental, in preparation BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth Street NEW YORK CITY 1399 TORREY, BRIGHT 8z: CAPEN CO. FINE ORIENTAL CARPETS AND RUGS English Wilton and Brussels Carpets Imported Axminster Carpets Woven to Order, Any Size, Any Colors Domestic Wilton and Brussels Carpets and Rugs Inlaid Linoleums Torrey, Bright CBl» Capen Co. 348-350 Washington Street Boston, Mass. 1400 with piccolo), two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, double-bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, bass trumpet, three trombones, bass tuba, a set of three kettledrums, bass drum, side-drum, cymbals, tam-tam, and the usual strings. * Ritter exerted a great influence over Strauss, who said of him in a conversation published in the Musical Times (London): "Ritter was exceptionally well read in all the philosophers, ancient and modern, and a man of the highest culture. His influence was in the nature of a storm-wind. He urged me on to the development of the poetic, the expressive, in music, as exemplified in the works of Liszt, Wagner, and the play-actress, Franziska Wagner, a niece of Richard Wagner. He married her in i8s4 and moved to Weimar, where he became intimately acquainted with Liszt, Cornelius, Raff, Bronsart, and of course saw much of von Biilow. He determined to devote himself to composition, but in 1856 he went to Stettin to conduct in the City Theatre, where his wife played. They lived in Dresden (1858-60), again in Stettin (1860-62), but Ritter then had no official position, and in 1S63 they made Wiirzburg their home. (The winter of 1868-69 was spent in Paris, and that of 1872-73 in Chemnitz.) From 1875 to 1882 he was at the head of a music shop at WUrzburg. In 1882 he gave over the business to an agent, and in 1885 sold it, for in 1882 he became a member of the Meiningen orchestra led by von Biilow. After von Biilow resigned this position (in the fall of 1885), Ritter moved to Munich and made the town his dwelling-place. His most important works are the operas: "Der faule Hans," one act (Munich, 1885), dedicated to Liszt; "Wem die Krone?" one act. Op. 15 (Weimar, June 7, i8go), dedicated to Richard Strauss; "Gottfried der Sanger," one act, was only partially sketched, but the poem was completed; orchestral: "Seraphische Phantasie"; "Erotische Legende," composed in 1890-91, with use of former material; "Olaf's Hochzeitsreigen," com- posed in i8}t-92; "Chxrfreita? und Frohnleichnam," composed in 1893; "Sursum Corda! Storm and Stress Fantasia," produced at Munich early in 1896; "Kaiser Rudolf's Ritt zum Grabe" (1895), produced by Richard Strauss at Weimar (?) and at Berlin in 1902. "Olaf's Wedding Dance" was played in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Muck conductor, March 2, 1907. A Life of Ritter by Sigismund von Hausegger was published at Berlin in 1908. JUST ISSUED JAPANESE SONG-CYCLE BY CLAYTON THOMAS (Composer of the famous "Japanese Love Song") MATSURIS (OUR FESTAL DAYS) A CYCLE OF SIX JAPANESE SONGS By CLAYTON THOMAS Contents Prelude Cherry Blossoms — Summer in Kyoto Feast of Lanterns — Feast of Dolls Autumn Song — Imperial Chrysanthemum High Voice Low Voice PRICE $1.00 ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT 120 BOYLSTON STREET (take elevator) AND FOR SALE BY ALL MUSIC DEALERS 1401 Berlioz. My symphonic fantasia, 'Aus Italien,' is the connecting Hnk between the old and the new methods." "Aus Italien" was composed in 1886, and "Macbeth," the first of the tone-poems, was a work of the next year. It may here be remarked that Gustav Brecher, in his "Richard Strauss," characterizes "Death and Transfiguration," as well as the opera "Guntram" (1892-93), as a return of the composer, after his "Don Juan," to the chromatic style of Liszt and Wagner; and he insists it is not a representative work of the modern Strauss.
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