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Street Floor FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE AND THIRTY-TWO MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, at 8.15 Mahler ......... Symphony No. 9 I. Andante comodo. II. Im Tempo eines Gemachlichen Landlers. III. Rondo; Burleske. IV. Adagio. Wagner "A Siegfried Idyl" Wagner Overture to "Tannhanser" There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony. 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 in such 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 Clerk. The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert. : Symphony No. 9 Gustav Mahler (Born at Kalischt in Bohemia, on July 7, *1860; died at Vienna on May 18, 1911) This symphony, begun in 1906, was not produced while Mahler was alive. The first performance was at Vienna, in June, 1912. Bruno Walter conducted it. The symphony was published in 1912. The score calls for an unusually large orchestra, with an uncom- mon number of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons. Mahler looked on analytical or explanatory programme notes as the abomination of desolation. He voiced his objections whenever one of his works was announced for performance. If he gave sub- titles to the movements of two symphonies—thus the programme of Symphony No. 1, when it was first performed, bore these subtitles I, "Spring and No End"; II, "Mosaic"; III, "Under Full Sail"; IV, "The Hunter's Funeral Procession : A Dead March in the Man- ner of Callot" ; V, "DalP Inferno al Paradiso"—these subtitles are not to be found in the published scores. Mahler's parents were of the tradesman class, in very moderate circumstances. They were ambitious in their longing for education. *Mahler's parents, as he himself said, believed July 1st to be the correct date. The papers relating to his birth were lost. Analytic Symphony Series DITSON PUBLICATION A Twentieth Century Musical Home Necessity THE ANALYTIC SYMPHONY SERIES Great Symphonies, arranged in the simplest possible playable form for two hands on the piano, with remarkably clear analy- ses by the eminent teacher and theorist, Dr. Percy Goetschius. 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BOOKS STREET FLOOR ANNEX Jordan Marsh Company ! They moved to Iglau soon after the birth of Gustav. He was a shy, quiet child, sensitive to the hymns and songs of the Moravians and to military music. When he was four years old, he played on an ac- cordion whatever he heard, especially marches of the brass band. Two years later he spent hours with an old pianoforte. When he was eight, he gave lessons at five kreutzers a lesson to a seven-year- old. Music and reading were his passions. He studied at the Iglau Gymnasium, and for a short time at Prague, but his taste for music was so pronounced that in 1875 his father took him to Julius Epstein* at Vienna and begged him to say whether the boy's talent warranted the necessary cost of development. Epstein heard Gustav play, talked with him, and declared him to be "a born genius." Mahler was fifteen years old when, in the fall of 1875, he entered the Vienna Conservatory. Like Hugo Wolf, he was once described by the authorities as "rebellious," but, unlike Wolf, he was not ex- pelled. He studied pianoforte playing with Epstein ; harmony with Robert Fuchs; composition with Franz Krenn.