Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 24,1904-1905, Trip
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA. Boston SumpUony OrctiBsTra Mr. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. Twentieth Season' in Philadelphia. PROGRAMME OF THE SECOND CONCERT SECOND SERIES, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. "With Historical and Descriptive Notes by Philip Hale, Published by C. A. ELLIS, Manager, l Established Established 1823 1823 : t ,r..H... <£f) taring PIANOFORTE MAKERS RECIPIENTS OF One Hundred and Twenty-Nine FIRST MEDALS AND AWARDS These Celebrated Instruments are To-day better than ever REPRESENTED BY JOHN WANAMAKER, Philadelphia, Pa. : BOStOn , ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Philadelphia Symphony* tt A Twenty-fourth Season, J904-I905. M Twentieth Season in Philadelphia. | f*/^ fl f± fZ f" f*Cl Mr. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. SECOND CONCERT, SECOND SERIES, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Berlioz ....... Overture, " King Lear" Bruch . Concerto for Violin, No. 2, in D minor, Op. 44 Adagio ma non troppo. Recit (Allegro moderato). Finale (Allegro molto). Liszt-Mottl . * Saint Francis's Sermon to the Birds a. Beethoven . Romanza for Violin and Orchestra, in F major, Op. 50 b. Saint-Saens-Ysaye . Caprice Waltz " Robert Schumann . Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, Rhenish," Op. 97 I. Lebhaft. II. Scherzo : Sehr massig. III. Nicht schnell. IV. Feierlich. V. Lebhaft. SOLOIST Mr. YSAYE. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony. 3 ; All Lovers of Music SHOULD NEVER FAIL TO BUY EACH SUCCEEDING ISSUE OF THE Musicians Library This library consists of a series of volumes which, when complete, will contain all of the masterpieces of song and piano music. Every volume is edited by the highest authority, and contains an elaborate biographical and critical introduction, together with the best obtainable portrait of the composer. The vocal numbers are adapted for high and low voices, and the songs by foreign composers are poetic and singable translations. 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New York Philadelphia Order of your home dealer or any of the above houses — Overture to "King Lear," Op. 4 Hector Berlioz (Born at la C6te-Saint-Andre, Isere, France, on December 11, 1803; died in Paris- on March 9, 1869.) This overture was written at Nice and Rome in May, 1831. It has been said that the overture was first played at a concert given in Paris on December 9, 1832. I am not able to substantiate this statement. Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and "Lelio" were then performed, the latter for the first time, but I find no mention of the production of this overture. The overture was performed on Novem- ber 9, 1834, at a concert given by Berlioz in Paris. An article published in the Gazette Musicale the Sunday after this concert leaves the reader in doubt as to whether this performance was the first. Adolphe Jullien, in his monumental work, "Hector Berlioz," gives the date of this con- cert as Sunday, November 6. He was misled, probably, by a misprint in the Gazette Musicale. 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I sing. I believe in. God. Convalescence has set in. It is thus that I passed in Nice the happiest twenty days of my life; O Nizzat But the police of the king of Sardinia came again to disturb my peaceful happi- ness and to force me to put an end to it. I had at last exchanged a few words with two officers of the Piedmontese garrisom at the cafe; I even played a game of billiards with them one day; that was enough. to inspire the chief of police with grave suspicions on my account. "Evidently this young French musician has not come to Nice to attend the per- formances of 'Matilda di Sabran'" (the only work that was to be beard there then),, "for he never goes to the theatre. He spends whole days on the rocks of Villa- franca ... he is expecting a signal from some revolutionary vessel ... he does not dine, at least not at the table d'hdte . so as to avoid insidious conversations with secret agents. 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"Yes, I am making plans for an overture to 'King Lear'; that is to say, I have already drawn up the plan, for the design and instrumentation are finished; I even think that the opening will be formidable." "How the opening? Who is this King Lear?" "Alas, sir! He is a good old fellow who was king of England." "England!" "Who lived, according to Shakspere, some eighteen hundred years ago, and was weak enough to divide his kingdom between two rascally daughters, who turned him out of doors when he had no more left to give them.