Boston Symphony Orchestra* SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES. (Telephone, 1492 Back Bay.) TWENTY-FIFTH SEASON, J905-J906. WILHELM GERICKE, CONDUCTOR IProGtamme OF THE TENTH REHEARSAL and CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, AT 2.30 O'CLOCK. SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, AT 8.00 O'CLOCK. PubUahcd by C A. ELLIS, ManA^er. ^ 689 m. Uincent dindy The eminent French Composer who has just been in America as guest of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra, and who ap- peared as Pianist in his own Chamber Music with the Kneisel Quartet and the Longy Club, \ ^tf^<«" ^V!^ played exclusively the MmmMiumlm PIANO regarding which he writes as follows : New York, December 7, 1905. Mason & Hamlin Co. : I do not wish to leave America without telling you how happy I have been to know and to play your magnificent instruments. ' Your Pianos are quite remarkable for their expressive sonority, which Tias especially appealed to me, and which commends them to all those who see in music an art addressing itself to the heart rather than a pretext for virtuosity. One can sing on your Pianos^ and it is this which, to my mind, consti- tutes their chief charm. I want to tell you this in assuring you of my high esteem. (Signed) VINCENT d'INDY. •492 Boylston Street BOSTON (Oppositt Institute of Techonlogy) C90 Boston Symphony Orchestra, PERSONNEL. Twenty -fifth Season, 1905-1906. WILHELM GERICKE, Conductor. First Violins. Hess, Willy, Concertmeister. Adamowski, T. Ondricek, K. Mahn, F. Bak, A. Roth, O. Krafft, W. Eichheim, H. Sokoloff, N. Kuntz, D. Hoffmann, J. Fiedler, E. Mullaly, J. C. Moldauer, A. Strube, G. Rissland, K. Second Violins. Barleben, C. Schuchmann, F. E. Kurth, R. Kuntz, A. Akeroyd, J. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Goldstein, S. Fiedler, B. Fiumara, P. Marble, E. B. Berger, H. Traupe, W. Swornsbourne, W. W. 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Mozart Scene, " Ei parte," and Rondo, " Per Pietk," from Act 11. of " Cosi fan Tutte " Tschaikowsky *' Francesca da Rimini," Orchestral Fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 Schubert Song with Orchestra, " Die Alhnacht " Elgar Concert Overture, " In the South," Op. 50. First time SOLOIST Mme. EMMA EAMES. There will be an intefmission of ten minutes aftef the Mozart selection. The doors of the hall will he closed during the performance of each number on the programme* Those who wish 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. 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Amherst Webber (Born at Cannes in 1867 ; now living at London.) Mr. Webber is an Englishman. He studied music with Jean Louis Nicod6 at Dresden and with Ernest Guiraud at the Paris Conservatory. He afterwards took a musical degree as well as the degree of M.A. at New College, Oxford. For several years he was engaged at the Metro- politan Opera House, New York, and at Covent Garden, London, as lepetiteur. He was associated in the study of the later Wagnerian parts with Mme. Brema, Eames, Nordica, the de Reszke brothers, and others. He has composed the music of an opera, "Fiorella," in one act, libretto by Sardou and Gheusi, which was produced at the Waldorf Theatre, London, June 7, 1905 (Mme. de Cisneros, Miss Ferraris, Messrs. Pezzutti, Angelini-Fornari, and Pini-Corsi, chief singers) ; songs, vocal duets, and this symphony, which was performed for the first time at Warsaw by the Philharmonic Society in October, 1904. Mr. Webber says modestly of his symphony: "It consists of the usual four movements, and is written so much on traditional lines that a sjmopsis would be superfluous." We regret to say that through force of circumstances we are unable to give a detailed analysis of the symphony, which was composed at London about three years ago. It begins with a short introduction, molto sostenuto, C minor, 4-4, which is followed by an allegro, 2-4. This allegro is treated in orthodox form. The second movement, an Andante, A major, 3-4, has the character of a romance. The scherzo is a Presto, D minor, 3-4, with a trio in A major, poco meno mosso. ' The Finale, in C major, opens with a short prelude, which is followed by an allegro, in the course of which there is fugal development. New Songs and Ballads for TeacKers and Recital-givers Soprano Tenor April's Here By Landon Ronald My ain Folk J3y Laura Lemon Now sleeps the Crimson A Smile Landon Ronald Petal Roger Quilter Beloved A. Goring Thomas Light ot mine Eyes A. Woodforde-Finden In the Dawn Edvrard Elgar If I built a World for you L. Lehmann Three Encore Songs P. Bowie Little White Sun Cuthbert Wynne Baritone and Bass Sea hath its Pearls Ellen Cowdell Violet and the Rose A.L. Two Elizabethan Lyrics By H . Lane Wilson Indian River Song A. Woodforde-Finden My Captain Cyril Scott Soldier's Toast J. Airlie Dix Contralto Vagabond R. V. Williams A Breton Lullaby By Reginald Somerville Love of a Heart, that's True A. Woodforde- Finden Living Poems R. Batten Give a Man a Horse G. H. S. Lewis I am not Fair F. Paolo Tosti Kashmira Song A. Woodforde-Finden Soft falls the Dusk Muriel Nelson BOOSEY & COMPA/>iY, 9 Easl 17th Street, /NEW YORK 686 GREAT REDUCTIONS in prices of Street Gowns and Coats Visiting Suits and Evening Coats Used by us as Models this season. Prices reduced nearly one=half to close at once. 256 Boylston Street 696 — Mme. Emma Hayden Eames-Story was born of American parents at Shanghai, China. Her girlhood was spent in Maine. She studied singing with her mother, afterward of a teacher in Portland, and she took lessons of Miss Clara Munger in Boston for about three years. In this city and the neighborhood she became known as a choir and concert singer, and she sang at a Symphony Concert, January i6, 1886, with Miss Mary H. How and Messrs. Charles F. Webber and Clar- ence E. Hay in a performance of Schumann's music to Byron's "Man- fred." She also sang at one of the late Charles R. Adams's operatic exhibitions. In 1886 she went to Paris, where she studied with Mme. Marchesi. She made her debut, March 13, 1889, at the Opera, Paris, as Juliet in Gounod's opera, "Romeo and Juliet." On August 14 of the same year she appeared at the Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust." She created at the Opera these parts: Colombe in Saint-Saens's "Ascanio," March 21, 1890, and Zaire in Paul Veronge de la Nux's "Zaire," May "* 28, 1890.