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SEVENTEENTH REHEARSAL and CONCERT Boston Symphony Orchestra* SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES. (Telephone, J 492 Back Bay.) TWENTY-FOURTH SEASON, J904-J905. WILHELM GERICKE, CONDUCTOR programme OF THE SEVENTEENTH REHEARSAL and CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, AT 2.30 O'CLOCK. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, AT 8.00 O'CLOCK. Published by C. A. ELLIS, Manager. 109T THE MAKERS OF THESE INSTRUMENTS have shown that genius for pianoforte making that has been defined as "an infinite capacity for taking pains." The result of eighty years of application of this genius to the production of musical tone is shown in tiie Chickering of to-day. Catalogue upon Apf>/ication CHICKERING & SONS iiiT.'"m"i I SE ii;.^BM 1098 : TWENTY FOURTH SEASON, J90i-J905. Seventeenth Rehearsal and Concerts FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, at 2.30 o'clock, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, at 8,00 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Wagner ........ A •' Faust " Overture Gluck . Recitative, "The gods have foreshewn me the future," and Aria, " Foreboding fears of ill," from " Iphigenia in Tauris " Bach .... Prelude, Adagio, and Gavotte in Rondo Form (Arranged for Strings by Sigismund Bachrich.) " " Mozart . "Turn your glance on him," from Cos\ fan Tutte in Schubert . Symphony C major, No. 7 I. Andante; Allegro, ma non troppo. II. Andante con moto. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace. Trio. IV. Finale : Allegro vivace. SOLOIST Mr. GIUSEPPE CAMPANARI. There will be an intermissioa of ten minutes before the symphoay. 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, relatlDgr to the covering of the head in places of public anausement. 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 anjr seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head coveriog without projection, which doea not obstruct such view, may be wom. Att««t ! J. M. CALVIN, Cily Citfk. 1099 L P. Hollander & Co. ORDER DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT Third Floor LADIES' APPAREL for SOUTHERN TRAVEL We are now showing a most attractive assortment of Dresses, Waists, and Coats in all of the newest summer fabrics. In our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT we have received many new models. 202 to 216 Boylston Street S and FORKS. STERLING SILVER. Substantial Weights. Choice Patterns. Plain or Ornamented. PRICES BASED UPON A LOW FIXED VALUE PER OUNCE. Smith Patterson Company. Wholesale and Retail Jewellers, 52 Summer Street, Boston. A "Faust" Overture Richard Wagner (Born at Leipsic, May 22, 1813; died at Venice, February 13, 1883.) While Wagner, conductor at Riga, was writing "Rienzi," he kept thinking of Paris as the one place for the production of his opera. He arrived in Paris, after a stormy voyage from Pillau to London, in Sep- tember, 1839. He and his wife and a big Newfoundland dog found lodgings in the Rue de la Tonnellerie. This street was laid out in 1202, and it was named on account of the merchants in casks and hogs- heads who there established themselves. It began at the Rue Saint Honore, Nos. 34 and 36, ended in the Rue Pirouette, and was known for a time in the seventeenth centur}^ as the Rue des Toilieres. Before the street was formed, it was a road with a few miserable houses oc- cupied by Jews. Wagner's lodging was in No. 23,* the house in which the illustrious Moliere is said to have been born; and a tablet in com- memoration of this birth was put into the wall in the Year VI H., and replaced when the house was rebuilt, in 1830. This street disappeared when Baron Hausmann improved Paris, and the Moliere tablet is now on No. 31 Rue du Pont-Neuf. In spite of Meyerbeer's fair words and his own efforts, Wagner was unable to place his opera; and he was obliged to do all manner of drudgery to support himself. He wrote songs, read proofs, arranged light music for various instruments, wrote articles for music journals. He himself tells us: "In order to gain the graces of the Parisian salon-world through its favorite singers, I composed several French romances, which, after all my efforts to the contrary, were considered too out-of-the-way and difficult to be actually sung. Out of the depth of my inner discontent, I armed myself against the crushing reaction of this outward art-activity by the hasty sketches and as hasty com- "^ ' *Felix and Louis Lazare, in their " DicLionnairc dcs Rues de Paris" (Paris, 1844), give s as the number of MoUere's birth-house. To Artists and Teachers of Singing The task of getting the latest English Songs can no longer be a difficult one, since we publish here all the new compositions of leading composers exactly on the same date they appear on the European market. Ask for BOOSEY & COMPANY'S Novelties If you cannot get them, write to Boose^ 8t Company, 9 East 17th Street, Mew York 1101 V. Ballard Si Sone Importing Ladies' Tailors Announce Arrival of their New Spring and Summer Cloths, Dress Goods, and riodel Qarments which in point of design, quality, and variety surpass anything shown in previous seasons Special order department for smart Shirt W^aists and Suits. Large line of Wash Goods and Silks Sole makers of the Ballard Safety Riding Habit. With its use dragging: accidents cannot occur 256 Boylston Street . Boston no2 " position of an orchestral piece which I called an 'overture to Goethe's "Faust," ' but which was in reality intended for the first section of a grand 'Faust' symphony." He wrote it, according to, one of his biographers, in "a cold, draughty garret, shared with his wife and dog, and while he had a raging tooth- ache." On the other side of the sheet of paper which bears the earliest sketch is a fragment of a French chansonette. Before this, as early as 1832, Wagner had written incidental music to Goethe's drama and numbered the set Op. 5. These pieces were: Soldiers' Chorus, "Rustics under the Linden," Brander's Song, two songs of Mephistopheles, Gretchen's song, "Meine Ruh' ist hin," and melodrama for Gretchen. (This music was intended for performance at Leipsic, where Wagner's sister, Johanna Rosalie (1803-37), the" play-actress, as Gretchen, was greatly admired.*) ' It has been stated by several biographers that the overture to ' Faust was played at a rehearsal of the Conservatory orchestra, and that the players, unable to discover any purpose of the composer, held up hands in horror. Georges Servieres, in his "Richard Wagner jug^ en France," gives this version of the story: "The publisher Schlesinger busied him- self to obtain for his young compatriot a hearing at the Societe des Concerts. Wagner presented to the society the overture to 'Faust' which he had just sketched and which should form a part of a symphony founded on Goethe's drama. The Gazette Musicale of March 22, 1840, announced that an overture for 'Faust' by M. R. Wagner had just been rehearsed. After this rehearsal the players looked at each other in stupefaction and asked themselves what the composer had tried to do. There was no more thought of a performance." Now the Gazette Musicale of March 22, 1840, spoke of Wagner's re- markable talent. It said that the overture obtained "unanimous ap- plause," and it added, "We hope to hear it very soon"; but it did not give the title of the overture. *Some preferred her in this part to Schroeder-Devrient. Thus Laube wrote that he had never seen 'Gretchen played with such feeling: "For the first time the expression of her madness thrilled me to the mar- row, and I soon discovered the reason. Most actresses exaggerate the madness into unnatural pathos. They declaim in a hollow, ghostly voice. Demoiselle Wagner used the same voice with which she had shortly before uttered her thoughts of love. This grewsome contrast produced the greatest effect." Rosalie married the writer, Dr. G. O. Marbach, in 1836. Two New Songs Orchestral Score BY OF STEPHEN TOWNSEND PARSIFAL Forever and a Day . $0.50 WALKYRE The Land o' the Leal . .30 Two keys each Original Folio Edition One each of the above scores offered Sent Free, Vocal Catalogue containing Portraits at reduced price to close out library of American and Foreign Composers. in liquidating an estate. ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT, CHARLES W. HOMEYER t 00., BOSTON NEW YORK 120 Boylston Street 136 Fifth Avenue 165 Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. 1103 — — But Glasenapp, a lover of detail, says in his Life of Wagner that this overture was not "Faust," but the "Columbus" overture, which was written for Apel's play in 1835, and performed that same year at Magdeburg, when Wagner was conductor at the Magdeburg Theatre. The overture "Columbus" was performed at Riga (March 19, 1838), probably at Konigsberg, and at Paris (February 4, 1841), at a concert of the Gazette Musicale to its subscribers.* *Laube had said that this overture showed the composer in doubt as to whether he should follow in the footsteps of Beethoven or Bellini, and that the piece therefore made an impression somewhat like a Hegelian essay written in the style of Heine. H. Blanchard wrote in the Gazette Musicale after the performance: "This piece has the character and the form of a prelude : does it deserve the name overture, which the composer has well defined lately in this journal ? Has he wished to paint the infinity of mid-ocean, the horizon which seemed endless to the companions of the famous and daring navigator, by a high tremolo of the violins ? It is allowed us so to suppose; but the theme of the allegro is not sufficiently developed and worked out; the brass enter too uniformly, and with too great obstinacy, and their discords which shocked trained and delicate ears did not permit just valuation of M.
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