Eleventh Rehearsal and Concert
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON & MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES • Telephones ( Ticket Office / - .g. j^ ' Branch Exchange I Administration Offices J THIRTY-SECOND SEASON, 1912 AND 1913 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor prngramm? of % Eleventh Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER 681 — ^hr^.?f?-^l5l>.«4t i "After the Symphony Concert" a prolonging of musical pleasure by home-firelight awaits the owner of a "Baldwin." The strongest impressions of the concert season are linked w^ith Baldwintone, exquisitely exploited by pianists eminent in their art. Schnitzer, Pugno, Scharwenka, Bachaus De Pachmann! More than chance attracts the finely-gifted amateur to this keyboard. Among people w^ho love good music, who have a culti- vated knowledge of it, and who seek the best medium for producing it, the Baldwin is chief. 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CHICKERING WAREROOMS 169 TREMONT STREET Opposite the Cummon 1^ m -^T" -<^ 684 THIRTY-SECOND SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWELVE AND THIRTEEN Sl^wntlf S^If^arsal an& (Hcnttxt FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, at 2*30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, at 8.00 o'clock JPrngramm? Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 8o Arias with Orchestra a. Marcello Recitative "II mio bel foco" and Aria "Quella fiamma" b. Gluck Aria of Paride from "Paride ed Elena," Act I., No. 3 Holbrooke "Queen Mab" (Shakespeare) Poem No. 7, for grand orchestra and chorus (ad lib.), Op. 45 First time in Boston Strauss Songs with Orchestra a. Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4. b. Wiegenlied, Op. 41, No. i. c. Cacilie, Op. 27, No. 2. Bruckner Symphony, E major, No 7 I. AEegro moderato. II. Adagio: Sehr feierlich und langsam. III. Scherzo: Allegro Trio: Etwas langsamer. IV. Finale: Bewegt, Doch nich schnell. SOLOIST Miss ELENA GERHARDT There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each n/umber 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 Re|{ulation of Aui(ust 5. 1898.— Chapter 3, reiatlnii to the coverinii of the bead in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusetnent, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performasce in such place of any person seated in any sect therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does Bot obstriict such view, may be wean. Attest: J. M. GALVIN, Qty Oerk 685 L. P. HOLLANDER & CO. ANNOUNCE THEIR GREAT ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Full particulars in Sunday's Newspapers 202 BOYLSTON STREJET /! 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The Rector and Senate and members of the Philosophical Faculty sat in the front seats at the performance, and the composer conducted his work, which may be described as a skilfully made pot-pourri or fantasia on students' songs. Brahms was not a university man, but he had known with Joachim the joyous life of students at Gottingen,—at the university made famous by Canning's poem: * "Q. D. B. V. Summis auspiciis Serenissimi ac potentissimi principis Guilelmi Imperatoris Auguste Germanic! Regis Borussicae, etc., eiusque auctoritate regia Universitatis Litterarum Vratislavieusis Rectore Magnifico Ottone Spiegelberg Viro Illustrissimo Joanni Brahms Holsato ariis- musicae severioris in Germa- nia nunc principi ex decreto ordinis philosophorum promotor legitime constitutus Petrus Josephus Elvenich Ordinis Philosophorum h. a. Decanus philosophiae doctoris nomen iura et privUegia honoris causa contulit collataque publico hoc diplomate declaravit die XI mensis Martii A. MDCCCLXXiX. (L.S.)" MOSZKOWSKI—SGAMBATI VICTOR STAUB—RUDOLF FRIML PIANOFORTE SOLOS MOSZKOWSKI, M . VICTOR STAUB No. tourbillon Op. 89, 5. Valse •65 Op. 15. Scintillements. Arabes- que - - .75 '^ — Abounding in freshness and grace Op. 18. En Valsante. Valse mig- ' i at his best. — Moszkowsk A rthur Foote. nonne - - - --'--•--- .60 SGAMBATI. G. RUDOLF FRIML Introduction and Etude brillante Op. 61. Etude fantastique - - - .60 (Reveil des Fees) by E. Prudent. (Schmidt's Educational Series, Op. 62, No. 2. Marche grotesque - .50 No. 90.) Op. 76. Herald of Spring - - - .75 SENT FREE: Thematic catalogue of New Pianoforte Music by Favorite Composers. ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. For Sale by all Music Dealers 687 — — Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U —niversity of Gottingen niversity of Gottingen; the university satirized so bitterly by Heine. Brahms wrote to Bernhard Scholz that the title "Academic" did not please him. Scholz suggested that it was "cursedly academic and boresome," and suggested " Viadrina," for that was the poetical name of the Breslau University. Brahms spoke flippantly of this overture in the fall of 1880 to Max Kalbeck. He described it as a "very jolly pot- pourri on students' songs a la Suppe," and, when Kalbeck asked him ironically if he had used the "Foxsong," he answered contentedly, "Yes, indeed." Kalbeck was startled, and said he could not think of such academic homage to the "leathery Herr Rektor, " whereupon Brahms duly replied: "That is also wholly unnecessary." The first of the student songs to be introduced is Binzer's "Wir * hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus" : "We had built a stately house, and trusted in God therein through bad weather, storm, and horror." The first measures are given out by the trumpets with a peculiarly stately effect. The melody of "Der Landesvater"t is given to the second violins. And then for the first time is there any deliberate attempt to portray the jollity of university life. The "Fuchslied"J (Freshman song), "Was kommt dort von der H5h'," is introduced suddenly by two bassoons accompanied by 'celli and violas pizzicati. There are hearers undoubtedly who remember the singing of this song in Longfellow's "Hyperion"; how the Freshman entered the Kneipe, and was asked with ironical courtesy concerning the health of the leathery Herr Papa who reads in Cicero. Similar impertinent ques- tions were asked concerning the "Frau Mama" and the "Mamsell Soeur"; and then the struggle of the Freshman with the first pipe of tobacco was described in song. "Gaudeamus igitur," § the melody that is familiar to students of all lands, serves as the finale. The overture, is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, double-bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trom- bones, bass tuba, a set of three kettledrums, bass drums, cymbals, triangle, strings. The overture was played for the first time in Boston by Theodore Thomas's Orchestra, October 14, 1881. It has been played at concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, November 18, 1882, * "Wir hatten gebauet." The verses of A. Binzer, to an old tune, were sung for the first time at Jena, November ig, 1819, on the occasion of the dissolution of the Burschenschaft, the German students' association founded in 1815 for patriotic purposes. " t Der Landesvater" is a student song of the eighteenth century. It was published about 1750. " t Was kommt dort" is a student song as old as the beginning of the eighteenth century. § There are many singular legends concerning the origin of " Gaudeamus igitur," but there seems to be no authentic appearance of the song, as it is now known, before the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the song was popular at Jena and Leipsic. 688 ^T^/ Opposite Boston Common ^^^^ X' y 154-155-156 TREMONT STREET The Brilliant Social Functions and Festivities of the pre-Lenten Season have created an unusual demand for gowns of distinction for formal wear — gowns that will stand out at Reception, Dinner, or Opera, not so much for their intrinsic value, as for their artistic excellence.