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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 15, 1895 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA. OSTON SYMPHONY ORCHEST Mr. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. Fourteenth Season, 1894-95. PROGRAMME OF THE FOURTH CONCERT Monday Evening, February 4, At 8.15 precisely. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William F. Apthorp. PUBLISHED BY C A. ELLIS, MANAGER. A Remarkable Piano. The Mason & Hamlin Piano is constructed in one particular differently from any other : the strings are held by screws, not by pins. As a result, the Mason & Hamlin Piano does not require one-quarter as much tuning as any other piano made. This fact has been demonstrated by actual test, and verified by mechanics, tuners, and private individuals. Piano tuning costs money. It costs only one-fourth as much to keep a Mason & Hamlin Piano in tune as it does to keep any other in tune. Consequently the expense of keeping a Mason & Hamlin Piano is reduced to one-fourth that of any other. 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Fourth Concert, Monday Evening, February 4, At 8.15 precisely. PROGRAMME. v /i Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 8, in E minor, "From the New World," Op. 95 I. Adagio (E minor) ------ 4-8 Allegro molto (E minor) ----- 2-4 II. Larghetto (D-flat major) - - - - 4-4 III. Scherzo : Molto vivace (E minor) - 3-4 Trio (C major) - - - - - - 3-4 IV. Allegro con fuoco (E minor) - 4-4 " Massenet - Aria, " Pleurez! pleurez mes yeux!" from "Le Cid Lachner - Suite No. 1, in D minor, Op. 113 I. Praeludium : Allegro non troppo (D minor) - 3-4 III. Variations and March: Allegro moderato quasi andantino (B-flat minor) - 4-4 IV. Introduction and Fugue : Andante and Allegro moderato (D major) - 4-4 " Haydn - Aria, " With Verdure Clad," from "The Creation Smetana ----- Overture, " Die Verkaufte Brant Soloist, Mme. LILLIAN BLAUVELT. MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT EUGEN D'ALBERT: From fullest conviction, I declare them to be the best In- struments of A?nerica. ........ DR. HANS VON BULOW: Their sound and touch are more sympathetic to my ears and hands than all others of the country. I declare them the absolutely best in America. ....... ALFRED GRUNFELD: I consider them the best instruments of our times. P. TSCHAIKOVSKY: Combines with great volume of tone rare sympathetic and noble tone color and perfect action. WAREROOMS BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, 22 and 24 E Baltimore Street. 817 Pennsylvania Avenue. NEW YORK, 148 Fifth Avenue. (4) Antonin Dvorak was born at Nelahozeves (Miihlhausen) near Kralup, in Bohemia, on September 8, 1841, and is still living in New York. His father, Franz Dvorak, was the butcher and inn-keeper of his native place? and young Antonin was destined by his parents for the first of these trades. But his fondness for music showed itself very early ; his ambition was excited by hearing the itinerant bands that used to play at his father's inn on holidays and other occasions, and he induced the village school- master to teach him to sing and play the violin. His progress was aston- ishingly rapid, and soon he would sing solos in church and play the violin on holidays, like the itinerant musicians who had been his first models. In 1853, he being then twelve years old, he was sent to school at Zlonitz, where he was put under the care of an uncle. At Zlonitz the organist- of the place, A. Liehmann, took him in charge and taught him the organ and pianoforte, as well as a certain amount of the theory of music, enough to enable him to work out a figured bass, modulate correctly from one key to another, and even improvise a little. In 1855 he was sent to Kamnitz, to learn German and finish his education ; here he studied for a year under the organist Hancke, after which he returned to Zlonitz, where his father had settled meanwhile. An amusing anecdote is told of him about this period : he had written a piece of original dance-music for some festive oc- casion, as a surprise to his parents ; but, when the musicians began to play it, the most terrific hodge-podge of mutually irreconcilable sounds was the result, and the young composer for the first time realized that he had written for various transposing instruments as if they all stood in the key of C ! But by this time the boy's passion for music and his determination to pursue a musical career had become invincible; and the result of many FOR BRAIN-WORKERS, THE WEAK AND DEBILITATED. 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K G) . discussions with his parents, in which he was backed up by his friend the organist, was that in 1857 he was sent to Prag to study music seriously, in hopes of getting the position of organist somewhere. In October he entered the organ school which was supported by the Gesellschaft der Kirchenmusik in Bohmen ; the course of instruction was for three years, at the beginning of which the boy received a small allow- ance from his father, but was afterwards thrown upon his own resources. Now his violin-playing helped him ; he joined one of the town-bands as viola-player, and managed to make a meagre living by playing at cafes and other similar places. When the Bohemian Theatre was opened in Prag in 1862, Dvorak and some of his companions entered the orchestra. Here he benefited much by his intercourse with Smetana, who was conductor of the institution from 1866 to 1874. Another useful friend was Carl Bendel, who, after holding important musical positions in Brussels and Amsterdam, had returned to his native Prag in 1866 as conductor of the principal choral society there. Bendel's fine library was of great help to young Dvorak whose slender means did not admit of his buying orchestral scores, nor even of his owning a pianoforte. But he stuck manfully to his studies in composition, which were conducted principally under Smetana's guidance* In 1873 he was appointed organist at St. Adalbert's church in Prag;. this allowed him to give up his engagement in the orchestra, and also to marry, he eking out his small salary by taking private pupils. In the same year, he being then thirty-two, he made his first mark as a composer with his patriotic hymn, Die Erben des weissen Berges, to words by Halek ; this was particularly successful, and two Notturnos for orches- tra, and next year a whole symphony in E-flat and a Scherzo from another NEW ENGLAND C SERVATORY OF (FOUNDED IN 1853 BY DR. EBBN TOURJEE.) RICHARD H. DANA, President. CARL FAELTEN, Director. COHPLETE IN ALL ITS DEPARTHENTS. You are respectfully invited to visit the institution and examine its methods and facilities. Send for Illustrated Prospectus and Calendar. F. W. HALE, General flanager, Franklin Square, BOSTON, MASS. (7) SHORE LINE BET'WEEN BOSTON and NEW YORK THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE FROM EITHER CITY.
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