Parsilal , (In Concert Form)

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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SEASON OF 1903 -1904

BAPTIST TEMPLE Friday Evening March 25, 1904 8:20 o'clock

BY THE Mr. Walter Darrrroseh New York Symphony Orchoatra Walter Damrasch, Musical Director ASSISTED BY THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS

KUNDRY . . . Mme. Mihr -Hardy PARSIFAL . . Mr. Edward Johnston

AMFORTAS . . Mr. Francis Archambault FLOWER MAIDENS: First Group Mme. Mihr -Hardy Miss Maud Kennedy Miss Margaret Crawford Second Group Miss Katharine Wheeler Miss Bertha Harmon Miss Estelle Bloomfield Mr. DAVID MANNES, Violin Chorus of Women's Voices T he Programme includes ._.0)44 Music from the following scenes, with connecting explanatory remarks by MR. DAMROSCH. pct I r z Prelude 2 Processional of the Knights of the Grail Richard Wagner 3 Amfortas and the Divine Prophecy JIct II

4 Parsifal and the Flower Maidens in Kling - sor's Magic Garden

5 Kundry's Song pct III 6 Good Friday Spell

7 Parsifal heals the Wound of Amfortas and assumes the Kingship of the Grail

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R. WALTER DAMROSCH says of Parsifal: M "Parsifal is the last ripe and perfect fruit from the tree of Wagner's genius. Completed and performed within a year of his death, it became his last message to the world, and it may be considered as representing his artistic conception and exposition of mediaeval Christianity. " Earlier in his career he had contemplated the dramatization of certain scenes from the New Testament, but he soon perceived the impossibility of adequate stage representation, and thereupon determined to symbolize these ideas and scenes by utilizing one of the many legends clustering around the ' Holy Grail.' "This sacred chalice of wondrous miracle- working powers was supposed to be the cup from which the Saviour drank at the Last Supper, and was bequeathed by Joseph of Arimathea to the Christian Knight Titurel, together with the spear with which the side of the Saviour was pierced as he hung upon the Cross. " With these precious relics Titurel founded a brotherhood of knights and built a castle on Mont Salvat in southern Spain. None but those pure in heart were permitted to enter and take part in the daily ceremony of the uncover- ing of the Holy Grail, whose wondrous rays of light gave the knights strength for deeds of heroism in the sacred cause for which they fought. " Wagner seeks to show in the story of Parsifal that the central idea of Christianity, as typified by the voluntary self -sacrifice of the Saviour for the redemption of man, is pity for the sufferings of others, and as the drama progresses we see in Parsifal, who appears in the first act as absolutely ignorant of the world -of good or evil, of saintliness or sin -the gradual evolution of the human soul from dull, childish ignorance to a full consciousness of the duty of life, through the quickening influence of pity for the sufferings of others. "In his exposition of this idea Wagner rose to the very summit of his powers as poet and dramatist, and while he trod no new paths in the musical setting (for his system of leading motives and their manner of development had reached full maturity in Tristan and the Nibelungen Trilogy), the nobility of the musical themes, the clarity of the instrumentation and the masterly handling of the choruses in the Grail scene of Act I, and the flower maiden scene of Act II, prove that Wagner the musician was in full possession of his wondrous powers until the day of his death."

J The Opening Sale of Reserved Seat Tickets

r will be on Monday, March 14, at 8.3o A. M., at the Institute Office, 502 Fulton Street

$2.00, $1.75, $I.50 and $1.00

1 according to location Admission, 75 Cents.

Members of the Institute, on the presentation of the Proper Coupons, may each purchase one or two Reserved Seat Tickets at Members' Reduced Rates, as follows: $1.50, $1.25, $1.00 and 75 Cents according to location

Tickets may be purchased at the Chandler and Held Piano Co., 439 Fulton Streets 'áon and after Tuesday, March 15, as well as at the - Institute Office.

1 Am* 19 6L-13, 00003_0._ The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Department of Music, Season of 19034904 PARSIFALEXCERPTS FROM (IN CONCERT FORM) BY THE New York Symphony Orchestra Walter Damrosch, Musical Director BAPTIST TEMPLE Friday Evening, March 25, 1904, 8.30 o'clock PROGRAMME PRELUDE TO " DIE MEISTERSINGER " - - WAGNER

PARSIFAL - - -' WAGNER Music from the following scenes, with connecting explanatory re-

marks by Mr. DAMROSCH : ACT I I Prelude 2 Processional of the Knights of the Grail 3 Amfortas' Lament and The Divine Prophecy MR. ARCHAMBAULT AC II 4 Parsifal and the Flower Maidens in Klingsor's Magic Garden MR. JOHNSTON and MESDAMES MIHR- HARDY, KENNEDY, CRAWFORD, WHEELER, HARMON and BLOOMFIELD 5 Kundry's Song MME. MIHR -HARDY ACT III 6 Good Friday Spell (arranged for violin solo by A. WILHELMJ) MR. DAVID MANNES 7 Parsifal heals the Wound of Amfortas and Assumes the Kingship of the Grail MR. ARCHAMBAULT and MR. JOHNSTON

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THIRD AvGNrL ANNOUNCEM]ßNT OF THE Sixth Annual Concert

before the Brooklyn . Institute BY THE Arion Singing Society fIR. ARTHUR CLAASSEN, Conductor With Male Chorus of One hundred and twenty -five voices and Arion Ladies Chorus of One hundred voices; Assisted by MISS ANNA OTTEN - - - - VIOLIN Miss LILLIAN LITTLEHALES - - - 'CELLO MISS CLARA OTTEN - - - - - PIANO EAPTIST TEMPLE fifteen Thursday Evening, April 7, 1904 o'c ockht- RESERVED SEAT TICKETS are now on sale at the Brooklyn Institute Office, goa Fulton Street. To NON- MEMBERS, $x.go, $1.25 and $z.00, according to location. Admission 75 Cents. REDUCED RATES TO MEMBERS with Coupons, $1.00, 75 cents and go Cents. Admission, 5o Cents. (OVER)