«» Music Hall, Boston, )27 Ke Sympf THIRTEENTH SEASOM. Orchestra 1 893-94. EMIL PAUR, Conductor. PROGRAMME OF THE Eleventh Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY WILLIAM F. APTHORP. Friday Afternoon, January 5, At 2.30 o'clock. Saturday Evening, January 6, At 8 o'clock. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER. (361) THE & HAMLIN PIANOS and ORGANS HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED TO FRANZ LISZT. Sir ARTHUR SULLIVAN. CHARLES GOUNOD. Dr. STAIN ER. C. SAINT-SAENS. G. W. CHAD WICK. EDOUARD BATISTE. Dr. WM. MASON. THEODORE THOMAS. Mrs. H. H. A. BEACH. EMIL PAUR. WM. H. SHERWOOD. ARTHUR NIKISCH. S. B. WHITNEY. WALTER DAMROSCH. B. J. LANG. ANTON SEIDL. ANNIE LOUISE GARY, J. K. PAINE. ITALO CAMPANINI. X. SCHARWENKA. ALEX. GUILMANT. ADELINA PATTI. TH. DUBOIS. AND MANY OTHERS. Both the Mason & Hamlin Pianos and Organs have received the HIGHEST HONORS at all Great World's Expositions wherever exhibited for competition since and including that of Paris, 1867. Inspection and critical examination of these instruments is cordially invited. & Hamlin Orran & Piano Co. 54 & i« TREMONT ST., BOSTON. (362) Eleventh Rehearsal and Concert. Friday Afternoon, January 5, at 2.30, Saturday Evening, January 6, at 8.00, WAGNER PROGRAMME. Prelude to " The Master Singers of Nuremberg," in C major. Prelude and "Isolde's Love-death," from "Tristan and Isolde." Isolde : Mme Materna. A Siegfried Idyl, in E major. A Fanst Overture, in D minor. Siegfried's Funeral March, from " Gotterdammerung," Act III. Scene 2. Brunnhilde's dying speech over Siegfried's body, from "Gotterdammer- ung," Act III. Scene 3. Brunnhilde : Mme Materna. Soloist, Mme AMALIA MATERNA. There will be no Public Rehearsal and Concert next week. The programme for the next Public Rehearsal and Concert will be found on page 391. (3C3) : MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, QUARE AND UPRIGHT EUGEN D'ALBERT : From fullest conviction, i declare them to be the best In- .'.'". struments of America. BR. 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The prelude begins broadly with the first theme of the Master Singers' March, treated contrapuntally in allusion to the old school of art which the master singers represent in the comedy ; this is followed by the simpler and more march-like second theme of the same march, known also as the "King David Motive" (David was the tutelary patron of the master singers' guild). Then the first theme returns once more, and is worked up at considerable length by the full orchestra, rising up to a climax, after which comes some dainty play with phrases taken from Walther's Preislied and Werbelied, which after a while leads to a burlesque parody on the first theme of the march, played staccato by the wood-wind, and worked up con- trapuntally in conjunction with a queer, skipping, little figure with which the crowd jeer at Beckmesser to the words " Scheint mir nicht der Rechte" (He doesn't seem to me to be the right one), as he steps up to take part in the singing contest in the third act. This contrapuntal work goes on more and more boisterously and grotesquely until it at last becomes mere comic " Katzenmusik" or "cats' music," which suddenly debouches into one of the most beautiful and ingeniously constructed passages in all Wagner. The first violins, 'celli, and some of the wind instruments play the melody of Walther's Preislied ; as a bass to this the double-basses and bass-tuba play, note for note, the first theme of the march, while most of the wood- wind play the second theme of the march in diminution ; against these BRAIN-WORKERS. Horsford's Acid Phosphate is recommended by physicians of all schools, for restoring brain force or nervous energy, in all cases where the nervous system has been reduced below the normal standard by overwork, as found in lawyers, teachers, students, and brain-workers generally. Descriptive pamphlet free on application to Rumford Chemical Worlcs, Providence, R.l. Beware of Substitutes and Imitations. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 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Notwithstanding the complexity of the scheme, the pas- sage is perfectly clear, each theme standing out with absolute distinctness. The working-out continues, growing stronger, phrases from the first march- theme gradually asserting their supremacy, until at last the second march- theme bursts forth on all the wind fortissimo, against a surging, billowing accompaniment on the strings, and a glowing coda brings the movement to a brilliant close. Almost the whole prelude is contrapuntal in treatment. It is scored for the usual modern grand orchestra. Prelude and " Isolde's Love-death," from " Tristan and Isolde." Exactly when Wagner first conceived the idea of writing a music-drama on the subject of Tristan and Isolde is not known : the earliest mention of it we find is in a letter to Franz Liszt, undated, but written in the last months of 1854. In this letter Wagner writes: — But, as I have never in my life enjoyed the full happiness of love, I will erect one more monument to this most beautiful of all my dreams, in which, from beginning to end, this love shall fully satisfy itself: I have planned out, in my head, a Tristan and Isolde, the simplest but most full-blooded musical conception. Later on, in a letter to Liszt, dated July 12, 1856, thanking him for his score of Mazeppa, we find the following : — At bottom, I feel more like writing poetry than composing, just now : it takes a mon- strous obstinacy of perseverance to keep up playing wheel-horse. I have again two won- derful subjects that I must work out some time or other: Tristan and Isolde (that you know !), but then — the Victory — the holiest, the completest redemption : but about this I cannot tell you.* * This refers to a conception which, many years later, took form as Parsifal. New England conservatory of music (POUNDED BY DR. EBBN TOURJBB.) RICHARD H. 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Franklin Square, Boston, Mass. • During last season the following members of the Faculty appeared as soloists in these concerts Miss Louise A. Lsimer, Messrs. Heinrich Meyn, George M. Noweli, Carl Stasny, and Leo Schuhc. (867) Wagner had been for years at work on his Ring des Nibelungen ; he had completed the poem and written the music up to about the middle of the second act of Siegfried. He was still in political exile, and since Lohengrin (brought out by Liszt in Weimar on August 28, 1850) no new dramatic work of his had appeared. He began to feel that his artistic connection with the public had been too long severed, and was anxious to take it up again. He therefore interrupted his work on the Nibelungen, and turned with fresh enthusiasm to Tristan. But, when this score was finished, all sorts of obstacles were placed in the way of its being brought out ; and it was not until 1865 that it was first given in Munich, under Hans von Biilow's direction, on June 10. It was the first work in Wagner's third manner ever performed. The story on which the text is based was once thought to be of Norman origin, but was really Keltic ; it probably made its way through France into Germany, the most complete version of it extant being by Gottfried von Strassburg, written in the XIII.