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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 33,1913 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA Twenty-ninth Season in Philadelphia c$mmii Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor Programme of the nd Last Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER n / \ . d_ R« The Talking Machine You Want is to be found at Heppe's Whether it be an ordinary Victor or a superb Victrola, every artistic possibility of the Talking Machine is assured when it comes from Heppe's. Experts adjust every machine that leaves our establishment and our service is best because we are both wholesale and retail distributors. LOWEST FACTORY PRICES GUARANTEED, WHETHER YOU BUY FOR CASH OR ON TIME Victors, $ 10 to $ 60 Victrolas, $15 to $200 C J, 1IEPPE wc 1117-1119 Chestnut Street, 6th and Thompson Streets Wholesale and Retail, Victor and Edison ©sto ypmmy uicm o5) Thirty-third Season, 1913-1914 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor PERSONNEL Violins, Witek, A. Roth, O. Hoffmann, J. Mahn, F. Concert-master. Kuntz, D. Tak, E. Theodorowicz, J. Noack, S. Koessler, M. Bak, A. Traupe, W. Goldstein, H. Rissland, K. Ribarsch, A. Baranieeki, A. Sulzen, H. Habenicht, W. Fiedler, B. Berger, H. Tischer-Zeitz, H. Fiumara, P. Spoor, S. Hayne, E. Goldstein, S. Griinberg, M. Kurth, R. Gerardi, A. Ringwall, R. Pinfield, C. E. Gewirtz, J. Violas. Ferir, E. Werner, H. Wittmann, F. Pauer, 0. H. Van Wynbergen, C. Gietzen, A. Schwerley, P. Berliner, \Y. Forster, E. Blumenau, W. Violoncellos. Warnke, H. Keller, J. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Urack, O. Nagel, R. Nast, L. Folgmann, E. Steinke, B. Basses. Kunze, M. Agncsy, K. Seydel, T. 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Send for a description of the MASON & HAM- LIN TENSION RESONATOR, the greatest discovery in pianoforte construction in the last fifty years. ESTABLISHED 1854 BOSTON NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC . PHILADELPHIA Twenty-ninth Season in Philadelphia Thirty-third Season, 1913-1914 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor FIFTHfAND LAST CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Brahms ...... Symphony in E minor, No. 4, Op. 98 I. Allegro non'troppo. II. Andante moderato. HI. Allegro giocoso. IV. Allegro energico e passionate " Strauss . Tone Poem, Tod und Verklarung" ("Death and Transfiguration"), Op. 24 Paderewski . Concerto in A minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra SOLOIST Mr. PADEREWSKI Steinway Piano used There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 u ?5> :er the Symphony Conceri a prolonging of musical pleasure by home-firelight awaits the owner of a " Baldwin." The strongest impressions of the concert season are linked with Baldwintone, exquisitely exploited by pianists eminent in their art. Schnitzer, Pugno, Scharwenka, Bachaus — De Pachmannf More than chance attracts the finely-gifted amateur to this keyboard. Among people who love good music, who have a culti- vated knowledge of it, and who seek the best medium for producing it, the Baldwin is chief. In such an atmosphere it is as happily "at home" as are the Preludes of Chopin, the Liszt Rhapsodies upon a virtuoso's programme. THE BOOK OF THE BALDWIN free upon request Mmk* Symphony in E minor, Op. 98 Johannks Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) This symphony was first performed at Meiningen, October 25, 1885, under the direction of the composer. Simrock, the publisher, is said to have paid Brahms forty thousand marks for the work. It was played at a public rehearsal of the Sym- phony Orchestra in Boston, November 26, 1886. Although Mr. Gericke "did not stop the orchestra,"—to quote from a review of the concert the next day,—he was not satisfied with the performance, and Schumann's Symphony in B-flat was substituted for the concert of November 27. There were further rehearsals, and the work was played for the first time at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orches- tra on December 23, 1886. This symphony was composed in the summers of 1884 and 1885 at Miirz Zuschlag in Styria. The Allegro and Andante were composed during the first summer, the Scherzo and Finale during the last. Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells us that the manuscript was nearly destroyed in 1885: "Returning one afternoon from a walk, he [Brahms] found that the house in which he lodged had caught fire, and that his friends were busily engaged in bringing his papers, and amongst them the nearly finished manuscript of the new symphony, into the garden. He immediately set to work to help in getting the fire under, whilst Frau Fellinger sat out of doors with either arm outspread on the precious papers piled on each side of her." A scene for the "his- torical painter"! We quote the report of this incident, not on account of its intrinsic value, but to show in what manner Miss May was able to write two volumes, containing six hundred and twenty-five octavo pages, about the quiet life of the composer. But what is Miss May in comparison with Mr. Max Kalbeck, whose Life of Brahms, not yet com- pleted, contains 1,823 pages. In a letter, Brahms described this symphony as "a couple of entr'actes," also as " a choral work without text." Franz Wiillner, then conductor of the Gurzenich Concerts at Cologne, asked that he migh£ produce this new symphony. Brahms answered that first performances and the wholly modern chase after novelties did not interest him. He (ITALIAN METHOD) (Pupil of Lulgi Vannuccini, Florence, Italy.) FORMERLY CONDUCTOR OF GRAND OPERA OCTOBER TO MAY MAY TO OCTOBER 1 705 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 9 Friedrich Str., Muenchen, Germany For further information address either "The Gladstone," Pine and 11th Streets, or the studio, 1705 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. was vexed because Wiillner had performed a symphony by Bruckner, and he acted in a childish manner. Wiillner answered that he thought it his duty to produce new works, and a symphony by Bruckner was certainly more interesting than one by Gernsheim, Cowen, or Schar- wenka. Brahms was doubtful about the value of his fourth symphony. He wished to know the opinion of Elisabeth von Herzogenberg and Clara Schumann. He and Ignaz Brull played a pianoforte arrangement in the presence of Hanslick, Dr. Billroth, Hans Richter, C. F. Pohl, Gustav Dompke, and Max Kalbeck. He judged from their attitude that they did not like it, and he was much depressed. "If people like Billroth, Hanslick, and you do not like my music, whom will it please?" he said to Kalbeck. There was a preliminary rehearsal at Meiningen for correction of the parts. Bulow conducted it, and there were present the Landgraf of Hesse, Richard Strauss, then second conductor of the Meiningen orchestra, and Frederick Lamond, the pianist. Brahms arrived in time for the first performance. The symphony was most warmly applauded, and the audience endeavored, but in vain, to obtain a repetition of the third movement. The work was repeated November i under Bulow's direction, and was conducted by the composer in the course of a three weeks' tour with the orchestra and von Bulow in Ger- many and in the Netherlands. The first performance in Vienna was at a Philharmonic concert, led by Richter, January, 17 1886. "Though the symphony was applauded by the public and praised by all but the inveterately hostile section of the press, it did not reach the hearts of the Vienna audience in the same unmistakable manner as its two immediate predecessors, both of which had made a more striking im- pression on a first hearing in Austria than the first symphony in C minor. Strangely enough, the fourth symphony at once obtained some measure of real appreciation in Leipsic, where the first had been far more successful than the second and third." This statement is too friendly towards Brahms. As a matter of fact, the symphony disap- pointed Brahms's friends. Hugo Wolf wrote a bitter review in which he made all manner of fun at the fact, trumpeted by Brahms's admirers, 1505 ARCH STREET BRANCH, 57 EAST PENN STREET, GERMANTOWN A School that teaches Music as an Art. Primary, Intermediate, and Finishing Classes. Private and Class Teaching. CALL OR SEND FOR CATALOG FRANKLIN E. CRESSON JOHN W. 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