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Fourth Rehearsal and Concert SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (5-MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _. , \ Ticket Office, 1492 ) , „ , „ Telephones s • , . ^.' ,_._ ^ ^ „a. ^ Back Bay•' I Administration Offices, 3200 \ THIRTIETH SEASON, 1910 AND 1911 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor J^rogramm? of % Fourth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A.ELLIS, MANAGER OPERA AMERICA AND ABROAD Mr. H, WINFRED GOFF Frau CLARA WALLENTHIN- Miss EDITH DE LYS London Covent Garden STRANDBERG Stockholm London Covent Garden two seasons America Savage Grand Opera Royal Opera and Dresden Milan Florence Brussels Rome etc. singing in Germany Mrs. CLAR.\ SEXTON- At present Mr. EARL W. MARSHALL CROWLEY Italy Florence Milan Miss LAURA VAN KURAN Italy Florence etc. Barcelona Now singing in America Italy Florence Now in America Now in Italy Mrs. ALICE KRAFT BENSON Mrs. LOUISE HOMER Mr. MYRON W. WHITNEY France Nantes At present with Aborn Grand Opera. Co. New York Paris London Brussels Now with Lilian Nordica Concert and Opera Boston Chicago Now singing in New York Metropolitan Opera Co. Co. Italy Mme. LENA ABARBANELL Miss FANNY B. LOTT Miss BLANCH FOX (VOLPINig Austria Hungary Germany etc. Italy Palermo Rimini Pisa etc. Italy Venice Milan Vercelli etc. Metropolitan Opera Co. New York Now singing in Italy .American Grand Opera Cos. New Now singing "Madam Sherry" N.Y. Miss EDITH FROST STEWART York Chicago San Francisco etc. Mr. henry GORRELL To create title role in Victor Her- Miss MARY CARSON (KIDD) Italy Florence Genoa Torino etc. bert's new opera " When Sweet Six- Italy Milan etc. Now singing in Italy teen" now rehearsing in New York Now singing in Italy Mr. FLETCHER NORTON Miss BERNICE FISHER Miss ROSINA SIDNA Now singing in New York With the Boston Opera Co. Italy Spain "The Deacon and the Lady" Now singing in Australia Miss FLORA ZABELLE Mr. CHARLES BARRON Mr. STANLEY FORD (Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock) Aborn Grand Opera Co. Of the Woodland, Raymond Hitch- With Raymond Hitchcock Co. Now singing in Italy cock and other companies America-Concert Recital Oratorio Lecture Etc.-Abroad Miss EDITH CASTLE Miss CHRISTINE MILLER Mrs. ETTA BURGESS NOBBES U.S.A. Canada England Italy New York, Chicago, Pittsburg, New York Boston Montreal etc. Miss VIOLA VAN ORDEN Worcester leading societies Instructor Int. School N.Y. Instructor Int. School Boston Miss BERTHA CARLOTTA Miss GRACE L. BAUM Pacific Coast New England etc. KING New England New England Miss LUCY ALLEN Miss LOUISE ORMSBY Principal soprano soloist two years Paris London New York Miss MAUD REESE Sousa's Band Now singing in England Two years principal soprano soloist Miss CHRISTINE LABAR- Mrs. ALICE HUESTON Sousa's Band RAQUE Lawyer linguist singer STEVENS Mrs. CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS lecturer teacher (blind) Italy New York New England HILLS Miss EDITH STERLING Miss JEWEL GERALDIXI' Italy New York New England etc. NICHOLS Who has made a spe- McCUNE Miss cial study under most favorable con- Of the Cleveland Detroit and St. ROSE TYLER England etc. ditions of Neapolitan dialect songs Clair Popular Concerts New York New Mrs. EDWIN J. DREYFUS So- Miss SARAH MAE RAYNOLDS Mrs. JESSIE MORSE BEREN- loist Max Heinrich, Gideon French Italy France U.S.A. SON and German Lecture Recitals Now in Italy Italy New England Miss ELMA IGELMANN Mrs. LAURA BRADFORD Mrs. ETHEL FRANK- New England New York Middle THOMPSON Of the Denman BRIGHAM West Thompson Old Homestead Co. Italy New England Miss PHYLLIS WOLFE Mrs. PARSON GOODRICH Miss THEO GOODRICH Florence York and Concert church recital etc. Milan New New Concert Recital Entertainer Middle West England Miss NORAH FRANCES BURNS Miss KATHARINE MELLEY Mrs. FELIX FOX Contralto Church of the Immacu- Second season Staats Sextette Now of the Faculty of the Fox- late Conception Formerly instructor Int. School Buonamici Pianoforte School Miss ALMEDA ADAMS Singer Miss VERA CURTIS Member of Miss ERNESTINE HARDING teacher lecturer director (blind) \'ictor Maurel Opera Co. New York Soprano Tremont Temple Miss ALENA G. EMERSON Miss S. MAUDE THOMPSON Instructor Penn. College Pittsburg Instructor N.E. Conservatory In- N.E. Conservatory of Music ternational School Florence Boston Wm. L. Whitney International School Now Phila. and N.Y. representative Mr. a. R. FRANK Mr. FRANCIS ROGERS Mr. HARRY F. MERRILL Italy, New England Music Festivals With the Sembrich Concert Co. Maine and Church Choir Festivals Commonwealth Ave. Baptist Church Mr. PAUL HASTINGS ALLEN England Italy New York New Eng. Mr. WALTER KNOWLES Paderewski Symphony Prize award Mr. SOKICHI KUZUOKA Italy New England HENRY H. HALL Japan New York New England etc. Mr. FREDERICK BANCROFT Instructor of Halifax Conservatory Mr. S. GR.\HAM NOBBES Recital lectures. Songs of Scotland of Music Nova Scotia Chief voice instructor at the Ireland England Italy etc. Emma Willard College Troy N.Y. Rabbi CH.\RLES FLEISCHER Mr. RICHARD (Dick) GRANT Mr. WALTER JACKSON Instructor University of Minnesota RICHARD GRANT CALTHROP Mr. EDWARD ROYCE One of the chief exponents of the Mr. LOUIS BENNETT Italian in York SotoLst with Pittsburg Director of Music at the Bryan Old Method New Orchestra Academy Texas Formerly Syracuse Univ. Fine .\rts and other Orchestral Concerts Mr. LOUIS BLACK Mr. ARMAND FORTIN Mr. GEORGE YATES KELLS Director of Music W Virginia Instructor (voice) N.E. Conser- Voice teacher W. L. W. Inter- University vatory national School *A REPRESENTATIVE LIST %A#Mil %Af l_l l-^-KI ir\/ BOSTON NEW YORK HART- OF PUPILS OF WM. L. WHITNEY ford Portland OF THE BOSTON INTERNATIONAL AND HARTFORD SCHOOLS OF MUSIC * From time to time lists of professional singers, pupils of Mr. Whitney, will be published in this programme 222 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL i9 MnA ^nl^M^ARn^Ann^MM^mMnA^M^mmm iw wi r« M»m iu» w* im & U Perfection in Piano Making 5 feet long THE -€f(^imxm Quarter Grand Style V, in figured Makogany, price ^650 It is tut five :feet long and in Tonal Proportions a Masterpiece or piano building. It is Ckickering ^ Sons' most recent triumph, tke exponent oi EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS experience in artistic piano building, and the neir to all tbe qualities tbat tbe name or its makers implies. CHICKERING ^ SONS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET, Comer Northampton Street, near Mass. Ave. BOSTON QirwiirwiAtfinfintfin<initA«in« in< w vwWWVwVwVwVwVW vvvwVm tAiiu^ ^ 224 THIRTIETH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TEN AND ELEVEN 3T0urtIf S^ij^araal unh (Eantttt FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, at 230 o^cIock SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2% at 8 o'clock PROGRAMME Schubert Andante con moto, from the ''Unfinished" Symphony In Mcmoriam Julia Ward Ho'wc Brahms Symphony No. 3, in F major. Op. 90 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante. III. Poco allegretto. IV. Allegro. Beethoven Concerto in D major for VioUn, Op. 61 I. Allegro ma non troppo. II. Larghetto. III. Rondo. Strube Comedy Overture, "Puck" SOLOIST Mr. ANTON WITEK There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performafice of each number on the progratntne. 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 Regulation of August 5. 1898.— Chapter 3. relatinti to the covering of the head in places of public amusement. Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. .Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk. 225 Symphony Np. 3, in F major, Op. 90 Johannes Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) Brahms worked on his Third symphony in 1882, and in the summer of 1883 he completed it. That summer was spent at Wiesbaden, where Brahms lived in a house that had belonged to Ludwig Knaus, the painter. Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells how the composer took off his boots every night on returning to'^the house, and went up the stairs in his stockings, that he might not disturb an elderly and delicate woman on the first floor. Miss May ^Iso tells a story of Brahms' brusqueness when a private performance of the new sym- phony, arranged for two pianofortes, was given by Brahms and Briill at Ehrbar's * in Vienna. One of the listeners, who had not been reck- oned among the admirers of Brahms, was enthusiastic over the new work. "Have you had any talk with X.?" asked young Ehrbar of Brahms; "he has been telling me how delighted he is with the sym- phony." To which Brahms answered: "And have you told him that he often lies when he opens his mouth?" The first performance of the Third symphony was at a Philharmonic Concert in Vienna, December 2 (or 3 ?), 1883. Hans Richter con- ducted. Brahms sent the manuscript to Joachim in Berlin and asked him to conduct the second performance where or at what time he liked. For a year or more the friendship between the two had been clouded, for Brahms had sided with Mrs. Joachim in the domestic dispute, or at least he had preserved his accustomed intimacy with her, and Joachim had resented this. The second performance, led by Joachim, was at Berlin, January 4, 1884. The copyright of the manuscript was sold to the publisher Simrock, of Berlin, for 36,000 marks ($9,000) and a percentage on sums realized by performances.
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