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Ave. BOSTON I ^ ^^^ ^WVW ¥VVV tfV W W^ M^ W^^f^ V\i¥\i\f\iV\i¥^V\l^^¥^¥^ W^ W^'mpM'^ I TWENTY- NINTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE AND TEN Nineteenth Rehearsal and Concert FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH J8, at 230 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH i% at 8 o'clock PROGRAMME Strube Comedy Overture, "Puck" (MS.) First performance ' Strauss . Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (in one movement) Arias with Orchestra: a. Mozart . "Deh vieni" ("O come, my heart's delight"), from "Le Nozze di Figaro," Act IV., Scene 10 d. Graun . .- . "Singtdem gottlichen Propheten " (" Lo, the heaven descended Prophet"), from " Der Tod Jesu" ("The Death of Jesus") " Mozart .... Overture to the Opera " The Magic Flute Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment: a. Brahms . " Die Nachtigall " ("The Nightingale "), Op. 46, No. 4 ^. Schumann . "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. i " " c. Fiedler . Wiegenlied ("Cradle Song"), Op. 8, No. i " a. Strauss . 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The title indicates merely that the composer wished to portray in tones a sylvan picture, some frolic with Puck as the main figure. The form is that of the Sonata. After a short introduction theme, which is developed at some length, the main motive enters (D major). It is played by the horn and accom- panied by a tremolo in the strings. This is followed by little episodes that lead into the second motive (F major). A conclusion theme of a more tranquil character ends the first part. There is a working-out section, and after this the first motive enters again, and this time it is played by the whole orchestra, fortissimo, over a basso ostinato. Then the second motive and the conclusion theme appear again. There is a short coda. Puck is the rascally imp that frights maidens of the villagery, skims milk, mocks the breathless housewife at the churn, misleads night wanderers, disconcerts sorely the wisest aunt telling the saddest tale. Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck. Richard Grant White says in a note to "A Midsummer Night's SONGS WORTH SINGING Sung by Madame Nordica. "NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL." Composed by Roger Quilter. 3 keys. Sung by Madame Marchesi. "A COTTAGE SONG." Composed by Laura G. Lemon. 3 keys. Sung by John McCormack. "THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE." Composed by John F. Larchet. 3 keys. Sung by Harry Dearth. "TOMMY LAD." Composed by E. J. Margetson. 2 keys. BOOSEY &f COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth Street NEW YORK And London, England 1423 L. P. Hollander & Co. Announce that their Spring IMPORTATIONS of FRENCH MILLINERY Are now on exhibition Also a complete assortment of Inexpensive Ready-to-Wear Hats For Ladies, Misses and Children BOYLSTON STREET EVERY BUSINESS MAN has some receptacle for valuable papers — an office safe or a vault in his office building. Yet safes are not proof against burglary, and fire will destroy a building, vault and all. 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Indeed, he seems to have been the first to spell it puck, all other previous or contem- porary English writers in whose works it has been discovered spelling; it either powke, pooke, or pouke. There seems to be no reason to doubt that Shakespeare and his contemporaneous readers pronounced it pook. The fact that it is made a rhyme to 'luck' is not at all in variance with this opinion, because it appears equally certain that the u in that word, and in all of similar orthography, had the sound of oo." Burton, in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," makes a puck a separate demon, will-o'-the-wisp. In Ben Jonson's "Sad Shepherd" he ap- pears as Puck-hairy. In "Hudibras" he figures as "good Pug-Robin." See Heywood's "Hierarchie," Lib. IX.: In John Milesius any man may reade Of divels in Sarmatia honored Call'd Kottri of Kibaldi; such as wee Pugs and hobgoblins call. Their dwellings In corners of old houses least frequented bee, Or beneath stacks of wood; and these convented Make fearful! noise in buttries and in dairies, Robin good-fellowes some, some call them fairies. SONGS BOOKS ON SINGING FROM THE PROGRAMMES OF Mme. MARCELLA SEMBRICH TAYLOR. Psychology of Singing, $2.00 LEHMAN. How to Sing . 1.50 Mrs. H. H. A. BEACH My Sweetheart and I (2 keys) . ^0.50 (ElleetMoi) GARCIA. Hints on Singing . 1.50 The Year's at the Spring (2 keys) . .50 ARTHUR FOOTE HENDERSON. Art of the Singer, 1.25 There sits a bird on every tree {2 keys) . .50 I'm wearing awa' (2 keys) 3° DAVIES. Singing the Future . 2.50 The Nightingale has a lyre of gold (2 keys) . .50 Sent free : Thematic catalogue of Selected Songs I | Arthur P. Schmidt CHARLES W.HOMEYER& GO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET (Walker BId'tf) 332 Boylston St. (Opp. Arlington St. BOSTON, MASS. BOSTON. MASS. ^ 1 1425 v SyMPHONIA DOMESTICA, Op. 53 RiCHARD STRAUSS J (Born at Munich, June 11, i> 4; now livin:^ in Cliarlottenburo — Berlin.) 1 Richard Strauss was sojourning in London late in he When 1902, i said to a reporter of the Musical Times of that city: "My next tone- poem will illustrate 'a day in my family life.' It will be partly lyrical, partly humorous, —a triple fugue, the three subjects representing papa, mamma, and the baby." * The symphony was composed in 1903.- On the last page of the score is this note: "Charlottenburg, December 31, 1903." The score was published in 1904.