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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 16, 1896-1897 Boston . Music Hall> Boston Symphony fA SIXTEENTH SEASON, ^ t Orchestra i896-97 EMIL PAUR, Conductor. PROGRAMME OF THE FIFTH REHEARSAL AND CONCERT WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY WILLIAM F. APTHORP. Friday Afternoon, November 20, At 2. SO o'clock. Saturday Evening, November 21, At 8 o'clock. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS. MANAGER. (145) Steinway & Sons, Piano Manufacturers BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY, WILLIAM II., EMPEROR OF GERMANY. THE ROYAL COURT OF PRUSSIA. His Majesty, FRANCIS JOSEPH, Emperor of Austria. HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Their Royal Highnesses, THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. His Majesty, UMBERTO I., the King of Italy. Her Majesty, THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. His Majesty, Emperor William II. of Germany, on June 13, 1893, also bestowed on our Mr. William Steinway the order of The Red Eagle, III. Class, an honor never before granted to a manufacturer. The Royal Academy Of St. CSBCilia at Rome, Italy, founded by the celebrated composer Pales- trina in has elected Mr. William Steinway an honorary member of that institution. The following is 1584, — the translation of his diploma : The Royal A cademy of St. Ccecilia have, on account of his eminent merit in the domain of music, and in conformity to their Statutes, Article 12, solemnly decreed to receive William Stein- way into the number of their honorary members. Given at Rome, April 15, 1894, and in the three hundred and tenth year from the founding of the society. Alex. Pansotti, Secretary. E. Di San Martino, President. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES MAILED FREE ON APPLICATION. STEINWAY & SONS, Warerooms, Steinway Hall, 107-111 East 14th St., New York. EUROPEAN DEPOTS : Steinway Hall, 15 and 17 Lower Seymour St., Portman Sq., w., London, England. Steinway's Pianofabrik, St. Pauli, Neue Rosen-Strasse, 20-24, Hamburg, Germany. M. STEINERT & SONS CO., New England Representatives, 162 Boylston Street, Boston. (146) Fifth Rehearsal and Concert Friday Afternoon, November 20, at 2.30 o'clock. Saturday Evening, November 21, at 8.00 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Pe'er Cornelius - Overture to " The Barber of Bagdad" /' Frederic Chopin -\ - Pianoforte Concerto No. 1, ill E minor, Op. 11 I. Allegro maestoso (E minor) ----- \ 3-4 IT. Romance : karghetto (B major) - -^ 4-4 III. Rondo : Viva^ce (E major) ------- 2-4 " Karl Goldmark - Prelude to Part III. of " The Cricket on the Hearth / (First time in Boston.) Antonm Dvorak - - Symphony No. 5, in E minor, " From the New World," Op. 95 / I. Adagio (E minor) --------- 4-8 Allegro molto (E minor) ------- 2-4 II. Largo (D-flat major) -------- 4-4 - III. Scherzo : Molto vivace (E minor) - - - 3-4 IV. Allegro con fuoco (E minor) ------ 4-4 ** Soloist, Mr. MORIZ ROSENTHAL.. The Pianoforte is a Steinway. \ L. P. Hollander & Co. Ladies' Dressmaking. Order Department, Third Floor. 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Der Barbier von Bagdad, comic opera in two acts, the text and music by Peter Cornelius, was brought out under Liszt's direction at the Grand- Ducal Opera-House in Weimar in 1859. It was the last modern opera Liszt brought out in Weimar, and the violent opposition its production called forth from critics and public so affected him that he threw up his position as conductor at the opera-house and moved from the city. The opera has since been revived with great success In Munich and elsewhere, but after the composer's death. The overture opens Allegretto molto in D major (6-8 time) with a rushing phrase in the strings in unison and octaves, against strong chords in the brass and bassoons. Then the rhythm of the " dotted triplet " asserts itself in the violins, and a soft chattering ensues on this rhythm in the wood-wind, against trills in the violins and pizzicato chords in the violas and 'celli. A short crescendo leads to a repetition of both initial phrase and the chattering passage, which latter is almost immediately taken up in fortissimo and developed by the full orchestra. This lively exordium is followed by an Andante non troppo lento in D major, later in B-flat major (9-8 time), beginning with some graceful phrases in the wood-wind, an- swered by the first violins, and settling down into a melodious cantilena of the wood-wind over contrapuntal figuration in the 'celli with the modula- Horsford's Acid Phosphate Overworked men and women, the nervous, weak and de- bilitated, will find in the Acid Phosphate a most agreeable, grateful and harmless stimulant, giving renewed strength and vigor to the entire system. Dr. Edwin F. VOSe, Portland, Me., says: "I have used it in my own case when suffering from nervous exhaustion, with gratifying results. I have prescribed it for many of the various forms of nervous debility, and it has never failed to do good." 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So this overture has " what might be called a double introduction, the usual " slow introduction being preceded by a brisk Allegretto. The main body of the overture, Allegro molto con brio in D major (6-8 time), opens softly with the bright first theme, which is very extendedly developed in crescendo by fuller and fuller orchestra in occasional alterna- tion with a more chromatic subsidiary phrase. This development of the first theme covers a hundred and eleven measures, the rhythm being par- ticularly unstable, measures in 9-8 and 2-4 time frequently interrupting the even flow of the typical 6-8 time of the movement. This protracted devel- opment debouches at last into the melodious cantilena of the second theme, sung at first by the 'celli and horn, over sustained harmony in the clarinets and bassoons, against swept syncopated chords in the harp and triplet fig- uration in the violins. This theme begins in the dominant, A major, but is of very shifting tonality; with a sudden change to C major, the melody passes to the oboe, clarinet, and trumpet, while the triplet figuration is taken up by the violas and 'celli, the violins playing long close tremolos New England Conservatory of music. FOUNDED IN 1853 BY DR. EBEN TOURJEE. RICHARD H. DANA, President. CARL FABLTEN, Director. Thorough and complete courses of study in all departments of MUSIC, ELOCUTION, and MODERN LANGUAGES. SPECIAL COURSES IN Pianoforte and Violin Sight Playing, Sight Singing and Ear Training, and Pianoforte Tuning. Entrance examinations for second term begin November 12. Second term opens November 19. PRANK W. HALE, General Manager, Franklin Square, Boston, Mass. (151) the development is continued with varying instrumentation, against arpeggj in the harp and tremolos in the strings. The rhythm of this second theme, too, presents some irregularities, the time being 4-4, interspersed every now and then with measures of 5-4.
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