ACADEMY CONCERT HALL, BALTIMORE. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. Eleventh Season, 1891-92. PROGRAMME OF THE THIRD CONCERT Thursday Evening, | Jan. 14, At 8 o'clock. With Historical and Descriptive Notes. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, Manager. The MASON & HAMLIN PIANC has always characterized the Illustrates the same high standard of excellence which at ALL MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS, and won for them the Highest Awards GREAT WORLD'S EXHIBITIONS since and including that of Fans, 1507. SOLD ON EASY TERMS AND RENTED. MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO. BOSTON, Mason & Hamlin Hall, 154 and 155 Tremont Street. CHICAGO, 149 Wabash Avenue. NEW YORK, 158 Fifth Avenue. Or-an and Piano Catalogue sent fres to any address. REPRESENTATIVES. OTTO SUTRO & CO., 19 East Baltimore St., BALTIMORE "" Boston Academy Symphony Concert Hall. Orchestra SEf^,0F Mr. ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. Third Concert, Thursday Evening, January 14, At 8 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Wagner --------A Faust Overture Liszt _-_---___ "Mignon" Schumann ______ Overture, "Manfred Songs with Piano. a Bungert ____-____" Amore e Luce " b Richard Strauss - - - " Staendchen" c Schumann ------ - Fruehlingsnacht Beethoven Symphony in A, No. 7 ______ Poco sostenuto ; Vivace. Allegretto. Presto ; Assai meno presto ; Tempo primo. Allegro con brio. Soloist, Mrs. ARTHUR NIKISCH. THE PIANOFORTE IS A KNABE. The announcement of the next Concert will be found on page 19. (3) SHORE LINE BOSTON TO NEW YORK NEW YORK TO" BOSTON Trains leave either city, week-days, as follows, except as noted : DAY EXPRESS at 10.00 a.m. Arrive at 4.30 p.m. BUFFET DRAWING-ROOM CARS. AFTERNOON SERVICE at 1.00 p.m. Arrive at 7.30 p.m. Dining Car beween Boston and New London. "GILT EDGE" LIMITED at 5.00 p.m. Daily, Sundavs included, and arrive 11 p.m. Royal Smoking Car through. DINING CAR BETWEEN BOSTON AND NEW LONDON. The last trains between the two cities to leave and arrive at termini the same day. 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It was after a rehearsal of Beethoven's ninth symphony at the Paris Conservatory in the winter of 1839 tnat Wagner conceived the idea of com- posing music to " Faust." His original plan was the writing of a sym- phony, the work played to-day to stand as the first movement. The plan was not carried out. The letters of Wagner to Liszt and Liszt to Wagner contain many references to the "Faust" overture, which had a trial per. formance in Dresden in 1844. Writing in 1848, Wagner says: "Mr. H. tells me you want my over- ture to Goethe's ' Faust.' As I know of no reason to withhold it from you, except that it does not please me any longer, I send it to you, because I think that in this matter the only important question is whether the over- " ture pleases you." Four years after : I cannot be angry with this com- position, although many detached things in it would not now flow from my pen, especially the somewhat too plentiful brass is no longer to my mind." Liszt, in a letter written from Weimar in 1852, confessed that he should like a second middle part or else a quieter and more agreeably colored treat- HUTZLER * BROS. * 212 TO 218 NORTH HOWARD STREET. Exclusive Novelties in Fine Dress Goods, Silks, Wraps, Millinery, Lace Curtains, and Ladies' Wear of a descriptions. (5) Fresh Medicines. CHARLES C. COOK, ReHabfe: Prescription ©racgcgist, COR. DRUID HILL AVE. and LANVALE STREET, . BALTIMORE, Md. A complete stock of Fresh Drugs and Medicines and all the spe- cialties pertaining to the retail drug and apothecary business constantly on hand. FAMILY RECIPES AND PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Personal attention given to the compounding of prescriptions. ORDERS BY MAIL PROMPTLY . ATTENDED TO. Moderate Prices. (6) ment of the present middle part. " If, instead of this, you introduced a soft, tender, melodious part, modulated a la Gretchen, I think I can assure you that your work would gain very much." Wagner in reply admitted that " the woman is wanting." He added: "Perhaps you would at once understand my tone-poem if I called it Faust in Solitude. At that time I ' intended to write an entire Faust ' symphony. The first movement, that which is ready, was this * solitary Faust,' longing, despairing, cursing. The feminine floats around him as an object of his longing, but not in its divine reality; and it is just this insufficient image of his longing which he destroys in his despair. The second movement was to introduce Gretchen, the woman. I had a theme for her, but it was only a theme. The whole ' remained unfinished. I wrote my Flying Dutchman ' instead. This is the whole explanation. If now from a last remnant of weakness and vanity I hesitate to abandon this Faust work altogether, I shall certainly have to remodel it, but only as regards instrumental modulation. The theme which you desire I cannot introduce. This would naturally involve an entirely new composition, for which I have no inclination. If I publish it, I shall give it its proper title, Faust in Solitude, or The Solitary " Faust, ' a tone-poem for orchestra.' In 1855 Wagner was taken with a desire to remodel the overture. " I have made an entirely new score, have rewritten the instrumentation throughout, have made many changes, and have given more expansion and importance to the middle portion (second motive). I shall give it in a few Eastern Silks. English Serges. Soft Draping Satins. Camel's Hair Cloths. Brocaded Silks. Velveteens. Crapes. Chiffons. Cottons. Gauzes. Fichus. Artistic Pillows. Gauze Fans. Satin Tea Cloths. Chuddah Shawls. Embroideries, etc. DESIGNS AND COLORINGS MADE FOR AND EXCLU- SIVELY CONTROLLED BY US IN THE STATES. EAST INDIA rlO USE, 51 and 53 Summer St, Boston, U.S.A. Agents of LIBERTY & CO., London. '7) " days at a concert here [Zurich], under the title of *A Faust Overture.' The motto will be : — 4 The God who dwells within my soul ( an heave its depths at any hour; Who holds o'er all my faculties control, Has o'er the outer world no power. Existence lies a load upon my breast, Life is a curse, and death a longed for rest.' English of Charles T. Brooks. In the letter accompanying the score Wagner writes Liszt as follows : " I should like you to take cognizance of the effect of my experience, and of the more refined feeling I have gained. In my opinion, new versions of this kind show most distinctly the spirit in which one has learned to work, and the coarseness one has cast off. You will be better pleased with the middle part. I was unable to introduce a new motive, because that would have involved a remodelling of the whole work : all I was able to do was to develop the sentiment a little more broadly in the form of a kind of enlarged cadence. Gretchen, of course, could not be introduced, only Faust himself.' " For this overture the Hartels were willing to give twenty louis d'or as an honorarium. Wagner consented, but sighed for twenty pounds. Overture to "Manfred." Schumann. Byron's " Manfred " seems to have exerted a peculiar influence upon Schumann's mind. It is true that he admired other poems of the English- NEW NIGHT LINE BOSTON, BROOKLYN, and LONG ISLAND CITY LIMITED TICKETS, $5.00. The only Line Running Solid Pullman Vestibuled Trains BETWEEN THE ABOVE POINTS VIA Long Island and Eastern States Line. Train leaves New York & New England depot daily (Sundays included) at 11.00 P.M. Due at Brooklyn (Flatbush Avenue Station, L. I. R.R.) at 7.80 A.M., connecting with Brooklyn Bridge via Elevated Railroad, and also with Fulton, Wall, and South Ferries, via surface cars, also at Long Island City Station with East Thirty-fourth St. Ferry for New York only. Twenty-five minutes to the vicinity of Fifth Avenue Hotel. Berths, tickets, and further information obtained at office of the N. Y. & N. E. R.R., 322 Wash- ington St., and at the depot, foot of Summer St., Boston. D. H. NICHOLS, A. C. KENDALL, General Superintendent. Boston. General Pass'r Agent. (8) Melodies to music, and he wrote a man : he set three of the Hebrew chorus and an aria for an opera founded on "The Corsair," which was planned in 1844; but it came to nought, and the fragments were never published. But ' : Manfred " fascinated him. Wasielwski suggests that the restless, wandering, distracted man, tormented by fearful thoughts, " and the mad, soul-destroying intercourse with spirits — which must of course be taken symbolically" — appealed to Schumann by a sense of affinity; "for he once said in conversation, ' I never devoted myself to any composition with such lavish love and power as to " Manfred." ' Ay, and, when reading the poem aloud before two people in Diisseldorf, his voice suddenly faltered, he burst into tears, and was so overcome that he could read no further." Now, Byron never intended his drama for the stage.