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BOSTON SYMPHONY 1 ORCHESTRH FORTY-SECOND ^SwVVfr} - SEASON J922-J923 PRoGR7W\E TREMONT STREET. BOSTON Drawn from Ha shown by Chandler fir Co. &B Dress Hats, $20, $25 to $75.00 Semi-Dress, Tailored Hats, $15.00 to $25.00 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 l@§t©im Symphony D)relhe§te INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTY-SECOND SEASON, 1922-1923 torn* MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN ARTHUR LYMAN FREDERICK P. CABOT HENRY B. SAWYER ERNEST B. DANE GALEN L STONE M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE BENTLEY W. WARREN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. 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The £hickering may be purchased on easy terms of payment CHICKERING WAREROOMS 169 TREMONT STREET 'ORTY-SECOND SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO & TWENTY-THREE 'iftfa TO mime MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23 AT 8.15 Weber Overture to the Opera "Oberon" Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, "Scotch," Op. 56 I. Andante con moto; Allegro un poco agitato. II. Vivace non troppo. III. Adagio. IV. Allegro vivacissimo; Allegro maestoso assai. (To be played without pause) Wagner Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Mozart Aria, "Ah, lo so," from "The Magic Flute" Mozart Aria, "Con vezzie, con lusinghe" from "II Seraglio" Saint-Saens Septet for Trumpet, Strings and Piano, Op. 65 Piano solo — Jesus Sanroma Trumpet solo — Georges Mager I. Preamble. II. Minuet. III. Intermezzo. IV. Gavotte and Finale. 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"Oberon; or, the Elf-king's Oath," a romantic opera in three acts, book by James Robinson Planche, music by Carl Maria von Weber, was first performed at Covent Garden, London, on April 12, 1826. |l Weber conducted. The cast was as follows: Rezia, Mary Anne Paton; Mermaid, Mary Anne Goward; Fatima, Mme. Vestris; Puck, Harriet Cawse; Huon, John Braham; Oberon, Mr. Gownell; Scherasmin, acted by Mr. Fawcett, "but a bass singer, named Isaacs, was lugged in head and shoulders to eke out the charming quatuor, 'Over the Dark Blue " (Waters.' The first performance in Boston was in Music Hall by the Parepa- Rosa Company, May 23, 1870.* The first performance in Germany of "Oberon" in "its original shape" .was at Leipsic, December 23, 1826. *The cast was as follows: Rezia, Mme. Parepa-Rosa; Fatima, Mrs. E. Seguin; Puck, Miss Geral- idinc Warden; Sir Huon, William Castle; Scherasmin, A. Laurence (sic); Oberon, G. F. Hall; Mermaid, Miss Isaacson (?). Carl Rosa conducted. A song "Where Love is, there is Home,'' arranged by Howard T Glover from a theme in one of W eber's pianoforte sonatas, was introduced. The audience was not large, and it was cool. fThe part of Rezia was then taken by Miss Canzi, and that of Sir Huon by Vetter. Catherine Canzi, daughter of a Hungarian mother, was born at Baden, Austria, in 1*05. She si tidied with several ten iers, and became the pupil of Salieri in 1819. She sang at court concerts in 1821, appeared at the ' Court Opera House in operas by Rossini, and visited German opera houses as a "guest." In 1822 she went to Milan, where she studied with Banderali. She sang at La Scala in May, 1823, in Rossini's "Barbiere di Siviglia" and "L'Inganno Felice," sang with success in other Italian opera houses, re- turned to Germany in 1825, and was engaged for the Leipsic opera house. She visited London and ' Paris in 1826, but did not make a sensation. 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(This offer expires May 15th) A new version prepared by the royal conductor Josef Schlar and the librettist Josef Lauff was brought out at Wiesbaden in May, 1900, as one of festal performances in which William Hohenzollern took special interest. For an account of the revision see the Monthly Musical Record (London), July 1, 1900. * * * Weber was asked by Charles Kemble in 1824 to write an opera for Covent Garden. A sick and discouraged man, he buckled himself to the task of learning English, that he might know the exact meaning of the text. He therefore took one hundred and fifty-three lessons of an Englishman named Carey, and studied diligently, anxiously. Planche sent the libretto to Dresden an act at a time. Weber made his first sketch on January 23, 1825. The autograph score contains this note at the end of the overture: "Finished April 9, 1826, in the morning, at a quarter of twelve, and with it the whole opera.