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Tschaikowsky . , "Romeo and Juliet," Overture-Fantasia after Shakespeare Wagner . "A Siegfried Idyl" Sinigaglia . Overture to Goldoni's Comedy, "Le Baruffe Chiozzotte" ("The Squabbles of the People of Chiozza"), Op. 32 First time in Boston There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. 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 ReiEuIatlon of Autfust 5. 1898.— Chapter 3, relatlnii to the coverin|{ of. the head In places of puhllc amusement. 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Is he not yet ready to let drums and trumpets sound? He should always keep in mind the beginning of the Beethoven symphonies: he should try to make something like them. The beginning is the main thing; if only one makes a beginning, then the end comes of itself." * * * Just when Brahms began to make the first sketches of this symphony is not known. He was in the habit, as a young man, of jotting down his musical thoughts when they occurred to him. Later he worked on several compositions at the same time and let them grow under his hand. There are instances where this growth was of very long duration. He destroyed the great majority of his sketches. The few that he did not destroy are, or were recently, in the Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna. We know that in 1862 Brahms showed his friend Albert Dietrich* an early version of the first movement of the symphony. Brahms was then sojourning at Miinster. He composed in the morning, and the afternoon and evening were spent in excursions or in playing or hearing music. He left Hamburg in September of that year for his first visit to Vienna, and wrote to Dietrich shortly before his departure * Albert Hermann Dietrich was born August 28, i82g, near Meissen. He studied music in Dresden and at the Leipsic Conservatory. In 1851 he went to Diisseldorf to complete his studies with Schumann. He conducted the subscription concerts at Bonn from 1855 till 1861, when he was_ called to Oldenburg as court conductor. He retired in i8go and moved to Berlin, where he was made an associate member of the Koniglichp Akademie der Kiinste and in 1899 a Royal Professor. He composed two operas, a symphony, an overture;, choral works, a violin concerto, a 'cello concerto, chamber music, songs, piano pieces. He died November 20, LATEST ENGLISH SONGS and BALLADS . Price ;go. 60 ••I Hear You Calling Me" Price ;^o.6o "I Bring My Roses" C and D G, Ab, Bb, C A. 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Yet Theodor Kirchner wrote to Marie Lipsius that Brahms had carried this symphony about with him "many years" before the performance; and Kirchner said that in 1863 or 1864 he had talked about the work with Clara Schumann, who had then showed him portions of it, whereas "scarcely any one knew about the second symphony before it was completed, which I have reason to believe was after the first was ended; the second, then, was chiefly composed in 1877." In 1875 Dietrich visited Brahms at Zigelhausen, and he saw his new works, but when Dietrich wrote his recollections he could not say positively what these works were. The first performance of the Symphony in C minor was from manu- script at Carlsruhe by the grand ducal orchestra, November 4, 1876. Dessoff conducted and the composer was present. Brahms -conducted the performances of it at Mannheim a few days later and on November 15, 1876, at Munich. He also conducted performances at Vienna, December 17, 1876; at Leipsic, January 18, 1877; and at Breslau, IN THE PRESS READY MARCH 18th JAPANESE SONG-CYCLE BY CLAYTON THOMAS (Composer of the famous "Japanese Love Song") MATSURIS (OUR FESTAL DAYS) A CYCLE OF SIX JAPANESE SONGS By CLAYTON THOMAS Contents Prelude Cherry Blossoms — Summer in Kyoto Feast of Lanterns — Feast of Dolls Autumn Song — Imperial Chrysanthemum High Voice Low Voice I PRICE $L00 Copyright 1911 by Arthur P. Schmidt ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT 120 BOYLSTON STREET (take elevator) 1325 January 23, 1877. Before the concert in Vienna certain persons were allowed to hear the symphony played as a pianoforte duet by Brahms and Ignaz Briill. Early in 1877 Cambridge University offered Brahms an honorary degree. If he had accepted it, he would have been obliged to go to England, for it is one of the University's statutes that its degrees may not be conferred in absentia. Brahms hesitated about going, although he was not asked to write a work for the occasion. The matter was soon settled for him: the directors of the Crystal Palace inserted an advertisement in the Times to the effect that, if he came, he would be asked to conduct one of their Saturday concerts. Brahms declined the honor of a degree, but he acknowledged the invitation by giving the manuscript score and parts of the symphony to Joachim, who led the performance at Cambridge, March 8, 1877, although Mr.