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C\+TtlyCk&+-+»0Tk ' Twenty-seventh Season, 1907-1908. Vrl LIlvdLrCl Twentieth Season in Brooklyn. Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor. FOURTH CONCERT, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, AT 8.15 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. MacDowell .... Suite in A minor, Op. 42 I. In a Haunted Forest. II. Summer Idyl. III. In October. IV. The Shepherdess's Song. V. Forest Spirits. Bizet . Dramatic Overture, "Patrie," C minor, Op. 19 J Lalo . Spanish Symphony for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 2 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Scherzando : Allegro molto. IV. Andante. V. Rondo : Allegro. Goldmark Overture, " In the Spring," Op. 36 SOLOIST, Mr. FRITZ KREISLER. There wfll be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony. 5 y Ready to be played by means ofperfo- by any one rated rolls MUSICAL EXPRESSION Many pianists play mechanically* Their technique is often admirable, hut their touch is so uncompromisingly uniform from end to end and from top to bottom of a piece that the effect is inevitably automatic. 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The next performance was in Boston at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Nikisch conductor, October 24, 1891. The movements were the same in number. When the suite was played here again at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Paur conductor, October 26, 1895, the present third movement, "In October," was added, and then played for the first time. This movement was published separately and after the publication of the suite as it was produced at Worcester and for the first time in Boston. * * Mrs. Edward MacDowell has kindly furnished the following note: "The suite was begun in Wiesbaden* the year we returned to America, though it was hardly more than sketched. 'In October' was not written until the suite was practically finished. It was in no way, however, an afterthought. He had intended writing a movement of the kind, but it did not come to him until the other movements were * Frankfort had little interest for MacDowell after the death of Raff in 1882. In 1884 he married Miss Marion Nevins, of New York, and in 1885 he made his home at Wiesbaden until he returned to America. At Wiesbaden he gave his undivided attention to composition, and, according to the statement in Mr. Lawrence Gilman's "Edward MacDowell" (London and New York, 1905), he wrote at Wiesbaden all that is comprised between his Op, 23 and 35, —the second pianoforte concerto; the four pieces of Op. 24; "Lancelot and Elaine," for orchestra; the songs, "From an Old Garden"; three songs for male chorus; the "Idyls" and "Poems" for pianoforte after Goethe and Heine; the orchestral pieces, "The Saracens" and "The Beautiful Alda" (after the "Song of Roland"); the "Poems" for pianoforte,—" The Eagle," "The Brook," "Moon- shine," "Winter"; the songs of Op. 33 and Op. 34; and the Romance for 'cello and orchestra.—P. H. LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF MINIATURE SCORES MOZART. Symphony in D major - $0.50 AUBER. "Le Cheval de Bronze" Overture .50 BOIELDIEU. "La Dame Blanche" Overture - .50 MENDELSSOHN. "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" - .50 ROSSINI. "Semiramide" .50 E. ELGAR. "Military Marches" "Pomp and Circumstance" No. 1 in D - $1.00 No. 2inA - 1.00 No. 3 in C 1.00 No. 4b G ----- 1.00 E. ELGAR. "Sea Pictures." Cycle of Five Songs for Contralto - 1.50 BRAHMS. German Requiem -------- 3.00 HAYDN. "Creation" 2.50 LISZT. Second Piano Concerto in A major ----- 2.00 MOZART. Requiem ijso B00SEY & COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth St., New YorK City 7 finished. Then he wondered if the suite were not long enough with- out it, and so the suite first came out ; and the moment it was thus performed [in four movements] he was sorry. The new movement was published separately. I have an idea that the suite was performed in Germany earlier than the performance at the Worcester Festival. It had a queer popularity in Germany for two or three years. In Breslau it was played four or five times,, and, in fact, it was brought out in a number of places. "Edward had no more 'programme' in his mind than the titles imply; but he was undoubtedly led toward the subject by the close proximity in which we lived to the big Wiesbaden Forest. We had a tiny cottage there, just on the edge of the woods; and he spent hours wandering in them. His Scotch blood had filled his mind with mysti- cism. Deep in his heart he half believed the old tales of spirits and fairies, —of course, not in his ordinary moods, but his imagination often carried him very far, even though he might laugh at himseli. He hated cutting down a big tree; it seemed possible that something; more than the tree suffered. Strange as all this was in Germany, it was much stranger in America.