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Syapnony ORCMESTRS DOSTON SYAPnONY ORCMESTRS PRSGRHnnC — The New Aeolian Phonograph The AEOLIAN- VO C AL I O N A Notable Achievement in Musical Instrument Making" WHEN you go to buy a phonograph judge its quality by the artistic excellence, the richness and body of its tone. Test the Aeolian-Vocalion with any record you choose—the tone will be finer, smoother than you have ever heard from that record. The remarkable naturalness of the Vocalion reproductions of voice or instrument, their almost entire freedom from the usual phonographic imperfec- tions, will surprise you. And to heighten the pleasurable possibilities of a well-nigh perfect tone, there is the wonderful new Vocalion privilege of playing each record if you desire this by means of the Vocalion expression device, the Graduola, which enables you to shade, to color each phrase, to vary and modulate the music as you feel. Vocalion prices are reasonable — ^35 to $^$0 for conventional models ($35 to $75 styles without Graduola). Art styles to ^2000. Catalog and descriptive literature sent upon request. Complete stock of records. The VOCALION COMPANY VOCALION HALL 190 BOYLSTON STREET The Aeolian- Vocalion is the latest product of the Aeolian Company largest manufacturers of musical instruments in the world SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office i j | n p iaqo"^'^ *^ ^^^ Branch Exchange | Administration Offices j )©§)t€)etoe S)¥innipihi03ii¥2)jmpiDioniiJ uicOrchestF THIRTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1916-1917 Dr. KARL MUCK. Conductor 1 eirteeel ,¥eemi WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 2 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 3 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C, ELLIS, MANAGER 797 The ideal of the Steinway Piano is a beautiful voice. The work of the Steinway family is to create a sensitive but permanent vehicle for its expression. "The Steinway realization means the eleva- tion and furtherance of the great art of music. Their field is the world and mankind is the beneficiary. Rarely have men had such in- spiration and more rarely have they risen to the heights or possessed such unobscured and prophetic vision of the intellectual needs.** STEINWAY & SONS STEINWAY HALL 107-109 East 14th Street, New York Subway Express Station at the Door ~ Represented by the Foremost Dealers Everywhere 798 .IL Thirty-sixth Season. 1916-1917 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor PERSONNI M li is ihe teauiijul ione of iKese insiriiments ihat Kas given them world-wide celebrityTx^It is iKai eel- -ebritx- insured b^iheKigK -est quality of workman- -snip and finish that leads the purchaser to pay cheerfully the somewhat higher price asked jor them • 16^ Tremoiit- St • Bos toil. 800 THIRTY-SIXTH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN Thirty FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 2. at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 3. at 8.00 o'clock Mozart Overture to the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" Mozart Rondo, "Per Pieta, non Ricercate," written for Anfossi's opera "II Curioso Indiscreto" of A. Hiller Reger . Variations and Fugue on a Merry Theme J. (1770), for full orchestra, Op. 100 Handel . Recitative, "Stay, shepherd, stay," and Air, "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing," from "Acis and Galatea" Strauss "Don Juan," a Tone-poem (after Nicolaus Lenau), Op. 20 SOLOIST Mr. JOHN McCORMACK There will be an intermission of ten minutes between the third and fourth numbers The ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end of a number. 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 between the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,—Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectator!. it being underttood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk 801 EARLY PRESENTATION OF A~^\\:^j FOR SOUTHERN RESORT WEAR LADIES' GOWNS SUITS SEPARATE SKIRTS COATS WAISTS PORCH WRAPS EVENING COATS EVERYTHING REQUIRED FOR OUTDOOR WEAR "Woman's first interest is. and always will be, the home: second, education; then, dress and recreation." "Home Decoration" is the title of the 32-page booklet we issue, and in which we illustrate in colors a number of desirable wall treatments taken from our 1917 offerings in Wall Papers. To our readers, "Home Decoration" is glorious, artistic, defiant, but not melan- choly. There is a grandeur to the color-schemes in their natural tones that ban- ishes the thought of neglect. All the Summer and Fall did our artists plan and execute the splendid ideas displayed in this book. There are some ranges of coloring in the printing of wall papers that are best set off by a background of foliage. The tendency this season is toward the simple and not over-elaborate effects. Floral patterns of rose, purple, lilac or pink are at their best when grouped with gray. In fact, there is a carefully-thought-out place and effect with each of our enor- mous line of new patterns and colorings. Let us assist with your decoration problem. "Home Decoration" sent free upon request. SUMMER STREET BOSTON. MASS. Overture to the Opera "Le Nozze di Figaro." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Bom at Salzburg, January 27,1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791) The overture is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two b'assoons, two horns, two trumpets, kettledrums, and strings. It opens Presto, D major, 4-4, immediately with the first theme. The first part of it is a running passage of seven measures in eighth notes (strings and bassoons in octaves), and the second part is given for four measures to wind instruments, with a joyous response of seven measures by full orchestra. This theme is repeated. A subsidiary- theme follows. The second theme appears in A major, a gay figure in the violins, with bassoon, afterwards flute. There is no free fantasia. There is a long coda. * * * "Le Nozze di Figaro: dramma giocoso in quadro atti; poesia di Lorenzo Da Ponte,* aggiustata dalla commedia del Beaumarchais, 'Le Mariage de Figaro' ; musica di W. A. Mozart," was composed at Vienna in 1786 and produced there on May i of the same year. The cast * Lorenzo Da Ponte was bom at Ceneda in 1749. He died at New York, August 17, 1838. His life was long, anxious, strangely checkered. "He had been improvisatore, professor of rhetoric, and politician in his native land; poet to the Imperial Theatre and Latin secretary to the Emperor in Austrii; Italian teacher, operatic poet, litterateur, and bookseller in England; tradesman, teacher, opera manager, and bookseller in America." Even his name was not his ovra, and it is not certain that he ever took orders. He arrived in New York in 1805. See Mr. H. E. Krehbiel's entertaining chapter, "Da Ponte in New York" ("Music and Manners," New York, 1808). CHADWICK. GEORGE W. WHEN I AM DEAD COLERIDGE-TAYLOR LIFE AND DEATH AN EXPLANATION (Her Lips Were So Near) GANZ, RUDOLPH RISE STAR LOVE AND SONG THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS MacDOWELL. EDWARD LONG AGO, SWEETHEART MINE THE ARTHUR P, SCHMIDT CO. 120 Boylston Street, BOSTON, MASS. JOHN McCORMACK for SALE BY ALL MUSIC DEALERS 803 was as follows: il Conte Almaviva, Mandini; la Contessa, Laschi; Susanna, Storace; Figaro, Benucci; Cherubino, Bussani; Marcellina, Mandini; Basilio and Don Curzio, Ochelly (so Mozart wrote Michael Kelly's name, but Kelly says in his "Reminiscences" that he was called OKelly in Italy) ; Bartolo and Antonio, Bussani ; Barberina, Nannina Gottlieb (who later created the part of Pamina in Mozart's "Magic Flute," September 30, 1791). Mozart conducted. The Wiener Zeitung " (No. 35, 1786) published this review: On Monday, May i, a new Italian Singspiel in four acts was performed for the first time. It is entitled 'Le Nozze di Figaro,' and arranged after the French comedy of Hrn. V. Beaumarchais by Hm. Abb. Da Ponte, theatre-poet. The music to it is by Hrn. Kapellmeister Mozart. La Sign. Laschi, who came here again a httle while ago, and La Sign. Bussani, a new singer, appeared in it for the first time as Countess and Page." The opera was performed nine times that year. Only Martin's "Burbero di buon cuore" had as many performances. But when Martin's "Cosa rara" met with overwhelming success on November 17, 1786, emperor and public forgot "The Marriage of Figaro," which was not performed in Vienna in 1787 and 1788, and was first heard thereafter on August 29, 1789. The first performance in the United States was one of Bishop's remodelled English version, in New York, on May 3, 1823. The first performance of the opera in Boston was in all probability Bishop's version. The last performance was the one given by the MetropoHtan Opera House Company in the Boston Theatre, April 15, 1904. The cast was as follows: Count Almaviva, Scotti; the Countess, Mme. Gadski; Susanna, Mme. Sembrich; Figaro, Campanari; Cherubino, Mme. Seygard; Marcellina, Mme. Bauermeister; Basiho, Reiss; Bartolo, Rossi ; Antonio, Dufriche. Felix Mottl conducted. Mr. John McCormack, tenor, was born in Athlone, County West- meath, Ireland, on June 14, 1884. Having been in school there, he went to Summer Hill College, Sligo, when he was twelve years old.
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