ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE . INDIANAPOLIS

Twenty-eighth Season, 1908-1909

MAX FIEDLER, Conductor

Programme of GRAND CONCERT

WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE

• THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28

AT 8.15 PRECISELY

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GRAND CONCERT,

THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, AT 845 PRECISELY

PROGRAMME.

Beethoven .... Overture to Goethe's "Egmont," Op. 84

Tschaikowsky . Symphony No. 6, ''Pathetic," in B minor, Op. 74

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I. Adagio; Allegro non troppo. II. Allegro con grazia. III. Allegro molto vivace. IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso.

Bruch .... Concerto for Violin, No. 1, in G minor, Op. 26 I. Allegro Moderato. II. Adagio. III. Finale: Allegro energico.

Wagner ...... Overture to "Tannhauser"

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6 Overture to "Egmont," Op. 84 .... Ludwig van Beethoven

(Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.)

This overture was composed in 1810; it was published in 181 1. The music to Goethe's play—overture, four entr'actes, two songs sung by Clarchen, "Clarchen's Death," "Melodram," and "Triumph Symphony" (identical with the coda of the overture) for the end of the play, nine numbers in all—was performed for the first time with the tragedy at the Hofburg Theatre, Vienna, May 24, 18 10. Antonie Adamberger was the Clarchen. The first performance of the overture in Boston was at a concert of the Boston Academy of Music, November 16, 1844. All the music of "Egmont" was performed at the fourth and last Philharmonic concert, Mr. Zerrahn conductor, on March 26, 1859. This concert was in commemoration of the thirty-second anniversary of Beetho- ven's death. The programme included the "Egmont" music and the Ninth Symphony. The announcement was made that Mrs. Barrows had been engaged, "who, in order to more clearly explain the com- poser's meaning, will read those portions of the drama which the music especially illustrates." Mr. John S. Dwight did not approve her reading, which he characterized in his Journal 0} Music as "coarse, inflated, over-loud, and after all not clear." Mrs. Harwood sang Clarchen's solos. The programme stated: "The grand orchestra, perfectly complete in all its details, will consist of fifty of the best Boston musicians." All the music to "Egmont" was performed at a testimonial concert to Mr. Carl Zerrahn, April 10, 1872, when Professor Evans read the poem in place of Charlotte Cushman, who was prevented by sickness. This music was performed at a Symphony Concert, December 12, 1885, when the poem was read by Mr. Howard Malcolm Ticknor. When Hartl took the management of the two Vienna Court theatres, January 1, 1808, he produced plays by Schiller. He finally determined to produce plays by Goethe and Schiller with music, and he chose Schiller's "Tell" and Goethe's "Egmont." Beethoven and'Gyrowetz were asked to write the music. The former was anxious to compose NEW CYCLES OF SONG

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