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PRICES: Notwithstanding many important improvements "" in the past two years, the various Jewett Pianos are sold at the same prices — from $375 up, and on the same easy terms if desired. Sold exclusively at our own Stores throughout New England M. STEINERT & SONS CO Steinert Hall Building, 505 Westminster St. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Stores in all principal cities of New England Owing to the illness of Dr. Muck, Mr. Otto Urack will conduct. INFANTRY HALL . PROVIDENCE One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Concert in Providence Thirty-second Season, 1912-1913 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor THIRD CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31 AT 8.15 Owing to the illness of Dr* Muck Mr. Otto Urack will conduct PROGRAMME Beethoven Symphony No. 8, F major, Op. 93 I. Allegro vivace e con brio. II. Allegretto scherzando. III. Tempo di menuetto. IV. Allegro vivace. Old Italian Aria Schumann Overture to "Genoveva," Op. 81 Strauss Three Songs with Orchestra "Morgen." "Wiegenlied.' "Cacilie." Glazounoff Ouverture Solennelle, Op. 73 SOLOIST Miss ELENA GERHARDT There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 itofltt&jfamlm Boston *s Great Art ^Product (\ Everywhere recognized as musically the most beautiful piano the world has ever seen GOFF & DARLING 276 WESTMINSTER STREET Sole Agents . Symphony in F major, No. 8, Op. 93 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16, 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) This symphony was composed at Linz in the summer of 18 12. The autograph manuscript in the Royal Library at Berlin bears this inscrip- tion in Beethoven's handwriting: "Sinfonia—Lintz, im Monath Octo- ber 1 812." Gloggl's Linzer Musikzeitung made this announcement October 5: "We have had at last the long-wished-for pleasure to have for some days in our capital the Orpheus and the greatest musical poet of our time, Mr. L. van Beethoven ; and, if Apollo is gracious to us, we shall also have the opportunity of wondering at his art." The same periodical announced November 10: "The great tone-poet and tone- artist, Louis van Beethoven, has left our city without fulfilling our passionate wish of hearing him publicly in a concert." Beethoven was in poor physical condition in 18 12, and Staudenheim, his physician, advising him to try Bohemian baths, he went to Toplitz by way of Prague; to Carlsbad, where a note of the postilion's horn found its way among the sketches for the Eighth Symphony; to * Franzensbrunn and again to Toplitz ; and lastly to his brother Johann's home at Linz, where he remained until into November. The two symphonies were probably played over for the first time at the Archduke Rudolph's in Vienna, April 20, 18 13. Beethoven in the same month endeavored to produce them at a concert, but without success. The Seventh was not played until December 8, 18 13, at a concert organized by Malzel, the mechanician. * The first performance of the Eighth Symphony was at a concert given by Beethoven at Vienna in the "Redoutensaal" on Sunday, February 27, 1814. * * This symphony was first played in Boston at an Academy concert on December 14, 1844. The first performance in America was by the Phil- harmonic Society of New York on November 16, 1844; and at this same •Nikolaus Johann, Beethoven's second younger brother, was born at Bonn in 1776. He died at Vienna in 1848. He was an apothecary at Linz and Vienna, the Gulsbesitzer of the familiar anecdote and Ludwig's pet aversion. PROVIDENCE MUSICAL ASSOCIATION Infantry Hall, Tuesday, January 14, 8.15 P.M. Mme. SCHUMANN -HEINK song Rectal PRICES, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 Sale opens Wednesday, January 8, at Seddon's News Stand, Butler Exchange. Mail orders, with enclosed cheque, may be sent to Mrs. Lucy H. Miller, Treas., Box 616. Seats will be assigned as near as possible to desired location Direction, WOLFSOHN MUSICAL BUREAU STUDENT'S COURSE—SECOND CONCERT Memorial Hall, Friday, January 24, 8.15 P.M. TINA LERNER piano recital RESERVED SEATS, $1.50 Sale opens Monday, January 20, at Seddon's News Stand, Butler Exchange. 7 concert, led by George Loder, Mendelssohn's overture, "The Hebrides," was also performed for the first time in this country. * * * The symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, kettledrums, strings. The first movement, Allegro vivace e con brio, F major, 3-4, opens immediately with the first theme. The first phrase is played by the full orchestra forte; wood-wind instruments and horns respond with a phrase, and then the full orchestra responds with another phrase. A subsidiary motive leads to the more melodious but cheerful second theme in D major. The first part of the movement ends in C major, and it is repeated. The working out is elaborate rather than very long, and it leads to the return of the first theme at the beginning of the third part ('cellos, double-basses, and bassoons). The theme is now treated more extensively than in the first part. There is a long coda. II. Allegretto scherzando, B-flat major, 2-4. The characteristics of this movement have been already described. First violins play the first theme against the steady "ticking" of wind instruments, and each phrase is answered by the basses. There is a more striking second theme, F major, for violins and violas, while the wind instruments keep persistently at work, and the 'cellos and double-basses keep repeating the initial figure of the first theme as a basso ostinato. Then sighs in wind instruments introduce a conclusion theme, B-flat major, inter- rupted by the initial figure just mentioned and turning into a passage in thirds for clarinets and bassoons. The first part of the movement is repeated with slight changes. 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