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Andante. ni. AUegro. Liszt Second Episode from Lenau's "Faust": The Dance in the Village Tavern (Mephisto Waltz) SOLOIST JOSEPH BONNET There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end of a number. The doors oj 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, 1 898.—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 ci the exhibition or performance in such plexe of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being uoderstood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. 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Johannes Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) Brahms was not in a hurry to write a symphony. He heeded not the wishes or demands of his friends, he was not disturbed by their impatience. As far back as 1854 Schumann wrote to Joachim: "But where is Johannes? Is he flying high or only under the flowers? 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." Max Kalbeck, of Vienna, the author of a life of Brahms in 2138 pages, is of the opinion that the beginning, or rather the germ, of the Symphony in C minor is to be dated 1855. In 1854 Brahms heard in Cologne for the first time Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It impressed him greatly, so that he resolved to write a symphony in the same tonality. That year he was living in Hanover. The madness of Schumann and his attempt to commit suicide by throw- JUST ISSUED COLONIAL LOVE LYRICS SIX SONGS BY Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) Edited and Augmented b> Harold Vincent Milligan Enraptured I Gaze See Down Maria's Blushing Cheek My Love is Gone to Sea With Pleasures Have I Passed My Days The Garland Give Me Thy Heart Soprano or Tenor Mezzo Soprano or Baritone Price $1.25 {{Schmidt's Educational Series No. 213 a-b) The above collection is a sequel to "THE FIRST AMERICAN COMPOSER," Six Songs bv Francis Hopkinson, edited and aug- mented by HAROLD V. MILLIGAN. These songs are of particu- lar musical and historical interest, and are being extensively used throughout the country by prominent artists. The volumes are attractively printed and contain a portrait of Francis Hopkinson, and a fac-simile letter from his friend, George Washington. 120 Boylston St. rrvi_ A ^i_ !-» r« -u 'Ji. /^ BOSTON : The Artiiur r*. ocnniiat Oo.new york-. s west 40th st. 687 ing himself into the Khine (February 27, 1854) had deeply affected him. He wrote to Joachim in January, 1855, from Dtisseldorf: "I have been trying my hand at a symphony during the past sum- mer, have even orchestrated the first movement, and have composed the second and third." This symphony was never completed. The work as it stood was turned into a sonata for two pianofortes. The first two movements became later the first and the second of the pianoforte concerto in D minor, and the third is the movement "Behold all flesh" in "A German Requiem." A performance of Schumann's "Manfred" also excited him when he was twenty-two. Kalbeck has much to say about the influence of these works and the tragedy in the Schumann family over Brahms as the composer of the C minor Symphony.