SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON 6- MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES { _, , , Ticket Office, 1492 J „ . „ Telephones ^^^'^ ^'^ \ Administration Offices. 3200 \ TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor J^rngramntP of % Fifth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK PUBLISHED BY C. A. EL LIS, MANAGER 313 : p Piano. Used and indorsed by Reisenauer, Neitzel, Burmeister, Gabrilowitsch, Nordica, Campanari, Bispham, and many other noted artists, will be used by TERESA CARRENO during her tour of the United States this season. The Everett piano has been played recently under the baton of the following famous conductors Theodore Thomas Franz Kneisel Dr. Karl Muck Fritz Scheel Walter Damrosch Frank Damrosch Frederick Stock F. Van Der Stucken Wassily Safonoff Emil Oberhoffer ^Vilhelm Gericke Emil Paur Felix Weingartnei* REPRESENTED BY G. 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This opinion of Dr. Eduard Wahl was that of the other critics who reviewed the work and the performance in Munich. Felix Mottl conducted. The chief singers and actors were as follows: Miss Reubke, Elflein; Miss Briinner, Christkindchen Mr. Jacobi, Tannengreis; Mr. Sieglitz, Knecht Ruprecht; Mr. Storm, Student. The overture was played on July i, 1907, at the forty-third festival of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, held at Dresden, and it was performed some weeks ago at Frankfort-on-the-Main. It is scored for two flutes, one interchangeable with piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, kettledrums, triangle, harp, and strings (not a few). It is dedicated to "his dear friend, Willy Levin." The structure of this overture is so clearly defined, and the themes are so easily recognized, that there is no need of a minute analysis. The overture begins, "Ruhig freundliche Bewegung" (with a quiet, cheerful movement), E major, 4-4. 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Novelties in Imported Stationery. 147 Trcmont Street; Boston* 320 : for violins and wood-wind instruments. A modification of the initial tlieme enters, and there is a crescendo, which with a ritardando and diminishment of force leads into the main body of the overture. It is said that the music at the end of the play, where angels are seen praying and the Christ-child climbs the ladder to heaven, is the same as at the beginning of the overture. The main body opens in E minor, pianissimo, 2-2 ("half notes as the preceding quarters"), with measures for the strings and kettledrum rolls, until a simple theme, already hinted at, is announced by the first clarinet and treated contrapuntally. The other chief thematic material includes a more strongly marked motive (G major, first violins), which is made much of until a section of widely contrasting character enters, after which the first theme enters, now for the flute and in another to- nality than at the beginning of the allegro. The ending, E major, is quiet and simple, with a use of the initial clarinet theme, as has been stated. * * * Pfitzner was born at Moscow, but his parents were German. The father studied at the Leipsic Conservatory, and was an orchestral violinist at his Saxon home, then at the Moscow opera house, and finally he was music director at the City Theatre in Frankfort-on-the- Main. The mother, an excellent pianist, a pupil of Alexander Villoing (1808-78), the teacher of Anton Rubinstein, was a highly educated woman, born of a German family domiciled in Russia. Hans studied as a bo}^ in the schools of Frankfort, and in 1886 entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfort, where he remained four years.