SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES : : Telephone, 1492 Back Bay TWENTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1906-1907 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor Programme of ti)t Eighth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE IFRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER S6D MME. SZUMOWSKA-ADAMOWSKA writes as follows concerning the PIANO Mason & Hamlin Co.: Gentlemen^— The tone of the Mason & Hamhn Pianofortes is beautiful and noble, and "it carries,"— a most important quality. As to their action I can only say that I never yet used a piano which responded as readily to every most delicate as well as fortissimo effect which I wished to produce. 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Smith Patterson Company* Wholesale and RetailJewellers, 52 Stimmer Street, Boston* We make a specialty of odd thingg not found elsewhrfc — — Overture, "In the South" (Alassio), Op. 50. Edward Wiujam Hlgar (Born at Broadheath, near Worcester, England, June 2, 1S57 ; now living at Malvern.) This overture was produced at the Elgar Festival at Covent Garden Theatre, London, March 16, 1904, the third day of the festival. The composer conducted the overture. The programme was as follows, Parti.: "Froissart" Overture; Selection from "Caractacus" (Mme. Suzanne Adams, Mr. Lloyd Chandos, Mr. Charles Clark) ; Variations on an Original Theme. Part II. : New Overttire, "In the South" ; "Sea Pictures," sung by Mme. Clara Butt; Overture, "Cockaigne"; Military Marches, "Pomp and Circumstance." The first performance in the United States was by the Chicago Or- chestra at Chicago, Theodore Thomas conductor, November 5, 1904. The overture was played in New York by the New York Symphony Orchestra, November 6, 1904. The overture was performed in Boston at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 30, 1905. The overture, as we are told, "was conceived on a glorious spring day in the Valley of Andora," and it is meant "to suggest the Joy of Living in a balmy climate, under sunny skies, and amid surroundings in which the beauties of nature vie in interest with the remains and recollections of the great past of an enchanting country." This in- scription is on the last page of the manuscript score: "Alassio, Moglio, Malvern, 1904. Dedicated to L. F. Schuster" ; also these lines from Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (Canto IV., xxv., xxvi.) : " ... a land Which was the mightiest in its old command, And is the loveliest, . Wherein were cast . the men of Rome! Thou art the garden of the world." 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We quote from this as follows, for the analysis is said to have the sanction of the composer: "After two introductory bars the first subject (or rather the first of a series of themes, all in E-flat, forming together the first subject, as it were) is announced by clarinets, horns, violas, and 'cellos, to the accom- paniment of joyously whirring string tremolandos and chords for harps and wood-wind. Vivace, E-flat, 3-4. It is constructed sequentially of a lusty, spontaneously conceived open-air phrase of six notes. This may be said to form the motto of a work which is altogether as healthy a piece of open-air music as modern art can show." Tributary motives and developments follow. "After a brilliant presentation of the whole of the first subject by the full orchestra (except harps) a descending quaver scale-passage, strongly accentuated off the beat, so as to antici- pate a change of rhythm, plunges headlong into a broad and ver\' richly scored passage. It is of an exulting character, as if the composer were in a mood to sing his version of 'Be embraced in love, ye millions.' We imagine him in the happiest, serenest frame of mind, at peace with him- self and all mankind, and satisfied with life and the best of all possible worlds. Note the way in which the trombones, '/ ma dolce e con gran espressione,' creep up by semitones through a whole octave, and how immediately afterwards the passage is treated in double counterpoint. That is to say, the same chromatic ascent of the scale of E-flat is made by flutes, clarinets, and strings (in three octaves), while the descending upper part is assigned to oboes, English horn, horns, 'cellos, and harps, but with this difference, that the melody is slightly varied by the sub- stitution of a brighter rhythm for the even dotted crotchets. 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The strings are muted, and wood-wind (clarinet and English horn) and violins are heard in a little dialogue which seems to have been suggested by 'a shepherd with his flock and his home-made is characteristically prominent. music' . The cretic* rhythm again As the music dies away in softest ppp, the drums and double-basses sound persistently three crotchet C's to the bar, and continue to do so for some time, even after the long-delayed second subject proper of the overture has commenced in 2-4 time, and, unexpectedly, in the key of F. "So far the thematic material has been largely constructed of short sequences. The new subject, on the other hand, is a long-drawn, finely- it cur^^ed melody of shapely form.