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A copy of the Scientific American article will be mailed upon application MASON & HAMLIN COMPANY 0pp. Inst, of Technology 492-494 Boylston Street SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON 6- MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _. , , ( Ticket Office, 1492 1 „ , „ ^^^«P^°"^H Administrati;n Offices, 3200 r^^^^^^y TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1908-1909 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor prngramm? of t\^t First Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FIR'IDAV AFTEPJ^OON; OCTOBER 9 AT 2^30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10 ^ AT SCO O'CI^OCK i. ,'.-'.,' ' ' -^•' ^ a^ COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY C. A. ELLIS - PUBLISHED BY C. A, ELLIS, MANAGER Mme. CECILE CHAMINADE The World's Greatest Woman Composer Mme. TERESA CARRENO The W^orld's Greatest Woman Pianist Mme. LILLIAN NORDICA The World's Greatest Woman Singer USE jPiANa THE JOHN CHURCH CO., 37 West 326. Street New, Yprk,City .^ > ... G. L SGHIRMER & CO., 38 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL ari)ttiktring i^tano Bears a name which has become known to purchasers as representing the highest possible value produced in the piano industry. It has been associated with all that is highest and best in piano making since 1823, Its name is the hall mark of piano worth and is a guarantee to the purchaser that in the instrument bearing it, is incorporated the highest artistic value possible. CHICKERING & SONS PJJNOFORTE MAKERS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET Cor. NORTHAMPjTON ST. Near Mass. Ave. BOSTON TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHT AND NINE First Rehearsal and Concert* FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER JO, at 8 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Beethoven . Overture, "Leonora" No. 3, Op. 72 Brahms .... Symphony No. i, in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro. II. Andante sostenuto. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso. IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio. Richard Strauss Love Scene from the Opera, " Feuersnot," Op. 50 Wagner Overture to "Tannhauser" There will be an mtermission of ten minutes after the symphony. The doors of the hall will he closed during the performance of each number on the progratnnte. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be- tween the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of Auiiust 5, 1898.— Chapter 3, relating to the coverinii 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 of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk. -W^llilh with its supreme standard of musical excellence and its meuiy styles of case, ranging from the simplest to the most elaborate, is within reach of the miin of fine musical taste, be his income moderate or beyond the need of economy; and, no matter how much or how little may be paid, he is assured that exquisite tone and perfect action which is exclusive to THE WORLD'S BEST PIANO The Knabe Piano u sold eveiywhere, and any Knabe representative writl only be too glad to have the privilege of showing it to you. WM. KNABE & CO. BALTIMORE NEW YORK WASHINGTON LONEM>N ST. PETERSBURG BERUN Overture to "Leonora" No. 3, Op. 72. LuDwiG VAN Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December i6 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) Beethoven's opera, "Fidelio, oder die eheliche Liebe," with text adapted freely by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Bouilly ("Leonore; ou, ly'Amour Conjugal," a "fait historique" in two acts and in prose, music by Gaveaux, Opera-Comique, Paris, February 19, 1798), was first performed at Vienna, November 20, 1805, with Anna Pauline Milder,* afterward Mrs. Hauptman, as the heroine. The first performance in Boston was on April i, 1857, with Mrs. Johannsen. Miss Berkiel, Beutler.f Neumann, Oehlein, and Weinlich as the chief singers. "Leonore" No. 2 was the overture played at the first performance in Vienna. The opera was withdrawn, revised, and produced again on March 29, 1806, when "Teonore" No. 3, a remodelled form of No. 2, was played as the overture. The opera was performed twice, and then withdrawn. There was talk of a performance at Prague in 1807, * Pauline Anna Milder was bom at Constantinople, December 13, 1783. She died at Berlin, May 29, 1838. The daughter of an Austrian courier, or, as some say, pastry cook to the Austrian embassador at Constantinople, and afterward interpreter to Prince Maurojeni, she had a most adventurous childhood. (The story is told at length in von Ledebur's " Tonkiinstler -Lexicon Berlin's.") Back in Austria, she studied three years with Sigismund Neukomm. Schikaneder heard her and brought her out in Vienna in 1803. as Juno in Siismayer's "Der Spiegel von Arkadien." She soon became famous, and she was engaged at the court opera, where she created the part of Leonora in "Fidelio." In 1810 she married a jeweller, Hauptmann. She sang as guest at many opera houses and was offered brilliant engagements, and in 1816 she became a member of the Berlin "Royal Opera House at a yearly salary of four thousand thalers and a vacation of three months. She retired with a pension in 1831, after having sung in three hundred and eighty operatic performances. She was also famous in Berlin as an oratorio singer. She appeared again in Berlin in 1834, but her voice was sadly worn, yet she sang as a guest in Copenhagen and St. Petersburg. Her funeral was conducted with pomp and ceremony, and it is said that the "Iphigenia in Tauris," "Alceste," and "Armide," her favorite operas, were put into her coffin, —a favor she asked shortly before her death. t Mr. Beutler sang that night for the last time. He had a cold, and the physician warned him against singing, but the audience filled the theatre, and he was persuaded. He became hoarse immediately after the performance, and, as his vocal cords were paralyzed, he never sang again. Mendelssohn, who had given him musical instruction, praised his voice, but urged him not to use it in opera, as it would not stand the wear and tear. Beutler then gave up the ambition of his life, but in the Revolution of 1848 he and other students at Heidelberg were obliged to leave the country. 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