ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA. BOSUN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. Twelfth Season, 1892-93. PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST CONCERT. Wednesday Evening, Nov. 2, At 8 o'clock. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by William F. Apthorp. PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER The Mason & Hamlin Piano has been exhibited in three Great World's Competitive Exhibitions, a nd has received the HIGHEST POSSIBLE AWARD at each one, as follows : AMSTERDAM, . 1883. NEW ORLEANS, . 1883. JAMAICA, . 1891. Because of an improved method of construction, in- troduced in 1882 by this Company, the Mason & Hamlin PIANOFORTES Are more durable and stand in tune longer than any others manufactured. CAREFUL INSPECTION RESPECTFULLY INVITED. Local Representatives, WM. G. FISCHER & CO., PHILADELPHIA. (2) " Boston Academy Symphony of Music. Orchestra Season of 1892-93. Mr. ARTHUR NIKISCH, Conductor. First Concert, Wednesday Evening, November 2, At Eight. PROGRAMME. Weber - - - - - - - - Overture, " Oberon - " " Weber Aria from Oberon," Ocean ! thou mighty monster 'i Miss JUCH. " Wagner - Vorspiel and "Liebestod," from "Tristan und Isolde Liszt ------ Song with Orchestra, "Loreley" Miss JUCH. / Tschaikowsky ----- Symphony No. 5, in E minor Andante. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza. Valse (Allegro moderato). Finale (Andante maestoso). Soloist, Miss EMMA JUCH. (3) SHORE LINE BOSTON T*r\ NEW YORK NEW YORK TOL\J BOSTON Trains leave either city, week-days, except as noted : DAY EXPRESS at 10.00 A.M. Arrive at 4.30 P.M. BUFFET DRAWING-ROOM CARS. AFTERNOON SERVICE at 1.00 P.M. Arrive 7.30 P.M. BUFFET CARS THROUGH. "SHORE LINE FLYER" at 2.00 P.M. Arrive at 7.40 P.M. PARLOR CARS ONLY. DINING CAR BOSTON and NEW LONDON. GILT EDGE EXPRESS at 5.00 P.M. Daily, Sundays included. Arrive at 1 l.OO P.M. DRAWING-ROOM and PARLOR SMOKING CARS THROUGH, and DINING CAR BETWEEN BOSTON and NEW LONDON. 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Chestnut; (6) effect is utterly without parallel in orchestration. Then comes a sudden crash of the whole orchestra,— the most sudden, the least expected, the loudest sounding crash in all orchestral music: it is famous everywhere, it has probably given rise to more comic incident in thus bursting upon the unprepared ears of audiences than any other single passage in all orches- tral music. And, curiously enough, it never loses it magic : every time you hear it, it sounds louder and more tremendous than the last. The ensuing allegro con fuoco begins with a rush in the violins that seeks its fellow for impetuous brilliancy. If only Weber could have maintained him- self at the height of this first onslaught ! But that would have been super- human : no composer on earth could have done it. 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