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BOSTON Overture to Shakespeare's "Richard III.,'-' in F-sharp minor, Op. 68 Robert Volkmann -(Born at Lommatzsch (Saxony), April 6, 1815; died at Budapest, October 30, 1883.) The music to Shakespeare's "Tragedy of King Richard the Third" was Volkmann' s last and riiost important orchestral composition. He worked on it long before and after the Serenades for strings (C major, Op. 62; F major, Op. 63; D minor, with violoncello solo, Op. 69), which were written in 1869-70. The overture was written first at Budapest. It was completed in 1870. It was performed for the first time at the Landessangerfest at Budapest, June 20, 1870. The entr'actes and incidental music (Op. 73)—five short stage marches and six other pieces—were not completed until 1872. The tragedy with all this music was performed that year at the National Theatre, Budapest, under Hans Richter's direction. Wishing to have the music heard in concert halls, Volkmann with the help of his friend Heckenast arranged the entr'actes, etc., with an accompanying text to be spoken. A vSuite without text—five pieces—was arranged and performed by the Dresden Gewerbehaus Orchestra, led by Trenkler. The overture was played for the first time in Boston at a Symphony Concert, led by Mr. Gericke, March 14, 1885. It was played at these concerts, March 20, 1886, October 18, 1890, October 21, 1893, October 26, 1901. The overture is scored for two flutes (one interchangeable with pic- colo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, kettledrums, snare-drum, triangle, tam- tam, and strings. Volkmann took for his hero the traditional Richard,—the scowling, misshaped, melodramatic, bloody Richard, dear to Shakespeare and robust play-actors. The Rev. Nathaniel Wanley thus described him LATBST SONG CYCLES Three Indian Songs, by Herbert Bath Dorothy's Wedding Day. A Song for Three Baritone Songs, by Edward German four solo voices Four Songs from the Garden of Kama, by A Lover in Damascus, by Amy Woodforde- Alma Goetz Fin den Sbt Characteristic Songs, by Joseph Hol- On Jhelum River. A Kashmiri Love Story, brooke by Amy Woodforde-Finden A Lover's Moods, by C. A. Lidgey A Cycle of Life, by Landon Ronald. Two Camella, by Graham Peel keys Three Shakespeare Songs, by Roger Quilter Songs of the Desert, by G. Clutsam To Julia, Six Lyrics of Robert Herrick In Sunshine and Shadow, by Landon Ron- Songs of Travel, by R. Vaughan Williams ald \ BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 Cast 17th Street, New York City 1819 GV^BALtAF^8(-SoN3 Special Notice of Reductions FOR A SHORT PERIOD Tailor Cloth Goivns for street and tra'belling Elaborate Visiting Colons Evening and Travelling Coats Silk Jumper Suits Linen Coats and Skirts Lace and Embroidered Waists Lingerie Waists and Dresses Tailored Shirt Waists These beautiful models may be purchased and orders for copies taken at Much lower than regular prices 256 BOYLSTON STREET . BOSTON 1820 in "The Wonders of the Little World" (Book I., chapter xiii. : "Of the Signal Deformity, and very Mean Appearance, of Some Great Persons, and Others"): "There was never a greater uniformity of body and mind than our own King Richard the Third, for in both he was equally deformed. He was low of stature, crook-backed, hook- shouldered, splay-footed, goggle-eyed, his face small and round, his complexion swar.thy, and his left arm withered from his birth. Born, says Truffel, a monster in nature, with all his teeth, hair on his head, and nails on his fingers and toes. Those vices which in other men are passions in him were habits. His cruelty was not casual, but natural; and the truth of his mind was only lying and falsehood." The latest English historians laugh at this bogy of tradition ; but their genteel, straight-backed, and beneficent ruler, with his hair pleasingly combed, would never have inspired tragedy, symphonic poem, overture. The whitewashed Richard now stands forth an enlightened and philan- thropic monarch. Let us not forget that, like Nero and Henry VHI., he was passionately fond of music, so that it is a pity he could not have heard both Smetana's symphonic poem and Volkmann's overture, and compared them. In the second year of his reign he issued "a most arbitrary" order for impressing singing men and children, even from cathedrals, colleges, chapels, and houses of religion, for the purpose of affording him amusement. The latest biographer of Richard, Sir Clements R. Markham, dis- poses of the fables. Richard was not humpbacked ; he did not murder Edward of Lancaster; the charge that he murdered Henry VL is an insinuation rather than an accusation, a "Tudor calumny"; his mar- riage with the Lady Anne Neville was a happy one; he did not im- prison for life the Countess of Warwick ; he was not a usurper ; he did not poison his wife ; he did not murder the princes in the Tower ; the murderer was probably Henry Tudor. Volkmann gave no programme to his overture. Here he differed from Smetana, who admitted, yes, boasted, that he could not compose music without a programme, and wrote as follows to his friend Srb concerning his symphonic poem, "Richard IIL"* (Gothenburg, " * Smetana's Richard III." was performed in Boston at a Symphony Concert, April 25, 1903 FROM RECENT PROGRAMS RECENT OF FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS MISS ANNA MILLER WOOD Oh. let Night speak, Chadwick $0.40 FOR PIANO Victor Staub, Sous Ashes of Roses, Foote .30 Bois $1.00 Cesar Franck, Danse O Heart of fline! Clough-Leighter .30 Lente .75 Claude Debussy, Reverie Arcadie, Margaret R. Lang .40 .75 How riany Times do I love Thee FOR ORGAN Manney .50 A. Guilmant, Sonata No. 8 $1.60 Transformations (" Such a starved bank of moss Manney .50 ") FOR SALE BY Arthur P.