CARNEGIE HALL - - NEW YORK Twenty-second season in New York DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor SECOND CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5 AT 8.15 PRECISELY AND THE SECOND MATINEE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7 AT 2.30 PRECISELY WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER : Usedj!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 Wilhelm Gericke Emil Paur Felix Weingartner REPRESENTED BY THE JOHN CHURCH COMPANY . 37 W. 32d Street, New York Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor First Violins. 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Represented in New York by JOHN WANAMAKER, Broadway and ioth Street Boston CARNEGIE HALL, Symphony I KEWY0RK T Twenty-seventh Season, J907-J908. ^^ t \yr^fi^5 Lid Twenty-second Season in New York, Dr. KARL MUCK, Conductor. SECOND CONCERT, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, * AT 8. J 5 PRECISELY. PROGRAMME. Brahms ..... Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio non troppo. III. Adagietto grazioso, quasi andantino. IV. Allegro con spirito. Beethoven . Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 5, in E-flat major, Op. 73 I. Allegro. II. Adagio un poco moto. III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo. Schumann ..... Overture to "Genoveva," Op. 81 SOLOIST, Mr. PADEREWSKL The pianoforte is a "Weber. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after tke symphony. 5 The vast majority of so-called Player-Pianos are merely COMBINATIONS of a Player and a Piano. The Player, originally devised as a SEPARATE instrument, to play the piano from the keyboard, is in these instances ADAPTED to the INTERIOR of the piano. This is obviously the vjrong principle, since the mechanism originated and patented for one purpose cannot be PERFECTL Yadapted to another. The AUTOTONE The Piano ALL Can Play {either by hand or by perforated music-rolls) Was conceived, not as two separate instruments, but as a complete whole, the entire player mechanism being newly devised expressly for the Autotone. This results in the greatest possible harmony and responsiveness between the piano and the included ability to play it. Only by these means can such perfect effects be secured. You should satisfy yourself on these points by calling at our warerooms or at the warerooms of our representative. THE ACCENTOR which accomplishes the "human touch"— which gives the instant ability to properly accent-is found only in the AUTOTONE All makes of pianos taken in exchange Convenient terms of payment for the balance can be arranged ART CATALOG SENT ON REQUEST ESTAB. HARDMAN, PECK & CO. 1842 138 Fifth Avenue (corner 19th Street), New York 524 Fulton Street, Brooklyn — Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 Johannes Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) Chamber music, choral works, pianoforte pieces, and songs had made Brahms famous before he allowed his first symphony to be played. The symphony in C minor was performed for the first time at Carlsruhe on November 4, 1876, from manuscript and with Dessoff as conductor. Kirchner wrote in a letter to Marie Lipsius that he had talked about this symphony in 1863 or 1864 with Mme. Clara Schumann, who then showed him fragments of it. But no one knew, it is said, of the existence of the second symphony before it was completed. The second symphony, in D major, was composed probably at Lich- tenthal in the summer of 1877, the year that saw the publication of the first. It was played by Brahms and Ignaz Briill as a pianoforte duet (arranged by the composer) to invited guests at the pianoforte house of his friend Khrbar in Vienna a few days before the date of the first performance, the announced date December 11. Through force of circumstances the symphony was played for the first time in public at the succeeding Philharmonic concert of December 30, 1877.* Richter conducted it. The second performance, conducted by Brahms, was at the Gewandhaus, Leipsic, on January 10, 1878. The review written by Eduard Hanslick after the performance at Vienna was of more than local and fleeting interest, and it may serve to-day those who are unwilling to trust their own judgment. "It is well known that Wagner and his followers go so far as not only to deny the possibility of anything new in the symphonic form, i.e., new after Beethoven,—but they reject the very right of absolute instrumental music to exist. The symphony, they say, is now super- * Reimann, in his Life of Brahms, gives January 10, 1878, as the date, and says Brahms conducted. The date given in Erb's "Brahms" is December 24, 1877. Deiters and Miss May give December 30, 1877, but contemporaneous music journals, as the Signals, say December 20, 1877. MEW SONGS for CONCERT and RECITAL DSE Tf We have this season a very large number of interesting compositions by such leading Composers as A. WOODFORDE-FINDEN, LIZA LEHMANN, LAURA LEMON, GRAHAM PEEL, ROGER QUILTER, HAMILTON HARTY, E. ELGAR, E. GERMAN, NOEL JOHNSON, R. BARTHELEMY, F. P. TOSTI, LANDON RONALD, G. H. CLUTSAM, STEPHEN ADAMS, etc. ^f Ask your dealer for a selection of these, or write direct to the Publishers, BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 East Seventeenth St, New York City 7 fluous since Wagner has transplanted it into the opera: only Liszt's symphonic poems in one movement and with a determined poetical programme have, in the contemplation of the modern musical world, any vitality. Now if such absurd theories, which are framed solely for Wagner-Liszt household use, again need refutation, there can be no more complete and brilliant refutation than the long row of Brahms's instrumental works, and especially this second symphony. "The character of this symphony may be described concisely as peace- ful, tender, but not effeminate serenity, which on the one side is quick- ened to joyous humor and on the other is deepened to meditative serious- ness. The first movement begins immediately with a mellow and dusky horn theme. It has something of the character of the serenade, and this impression is strengthened still further in the scherzo and the finale. The first movement, an Allegro moderato, in 3-4, immerses us in a clear wave of melody, upon which we rest, swayed, refreshed, undisturbed by two slight Mendelssohnian reminiscences which emerge before us. The last fifty measures of this movement expire in flashes of new melodic beauty. A broad singing Adagio in B major follows* which, as it appears to me, is more conspicuous for the skilful develop- ment of the themes than for the worth of the themes themselves. For this reason, undoubtedly, it makes a less profound impression upon the public than do the other movements. The scherzo is thoroughly delightful in its graceful movement in minuet tempo. It is twice interrupted by a Presto in 2-4, which flashes, spark-like, for a moment. 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