THE LYRIC THEATRE . BALTIMORE Wednesday Evening, March 16, at 8.15 BOSTON 2W' „ SYAPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED FORTIETH SEASON J920-J92* mm : mTTTTTTT Every lover of Piano Music should Hear the AMPICO (Jiebroduciriq S^ianxy This wonderful instrument brings the playing of the world's greatest pianists right into your own home. Mr. Phillip Hale, in reviewing the public com- parison of the Ampico's reproduction with the actual playing of Richard Buhlig at the Copley-Plaza wrote "// is not easy to believe that there was a mechanical reproduction. The impres- sion is made on the hearer that thepian- ist is playing then and there. cc Hearing the Ampico which never sug- gested the purely mechanical, one wishes that this instrument had been known in the days of Liszt , Chopin, Hensei, Rubinstein and Tausig." It will give us great pleasure to show the Ampico in the Chickering to any one interested in this mar- velous invention. Itisthelastwordinthedevelopment of the art of producing music by scientific means. Established 1823^=> Chickering Warerooms: E. PAUL HAMILTON, Inc. l 422 NORTH HOWARD STREET THE LYRIC THEATRE BALTIMORE FORTIETH SEASON, 1920-1921 INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD. Assistant Manager THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred -i the Stemway. Wagner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master-musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instrument. 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Berlioz "Romeo alone; Grand Fete at the Capulets," from the Dramatic Symphony, "Romeo and Juliet," Op. 17 SOLOIST ERNO DOHNANYI CHICKERING PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 A New Way to Europe For the first time you can this summer sail from America to Europe by way of "the Lands of the Midnight Sun." Raymond-Whitcomb have ex- clusively chartered for this voyage the palatial P. <Sl O. Liner, "Emperor of India" (Kaisar-i Hind), of 18,000 tons displacement. A Summer Cruise Sailing from New York June 25, you may take this remarkable cruise either as a complete six weeks' vacation, or as a prelude to a summer abroad. You will find it the ideal way to travel. Delightful days at sea. Fascinating trips ashore. Iceland: The North Cape: The Fjords of Norway In July you will find these northern countries at their best—with a vivid individuality and a beauty that is peculiarly their own. 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An episode in the life of Mary Stuart is told in a few words by Jeremy Collier, A.M., in "The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionary; being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History": "In 1565 David Kiccio, a Piemontois, who being advanced from a Musician to a Secretary and much in the Queen's Favour, manag'd his Interest indiscreetly and grew hated by the King, and the Nobility. The King declining, as he imagined in the Queen's Esteem, and provoked with the Haughtiness of Eiccio, got him murther'd in the Presence." As a matter of fact, the murder was in 1566, nor was the decline of the king in the esteem of Mary Stuart a matter of imagination. Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829. He wrote from Edinburgh, July 30 : "We went, in the deep twilight, to the palace of Holyrood, where Queen Mary lived and loved. There is a little room to be seen there, with a winding staircase leading up to it. This the murderers ascended, and finding Rizzio in a little room drew him out; and three chambers away is a small corner where they killed him. The roof is wanting to the chapel, grass and ivy grow abund- antly in it; and before the altar, now in ruins, Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland. Everything around is broken and mouldering, and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found to-day in that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." It is said that Mendelssohn wrote ten measures of the Andante of the "Scotch" symphony that day at Edinburgh, but it was long before the symphony was completed. Nor was this the only work ESTABLISHED 1838 AGENT FOR TONK PIANO 520 NORTH CHARLES STREET BALTIMORE, MD. inspired by Scottish scenery and legend. The overture, "FingaPs Cave," the pianoforte fantasia in F-sharp minor, which was orig- inally entitled "Sonate ^cossaise," the two-part song, "O wert thou in the Cauld, Cauld Blast," and probably the pianoforte fantasia in A minor were the result of this journey. Later that year he wrote, "The Scotch symphony and all the ^Hebrides' matter is building itself up step by step." But in the spring of 1830 he was hard at work on the "Reformation" sym- phony. The first mention of the "Scotch" was in a letter from Linz, in which he says that he is "going to" compose the A minor symphony. In 1830 at Rome he tried to gird up his loins for the task. He wrote his sister, November 16 : "I have finished the over- ture ('FingaPs Cave'), and, please God, will take hold of the sym- phony." A few days later: "I contemplate writing . and the A minor symphony." He wrote December 20 : "After that I shall take hold again of my instrumental music, write . and perhaps another and second symphony ; for there are two rattling around in my head." He re-enters the thought of the symphony in A major, the "Italian." In 1831 Mendelssohn was busied chiefly with the "First Walpurgis Night," one of his finest and most characteristic works, which has been unaccountably neglected of late. Still in the spring he expressed the wish to finish the "Italian" symphony: "It will be the maturest thing that I have ever done. Only the 'Scotch' symphony seems to be beyond my grasp. I have had some good ideas lately for it, and will take hold of it directly and bring it to a close." * * Marriage, the busy life at Leipsic, "St.