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EUROPEAN DEPOTS : Steinway Hall, 15 and 17 Lower Seymour St., Portman Sq., W., London, England. Steinway '3 Pianofabrik, St. Pauli. Neue Rosen-Strasse, 20-24, Hamburg, Germany. M. STEINERT & SONS CO., New England Representatives, 162 Boylston Street, Boston. (386) Seventeenth Season, 1897-98. Thirteenth Rehearsal and Concert. Friday Afternoon, January 28, at 2.30 o'clock. Saturday Evening, January 29, at 8.00 o'clock, PROGRAMME. Giacomo Meyerbeer Overture to "Struensee" Caraille Saint-Saens - - Concerto for Violin, No. 3, in B minor, Op. 61 I. Allegro non troppo (B minor) 2-2 II. Andantino quasi Allegretto (B-flat major) 6-8 III. Molto moderato e maestoso (B minor) 4-4 Allegro non troppo (B minor) 2-2 " Emmanuel Ckabrier - Prelude to Act II. of " Gwendoline Giovanni Sgambati - Symphony No. 1, in D major, Op. 16 I. Allegro vivace, non troppo (D major) 3-4 II. Andante mesto (G minor) - 6-4 III. Scherzo : Presto (B-flat major) - 3-4 Trio : Un poco meno (G-flat major) 3-4 IV. Serenata: Andante (D minor) 2-4 V. Finale : Allegro con f uoco (D major) - 4-4 Soloist, Miss OLIVE MEAD. (387) L. P. HOLLANDER & CO. GRAND OPENING OF India Foulards and Cotton Dress Goods Highest novelties for the coming season. Lowest market prices guaranteed. New Theatre Hat. Just received from Paris a charming head covering. When seated in theatre, can be thrown back, forming a beautiful shoulder wrap. Orders taken in Lace Department, first floor. Skating Boots Made on our new English Lasts with thick soles and broad heels, extra high cut, giving firm sup- port to the ankle. Price, $6.00. Thayer, JlcNeil & Hodgkins, 47 Temple Place, Boston. (388) Overture to "Struensee" Giacomo Meyerbeer. (Born in Berlin on Sept. 5, 1791 ; died in Paris on May 2, 1864.) Struensee, tragedy in five acts and in verse by Michael Beer, was first given, with overture, entr'actes, and incidental music by Meyerbeer (the author's brother), in Berlin on September 19, 1846. The subject of the tragedy is taken from the life of Count Struensee, the Danish physician who became prime minister and died on the scaffold on July 26, 1772, after being thrown out of office by intrigues fomented by the queen Caroline Matilda. The circumstances attending Struensee's death had left painful recollections in the family of Frederick VI., king of Denmark, and the performance of Beer's play (written in 1826) in Copenhagen was postponed by royal command. Beer died in 183 1, before he could see his play pro- duced on the stage. The first performance in Berlin, twenty years later, was given by order of the king of Prussia, who also invited Meyerbeer to write the incidental music. Meyerbeer's music consists of an overture, three entr'actes — I. Der Aufruhr ; II. DerBall; III. Die Dorfschenke — and incidental numbers — a March, a Benediction, and a Polonaise. The March and Polonaise soon became very popular in Germany ; but the overture is the only number, is indeed the only orchestral composition of Meyerbeer's that has held its place in the serious concert repertory. The overture opens with a slow introduction, Andantino religioso quasi allegretto in D-flat major (4-4 time), in which a march-like theme is made, according to Meyerbeer's wont, the subject of successive contrapuntal de- velopments. It is first given out in plain harmony by the harp, flutes, clarinet, bassoon, and one double-bass pizzicato; then fortissimo by a valve- trumpet, horns, trombones, and tuba. An episodic cantilena for the 'celli Horsford's Acid Phosphate. Headache may arise from a disordered state of the stomach, or it may have a ner- vous origin. The Acid Phosphate by its action in promoting digestion, and as a nerve food, tends to prevent and alleviate the headache arising from either cause. Dr. F. A. 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An interlude of imitative passage-work on fragments of the theme, between the heavy brass and the wood-wind and harp, leads to another return of the theme in the tonic, pianissimo in the wood-wind, horns, and trombone, over running counterpoint in sixteenth- note triplets in all the strings. A short transitional passage follows, lead- ing over to the main body of the overture. This movement, Allegro appassionato in C minor (6-8 time), begins piano with its first theme given out by the strings, and developed in crescendo climax by fuller and fuller orchestra, leading to a fortissimo restatement and fuller development of the theme by the entire orchestra with the melody in the bass. The cantabile second theme follows in the relative E-flat major, sung by the violins and various wooden wind instruments against an obstinate contrapuntal figure in the bassoons and 'celli. The development of this theme is extended, leading at length to some fortissimo developments in imitative passage-work on the first theme. Next comes an episodic return of the march-like theme of the introduction in B major, Andantino quasi allegretto, intermingled with figures from the first theme of the Allegro. This is followed by an imitative, quasi-fugal working-out of the first theme, Un pochettino pin mosso, interspersed with fragments of the theme of the introduction, the development going on stringendo poco a poco until the original Allegro appassionato is reached again.