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STEINERT & SONS CO., New England Representatives, 162 Boylston Street, Boston. (610) EIGHTEENTH SEASON, \ 898-99. Seventeenth Rehearsal and Concert* FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, at 8.00 o'clock. PROGRAMME. " Josef Haydn - Symphony in D major, " La Chasse (First time at these concerts.) I. Adagio (D major) ------ 3-4 Allegro (D major) ------ 4-4 II. Andante (Q major) ------ 2-4 III. Menuetto: Allegretto (D major) - - - 3-4 - IV. La Ohasse (D major) 6-8 • Emmanuel Chabrier ------ Bonrree fantasque (Scored for Orchestra by FELIX MOTTL.) (First time in Boston.) Johannes Brahms - - - Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo (D major) - - - - 3-4 II. Adagio non troppo (B major) - - - - 4-4 III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi Andantino (G major) 3-4 IV. Allegro con spirito (D major) - - - - 2-2 Patrons unable to remain until the close of the concert are politely requested to leave the hall during a pause in the programme. (611) L. P. 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It is not down in the Catalogue of the London Philharmonic So- ciety. It is supposed to have been written about 1780. The title comes from the fourth movement, which is a sort of hunting symphonic poem in itself. The first movement opens with an introduction, Adagio * in D major (3-4 time), in which the note of preparation is struck by soft pizzicato chords in the strings against harmonies in repeated eighth-notes in the wind ; some more vivacious rhythmic figures follow, the introduction ending by half- cadence on the dominant. The main body of the movement, Allegro in D major (4-4 time), begins with the exposition of the bright, cheerful first theme, at first by the first and second violins alone, then by the full orchestra, the melody being in * This introduction is marked Larghetto in Grove's thematic catalogue. HORSFORD'S . Acid Phosphate. 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This second theme is a fine example of ingenious modulation : the subsidiary ends in E major ; the bass-note E is then continued by the violas and flute, until it suddenly finds itself the bass of a chord of the 2nd on the fourth degree of B minor, in which key the second theme enters ; the first phrase ends by complete authentic cadence in the tonic D major, when the full orchestra suddenly strikes m forte with E in the bass and G-sharp in the upper voice, thus turning the preceding D into the dominant 7th of A major. The develop- ment is carried on quasi-contrapuntally, a rushing new subsidiary in D minor following as concluding period, the first part of the movement ending in the dominant, A major. There is a repeat. The free fantasia is rather long and elaborate for Haydn, and the third part begins with a fortissimo return of the first theme in the tonic in the full orchestra. 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(615) fourth degree (bass of the third inversion of the dominant 7th) of A minor, — which would have made the modulation correspond exactly to that in the first part of the movement,— the second violins suddenly put an E-flat above it, which crowds the D down to C, and the modulation is to G minor, the theme subsequently passing through D minor, to end in G again. The forte entrance of the full orchestra with A in the bass now repeats the modulation at the corresponding place in the first part of the movement (G to D corresponding to D to A). The concluding period ends the movement without coda. The second movement, Andante in G major (2-4 time), presents the ex- position and continual repetition — either in the form of variations or merely with altered instrumentation — of a simple theme.