SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON (S- MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES _ , . Ticket Office, 1492 Telephones I I ^"*^^d ^i ^^^o { Administration Offices, 3200 } TWENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1907-1908 DR. KARL MUCK, Conductor Fourteenth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7 f^i AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER 1045 : piAi^a Used 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. 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First time at these concerts II. Noel. III. Hobgoblin. IV. A Vagrom Ballad. Gluck , Recitative, "Wretched one, what have I done?" and Aria, "I " have lost my Eurydice," from " Orpheus and Eurydice Saint-Saens .... " My Heart at thy Dear Voice," from " Samson and Delilah " " Goldmark . Overture, In the Spring," Op. 36 SOLOIST, Miss JEANNE GERVILLE-REACHE, Qf the Manhattan Opera Company, New York. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the Gluck selection. The doors of the hall will he closed during the performance «/ each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be- tween the numbers. Oty of BostoD, Revised Regulation of Autiust d. 1898.— Chapter 3. relatiarf to til* coverinii of the head in places of public amusement. 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This suite contains four movements, which are intended to be played consecutively, but may be performed separately if it is thought more expedient. The movements are entitled "Jubilee," "Noel," "Hob- goblin," "A Vagrom Ballad." "Jubilee" and "Noel" were composed in December, 1895; "A Vagrom Ballad" bears the date February, 1896; "Hobgoblin" was composed in the summer of 1904. "Jubilee," "Noel," and "A Vagrom Ballad" were played in various cities during the spring trip of the Boston Festival Orchestra, led by Mr. Mollenhauer. "Noel" was also played at the Forty-sixth Annual Festival of the Worcester County Musical Association, at a concert in Worcester^ October 2, 1903. "Jubilee" and "A Vagrom Ballad" were played for the first time in Boston at a Chickering Production Concert, March 23, 1904. Mr. Chadwick conducted his pieces. "Hobgoblin" was performed for the first time at Mr. Chadwick's concert in Jordan Hall, Boston, November 21, 1904. The "Symphonic Sketches," dedicated to Frederick S. Converse, were published in 1907. They are scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes (one interchangeable wdth English horn), two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a set of three kettledrums, military drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, xylophone, harp, strings. I. Jubilee: Allegro molto vivace, A major, 6-4. The movement has this motto: Jubilee. No cool gray tones for me Give me the warmest red and green, A comet and a tambourine, To paint my jubilee NEW SONGS for CONCERT and RECITAL USE ^ 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. 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After the full exposition a still more characteristic and strongly-rhythmed motive appears (4-4, bass clarinet, bassoons, violas, and 'cellos). A "patting Juba" horn-call introduces a contrasting, suavely melodic motive (C major), which is developed. There is a return of the first jubilant expression, A major, 6-4, which is followed by the cantabile theme (now in F major). After a crescendo, built on the first and chief theme, a few measures for wind instruments (piano) lead to a section (assai tranquillo, 2-2) of an expressive and lyrical nature, which is followed by a final presto in the mood of the opening. II. Noel: Andante con tenerezza, D-flat major, 3-4. There is this motto: Through the soft, calm moonlight comes a sound: A mother lulls her babe, and all around The gentle snow lies glistening On such a night the \'irgin Mother mild In dreamless slumber wrapped the Holy Child, While angel hosts werellistening. —Translation. When "Noel" was performed at the Worcester .Festival, the pro- gramme book said: " 'It is reasonably described,' to use the composer's words, 'by the title, i.e., a little Christmas song.' The curious might discover, perhaps, a coincidence in the fact that Mr. Chadwick's younger son is named Noel." "Noel" (derived from the Latin natalis*), a word shouted or sung as an expression of joy, originally to commemorate the birth of Christ, appeared in English in the thirteenth century as "nowel." For an interesting ^study of the Noel see " Dictionnaire de Plain-Chant et de Musique d'E)glise," by Joseph d'Ortigue, in the Abbe Migne's "Nouvelle Encyclopedic Theologique " (Paris, 1853). * Yet some writers, as Nicod, pretend that the French took the word from Emmanuel: " Noel ou Nouel, " per aphaeresim canunt Galli pro Emmanuel, id est nobiscum Deus. FROM THE JUST ISSUED Recital Programs OF MASSENET Mme. QADSKI Thais Mme. SEMBRICH French and English Words Mme. SCHUMANN=HEINK Vocal Score Mme. EAMES Price, $6 June .... Mrs. H.H. A. Beach My Sweetheart and I Mrs. H. H. A. Beach DEBUSSY The Year's at the Spring, Mrs. H. H A. Beach A Maid sings light . Edward MacDowel! Pelleas and Melisande The Danza . George W. Chadwick Vocal Score Oh, let Night speak of me George W. Chadwick French' and English Words Price, $6 PUBLISHED BY Arthur P. Schmidt CHARLES W. HOMEYER & CO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET 165 TREMONT STREET (Walker BuUdlng) BOSTON. MASS. 1 Boston, Mass. 1053 , This. movement is a nocturne, built on a theme first sung by the English horn. III. "Hobgoblin": Scherzo capriccioso, Allegro vivace, F major, 3-4. The motto is Shakespeare's "that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow." The composer did not have in mind any expression of fairyism. He had in mind the rascally imp that frights maidens of the villager/ skims milk, mocks the breathless housewife at the churn, misleads night wanderers, disconcerts sorely the wisest aunt telling the saddest tale. Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck. Richard Grant White says in a note to "A Midsummer Night's Dream": "Until after Shakespeare wrote this play 'puck' was the generic name for a minor order of evil spirits. The name exists in all the Teutonic and Scandinavian— dialects; and in New York the Dutch have left it in a form 'spook,' meaning a ghost or spirit —known to all who are Knickerbockers by blood or birth.