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HIS MASTER'S VOICE ^J CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Thirty-seventh Season in New York B m fM s Forty-second Season. 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor THIRD CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Berlioz . Overture, "Benvenuto Cellini," Op. 23 Brahms . Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace. Franck Symphonic Poem: "Le Chasseur Maudit" ("The Wild Huntsman") Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole I. Prelude a la Nuit. II. Malaguena. III. Habanera. IV. Feria (The Fair). Smetana Symphonic Poem, "Vltava" ("The Moldau") from "Ma Vlast" ("My Country"), No. 2 SOLOIST GEORGES ENESCO There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the concerto 5 "The Best "The Best in Travel" in Travel" Imdivi Travel arrangements for individuals who contemplate travel at any time to any part of the world where travel is safe or desirable is an important factor of our service. 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The opera was originally in two acts; the libretto was by L6on de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. The cast of the first per- formance was as follows: Benvenuto Cellini, Duprez; Giacomo Balducci,* Derivis ; Fieramosca, Massol ; le Cardinal Salviati, Serda; Francesco, Wartel; Bernardino, Ferdinand Prevost; Pom- peo, Molinier; un Cabaretier, Trevaux; Teresa, Mme. Dorus-Gras; Ascanio, Mme. Stoltz. The story has been condemned as weak and foolish. It is also wholly fictitious. It is enough to say that in 1532 Cellini is in Rome, called thither by the Pope. He falls in love with Teresa, the daughter of Balducci, an old man, who favors another suitor, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor. Cellini attempts to elope with her, and neglects work on his Perseus, which he at last finishes in an hour's time, fired by the promise of Cardinal Salviati to reward him with the hand of Teresa. It should also be said that Cellini and his pupils and friends are disgusted early in the opera at a paltry sum of money given to Cellini by the Pope through Ascanio, but only after he had promised solemnly to complete the statue of Perseus. They decided to revenge themselves on the stingy and avaricious treasurer, Balducci, by impersonating him in the theatre. Fieramosca, who has overheard the plot, calls in the help of Pompeo, a bravo, and they plan to outwit Cellini by adopting the same costumes that he and his pupil Ascaniot will wear. The pantomime of "King Midas" is acted, and Balducci, among the spectators, rec- ognizes the king in a caricature of himself. He advances to lay hands on the actor; Cellini profits by the confusion to go towards Teresa, but Fieramosca also comes up, and Teresa cannot dis- tinguish her lover on account of the similarity of the masks. Cellini stabs Pompeo. He is arrested, and the people are about to kill *lt is true that there was a Giacopo Balducci at Rome, the Master of the Mint. Cellini describes him "that traitor of a master, being in fact my enemy" ; but he had no daughter loved by Cellini. The statue of Perseus was modelled and cast at Florence in 1545, after this visit to Rome, for the Duke Cosimo de' Medici. Nor does Ascanio, the apprentice, figure in the scenes at Florence. fThe librettists originally introduced Pope Clement VII. The censor obliged them to substitute a Cardinal. Berlioz wrote to his sister Ade4e on July 12, 1838, "It would, however, have been curious to see Clement VII. at loggerheads with Clement VII." For Clement's quarrel with Benvenuto and scenes with Salviati, "that beast of a Cardinal," see J. A. Symonds's translation of "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini" New York, 1890, pages 124—139. His Holiness took Benvenuto into favor again, and when he died soon afterwards, Benvenuto, putting on his arms and girding his sword, went to San Piero and kissed the feet of the dead Pope, "not without shedding tears." — him, when the cannon-shots announce that it is Ash Wednesday. The lights are turned out, and Cellini escapes. The thematic material of the overture, as that of "Le Carnaval Rc-main," originally intended by Berlioz to be played as an intro- duction to the second act of "Benvenuto Cellini/' but first performed at a concert in Paris, February 3, 1884, is taken chiefly from the opera. The overture opens, Allegro deciso con impeto, G major, 2-2, with the joyful chief theme.