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MASON&HAMLIN COMPANY Opp. Institute of Technology 492-494 Boylston Street SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON 6-MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES S Ticket Office, 1492 ) _, TelephonesT»i»^T,^„^o Back, Bay„ ] Administration Offices, 3200 f TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1908-1909 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor prngramm? of tijp Eighteenth Rehearsal and Concert WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIP- TIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY C. A. ELLIS PUBLISHED BY C. A. ELLIS, MANAGER j 1409 Mme. CECILE CHAMINADE The World's Greatest "Woman Composer Mme. TERESA CARRENO The World's Greatest W^oman Pianist Mme. LILLIAN NORDICA The W^orld's Greatest Woman Singer USE Piano. THE JOHN CHURCH CO., 37 West 326. Street New York City REPRESENTED BY G. L SCHIRMER & CO., 38 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. 1410 Boston Symphony Orchestra PERSONNEL Twenty.eighth Season, 1908-1909 MAX FIEDLER, Conductor S^l^e -Tit. y/ OTfjttikermg Bears a name which has become known to purchasers as representing the highest possible value produced in the piano industry. It has been associated with all that is highest and best in piano making since 1823. Its name is the hall mark of piano worth and is a guarantee to the purchaser that in the instrument bearing it, is incorporated the highest artistic value possible. M CHICKERING & SONS PIANOFORTE MAKERS Established 1823 791 TREMONT STREET Cor. NORTHAMPTCN ST. Near Mass. Ave. BOSTON 1412 . TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHT AND NINE Eighteenth Rehearsal and Concert* FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12, at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, at 8 o'clock. PROGRAMME. Bruckner . " , . Symphony, No. 8, C minor First time in America I. Allegro moderate. II. Scherzo : (Allegro moderato — Andante — Allegro moderato) III. Adagio. IV. Solemnly (not fast). Gradener Concerto for Violoncello, Op. 45 First time in Boston Beethoven . Overture to a heroic, allegorical ballet, " The Creatures of Prometheus," Op. 43 SOLOIST, Mr. HEINRICH WARNKE. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphoily." The doors of the hall will he closed during the performance of 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. City of Boston. Revised Regulation of Andust S, 1898.— Chapter 3. relatinii to thie coverlnii of the head In places of puhllc amusement. ETery licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear up<Hi the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated io any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without pTo)ectioii, whth does not •bsfrnct such view, may be worn. Attest J. M. GALVIN, d^ Clerk. 1413 e Always tbeKiabe C. C. HARVEY CO 144 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON 1414 Symphony in C minor, No. 8 Anton Bruckner (Bom at Ansfelden, in Upper Austria, September 4, 1825; died at Vienna, October 11, 1896.) This symphony, begun in 1885, was completed in 1890. It was performed for the first time in Vienna, December 18, 1892, at a Phil- harmonic concert led by Hans Richter. Even Hanslick admitted in his bitter review * of the symphony that the concert was a triumph for the composer. "How was the new symphony received? Boister- ous rejoicing, tvaving of handkerchiefs from those standing, innu- merable recalls, laurel wreaths," etc. The symphony is dedicated to the composer's "imperial and royal apostolic Majesty Francis Joseph I., Emperor of Austria and apostolic King of Hungary." It is scored for three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, three bassoons (one interchangeable with double-bassoon), eight horns (horns 5-8 interchangeable with tenor and bass tubas), three trumpets, three trombones, contra-bass tuba, kettledrums, tri- angle, cymbals, three harps, and the usual strings. It appears that, when the symphony was first performed, there was an explanatory programme written by some devout disciple. This programme stated that the first theme of the first movement was "the form of the ^Eschylean Prometheus"; and a portion of this movement was entitled "the greatest loneliness and silence." The Scherzo was supposed to typify "The German Michael." "Der deutsche Michel" may be translated "the plain, honest, much endur- ing (but slow) German," and "Michel" in a figurative sense means yokel, boor, clodhopper. Hanslick wrote: "If a critic had spoken this blasphemy, he would probably have been stoned to death by * This article, which first appeared in the Neue Freie Presse of December 23, 1892, was reprinted in Hanslick's "Fiinf Jahre Musik," pp. 190-3 (Berlin, 1896). A translation of the article was published in Tht Musical Herald of February, 1893, P. 104 (Chicago and Boston). The translator was Mr. Benjamin Cutter. NEW CYCLES OF SONG BIRD SONGS by Liza Lehmann. 2 keys ..... Price, $1.50 net PAGODA OF FLOWERS, a Burmese Story in Song, by A. Woodforde-Finden ........ Price, ,^2.00 net EIGHT NURSERY RHYMES for Quartette of Solo Voices, by Walford Davies Price, 75 cents Also published for Ladies' Voices, 3 parts Price, 75 cents SONGS OF FAITH. Set i, words by Tennyson. Set 2, words by Whitman. Music by C. V. Stanford Price, $1.00 SIX POEMS by Joan Trevalsa Price, $1.00 BOOSEY & COMPANY, Publishers, 9 East Seventeenth Street NEW YORK CITY 1415 L P. Hollander & Co. Announce that their entire Importation of French Millinery Is now on exhibition. Also a complete assortment of Ready-to-wear HATS For Ladies, Misses, and Children 202 to 216 Boylston Street SMITH PATTERSON l^y Diamond Merchants Hall Clocks A Specialty One of the largest and most attractive lines in this country PRICES RIGHT 52 Summer St., Boston ! Bruckner's disciples; but the composer himself gave this name, the German Michael to the Scherzo, as may be read in black and white in the programme." Now, the pubhshed score bears no motto. The ' programme-maker found in the Scherzo ' the deeds and sufiferings of Prometheus reduced in the way of parody to the smallest propor- tions." And in the Adagio was disclosed "the all-loving Father of mankind in his measureless wealth of mercy." The Finale was char- acterized by him as "heroism in the service of the Divine," and the trumpet-calls in the Finale were explained as "the announcers of eternal salvation, heralds of the idea of divinity." On the other hand, it is said that the beginning of the Finale was suggested to Bruckner by the meeting of the three emperors In the published score there is nothing to give the idea that the music has any programme, any argument. Yet Mr. Johannes Reichert in his analysis * of the symphony, referring to Josef Schalk's vision of "Prometheus Bound" in the first movement, finds something of Prometheus or of Faust in the music. * . * * I. Allegro moderato, C minor, 2-2. The first and chief motive is given to violas, violoncellos, and double basses. It is announced pian- issimo; it is decisively rhythmed, and its rhythm and its upward leap of a sixth are important factors in the development. After a short crescendo, the strings are about to return to a pianissimo when the theme is proclaimed with the full force of the orchestra. The first violins have the expressive and questioning second theme. Wood-wind instruments answer the question. The rhythm of the second theme, a rhythm that is characteristically Brucknerian, is used in counterpoint to a new cantilena sung by horns and first violins. • Programme Book of the Symphony Concert of the Royal Orchestra of Dresden, December 13, 1907. FROM THE PROGRAMS OF Mme. NORDICA. GADSKI. Scores, Librettos, SEMBRICH. JOMELLI. EAMES. SGHUMANN-HEINK AND. The Years at the Spring"! Mrs. H. H. A. Beach Piano Selections June . Mrs. H. H. ,A. Beach My Sweetheart and I Mrs. H. H. A. Beach For all Operas The Danza . George W. Chadwick . Arthur Requiem » Foote Constantly The Nightingale has a Lyre of Gold on Hand. Arthur Foote An Irish Love Song Margaret R. Lang For Sale by all Music Dealers. CHARLES W.HOMEYER& GO. Arthur P. 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