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ibis ]Excellency the State eovernor R Intl? Oibson Catinicbael.

Marshail=ball Orchestral Concert

season 1910.

" We Possess in literary or artistic culture a never-failing source of

pleasures which are neither withered by age, nor staled by custom, nor embittered in the recollection by the pangs of self-reproach."

T. H. HUXLEY.

sc jfirst Concert of the season, being tbe 96tb since their inception,

town *lbaII, Melbourne, .A4 .4

Saturbap afternoon, April 9, 3 p.m.

Orchestra of 67 artists. Conductor :

Prof. 0. J,U. 31d. ffiarsballolball.

Vocalist : (Dr. James tUabe Violinist: (Dr. 1Le Plat.

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proGramme. 1. Stnitphonv No. 2, Op. 36, D Major ••• Beethoven.

Adagio Molto 3

j Scherzo, Allegro. Allegro con brio. Trio.

2 Larghetto. 4 Allegro Molto.

1. (a) This Symphony opens in the large, serene, impressive style peculiar to Beethoven's Adagios, who as Donatello in sculpture, knew how to combine great breadth with the utmost subtlety and delicacy of detail. Lovely harmonic changes expand into vast melodic sweeps, and all the time a strange expectancy is awakened in the mind akin to that described by Keats :

" Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ;

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

1. (b) Suddenly the exultant Allegro opens upon us, and we are borne along on its bold flight, without ever a moment's time for hesitation or doubt. Already the overwhelming masterdom of the later Beethoven compels us. From scene to scene we pass, without pause or question. Manifold life unfolds itself before our eyes,— we gaze, and wonder, and are swept breathless away.

2. Now the Larghetto breathes peace and tenderness into our souls. One entrancing melody succeeds the other, wrapped in delicate tone-embroidery. Some-times out of the throbbing of the strings some gentle exquisite voice mounts up uttering a sensitive phrase which is caught and echoed by another, while yet a third plaintively commingles with it. Now the Violins float down, or flicker like sunbeams on the stillness of a pool, from which faint little chirpings and bubblings come drowsily to our ears :

" And here is my sense fulfilled of the joys of earth, Light, silence, bloom, shade, murmurs of leaves that meet.

Bloom, fervour, and perfume of grasses and flowers aglow, Breathe and brighten about me : the darkness gleams,

The sweet light shivers and laughs on the slopes below, Made soft by leaves that lighten and change like dreams ;

The silence thrills with the whisper of secret streams That well from the heart of the woodland, etc.

There is a change to the minor : a weird hush comes over the orchestra: we seem to hear-

" The terror that whispers in darkness, and flames in light, The doubt that speaks in the silence of earth and sea,

The sense, more fearful at noon than at midmost night. Of wrath scarce hushed, and of imminent ill to be."

But the threatening tones dissolve as suddenly as they arose, and we ask- " Where are they ? Heaven is as earth, and as heaven to me

Earth : for the shadows that sundered them here take flight ; And nought is all, as am I, but a dream of thee."

3. Of the lively piquant Scherzo, and the quaint little rustic Trio that com-panions it, it can only be said that they are full of humour and dainty flashes of spirit-life, defying all verbal limitation. They transport us to a delightful world in which the solid paraphernalia of our mud-planet seem ridiculously cumbersome.

4. Beethoven is in his most whimsical mood in this finale. The opening is a practical joke, and leads us to a thousand freaks and rare fancies, to enjoy which one must give oneself up unreservedly to the light mercurial versatility of mood in which this profound Reader of the human soul loved to seek relaxation and recuperation alter his more serious tasks ; by so doing, imparting amplitude and many-sidedness to his work. For Beethoven loved "every man in his humour," and enjoyed nothing better than recording that step from the sublime to the ridiculous which is so characteristic of human life.

Interval.

3. Caprice for Violin anb Orchestra ... Marshall-Hall.

(HM". Maurice le Vat.

4. Erla (Carmen)

Bizet.

flI)v. 3ames 'UAW. See here, thy flower treasur'd well, Then my curse recalling with shame, Its odour, cheer'd my prison cell, Fondly, tenderly, breathed thy name, Tho' wither'd dead, the cherished flow'r, And felt 'twould be a rich reward, Its perfume kept its magic pow'r ;

A rich reward for all my pain,

Next my heart it softly repos'd, Thee to behold, Carmen, once again, And how oft, with eyelids half closed, For could I see thee stand before me, I drank its perfume with delight, Thy bright eyes raining smiles on me And saw thy smiles, illume the night. Sometimes I curs'd the hour I met thee, 0 my Carmen ! my life, my soul be given

Soon would ecstatic bliss steal o'er me,

And tried, all vainly, to forget thee ;

to thee. Sometimes I asked, in senseless wrath, Carmen, I love thee ! Why did fate bring her in my path ?

5. 3ttritatton to the Urlalt3 Weber-Berlioz. This brilliant beaker of musical champagne needs no comment save to note the

charming old-world suavity of the Introduction, where the gentleman is introduced to his partner, and makes her his gallant compliments, which she accepts with a 'charmingly coquettish courtesy. After a gloriously lively valse, which they enjoy so much that they dance it through without losing a bar of the music, they separate with the same delightful ceremoniousness—which as a rule the premature applause 'of their audience sadly discomposes.

The Management have to acknowledge with thanks the loan by Mr. A. Zelman of the Orchestral Parts of the vocal numbers.

The SECOND CONCERT of the Season WILL BE HELD IN THE

Town Hall, Melbourne, ON THE

Shining in morning's first roseate light, While blossoms rare Make sweet the air, With beauties teeming, Past all dreaming, A garden charmed my sight. And there beneath a wondrous tree, Where fruits were richly thronging, My blissful dream revealed to me The goal of all my longing, And life's most glorious prize, A woman fair, Eva in Paradise.

Darkness had fallen and night closed me round ;

On stony road my footsteps trod, Where on a mountain, Rose a fountain, That lured my feet with its sound ; There underneath a laurel tree, Where stars like fruit were gleaming,

Wagner.

In poet's dream there smiled on me, With holy sweetness beaming, My muse, who from the sacred font Bedewed my head on high Parnassus'

mount !

Oh hallowed day, On which my poet's dream took flight ! That Paradise my vision showed, Revealed anew in heaven's light, Shining now lay ; And there pointing the path, A laughing streamlet flowed, And, gleaming yonder, A radiant wonder, That garden's maiden so fair, As Muse before me stood, In holy sweetness there. That maid I boldly wooed ; And there, in light of heaven, As prize of song was given, Parnassus and Paradise.

2. Etta, Preislied, Meistersinger

3ames ttliabe.

Afternoon of SATURDAY, MAY 14, At 3 p.m.

(This day Five Weeks).

PROGRAMME.

I. Symphony, in D Minor ... Haydn.

2. Concerto for Pianoforte & Orchestra, in E Flat Major (The Emperor) Beethoven.

/Drs. *Math.

3. ' Valse Triste Sibelius.

4. Overture, Tannhauser Wagner. *First performance in Australia.

Marshall-Hall Orchestra. Saturday Afternoon, April 9.

• „is"

Conductor : Professor G. W. L. MARSHALLHALL. Assistant Conductor : MR. F. DIER I CH.

Mr. Dierich „ North „ Briglia „ Haydon „ Hume „ Le Plat „ Parkes „ Schieblich

Mrs. Brookes* „ Manby

Miss Archibald „ Baker* „ Campbell „ Clark* „ Crozier „ Cuddon „ Gray „ Healey „ Macarthur „ Pearce „ Stanford „ Sugden „ Trenerry „ Walters „ Whitley

Violas : Mr. Dawson

„ Lamble „ Williams

Miss Baker „ Cook „ Martin „ McMahon

Mr. Hattenbach „ Hore „ Levy* „ McLeod „ Schellenberger *

Miss Baker „ Bear „ Fink*

13asses : Mr. Roubaudi „ Ackfield „ Dodge „ Tappe „ Thatcher „ Waddington

tarp♦ : Mr. Barker

flutes : Mr. Amadio „ Russell

Oboes : Mr. Taylor Dr. Rudall*

*Kindly give their services.

Cor. anoints : Dr. Rudall"

Clartottets : Mr. Tipping

„ Mohr

113a8S0011S Mr. Ingamells

„ Briginshaw „ Chapman

thorns : Mr. Kuhr

„ Hingott „ Lucas „ Milton

trumpets : Mr. Levey

„ Osbourne

trombones : Mr. Code

„ Fletcher „ Mossman

ZVMPalli :

Mr. Crow

Violins : Cellos :

Chamber Music Concerts. The Board of Management have decided to initiate and maintain

a series of Chamber Music Concerts in Melbourne with the object of enabling the public to hear the masterpieces in that domain rendered in the best possible manner. Three Concerts will be given during this, season. The first Concert will take place in the Masonic Hall, on. Friday, May 6th, at 8 p.m.

Season tickets admitting to reserved seats at the three Concerts. may be obtained at Allan's, price 12/-, or to holders of season tickets for the present series of Orchestral Concerts, 10/-. Admission to ,

single Concert, 5/- and 2/6. Concert 1.

String Quartet Beethoven.

Vocal Number ... ... ... Sonata for Flute and Piai,o ... ... Mozart.

Flute Solo, MR. AMADIO. Pianoforte Quintet (Pianoforte, Miss JESSIE MassoN) ... Schumann.

Concert 2, String Quartet in D Minor ... ... Marshall-Hall.

Vocal Number ... ... ... ... ••• Sextet for Strings and two Hums ... ... ... Beethoven.

(Horns—MR. KUHR and MR. HINGOTT).

Trout Quintet ... ... ... ... Schubert.

Contra Bass, MR. ROUBAUDI, Pianoforte, MR. SCHARF.

Concert 3. String Quartet ... Schubert.

Vocal Number ... ... ... — Quintet for Strings and Clarinet ... ... Mozart.

Clarinet, MR. TIPPING.

The String Quartet will be composed throughout of MR. La 'PLAT '"and

MR. NORTH (Violins), MR. DAWSON (Viola), and MR. HATTENBACH (Cello).

The Concerts have been placed under the artistic direction of

PROFESSOR G. W. L. MARSHALL-HALL.

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