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Marsbalkball Orchestral concerts.
Season, 1906.
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HE success which attended the 1905 Season of Orchestral Concerts, under the Conductorship of PROFESSOR MARSHALL HALL, justifies the Management in submitting with confidence the Prospectus for a Season during the present year on an enlarged scale, with an extra Evening Concert to be given as occasion will permit. The Programmes for the Concerts are attached hereto, and, as will be seen, the policy of introducing at least one novelty in each Concert has been carried out as in former seasons. Furthermore the Managers have increased the number of Solo performances, feeling that as the Orchestra becomes better established this practice is desirable, both in the interests of the audience and of the soloists themselves.The scope of the Programmes for the year is much more extensive than in any previous season.
Not only arc a number of new works included, but also a number of performances for the second time. The demands on Conductor and Orchestra will be great, about 70 rehearsals being needed. Mr. Dierich, Mr. H. Schrader and Mr. Zelman will discharge the duties of assistant Conductors, and so relieve the pressure on the Conductor.
At the first Concert there will be two novelties—The Violin Concerto, by Tschaikowsky, will be heard for the first time in Melbourne, and will enable the public to hear Miss Hood in the solo part. The Symphonic Poem, " Phaeton," by Saint Saens, will also be heard for the first time.
At the second Concert the Overture " Lebuscha " by the Bohemian composer Smetana will receive a first rendering, and the Pianoforte Concerto in B Flat, by Brahms, will be played by Mr. Scharf for the second time.
At the third Concert Mr. Hattenbach will play the Cello Concerto, by Haydn, and a Phantasy by Professor Marshall-Hall will give the public an opportunity of hearing the first Horn Player, Mr. Kuhr. The concert will also include Rimski-Korsakof s setting of " The Arabian Nights"
to music. When the French people at last decided to hear Wagner's works the composer re-wrote the Ballet music for " Tannhauser." This brilliant music will be given in its concert form at the fourth Concert ; at the same Concert two of Beethoven's Equale for four trombones will be rendered, and Mr. Zelman will play Svendsen's Romance with Orchestra.
At the fifth Concert will be heard the Overture " In the South," a fine example of the work of a great English Musician—Elgar—and also the gorgeously scored extract from the
" Gotterdammerung "—Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine. The brilliant E Flat Symphony of Mozart will also be reproduced after a long interval.
The Sixth Concert will be notable for the production of Brahms' rugged fourth and last Symphony, concerning the final movement of which the following reference is to be found in the last edition of Groves' Dictionary :—" . . . . it has to be added that only two other Symphonies—
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and the Ninth of Beethoven—have last movements of such monumental grandeur. This movement is Brahms' last word for the Orchestra alone, and a wonderful culmination of his work in this line." The slow movement from Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony
will also be heard for the second time.
The final Concert will be chiefly devoted to the works of Wagner and Strauss, the latter being represented by the Tone Poem " Don Juan," a vivacious work belonging to the same period as the " Tod and Verklarung."
At the Evening Concert the appearance of Mr. Dierich, in the Bach Violin Concerto, will give the public an opportunity of recognising the unostentatious and valuable work he has done for the Orchestra. The evening Concert is an experiment. If successful, something further may be done in that direction in the future.
It is desired to again draw attention to the fact that these Concerts are not carried on for personal gain. The object is entirely artistic and educational. If there be any surplus after the expenses have been paid it will be devoted to the purchase of new music and the strengthening of the Orchestra, so as to enable the Concerts to be continued year by year and the best works of old and modern masters to be produced in the most complete manner possible.
The Concerts will be held at the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday afternoons, at intervals of three weeks. The first of this series will be given on Saturday, the 7th April next. The prices of admission have been fixed as follows :—Reserved Seats and Balcony, 5/- ; Body of Hall, 3/- ; Area, 2/-. Season tickets will be issued for Reserved Seats and Balcony, price ..r/ro/-, entitling the holder (if he wishes) to the same reserved seat at each of the seven concerts.
The extra concert will be given on some week evening instead of Saturday afternoon. The date will be fixed later on when a slack interval at the theatres will give an opportunity of obtaining the services of a full Orchestra in the evening. Subscribers to the season will be entitled to reserved seats at this Concert for 4/-.
Applications for Season tickets and all correspondence in connection with the Concerts should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, M. Philip Fox, 472 Chancery Lane, Melbourne.
(Telephone roo2).
Concert 1.
1. Symphony, No. 3, Eroica ... Beethoven.
2. Violin Concerto (Miss Hood)* ... Tschaikowsky.
3. Largo for Organ, Harp and Strings ... Handel.
4. Symphonic Poem, Phaeton* ... Saint-Saens.
r. Unfinished Symphony ... I ... Schubert.
2. Piano Concerto in B Flat (Mr. Scharf) Brahms.
3. Overture, Lebuscha* Smetana.
4. Siegfried Idyll ... ... Wagner.
5. Overture, Leonora, No. 3 ... Beethoven..
Concert 3.
1. 'Cello Concerto (Mr. Hattenbach) Haydn.
2. Symphonic Poem, Scheherazade* ... Rimski Korsakof.
3. Phantasy for Horn Solo, with Orchestra in D Major* Marshall Hall.
(Mr. Kiihr)
4. Two New Legende (Nos. 2 and i o)* Dvorak.
5. Symphonic Poem, Les Preludes Liszt.
Concert 4.
J. Spring Symphony, No. 2, in I) Major ... Brahms.
2. Romance for Violin and Orchestra (Mr. Zelman) Svendsen.
3. Overture Roman Carnival .. Berlioz.
4. Two Equate for four Trombones* Beethoven.
5. Venusberg Music from Tannhauser* ... Wagner.
Concert
5.
i. Symphony, E Flat Major Mozart.
2. Overture, In the South* ... ... Elgar.
3. Vocal Number or Instrumental Solo ... -
4. Overture, Genoveva ... ... ... . Schumann.
5. Siegfried's Journey to the Rhine (Gotterdammerung)* Wagner.
Concert 6.
f. Symphony, No. 4, in E Minor* Brahms.
2. Andante from 5th Symphony Tschaikowsky.
3. Vocal Number or Instrumental Solo
4. Orchestral Idyll ... Marshall Hall.
5. Overture, Euryanthe Weber.
Concert 7.
1. Symphony, No. 8 ... Beethoven.
2. Prelude to Lohengrin .. ... Wagner.
3. Feuerzauber, with voice, Die Walkiire (Mr. Bottoms) Wagner.
4. Tone Poem, Don Juan* ... ... Strauss.
5. Introduction to 3rd Act of Lohengrin Wagner.
Extra Evening Concert.
i. Symphony, No. 5, C Minor ... ... ... Beethoven.
2. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, E Major (Mr. Dierich)* Bach.
3. Sclavonic Danses ... ... ... Dvorak.
4. Vocal Number ... -
5. Overture, Meistersinger Wagner.
*First perfolmanee in Melbourne.
Concert 2.
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