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being the 75th since their inception.
town bait, Melbourne, .0 .4 Zaturbar Afternoon, aune 15,
3 p.m. .a' ot
Orchestra of 75 Artists.
Conductor :
Prof. G. U. IL. Marsbatiolbau.
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Programme.
1- Zrnipbonp " Pastoral " No. 6 L. van Beethin'cn.
1. Allegro.
(Joyous sensations aroused by arrival in the country).
2. Andante molto moto.
(Scene by a stream).
3. Allegro—Presto.
(Merry gathering of the country people).
4. Allegro.
(Storm).
5. Allegretto.
(Joyous and thankful feelings after the storm).
3itterval.
3ntrobuction to the tbirb act of lobengrin Wagner.
The Epithalamium.
3. Concerto for flute ant) Orcbet3tra
MR. HERBERT STONEHAM.
.Mozart.
4. Variations on a Ubeme br 3-os. lbarbn Brahms.
Chorale St. Antoni. Var. I. Poco Pitt animato. II. Pin vivace.
III. Con moto. IV. Andante con moto. V. Vivace. VI. Vivace.
VII. Grazioso. VIII. Presto non trofifio. IX. Finale (quasi una Passacaglia) Andante.
As a painter, bent on decorating the realm of space with beautiful imaginings, fills the vacancy of panel after panel with subtle variations of line and colour, all different, yet having affinity one with the other, being all the children of one parent idea ; so the inaudible swift-fleeting moments of time are by the musician touched, and made lovely, as they pass, with the elusive enchantments of sound.
And he divides, with his intricate musical web, the passing moments into groups, and each group becomes a clearly defined " thing of beauty and a joy for ever," dis- similar yet akin to its brother-groups. And in each we become conscious of a human soul passing through various phases of soul-experience. Such decorated Time-panels are called " variations," and the melody from which they spring is the parent idea.
Each variation is thus a life-experience, a mood, an impression, in miniature. And such moods are bound to one another by their common derivation, and constitute the varying experiences of an individual mind. To thoroughly enter into and enjoy this form of art requires no little elasticity and pliability of imagination on the part of the listener, since the alterations of mood follow quickly one upon another, and vanish almost ere seized. Boldness, vigour, tenderness, heaviness of heart, Spring- like delicacy and vivacity, robust energy, exquisitely dainty feminine grace, weird murmurs from some far lonely wind-haunted moor, solemn majestic aspirations of the soul, flow one upon the other in glorious profusion—and we are fain to cry after each wonderful moment as it passes—" Stay, for thou art beautiful ! "
