. Programme . ty concern-ing the means to make the solo viola conspicuous. My idea was towrite for the orchestra a series of scenes in which the solo viola shouldfigure as a more or less active personage of constantly preserved indi-viduality; I wished to put the viola in the midst of poetic recollectionsleft me by my wanderings in the Abruzzi, and make it a sort of mel-ancholy dreamer, after the manner of Byrons Childe Harold. Hencethe title, Harold en Itahe. As in the Symphonie Fantastique,a chief theme (the first song of the viola) reappears throughout thework; but there is this difference:
. Programme . ty concern-ing the means to make the solo viola conspicuous. My idea was towrite for the orchestra a series of scenes in which the solo viola shouldfigure as a more or less active personage of constantly preserved indi-viduality; I wished to put the viola in the midst of poetic recollectionsleft me by my wanderings in the Abruzzi, and make it a sort of mel-ancholy dreamer, after the manner of Byrons Childe Harold. Hencethe title, Harold en Itahe. As in the Symphonie Fantastique,a chief theme (the first song of the viola) reappears throughout thework; but there is this difference: the theme of the Symphonie Fan-tastique, the fixed idea, interposes itself persistently as an episodicand passionate thought in the midst of scenes which are foreign toit and modifies them; while the song of Harold is added to othersongs of the orchestra with which it is contrasted both in movement * Paganini died at Nice, May 27,1840; he heard Harold in Italy for the first time on November25, 1838.—P. H. !. .420 BOVLSTON STREET THE MAKANNA SHOP TAKESPLEASURE IN PRESENTING TOYOU THEIR NEW LINE OF HAND-MADE CREPE-DE-CHINE ANDGEORGETTE DRESSES, BLOUSESAND A SPECIALTY. 420 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON JORDAN HALLTuesday Evening, NOVEMBER 25, at SONG RECITAL by Mrs. DUDLEY FITTS, Accompanist PROGRAMMEI Recitative and Air, Care Luoi Handel (Arr. by Endicott) Canco de Nadal Old Catalan Nativity Song (Arr. by Schindler) The Silent Town . Sibelius Mid-summer Nights Dream Rimsky-Korsakoff All the Bells, the Little Bells Bagrinofski II Oh Quand je Dors Nocturne Pastorale des Cochons Roses Reliques Des Pas de Sabots _ .Des Femmes de Paris . Ill Liszt The Unforeseen .... Cyril Scott Poldowski The Little Bells of Sevilla . Cyril Scott Chabrier Swans .... A. Walter Kramer Rabaud Secret Languages . . Fay Foster Laparra Song of the Open . Frank LaForge Debussy Mason & Hamlin Piano Tickets: $, $, and 50c (plus 10% war tax)On Sale at 492 Boylston Street, Mason & H
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