Sig. A. CESCHINA

Herr F. DIERICH

Mr. J. R. MAIR

Mr. E. E. MOFFITT

Herr G. H. SCHACHT

Mr. B. SMITH

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SATURDAY, 26th eAUGUST, at 3 o'Clock.

Grand

lAtagner Concert Orchestra : 75 prtists.

lbon. Conbuctor:

Professor G. W. L. MARSHALL-HALL.

Vocalists:

MADAME ELISE WIEDERMANN (Who has kindly given her Services).

MR. HENRY STOCKWELL.

Committee :

Mr. W. STONEHAM.

Mr. BERNHARD SMITH Mr. ERNEST MOFFITT (Hon. Secretary). (Orchestral Secretary).

TICKETS, 3/- (Balcony and Reserved Chairs), 2/- and 11-

Box PLAN AT MESSRS. ALLAN & CO.'S.

MASON, FIRTH & M'CUTCHEON, PRINTERS.

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.. Richard Wagner This march was written to celebrate the termination of the Franco-German War.

Its breadth and dignity are characteristic of the noblest elements in the German character, and display more a fervent joy at the assured safety of the fatherland than a braggart triumph. This is further heightened by the solemn entry. on the Brass and Wood Wind, of Luther's soul-stirring Chorale, " Em Feste Burg ist unser Gott." By the tender second theme one is carried back to the German Rhine—to home, and "der alten Mutter." The whole work embodies the very spirit of the nation in both its self-reliant strength and capabilities of deepest tenderness.

Inamatic Sallab—" La Belle Dame sans Merci" G. W L. Marshall-Hall

Mr. HENRY STOCKWELL.

This wonderful poem represents in an ideal form the overpowering fascination which it is in the power of some women to exert over certain men—a fascination which makes or mars life. This the poets have pictured in "Antony and Cleopatra," " Launcelot and Guinevere," "Tristan and Isolde." The music is an attempt to realise the weird despair of the scene, and the strange irresistible magic of the love which usurps the man's whole being, with all its tender, dreamy delight, of which the eighth stanza is the most marked instance, where the strange harmonic pro-gressions seem to typify the "love-sleep" from which his life long he may never more awaken.

been known. It is the love, not of a sentimental youth, but of a fully developed man of power and energy, in whom the long pent-up flood of passion has, by a woman's glance, been set free, and now rushes tempestuously, irresistibly, through his being, so that he gives himself over utterly to its all-obliterating influence. This wondrous woman's-glance, and the response which it awakens, are marvellously portrayed, in the first few bars, by the passionate crescendo of the violoncelli, and the heart-oppressed sigh of the wood-wind—in truth, the whole introduction is but the history of a sigh.

1111 1111,

OF 7VVINUTES.

Death of Siegfrieb "Gotterdammerung" R. Wagner

This grand and solemn music has all the character of a heroic funeral march. In the various themes, as they enter one by one, ushered in by the mighty chords which accompany the death-stab of Siegfried—we have, summed up, the whole tragic history of the Volsung race, as it occurs in the four great dramas of Wagner. It is the history of a world, whose dissolution could hardly be more fitly memorialised than by this majestic Requiem.

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Ah l what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering;

The sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.

Ah I what can ail thee, wretched wight, So haggard and so woe-begone ?

The squirrel's granary is full, And the harvest's done.

3• I see a lily on thy brow,

With anguish moist and fever dew ; And on thy cheek a fading rose

Fast withereth, too.

4. I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful—a faery's child ; Her hair was long, her foot was light,

And her eyes were wild.

5• I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long; For sideways would she lean, and sing

A faery's song.

6. I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets, too, and fragrant zone ; She looked at me as she did love,

And made sweet moan.

7. She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said,

I love thee true.

8. She took me to her elfin grot,

And there she gazed and sighed deep, And there I shut her wild, sad eyes—

So kissed to sleep.

9. And there we slumbered on the moss,

And there I dreamed, ah, woe betide! The latest dream I ever dreamed,

On the cold hillside.

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I saw pale kings, and princes, too, Pale warriors—death-pale were they all—

Who cried—" La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall."

II.

I saw their starv'd lips in the gloom With horrid warning gaped wide,

And I awoke, and found me here, On the cold hillside.

tz. And this is why I sojourn here

Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is withered from the lake,

And no birds sing. (Keats.)

.. "Elsa's Dream" (Lohengrin) R. Wagner With Full Orchestral Accompaniment.

• Lonely and friendless to God I prayed, The deep woe of my heart I poured out before Him. Then burst from my soul a cry so full of plaint, Far, far into the sky it rang with piercing tones, And echoed in the distance, and softly died away—Peace fell upon me, and sweet sleep.

In sheen of gleaming armour, A lordly knight drew near, So spotless, pure, and valiant Ne'er saw I knight before. A golden horn hung by his side, He leant upon his sword. Thus neared he from dim, distant realms, So leal, and true, and fair ; With gesture of deep tenderness He brought me comfort sweet. That knight alone my heart doth choose To be my champion. 0 hear, hear what the heaven-sent Shall gain as guerdon rare : The crown that was my father's Shall be for him to wear, And all my fair possessions To him I gladly yield, And will he take me as his spouse, I will be wholly his.

Scala

Madame ELISE WIEDERMANN. (The parts and score of this work have been kindly lent by the Royal Metropolitan

Liedertafel.)

3ntrobuction ant) } "Tristan and Isolde" Closing Scene R. Wagner 1Ribe of the Valkpries "Die Walkiire" R. Wagner

Wagner wrote, alluding to this work, that he had striven to allay through the forms of art that longing for ideal woman which remained without realisation in his life. Truly no such wonderful depiction of the power of passion has ever before

At a breath we are carried into a wild region of ice and snow and mountain peaks, of hurtling clouds, and screaming storm-winds. Through the air rush wide-limbed snorting steeds ; upon them sit the keen-eyed war-maidens—the Valkyrie, whose fierce laughter shudders through the tempest. And each, on her saddle bow, supports the pale corse of a slain hero.

( The next Concert will be given on SATURDAY, SEPT. 23rd. , G MINOR SYMPHONY, MOZART. SIEGFRIED IDYLL, WAGNER.

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Violins-DIERICH BOWMAN CONNOLLY GOLLMICK HUME JOACHIMSEN KEESING KRUSE NIEHOFF PHILLIPPS RAWLINS SCHRADER SUTCH STEVENS SILVESTER WEINBERG, sen. WEINBERG, junr. WALLENSTEIN ZEPLIN, THOS. ZEPLIN, GEORGE ZELMAN

Violas- SCHACHT EDWARDS HESS, R. F. RICE WIEDERMANN ZEPLIN, A.

'Cellos— HOWARD CLUTSAM FRAYLING HARRISON KILLINGREN

Basses- CESCHINA BRIESE BROWN WEST

Harps— BARKER Di GILIO

Flutes- LEMMONE CLI VE SMITH

Piccolo- WRIGHT

Oboes- THOMPSON ROSMAN CAROLANE

Cor Anglais- LUTTICH

Clarionets- LYONS, E. CAMPBELL LYONS

Bass Clarionet- LUNDBORG

Bassoons- LANGDALE MOFFITT INGAMELLS

Horns- KUHR, H. FLEWIN RIES PECHOTSCH, R.

Trumpets= STONEHAM, H. W. WILSON MATTHIAS

Bass Trumpet- STONEHAM, F.

Trombones- HINGOTT HOPKINS HORE PECHOTSCH, A.

Tubas— CONDUIT FRIES LUDERS LAWSON

Contra-Bass Tuba- STONEHAM, W.

Tympani- MUNYARD RAMAGE

side Drum, Cymbals, cte. CORBETT CLAY

t Secretary ERNEST E. MOFFITT.

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