Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-31
THE THOMAS CONCERT.

A Reeth0ven.Wagner Programme
 MT. Carl Baermann VIII Re the So.
 loist-Classical But Interesting Se-
 lectiOns To Be Given.
 The third concert by the Theodore Thomas orcheetra, under the auspices of the New Haven Concert association, will be given at
 the Hyperion Theater tomorrow evening.
 The soloist selected for the occasion is Mir.
 Carl BaermaHn, the famous pianist. The
 programme will consist of Beethoven's over
 ture to ''Coriolan," the seventh symphony
 and the fourth piano concerto, and Wagner's
 'tKaiser Marsch", and the introduction and
 closing scene from Tristan and Isolde"
 All three of the Beethoyen selections were
 written during the mature period of ti1a%
 composers life and are full of character and even humor. The Wagnerian numbers will serve to supplement the impression made by the production of "Lohengrin" last week. The overture to 'fCoriolan," tragedy by Collin, to whom it was dedicated, was writ ten in 1906 and was one of the pieces the copyright of which was sold to Clement, the musical publisher of London. The concerto in G major is one of the five similar compo- sitions by Beethoven, all of which were fre- quently played by him at concerts. | It was first published in August, 1908, and was dedicated to the Archduke Rudolph. The Archduke was one of Beethoven's best | and most powerful friends, and this concerto | is the first of a long series of great works which bear his name. Students of Beetho- vens life find a striking proof of the vigor and fertility of his mind from the fact that | four of his greatest orchestral compositions = | the fourth concerto, the fifth symphony and | two string qnartettes Cop. 59)-were all either sketched or written during one winter. | This winter of 1905 was probably the busiest | in Beethoven's life. The rehearsals for his ! only opera, fFidelio," were being carried on under the greatest difficulties and only re- | suited in an unsuccessful production ot It. \ The singers declared that many of it's pas | sages were positively unsingable, and the nearly distracted composer had such ill luck \ in training his orchestra that he expressed | himself thankful for his deafness. In letter \ to friend he wrote: sPlease try to persuade Seyfried to conduct my opera to-day as wish to see and hear it from a distance; in
 this way my patience will at least not be so ! severely tried as when am close enough to
 hear my music so bungied." Yet in the | midst of all his trouble and vexation he wrote
 music that will live as long as there are mu-
 sicians to perform it.
 ! The seventh symphony is looked upon by
 many as the most romantic of all sympho-
 nies. The more it is studied and the oftener ! it is heard the more attractive It becomes. The original and fascinating orchestration of the first movement is succeeded by the noble calm of the allegretto, which will sound familiar to many in the audience. Next | comes the humor1u scherzo with it's startling ending and then a sort of \ barbaric dance movement ftly ends the most | characteristic of all Beethoven's works. The performance of three of Beethoven's compo- | sitions at one concert will exhibit one of the | most noticeable features of his music-the | individual variety of each piece and each movement. In his symphonies every one of ! the first movements is entirely different from the other eight, and the same may be said of | the andantes, the scherzos and fnales. The \ themes and their treatment have no family | likeness, but each seems born for the oeca- \ sion. Beethoven very rarely, if ever, repeat ! ed himself.
 The selections from 'sTristan and Isolde, '' ! one of Wagner's earlier operas, will give an | idea of that work and an opportunity to com pare it's orchestration with that of "Lohen- l grin" The opera wss composed at Zurich at about the time its author began his series | of operas on the Niebelungenlied. The | ''Kaiser Marsch'' was written in 1871, at the close of the Franco-Prussian'w war, and was, as \ it's name implies, dedicated to the Emperor William.
 | It will thus be seen that the programme is as interesting as it is classical, and is perhaps ! better selected than those of the two previ- ! ous concerts. We have had great many ' musical entertainments this season and they ! have all been we'll attended. This evidence | of an increasing desire to hear music of the very highest order of merit speaks we'll for | the musical culture and taste of New Haven ! audiences.
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