THIRTY-FIRST SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED ELEVEN and TWELVE Tenth Rehearsal and Concert FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 22, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, at 8.00 o'clock Bach Gluck PROGRAMME Pastorale from the "Christmas Oratorio " Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Symphony in G major (Breitkopf and Härtel, No. 13) Berlioz Iberia: "Images" for Orchestra, No. 2 Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps, Ballet of Sylphs, and There will be an intermission of five minutes after the symphony The doors of the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval be-· tween the numbers. City of Boston. Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898.-Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN, City Clerk. L.P.HOLLANDER & CO. OUR GREAT ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Commences Wednesday, December 27 Full particulars in Saturday and 202-216 BOYLSTON STREET In the Purchase of Furs It is as desirable to insist upon value as to insist upon Early Christmas Shopping is desirable F.P.O'Connor Co. 157 TREMONT STREET SYMPHONY (SHepherds' Music) from the Christmas Oratorio. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (Born at Eisenach, March 21, 1685; died at Leipsic, July 28, 1750.) The "Weihnachtsoratorium" was composed at Leipsic in 1734. The text is from Luke ii. 1 and 3-21, Matthew ii. 1-12. It is divided into six sections for the three days of Christmas, New Year's Day, New Year's Sunday, and the festival of the Epiphany. Each division is a complete composition for one of six days, and thus the work was usually performed. “As the Christmas Oratorio was composed for a year when there was no Sunday after Christmas till after New Year's Day, in after times, so long as Bach lived, it could only be completely given in years when this occurred again,-three times, namely, 1739-40, 1744-45, 1745-46." It is said that the first performance of the complete work after Bach's death was at Breslau in 1844. The Shepherds' Music is the first number of Part II. The following stands in Bach's own handwriting in the original manuscript: Feria 2 Nativitatis Christ. "Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend" Sinfonia. Also the original voice parts bear on the wrapper in Bach's handwriting: Pars 2 Oratorii Tempore Nativitatis Christi Feria 2 "Und es waren Hirten in derselben," etc. à 4 voici, 2 travers, 2 Hautb. d'amour, 2 Hautb. da Caccia, 2 violini, viola e continuo di Joh. Sebast. Bach. In other words, the introduction was scored for two traverse flutes, two oboi d' amore, two oboi da caccia,* first and second violins, viola, organ, and continuo.t Robert Franz (named Knauth, 1815-92) substituted two clarinets and two English horns for the obsolete oboi d' amoreț and oboi da caccia, and added parts for two oboes, two bassoons, and two horns. The introduction is an Andantino con moto in G major, 12-8, and consists in the free contrapuntal development of a single theme in Siciliana§ rhythm. * Oboe da caccia, one of the predecessors of the English horn. "Continuo," or "basso continuo," was a name given to the figured instrumental bass voice, which was introduced in Italy shortly before 1600. From this figured bass the modern accompaniment was gradually developed.-HUGO RIEMANN. Oboi d'amore have in recent years been constructed by Mahillon and others. Two were used in Boston on December 3, 1901, when Bach's Mass in B minor was sung by the Cecilia Society. There is a part for the oboe d' amore in Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica." The Siciliana, or Siciliano, is an idyllic dance of Sicily frequently performed at weddings. It has been described as follows: "The peasants dance to a flute, or a tambourine with bells; those who are above the peasants in the social scale have an orchestra of two or three violins. Sometimes the music is furnished by a bagpipe or guitar. The ball is opened by a man who, taking his cap in hand, bows low to the woman; she then rises noisily and dances with all her might, the couple holding each other by means of a handkerchief. After a time the man makes another profound bow and sits down, while the woman continues pirouetting by herself; then she walks round the room and chooses a partner, and so it goes on, man and woman alternately dancing and choosing. The married couples dance by themselves, until toward the end of the evening, when they all dance together." It has also been described as a sort of passepied danced to a lively measure of 6-8. A dancing-master, Gawlikoski, about 1850, in Paris, gave the name of this dance to a form of waltz, and the dance was in fashion for a year or two. Walther, in his Musicalisches Lexicon (1732), classed the Siciliana as a canzonetta: "The Sicilian Canzonetten are after the manner of a gigue, 12-8 or 6-8." 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