Boston Festival Orchestral Club

              Boston Festival Orchestral Club
THE BOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRAL CLUB, composed of leading soloists of the Boston Festival Orchestra, has for several years been a prominent feature of the concerts given by choral societies desiring the support of an orchestra for the performance of oratorios, cantatas, operas, etc.  The Club, led by the concert-master of the Boston Festival Orchestra, is unrivalled in its ability to produce the effect of a larger body of players.  We have the orchestrations of most of the standard oratorios, cantatas, etc., etc., so condensed as to be able to render the accompaniments in their entirety without assistance of a pianoforte.  We have also orchestrations of all standard songs and arias, and a great feature of the Club is the artistic accompaniment given to solo performances.  There are throughout the country many vocal societies thoroughly competent to render any standard oratorios, operas, or cantatas, that are debarred from performing such works by the very considerable expense of adequate orchestral support.  Such societies are invited to try our Club for one concert.  Several years ago many New England societies did make the trial, since which time, in nearly every instance, it has become the regular support of these societies for three or four concerts each season.  In the performance of purely orchestral pieces, the Club is entirely unapproached by any similar organization.




John W. Crowley Leader and First Violin
Bernard J. Holmberg Second Violin
Wm. A. Hochheim Viola
Carl Webster Violoncello
Richard N. Davis Bass
M. Everett Packard Flute
Harold B. Randall Clarinet
Arthur S. Wonson Cornet
George W. Stewart Trombone



DIRECTION
GEORGE W. STEWART
120 Tremont St.   Boston, Mass.




PRESS NOTICES

In the Boston Festival Orchestral Club was vested the delight of the evening's entertainment.  In every number, not only of the club as a whole, but when the individual members essayed solo or duet parts, music flowed from the instruments with every note.—
Evening News, Salem, Mass.


The work of these musicians from the Boston Festival Orchestra deserves more than ordinary praise.  They did work which many an orchestra of a greater number of pieces would have found it hard to equal.  This was especially noticeable in the second number they played, Rhapsodie Espana by Chabrier.  This so far as can be learned has never been played here before.  A much larger orchestra than that of last night would have found it difficult to produce it with good effect, and yet this small band of musicians rendered it in a manner which merited the enthusiastic applause with which it was received.  For an encore the strings played a minuet by Bolzoni.  This was played with rare skill and was a most delightful number.  It called forth another enthusiastic encore.  The members of the orchestra deserve great praise.—
Daily Globe, Fall River, Mass.


The reputation which the club has acquired was fully sustained last evening from the opening strains of The Magic Flute until the last note of Stradella.  The audience was enraptured with the brilliancy and smoothness of the various instruments.  Neither any blaring of the cornet and trombone or any squeaking of the stringed instruments grated upon the feelings of the audience, but a certain quality of delicate and delicious smoothness characteristic of an orchestra of a high grade was clearly noticeable.—
Cape Ann News, Gloucester, Mass.


This organization is unique in its personnel, being the only one of its kind.  Every member is an artist on his instrument, and it has no technical terrors for him.  In ensemble they play in perfect sympathy, and show how very carefully and conscientiously they have worked together to make it one perfect whole.
Their attack is perfection, their phrasing truly artistic and aesthetic, and their intonation perfect.  Another very pleasing thing was the good taste in which the brass played, they doing their work artistically and intellectually and not by main strength, as is too often the case.—

Evening Sentinel, Derby, Conn.


It was a difficult work to sing on account of the close but beautiful harmony, and in this the chorus again has reason to be proud.
The orchestra, which can make or unmake the work of the chorus and soloists, was a treat to hear in its accompaniments as well as in its solo selections in the miscellaneous part of the program.—

Daily Gazette, Taunton, Mass.



Boston Festival Orchestral Club

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Composed of leading soloists of the Boston Festival Orchestra
GEORGE W. STEWART, Manager



PRESS NOTICES

The instrumental music of the afternoon was executed by nine players from the Boston Festival Orchestra.  Each player marshalled all his forces for harmonic victory and sustained the fine reputation of this well-known organization, the concerted work setting forth the genuine musical worth and interest of the composition.  Each number called forth applause of unbounded enthusiasm.—
Gloucester Daily Times, Gloucester, Mass.


The Boston Festival Orchestral Club in an afternoon of chamber music showed themselves to be an organization of a high degree of merit.  The attacks, the unanimity of phrasing, and excellent tone quality were all that could be desired.  In a comprehensive way, they interpreted selections of old and modern composers to the evident pleasure of the audience.  Particularly worthy of mention were the numbers requiring piano string effects.—
The Daily News, Frederick, Md.


The orchestra literally and figuratively played an important part in the program and received its full and deserved mead of commendation.  It was the best of its kind heard in the city for many a day.  In accompaniment its playing gave splendid foundation and backing to the voices and heightened the effect of the more dramatic passages.  The instrumental selections were admirably chosen and were charmingly rendered.—
Daily Herald, Northampton, Mass.


The concerts of the Orpheus Club are usually without orchestral accompaniment, and it is an extra cause for anticipation when it is known that an orchestra is to assist.  This was specially true when the announcement was made that an orchestra of high reputation and extensive training in the kind of work required had been drawn upon for this occasion.  The Boston Festival Orchestra was organized especially for chorus accompaniment and has become widely and favorably known through its part in the various music festivals of New England.  The smaller orchestra of nine pieces fully sustained last evening the fame of the larger organization, of which it is a part, and brought the program to the point of being as a whole probably the best the club has given.—
The Republican, Springfield, Mass.


The orchestra furnished some of the most beautiful music ever heard here, the stringed instruments being splendidly handled with distinct phrasing and fine expression.  The opening number displayed the performers lightness and certainty of execution.  In the symphonic poem the phrasing of each sentiment was perfectly expressed and was a thorough delight to skilled ears.—
Brockton Times, Brockton, Mass.




Lack of space prevents publication of the names of all pieces played by the Club, but the following list will convey an idea of our constantly increasing repertoire.


ANDREA
Intermezzo
Liebesgeflüster


AUBER
Overture
Zanetta


"
Overture
Marco Spada


BACH
Gavotte



"
Air for G String



BACH-GOUNOD
Ave Maria



BEETHOVEN
Overture
Egmont


"
Allegretto from Symphony No. 8



BEHR
Romanza



"
Nocturne



BIZET
Suite
L'Arlésienne


"
Suite
Carmen


BLASSER
Serenade for Strings



"
Intermezzo for Strings



BOCCHERINI
Minuet



BOEHM
Gavotte



BOHM
Still, as the Night



BOIELDIEU
Overture
The White Lady


BOLZONI
Minuet



"
Gavotte



BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances



CHABRIER
Rhapsodie
Espana


CHERUBINI
Overture
Anacreon


DELIBES
Ballet Music
Sylvia


"
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Coppelia


"
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Naila


DUBOIS
Sketch



DVORAK
Symphony
From the New World (1st Movement)


"
Slavonic Dances



"
Gypsy Song



ELGAR
Marches




Pomp and Circumstance



"
Salut d'Amour



FLOTOW
Overture
Stradella


"
"
Martha


FREY
Arioso



GERMAN
Three Dances
Nell Gwyn


"
" "
Henry VIII


GODARD
Berceuse (Cello Solo)



"
Canzonetta from Violin Concerto, Op. 35



GOLTERMANN
Andante from Cello Concerto



"
Romanza " " "



GOUNOD
Overture
Mirella


"
Excerpts
Faust


"
Hymn to St. Cecilia



"
Serenade



"
March from
Queen of Sheba


GRIEG
Suite
Peer Gynt No. 1


"
Berceuse



"
Three Norwegian Melodies



"
Romance



"
Erotik



"
Heart Wounds



"
In Spring Time



HANDEL
Largo



"
Where 'er You Walk



KALLIWODA
Overture No. 1



"
" " 2



KOEHLER
The Mice and the Trap



LACHNER
Grand March from
Suite No. 1


"
Overture
Turandot


LASSEN
Overture
Fest


"
Faust Polonaise



LUIGINI
Egyptian Ballet Suite



LACOMBE
Aubade Printaniere



LACOME, P.
Suite
La Gitanilla


LOUIS XIII
Amaryllis



MASCAGNI
Excerpts
Cavallaria Rusticana


MASSENET
Scenes Pittoresques



"
Minuet from
Manon


MASSENET
Overture
Phèdre


"
Vision Fugitive from
Herodiade


"
Romance from





The King of Lahore


MENDELSSHON
A Midsummer's Night's Dream



"
Overture
Ruy Blas


"
Songs Without Words



"
Priest's War March from





Athalie


MOSZKOWSKI
Spanish Dances



"
Serenade



MOZART
Overture
The Magic Flute


"
"
Don Juan


"
"
The Marriage of Figaro


"
Short Symphony in G, No. 10



"
Turkish March



NICOLAI
Overture




The Merry
Wives of Windsor


OFFENBACH
Overture
Orpheus


PADEREWSKI
Minuet



PONCHELLI
Excerpts from
La Gioconda


PONTICEK
Serenade



POPPER
Cello Solos



RAFF
The Mill



"
Cavatina



"
Two Movements from Quartette, Op. 9



RIES
Gondoliera from Suite No. 3



RUBINSTEIN
Melody in F



"

Thou'rt Like Unto a Flower


RAMEAU
Gavotte



REINICKE
Intro. 5th Act. Manfred



SAINT-SAËNS
Symphonic Poem Omphale's Spinning Wheel



"
Ballet Divertisement Henry VIII



"
Barcarole
A Night in Lisbon


"
Prelude
The Deluge


SCHUBERT
Unfinished Symphony in B Minor



"
Overture
Rosamunde


"
Am Meer



SCHUMANN
Ich Grolle Nicht



"
Träumeri



"
Abendlied



SPINDLER
Serenade (Trombone Solo)



STRAUSS
Waltz
Thousand and One Nights


"
"
Fairy Tales


"
"
Artist's Life


"
"
Emperor


"
"
Little Women of the Danube


"
Mazurka
Burning Love


"
Folka (Pizzicati)



STYX
Legend



"
Frühlings Zauber



THOMAS
Overture
Mignon


"
"
A Midsummer's




Night's Dream


"
"
Raymond


"
"
Le Caid


THOMÉ
Entr'acte



"
Pizzicati



"
Scene de Ballet



TSCHAIKOWSKY
Allegro con grazia from Symphonie Pathetique



"
Andante cantabile from String Quartette, Op. 11



WAGNER
Overture
Rienzi


"
Grand March from
Tannhaeuser


"
Wedding Music from
Lohengrin


"
Intro. 3rd Act Lohengrin



WEBER
Overture
Oberon


"
"
Der Freischütz.