ON

FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 1825.

LONDON:

Printed by Joseph Mallett, 59, Wardour Street, Soho.

Aus 18343
Art

Mus 55.115

Performers at Mr Hawes's Concert,

FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 1825.

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VOCAL PERFORMERS.

Miss STEPHENS, Miss PATON,

Miss CAWSE, Miss H. CAWSE,
(Pupils of Sir GEORGE SMART.)

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VERSMI BETTS and Miss GOODALL.
Mr. BRAHAM, Mr. PHILLIPS,
Mr. DURUSET,
Mr. HAWES, Mr. ATKINS,

MOOIC LIBRARY

CHORUSES.

Twelve Altos, Twelve Tenors, Fourteen Basses,
Twenty Trebles.

NOV 21 196 Mr. TERRAIL,

Violins.

Messrs. Wagstaff
Betts

Moralt

Wodarch

Nicks

Simonet

Gledhill

Fleischer

Collard

Anderson
S. Calkin

Cole

INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS.

Leader of the Band, Mr. MORI.
Conductor, Sir GEORGE SMART.

Mackintosh, jun
A. Griesbach

COLLEG

HARY IND

"APR 27 1917). Fr. Parkman Jenna

R

Daniels

Pigot

Kearns

Ella

Littolf

Ourry

Violas.

Mountain

F. Ware

J. Calkin

Tilley

Wilcox

Holland

AND

Mr. BELLAMY.

Mrs. ANDERSON

Will perform on the Grand Piano Forte Ries's Variations to the
National Air, "Rule, Britannia."

ACT I.

DER FREYSCHÜTZ,

Composed by CARL MARIA VON WEBER.

GRAND OVERTURE.

The Overture to DER FREYSCHUTZ is most appreciated when performed with the subsequent pieces of the Opera, as it consists of various subjects, beautifully interwoven from the different Songs in the two first Acts of the piece.

On the rising of the Curtain, RODOLPH, (a Huntsman) has just fired his rifle, and missed the target: during the Symphony, KILLIAN, a Villager, fires, and hits the mark-the Villagers and Huntsmen join in Chorus.

INTRODUCTION and CHORUS.

Victoria, let fame to the master be given,
His rifle the star of the target hath riven;
He hath no peer,

Seek far or near

Victoria, Victoria.

MARCH.

During the performance of the March, KILLIAN is invested with a Star, and Bouquet of flowers-a rural procession takes place.

SONG, (Killian,) Mr. TERRAIL,
and LAUGHING CHORUS.

Why, good people, are you gazing?
Whom, good people, are you praising?

Doff your hats, I'm king to-day,
Do you hear me?-Ha, ha, ha.

How this star and flow'rs adorn me!
Now, what boaster dares to scorn me?
So you left the prize for me,
Do you hear me?-Ha, ha, ha.

Never mind, I will not slight thee,
Come to-morrow, I invite thee;

Grant to others, something, pray,
See the star, sir?-Ha, ha, ha.

While this Song and Chorus are performing, the Villagers are laughing

and taunting RODOLPH at his failure."

WALTZ.

Danced by the Villagers in honour of KILLIAN's success-beautifully concluded as the Dancers are retiring in the distance.

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BALLAD, (Agnes,) Miss PATON.
Say, my heart, why, wildly beating,

Dost thou such emotion prove?
Can'st thou, when thy lover meeting

Fear his truth, or doubt his love?
No fondly, no, my bosom sighs,
No gently, no, my heart replies!
Then, fond heart, be silent ever,

Be thy wild emotion o'er;
For, with doubt and fearing, never
Shall it throb-no, never more!
Light of life, and life's best blessing,

Is the love which meets return-
Shall I, that rich boon possessing,

E'er the matchless blessing spurn?
No, fondly no, my bosom sighs,
No, gently no, my heart replies!
Then be joy my inmate ever,

Since each anxious dread is o'er;
For, with fear and doubting, never
Shall it throb-no, never more.

This Song is sung on the first appearance of AGNES, the Daughter of KUNO, Ranger of the Forest.

GRAND SCENA, (Rodolph,) Mr. BRAHAM.

Ob! I can bear my fate no longer!

E'en hope is banish'd from my soul;
What unknown guilt thus haunts my spirit,
And o'er me works its dark controul?
Thro' the forests, thro' the meadows,

Joy was wont with me to stray,
While my rifle, never failing,

Made each bird and beast my prey.
When at length from chase returning,
Ere home rose before my sight,
Agnes smiling met me,

Cloth'd in beauty's heavenly light.
And am I now by Heaven forsaken,

And left the power of chance to know;
Will Hope's long slumber never waken,
Or aml dooin'd to endless woe?

Now, methinks, beside her lattice,
I my lovely Agnes see;
While her ear seems fondly listening
Every coming sound for me:
Now she fondly waves a welcome,
Fancy's eye her lover sees
But her signal gains no answer,
Save the sigh of whisp'ring trees:
What dark'ning power is ruling o'er me?
My anxious bosom fear hath riven;
Despair bath spread her snares before me:

Does fate rule blindly? Aid me Heav'n!

During the performance of this Scena, ZAMIEL, the Forest Spirit, is seen in the background, who by his Magic power is torturing the mind of RoDOLPH with the fears of failure at the Meeting on the Morrow for the Trial Shot-on which depend his prospects as to the Rangership of the Forest, and the hand of AGNES.

BACCHANALIAN SONG,
(Caspar,) Mr. PHILLIPS.
Life is dark'ned o'er with woe,
Bid the ruddy nectar flow;

Wine's the soul of joy below;
Bless'd by Bacchus, rosy wine
Makes a mortal half divine.
Fill, oh fill the cup before thee!
Bacchus, Bacchus, I adore thee.
Life is dark'ned o'er with woe,
Bid the ruddy nectar flow;

Love's the soul of joy below:
Bless'd by beauty, rosy wine
Makes a mortal all divine.
Fill, ob fill the cup before thee!
Venus, Venus, I adore thee.

Life is darken'd o'er with woe,
Bid the ruddy nectar flow;

Love and wine give life below:
Let the Miser hoard his gold
Till the springs of life grow cold.
But with gold all joys combine
When it brings me love and wine.

CASPAR sings this Song, to persuade RODOLPH to drink, and thereby accomplish his object of securing his attendance at the Incantation, and casting of the magic balls, in the Wolf's Glen at midnight.