The Symphony Concert.

The second concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was given last night in Sanders Theatre, to an audience even larger than that which attended the first one last month. The programme, which was a very attractive one, was as follows:

Symphony No. 3, Brahms

Aria, (Don Giovanni), Mozart

Largo, Handel

Aria, (La Reine de Laba), Gounod

Overture Scherzo and Finale, Schumann

The Brahms symphony was heard in Cambridge for the first time. Though from the hands of a composer who has the reputation of being generally dry, abstruse and uninteresting, it certainly gave the impression of being a melody of romance, beauty, and anything but dry. Its themes are short and graceful; but it is needless to say that they are developed with all the resources and skill of the musician's art. The orchestra under Herr Gericke's excellent leadership, mastered its difficulties easily. The soloist was Miss Emma Juch. She is well known to Boston and Cambridge musical people, and her delightful rendering of the two arias allotted her caused no surprise to those who had heard her before. Her voice is of a beautiful quality, and her charming method was evidently very acceptable to the audience. In the well known Largo, by Handel, Herr Gericke introduced an innovation in causing all the first violins to stand in a row at the front of the platform. The result seems to be a gain in fullness and sonority. Schumann's ever charming Overture Scherzo and Finale was a fitting close to this solid and, on the whole, enjoyable concert. Herr Gericke fully sustained the favorable impression he produced on the occasion of the first concert. He still pursues his policy of giving novelties-the symphonies of both concerts being heard here for the first time; but the hope is expressed by many that some of the old and better known symphonies of the classical masters will be heard here in the course of the series.