Program for the Chicago Orchestra concerts held January 28 and 29, 1898 at the Auditorium Theatre, Theodore Thomas, conductor. The popular program featured works by Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Schubert and others. Emil Baré, a violinist with the orchestra, performed Henri Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor.
Regarding the Art Nouveau inspired cover, an advertisement inside the program notes:
”The wrapper about this program was done by F. C. Walton and R. W. Hyde, 607 Steinway Hall.”
Their names can also be seen in small print at the bottom of the image above, “WALTON & HYDE DES,” the “DES” being an abbreviation for designers.
Steinway Hall, designed by Dwight H. Perkins, was completed in 1896 at 64 E. Van Buren Street and fell to the wrecker’s ball in 1970. In its early years, it housed the offices of many prominent Chicago architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Myron Hunt, Irving and Allen Pond, and Perkins.