SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones. Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTY-SECOND SEASON, 1932-1933 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. BENTLEY W. WARREN President HENRY B. SAWYER Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE ' Treasurer HENRY B. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE WILLIAM PHILLIPS N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER FREDERICK E. LOWELL BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 965 "Back To 3Tis Own When it became known that Paur was not to return as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the season beginning October 15, 1898, the public did not long remain in ignorance as to who his successor would be. Just two days after the final performance of the season, an announcement Was made which was hailed with joy by many a music lover. William Gericke had been offered and had accepted the conductorship of the Orchestra for next season ! . It was then that it became apparent that notwithstanding the successes and triumphs of his talented predecessors and successors the Boston Symphony Orchestra was still Mr. Gericke's Orchestra. He made it," wrote the Transcript critic, and it properly belongs to him, as his own work . and to this his own Orchestra, we welcome Gericke back with heartiest greetings and fullest confidence. He will be in his right place once more next October." // you contemplate a charitable legacy in your will it is often desirable to put the property in Trust. This permits you to provide for the selection of a successor chanty in case the charity you name goes out of existence. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Affiliated with The FlRST NATIONAL BANK of BOSTON 960 Title Page Page 965 Programme ......... 969 List of Subscribers to the Deficit and Endowment Funds . 987 Analytical Notes by Philip Hale: Haydn . Symphony in E-flat major, No. 99 (Salomon No. 10) . 970 Loeffler . "Evocation," for Orchestra with Chorus of Women's Voices . 974 Entr'acte: "Belshazzar" By A. H. Fox-Strangways {The Observer, London, November 29, 1931) 986 Walton ..... "Belshazzar's Feast" For Mixed Chorus, Baritone Solo, and Orchestra 995 Advance Programme . .1005 Special Concert Announcements . 1006-1009 and back cover Teachers' Directory 1010-1012 Personnel Opposite page 1012 967 Cfjanbler & Co. BOSTON COMMON TREMONT ST. AT WEST Drawn from Eat shown py Chandler & Co. MILLINERY OPENING FRENCH SALON—SECOND FLOOR 968 FIFTY-SECOND SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO AND THIRTY-THREE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 31, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, at 8.15 o'clock Haydn . , . Symphony in E-flat major, No. 99 (Salomon No. 10) I. Adagio; Vivace assai. II. Adagio. III. Menuetto (Allegretto). IV. Vivace. Loeffler . "Evocation," for Orchestra with Chorus of Women's Voices and a Speaking Voice (First time in Boston) Walton . ." "Belshazzar's Feast" For Mixed Chorus, Baritone Solo, and Orchestra (First time in the United States) CECILIA SOCIETY CHORUS, Arthur Fiedler, Conductor Soloist: David Blair McClosky STEINWAY PIANO There will be an intermission after Loefrler's "Evocation" Reminder to Friday Afternoon subscribers: — The next Afternoon Concert will be given on Thursday, April 13. 969 Symphony in E-flat major (B. & H. No. 3, Salomon No. 10) Joseph Haydn (Born at Rohran, Lower Austria, March 31, 1732; died at Vienna. May 31, 1809) This symphony, the tenth of the twelve written by Haydn for Salomon's concerts in London, was composed at Vienna in 1793, between the tirst and the second of Haydn's visits to England. It was performed at London in 1794 or 1795. The first performance in Boston was by the Harvard Musical Association on February 1, 1872, Carl Zerrahn conductor; the first by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wilhelm Gericke conductor, was on January 30, 188G; Dr. Koussevitzky conducted a performance on October 22, 192G. I. A slow introduction leads to the main movement, Vivace assai, 4-4. The first lively little theme is given to the first violins, accompanied by the other strings. This theme is repeated by the full orchestra. The second theme is for first violins and clarinet. II. Adagio, G major, 3-4. The movement is developed mainly on two themes—one, cantabile, for first violins, the other for first violins, oboe, and bassoon. III. Allegretto, E-flat major, 3-4. A minuet in the traditional form. High Grade Bonds For Safety of Principal and Income Chase Harris Forbes Corporation 24 Federal Street, Boston 970 — — — — : IV. Vivace. E-flat major, 2-4, in rondo form. * * * . One day when Haydn was at work in his house, a man appeared and said : "I am Salomon from London, and came to fetch you with me. We will agree on the job tomorrow." Haydn was amused by the use of the word "job." The contract for one season was as follows Haydn should receive £300 for six symphonies and £200 for the copyright ; £300 for an opera written for the manager Gallini ; £200 for twenty new compositions to be produced in as many concerts under Haydn's direction; £200 as guarantee for a benefit concert. Salomon deposited live thousand gulden with the bankers, Fries & Company, as a pledge of good faith. Haydn had five hundred gulden ready for traveling expenses, and he borrowed four hundred and fifty more from his prince, Anton Esterhazy. This Johann Peter Salomon was born at Bonn in 1745. His family lived in the house in which Beethoven was born. When he was only thirteen he was a paid member of the Elector Clement August's orchestra. He travelled as a virtuoso, settled in Berlin as a concert- master to Prince Heinrich of Prussia, and worked valiantly for Haydn and his music against the opposition of Quanz, Graun, Kirn- berger, who looked upon Haydn as a revolutionary. Prince Heinrich CHORAL WORKS BY WALTER HOWE Just Issued ODE TO YOUTH For Mixed Chorus and Orchestra Scheduled for performance at Chautauqua, Summer 1933, by chorus of 400 "Mr. Howe has a good polyphonic sense, a distinct melodic command and a ruggedness in his material that is thrice welcome these chaotic days when so much that comes to us is spineless and effete. The text is a good one, in tune with the times. Few brief choral works that have come our way interest as much as this one." Musical America. "There are many brilliant passages and some of unusual melodic beauty and pleasing effect. The work should prove of interest to the many choral organizations throughout the country." Musical Leader. Vocal score, 75 cents net MAGNIFICAT For choir and organ or orchestra Performed at the Worcester Festival, 1932, and at Chautauqua "Melodically beautiful, Mr. Howe has developed the theme to a tremendous climax, stirring the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm and in response to the deafening applause he was called from the organ bench to acknowledge the ovation." Worcester Telegram. Price 20 cents net BENEDICTUS ES, DOMINE "A notable addition to the growing list of settings of this canticle. Har- monic effects are as ingenious as they are effective." American Organist. Price 15 cents net The ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO. 120 Boykton St. 971 gave up his orchestra; and Salomon, after a short but triumphant visit to Paris, settled in London in 1781. There he prospered as player, manager, leader, until in 1815, on November 25, he died in his own house, as the result of a fall from his horse* in August of that year. He was buried in the cloister of Westminster Abbey. William Gardiner described him as "a finished performer ; his style was not bold enough for the orchestra, but it was exquisite in a quartet. He was also a scholar and a gentleman, no man having been admitted more into the society of kings and princes for his companionable qualities. Mr. Salomon's violin was the cele- brated one that belonged to Corelli, with his name elegantly em- bossed in large capital letters on the ribs." Gardiner, by the way, in 1804 forwarded to Haydn through Salomon, as a return for the "many hours of delight" afforded him by Haydn's compositions, "six pairs of cotton stockings, in which is worked that immortal air, 'God preserve the Emperor Francis,' with a few other quotations." Among these other quotations were "My mother bids me bind my hair" and "the bass solo of 'The Leviathan.' " The stockings were *Beethoven had written a long letter to him on June 1 of that year with refer- ence to the publication of some of his works in England. Hearing of his death he wrote to Ferdinand Ries, expressing his grief, "as he was a noble man whom I re- member from my childhood." DITSON PUBLICATIONS ^i^^^"6 TALKS ABOUT BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES 2.50 By Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock SYMPHONY SINCE BEETHOVEN ... 1.00 By Felix Weingartner ART-SONG IN AMERICA 3.00 By William Treat Upton EARLY ENGLISH CLASSICS . .1.00 Edited and Revised by George Pratt Maxim PROJECT LESSONS IN ORCHESTRATION . 1.50 By Arthur E. Heacox ESSENTIALS IN CONDUCTING . 1.75 By Karl W. Gehrkens OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, Inc. 359 Boylston Street Boston, Mass* 972 wrought in Gardiner's factory. In the last years Salomon was ac- cused of avarice, that "good, old-gentlemanly vice," but during the greater part of his life he was generous to extravagance. The first of the Salomon-Haydn concerts was given March 11, 1791, at the Hanover Square Rooms.