J A fr-?' BOSTON SYAPHONY ORCHESTRA POUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY L. HIGGINSON FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1938-1939 [1] CAPTURE EACH PRECIOUS, FLEETING MOMENT Cherish those childhood hours of artistic endeavour, mother and father. No moments in Life's span are so bright with promise. Music with all its grace and grandeur is writing in young, responsive hearts its story of the fine, the beautiful, the significant. Under its gracious spell, the future throws wide its treasure house of priceless gifts . opening new vistas of hope, aspiration, and understanding . giving life a newer, truer meaning. Guard those hours jealously. Demand from them the full measure of achievement that only a truly great piano can bring. ilasim&ljiamlm r AMPICO HALL HOME O F MASON & HAMLIN CHECKERING 146 BOYLSTON ST,REET TEL. LIBERTY 8100 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1938, 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 Allston Burr M. A. De Wolfe Howe Henry B. Cabot Roger I. Lee Ernest B. Dane Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer Jerome D. Greene Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [1 1 Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE >r INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. Executor and Administrator We settle estates as Executor and Administrator. Trustee We act as Trustee underder wills and; under voluntary or living: trusts. Agent We act as Agent for those who wish to be relieved of the care of their investments. mk The officers of Old Colony Trust Company are always glad to discuss estate and property matters with you and point out if and where our services are applicable. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ^Allied with The First National Bank a/Boston [2] SYMPHONIANA GENUINE AMERICAN THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY ANTIQUES In celebration of Serge Koussevitzky's fifteenth anniversary season as conduc- tor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection relating to his career in Boston is being shown in the First Bal- cony Gallery. Studies of the conductor in many artistic mediums are on view Another rare piece from the Golden wreath presented to historical old town Salem, Serge Koussevitzky on May 2, 1931, of bearing the following inscription: where Mclntire did SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY so much Inspired Leader with the ever grateful beautiful work and affectionate appreciation T of his audiences. Fiftieth Anniversary Attn? (ftoitagr Boston Symphony Orchestra QPufpu 3 SUu?r §>tr*?t - (Boatnn, ifflasH. -:- 1931 -:- Tel. Capitol 6495 (§ut?n Annp (EnrnprB-Arroru. Mslbb. as well as documents, informal photo- Halfway between Boston and Plymouth graphs, programmes, and scores dedi- on Inland State Road, Route 3 1245 cated to him. The exhibition will con- Tel. Rockland tinue through the month, being open be- [33 fore and after the concerts as well as during the intermission. Material relat- ing to the composers and works on the WetakeTime programmes may also be seen. A glance at Dr. Koussevitzky's first to take Qare programme in Boston will explain the reminiscent purpose of the opening pro- Sometimes we lose business. Es- gramme of his fifteenth season. Wishing pecially if the owner of a lovely to find place for the first symphony he dress wants us to use undue haste conducted in Boston, he has laid aside in cleansing. For we know after one hundred Scriabin's Poeme d'Extase and Honeg- years of cleansing just what can ger's Pacific 231 that there might be be done safely, and what cannot. time for the Fifth Symphony of Bee- We know definitely when there are no safe shortcuts ... no speedy thoven, played at his second concert. that justify the danger expedients The three opening numbers of this list of damage. So we say "No" and appear in the exact order of the earlier lose some business. But out of this has come the programme. It is interesting to note reputation — a reputa- reward of that the composers whose works were tion for reliability. And to our- selves we have attracted thousands presented by Dr. Koussevitzky during who respect us for taking time to his first two concerts — a widely repre- take care. sentative group — have been consistently If you want cleansing well done ... if you want safe dependable cultivated during his successive seasons service always ... if you like with the Orchestra. painstaking care, individualized care, may we suggest that you call Lewandos. THE LIVING LYRE Lewandos, as you probably know, cleanses ANYTHING - and The Boston Symphony Orchestra has anything that Lewandos cleanses been making news enough — not to say is well cleansed. history. It is one of the few institutions For we take time to take care — with your things. that have not slackened pace since the world-mortgage was foreclosed. On the contrary, it has lengthened out its stride. Dr. Koussevitzky's conviction has been that the orchestra should go forward, giving more and more, and he has been justified of his faith. — Give, and it shall You Can Rely be given unto you; that you may give the more. — Not only does the orches- tra give more winter concerts, it has taken over the free public concerts on Lewandewanaos the Esplanade in July, and in August Cleansers -:- Launderers going to the Berkshires it goes in some Dyers -:- Fur Storage sort to the nation, which is the intent, For Service-At-Your-Door and one to be fulfilled by still more am- bitious plans in that quarter for a Sum- Telephone mer school of creative arts at "Tangle- MIDDLESEX 85OO wood." In return, it has been given that manorial estate and, next, a legacy [4] . for the erection of an adequate concert platform on the Esplanade. To prevent the twenty-first century from being barbarized, music may be one of the agents. Its potential is high. But potential the word will have to be, for no miracle, not even radio, can do for man that which he can only do for himself. All hangs on the use that is made of it. Nothing may come of all this: the clear spring water of the clas- sics may be overflowed by the foul The Adam deluge of fouler music. In the fifteenth With . century when the printing press was CAPEHART new and none but the classics were Conduct your own orchestra printed, men's hopes were high: they Capehart Maestro Tone Con- did not foresee that the press could trol enables the listener to adapt also be an open sewer of trash. On the the tone of the Capehart to his in- other hand, much may come of this clear dividual hearing. From fortissimo to pianissimo, from bass to middle current from the springs of musical register and treble, you can com- genius : its pure water does educate mand the tone of instruments taste. and voices surely and effectively. In this historic moment the Bos- You can offer your guests a ton Symphony Orchestra holds a key whole evening of music without is the position. It had the advantage of a interruption, for Capehart only Phonograph-radio combina- head start; it has the advantage of tion with the exclusive Capehart being, under Dr. Koussevitzky, in an- record changer, handling from other of its great ages. Boston is a com- three to twenty records, both 10- munity whose people are prone to take inch and 12-inch, intermixed, and good work as a matter of course. This playing each record on both sides successively. No re-stacking or re- has its virtue: it stiffens the pace and loading of the records . plus keeps it stiff. But occasionally it is well radio whose many exclusive fea- to speak out and remind ourselves, and tures account for its reputation as them, that we have in our midst cer- the finest radio obtainable. tain institutions which are as good as any of their kind anywhere, and one or two that are better. For more than half a century our orchestra has, like a Druid oak, been sinking its roots deep in the soil of one of the most highly cultivated musical publics in existence, until now, only at the beginning of its prime, this great bardic harp shouts J. McKENM and sings to every wind of genius, a 19 BRATTLE STREET living lyre that fills the land with music. HARVARD SQ., CAMBRIDGE 0809 "Uncle Dudley," Telephone, KIR. Boston Globe, August 7, 1938. [5] One of a group of important coat dresses. Each is notable for its smart, slenderizing, wearable lines. Wool tissue em- broidered in leaf design, striped rayon classics, fanconne weaves present wide choice. Priced 25.00 and 29.95. <fllptttM*r & Co. [6] FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE First Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 7, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, October 8, at 8:15 o'clock Vivaldi Concerto in D minor for Orchestra with Organ (Edited by A. Siloti) I. Maestoso II. Largo III. Allegro Berlioz Overture, "The Roman Carnival," Op. 9 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a intermission Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio II.