PR5GR7W\E '24 if L — ike trousseau zJ louse oj Cy<yosion when Spring arrives in Country House or City Apartment . out come the new checked Percale edroom nsemoiesLL with stunning hand appl iqued MONOGRAMS SPREADS • • white or darker color in piping and Monograms y.50 PUFFS • • with matching Monogram Q.50 cfltecfrousscau^fjouse ofBoston *16 33ou Iston Street SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 Boston Symphoe; iesfra INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, 1931-1932 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, ly32, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. BENTLEY W. WARREN President ERNEST B. DANE . Treasurer ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL WILLIAM PHILLIPS M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE EDWARD M. PICKMAN FREDERICK E. LOWELL HENRY B. SAWYER BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1425 THE CONDUCTOR UNLY under the guidance of a most capable Conductor does the music of an Orchestra reach its true value. The orchestral performers are vitalized into sound at the raise of the Conductor's tiny white baton. He understands the composer's intentions and makes the patterns of his musical weaving clear. The Conductor reads the score perpendicularly and horizontally at the same time. He has many of the qualities of a painter for he brings out by a wave of his magic wand the varieties of music color with their varying subtleties of light and shade, glowing hues and delicate tricks. Jean-Baptiste Lully, born in Florence in 1632, a clever and no less musically gifted performer at the Court of the magnificent Louis XIV, is said to have been the first real Conductor of an Orchestra. Some say that no one, save Wagner, the greatest master of orchestration the world has ever seen, stood for such musical perfection. The fact that the Symphony Orchestras of this country have for many years been the most brilliant and the most finished in the world is largely due to the high artistic aims of the Conductors who have developed them, and because no national prejudice prevents their being called from any country. * * * a|e 1 HOSE who do not want the care and responsibility of managing real or personal property will find the complete financial secretaryship of an Agency Account with Old Colony Trust Company ideally suited to their needs. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON *Affi Hated with The First National Bank of Boston 1426 ©ilra Fifty-first Season, 1931-1932 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gunderscn, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Thcodorowicz, J. Hansen, £. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Pinficld, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley, R. Thillois, F. Zung, M. Knudson, C. Gorodetzky, L. Mayer, P. Diamond, S. Zide, L. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M Beale, M. Stonestreet, L. Messina, S. Seiniger, S. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Violas. Fiedler, A. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Bernard, A. Grover, H. Artieret, L. Cauhape, J. Van Wynbergen, C. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Deane, C. Gerhardt, S. Jacob, R. Violoncellos. Fabrizio, E. Bcdetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollct, L. Basses. Moleux, G. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. Girard, H. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Kelley, A. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Polatschek, V. Laus, A. Allard, Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Mimart, P. R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Arcieri, E. Panenka, E. Allegra, E. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Bettoney, F. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Raichman, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. 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There will be an intermission between the symphonies The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert 1429 Symphony in F major, No. 8, Op. 93 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827) This symphony was composed at Linz in the summer of 1812. The autograph manuscript in the Koyal Library at Berlin bears this in- scription in Beethoven's handwriting: "Sinfonia—Lintz, im Month October 1812." Gloggl's Linzer Musikzeitung made this announce- ment October 5 : "We have had at last the long-wished-for pleasure to have for some days in our capital the Orpheus and the greatest musical poet of our time, Mr. L. van Beethoven; and, if Apollo is gracious to us, we shall also have the opportunity of wondering at his art." The same periodical announced November 10 : "The great tone- poet and tone-artist, Louis van Beethoven, has left our city without fulfilling our passionate wish of hearing him publicly in a concert." Beethoven was in poor physical condition in 1812, and as Stauden- heim, his physician, advised him to try Bohemian baths, he went to Toplitz by way of Prague; to Carlsbad, where a note of the postilion's horn found its way among the sketches for the Eighth Symphony; to Franzensbrunn and again to Toplitz; and lastly to his brother Johann's* home at Linz, where he remained until into November. *Nikolaus Johann, Beethoven's second younger brother, was born at Bonn in 1776. He died at Vienna in 1848. He was an apothecary at Linz and Vienna, the Gutsbesitzer of the familiar anecdote and Ludwig' s pet aversion. Bonds for Investment Suggestions on request Chase Harris Forbes Corporation 24 Federal Street, Boston 1430 At the beginning of 1812 Beethoven contemplated writing three symphonies at the same time; the key of the third, D minor, was already determined, but he postponed work on this, and as the auto- graph score of the first of the remaining two, the Symphony in A, No. 7, is dated May 13, it is probable that he contemplated the Seventh before he left Vienna on his summer journey. His sojourn in Linz was not a pleasant one. Johann, a bachelor, lived in a house too large for his needs, and so he rented a part of it to a physician, who had a sister-in-law, Therese Obermeyer, a cheerful and well- proportioned woman of an agreeable if not handsome face. Johann looked on her kindly, made her his housekeeper, and, according to the gossips of Linz, there was a closer relationship. Beethoven meddled with his brother's affairs, and finding him obdurate, visited the bishop and the police authorities and persuaded them to banish her from the town, to send her to Vienna if she should still be in Linz on a fixed day. Naturally, there was a wild scene between the FROM RECENT BOSTON PROGRAMS Songs Sung by MRS. H. H. A. BEACH, O Were my Love Yon Lilac Fair David Blair McClosky ARTHUR FOOTB, Lilac Time David Blair McClosky ARTHUR FOOTE, Memnon John McCormack EARLY AMERICAN SONGS Anne Eagleston Kydd Hofkinson, From First ( "The American Com- My Days have Been so \ poser/' edited and arranged by Wondrous Free. Harold Vincent Milligan. J My Generous Heart Disdains ( (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 212) Reinagle, / I Have a Silent Sorrow I From "Pioneer American Composers/' Pelissier, J edited and arranged by Harold Return O Love Vincent Milligan. j Carr, ( (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 256) Willow, Willow v Piano Played by EDWARD MacDOWELL, Op. 57, Sonata No. 3. (Norse) ..Barbara Whitman CHOPIN-PATTISON, Rondo for Two Pianos, Four Hands Stelle Anderson and Silvio Scionti Orchestra and Chamber Music MRS. H. H. A. BEACH, Piano Quintet . .Mrs. Beach with the S'ulzen Quartet G. W. CHADWICK, Melpomene Overture People's Symphony Orchestra, Thompson Stone, Conductor ARTHUR FOOTE, Four Character Pieces Civic Symphony Orchestra, after the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Joseph Wagner, Conductor. Choral Works \ Cecilia Society Chorus and Boston MABEL DANIELS, Exultate Deo 1 Symphony Orchestra, ( Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor. MABEL DANIELS, i Simmons College Glee Club, Songs of Elfland, Op. 28 J David Blair McClosky, Conductor. No. 1. Fairy Road '\ MacDowell Club Chorus, No. 2. Fairy Ring I William Ellis Weston, Conductor. MABEL DANIELS, June Rhapsody ( MRS. II. H. A. BEACH. \ Massachusetts Federated Clubs Tho Chambered Nautilus < Chorus, MRS. H. H. A. BEACH, J George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor. Fairy Lullaby The ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston St. 1431 brothers. Johann played the winning card: he married Therese on November 8. Ludwig, furious, went back to Vienna, and took pleasure afterwards in referring to his sister-in-law in both his con- versation and his letters as the "Queen of Night." This same Johann said that the Eighth Symphony was completed from sketches made during walks to and from the Postlingberge, but Thayer considered him to be an untrustworthy witness.