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Investments For Income 152 Temple St. UNiversity 5-0865 New Haven Page Three PROGRAM NOTES Historical and descriptive notes by 3584 WHITNEY AVE. JOHN N. BURK Mount Carmel COPYRIGHT BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. 771telvitqaClwick4 Opp. Sleeping Giant Tel. CHestnut 8-2767 COHHTRY" ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF MY CLOTHES FRIEND, SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Op. 44 Our Clothes are Country and Casual Classic and in Good Taste By HOWARD HANSON For ten years we have proved this Born in Wahoo, Nebraska, October 28, 1896 Howard Hanson composed this Elegy for the 75th L anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and it was performed by this Orchestra January 20-21, 1956. It was conducted by Charles Munch at a me- TIRED OF ORDINARY morial concert in the Berkshire Festival, on August 13, HORS D'OEUVRES? 1961. It was commissioned by the Orchestra and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. The orchestra required Let Stenlia Specialties create includes 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trom- imaginative delicacies ... casseroles bones and tuba, harp, timpani and strings. and canapes to make The Elegy opens with an expressive melody entertaining easy presented by the strings, at first canonically, and in 3/4 time. This melody, varied in development, Phone Mrs. Humphrey FU 7-5672 is the basis of the piece. A section in 4/4 rhythm opening in the winds reaches a climax of inten- sity and subsides to a return of the original tem- po (teneramente con simplicita) to a pianissimo ending. Howard Hanson's parents, Hans and Hilma Hanson, were of Swedish descent. First taught by his mother, Mr. Hanson continued his studies in Luther College and the University School of Music of his native State. He studied composi- tion at the Institute of Musical Art in New York with Percy Goetschius, and later at the North- 3.8 western University School of Music at Evanston, under C. Lutkin and Arne Oldberg. Taking his degree in 1916, he taught at the College of the Pacific in San Jose, California. In 1921 he was elected to a three-year fellowship in composition at the American Academy in Rome. Returning to America in 1924, he was appointed director of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, New York, the position which he now holds. AN EXCITING NEW JAGUAR The 3.8 unites the vitality and spirit of a sports His First ("Nordic") Symphony was per- Boston car with the form and function of a family sedan. formed at the concerts of the Symphony A supreme achievement in performance, com- Orchestra, April 5, 1929, the composer conduct- fort, styling. This is a luxury car of modern ing. The Second ("Romantic") Symphony, com- dimensions. posed for the fiftieth anniversary year of this Orchestra, was first performed in that season Your Authorized Dealer (November 28, 1930), Serge Koussevitzky con- ducting. The Third Symphony had its first con- cert performance November 3, 1939, by this Or- BROWN Fr THOMAS chestra, the composer conducting. The Fourth IMPORTS, INC. Symphony was introduced by this Orchestra December 3, 1943. The Fifth Symphony (Sin- 266 Whalley Ave • New Haven 11, Conn. (Continued on page 6) Page Four Portrait of Luxury BLACK DYED RUSSIAN BROADTAIL LAMB g)ux.,-Ax. 40441RAMER'S PLENTY OF FREE PARKING RIGHT NEXT DOOR Page Five PROGRAM NOTES (Cont.) Now at our New Address fonia Sacra) was performed in Philadelphia, 16 Whitney Ave. • New Haven, Conn. February 18, 1955. In addition to the symphonies, Dr. Hanson's • SOHMER PIANOS • WINTER PIANOS orchestral works include the symphonic poems • STORY & CLARK • ALLEN & KINSMAN North and West (1923), Lux Aeterna (1923), PIANOS Electronic ORGANS and Pan and the Priest (1926). There is an Or- gan Concerto (1926), and a suite from The Merry • Used GRANDS — Spinets & Upright Pianos Mount. This three-act opera to a libretto of Richard Stokes was produced by the Metropoli- EDDIE SARANEC MUSIC CENTER tan Opera Company in New York in 1932. Chor- 16 WHITNEY AVE. al works include The Lament of Beowulf (1925); Bus.: MA 4-2357 Res.: CH 8-0160 Heroic Elegy (1927); Songs from Drum Taps, after Walt Whitman (1935), and a transcription for chorus and orchestra of Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass (1937). The Serenade for Flute, Harp, and Strings was performed by this Orches- tra October 25, 1946. Chamber works include a CARLETON G. SMITH piano quintet, a piano quartet, and a string quartet. A Piano Concerto, composed for the COMPANY Koussevitzky Music Foundation, had its first performance at the concerts of this Orchestra, Fine Floor Coverings December 31, 1948. • • • "IBERIA," "Images," for Orchestra, No. 2 15 WHITNEY AVENUE By CLAUDE DEBUSSY Tel. STate 7-0549 Born at St. Germain (Seine-et-Oise), France, August 22, 1862; died at Paris, March 25, 1918 Debussy completed the "Rondes de Printemps" in 1909, "Iberia" in 1910, and "Gigues" in 1912. The three "Images" as published bore numbers in reverse order. "Iberia" was first performed by Gabriel Pierne at a grace b. jameson Colonne concert in Paris, February 20, 1910. It had its first performance in America, January 3, 1911, under Gustav Mahler, at a concert of the New York .. Custom 514illinery Philharmonic Society. The first performance in Boston was on April 21, 1911, by the Boston Symphony Or- chestra, Max Fiedler, conductor. Debussy wrote to Durand, his publisher, on 152 Temple St. Room 410 May 16, 1905, of his plan to compose a set of "Images" (a conveniently noncommittal title) Elevator Service for two pianos, to be called I. "Gigues Tristes," II. "Iberia," 111. "Valses (?)" Before long the project had become an orchestral one, and the questioned "Valses" had been dropped. The two orchestral pieces were expected for the summer of 1906. They were not forthcoming. The mu- sician who could once linger over his scores at will, rewriting, refining, repolishing, while the world cared little, was now the famous composer of "Pelleas." Publishers, orchestras, were at his doorstep, expectant, insistent, mentioning dates. CO " Debussy was still unhurried, reluctant to give ON ME Pow) to his publisher a score which might still be bet- OMW tered. He wrote to Durand in August of 1906: -ffithivem, 01.67910 "I have before me three different endings for LUNCHEON • DINNER • COCKTAILS `Iberia'; shall I toss a coin — or seek a fourth?" Private facilities for groups up to To Durand, July 17, 1907: "Don't hold it against 350 persons. Always a parking place. me that I am behind; I am working like a la- (Continued on Page 8) Page Six TWO of gh OireA g;e4t ta?4 THE ROLLS-ROYCE and the BENTLEY Why Not Own One? Get acquainted now with the World's finest cars at a top quality sales and service dealership. • Rolls-Royce • Bentley • Mercedes Benz • Rover • Facet Vega • Triumph • Daimler EUROPEAN DELIVERY I AT EUROPEAN PRICES I We'll arrange for you THE NELKE MOTOR COMPANY to pick up your car 226 WHALLEY AVE., NEW HAVEN 11, CONN. • STate 7-3512 while travelling abroad. HARRIS PLAINS -RTE 25. LITCHFIELD, CONN. • JOrdan 7.9468 THE NEWNEW HAVEN CHORALE GUSTAVE MEIER, conductor. presents CHRISTMAS ORATORIO J. S. BACH HELEN BOATWRIGHT, soprano SHIRLEY SUDOCK, mezzo soprano BLAKE STERN, tenor MARVIN HAYES, bass baritone SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9th, 8:30 P.M. — WOOLSEY HALL Tickets $2.00 — Students $1.00 at D. D. Smith — Cutler's — Loomis — Tandem or write Box 1653, New Haven 7, Conn. Page Seven PROGRAM NOTES (Cont.) borer — and making some progress, in spite of .1.1.1.JLIALLUL11. terrible and tiring setbacks!" Two months lacer he promises that -Iberia- will be ready as soon as the "Rondes de Printemps," the third of the YOURS FOR THE ASKING - Images." is "right and as I wish it." By Christ- mas of 1908, the first full draft of -Iberia" was The new Block Shop Christmas cata- completed, but the composer was by that time log of carefully selected age-graded involved in a project for an opera on Poe's Fall toys, including a poge of Toys for of the House of Usher, immediately followed by Adults. another operatic project which, like the first, came to nothing: "The Devil in the Belfry." 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