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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 50,1930-1931, Trip SANDERS THEATRE . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Thursday Evening, February 19, at 8.00 PRoGRHttftE mm . 11 Raymond -Whitcomb Cruise WINTER ~ SPRING - SUMMER MEDITERRANEAN SPRING CRUISE Over a new route! The first cruise to add the Black Sea to the Mediterranean — the first to visit Sevastopol . and Odessa . and Yalta on the shore of the Crimea with WEST INDIES holiday palaces of the Czars. NORTH CAPE AND CWinter cruises on the RUSSIA new "Statendam " — the CA new summer cruise largest and most luxurious over the Iceland-Norway ship to sail on a Caribbean route which was introduced , cruise during this Winter. by Raymond -Whitcomb 10 £ CFor a holiday these cruises years ago and developed^} are unequalled . .their lazy and perfected from year to^ * days on the great liner are year. ©.The 1931 cruise will pleasant and restful; their add Danzig— a picturesque visits to strange foreign cit- Sailing April 14, 19.31, on the medieval city with rich pub- S. "Carinthia" ies, interesting and refresh- S. lie buildings and lordly resi- ing. Their programs include C Raymond -Whitcomb dences that date from the Havana (2 days); the Pan- Spring Cruises to the Med- old Hanseatic days. There - ama Canal, Porto Rico and iterranean have long been will be two days in Lenin- the Virgin Islands; French popular with discerning grad . two more in Mos- ; . Martinique BritishJamaica, travelers . They visit the cow, the heart of Russia Barbados and Trinidad and Mediterranean at its pleas- visits to Iceland, and the Nassau; Dutch Curacao, antest season . they make North Cape . the Norwe- and Caracas in Venezuela. an interesting prelude to gian fjords . Trondhjem,' Sailing on January 28 (for a 25 -day Spring or Summer travel in Bergen, Oslo & Stockholm Cruise); on February an and 24 (for Europe. CLThis year's cruise Sailing on June 30, 1931, on th identical Cruise the same length). of Cunard liner, "Carinthia. " Witi is the most comprehensive %ates, $517.50 and upward stop-overs in Europe as desired. and interesting ever offered. Hates, $800 and upward LAND CRUISES TO In addition to visiting the CRUISES TO MEXICO Black Sea ... it will go to LAND With Nine Days in Mexico City Nauplia in Greece (for trips CALIFORNIA to Mycenae, Epidaurus and Through Southern California by Automobile TOURS TO Tiryns), and to the impor- SOUTH AMERICA tant Mediterranean cities. TOURS TO EUROPI Complete Trips of Three Months Hates, $725 and upward Through Spring & Summer RAYMOND 6- WHITCOMB COMPAN' BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone Kenmore 28 165 Tremont Street, Telephone Hancock 7820 122 Newbury Street, SANDERS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor SEASON 1930-1931 THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, at 8 o'clock WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT . President BENTLEY W. WARREN ...... Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE . Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. 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Used pianos accepted in partial exchange. If there is no Steinway dealer near you, write for information to Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City. Represented in Boston and other New England cities by M. Steinert & Sons 2 Fiftieth Season, 1930-1931 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Pinfield, 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. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Bernard, A. Grover, H. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Van Wynbergen, C. Werner, H. Fiedler, A. Avierino, N. Deane, C. Gerhardt, S. Jacob, R. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. 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Dresses Coats Hats Accessories Noted for style and quality for over a Century Tremont Street at West Boston SANDERS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Fiftieth Season, 1930-1931 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19 AT 8.00 Handel . Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra Op. 6, No. 6, G minor Largo—Allegro—Larghetto—Allegro—Minuet—Gigue. Stravinsky ..... Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra I. Presto. II. Andante rapsodico. III. Allegro capriccioso, ma tempo giusto. (Played without pause) Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio. II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. III. Scherzo; Allegro vivace; Trio. IV. Finale: Allegro molto. SOLOIST JESUS MARIA SANROMA STEINWAY PIANO There will be an intermission often minutes after Stravinsky's "Capriccio' 5 . Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra, Op. 6, No. 6, Gr minor George Frideric Handed (Born at Halle, February 23, 1685; died at London, April 14, 1759.) Handel's twelve grand concertos for strings were composed be- tween September 29 and October 30, 1739. The tenth bears the date October 22. The London Daily Post of October 29, 1739, said : "This day are published proposals for printing by subscription, with His Majesty's royal license and protection, Twelve Grand Concertos, in Seven Parts, for four violins, a tenor, a violoncello, with a thorough- bass for the harpsichord. Composed by Mr. Handel. Price to sub- scribers, two guineas. Ready to be delivered by April next. Sub- scriptions are taken by the author, at his house* in Brook Street, Hanover Square, and by Walsh." In an advertisement on November 22 the publisher added, "Two of the above concertos will be per- formed this evening at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn." The con- certos were published on April 21, 1740. In an advertisement a few days afterwards Walsh said, "These concertos were performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and now are played in most public places with the greatest applause." Victor Schoelcher made this comment in his Life of Handel : "This was the case with all the works of Handel. They were so frequently performed at contempo- raneous concerts and benefits that they seem, during his lifetime, to have quite become public property. Moreover, he did nothing which the other theatres did not attempt to imitate. In the little theatre of the Haymarket, evening entertainments were given in exact imitation of his 'several concertos for different instruments, with a variety of chosen airs of the best master, and the famous Salve Regina of Hasse.' The handbills issued by the nobles at the King's Theatre make mention also of 'several concertos for different instruments.' " The year 1739, in which these concertos were composed, was the year of the first performance of Handel's "Saul" (January 16) and "Israel in Egypt" (April 4),—both oratorios were composed in 1738, —also of the music to Dryden's "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" (No- vember 22 ) Romain Rolland, discussing the form concerto grosso, which con- sists essentially of a dialogue between a group of soloists, the con- certino (trio of two solo violins and solo bass with cembalo) and This was the little house No. 25. in which Handel lived for many years, and in which he died. In the rate-book of 1725 Handel was named owner, and the house rated at £35 a year. W. H. Cummins, about 1903, visiting the house, found a cast- lead cistern, on the front of which in bold relief was "1721, G. P. H." The house had then been in the possession of a family about seventy years, and various structural alterations had been made.
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