Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 47,1927-1928, Subscription Series
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 »£( INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1927-1928 Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1927, 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. JUDD, Assistant Manager 901 STEIN WAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, bnt the best piano value It is possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . Convenient terms will be piano under such conditions. arranged, if desired. Steinway pianos are not—and There is a Steinway dealer in your com- never have built to a been— meet munity, or near you, through whom you price. They are made as well as may purchase a new Steinway piano with human skill can make them, and a small cash deposit, and the balance will the price is determined later. The be extended over a period of two years. result is the world's finest piano. Used pianos accepted in partial exchange. Such an instrument costs more Prices: n?0 and up than a commonplace product—yet • O in point of long life, prestige, and Plus transportation STEINWAY & SONS, Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th Street, New York Represented by the foremost dealers everywhere 902 iphony Orchestra Forty-seventh Season, 1927-1928 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor PERSONNEL Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kxeinin, B. Eisler, D. Hamilton, V Kassman, N. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Graeser, H. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Siegl, F. Mayer, P. Zung, M. Knudsen, C. Gorodetzky, L. Tapley, R. 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. Van Wynbe:rgen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A, Artiferes, L. Cauhapfi, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhardt, S- Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Zighera, A. Langendoen J. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Keller, J. Barth, C. Droeghmans , H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, 0. Girard, H. Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G Demetrides. L Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Rochut, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Perret, G. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C Lannoye, M. Voisin, R. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Mann, J. Raichman, J. Jones, 0. Adam, E. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Adam, E. Zighera, B. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. Seiniger, S. Organ. Piano. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Zighera, B. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 903 The Noetzel Studio DAI BUELL SOLOIST WITH THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Monday Evening, January 23, 1928 AND IN RECITAL SYMPHONY HALL - Tuesday Evening, February 14, 1928, at 8.15 p.m. Programme to include novelties by Le Flem, Vuillemin and Aubert With the exception of her Causerie-Concerts at the Copley- Plaza in past seasons, these are Dai Buell's first official > Boston appearances since her splendid successes abroad. ATTEND DAI BUELL'S RECITAL ON VALENTINE'S NIGHT AND THEN HEAR HER RECORDINGS ON THE AMPICO IN THE CHICKERING PIANO Pianos in infinite variety from #3o5 to #18,000 — so easy to own on small monthly payments. Orat ft* 195 Boytston St./ 904 Forty-seventh Season. Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven and Twenty-eight Twelfth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 13, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, at 8.15 o'clock MAURICE RAVEL will conduct these concerts Ravel . "Le Tombeau de Couperin" (Suite for Orchestra) I. Prelude. II. Forlane. •III. Menuet. IV. Rigaudon. Debussy Two Dances (Orchestrated by Ravel) a. Sarabande. (First performance in Boston) b. Dance. Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole I. Prelude a la Nuit. II. Malaguefia. III. Habanera. IV. Feria ("The Fair"). Ravel . "Sheherazade," Three Poems for Voice and Orchestra, to the Verses of Tristan Klingsor I. Asia. II. The Enchanted Flute. III. The Indifferent One. Ravel "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem SOLOIST LISA ROMA There will be an intermission after the "Rapsodie Espagnole" City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,—Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN. City Clerk. 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 conceit 905 TRAVEL WITH The Eaymond-Whitcomb Cruises are mcontestafeiy the best. 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Rates, $725 and upward Round Africa Cruise —January 14 Land Cruises to California Tours to South America & Europe West Indies Cruises Raymond & Whitcomb Company 165 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSET Telephone: HANCOCK 7820 906 — MAURICE RAVEL Joseph Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure, in the Departement of the Basses-PyrenSes, on March 7, 1875. When he was about twelve years old, his parents decided that he should be a musician. It is said that as a boy he discovered the major seventh chord, which he in later years employed in a distinctive manner. He studied the pianoforte, harmony, and composition. He was enthu- siastic over Chabrier's "Romantic Waltzes" for two pianofortes; later he became acquainted with the eccentric Satie, whose inci- dental music to Sar Peladan's drama "Le Fils des fitoiles," broad- ened his harmonic schemes. Roland-Manuel, a pupil of Ravel, says that when his teacher entered the Paris Conservatory in 1889 Anthiome's preparatory class for the pianoforte—he shocked his co-mates in Pessard's harmony class by playing Satie's "Sara- bandes" and "Gymnop6dies." In 1891 he was awarded a first medal. At the Conservatory he studied the pianoforte in the class of Charles Wilfrid de B6riot ; harmony with Hector Pessard ; counter- point and fugue with Andre Gedalge. From 1897 onward, Gabriel Faur6 was his teacher in composition. In 1901 Ravel was awarded the second grand prix de Rome for his cantata "Myrrha." The two years following did not favor him, nor did he compete for the NEW COMPOSITIONS OF DISTINCTION By ROY E. AGNEW ^ fc o CONTRASTS H T "A cycle of five pieces that will appeal to every pianist interested in the trend of modern composi- tion. A cursory reading discloses refreshing T&nr E.Agnew ideas, lyric quality, whimsy, fantasy. More thorough study reveals the composer's mastery of his idiom. Artists and teachers of artist pupils will find new and promising material in this book." The Musician. "I am struck by the originality and content of 'Contrasts' and I shall certainly make use of it as much as possible this coming season." Frederic E. Tillotson. SONGS June Twilight (2 keys) Hie Away, Hie Away! (2 keys) Poem by John Masefield Poem by Sir Walter Scott THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street 907 ; prize in 1904. In 1905 he applied, but lie was not allowed to un- dergo the preliminary test, although he was already known in Paris by his piano pieces for two pianofortes, and other pianoforte pieces ''Sites Auriculaires" (1896) ; the overture "Sheh6razade" (1898),. and other works heard at concerts of the Societe Nationale de Musique ; the String Quartet, played on March 5, 1904, and the three songs, "Sheli6razade," with orchestra, May 17, 1904, which excited great attention. The refusal made a great stir in Paris. Many articles of indignant protest were published in the journals. The rank injustice shown him led to the resignation of Theodore Dubois, then Director of the Conservatory, and the appointment of Gabriel Faure as the successor. The "Histoires Naturelles," five songs, prose by Jules Kenard (1906), performed in 1907 at a concert of the Soci^te" Nationale, excited violent discussion. A member of the Institute was quoted as saying of Eavel: "He may take us for old fogies, but not for fools." Camille Mauclair wrote that his "musical humor" was to be likened unto that displayed by Jules Laforgue in symbolical verse.