Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 54,1934-1935
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Boston Symphony Orchestra [Fifty-fourth Season, 1934-1935] Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Personnel Violins BURGIN, R. ELCUS, G. LAUGA, N. SAUVLET, H. RESNIKOFF, V Concert-master GUNDERSEN, R. KASSMAN, N. CHERKASSKY, P. EISLER, D. THEODOROWICZ, J. HANSEN, E. MARIOTTI, V. FEDOROVSKY, P. TAPLEY, R. LEIBOVICI, J. PINITELD, C. LEVEEN, P. KRIPS, A. KNUDSON, C. ZUNG, M. BEALE, M. GORODETZKY, L. MAYER, P. DIAMOND, S. DEL SORDO, R. FIEDLER, B. BRYANT, M. STONESTREET, L. MESSINA, S. ZIDE, L. MURRAY, J. ERKELENS, H. se1niger, s. Violas LEFRANC, L FOUREL, G. BERNARD, A. GROVER, H. \ ARTIERES, V L. CAUHAPE, J. \N WYNBERGEN, C. WERNER, H. AVIERINO, N. DEANE, C. HUMPHREY, G. GERHARDT, S. JACOB, R. Violoncellos BEDF.TTI, E. J. LANGENDOEN, J. CHARDON, Y. STOCKBRIDGE , C. FABRIZIO, ZIGHERA, A. BARTH, C. DROEGHMANS, H. WARNKE, J. MARJOLLET, L ZIMBLER, J. Basses KUNZE, M. LEMAIRE, J. ludwig, 0. GIRARD, H. VONDRAK, A. MOLEUX, G. frankel, 1. DUFRESNE, G. JUHT, L. Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons LAURENT, G. GILLET, F. POLATSCHEK, V. LA US, A. BLADET, G. DEVERGIE, J. VALERIO, M. ALLARD, R. AMERENA, P. STANISLAUS, H MAZZEO, R. Eb Clarinet PANENKA, E. Piccolo English Horn Bass Clarinet Contra - Bassoon BATTLES, A. SPEYER, L. MIMART, P. PILLER, B. Horns Horns Trumpets Trombones BOETTCHER, G. VALKENIER, W MAGER, G. RAICHMAN, J. MACDONALD, W LANNOYE, M. lafosse, m. HANSOTTE, l. VALKENIER, W. SINGER, J. GRUNDEY, T. LILLEBACK, W. CEBHARDT, W. LORBEER, H. VOISIN, R. MANN, J. Tuba Harps Timpani Percussion ADAM, E. ZIGHERA, B. RITTER, A. STERNBURG, S. CAUGHEY, E. POLSTER, M. WHITE, L. ARCIERI, E. Organ Piano Celesta Librarian A. ROGERS, L. SNOW, A. SANROMA, J. FIEDLER, J. SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephone, Ticket and Administration Offices, Com. 1492 FIFTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1934-1935 Boston Symphony Orchestra INCORPORATED Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Sixth Concert TUESDAY AFTERNOON, April 16 with historical and descriptive notes By Philip Hale and John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1935, 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 Roger I. Lee Henry B. Cabot William Phillips Ernest B. Dane Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Pierpont L. Stackpole M. A. de Wolfe Howe Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren W. H. Brennan, Manager G. E. Judd, Assistant Manager [1] Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON fc A a Executor • Trustee Guardian Conservator • Agent Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [2] LIST OF WORKS Performed at the Tuesday Afternoon Concerts DURING THE SEASON 1 934-1 935 Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 V March 5 Concerto for Pianoforte in B-flat major, No. 2, Op. 83 (Soloist: Josefa Rosanska) • IV February 5 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op- 11 (Soloist: Bronislaw Hu- berman) III • December 18 Symphony No. 1, in C minor, Op. 68 VI • April 16 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 I • October 30 Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 II • November 20 Schubert Ballet Music from "Rosamunde" I • October 30 Overture in the Italian Style in C Major, Op. 170 VI • April 16 Andante from the Symphony No. 4 in G minor, "Tragic" IV • February 5 Symphony No. 5 in B flat major II • November 20 Symphony in C major, No. 7 V • March 5 Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Un- finished" III • December 18 Schumann Concerto in A minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 54 (Soloist: Jesus Maria Sanroma) V • March 5 Overture to Byron's "Manfred," Op. 115 III • December 18 Symphony No. 1, in B-flat major, Op. 38 VI • April 16 Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61 (Two movements — Adagio and Scherzo) II • November 20 Symphony in E-flat major, No. 3,. 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LARGHETTO, . in. scherzo: molt'6 v IV ace; trio I : 'MOLTO piu vi- vace, trio II IV. ALLEGRO ANIMATO E GRAZIOSO INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 I. UN POCO SOSTENUTO; ALLEGRO II. ANDANTE SOSTENUTO III. UN POCO ALLEGRETTO E GRAZIOSO IV. ADAGIO; ALLEGRO NON TROPPOj ma con brio 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 [5] OVERTURE IN C MAJOR IN THE ITALIAN STYLE, Op. 170 By Franz Schubert Born at Lichtenthal, Vienna, January 31, 1797; died at Vienna, November 19, 1828. IN 1812 Schubert wrote an overture in D; in September, 1816, one in B-flat major; in May, 1817, one in D major and two " in the Italian style " — one in D major (September, 1817) and one in C major (No- vember, 1817) ; in 1819 one in E minor.* Rossini's music became the rage in Vienna in 1817 — his " L'Inganno Felice " and " Tancredi " were produced there late in 1816; " Ultaliana in Algeri" February 1, 1817, and "Giro in Babilonia" on June 18, 1817. There was a story, which still survives, that Schubert after a per- formance of " Tancredi " and before supper, irritated by some one praising extravagantly Rossini's overtures, said that he could write then and there an overture in imitation of Rossini's style, to prove how easy it was to compose in that manner. This story led Mr. Henry Frederick Frost in his Life of Schubert (1881) to comment on the " strange insensibility of one musical genius towards the art work of * This overture in E minor was performed in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 24, 1888, and on February 28, 1903. OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, INC. Retail Music Store 359 BOYLSTON STREET {at Arlington) BOSTON, MASS. t^> t^» «^» For All PublishedMUSIC Largest stock of sheet music and music books in New England. Every outstanding American and Foreign publisher represented. D I T S O N ' S 359 BOYLSTON STREET TEL. COMMONWEALTH 1350 [6] . ..I, COl To announce The Opening of Our New Bridal Shop. We've enlarged our quarters on the Second Floor, Main Store, and we're better prepared than ever to plan, advise, select and shop for your trousseau and all the odd and sundry incidentals thatperplexthe bride-to-be. 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According to Spaun, he found " The Barber of Seville " a delightful opera; in a letter to Hiittenbrenner (May 19, 1819) he wrote: " No one can deny Rossini genius." * He said of Rossini: " ' Otello ' is far better and more characteristic than ' Tancredi/ His orchestration is often most original, and so is his melody; and except the usual Italian gallopades and a few reminiscences of ' Tancredi there is nothing for objection." " Otello" was produced at Vienna in January, 1819, the month before that in which Schubert's overture in E minor was composed. Nor was Schubert influenced by Rossini only in the two overtures. The influence is shown, as Sir George Grove pointed out, in his Sixth Symphony (1818) , in two Marches, Op. 121, the Finale to the Quartet in G, Op. 161. One of Schubert's " Italian " overtures was played at Vienna in 1818. The "Wiener Theater-Zeitung " found it "wonderfully de- See " Franz Schubert " by Richard Heuberger (Berlin, 1902). 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