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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-NINTH SEASON, 1939-1940 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor RICHARD BURGIN, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I94O, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane President Henry B. Sawyer .... Vice-President Ernest B. Dane ...... Treasurer Henry B. Cabot M. A. De Wolfe Howe Ernest B. Dane Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [625] Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Investment and Management of Property Income Collection Tax Accounting Do you realize the small cost of having us shoulder these burdens for you? Conferences with our officers entail no obligation. AGENT * TRUSTEE * GUARDIAN * EXECUTOR ^Allied withTuE First National Bank ^Boston [626 J FIFTY-NINTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE AND FORTY Fourteenth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, February 2, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, February 3, at 8:15 o'clock TAUNO HANNIKAINEN, Conducting Handel Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra in D minor, Op. 6, No. 10 Overture — Allegro — Air — Allegro moderato — Allegro Beethoven Overture to "Leonore" No. 3, Op. 72 Sibelius "En Saga," Tone Poem, Op. 9 Sibelius "Lemminkainen's Homeward Journey," Op. 22 (First performances at these concerts) INTERMISSION Sibelius . Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 I. Andante ma non troppo; allegro energico II. Andante ma non troppo lento III. Allegro IV. Finale (Quasi una Fantasia): Andante; Allegro molto STEINWAY PIANO This programme will end about 4:25 on Friday Afternoon, 10:10 o'clock on Saturday Evening Finnish paintings by Ture Bengtz are on view in the First Balcony Gallery [627] IT'S O ur cZlqhtu-ninth JOlzthdau ... AND WE'RE STILL BUILDING... We have to. You keep us going • . and growing ... so fast that we've had to put a bridge over Avon Street, ten electric stairways in the Annex, a new second floor for fashions • . and now, a Birth- day celebration that zooms ahead of anything we've done yet! Come in. See our greater Jordan's for your greater convenience. See the greater VALUES that make January JORDAN Month in Boston! 1851 1940 [628] TAUNO HANNIKAINEN Tauno Hannikainen was born in Jyvaskyla, Finland, February 26, 1896. His parents were both teachers of music, his father a com- poser. Tauno and his three brothers have all become professional musicians. He began his career as a 'cellist, having studied with Ossian Fohrstrom in Helsinki, and Andre Hekking and Pablo Casals in Paris. Ilmari Hannikainen is a Professor at the Sibelius Academy in Hel- sinki, a prominent pianist and a composer. Arvo Hannikainen is the Concertmaster of the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra. Vaino Hanni- kainen is the first harpist of the same orchestra, and likewise a com- poser. Tauno Hannikainen, after continuing and completing his musical education in Helsinki, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, formed a trio with his brothers Ilmari and Arvo, for many chamber music recitals in Finland and on the Continent. He entered the University at Helsinki in 1914, but gave up his studies two years later to become 'cellist in the Hel- sinki Orchestra, remaining until 1919. He conducted at the Finnish State Opera in Helsinki, from 1922 to 1927, and was then appointed the conductor of the orchestra in Turku (Abo), a position which he has held from that time. Mr. Hannikainen has appeared as guest conductor in Stockholm, FEATURING AMERICAN C OMP SERS-III EARLY AMERICAN SONGS Adapted and Edited by HAROLD VINCENT MILLIGAN Each volume issued for high and low voice Net THE FIRST AMERICAN COMPOSER. 6 songs by Francis Hopkinson, including the first American song, "My days have been so wondrous free" $1.50 (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 212a-o) COLONIAL LOVE LYRICS. 6 songs by Francis Hopkinson... 1.25 (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 213a-o) A WASHINGTON GARLAND. A volume of songs by Francis Hopkinson, dedicated to George Washington. Contains fac- similes of Hopkinson's dedication and Washington's letter of acceptance 1.50 PIONEER AMERICAN COMPOSERS. Containing early Ameri- can songs by Pelissier, von Hagen, Swan, Reinagle, Taylor, Carr, Hewitt, and Wellson. Book I (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 256a-o) 1.25 Book II (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 288a-o) 1.25 THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston St. [629] Berlin, Leipzig, Warsaw, Riga and other cities. He came to this country in the spring of 1938, appearing as guest at a concert of the Pops Orchestra in Boston on June 20, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the arrival in Delaware of the first Finnish and Swedish settlers in America. He conducted the Second Symphony of Sibelius. Mr. Hannikainen had made engagements to conduct orchestras in London, Paris, and Warsaw this season. He has been excused from civilian guard duty by his government for the duration of his present visit to America. ft^XVSa We cordially invite you to make use of the facilities afforded by our Sample Room with its large and unique collection of color cards and samples of decorative finishes. EDWARD K. PERRY CO., 655 Beacon St. PAINTING AND DECORATIVE FINISHES [630] "An opportunity for a summer of living and working in music." The 'Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces the opening term July 8 - August 18, 1940 of the Berkshire Music Center SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Director at "Tanglewood" Home of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival (between Stockbridge and Lenox, Mass.) The Berkshire Music Center will consist of an Institute for Advanced Study, with an orchestra and with classes in con- ducting, composition, opera dramatics; and an Academy hav- ing no formal entrance requirements, with general sessions of singing, playing, lectures and concerts, and with special classes in choral conducting and music in the schools. The chorus of the Center will take part in the performance of Bach's Mass in B minor at the Berkshire Symphonic Festival. Enrollment will carry the privilege of attendance at Festival rehearsals of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the nine concerts (August 1-1 8). The faculty will include Serge Koussevitzky, thirty members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, G. Wallace Woodworth, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Herbert Graf, Olin Downes, assistants and guest lecturers. For catalogue {with School application and Festival sub- scription blanks), address Margaret Grant, Secretary, Sym- phony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts. [631] CONCERTO GROSSO, Op. 6, No. io, in D minor By Georg Frideric Handel Born at Halle, February 23, 1685; died at London, April 14, 1759 Handel composed his set of twelve concerti grossi for strings between September 29 and October 30, 1739. A notice in the London Daily Post on October 29 read: "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 subscribers two guineas. Ready to be delivered by April next. Subscriptions are taken by the author at his house in Brook Street, Hanover Square." The Concertos were published in the following April, and performed at the Theater Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The most recent performance of this concerto at the Friday and Saturday con- certs of this orchestra was on December 22, 1938. In the performance of last season, the edition of Seiffert was used. Mr. Hannikainen uses the score in its original form, restoring the harpsichord continue as part of the concertino. In 1739, twenty years after Bach composed his Brandenburg concer- tos, Handel in London wrote these concerti grossi. 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And it still is. so big, the untiring way it takes driver Lincoln-Zephyr's best ideas are still and passengers alike through the Lincoln-Zephyr's alone. Its great 12- longest trip... these, too, are Lincoln- cylinder engine, still more powerful Zephyr's alone today. We invite you "12" this year, is the only in any car to try this famous car. .There's still in the world so modestly priced. Its only one Lincoln-Zephyr, and the bodies, still roomier both in passen- chance is strong it is the car for you! LINCOLN-ZEPHYR V»12 r C33 derived at that time. Both knew their Corelli and Vivaldi: Handel had consorted with the former at Rome, and Bach had carefully copied the works of the latter. Yet it takes no dissertation to show how very differ- ent are the orchestral concertos of the Capellmeister at Cothen, and of the magnificent musician then so familiar in London's theatres, who may almost be said to have composed before his public.

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