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CARNEGIE HALL .... NEW YORK Friday Evening, February % at 8.45 Saturday Afternoon, February 4, at 2.30 «p %' & J ' jf ' <\.\v*\*- •*w ^ BOSTON ^h SYMPHONY ORCHESTRH INC. FIFTY-SECOND SEASON 1932-1933 PRSGR7W1E Smmi Uriumea OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra Programme Containing Mr. Philip Hale's analytical and descriptive notes on all works performed during the season. "A Musical Education in One Volume" "Boston's Remarkable Book of Knowledge" Lawrence Gilman in the N. Y. Herald and Tribune Price $6*00 per volume Address SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON, MASS. CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Forty-seventh Season in New York FIFTY-SECOND SEASON, 1932-1933 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, at 8.45 AND THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 4, at 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1933, 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 HENRY B. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE WILLIAM PHILLIPS N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER FREDERICK E. LOWELL BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager on ^ympimoaiy Cifi Fifty-Second Season, 1932-1933 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Lauga, N. Sauvlet, H. Resnikoff, V. Concert-master Gundersen, R. Kassman, N. Hamiltori, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Mariotti, V. Fedorovsky, P. Tapley, R. Leibovici, J. Pinfield, C. Leveen, P. Cherkassky, P. 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. Avierino, N. Dean« Fiedler, Gerhardt, S. Jacob, R. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Marjollet, L. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Fabrizio, E. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. Girard, H. ,, „ . Kelley A ' Vondrak, A. Moleux, G. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. ' Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Polatschek, V. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Mimart, P. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Arcieri, E. Panenka, E. Allegra, E. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Bettoney, F. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Raichman, J. Macdonald, W. Schindler, G. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Valkenier, W. Lannoye, M. Grundey, T. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Perret, G. Adam, E. Hain, F. Voisin, R. Mann, J. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Sternburg, S. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. White, L. Organ. Piano. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Sanroma, J. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Forty-seventh Season in New York Fifty-Second Season, 1932—1933 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3 AT 8.45 PROGRAMME Beck Innominata (First performance in America) Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante. III. Poco allegretto. IV. Allegro. Moussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition," Pianoforte Pieces, arranged for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel Tuileries—Bydlo—Ballet Promenade—Gnomes—II Vecchio Castello— — of Chickens in their Shells— Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle Limoges: the Market-place — Catacombs (Con mortuis in lingua mortua)—The Hut on Fowls' Legs—The Great Gate at Kiev. symphony There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the 58th Street Library The music of these programmes is available at the 3 — : "Innominata" Conrad Beck (Born at Schafthausen, Switzerland, in 1901; now living) "Innominata'' was performed for the first time at the 10th Inter- national Music Festival held at Vienna in June, 1932. Beck's work was conducted by Ernest Ansermet on the first day, June 16, of the Festival. The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. On the programme of the concert for that day were the following- compositions: Mkolai Lopatnikoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 (Walter Frei, of Zurich, pianist; Ansermet, conductor). Miroslav Ponc^ Pre- lude to a Greek Tragedy (im Vierteltonsystem) —Karel Aneerl of Prague, conductor. Karel Haba, Violin Concerto (Stanislav Novak, of Prague, violinist; Otakar Jeremias, conductor). Kobert Gerhard, of Spain, Six Catalonian Songs for soprano and orchestra (Conxita Baclia D'Agusti, of Barcelona, soprano; Anton Webern, of Vienna, conductor). Claude Delvincourt, of France, Dance Suite for or- chestra, "Bal Venetien" (Roger Desormiere, of Paris, conductor). "Innominata" has been described by Frederick Jacobi* as aa work of suppleness and strength in the linear-contrapuntal style, rem- iniscent of Hindemith." It is said that Beck studied with Arthur Honegger ; that his home is in Zurich, but he spends much time in Paris. * * Published works of Beck are as follows Orchestra: Symphony No. 3, for stringsf ; Concert for orchestra (Sym- phony No. 4) ; Symphony No. 5, for orchestra; Concert for string quartet and orchestra ; Little Suite for string- orchestra ; Concertino for pianoforte and orchestra ; Concerto for oboe and orchestra. Strings : Sonatine for violin and pianoforte; String Quartet, No. 3.:j: Choruses: "Es kommt ein Schiff geladen" (mixed chorus) ; "Der Tod des CEdipus," Cantata for solo voices, mixed chorus, two trumpets, two trombones, kettledrums, and organ (text by Rene Morat). Requiem for mixed chorus. Lyric cahta for female chorus and orchestra. Drei Herbstgesange for voice and pianoforte (text by R. M. Rilke). Organ pieces ; piano pieces. Symphony No. 3, in F major, Op. 90 . Johannes Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897) Brahms worked on his Third Symphony in 1882, and in the sum- mer of 1883 he completed it. That summer was spent at Wiesbaden, where Brahms lived in a house that had belonged to Ludwig Knaus, *Iu his review of the Vienna Festival Modern Music, November-December, 1932. t Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Boston, on February 10, 1928 (first time anywhere). 1 Frankfort Music Festival, July 2, 1927. (Was this the quartet played at a S". M. I. Concert in Paris on March 2, 1927?) Sinfonietta by Beck was played at a Walter Straram concert, in Paris, on March 10, 1927. the painter. He wrote to Herzogenberg from Wiesbaden on May 20, 1883: "I have lighted on incredibly nice quarters at Wiesbaden, Geisterbergstrasse 19. It is really worth while, and in every way desirable, that you should come and inspect them. You will be filled with envy, but come all the same." Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells how the composer took off his boots every night on returning to the house, and went up the stairs in his stockings, that he might not disturb an elderly and delicate woman on the first floor. Miss May also tells a story of Brahms's brusqueness when a private performance of the new symphony, arranged for two pianofortes, was given by Brahms and Brull at Ehrbar's* in Vienna. One of the listeners, who had not been reckoned among the admirers of Brahms, was enthusiastic over the new work. "Have you had any talk with X.?" asked young Ehrbar of Brahms; "he has been telling me how delighted he is with the symphony." To which Brahms answered, "And have you told him that he often lies when he opens his mouth ?" The first performance of the Third Symphony was at a Philhar- monic concert in Vienna, December 2, 1883. Hans Richter conducted. Brahms feared for the performance although Richter had con- ducted four rehearsals. He wrote to Billow that at these rehearsals he missed the Forum Romanum (the theatre scene which in Mein- ingen served as a concert hall for rehearsals), and would not be wholly comfortable until the public gave unqualified approval. *Friedrich Ehrbar, a warm friend of Brahms, was a pianoforte manufacturer. DITSON PUBLICATIONS ^S^EST™ TALKS ABOUT BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES 2.50 By Theodore Thomas and Frederick Stock SYMPHONY SINCE BEETHOVEN . 1.00 By Felix Weingartner ART-SONG IN AMERICA 3.00 By William Treat Upton LOO EARLY ENGLISH CLASSICS . Edited and Revised by George Pratt Maxim PROJECT LESSONS IN ORCHESTRATION 1.50 By Arthur E. Heacox 1.75 ESSENTIALS IN CONDUCTING . By Karl W. Gehrkens OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, Inc. 359 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. After the last rehearsal he replied angrily to the viola player Rudolf Zollner, who asked him if he were satisfied, "The Philhar- monic Orchestra plays my pieces unwillingly, and the performances are bad." Max Kalbeck states that at the first performance in Vienna a crowd of the Wagner-Bruckner ecclesia militans stood in the pit to make a hostile demonstration, and there was hissing after the applause following each movement had died away; but the general public was so appreciative that the hissing was drowned and enthusiasm was at its height. Arthur Faber came near fighting a duel with an inciter of the Skandal sitting behind him, but forgot the disagreeable incident at the supper given by him in honor of the production of the symphony, with Dr. Billroth, Simrock, Goldmark, Dvorak, Brull, Hellmesberger, Richter, Han- slick, among the guests. At this concert Franz Ondricek played the new violin concerto of Dvorak. It is said that various peri- odicals asserted that this symphony was by far the best of Brahms's compositions. This greatly annoyed the composer, especially as it raised expectations which he thought could not be fulfilled. Brahms sent the manuscript to Joachim in Berlin and asked him to conduct the second performance where or at what time he liked.* For a year or more the friendship between the two had been clouded, for Brahms had sided with Mrs.
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    University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations December 2012 The onC gress for Cultural Freedom, La Musica Nel XX Secolo, and Aesthetic "Othering": An Archival Investigation Shannon E. Pahl University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the History Commons, and the Music Commons Recommended Citation Pahl, Shannon E., "The onC gress for Cultural Freedom, La Musica Nel XX Secolo, and Aesthetic "Othering": An Archival Investigation" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 40. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/40 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM, LA MUSICA NEL XX SECOLO, AND AESTHETIC “OTHERING”: AN ARCHIVAL INVESTIGATION by Shannon E. Pahl A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Music at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee December 2012 ABSTRACT THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM, LA MUSICA NEL XX SECOLO, AND AESTHETIC “OTHERING”: AN ARCHIVAL INVESTIGATION by Shannon E. Pahl The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2012 Under the Supervision of Professor Dr. Gillian Rodger Between 1950 and 1967, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organiZation of anti- totalitarian intellectuals funded by the United States government, hosted conferences and festivals regarding the pursuit of intellectual freedom. In 1952 and 1954, the Congress for Cultural Freedom hosted two music events. While the first festival has been researched considerably, the 1954 conference has not been documented comparably.
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