Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 58
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burr COPYRIGHT, 1939, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of ihe BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Henry B. Cabot M. A. De Wolfe Howf 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 L 1057 1 Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE /^INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. Executor and Administrator We settle estates as Executor and Administrator. Trustee We act as Trustee under wills and under voluntary or living trusts. Agent We act as Agent for those who wish to be relieved of the care of their investments. The officers of Old Colony Trust Company are always glad to discuss estate and property matters with you and point out if and where our services are applicable. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ^Allied witkTuE First National Bank a/Boston [ 1058 ] SYMPHONIANA HONOR ROLL The experience and memory of some who attend the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra extend far back into its fifty-eight years. Mr. Gardner F. Packard, a member of the Friends of the Orchestra, has made a list of those who, like himself, have heard the Or- A Graceful Prelude chestra under each of its regular con- ductors, from Sir George Henschel to to the Evening Hours is Dr. Serge list Koussevitzky. The is here Cocktail Time at published as an interesting addition to the list of Friends appearing in the same The Copley-Plaza issue. Undoubtedly it is incomplete, since existing records are insufficient for a full A few steps from the compilation. Names which have been omitted will be added to the list, if sent to Edward A. Taft, Chairman of the Friends of the Orchestra, 1 Federal Street, Boston. is Copley-Plaza's beautiful, Mrs. Lewis A. Armistead spacious Restaurant — the Miss Edith Bangs Miss Marian L. Blake focal center of social Boston Miss Sarah C. Bradlee Mrs. Arthur H. Brooks Mrs. Heman M. Burr To climax a perfect day Mrs. W. K. Corey Mrs. Helen M. Craig Supper Dancing in Miss Frances G. Curlio Dr. Mabel I. Emerson the gorgeous Mr. William G. Fenollosa Mrs. Parker Fiske Mrs. Arthur Foote SUe/urfon (loom Mrs. L. A. Frothingham Mrs. Edith Noyes Greene from 9 until 1 a. m. Mr. John W. Hall Miss Martha N. Hanson Mrs. M. G. Haughton You will thoroughly enjoy Mrs. C. S. Hopkinson of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Hosmer the entrancing music Nye Miss Alice Hutchinson Mayhew and His Orchestra Mrs. Richard Hamlin Jones Miss Mary B. Lothrop of Sophisticated Melodies Miss F. P. Mason Mr. Frederic L. Milliken Miss Helen Graham Mosley Mrs. E. P. Motley THE Miss Angelina K. Mudge Miss Elizabeth G. Norton Miss Mary E. O'Brion Mr. Gardner F. Packard Mrs. Henry Parkman BOSTON Miss Alice Foster Peirce Arthur L. Race, Managing Director Mrs. Francis A. Pierce Mr. Fred Plummer Mrs. J. B. Potter [ IO59 ] Miss Helen M. Ranney Mrs. James H. Ricketson Mrs. Joseph M. Robinson Mrs. W. S. Slocum, Sr. Miss Rose Stewart Mrs. Ward Thoron Mrs. Margaretha H. Williamson "SYMPHONY IN PEN" Indicative of the attention which has been aroused by the present exhibition of sketches and paintings by Donald Greason, now on view in the exhibition foyer, are reviews by William Germain Dooley, in the "Boston Evening Tran- script," and Dorothy Adlow, in the "Christian Science Monitor." Mr. Dooley has written in part: "Donald Greason has given the Bos- ton orchestra a sympathetic study and interpreted it with an artistic skill that is worthy of a Koussevitzky or a Muck. His is the style of color restraint, of nervous line that communicates signifi- cant impressions with the economy that only comes from careful and gifted survey of the visual problem. "In this case we can acclaim the coming to full powers of a great Amer- ican artist. For Donald Greason is a draughtsman on a plane unrealized by previous workers of his craft in this ;«*. country. "Greason has produced here a major L show from any standpoint, and yet in You can have all the loveliness of retrospect the variety and scope of the the new spring colors — Teal Blue, drawings are most amazing. He has Fuchsia, Plum or Violet. Lewandos overcome a tendency of a nervous careful dyeing gives you these scratchy line to make it more eloquent colors for your Dresses, Suits or by precise position and sweeping em- Topcoats from $3.50. phasis, by bolstering its thinness with Or choose from these six stylish a wash that throws color form and shades — Black, Navy, Ritz Blue, power into the matter. Here is Dr. Poppy Red, Dark Brown, Dark Koussevitzky to the life, a back-to por- Green, from $2.75. trait, yet filled by gesture and mass with characteristic gesture. Here also is Bloch, Goossens, Enesco, and the mem- bers of the Orchestra. An energetic and Lewandos highly individual talent, he has made this the feature single performance of Cleansers -:- Launderers the season here in a display that might Dyers -:- Fur Storage well be taken up by some museum or gallery for continued, more available For Service-A t-Your-Door, Telephone MIDdlesex 8500 showing." There follows a portion of the review by Dorothy Adlow: [ 1060 ] . "For some years, we have had an opportunity to follow the talents of Donald Greason. He is an artist of a peculiar sensitiveness which cannot be compared with any one trend in paint- ing today. Mr. Greason cuts his own path, through thought and observation. While his landscapes and views of Rockport interested us a season ago for a delicate atmospheric quality, we find that he has come into full stride in an exhibition which is being shown at Symphony Hall. It consists of pen and wash drawings and oil paintings The Adam made during many months of first-hand observation of rehearsals and concerts . of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. With CAPEHART Conduct your own orchestra "Mr. Greason has made hundreds of sketches of the conductor, of separate Capehart Maestro Tone Con- players, groups of players, and of solo- trol enables the listener to adapt ists. He has observed the Orchestra at the tone of the Capehart to his in- many angles, in many lights, during dividual hearing. From fortissimo many moods. He has let himself be to pianissimo, from bass to middle absorbed by the tension and concentra- register and treble, you can com- tion which prevail among orchestra per- mand the tone of instruments formers. He has been amused by the and voices surely and effectively. facial expressions, by the sitting pos- You can offer your guests a tures, by the positions of feet and knees whole evening of music without and shoulders and heads during per- interruption, for Capehart is the formance. He has been enthralled by only Phonograph-radio combina- the decorative contours of instruments tion with the exclusive Capehart which in their functional shape are record changer, handling from appealing ornamentally. three to twenty records, both 10- inch and 12-inch, intermixed, and "He has made sketches in which the playing each record on both sides very lines and lights express the music successively. No re-stacking or re- which is being performed at the mo- loading of the records . plus ment. It is fascinating to move from whose many exclusive fea- sketch to sketch, from study to study, radio tures account for its reputation as and follow the evolution of the oil the finest radio obtainable. paintings which are ostensibly the final product of this patient and intricate effort. No other painter of this vicinity has produced as telling and evocative a portrait of the Orchestra as a whole in a moment of performance. Here the spectator has an opportunity to examine the great store of preparatory material which culminates in such a portrait. "This exhibition will give pleasure to J. McKEMA people who are interested for one rea- son or another in the Boston Symphony 19 BRATTLE STREET It shows Orchestra and its members. HARVARD SQ., CAMBRIDGE the fruit of an entire season of activity Telephone, KIR. 0809 of one of the most distinguished artists in New England." [ 1061 ] — Millinery Salon Second Floor Xhis Lovely Lady can be you ... A perfect hat! Flattering lines. A brim that turns up in back, Just enough height to the crown — just enough depth to fit comfortably! Ribbon flowers and tissue sheer veiling give the soft, feminine look. Fine baku in fuchsia, bisque, purple, brown, navy, and black with white, 10.75. —Cfjanbler & Co. Tremont and West Streets [ 1062 ] FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE Twenty-third Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, April 21, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, April 22, at 8:15 o'clock Faure "Pelleas and Melisande," Suite from the stage music to Maeterlinck's Tragedy, Op. 80 I. Molto adagio II. "Fileuse": Andantino quasi allegretto III. Prelude: Quasi adagio Schmitt "The Tragedy of Salome," after a poem by Robert d'Humieres, Op. 50 INTERMISSION Schubert Symphony No. 7 in C major I. Andante; Allegro ma non troppo II.