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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 39,1919 ACADEMY OF MUSIC . PHILADELPHIA Monday Evening, January 5, at 8.15 *'.. 1% "v V Mly$fr BOSTON ^wd -^ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED THIRTY-NINTH SEASON J9J9-J920 / ',i V ll |U«.,....,|.U PRSQRsnnc THIS IMSTBUMEINIT ©F QUALITY SlOJXOtir CL6AB AS A ©5'I~L " TZ^ Highest Class Talking Machine in the World" Josef Hofmann says: "The Orchestra is the greatest MUSICAL MEDIUM and stimu- lus of the Community." The Talking Machine is the only Musical Instrument that brings the orchestra into the home 1311 WALNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILADELPHIA Thirty-fifth Season in Philadelphia INCORPORATED Thirty-ninth Season, 1919-1920 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5 AT 8.15 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. 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Thillois, F. Goldstein, S. Pinfield, C. Fiedler, A. Fiedler, B. Kurth, R. Gunderson, R. Diamond, S. Deane, C. Bryant, M. Leveen, P. Langley, A. Kurkdjie. N. Blackman, A. Violas. Denayer, F. Berlin, V. Van Veen, H. Kay, W. Grover, H. Wittmann, F. Van Wynbergen, C. Shirley, P. Blumenau, W. Salis, J. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Miquelle, G. Nagel, R. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Schroeder, A. Keller, J. Barth, C. Fabrizio, E. Stockbridge, C. Basses. Kunze, M. Jaeger, A. Ludwig, O. Agnesy, K. Gerhardt, G. Seydel, T. Schurig, R. Frankel, I. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy, G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Mimart, P. Mueller, E. DeMailly, C. Stanislaus, H. Forlani, N. Piller, B. Piccolo. English Horns. Bass Clarinet. CONTRA-B ASSOON. Battles, A Mueller, F. Vannini, A. Fuhrmann, M. Speyer, L. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Van Den Berg, C. Heim, G. Adam, E Lorbeer, H. Versney, C. Mann, J. Sordillo, F. Hain, F. Hess, M. Mager, G. Mausebach, A. Gebhardt, W. Folk, G. Kloepfel, L. Kenfield, L. Tuba. Harps. Tympani. Percussion. Mattersteig, P. Holy, A. Neumann, S. Ludwig, C. Burkhardt, H. Cella, T. Gardner, C. Zahn, F. Organ. Librarian. Snow, A. Rogers, L. J. <£«%» <*gM AN INVITATION TO MUSIC LOVERS A pleasant half hour may be spent at our store inspecting the newest ^"^ ^ jpianas <*> Music lovers are invited to hear or play for themselves these exquisite iustruments. More beautiful than ever, the famous Chick- ering tone, coupled with their well known durability makes the choice of a Chickenng one that insures perfect satisfaction during the long years of its usefulness. John Wanamaker Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : : ACADEMY OF MUSIC . PHILADELPHIA Thirty-fifth Season in Philadelphia* Thirty-ninth Season, 1919-1920 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor THIRD CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Beethoven Symphony in F major, No. 6, "Pastoral," Op. 68 I. Awakening of serene impressions on arriving in the country Allegro ma non troppo. II. Scene by the brook-side : Andante molto moto. III. Jolly gathering of country folk: Allegro; in tempo d'allegro. Thunderstorm; Tempest: Allegro. IV. Shepherd's Song; Gladsome and thankful feelings after the storm Allegretto. Gluck Recitative and Air, "Diane impitoyable," from "Iphigenie en Aulide" Wagner Prelude to "Parsifal" Massenet Recitative and Air "Promesse de mon avenir," from "Le Roi de Lahore" Liszt Second Episode from Lenau's "Faust" The Dance in the Village Tavern (Mephisto Waltz) SOLOIST EMILIO DE GOGORZA There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 "The Best in Travel/' For 40 years our business has been to please Americans of the finest type who are satisfied with nothing less than the best. The standard we have set for the Raymond-Whitcomb Tours and the Raymond-Whitcomb Cruises is so high that they are universally recognized as in a class apart, beyond competition. 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If you are wise you will make your arrangements with a company which has assured hotel and steamship reservations. Raymond & Whitcomb has not only its own offices and repres- entatives in Paris but also a French representative, for many years the head of the leading French tourist organization. Now is the time to begin making your plans for next Spring and Summer. Protect yourself at once by making a preliminary reservation With us. Also tours to South America Japan-China and Round the World. Send for Booklet Desired RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 1338 WALNUT STREET (near Broad Street). Telephone, Philbert 3864 — Symphony No. 6, in F major, "Pastoral," Op. 68. Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16, 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) This symphony—"Sinfonia postorale"—was composed in the coun- try round about Heiligenstadt in the summer of 1808. It was first performed at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, December 22, 1808. The symphony was described on the programme as "A symphony 5" entitled Recollections of Life in the Country,' in F major, No. a (sic). All the pieces performed were by Beethoven: an Aria, Ah, perfido," sung by Josephine Kilitzky ; Hymn with Latin text written in church stylej with chorus and solos; Pianoforte Concerto in G major, played by Beethoven; Grand Symphony in C minor, No. 6 written in church style from the (sic) ; Sanctus, with Latin text Mass in C major, with chorus and solos; Fantasie for pianoforte solo; Fantasie for pianoforte, "into which the full orchestra enters little by little, and at the end the chorus joins in the Finale." The concert began at half-past six. We know nothing about the pe- cuniary result. M. Vincent d'Indy in his "Beethoven" (Paris, 1911) devotes sev- eral pages to Beethoven's love of nature. "Nature was to Beethoven not only a consoler for his sorrows and disenchantments ; she was also a friend with whom he took pleasure in familiar talk, the only intercourse to which his deafness presented no obstacle." Nor did Beethoven understand Nature in the dryly theoretical manner of Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose writings then were in fashion, for there could be no point of contact between the doctrines of this Calvinist of Geneva and the effusions of Beethoven, a Catholic by birth and by education. Nor did Beethoven share the views of many romantics about Nature. He would never have called her "immense, impenetrable, and haughty," as Berlioz addressed her through the mouth of his Faust. A little nook, a meadow, a tree, these sufficed for Beethoven. He had so penetrated the beauty of nature that for more than a dozen years all his music was impreg- nated by it. Chartered Under the Laws of Pennsylvania D. H. EZERMAN H. VAN DEN BEEMT Directors LOUIS REILLY. HEAD OF VOCAL DEPARTMENT FULLER BUILDING - 10 SOUTH 18th STREET H. F. STOLP, Secretary — f TheHouse that Heppe built FOUNDED IN 1865—ADOPTED ONE-PRICE SYSTEM IN 1881 C. J. Heppe & Son 1117-1119 Chestnut Street 6th and Thompson Streets From the Public Ledger March S\ 1917. "Those who heard Ossip Gabrilowitsch play Chopin at the Academy yesterday evidently felt that the music more nearly resembled a service of prayer in a temple than the conventional pattern of a con- cert . that deftly applied the tonal pigment in sweeping strokes, as soft as they were sweeping. "The ascending scales outpoured proved that, despite a physical law, fluidity can run uphill. The instrument ceased to be an instrument of percussion and merci- less hailstone articulation. Not once dur- , - ^ ing the afternoon did there come from OsSlp CrabrUOWlt$ch the lower octaves of the piano that leo- nine yammer of resentment that means the piano has been punished to a white heat of madness, where sounds are indistinguishable for mere noise, { Tht above praise was given without premeditation by the Ledger critic and rtftrs to the piano Gabrilowitsch uses. Gabrilowitsch's Piano is a JWa&rn $c Harnlm sold in Philadelphia exclu- sively at the Heppe Stores C. J. Heppe & Son 1117-1119 Chestnut St. 6th and Thompson Sts. — : His bedside book for many, many years soon after his passion for Guilietta Guicciardi was the "Lehr und Erbauungs Buch" of Sturm.
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