Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 48,1928-1929, Subscription Series
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON. 1928-1929 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President BENTLEY W. WARREN Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 853 ¥* s^ THE STEINWAY THAT YOU BUY TODAY WILL SERVE YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN That's the sort of piano the at once — and the balance will be of Steinway is — so well built, so distributed over a period two skilfully constructed, that a lifetime years. 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Warnke, J. Marjollet, L Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, 0. Girard, H Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides L Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. " Stanislaus, H. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) 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. Rochut, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Voisin, R. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C. Lannoye, M. Lafosse, M. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Perret, G. Raichman, J. Mann, J. Adam, E. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. White, L. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. 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Allegro. Toch Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op. 38 I. Allegro. II. Adagio. III. Rondino disturbato. (First time in Boston) Carpenter . "Skyscrapers" (A Ballet of Modern American Life) Soprano: Marie Sundelius Tenor: Joseph Lautner SOLOIST JESUS MARIA SANROMA MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE There will be an intermission after the symphony 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 857 — For a perfect winter holiday — a cruise to the West Indies on the "Columbus," the largest liner that has ever sailed on that favorite route RAYMOND-WHITCOMB West Indies Cruises Sailing on January 30 and February 26 25" Tf Two midwinter cruises, each of days, to the fascinating lands of the Caribbean — visiting Dutch Curacao, French Marti- nique, British Barbados, Caracas in Vene- zuela, Nassau & Trinidad, in addition to Havana, Panama, Kingston and other ports. 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He conducted when the symphony was performed in London by the Philharmonic Society on February 27, 1908, and again on Febru- ary 20, 1921, at a concert of the visiting Birmingham Orchestra. The first performance in the United States was in New York by the Russian Symphony Society, Modest Altschuler, conductor, on January 16, 1908. It was played in Boston on November 9, 1928. The performance in New York was said at the time by the lead- ing critics to be wholly inadequate. In London the symphony was said by the Times to be "the most difficult kind of music to play, because every detail must be right or the result is manifestly wrong. It is a remarkable work which seems to have more in common with the lately produced Fifth Symphony in E-flat than with the more elusive No. 4 in A minor. 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He certainly does in this symphony, at one moment insisting on an idea until he compels the hearer to recognize that there is more in it than he thought, at another pass- ing over almost carelessly something which he wants to linger over. In the end, however, he does convince one that he has said exactly what he wants to say in his own way, and one comes away from a Sibelius symphony with the sense of having gained an experience." The score calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bas- soons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, kettledrums, and the usual strings. * As the symphony is dedicated to Granville Bantock, his article "Sibelius: The Man and Artist," published in the London Times of February 26, 1921, may be of interest: "The visit to this county of Jean Sibelius suggests the desirability BOSTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AGIDE JACCHIA, Director The School for Serious Music Students —offering— Thorough and complete training in all departments of music study.