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ACADEMY OF MUSIC . BROOKLYN Friday Evening, February 1, at 8.15 Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn PR5GR7W1E Sf 3 CHOOSE YOUR PIANO AS THE ARTISTS DO PIANO One of the beautiful New Baldwin Models An Announcement of l^[ew Models Distinctive triumphs of piano Baldwin yourself, will you craftsmanship, pianos which fully appreciate what Baldwin attain the perfection sought by craftsmen have accomplished. world famous pianists. C[Spon' ((Come to our store today and sored by the ideals by which make the acquaintance of this these artists have raised them' new achievement in piano selves to the very pinnacle of making. <( Grands at $1450 recognition. (( Only when and up, in mahogany. you hear and play the new palbtom <Ptano Company 20 EAST 54th STREET NEW YORK CITY ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1928-1929 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FEE IE? O FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1929, 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 <» THE INSTRUMENT OF 'through the looking glass" suite, by deems taylor, painted by frank mcintosh It is almost taken for granted today will last 30, 40, and even 50 years or that a well-appointed home shall more, its real economy becomes ap- contain a fine piano. Among culti- parent. Long after a commonplace vated people it is little short of a instrument has gone its way the necessity. 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When one considers that it 109 West 57th Street, New York Represented by foremost dealers everywhere 2 Forty-eighth Season. 1928-1929 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor IEL Violins. Burein, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley, R. Jacob, R. Zung, M. Knudsen, 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. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. ArtiSres, L. Cauhapg, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhardt, S. Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. 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. J. 3 TOWN HALL, NEW YORK Friday Evening, February 22 JESUS MARIA SANROMA This will be the first New York recital by Jestis Maria Sanroma, the Spanish-American pianist recently returned from two years in Europe, where he has played with the highest suc- cess. His five appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this January, disclose a pianist of extraordinary brilliance and artistry. The critics of New York thus describe his part in the remark- able performance of Toch's Con- certo under Koussevitzky's di- rection (January 3 and 5) : Lawrence Gilman, New York Herald-Tribune:—"It is not easy to imagine Toch's Concerto turned off more brilliantly, with an apter and more telling style, than Mr. Sanroma, the pianist of the evening, brought to it." Olin Downes, N.Y. Times:—"Mr. Koussevitzky was indeed fortunate in his soloist as the composer was fortunate in his conductor." Richard L. Stokes, N.Y. Evening World:—"The distinguished assistance of Jesus Maria Sanroma, a youthful pianist, with a torero's lithe slender- ness and deadly striking power of shoulder, resembled Vladimir Horowitz in charm and flare, controlled by the manliness and restraint of the Castilian." W. J. Henderson, N.Y. Sun:—"Sefior Sanroma treated the piano part in a style which proclaimed him a virtuoso of the first rank in modernist music." PROGRAMME THREE SONATAS Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) SONATA Op. 27 No. 1, in E-Flat Major Beethoven (Sonata quasi una Fantasia) DAVIDSBuNDLERTaNZE, Op. 6 : Schumann DANSE Nicolai Lopatnikoff LE CAHIER ROMAND Arthur Honegger Five pieces for piano "DER JONGLEUR" .Ernest Toch EL CORPUS CHRISTI EN SEVILLA (from "Iberia") Isaac Albeniz TRIANA (from "Iberia") Isaac Albeniz Mason & Hamlin Pianoforte ) — ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN Forty-first season in Brooklyn cue; Forty-eighth Season, 1928-1929 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Handel Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra in B minor, No. 12 Largo—-Allegro—Larghetto e piano—Largo—Allegro Debussy . Nocturnes a. Nuages. b. F6tes. Honegger "Rugby," Orchestral Movement Bloch "America," An Epic Rhapsody (In Three Parts) I. Poco lento ( . -1620) The Soil—The Indians (England) —The Mayflower The Landing of the Pilgrims. II. Allegretto (1861-1865) Hours of Joy—Hours of Sorrow. III. Allegro con spirito (1926- . The Present—The Future. (First time in Brooklyn) Chorus from the ORATORIO SOCIETY and the NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB, Albert Stoessel and Alfred Greenfield, Conductors. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Honegger's "Rugby" 5 " Spend Spring on the sunny shores of the -JMediterranean, for Spring is the best -^Mediterranean season. Then the weather is pleasantly warm, the air is soft, the foliage is fresh, and the flowers are brightly in bloom. RAYMOIVD -WHITCOJflB Mediterranean Spring1 Cruise Sailing April 8 on the Cunard liner " Carinthia Rates, including return passage at any time, $725 and upward ©.In route as well as season this is a most unusual voyage. It is the first cruise ever to include a visit to romantic Carcassonne. It goes to out-of-the-way and picturesque places that other cruises rarely, if ever, reach — to white Casablanca and oriental %abat in Morocco, to -Jvlalaga and Barcelona in Spain, to Talma in the purple Balearic Islands, to Valletta, the fortress capital of Malta, to beautiful Taormina in Sicily, and to ancient %agusa and quaint Cattaro on the Balkan shores of the Adriatic. And it goes also to the usual cruise ports, Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers, Naples, Nice, etc. Take it for a complete six weeks holiday, or as a new and interesting voyage to TLurope by the favorite southern route Send for the ^Booklet —"Mediterranean Spring. Cruise" Raymond & Whitcomb Co* 606 FIFTH AVENUE, Telephone Bryant 2830 225 FIFTH AVENUE, Telephone Ashland 9530 — Concerto Grosso, No. 12, B minor . George Frideric Handel (Bom at Halle on February 23, 1685; died at London, April 14, 1759) The first performance of this concerto in Boston was at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 28, 1885, when Messrs. Listemann, Loeffler and Giese, played the solo instruments. The movements are as follows: Largo, B minor, 4-4; Allegro, B minor, 4-4; Larghetto e piano, E major, 3-4 (violino I, II, III, viola, tutti bassi), an air with a variation; a transitional Largo, 4-4; Al- legro, B minor, 4-4. The instruments are thus indicated at the beginning of the work : Violino I, concertino, violino II ; violino I, ripieno, violino II ; viola, violoncello, bassi. Custom decreed during the earlier years that the concertino, or group of solo instruments in a concerto grosso, should be of two violins and a violoncello.* In the concerto grosso an orchestra dialogued with a principal instrument. The name violino di grosso or di ripieno was given to *The Germans in the concertino sometimes coupled an oboe or a bassoon with a violin. The Italians were faithful as a rule to the stringed instruments. The Music of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH on IMPORTED RECORDS New Electric (Orthophonic) Recording "His Master's Voice" B Minor—An album of four 12" records, containing the following excerpts—"Crucifixus" "Patrem Omnipotentem" "Qui tollis" "Hosanna in Excelsis" "Sanctus" Parts 1 and 2.