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Symphony Hall, Boston Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 toe Bymmpltoey Orchestra INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1924-1925 Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT ERNEST B. DANE . HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN ARTHUR LYMAN E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 505 — THE INST%U£MENT OF THE IMMORTALS IT IS true that Rachmaninov, Pader- Each embodies all the Steinway ewski, Hofmann—to name but a few principles and ideals. And each waits of a long list of eminent pianists only your touch upon the ivory keys have chosen the Steinway as the one to loose its matchless singing tone, perfect instrument. It is true that in to answer in glorious voice your the homes of literally thousands of quickening commands, to echo in singers, directors and musical celebri- lingering beauty or rushing splendor ties, the Steinway is an integral part the genius of the great composers. of the household. And it is equally true that the Steinway, superlatively fine as it is, comes well within the There is a Steinway dealer in your range of the moderate income and community or near you through 'whom meets all the requirements of the you may purchase a new Steinway modest home. piano "with a small cash deposit, and This instrument of the masters has the balance will be extended over a years. * pianos been brought to perfection by four period of two Used generations of the Steinway family. accepted in partial exchange. But they have done more than this. They have consistently sold it at the Prices: $875 and up lowest possible price. And they have Plus transportation given it to the public upon terms so & Sons, Steinway Hall convenient that the Steinway is well Steinway St., York within your reach. Numerous styles 109 East Fourteenth New and sizes are made to suit your home. 50fi loStOBl Slj jrclhesta Forty -fourth Season, 1924-1925 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Concert-master. Mahn, F. Krafft, W. Sauvlet, H. Theodorowicz, J. Gundersen, R. Pinfield, C. Fiedler, B. Siegl, F. Kassman, N. Cherkassky, P. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Riedlinger, H. Murray, J. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Diamond, S. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Fourel, G. Werner, H. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Van Wynbergen, C. Shirley, P. Mullaly, J. 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I ASS FORTY-FOURTH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-FOUR £TWENTY-FIVE To the Memory of Gabriel Faure, 1845-1924 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, at 8.15 o'clock Faure Overture to "Penelope" Faure . Elegie for Violoncello and Orchestra (Violoncello solo — Jean Bedetti) Ravel . Orchestral Fragments (First Series) from "Daphnis et Chloe" Nocturne — Interlude — Danse Guerriere Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio. II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; Trio. IV. Finale: Allegro molto. 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Tours to Europe, California & Hawaii, Florida & Cuba "Individual Travel Service" Send for Booklets, Ship-plans, Travel Guides, etc. NEW YORK PHILA- Raymond & Whitcomb fresco DELPHIA CHICAGO C/OlTipd.ny ANGELES Boston Booking Office : 165 Tremont Street 510 — Mr. Koussevitzky has arranged this programme as a tribute to the memory of Gabriel Faure. Faure is represented by his "Elegie" and the overture to "Penelope," an opera which his friends think will give him enduring fame. Ravel was Faure's pupil. The Institute would not allow Ravel to compete in 1905 for the grand prix de Rome, although he had been awarded the deuxieme second grand prill in 1901. His music had disconcerted the grave and reverend seniors. As one of them said: "M. Ravel can take us for mossbacks, but not for fools." This exclusion caused a revolt in the artistic world of Paris, and led to the nomination of Faure as director of the Conservatory. "To love and understand Faure constitutes a privilege from which it is difficult not to derive a sort of innocent pride. It is the mark of a subtle ear, the flattering indication of a refined sensibility."- Emile Vuillermoz. "The world at large has particular need of Gabriel Faure to-day; need of his calm, his naturalness, his restraint, his optimism; need, above all, of the musician and his great art. 'La, ou tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute, " Luxe, calme, et volupte.' * Aaron Copland. Ini ^~k jf^> ifA. A csJ 4=y & 1 I Faure was born not far from the Montsalvat of Parsifal and the enchanted and pagan forest of Beestar, yet in many respects he was a northerner rather than one born near the Spanish frontier. At the age of three, he went to Foix with his father, who was appointed director of the ficole Normale in that town. The boy showed so great a taste for music that he was sent in 1854 to Niedermeyer's ficole de Musique Religieuse in Paris, where in his first year he obtained a prize for piano- forte playing. The father was not well-to-do, and wondered whether his son's talent was sufficient to justify the expense, a heavy burden for him, if Gabriel should undergo long training. Niedermeyer* generously offered free instruction. The boy's teachers were Niedermeyer himself, Dietsch,f and Saint-Saens. The last-named taught pianoforte playing at the school, and became Faure's intimate friend, *Louis Niedermeyer, born at Nyon, Switzerland, on April 27, 1802, died at Paris, March 13, 1861. He studied with Moscheles and Foerster at Vienna; Floravanti at Rome; Zingarelli at Naples, where his opera "II reo pei amore" wa? brought out in 1821. In that year he went to Geneva, and attracted attention by his songs. In 1823 he went to Paris, where he remained, except for two years in Brussels, as a pianoforte teacher. As his operas "La casa nel bosco" (Paris, 1828), "Stradella" (Paris, 1837), "Maria Stuart" (Paris, 1844), and "La Fronde" (Paris, 1853), met with little success, he took over Choron's school, with a subsidy from the State, and soon made it famous. His best compositions are for the church. His song "The Lake" (Lamartine) was long popular, and he is probably the author of the "Church aria" attributed erroneously to Stradella. He wrote with d'Ortigue a treatise on the accompaniment of plain song, and one on the organ accompaniment for services of the church. tLouis Dietsch, born at Dijon, March 17, 1808, died at Paris, February 20, 1865. A pupil of Choron and the Paris Conservatory, he was chapel master at St.
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