SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1937-1938 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IllC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Bentley W. Warren President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Allston Burr M. A. De Wolfe Howe Henry B. Cabot Roger I. Lee Ernest B. Dane Richard C Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [529] . Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON The principal business of this company is 1 Investment of funds and management of property for living persons. 2. Carrying out the provisions of the last will and testament of deceased persons. Our officers would welcome a chance to dis- cuss with you either form of service. <iAllied witkTuE First National Bank of Boston [530] : SYMPHONIANA 57th ^Annual Symphonic Music and Civic Pride SHOE SALE Harvard Club to give Dinner to Orchestra Exhibition SYMPHONIC MUSIC AND CIVIC PRIDE M. A. DeWolfe Howe has contributed to the Jewish Advocate of December 31 last an article on the place of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its community. He wrote in part "There is today no need to sing the praises of this Orchestra of ours as a civilizing force in the community. The education of the spirit stands beside the education of the mind as a press- ing necessity in a democratic society. Among all the arts none surpasses music in its power of refreshment and inspiration, impartially distributed. In agencies to this end, conducted not for profit but for education in its highest sense, a community generally receives what it deserves and, in the long run, is willing to support. The history of our own orchestra illustrates what is probably bound to happen more and more frequently in this changing world. An individual or a small group gifted with more than common vision estab- lishes something which should en- Reductions up to 40% in this dure but, in the very nature of things, sale of fine values for men, cannot command indefinitely the support women, and children, includ- of an opulent few. The many must ing smart early Spring models, make it their own responsibility—a re- hosiery, handbags, etc. sponsibility in itself a privilege. "This is precisely what has been 47 TEMPLE PLACE going on in Boston. Orchestral music, 414 BOYLSTON STREET thanks in large measure to the radio, WELLESLEY SQUARE has become a public possession. Hear- ing the best music 'over the air' breeds THAYER McNEIL the desire to hear it on the spot of its L53i] production. The growing impulse of our people to share in good things, to fill the space between the over-privileged We take Time and the under-privileged by augment- ing the number of the rightly-privileged, is stirring among the lovers of music to take Qare in Boston. In recent years the list of citizens and neighbors who support the Orchestra not only by resorting to Sym- Sometimes we lose business. Es- pecially if the owner of a lovely phony Hall but by contributing, beyond undue haste dress wants us to use the cost of their tickets, to the main- in cleansing. For we know after one hundred tenance of the Orchestra, has made a years of cleansing just what can constant and encouraging growth. The be done safely, and what cannot. chief encouragement lies in the stead- We know definitely when there are ily increasing number of givers, no safe shortcuts ... no speedy how- expedients that justify the danger ever modest their gifts may be. of damage. So we say "No" and "Let not these words be read as lose some business. But out of this has come the those of a solicitor of funds. They — reward of reputation a reputa- speak rather for a civic consciousness tion for reliability. And to our- in the field of art. If the desserts of selves we have attracted thousands who respect us for taking time to Boston are to be measured in terms of take care. music, the town seems to have deserved If you want cleansing well done much. ... if you want safe, dependable service always ... if you like ' 'T is not in mortals to command painstaking care, individualized success, care, may we suggest that you call Lewandos. But we'll do more, Sempronius, — Lewandos, as you probably we'll deserve it.' know, cleanses ANYTHING - and anything that Lewandos cleanses "As Boston continues to deserve its is well cleansed. music, its mortals will know how to For we take time to take care — command it. They know already that with your things. in this particular domain of art lies one of their most valid rights to civic pride." HARVARD CLUB TO GIVE You Can Rely on DINNER TO SYMPHONY (From the Boston Evening Transcript, December 28, 1937) LewanaosA The Harvard Club of Boston will Cleansers -:- Launderers give a dinner in honor of the Boston Dyers -:- Fur Storage Symphony Orchestra on Friday, Jan- uary 28. For Service-At-Your-Door It seems only natural, but the fact Telephone is it's never been done before. There MIDDLESEX 85OO will be about 500 men in Harvard Hall on Commonwealth Avenue that night, T532] among them about one hundred musi- cians, without instruments. The cultural implications of the din- Kranich & Bach ner for the hosts, the guests and the city will be spoken by Bentley Wirt Warren, Serge Koussevitzky and James Rowland Angell. Edward A. Taft will be toastmaster. There is no end of reasons why the Harvard Club of Boston should have the Boston Symphony Orchestra in to break bread. EXHIBITION Priced from $ 675 In addition to the collection of ma- Makers of the world's finest terial relating to Philip Hale and small grand, mastercraftsmen H. T. Parker, now on display in the have been building the Kranich First Balcony Gallery, may be seen a & Bach since 1864 and it is one number of paintings by Elizabeth Piutti- Barth. All of the figure pieces are new, of the few pianos still manufac- and have been painted within the last tured by members of the origi- year — Yamanaka,.Dr. Hsieh and others nal families who founded the courteously supplying the delineated an- company. tiquities. To represent the artist's work The exquisite tone quality and more completely, four of her earlier unusual volume of the Kranich portraits have been added to the group. & Bach baby grand are an A list of the titles follows: achievement of modern science. Professor Charles B. Gulick Naadyne In reconditioned grands we Kwan Yin, Goddess of Mercy offer Steinways, Chickerings, Little White Jade Goddess Ivers & Pond, Knabe, C. C. Serenity Harvey, Charles S. Norris, Harmony in Green Hazelton. Priced from $150. Court Dancer (Tang Period) Laurana Small uprights and grands "Heavenly Rider of Deathless Dig- rented at low rates. nity" (Tang Period) Idyll in Porcelain (in a Show-case) Convenient Terms O Hana San Buddha Kikuye Italian Reminiscence Norris <S* Company INCORPORATED Lenci Dolls Arrangement in Old Rose 41 Boylston Street, Boston Mr. John Garo (Between Arlington and Berkeley Sts.) Established 1852 Tel. COM 3033 Jeanne Eagels in "Alexander Hamilton" [533] Cflattolrr $c (£0. Tremont and West Streets In the Women's Gown Shop Pure silk chiffon agleam with bugle beads and rhinestones! Ethereal wings float from each shoulder (you may drape them as a scarf, too). Third Floor [534] FIFTY-SEVENTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN and THIRTY-EIGHT Twelfth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, January 14, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, January 15, at 8:15 o'clock DANIELE AMFITHEATROF, Conducting Rossini Overture to ''Semiramide" Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 I. Poco sostenuto; Vivace II. Allegretto III. Presto; assai meno presto: Tempo primo IV. Allegro con brio INTERMISSION Boccherini Suite for Strings I. Grave II. Minuetto III. Rondo (First performances in Boston) Amfitheatrof "American Panorama" (First performances in Boston) This programme will end about 4:25 on Friday Afternoon, 10:10 o'clock on Saturday Evening [535] — JORDA|lij|IAR$H CO] THESE ARE THE Jiixtkdaij <z~>au£ FACTS THAT PROVE EACH YEAR ANEW . THAT xjj lidoxdc ^yl/[ontli in Ho±ton ONLY items of the year-round Jordan standard lowered in price for our celebrated Birthday SAVINGS yet still UNCHANGED IN QUALITY! Only items that are fresh, new, current and even advance — including Jordan exclusives with the proven names of Avona, Latour, Millay, Super- Jordan, and more! These facts hold in every department of our main store, annex, Basement Store and Store For Men. An 87-year-old reputation for dependability, backs them. [536] DANIELE AMFITHEATROF Anew visitor to America, Daniele Amfitheatrof, has conducted the first five weeks of the present season of the Minneapolis Sym- phony Orchestra, as associate conductor. He was born in St. Petersburg, October 29, 1901. His father, Alex- ander Amfitheatrof, was distinguished as a historian. He had sung at the Imperial Theatre before adopting a literary career. The maternal grandfather of Amfitheatrof, Vladimir Sokolof, made his name as a composer of songs, and the mother of Amfitheatrof studied composi- tion with Rimsky-Korsakov. Amfitheatrof began to study music with his mother at the age of six, and later studied with Nicolas Scher- batchef and Joseph Wihtol in St. Petersburg, and Jaroslaw Kficka (a pupil of Hugo Riemann) in Prague. He went to Rome to complete his musical preparation under Ottorino Respighi, and received his diploma for composition from the Royal Conservatory of St.