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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 40,1920 EMPIRE THEATRE .... FALL RIVER Sunday Afternoon, December 26, 1920, at 3.00 Under the Auspices of the Woman's Club of Fall River ^1p %% 3T ^•^-.••frfr Anw % BOSTON >mi\ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRH INCORPORATED FORTIETH SEASON 1920-1921 PRoGRHttttE i ! 3 * - 5 STEINWAY & SONS STEINERT JEWETT WOODBURY STEINWAY PIANOLA WEBER PIANOLA STECK PIANOLA WHEELOCK PIANOLA STROUD PIANOLA Most Complete Stock of Records in New England Fa!) River Address 52 No, Main Street EMPIRE THEATRE FALL RIVER FORTIETH SEASON, 1920-1921 INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, at 3.00 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD. Assistant Manager ^hp dm* ^HE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred -i the Steinway. Wagner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master-musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instrument. It is these traditions that have inspired Steinway achievement and raised this piano to its artistic pre-eminence which is today recognized throughout the world. 107-109 East 14th Street New York City Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE Fortieth Season, 1920-1921 ' PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Sauvlet, H. Concert-master. Mahn, F. Hamilton, V. Barozzi, S. Theodorowicz, J. Gundersen, R. Berger, H. Fiedler, B. Riedlinger, H. Pinfield, C. Hoffmann, E. Leveen, P. Gorodetzky, L. Thillois, F. Kurth, R. Murray, J. Stonestreet, L. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C Siegl, F. Deane, C. Tapley, R. Seiniger, S. Diamond, S. Messina, S. Reed, L. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Violas. Denayer, F. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Mullaly, J. Kluge, M. Artieres, L. Shirley, P. Fiedler, A. Gerhardt, S. Wilte, 0. Violoncellos Bedetti, J. Keller, J. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Langendoen, J. Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Fabrizio, E. Stockbridge, C. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Kelley, A Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Girard, H. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy, G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Vannini, A. Mueller, E. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Forlani, N. Bettoney, F. Piccolo English Horns. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon Battles, A. Mueller, F. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Speyer, L. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones Wendler, G. Van Den Berg, C. Mager, G. Hampe, C. Lorbeer, H. Hess, M. Mann, J. Adam, E. Hain, F. Perret, G. Mausebach, A. Gebhardt, W. Kloepfel, L. Kenfield, L. Tuba. Harps. Tympani. Percussion. Adam, E. Holy, A. Neumann, S Rettberg, A. Burkhardt, H del Court, L. Kandler, F. Ludwig, C Zahn, F. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 3 Every lover of Piano Music should Hear the AMPICO dzehro<luclriq S^iaruy This wonderful instrument brings the playing of the world's greatest pianists right into your own home. Mr. Phillip Hale, in reviewing the public com- parison of the Ampico's reproduction with the actual playing of Richard Buhlig at the Copley-Plaza wrote: cc // is not easy to believe that there was a mechanical reproduction. The impres- sion is made on the hearer that thepian- ist is playing then and there. cc Hearing the Ampico which never sug- gested the purely mechanical, one wishes that this instrument had been known in the days of Liszt, Chopin, Hensel, Rubinstein and Tausig." It will give us great pleasure to show the Ampico in the Chickering to any one interested in this mar- velous invention. Itisthelastwordinthedevelopment of the art of producing music by scientific means. 6 '0<5fif- Established 1823(2^ Warerooms 169 Tremont Street EMPIRE THEATRE. • • FALL RIVER Under the Auspices of the Woman's Club of Fall River Fortieth Season, 1920-1921 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26 AT 3.00 PROGRAMME " Dvorak . Symphony No. 5, in E minor, From the New World," Op. 95 I. Adagio; Allegro molto. II. Larghetto. III. Scherzo: Molto vivace. Trio. IV. Allegro con fuoco. Mozart . Concerto for Two Pianofortes in E-flat (Kochel No. 365) I. Allegro. II. Andante. III. Allegro. Enesco . Roumanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. n, No. 1 SOLOISTS GUY MAIER AND LEE PATTISON CHICKERING PIANOS USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 Raymond & Whitcomb Company 8. MA«8. have secured an assignment Street, Boston £J4 WASHINGTON Boston, #<»«»•• of rooms for their parties dur- „ * office ing the entire high season at the famous Florida hotels, AN EARLIER "RESORT" SEASON J among others: The quality or weaknes s of • thj^tfwnan mind which lat£la««-4gnTSese columns, was denomis»STe"d "climate cowardice," and fch evidences itself in a developing dis- The Royal Poinciana position to take flight betimes from the at Beach severities of our Northern winter, is re- Palm in a new prosperity for the Florida »Time was, not "so long ago, Tvhen Palm this timorousness in the face of blizzards The Royal did not appear to develop, in the Northern at Miami •consciousness, until about the middle of January, and the result was that the Florida hotels did not open until that date. The Colonial But a change has come over them. T-h-J Jacksonville Times-Union says, that th?3 at Nassau year all of the tourist hotels in Florida that were open in October have been con- stantly filled, while the big hotels that The Ponce de Leon never ope ned until late in November or i after Christmas are all open now, or nearly at St. Augustine all of thern, and are well filled, wiih ap- plications wh ich will run them at capacity Florence Villa until late in the season. The city of Miami, which is keen to pursue any new in the Lake Region advantage, has met this\tendency by in- dei stituting a "palm fete" to be held In wa that city from Dec. 7 to 11, which will er^ formally inaugurate the tourist season. At pul Our Tours will leave twice a a date, therefore, when silence and solitude ene once prevailed In the Florida resorts, they thj week from January to April. will this year be humming with activity, California. Our California patrons are similarly assured of choice accommodations at the great and popular hotels of "the American Riviera." Tours leave twice a week through the season. West Indies Cruises. From New York on Feb. 12, March 5 and 26. Spending twenty-four days on the balmy Caribbean, with calls at picturesque ports and extensive shore excursions. South America Cruise-Tour. A wonderful Cruise-Tour, including in 50 days the famous capitals of the East Coast, the high Andes and the quaint West Coast cities. Sailing on February 15. Other tours to Europe, Algeria and Tunisia, Japan- China and Round the World. Write for booklet desired. Raymond & Whitcomb Company 17 Temple Place, Boston Telephone. Beach 6964 6 — Symphony in E minor, No. 5, "From the New World" ("Z Novecho Sveta"), Op. 95 Anton Dvorak (Born at Muhlhausen (Nelahozeves) near Kralup, Bohemia, September 8, 1841; died at Prague, May 1, 1904.) This symphony was performed for the first time, in manuscript, by the Philharmonic Society of New York on Friday afternoon, December 15, 1893. Anton Seidl conducted. Dvorak was present. The first performance in Boston was by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Paur conductor, on December 30 of the same year. Dvorak made many sketches for the symphony. In the first of the three books he noted "Morning, December 19, 1892." Fuller sketches began January 10, 1893. The slow movement was then entitled "Legenda." The Scherzo was completed January 31; the Finale, May 25, 1893. A large part of the instrumentation was done at Spillville, la., where many Bohemians dwelt. When this symphony was played at Berlin in 1900 Dvorak wrote to Oskar Nedbal, who conducted it: "I send you Kretzschmar's analysis of the symphony, but omit that nonsense about my having made use of 'Indian' and 'American' themes—that is a lie. I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies. Take the introduction to the symphony as slowly as possible." The symphony aroused a controversy in which there was shedding of much ink. The controversy long ago died out, and is probably forgotten even by those who read the polemical articles at the time and expressed their own opinions. The symphony remains. It is now without associations that might prejudice. It is now enjoyed or appreciated, or possibly passed by, as music, and not as an ex- hibit in a case on trial. Yet it may be a good thing to recall the circumstances of its origin ; and, as Mr. Henry E. Krehbiel was deeply interested in the conception and birth of the symphony, it is better to quote his words* : * From a little pamphlet, "Antonin Dvorak's Quartet in F major, Op. 96" (New York, 1894). Appointments for Christmas Portraits must be made at once, in order to insure delivery in time for Christmas iCmria iflabnm Sarljrarlj ('Photographs of 'Distinction) 647 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON ha individuality 01 tone and action i elWdwinlfcano together with the dis- tinctive refinement and elegance in case design appeals to artists and connoisseurs alike. £W®&ldwnBfa*tt> <&. Cincinnati Chicago New York Indianapolis St. Louis Louisville Denver Dallas San Francisco "Last spring the eminent Bohemian composer published his belief that there was in the songs of the negroes of America 'a sure foundation for a new National School of Music/ and that an in- telligent cultivation of them on the part of American composers might result in the creation of an American School of Composition.
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