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CORDINGLEY WALTER HUNNEWELL RAYMOND B. COX HOMER B. RICHARDSON AMORY ELIOT DUDLEY P. ROGERS ROGER ERNST THOMAS W. THACHER JOHN W. FARWELL WALTER TUFTS SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office ) \ Back Bav 1492 Branch Exchange ( Administration Offices ) INCORPORATED THIRTY-NINTH SEASON, 1919-1920 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor igrainmime © nteei B )n;ee:r'i§ WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 21 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1037 — A name that is spoken with the full pride of ownership—that carries with it the deep satis- faction of possessing the ultimate expression of man*s handiwork in Musical Art. A name that is cherished as a Family Tradition that keeps afresh for the next generation the associations and fond remembrances which cluster around the home piano. Supreme achievement of patience, skill and ex- perience, founded on inborn Ideals of Artistry.- Catalogue and prices on application Sold on convenient payments Old pianos tal^en in exchange Inspection invited 107-109 East 14th Street New York Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE 1038 i©§4©ini Symplb©inij Oircliestira Thirty-ninth Season. 1919-1920 PIERRE MONTEUX. Conductor ^M llLal Violins. Fradkin, F. Roth, 0. Rissland, K. Mahn, F. Concert-master. Hoffmann, J. Bak, A. Gerardi, A. Theodorowicz, J. Ribarsch, A. Sauvlet, H. Di Natale, J. Henkle, R. Traupe, W, Goldstein, H. Ringwall R. Pinfield, C. Thillois, F. Goldstein, S. Gunderson, R. Diamond, S. Fiedler, B. Kurth, R. Fiedler, A. Deane, C. Langley, A. Kurkdjie, N. Blackman, A. Bryant, M. Leveen, P. Violas. Denayer, F. Berlin, V. Van Veen, H. Kay, W. Grover, H. Wittmann, F. Van Wynlaergen, C. Shirley, P. Blumenau, W. Salis, J. AN INVITATION To MUSIC LOVERS A. pleasant half hour may be spent at our store inspecting the newest pianas ^^ ^ Music lovers are invited to hear or play for themselves these exquisite instruments. More beautiful than ever, the famous Chick- ering tone, coupled with their well known durability makes the choice of a Chickering one that insures perfect satisfaction during the long years of its usefulness. Established 1823 Warerooms 169 Tremont Street THIRTY-NINTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETEEN "AND TWENTY Fifteent! Mramm^ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, at 8 o'clock Mozart Symphony in G minor (Kochel 550) I. Allegro molto. II. Andante. III. Menuetto: Trio. IV. Finale: AUegro assai. Lalo . Spanish Symphony for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Scherzando: AUegro molto. IV. Andante. V. Rondo: AUegro. Gilbert "The Dance in Place Congo," Symphonic Poem (after George W. Cable) (First time at these concerts) SOLOIST FREDRIC FRADKIN There will be an intermission of ten minutes cifter Mozart's symphony The ladies oj the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats hejore the end of a number. The doors oj the hall will he closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave bejore the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. City of Botton, Revised Regulation of August 3, i 898,—Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any penon to wear upon the head covering which obstructs the view of the exhitition or performance in such place of any person seated in any teat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. 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Also tours to South America, fapan-China and Round the World Send for Booklet Desired RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 17 TEMPLE PLACE Telephone Beach 6964 BOSTON 1042 Symphony in G minor (K. 550) . Wolfgang Amadbus Mozart (Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791.) Mozart wrote his three greatest symphonies in 1788. The one in E-flat is dated June 26, the one in G minor July 25, the one in C major with the fngue-finale August 10. His other works of that year are of little importance with the ex- ception of a piano concerto in D major which he jjlayed at the coronation festivities of Leopold II. at Frankfort in 1790. There are canons and piano pieces, there is the orchestration of Handel's "Acis and Galatea," and there are six German dances and twelve minuets for orchestra. Nor are the works composed in 1789 of interest with the exception of the clarinet quintet and a string quartet dedicated to the King of Prussia. Again we find dances for orchestra,—twelve minuets and twelve German dances. Why is this? 1787 was the year of ''Don Giovanni"; 1790, the year of *'Cosi fan tutte." Was Mozart, as some say, exhausted by the feat of producing tliree symphonies in such a short time? Or was there some reason for discouragement and consequent idleness ? The Ritter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died No- vember 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of two thousand florins. Mozart was appointed his successor, but the MUSICAL FANCIES A PROGRESSIVE COLLECTION OF PIANOFORTE PIECES BY AMERICAN COMPOSERS FIRST SERIES SECOND SERIES THIRD SERIES Price 75 Cents Each Volume ( Schmidfs Educational Series No. 222 a-b-c) Favorite Selections from the works of BARBOUR, BRANSCOMBE, COURTNEY, DENNEE, FOOTE, FRIML, GRANT-SCHAEFER, HAMER, LYNES, MAXIM, ORTH, PALDI, RISHER, ROGERS, STRONG, WILLIAMS, and others. LIST OF CONTENTS SENT ON REQUEST THE ARTHUR P SCHMIDT CO. BOSTON, 120 Boylston St. NEW YORK, 8 West 40th St. 1043 thrifty Joseph cut down the salary to eight hundred florins. And Mozart at this time was sadly in need of money, as his letters show. In a letter of June, 1788, he tells of his new lodgings, where he could have better air, a garden, quiet. In another, dated June 27, he says : "I have done more work in the ten days that I have lived here than in two months in my other lodgings, and I should be much better here, were it not for dismal thoughts that often come to me. I must drive them resolutely away; for I am living comfortably, pleasantly, and cheaply." We know that he borrowed from Puch- berg, a merchant with whom he became acquainted at a Masonic lodge, for the letter with Puchberg's memorandum of the amount is in the collection edited by Nohl. Mozart could not reasonably expect help from the Emperor. The composer of "Don Giovanni" and the "Jupiter" symphony was un- fortunate in his Emperors. 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