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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 48,1928-1929, Trip SANDERS THEATRE . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Thursday Evening, March 14, at 8.00 PR5GFUWYE SYMPHONY HALL SUNDAY AFTERNOON - MARCH 24th Pension Fund Concert SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor IE Tickets, $2.50, $2.00, $1 .50, $1 .00. (No tax) Mail Orders Promptly Filled, Address Box Office, Symphony Hall, Boston (Back Bay 1492) SANDERS THEATRE . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1928-1929 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor 3>MFI1I SEASON 1928 1929 THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, at 8.00 o'clock 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. 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Forty-eighth Season, 1928-1929 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, 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, I 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. Artieres, L. CauhapS, 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, 0. Girard, H Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. 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Some with jewel medallions, palm leaf or Serebend designs, and many with camel's hair or i|\ blue centers.^ NINTH FLOOR SANDERS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Forty-eighth Season, 1928-1929 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor SEVENTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 14 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME C. P. E. Bach .... Concerto for Orchestra in D major (Arranged by Maximilian Steinberg) I. Allegro moderato. II. Andante lento molto. III. Allegro. Sibelius Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47 I. Allegro moderato. II. Adagio di molto. III. Allegro ma non tanto. Brahms . Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio non troppo. III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino. IV. Allegro con spirito. SOLOIST RICHARD BURGIN There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony 6 RAYMOND—WHITCOMB NORTH CAPE CRUISES Two Identical Cruises on Sister Ships Sailing June 26 on the S. S. "Carinthia" and June 29 on the S. S. "Franconia" The Raymond-Whitcomb North Cape Cruises of 1929 are the most comprehensive northern cruises ever devised. They include Iceland—The North Cape The Midnight Sun Norway's Finest Fjords All four Scandinavian Capitals (Reykjavik, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen) Trondjhem, Bergen, Visby The New Baltic Republics (Finland & Esthonia) An Optional Trip to Leningrad & Moscow Take one for a complete summer holiday of six weeks—or for an unusual prelude to summer travel. Both cruises will end at Southampton early in August and the prices include return passage whenever convenient. Rates $800 and up. MEDITERRANEAN SPRING CRUISE Sailing April 8 on the S. S. "Carinthia" to visit the Mediterranean at its best season LAND CRUISES IN AMERICA Summer trips of unequalled luxury and com- pleteness, travelling on special trains that were built especially for Raymond-Whitcomb INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL SERVICE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA STEAMSHIP TICKETS RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 165 TREMONT ST. iL„„„,^mT 122 NEWBURY ST. HANCOCK 7820 BOSTON KENMORE 2870 Concerto, D major, for Orchestra: arranged by Maximilian Oseevitsch Steinberg .... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Bach, born at Weimar, March S, 1714; died at Hamburg, December 14, 1788) (Steinberg, born at Vilma, on June 22, 1888) Mr. Koussevitzky heard this concerto played by violon, quinton, viol d'aniour, viola de gamba, and bass viol at a concert of the Society of Ancient Instruments in Paris. He was so pleased that he took the music and purposed to make an orchestral arrangement; but he finally entrusted the task to Steinberg, who arranged it for these instruments : flute, two oboes, bassoon, horn, and strings. The concerto was probably composed by Bach at Hamburg. It was per- formed in Boston at concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Koussevitzky conductor, on October 24, 1924, and December 10, 1926. • » Steinberg, after graduation from the Gymnasium in 1901, attended the University at Leningrad until 1906, and the Conservatory until 1908. His teachers Avere Kimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. At last accounts, he was teacher of composition and orchestration at this Conservatory. Glazunov brought out fragments from Steinberg's ballet in 1907 at a concert of the Royal Music Society. The list of Just issued for Violinists And lovers of the truly beautiful in music For Violin and Piano Edited and Arranged by KARL RISSLAND Vol. I, Bach to Haydn Vol. II, Lotti to Vivaldi This unique anthology is the outcome of long research. A gathering together of the most exquisite numbers available. The arrangements are new and not obtainable elsewhere. Price, $2.00 each. OLIVER DITSON COMPANY 179 Tremont St., Boston Founded 1783 Established 1835 Incorporated 1889 his works includes two symphonies: No. 1, in D, Op. 3; No. 2, B-flat minor, Op. 8 ; "Dramatic Fantasie," Op. 9 ; Prelude for orchestra, Op. 7 ; Variations for orchestra, Op. 2 and Op. 10; String Quartet in A, Op. 5 ; Four melodies for soprano or tenor, Op. 1 ; Four melo- dies for soprano or tenor (text by K. D. Balmont), Op. 6; "The Watersprite" (poem by Lermontov), for solo soprano, female chorus, and orchestra, Op. 4. His ballet "Midas," second of three episodes from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," picturing the contest of Apollo and Pan, was performed at Paris on June 2, 1914 ; at London on June 18, 1914. In both cities, Mme. Karsavina danced as an Oread; Adolf Bolm as Midas. The stage setting was by Bakst; the choreography by Fokine. Stravinsky composed in 1908 at Oustilong his "Fire- works"* for the wedding of Steinberg and a daughter of Kimsky- Korsakov. After the latter's death, Steinberg edited his unpublished works, including his treatise on orchestration. The remarks of Sir Hubert Parry concerning Emanuel Bach's symphonies may be applied to his other instrumental works: "In style Emanuel Bach stands singularly alone, at least in his finest ex- amples. It looks almost as if he purposely avoided the form which by 1776 must have been familiar to the musical world. It has been "Fireworks" was performed in the United States for the first time by the Russian Symphony Orchestra in New York on December 1, 1910. The first performance in Boston was by the Philharmonic Society of New York on October 30, 1914. The piece was played in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 12, 1914. Ho tela of Distinction NEW YORK andBOSTON 97«? Copley-Plaza imiimiiiiiiiiiiiuwiii iNii.iii Nii HiiijiiiiimiiHiiihiHiiiiHi'iniiiuiiii'Hiii'inrm ^SCHAIKOWSiCj, Interpreted the soul of Russia in music as no other composer has ever done The surging sweep of his orchestration, the glowing masses of tone in his symphonies are unexampled in musical creation.
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