CARNEGIE HALL . NEW YORK Thursday Evening, November 26, at 8.30 Saturday Afternoon, November 28, at 2.30 PRoGRHftttE — V\ "... Your piano is admirable and it is 'with my warmestgreetings that I nvish you the great success <which your instrument deserves. When CHALIAPIN sings, the piano is always a Baldwin. The greatest operatic genius of this genera- tion finds in Baldwin tone the perfect background for his magnificent art. As on the concert stage, so in his homes in New York and in Paris — Chaliapin uses the Baldwin. That loveliness and purity of tone which appeals to Chaliapin as well as to every exacting musician is found in all Baldwins; alike in the Concert Grand, in the smaller Grands, and in the Uprights. The history of the Baldwin is the history of an ideal. latftorin CINCINNATI CHICAGO NEW YORK INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS LOUISVILLE DENVER DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Fortieth Season in New York FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1925-1926 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, at 8.30 AND THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 28, at 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1925, 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 1 \k.t \' After more than half a century on Fourteenth Street, Steinway Hall is now located at 109 West 57th Street. The new Steinway Hall is one of the handsomest buildings in New York on a street noted for finely designed business structures. As a center of music, it will extend the Steinway tradition to the new generations of music lovers. NWAY THE INST%U&1ENT OF THE IMMORTALS Forty-fifth Season, 1925-1926 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Gundersen, R. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Eisler, D. Sauvlet, H. Kassman, N. Theodorowicz, J. Cherkassky, P. Pinfield, C. Mayer, P. Siegl, F. Risman, J. Fedorovsky, P. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Riedlinger, H. Murray, J. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Diamond, S. Erkelens., H. Seiniger, S. Zung, M. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhardt, S. Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Zighera, A. Langendoen, J. Stockbridgej C. Fabrizio, E. Keller, J. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Kelley, A. Girard, H. Vondrak, A. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Oliver, F. Flutes. Oboes. 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MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE There will be an intermission before the symphony The music of these programmes is available at the 58th Street Library 5 ; Concerto, G major, No. 3 (of the Brandenburg Set) for three violins, three violas, three violoncellos, with bass Johann Sebastian Bach (Born at Eisenach, March 21, 1685; died at Leipsic, July 28, 1750) This composition is the third of the six Brandenburg concertos. Completed March 24, 1721, they were written in answer to the wish of a Prussian prince, Christian Ludwig, Margraf of Brandenburg, the youngest son of the Great Elector by a second wife. The prince was provost of the Cathedral at Halberstadt. He was a bachelor, living now at Berlin and now on his estate at Malchow. Fond of music, and not in an idle way, he was extravagant in his tastes and mode of life, and often went beyond his income of nearly fifty thousand thalers. He met Bach—some say at Carlsbad—in 1718 or 1720, and asked him to write some pieces for his private orchestra, which con- tained players of high reputation. Bach sent the pieces entitled "Concerts avec Plusieurs Instru- ments" to Berlin, with a dedication in French. This dedication was probably written by some courtier at Cothen, where Bach was then living. Nothing is known about the reception, nor is it known whether they were ever played at the palace of the prince. It was his habit to catalogue his music; but the name of Bach is not found in the list, although the names of Vivaldi, Venturini, Valentiri, Brescianello, and other writers of concertos, were recorded. Spitta thinks that the pieces were probably included in miscellaneous lots, as "77 con- certos by different masters and for various instruments at 4 ggr (altogether 12 thlr, 20 ggr)"; or "100 concertos by different masters ^Iiiiiic3iiiiiiiiiificaiiiiiiiiiiiicaiiiiiiiiiiiic3iiiiiiiiiiiic3iiiiiiiiiiiic3iiiiiiiiiiiic3iiiiiiiiifiicaiiiiiiiiiiiic3iiiiiiiiiiiicaiiiiiiiiiiiicaiiiiiiiiiiiic2iiiiiiii^ | In the Columbia Fine -Art Series | 1 of Musical Master Works j | there is presented in record form for the first time in this country a definite g « programme of the great works of the master composers, recorded authentically 5 | and without the usual cuts. These great compositions of both classic and modern 1 schools are now made available for the benefit of informed musicians and music = H lovers, and even more for the delectation of the many who have long since tired s H of being offered mutilated or condensed versions of the works of the masters. 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