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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 40,1920-1921, Trip INFANTRY HALL . PROVIDENCE Tuesday Evening, March 8, at 8.15 ^milium,,,.. •^ %. ^m. 3T % BOSTON %\ SYAPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED FORTIETH SEASON 1920-1921 PRoGRHttME mm 14 % ho individuality 01 tone and action i (The % aidtainJimno together with the dis- tinctive refinement and elegance in case design appeals to artists and connoisseurs alike. 2hclSMdu>m jjiano (Co. Cincinnati Chicago New York Indianapolis St. Louis Louisville Denver Dallas San Francisco Sole Representatives THE MEIKLEJOHN COMPANY, 297 Weybosset Street, Providence, R. I INFANTRY HALL • • • PROVIDENCE FORTIETH SEASON, 1920-1921 INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1921, 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 NWAY <UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred -a the Stemway. 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. 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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. if^U&?dtil^ <^oSt, Established 1823(£^> The Outlet Company Weybosset Street, Providence, Rhode Island 77TTTTTT illllplllliliilllilllliM INFANTRY HALL .... PROVIDENCE One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Concert in Providence Fortieth Season, 1920-1921 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FOURTH CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Mendelssohn . Symphony No. 3 in A minor, "Scotch," Op. 56 I. Andante con mo to; Allegro un poco agitato. II. Vivace non troppo. III. Adagio. IV. Allegro vivacissimo; Allegro maestoso assai. Wagner . Prelude to "Lohengrin" Mozart . Aria, "Deh vieni non tardar," from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Aria, "Batti, batti," from "Don Giovanni" Wagner . Overture to "Tannhauser" SOLOIST ALICE NIELSEN There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 »a North Cape Cruise A New Way to Europe For the first time you can this summer sail from America to Europe by way of "the Lands of the Midnight Sun." Raymond-Whitcomb have ex- rm clusively chartered for this voyage the palatial P. <Sl O. Liner, "Emperor of India" (Kaisar-i- Hind), of 18,000 tons displacement. A Summer Cruise Sailing from New York June 25, you may take this remarkable cruise either as a complete six weeks' vacation, or as a prelude to a summer abroad. You will find it the ideal way to travel. Delightful days at sea. Fascinating trips ashore. Iceland: The North Cape: The Fjords of Norway In July you will find these northern countries at their best—with a vivid individuality and a beauty that is peculiarly their own. There will be visits to the famous fjords and shore excursions to the most interesting places. In addition, the route includes Edinburgh, Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. Rates, $850 and upward. Other Tours California — Frequent tours in March and April. Europe — Spring and summer tours of varied itineraries. Japan-China, Arabian Nights Africa, Round the World. Write for booklet desired Raymond & Whitcomb Co* 17 Temple Place, Boston FRANK C. CHURCH, General Agent 54 Exchange Street, Providence RAYMOND^WHITCOMB 5) W, '(§©TOURS 6 CRUISES©^ — Symphony No. 3, in A minor, "Scotch," Op. 56. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Born at Hamburg, February 3, 1809; died at Leipsic, November 4, 1847.) An episode in the life of Mary Stuart is told in a few words by Jeremy Collier, A.M., in "The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionary; being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History" : "In 1565 David Riccio, a Piemontois, who being advanc'd from a Musician to a Secretary and much in the Queen's Favour, manag'd his Interest indiscreetly and grew hated by the King, and the Nobility. The King declining, as he imagined in the Queen's Esteem, and provoked with the Haughtiness of Riccio, got him murther'd in the Presence." As a matter of fact, the murder was in 1566, nor was the decline of the king in the esteem of Mary Stuart a matter of imagination. Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829. He wrote from Edinburgh, July 30 : "We went, in the deep twilight, to the palace of Holyrood, where Queen Mary lived and loved. There is a little room to be seen there, with a winding staircase leading up to it. This the murderers ascended, and finding Rizzio in a little room drew him out; and three chambers away is a small corner where they killed him. The roof is wanting to the chapel, grass and ivy grow abund- antly in it; and before the altar, now in ruins, Mary was crowned WE WILL ACT AS YOUR FINANCIAL SECRETARY Many women do not care to be burdened with the care of their property. We will undertake to care for it either temporarily or permanently. Once you commit your property to our care your mind is at ease, for we will collect the income and maturing obliga- tions and dispose of the proceeds as you have directed. Let us tell you more of this service we can render you. Resources More Than $80,000,000 Queen or {Scotland. .Everything around is broken and mouldering, and the bright sky shines in. I believe I found to-day in that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch symphony." It is said that Mendelssohn wrote ten measures of the Andante of the "Scotch" symphony that day at Edinburgh, but it was long before the symphony was completed. Nor was this the only work inspired by Scottish scenery and legend. The overture, "Fingal's Cave," the pianoforte fantasia in F-sharp minor, which was orig- inally entitled "Sonate ficossaise," the two-part song, "O wert thou in the Cauld, Cauld Blast," and probably the pianoforte fantasia in A minor were the result of this journey. Later that year he wrote, "The Scotch symphony and all the ^Hebrides' matter is building itself up step by step." But in the spring of 1830 he was hard at work on the "Reformation" sym- phony. The first mention of the "Scotch" was in a letter from Linz, in which he says that he is "going to" compose the A minor symphony. In 1830 at Borne he tried to gird up his loins for the task. He wrote his sister, November 16: "I have finished the over- ture ('FingaFs Cave'), and, please God, will take hold of the sym- phony." A few days later : "I contemplate writing . and the A minor symphony." He wrote December 20 : "After that I shall take hold again of my instrumental music, write . and perhaps another and second symphony ; for there are two rattling around in my head." He re-enters the thought of the symphony in A major, the "Italian." In 1831 Mendelssohn was busied chiefly with the "First Walpurgis Night," one of his finest and most characteristic Krakauer Grands Krakauer Uprights Krakauer Player Pianos The Name is honored In Thousands of American Homes.
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