SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1939, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Ernest B. Dane . Treasurer Henry B. Cabot M. A. De Wolfe Howe Ernest B. Dane Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [721 ] Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE for INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. 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The first series of concerts will be given August 3, 5 and 6, and Cocktail Time at the second, August 10, 12 and 13. The Copley-Plaza The Berkshire Symphonic Festival has progressed through five years to a A few steps from the climax of achievement in the dedication of the new shed last summer. There was general comment upon the fine Mewuj,-Qa- Round acoustical properties of the auditorium which made it possible for an audience is Copley-Plaza's beautiful, of more than 5,000 to hear every de- spacious Restaurant — the tail. It was built at the insistence of focal center of social Boston Dr. Koussevitzky and with the com- plete accord of the Festival trustees, that there might be full protection for To climax a perfect day the orchestra and the public. The struc- Supper Dancing in ture of steel and wood overlooking Lake Mahkeenac stands as a monument the gorgeous to the past and at the same time as an indication and a promise for the SUe/uUott (loom future. before have so music Never many from 9 until 1 a. m. lovers heard symphonic programmes with such fine acoustics in so unique You will thoroughly enjoy a setting. The utilitarian simplicity of the shed only enhances its beauty. the entrancing music of Nye Festival trustees are confident that Mayhew and His Orchestra sufficient funds will be forthcoming for of Sophisticated Melodies its early completion. The Festival trustees, announcing six concerts, will apply present resources for next summer's concerts to making THE needed improvements at "Tanglewood," such as draining parking areas, instal- Gofde4f-Pla^a ling permanent lighting, laying out BOSTON roads, and they hope enough money will be received to provide an emer- Arthur L. Race, Managing Director gency enclosure for the shed. Dr. Koussevitzky will make the pro- [723] grammes for the 1939 Festival from the following list of works: the Second and Third Symphonies of Beethoven, the First and Third of Brahms, sym- phonies of Haydn and Mozart, the Fourth of Tchaikovsky, the Second and Fifth of Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade," Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun," Ravel's "La Valse," Wag- nerian excerpts, Walter Piston's "Con- certo for Orchestra," and others to be announced. Membership lists closed November 1, with the result that audiences of more than 2,000 are assured for each of the six concerts. Ninety per cent of the boxes have been taken. Subscriptions are being received for the series of each week. Complete information may be ob- tained at the Box Office, Symphony Hall. NEW ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHS Representative photographs from camera clubs in several of the New England States are now on view in the Exhibition Foyer. Twelve clubs, in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, have contributed ex- iss8®L «*mw£k?. amples of their best work. The prints exhibited were chosen by officers of the Boston camera clubs and Symphony Hall from among the many submitted. You can have all the loveliness of the new fall colors — Teal Blue, This exhibition has been made pos- Fuchsia, Plum or Violet. Lewandos sible by the interest and activity of careful dyeing gives you these Mr. Hermann Lythgoe of the Boston colors for your Dresses, Suits or City Club Camera Associates, and the Topcoats from $3.50. Or choose from these six stylish co-operation of the following Camera shades — Black, Navy, Ritz Blue, Clubs: Poppy Red, Dark Brown, Dark Amherst Camera Club, Boston Ca- Green, from $2.75. mera Club, Boston City Club Camera Associates, Boston Y. M. C. U. 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OQ95 Gown.'Shop, Third Floor Jm w [726] FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE Sixteenth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, February 17, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, February 18, at 8:15 o'clock Schuman, William Symphony No. 2 (in one movement) (First performances in Boston) Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52 I. Allegro moderato II. Andantino con moto, quasi allegretto III. Allegro INTERMISSION Beethoven Concerto for Pianoforte No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 I. Allegro con brio II. Largo III. Rondo: Allegro SOLOIST MYRA HESS STEINWAY PIANO This programme will end about 4:20 on Friday Afternoon, 10:05 o'clock on Saturday Evening [727 1 OUR F E B R U A R Y FURNITURE AND RUG <^>aL We've been Somebodies at this homebody business for so long now, that New England has come to look forward to this Sale .