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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 »®§toim Syinmpliioifir INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTY-SECOND SEASON. 1922-1923 rogram WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1923, 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 ALFRED L. AIKEN ARTHUR LYMAN FREDERICK P. CABOT HENRY B. SAWYER ERNEST B. DANE GALEN L. STONE M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE BENTLEY W. WARREN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD. Assistant Manager 825 <UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS QOMETIMES people who want a Steinway think it economi- cal to buy a cheaper piano in the beginning and wait for a Steinway. Usually this is because they do not realize with what ease Franz Liszt at his Steinway and convenience a Steinway can be bought. 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MacDowell Orchestral Suite in E minor, No. 2, "Indian," Op. 48 I. Legend. II. Love Song. III.. In War Time. IV. Dirge. V. Village Festival. There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Hoist's "The Planets" City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,—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 person to wear upon the head a covering which obstruct i the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat 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. M. CALVIN. City Clerk. The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert 829 Raymond-Whitcomb , the oldest and largest American travel concern maintain a staff of travel experts to assist individual travelers contemplating journeys at any time of the year to any part of the world where such travel is safe or desirable. 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Five movements of ''The Planets" were produced at a concert of the Koyal Philharmonic Society, London, on February 27, 1919. The conductor was Adrian C. Boult. The composer conducted the movements "Venus," "Mercury," and "Jupiter" at a Queen's Hall Symphony concert, London, on November 22, 1919, when "Venus" was performed for the first time. He conducted "Mars," "Saturn," and "Jupiter" at a Promenade concert in London in August, 1921. The first performance of the whole Suite was in Queen's Hall, Lon- don, on November 15, 1920. Albert Coates conducted. The first performance of the Suite in the United States was by the Chicago Orchestra, Mr. Stock conductor, on December 31, 1920. " Mars," "Venus," and "Jupiter" were performed by the same orchestra in Chicago on April 22, 1921. The whole Suite was performed in New York at a concert of the Symphony Society, Albert Coates guest conductor, on December 29, 1921. The Suite, composed in 1915 and 1916, is scored as follows: Four flutes (two of them interchangeable with piccolos and one with a bass flute), three oboes (one interchangeable with a bass oboe), English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, double- bassoon, six horns, four trumpets, two tenor trombones, bass trom- bone, bass tuba, tenor tuba, six kettledrums, bass drum, side drum, cymbals, bells, triangle, tambourine, Glockenspiel, celesta, xylo- phone, tam-tam, two harps, organ, and strings. In "Neptune" there is a choir of female voices. Before the performance of the whole Suite in 1920, Hoist said to a reporter : These pieces were suggested by the astrological* signifi- cance of the Planets ; there is no programme music in them, neither have they any connection with the deities of classical mythology bearing the same names. If any guide to the music is required the sub-title to each piece will be found sufficient, especially if it be used in a broad sense. For instance, Jupiter brings jollity in *The manner in which the rnedioeval astrologers proceeded to work out their pre- dictions was as follows : A globe or planisphere was divided into twelve portions by circles running from pole to pole, similar to those which now mark meridians of longi- tude. Each of these twelve spaces was called a "house," and six of them were above and six below the horizon. The first "house"—that which lay in the east immediately below the horizon—was called the house of life ; the second, of riches ; the third, of brethren ; the fourth, of parents ; the fifth, of children ; the sixth, of health ; the seventh, of marriage ; the eighth, of death ; the ninth, of religion ; the tenth, of dignities ; the eleventh, of friends and benefactors ; the twelfth, of enemies. The "houses" varied in strength, that containing the part of the heavens about to rise being the most power- ful of all, and called the "ascendant." The point of the elliptic just rising was the "horoscope." Each house had one of the heavenly bodies as its lord, who was strongest in his own "house." Although astrology has fallen into disrepute in modern times, it still lives on in the English language, for to it we owe such words as "mercurial." "saturnine," '•ascendancy," etc. Felix Borowski in the programme book of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, December 31, 1920. ¥©§e ( fo QUALITY and REPUTATION enable you to know in advance that the V©oB is a most satisfactory piano. WE CHALLENGE COMPARISON E & SONS PIANO CO. 160 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 832 L. P. HOLLANDER CO. 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