SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1927-1928 TOgIB.mil WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1928, 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. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1153 STEINWAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, bnt the best piano value It is possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . 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Mimart, P. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Rochut, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Perret, G. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C. Lannoye, M. Voisin, R. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Mann, J. Raichman, J. Jones, O. Adam, E. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Adam, E. Zighera, B. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. Seiniger, S. Organ. Piano. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Zighera, B. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 1155 The Noeczel Studio DAI BUELL FOLLOWS HER BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENGAGEMENT WITH A RECITAL AT SYMPHONY HALL - Tuesday Evening, February 14, 1928, at 8. 15 p.m. Programme to include novelties by Le Flem, Vuillemin and Aubert [With the exception of her Causerie-Concerts at the Copley- Pla:aza in past seasons, these are Dai Buell's first official Bososton appearances since her splendid successes abroad. 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Aria from the Opera "Prince Igor" (First time at these concerts) Schmitt Psalm XLVII, for Orchestra, Organ, Chorus and Solo Voice, Op. 38 (First time at these concerts) CECILIA SOCIETY, Malcolm Lang, Conductor SOLOIST NINA KOSHETZ There will be an intermission after the Aria of Borodin 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 obstructs 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. GALVIN. City Clerk. The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. 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Tours to South America & Europe Land Cruises to California West Indies Cruises Raym tcomb Company 165 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone: HANCOCK 7820 1158 ' Conrad Beck Symphony No. 3 for Strings . • • • encyclo- Beck is unknown to the editors of the latest musical Honegger that paedias. We are told that he studied with Arthur ; while his home is in Zurich, he spends much time in Paris. "Conrad Beck, the young Swiss musician, twenty-six years of age, lives in Paris and belongs to the circle of musicians grouped about Arthur Honegger. The personal qualities of his work, his creative force, and the mastery of his writing, have enabled him quickly to acquire a place in the advance guard of the younger school ; and his works, notably his Third String Quartet, are frequently performed in Europe. "The Third Symphony for string orchestra dates from the summer of 1927. This work is rather severe in character and concise in structure. It is built almost entirely upon a general theme and its counter subject, variously developed." The Symphony, published in 1928, is dedicated to Walther Straram.* The performance in Boston is the first. A Sinfonietta by Beck was performed at Walther Straram's Walther Straram was an assistant conductor at the Boston Opera House during the season 1912-13, 1913-14. In 1913 he was a pianist at the Sunday concerts In the Opera House. In 1914 he was "musical assistant" in the production of several operas. Songs from Recent Boston Programmes SUNG BY Roy E. Agnew, Hie Away, Hie Away! Gertrude Ehrhart Edward Ballantine, Four Lyrics from the Greek David Blair McClosky G. W. Chadwick, The Danza Mme. Schumann-Heink Seven Songs from "Told in the Gate" David Blair McClosky The Jacqueminot Rose Mrs. Richard Stevens Jane Leland Clarke, Moonlight Deep and Tender Ida Richmond Into the Sunshine Yvonne des Rosiers Over the World to You Joseph Ecker Across the Fields Joseph Ecker Mabel W. Daniels, Daybreak Edith Bullard Glory and Endless Years Mrs. Winslow Porter G. A. Grant-Schaefer, The Sea James Miles Booth Five French Canadian Songs Berthe Hebert Henry Hadley, Egyptian War Song James R. Houghton THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street 1159 concert in Paris on March 10, 1927; a string quartet was played at an S. M. I. concert in Paris on March 2, 1927. Beck's String Quartet, No. 3, was performed at the Frankfort Music Festival on July 2, 1927. "Ode to Death," Poem by Walt Whitman, set to music for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 38 . G-ustav Theodore Holst (Born at Cheltenham, England, on September 21, 1874; living in London) The "Ode to Death," composed in 1919, was produced at the Leeds Festival of 1922. The words of the "Ode to Death"—the title is Hoist's own—are taken from Walt Whitman's "President Lincoln's Burial Hymn," a title given by Whitman in 1871 to a group of poems entitled in 1881 "Memories of President Lincoln." The original title was "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd." Whitman was at home with his mother in Brooklyn, N.Y., when the news came on the morning of April 15, 1865, that Lincoln had been assassinated the night before.