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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTY-FIRST SEASON. 1921-1922 Programme 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 ELLERTDN LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager — — "CHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS the old house where Franz Liszt as Rubinstein, dePachmann,Joseffy I Many INpassed his last years, still stands a young genius set fingers to a Steinway for his Steinway. Here the master of the first time in this house of Liszt's. Weimar played for the rulers of the earth And it is worthy of note that almost without who came to do him homage. And here, exception they, too, chose the Steinway too, played other masters of the piano just as Liszt had done before them, just as friends and disciples of Liszt's—men such the masters of today have done after them. STEINWAY & SOMS, STEINWAY HALL 107-109 EAST 14th STREET NEW YORK Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE )t©im lymphs rchestra Forty-first Season. 1921-1922 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor The highest excellence in every detail of its con- struction, and the lasting beauty of its musical voice, have caused the CHICKERING PIANO to sought after THE be by OLDEST true music lovers for IN AMERICA nearly a Hundred Years. THE BEST To-day it is finer in- IN THE a WORLD strument than at any time in its long and illustrious career ooo W[th the AMPICO it is endowed ^th playing of the greatest Pianists in the World.c><x;)-ooo m FORTY-FIRST SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE an^/ TWENTY-TWO Teetfi Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, at 8.00 o'clock Rossini Overture to the Opera "L'ltaliana in Algeri" (First time at these concerts) Mozart Symphony in D major (Kochel, No. 504) I. Adagio; Allegro. II. Andante. III. Finale: Presto. Chadwick Theme, Variations and Fugue for Organ and Orchestra (Organ Solo, Albert W. Snow) Liapounoff "Rhapsody on Folk Songs of the Ukraine' for Pianoforte and Orchestra (First time at these concerts) DeFalla . Three Dances from the Ballet, "El Sombrero de tres picos." ("The Three-Cornered Hat") (First time in America) I. The Neighbors. II. Dance of the Miller. III. Finale Dance. SOLOIST E. ROBERT SCHMITZ MASON & HAMLIN PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the number by Chadwick 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 beina 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. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert. Mexico Added to the Route of the RAYMOND-WHITCOMB CRUISE to Hawaii via the Panama Canal ^The itinerary, already conspicuous for its novelty, will now include a visit to Salina Cruz — a port on the Mexican West Coast — and an excursion inland to Tehuantepec. flTehuantepec is by long odds the most picturesque town in the province. It is the stronghold of the ancient inhabitants of the region and celebrated for its hot springs and beautiful women. The traveler is impressed into admiration of the superb symmetry and striking beauty of the women, who form the bulk of the population. These olive-skinned queens of the Tropics are strangely like the Burmese women and girls. With their odd customs and brilliant costumes, they seem like changelings from the Orient. ^As for the town itself — it is usually flooded with sunlight. The rounded church domes rise against a faultless blue sky. The houses, with their embowered patios and graceful balconies suggest the days of Moorish Spain. And when in all their strange grace the women appear, the effect is truly beguiling. ^The itinerary of this 46-day Cruise, which will sail February 11, on the Matson Navigation Company's 21,000-ton S. S. "Hawkeye State" includes Havana, the capital of the Caribbean Panama City, the capital of the republic San Juan, the capital of Porto Rico Salina Cruz, on the Mexican West Coast St. Thomas, our new West Indian colony Tehuantepec, the capital of the province Port Antonio, Jamaica's luxuriant resort Los Angeles, with its superb suburbs Kingston, the ancient pirate stronghold San Francisco, inside the Golden Gate Colon, the Atlantic entrance of the Canal Honolulu, with its famous Waikiki Beach A remarkable trip through the Canal Hilo, on the scenic island of Hawaii Balboa, the Pacific terminus of the Canal Kilauea, the ever-flaming volcano ^The Cruise will return to San Francisco and end there; the rates are $750 and upward. For booklets, ship-plans and all details address Raymond & Whitcomb Go. 17 Temple Place Boston Telephone: Beach 6964 Overture to "L' Italiana in Algeri," Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Born at Pesaro, Italy, on February 29, 1792; died at Passy, France, November 13, 1868.) The opera "The Italian Woman at Algiers," an opera buffa in two acts, libretto by Anelli, was produced at the San Benedetto Theatre, Venice, in the summer of 1813. La Marcolini, the rich-voiced contralto, for whom, according to Henri Beyle (Stendhal), Rossini composed the opera, took the part of Isabella; Galli, that of the Bey; Gintih, that of Lindoro; and Rosich, that of Taddeo. The success of the opera was great, immediate, long continued. Anelli had written his libretto for the composer Luigi jMosca (1775- 1824), whose "Italiana in Algeri" was produced at Milan in 1808. The first performance of Rossini's opera in the United States was at New York, November 17, 1832, by the Montressor Company at the Richmond Hill Theatre, originally a family mansion, standing "about the rear of the lots pointing upon \^arick street, at the southeast corner of Varick and Charlton streets." This house, once Aaron Burr's country seat, was converted into a theatre and opened on November 14, 1831. The opera was revived at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, on December 5, 1919. Gabriella Besanzoni, Isabella; Marie SundeUus, Elvira; Kathleen Howard, Zulma; Charles Hackett, Lindoro; G. De Luca, Taddeo; A. Didur, Mustapha; M. Picco, Haly. NEW SONGS BY LEADING AMERICAN COIMPOSERS BAUER, MARION Down to the Crystal Streamlet .fiO Gold of the Day and Night ^0 Sung by May Fett-rson Thoughts .50 Sainte Marguerite .50 The Driftwood Fire .50 (Medium Voice) BRANSCOMBE, GENA Sung by Jeanne Laval. By St. Lawrence Water .50 JOHXS, LOUIS EDGAR Sung by Penelope Davies, JIary Rough Wind That Moanest Loud Davis. Florence Macbeth, George .50 Reimherr. Reinald Werrenrath. Sung by George Reimherr. The Best Is Yet to Be .60 The Knight's Return .50 COX, RALPH Sung by Rafaelo Diaz. Aspiration 50 Fairy Boat Sung by Mary Davis. A Lake and a DANIELS, MABEL W. From Night to Light .60 Glory and Endless Years .50 MILLIGAN, HAROLD V. Sung by Emma Roberts, Reinald Algerian Love-Songs Werrenrath. FOOTE, ARTHUR Sunset .65 Ships That Pass in the Night .50 Midnight .50 Shadows .60 Dawn .50 Sung by Florence Macbeth. ROYCE, EDWARD The Lake Isle of Innisfree .60 Voice) Sung bv Mabel Garrison. Old Ironsides (Medium .60 GRANT-SCHAEFER, G. A. Renunciation .50 French-Canadian Songs WARFORD, CLAUDE The Little Dancer .60 Life's Ecstasy .50 (Medium Voice) Sung by Mary Davis. Tilla Gem- Sung by May Peterson. under. Ralph Thomlinson. All the above published in : keys, unless otherwise stated THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO. BOSTON: 120 Boylston Street NEW YORK: 8 West 40th Street The overture was played at a concert of the Boston Academy of Music in Boston as early as December 5, 1840. It was performed at Young People's Concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, M. Monteux conductor, December 7, 9, 10, 1920. Professor Lionel Dauriac of the University of Montpellier in his sympathetic and judicious Life of Rossini* says of the overtures to "L' Inganno felice," "Tancredi," "L' Itahana," "II Barbiere": "Speak- ing of these overtures we compared them to excellent musical aperitifs, for they rapidly put the hearer in a gay state and dispose him favorably towards the music he is to hear. Their animating influence is incom- parable. Their musical contents are singularly—digestive. They are composed in the manner of a symphonic Allegro. At first for exordium an Andante, then a development with a repeat; to nourish this development two themes, the second of which appears at first in the relative key of the overture. When the first theme returns, it brings the second in its train, and all ends, as in a symphony by Haydn, in the opening key. And the. crescendo? The crescendo holds its place; it ends the first repeat and returns in the peroration. As in a symphony by Haydn? Precisely, but with greater insistence, more noise, and certainly less music.