Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 48,1928-1929, Trip
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E. F. ALBEE THEATRE . PROVIDENCE Tuesday Evening, February 19, at 8.15 PR5GR7W1E We Are Exclusive Rhode Island Distributers For These World-Famous PIANOS MhWmw ******' <-0 Established 1823 <gi=» vA r5*? m BREWSTER 1UJJ1C0 Any make of Piano taken in exchange. Convenient Gradual Payments if desired and in addition a guaranteed insurance policy of protection is given without charge. Ask to have it explained to you. (Piano Salons — Fourth Floor) E. F. ALBEE THEATRE PROVIDENCE FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1928-1929 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1929, 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. 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Anselm closed the eyes of Beethoven in death. These brothers were constant in endeavor to make Schubert known. Anselm went so far as to publish a set of "Erlking Waltzes," and assisted in putting Schubert's opera, "Alfonso and Estrella" (1822), in rehearsal at Graz, where it would have been performed if the score had not been too difficult for the orchestra. In 1822 Schubert was elected an honorary member of musical soci- eties of Linz and Graz. In return for the compliment from Graz, he began the Symphony in B minor, No. 8 (October 30, 1822). He finished the Allegro and the Andante, and he wrote nine measures 675 will buy a new Brambach Grand Piano The outstanding achievement of fine piano production. Built to a standard of quality never before attempted at this price. Possesses distinctive char- acteristics found in no other piano. Meiklejohn Pawtucket 297 Weybosset St., Providence Woonsocket "MUSICAL? PLACE THE PLACE—IT'S PLACE'S PLACE' of the Scherzo. Schubert visited Graz in 1827, but neither there nor elsewhere did he ever hear his unfinished work. Anselm Huttenbrenner went back to his home about 1820. II was during a visit to Vienna that he saw Beethoven dying. Joseph remained at Vienna. In 1860 he wrote from the office of th( Minister of the Interior a singular letter to Johann Herbeck, whc then conducted the concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde He begged permission to sing in the concerts as a member of the society, and urged him to look over symphonies, overtures, songs quartets, choruses by Anselm. He added towards the end of th( letter, "He [Anselm] has a treasure in Schubert's B minor sym phony, which we put on a level with the great Symphony in C, his instrumental swan-song, and any one of the symphonies bj Beethoven." Herbeck was inactive and silent for five years, although he visitet Graz several times. Perhaps he was afraid that if the manuscripi came to light, he could not gain possession of it, and the symphony like the one in C, would be produced elsewhere than in Vienna Perhaps he thought the price of producing one of Anselm Htitten brenner's works in Vienna too dear. There is reason to believ< that Joseph insisted on this condition. (See "Johann Herbeck,' by L. Herbeck, Vienna, 1885, page 165.) In 1865 Herbeck was obliged to journey with his sister-in-law WASSILI LEPS, Director PIANO DEPARTMENTS THEORY COURSE Kindergarten—Elementary POST GRADUATE COURSE Advanced—Artist Course TEACHER'S NORMAL COURSE GRADUATE TEACHERS IN PIANO: Ida Haminovitz, Mary Bradley, Fannie Buonfiglio, Lorette Gagnon, Berthe E.