Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 49,1929-1930
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones. Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 Ordvoiitn.i INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-NINTH SEASON, 1929-1930 Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COFYRIGHT, 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. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 673 — It will outlast three ordinary pianos The Steinway's astonishing length of life is not the result of chance. 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Steinert & Sons ... 674 Forty-ninth Season, 1929-1930 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Jacob, R. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley, R. Thillois, F. Zung, M. Knudson, C. Gorodetzky, L. Mayer, P. Diamond, S. Zide, L. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Beale, M. Stonestreet, L. Messina, S. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Bernard, A. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Fiedler, A. Gerhardt, S. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warlike, J. Marjollet, L, Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. Girard, H. Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Raichman, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Voisin, R. Rochut, J. Van Den Berg, C Lannoye, M. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Perret, G. Kenfield, L. Mann, J. Adam, E. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. White, L. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 675 Ctanblcr & Co. § BOSTON COMMON TREMONT ST. AT WEST % h FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS FURS LUXURY Fur coats take on a special significance at Christmas time, for they represent the acme of good taste and selective care. 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Orchestral Excerpts from "Daphnis et Chloe," Ballet (Second Suite) Lever du Jour — Pantomime — Danse Generale Dvorak . Symphony No. 5 in E minor, 'From the New World," Op. 95 I. Adagio; Allegro molto. IT. Largo. III. Scherzo. IV. Allegro con fuoco. SOLOIST BERNARD ZIGHERA There will be an intermission before the symphony 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 677 They will make theirWest Indies Cruise with RAYMOND -WHITCOMB JT ERSONS who consider the manner and the company in which they travel — who know the famous limited trains and the top-notch hotels of Europe and America — always find themselves at home with Raymond -Whitcomb. CThey will go to the West Indies this winter with Raymond -Whitcomb on the " Statendam!' Spacious, sparklingly smart, splendidly served, she was built for them. She is the newest steamship to make a West Indies Cruise this sea- son, and the largest. 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Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky (Born at Karevo, district of Toropeta, in the government of Pskov, on March 28, 1835; died at Leningrad on March 28, 1881) This Prelude, which illustrates the coming of dawn over the Red Square in the Kremlin at Moscow, is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, kettle-drums, harp, tam-tam, and strings. The Prelude was performed for the first time in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 24, 1924, Dr. Kous- sevitzky, conductor. The opera, which has for its subject the conflict between Old and New Russia at the end of the seventeenth century, was suggested to Moussorgsky by his friend Vladimir Stassov, the celebrated wit and music critic (1824-1906). "It seemed to me,' 7 Stassov wrote in 1872, "that the antagonism between Old and Xew Russia, the disappear- ance of one and the coming of the other, would furnish a fertile field for a drama or an opera, and Moussorgsky agreed with me. I thought to bring out in relief the noble figure of Dosifei, the leader of the Raskolniki (Old Believers), an energetic, intelligent, clear- seeing, experienced person, around whom would move Prince Khovanski, the representative of fanatical Russia, and Prince Golitzin, the representative of civilized Europe, that one was be- Just Issued From Palestrina to Grieg First Year Music Biography By Thomas T apper, Liu d. A companion volume to First Year Music History Deals chronologically with the great composers, giving the story of each and discussing his contribution to the general development of the art of music. Each chapter is concerned with a single composer, and has at the end a synopsis and review questions which serve to emphasize the main points and test the student's knowledge. The book may be used for class work, for reference purposes, or may be read for general instruction and enjoyment. 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Other characters were to be the pastor and his old sister; their niece; two female Raskolniki—Marfa, vibrating with youth and passion (something after the manner of Potiphar's wife), Susanne, malicious, fanatical; the child Peter the Great; the intelligent Sophie, in the midst of her fierce Streltzy ; the suicide en masse of the heretics at the end of the opera, when Dosifei sees that Old Kussia is on its deathbed to give place to the New—all this appeared to us, characters and situations, passionate material full of promise." Oskar von Riesemann tells us that, in preparation for the opera, Moussorgsky "devoted himself to researches into the sectarian dis- putes of Old Russia and pored for months over the old chronicles in the monasteries of Moscow." (It was not until the summer of 1859 that he was able to see Moscow.) "Khovanstchina" (accent on the first a) is a word of little mean- ing.