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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 61,1941-1942 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FIRST SEASON, 1941-1942 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes bv John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1941, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane . President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Henry B. Cabot N. Penrose Hallowell Ernest B. Dane M. A. De Wolfe Howe Reginald C. Foster Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [289] In all the world d^afrekart has YIO equal A refreshingly new adventure in music awaits you when listening to your favorite compositions re- produced on the new Capehart. You will be en- tranced to discover new expressions, tonal colorings that have been denied you before. Capehart full range perfect reproductions catch the extreme vel- vety "lows" and the golden threadlike "highs" as well as every intermediate overtone so vital to the correct interpretation of great music. No other instrument can compare with the Cape- hart. Let us reproduce your favorite music for you on one of the new Capeharts we have on display. CHAS. W. HOMEYER CO., Inc. BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON <BiyL HALL-MARK OF GRACIOUS LIVING [290] s SYMPHONIANA For the Hard of Hearing Exhibits Mozart Week FOR THE HARD OF HEARING After months of experimentation, Symphony Hall is now equipped with amplifying apparatus for the hard of hearing. The new equipment, represent- ing the best mechanism available for this purpose — from microphone to ear- piece — will be in use during all major concerts at Symphony Hall. Earpieces are equipped with volume control, so that individual adjustments can be made. Those who prefer may use their own pieces if they so desire. A subscriber kindly gave the new ap- paratus a preliminary trial at the last symphony concerts and has written as follows: "I could hear the Beethoven Symphony as I had never expected to again and enjoyed it so much. The ear phones are the best I have ever tried, comfortable and easily adjusted." Inquiries should be made at the Sub- scription Office. * • • EXHIBITS year-round In the First Balcony Gallery is to be seen a collection of paintings by Randall topcoats Davey, well-known American painter who resides at Santa Fe, New Mexico. with extra ^zip-in" Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in winter linings 1887, he has won numerous prizes and has been exhibited in many places. A $30 member of the Society of Independent Artists and of the National Academy Misses' and women'' sizes. Sixth floor. (New York) and an Associate of the National Academy, he has been awarded, among others, the Second Hallgarten Stearns Prize (1915), and the Walter Clarke [ 291 ] i£ Prize of the National Academy (1938). His work is to be seen in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gal- SUIT lery in Washington, the Kansas City Art THAT CAN KEEP Institute, the Cleveland Museum, the A SECRET Detroit Institute of Arts, the Santa Fe Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the Whitney Museum. He painted the frescoes for the Will Rogers Memorial at Colorado Springs, Colorado. The following paintings are included , in the present exhibit: Oils 1. Still Life 2. Wet Racing Day 3. Leaving the Paddocks 4. Portrait of My Wife 5. Head of a Girl 6. Still Life 7. Canvas Backs 8. Rosie 9. Head of a Young Girl (lent by Mr. John C. Holt, Grand Rapids, Michigan) 10. Semi-Nude 11. Portrait of Mrs. Drew Pearson 12. Young Woman in Green Our young "lady in waiting" Pastels dons this plaid-and-plain suit —and the- world little knows, 13. New Mexico Landscape nor observes. It is a three- 14. Semi-Nude piece outfit: jacket, maternity 15. Unsaddling blouse and adjustable skirt, in 16. Flowers shades of brown, or green and black 29.90 17. Wet Racing Day 18. Steeple Chasers Going to a Start A harmonizing wool crepe * 19. Starting Two-Year Olds dress {not shown) . 15.90 \ Drawings MATERNITY CLOTHES- SECOND FLOOR. 20. Brown Ink Drawing — Landscape 21. Brown Ink Drawing No. 2 22. Brown Ink Drawing No. 3 23. Blue Ink Drawing 24. Charcoal Drawing 25. Lead Pencil Drawing * * * * [ 292 ] In the small gallery off the west cor- ridor of the First Balcony is to be seen a collection of finger paintings by Josephine Durrell, of Melrose, and her pupils. she 11 cherish MOZART WEEK Since next Friday, December 5, will mark the 150th anniversary of the death rom of Mozart, the Symphony concerts of next week, of which there are to be four, will give special place to the music of this composer. On Friday and Saturday excerpts will be performed from the Requiem Mass, the score redle which Mozart was still writing when his last sickness overtook him. The f "Jupiter" Symphony, which was his last symphony, will also be performed, and we sugges i the Violin Concerto in D Major, Koechel No. 218. The soloist will be Antonio SKI SUlt Brosa, the Spanish violinist, who will * perfectly adorable ones . then make his first appearances with in picturesque colors . new cuts the Orchestra. Antonio Brosa had the major part of his musical education in it slack set carefully man-tailored . his native country. He formed the Brosa two or three-piece sets . Quartet in 1926, with which he first came to the United States. He has re- it blouse exquisite evening blouses . cently disbanded the Quartet in order or the ultra simple sport type . to devote himself to solo work. On Monday evening and Tuesday it sweater afternoon Serge Koussevitzky will de- gay Tyrolean . or classic . all have the Fredleys touch . vote the first half of the programme to Mozart, performing the "Haffner" Sym- it skating set phony and the so-called "Coronation" colorful costumes to cut a figure on the ice . Concerto, Koechel No. 537, in which Frances Nash, the pianist, will be it scarves . mittens soloist. Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, accessories with an "Pathetique," will be the concluding exciting "different" air . number. , ....ir| Wellejley. f^ [ 293 ] Federal Gift Taxes The increase in Federal Gift Taxes does not take effect until January 1, 1942. A Trust made now may result in substantial savings in Income, Gift and Estate taxes. Our officers will be glad to consult with you. A summary containing the prevailing gift tax rates and the higher rates that become effective January I, 1942, may be had upon request. Investment and Management of Property Custodian * Trustee * Guardian * Executor Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON T. Jefferson Coolidge Channing H. Cox Chairman President Allied with The First National Bank of Boston L294 SIXTY-FIRST SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE AND FORTY-TWO Seventh Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, November 28, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, November 29, at 8:15 o'clock DESIRE DEFAUW Conducting Franck Symphony in D minor I. Lento; Allegro non troppo II. Allegretto III. Allegro non troppo INTERMISSION Respighi "The Birds": Suite for Small Orchestra I. Prelude (after B. Pasquini) II. The Dove (after Jacques de Gallot) III. The Hen (after Jean-Philippe Rameau) IV. The Nightingale (after an anonymous English composer) V. The Cuckoo (after B. Pasquini) (First performance at these concerts) Lekeu Adagio for String Orchestra (First performance at these concerts) Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier," Scherzo (after a Ballad by Goethe) This programme will end about 4:20 on Friday Afternoon, 10:05 o'clock on Saturday Evening [295] JORDA HURRY IN YOUR ORDER FOR THIS OBJECT ALL SUBLIME OHJ& SuluAMUl" Three hundred and fifty pages of the words and music of over a hundred songs from eleven operettas . with wildly wonderful illustra- tions . with introductions and stories of the operettas that become in themselves a biogra- phy of Gilbert and Sullivan . with hours of reading, playing, humming, singing and inno- cent merriment of which there is no manner of doubt. No probable, possible shadow of doubt, no possible doubt whatever! $5 BOOKS — STREET FLOOR — ANNEX ALL-STAR CAST . EDITOR, DEEMS TAYLOR ILLUSTRATOR, LUCILLE CORCOS . PLAYABLE PIANO ARRANGEMENTS BY DR. ALBERT SIRMAY [296] D£SIR£ DEFAUW esire Defauw was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1885. He graduated D from the Royal Conservatory of Music in that city at fifteen, orchestra at and took his first engagement as concert master of the Ghent. He gave recitals as a violin virtuoso. His activities in cham- the ber music led to the organization, during the last World War, of Allied Quartet with Lionel Tertis, Charles Woodhouse, and E. Doe- hard. After the war, he was appointed master of the violin class ol the Conservatory at Antwerp. In 1922 he founded the Societe des Concerts Defauw, which he conducted at Brussels, as well as the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in that city. He appeared as guest conductor in each musical capital of Europe. Mr. Defauw first came to this country the season before last, when he conducted four Saturday evening broadcast concerts of the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra in New York, in December. He was in Europe when Belgium was invaded, and succeeded in reaching America with his family in August. He has since conducted as guest orchestras of the United States and Canada. His appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 29 and 30, 1940 (and on November 26 in Providence), were his first on a concert stage in this country. ORGAN MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS GEORGE A. BURDETT, Christmas Meditation on "The First Noel" and "Holy Night" 60 F.
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