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ALUMNAE HALL . WELLESLEY COLLEGE Wednesday Evening, October 21, 1931, at 8.00 PR3GRZWYE IffcJa "Ike BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: i88M93i» By M. A. De WOLFE HOWE Semi'Centennial Edition It is seventeen years since M. A. De Wolfe Howe's history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was published. The Fiftieth season of the Orches- tra seemed a fitting time to re-publish this prized narrative of its earlier days, and likewise to record, in additional chapters, the last years of Dr. Muck's conductorship, and those of Henri Rabaud, Pierre Moriteux, and Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. New appendices include a complete list of the music played at the regular concerts, giving the dates of performances. The soloists and the personnel through fifty years are also recorded, and the address on Henry Lee Higginson made by Bliss Perry at the Bach Festival, March 25, 1931. Now on sale at the Box Office, or by money order to Symphony Hall, Boston Price $1.50 (postage included) ALUMNAE HALL WELLESLEY FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, 1931-1932 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, at 8.00 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1931, 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 ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE WILLIAM PHILLIPS N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER FREDERICK E. LOWELL BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. 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Cauhape, J. Van Wynbergen, C. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Deane, C. Gerhardt, S. Jacob, R. Violoncellos. C. Fabrizio, E. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. Girard, H. Moleux, G. Voridrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Kelley, A. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Polatschek, V. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Mimart, P. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Arcieri, E. Panenka, E. Allegra, E. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Bettoney, F. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Raichman, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C. Lannoye, M. Grundey, T„ Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Perret, G. Adam, E. Voisin, R. Mann, J. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Sternburg, S. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. White, L. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. Cfjaniler $c Cn. BOSTON COMMON TREMONT ST. AT WEST French Salon Second Floor Agnes' Disk Hat of Fur Reproduced in Galyac ... S^^ by Chandler & Company OO The perfection of Chic to every woman. The Crown that hugs your head so beautifully, yet appears as only a slight curve in that inspired disk that shows your profile like a cameo. The loops of ribbon, softly, lightly caught against that sweeping line from eyebrow to nape of neck. A hat that only Agnes could create . and, we so modestly add, only Chandler & Co. can reproduce. ALUMNAE HALL WELLESLEY Fifty-first Season, 1931-1932 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio. II. Marcia funebre : Adagio assai. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; Trio. IV. Finale: Allegro molto. IN MEMORIAM THOMAS ALVA EDISON (February 11, 1847—October 18, 1931) Cesar Franck "Les Eolides," Symphonic Poem Ravel . "Daphnis et Chlo£," Ballet: Orchestral Excerpts (Second Suite) Lever du Jour—Pantomime—Danse Generale There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony. ALUMNAE HALL WELLESLEY Fifty-first Season, 1931-1932 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME Handel Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra in B minor, No. 12 Largo—Allegro—Larghetto e piano—Largo—Allegro Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Andante moderate III. Allegro giocoso. IV. Allegro energico e passionate Cesar Franck . "Les Eolides," Symphonic Poem I Ravel . "Daphnis et Chloe," Ballet: Orchestral Excerpts (Second Suite) Lever du Jour—Pantomime—Danse Generale There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony. Concerto Grosso, No. 5, in D major . George Frideric Handel (Edited by Gustav Friedrich Kogel*) ' (Born at Halle on February 23, 1685; died at London, April 14, 1759) Handel's twelve grand concertos for strings were composed be- tween September 29 and October 30, 1739. Tbe London Daily Post of October 29, 1739, said : "This day are published proposals for printing by subscription, with His Majesty's royal license and pro- tection, Twelve Grand Concertos, in Seven Parts, for four violins, a tenor, a violoncello, with a through-bass for the harpsichord. Composed by Mr. Handel. Price to subscribers, two guineas. Ready to be delivered by April next. Suscriptions are taken by the author, at his housef in Brook Street, Hanover Square, and by Walsh.'" In an advertisement on November 22 the publisher added: "Two of the above concertos will be performed this evening at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn." The concertos were published on April 21, 1740. In an advertisement a few days afterwards Walsh said, "These concertos were performed at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and now are played in most public places with the greatest applause." Victor Schoelcher made this comment in his Life of Handel: "This was the case with all the works of Handel. They were so frequently performed at contemporaneous concerts and benefits that they seem, during his lifetime, to have quite become public property. Moreover, he did nothing which the other theatres did not attempt to imitate. In the little theatre of the Haymarket, evening entertainments were given in exact imi- tation of his 'several concertos for different instruments, with a variety of chosen airs of the best masters, and the famous Salve Begina of Hasse.' The handbills issued by the nobles at the King's Theatre make mention also of 'several concertos for different in- struments.' " The year 1739, in which these concertos were composed, was the year of the first performance of Handel's "Saul" (January 16) and "Israel in Egypt" (April 4),—both oratorios were composed in *Kogle was born at Leipsic on January 16, 1849. He died at Frankfort-on-the- Main in November, 1921. Having studied at the Leipsic Conservatory (1863—67), he taught music in Alsace, until the Franco-German War, when he began to work for the Peters Publishing House. From 1874 he conducted opera at Nuremberg, Dortmund, Ghent, Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne, Leipsic (1883-86). In 1887 he conducted the Philharmonic Or- chestra in Berlin and from 1891 till 1903 the Museum concerts at Frankfort. He also traveled widely as guest conductor, directing certain concerts of the Philharmonic Society, New York, in 1903—4 and 1904—5. From 1908 he was conductor of the Cecilia Society at Wiesbaden. He composed some pianoforte pieces, edited operas, and arranged four of Handel's Concertos for concert use. tThis was the little house, No. 25, in which Handel lived for many years, and in which he died. In the rate-book of 1725 Handel was named owner, and the house rated at £35 a year. W. H. Cummins, about 1903, visiting this house, found a cast-lead cistern, on the front of which in bold relief was "1721. G.F.H." The house had then been in possession of a family about seventy years, and various structural alterations had been made. A back room on the first floor was said to have been Handel's composition room. me trousseau cy Louse of OOos/oston a dJyvnjph oni; anJ ace forf Tv_^eea time harmonies more tangible than music . but none the less exquisite in our exclusively designed Tea Gowns, Negli- gees and Pyjamas . shim- mering velvets, lustrous satins, flattering laces . each model a charming gesture in the new Fall Mode . and at prices that recognize the trend of the times. ©T(aRarmcdnc. cfta ctoMSseauJCouse of33 oston +16 33oulston Street 1738,—also of the music to Dryden's "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" (November 22). M. Romain Rolland, discussing the form Concerto Grosso, which consists essentially of a dialogue between a group of soloists, the concertino (trio of two solo violins and solo bass with cembalo)* and the chorus of instruments, concerto grosso, believes that Han- del, at Rome in 1708, was struck by Corelli's works in this field, for several of his concertos of Opus 3 are dated 1710, 1716, 1722. Geminiani introduced the concerto into England,—three volumes appeared in 1732, 1735, 1748,—and he was a friend of Handel.