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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 lostoim Symphoimy Oreh INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1927-1928 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1927, 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 401 STEIN WAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, but the best piano value It is possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . Convenient terms will be piano under such conditions. arranged, if desired. Steinway pianos are not—and There is a Steinway dealer in your com- never have been built to meet a — munity, or near you, through whom you price. They are made as well as may purchase a new Steinway piano with human skill can make them, and a small cash deposit, and the balance will the price is determined later. The be extended over a period of two years. result is the world's finest piano. Used pianos accepted in partial exchange. Such an instrument costs more Prices: ana> than a commonplace product—yet $q * O "P in point of long life, prestige, and Plus transportation STEINWAY & SONS, Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th Street, New York Represented by the foremost dealers everywhere 402 Forty-seventh Season, 1927-1928 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. • Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P Concert-master Kreinin, B. Eisler, D. Hamilton, V Kassman, N. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. 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Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven and Twenty-eight FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 18, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, at 8.15 o'clock Mozart Symphony in E-flat major (Koechel No. 543) I. Adagio; Allegro. II. Andante. III. Menuetto; Trio. IV. Finale; Allegro. Martinu "La Bagarre" ("The Tumult"), Allegro for Orchestra (First Performance) Bloch Three Jewish Poems a. Dance. b. Rite. c Funeral Procession. Strauss "Don Juan," Tone-poem, Op. 20 (after Lenau) MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE There will be an intermission after Martinu 's "La Bagarre" 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 being 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 for CALIFORNIA RAYMOND-WHITCOMB LAND CRUISES The only trains that run from the Atlantic to the Pacific without change. The only trains with real beds and private baths. 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Send for the Booklet "Land Cruises" TOURS TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA CRUISES TO THE WEST INDIES AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Raymond & Whitcomb Company 165 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone: HANCOCK 7820 406 — Symphony in E-flat Major (K. 543) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1701 ) Mozart wrote his three greatest symphonies in 1788. The one in E-flat is dated June 26, the one in G minor July 25, the one in C major with the fugue-finale August 10. His other works of that year are of little importance with the exception of a piano concerto in D major which he played at the coronation festivities of Leopold II. at Frankfort in 1790. There are canons and piano pieces; there is the orchestration of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" ; there are six German dances and twelve min- uets for orchestra. Nor are the works composed in 1789 of interest with the exception of the clarinet quintet and a string quartet dedi- cated to the King of Prussia. Again we find dances for orchestra, twelve minuets and twelve German dances. Why is this? 1787 was the year of "Don Giovanni"; 1790, the year of "Cosii fan tutte." Was Mozart, as some say, exhausted by the feat of producing three symphonies in such a short time? Or was there some reason for discouragement and consequent idleness ? The Bitter Gluck, composer to the Emperor Joseph II., died No- vember 15, 1787, and thus resigned his position with salary of two thousand florins. Mozart was appointed his successor, but the thrifty Joseph cut down the salary to eight hundred florins. And Mozart at this time was sadly in need of money, as his letters show. In a letter of June, 1788, he tells of his new lodgings, where he L M A new composer whose works are being highly commended by artists and critics Just Issued FOR PIANO A. BOROVSKY, the famous Russian pianist writes:— "I always consider your music quite independent from any influence and very original. From your volume I like 'Mystere* the best. It has a fascinating power and a great deal of atmosphere." JAN SMETERLIN, the great Polish pianist writes:— "It (the Nocturne) is such an intimately charming piano piece and so delightfully written for the instru- ment—and I am going through your other piano music, which interests me greatly." THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street could have better air, a garden, quiet. In another, dated June 27, he says : "I have done more work in the ten days that I have lived here than in two months in my other lodgings, and I should be much better here, were it not for dismal thoughts that often come to me. I must drive them resolutely away; for I am living comfortably, pleasantly, and cheaply." He borrowed from Puchberg, a merchant with whom he became acquainted at a Masonic lodge : the letter with Puchberg's memorandum of the amount is in the collection edited by Nbhl. Mozart could not reasonably expect help from the Emperor. The composer of "Don Giovanni" and the "Jupiter" symphony was un- fortunate in his Emperors. We know little or nothing concerning the first years of the three symphonies. Gerber's "Lexicon der Tonktinstler" (1790) speaks appreciatively of him : the erroneous statement is made that the Emperor fixed his salary in 1788 at six thousand florins ; the varied ariettas for piano are praised especially; but there is no mention whatever of any symphony.