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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 58,1938-1939, Subscription Series SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IflC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane . President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Allston Burr M. A. De Wolfe Howe Henry B. Cabot Roger I. Lee Ernest B. Dane Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer Jerome D. Greene Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [337] Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE /^INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. Executor and Admi?iistrator We settle estates as Executor and Administrator. T,rustee We act as Trustee under wills and under voluntary or living trusts. Agent We act as Agent for those who wish to be relieved of the care of their investments. Ofii The officers of Old Colony Trust Company are always glad to discuss estate and property matters with you and point out if and where our services are applicable. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sillied with The First National Bank of Bosto] [338] SYMPHONIANA Exhibition GENUINE 'The Boston Symphony Starts Its New York Season at Carnegie Hall" AMERICAN EXHIBITION ANTIQUES An exhibition of paintings by Gaston Bladet, flute player in the Orchestra from 1923 until his death in 1938, and sculpture by George Aarons may be seen in the First Balcony Gallery. The numerals on the various sculptured Edgar Allan Poe by George Aarons Another rare piece I (pieces correspond to the numbered titles from the fin the following list: historical old town of Salem, 1. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers. where Mclntire did 2. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | Kaplan. so much 3. Chaos. 4. Portrait of Mr. John MacLane. beautiful work 5. Portrait Head. 6. Negro Head. 7. Head—Detail from South Boston Housing Project. (fj)tu>?tt Attn? (Enttagr 8. Liberation—Sketch for a war memo- rial. 3 SUuer Street - fSnulnn, iHaaa. 9. Figure. Tel. Capitol 6495 10. Fountain Sketch. (fumt Ann* (EornerB-Arrnro, iRaae. 11. Edgar Allan Poe. Halfway between Boston and Plymouth 12. Portrait of Dr. Harold Walker. on Inland State Road, Route 3 13. Orientale. Tel. Rockland 1245 14. Mask of Mrs. Doris Hauman. 15. Henri Barbusse. [339] 16. Master Tommy Andrews. 17. Baby Fountain. 18. Reflection. 19. Awakening. 20. Sketch—American Family. "THE BOSTON SYMPHONY STARTS ITS NEW YORK SEASON AT CARNEGIE HALL" "The audience that gathered in Carnegie Hall for the first Boston Sym- phony concert of the season was a sight to cheer the most despondent music- lover — if any such were in the neigh- borhood. The occasion wore an unmis- table air of festival. No palms or wreaths or smilax or potted plants adorned the stage or auditorium. They were not required. The audience itself provided the adornment and the festal note. * * * "It was a remarkable audience — so large that one had the odd impression that there were at least two persons occupying every seat. A sense of well- bred eagerness hummed through the hall — for this audience was nothing if not well-bred. It was an audience that diffused intelligence and well-being and *smm$gj responsiveness and gentle manners. It was both excited and restrained. It was electrically vibrant. It was determined to be musically pleased, and certain You can have all the loveliness that it would be. It greeted Mr. of the new fall colors — Teal Blue, Koussevitzky, when Fuchsia, Plum or Violet. Lewandos he appeared upon careful dyeing gives you these the stage, with an explosive outburst colors for your Dresses, Suits or of applause; and one expected to see Topcoats from $3.50. it rise to its feet, in emulation of the Or choose from these six stylish orchestra's action —undoubtedly it shades — Black, Navy, Ritz Blue, Poppy Red, Dark Brown, Dark wanted to, but felt a bit shy. Green, from $2.75. "The words Success — Prestige — Achievement were not inscribed upon banners or in electric lights above the platform. They did not need to be, for Lewandos one could read their meaning in every facet of the spectacle. Cleansers -:- Launderers * * * Dyers -:- Fur Storage "The Orchestra has climbed, slowly, steadily, indomitably. For Service-At-Your-Door, Telephone Today, twenty MIDdlesex 8500 years after the disaster that it suffered, it has come through, magnificently and completely. It is now one of the two [ 34o] . of three excelling orchestras of the world, a superb instrument of beauty and eloquence; and the organization that directs it is a model of dignity, efficiency, and artistic self-respect. "If all this is not a triumph of will and spirit and integrity over adversity and mischance, a triumph that cannot be too loudly cheered, one does not know what else to call it. "Mr. Koussevitzky is a deft and canny program-builder, with a lively sense of The Adam public psychology. He had devised for his first evening concert in Carnegie With CAPEHART . Hall a perfectly constructed list of pieces, fit for the occasion, the place, Conduct your own orchestra the mood, the time. First the 'Tombeau Capehart Maestro Tone Con- de Couperin' of Ravel, with its ex- trol enables the listener to adapt quisite artificiality and grace, its deli- the tone of the Capehart to his in- cate touch of harmonic asperity, its dividual hearing. From fortissimo craft and guile and charm. Then the to pianissimo, from bass to middle great Fifth Symphony of Sibelius, with register and treble, you can com- its nobly heroic passion and inspiration. mand the tone of instruments And, as closing piece, another Fifth and voices surely and effectively. Symphony, which, as Sir James Barrie's You can offer your guests a Policeman would certainly have recog- whole evening of music without nized, is infalh'able. interruption, for Capehart is the only Phonograph-radio combina- "The whole programme, in fact, was tion with the exclusive Capehart infalh'able. Its hearers followed it with record changer, handling from three absorbed intentness, and rewarded each to twenty records, both 10- inch and 12-inch, intermixed, and performance with that peculiar kind of playing each record on both sides fervor that one notes at a Boston Sym- successively. No re-stacking or re- phony concert. loading of the records . plus "It was a joy to hear once more the radio whose many exclusive fea- splendid orchestra, especially in its tures account for its reputation as playing of the Sibelius symphony. In the finest radio obtainable. the matchless finale, with its strange and mystical coda — music which is up- lifted upon a secret wave of valor and exaltation and heroic strength — one Jv^ thought, as one listened, of the com- poser's own description of his mood at the time that he composed it: " '. As if I were preparing to quit this life, and while descending into my J. McKEXM grave, shot an eagle on the wing — sighted well and skillfully, and without 19 BRATTLE STREET " a thought of what was to come.' HARVARD SQ., CAMBRIDGE — Lawrence Gilman in the Telephone, KIR. 0809 N. Y. Herald-Tribune, November 18, 1938. C 341 ] Chanhbr & Cfo Tremont and West Streets & CHIFFON SPARKLING with BRILLIANTS 35.00 Chiffon floats into the formal season with an ex- quisite grace. Softly draped, delicately shirred, its wide skirt smooth through the hips, this chiffon gown is enchanting in French Lilac or Jet Black. One of a new The Gown Shop collection. for Women Others priced 29.95 and up. THIRD FLOOR [342] ^Announcement The RCA Manufacturing Company will make Victor records of the "Missa Solemnis" at this per- formance. It is hoped that the audience will cooperate by re- fraining from applause between numbers, and by minimizing any sounds, so that the remarkably suc- cessful results of the recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1937 may be repeated. ffir Qhristmas Series tickets may be had at $7.50, $10 and $12.50 for five monthly concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor, Monday Evenings or Tuesday Afternoons, beginning December 26-27. Guest artists for each series will be Georges Enesco and Igor Stravinsky, conductors; Myra Hess and Frank Glazer, pianists; and Anja Ignatius, violin. (over) FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE Righth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, December 2, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, December 3, at 8:15 o'clock Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 For Orchestra, Chorus, and Four Solo Voices Kyrie: Assai sostenuto: Mit Andacht; Andante assai ben marcato; Tempo primo Gloria: Allegro vivace; Larghetto; Allegro INTERMISSION Credo: Allegro ma non troppo; Adagio; Andante; Allegro; Grave INTERMISSION Sanctus: Adagio: Mit andacht; Allegro pesante; Presto; Preludium: Sostenuto ma non troppo; Andante molto cantabile (Violin solo, Richard Bukcin) Agnus Dei: Adagio; Allegretto vivace; Allegro vivace; Tempo primo CHORUS HARVARD GLEE CLUB RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor SOLOISTS JEANNETTE VREELAND, Soprano JOHN PRIEBE, Tenor ANNA KASKAS, Contralto NORMAN CORDON, Bass E. POWER BIGGS, Organ This programme will end about 4:35 on Friday Afternoon, 10:20 o'clock on Saturday Evening [343 1 VICTOR VALUEl 1. Console Grand Radio New RCA Victor model 97 KG Electric Tuning Console Grand Radio. Usually $85.00 2. Victor Records Your choice of $9 worth of Victor records, plus $2 subscription (1 year) to Victor Record Review, and membership in Victor Record Society.
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