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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 58,1938-1939 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, 1939, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. 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 M. A. De Wolfe Howe Ernest B. Dane Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [625] Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE for 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 Administrator We settle estates as Executor and Administrator. Trustee 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. lib 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 IJ COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ^Allied withTnE First National Bank ^Boston [626] SYMPHONIANA Plans for Special Concert Block to Be Guest Conductor Water Color Portraits PLANS FOR SPECIAL CONCERT Preparations are afoot for the com- ing "Concert Extraordinaire" to be A Graceful Prelude to the Evening Hours is Cocktail Time at The Copley-Plaza A few steps from the Mevuf,-Qa- (lound is Copley-Plaza's beautiful, spacious Restaurant — the focal center of social Boston To climax a perfect day Supper Dancing in the gorgeous &Uesiato*i (Zoom from 9 until 1 a. m. You will thoroughly enjoy the entrancing music of Nye Mayhew and His Orchestra of Sophisticated Melodies THE BOSTON Koussevitzky as Haydn (1934) Arthur L. Race, Managing Director given for the benefit of the Orchestra's Pension Fund in Symphony Hall on [627] February 1st and in Carnegie Hall, New York, on February 8th. Robert Edmond Jones, working from portraits of Haydn, has designed an eighteenth-century costume for Dr. Koussevitzky, abetted by Barris, the wig-maker of New York. The stage setting for Haydn's "Fare- well" Symphony is in charge of Jock Munro, director and playwright of New York. Mr. Munro has also a special scheme for the visual side of "The Daniel Jazz," the details of which are not to be divulged before the perform- ance. This setting of the poem of the Old Testament tale in Negro dialect by Vachel Lindsay calls for a singer and chamber group, the tenor part to be taken by Colin O'More. Richard Hale, as narrator with the Orchestra in Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, will recount how Peter, like Daniel, prevailed at last over the fero- cious antagonist. Dr. Koussevitzky will round off the evening with a series of waltzes, tra- versing the past century from the early Viennese of Lanner and Johann Strauss to Ravel's La Valse, by way of the "Valse Triste" of Sibelius. BLOCH TO BE GUEST CONDUCTOR Ernest Bloch, composer of "Sche- You can have all the loveliness lomo," is to visit Boston to appear as of the new fall colors — Teal Blue, guest conductor of the Orchestra for Fuchsia, Plum or Violet. Lewandos the concerts of Friday and Saturday, careful dyeing gives you these March 17-18, Monday and Tuesday, colors for your Dresses, Suits or March 20-21 (and March 16 in Sanders Topcoats from $3.50. Theatre, Cambridge). Or choose from these six stylish It was in the year 1917 that Ernest shades — Black, Navy, Ritz Blue, Poppy Red, Dark Brown, Dark Bloch, then little known, came to Bos- ton at the Green, from $2.75. invitation of this Orchestra and conducted his "Three Jewish Poems," new at the time. In the score of years which have since passed, Ernest Bloch has become an outstanding and Lewandos highly regarded creative figure in the Cleansers -:- Launderers world of music. There have been many performances of his subsequent works Dyers -:- Fur Storage at these concerts, and there are further For Service-At-Your-Door, Telephone ones, equally important, which are yet MIDdlesex 8500 to be heard here. Mr. Bloch's pro- gramme will naturally consist largely of his own music. [628] . WATER COLOR PORTRAITS A comprehensive collection of por- traits by R. Crawford Livingston, to- gether with a large number of land- scapes and other paintings by the same artist, all of them in water color, are now on view in the first balcony foyer- Mr. Livingston is a New Englander by birth, temperament, and present resi- dence. However, much of his painting has been done as far afield as the Brit- ish Isles. Two of his Irish landscapes, both of County Antrim, are included in the present exhibition. Mr. Livingston's subjects, as well as his locales, are varied. Exhibited are . studies of Boston buildings, landscapes With CAPEHART from many quarters, and studies in com- orchestra position, as well as portraits of Sir Conduct your own Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Fonda, and Capehart Maestro Tone Con- others. trol enables the listener to adapt The freshness and spontaneity of the the tone of the Capehart to his in- water color portraits is partly attribut- fortissimo able to the speed with which Mr. Liv- dividual hearing. From ingston is able to work in this medium. to pianissimo, from bass to middle A single sitting of about ninety minutes register and treble, you can com- gives him time enough to complete a mand the tone of instruments portrait. and voices surely and effectively. A complete catalogue of the exhibi- tion follows: You can offer your guests a whole evening of music without 1. Lumbermen, Waterville, Maine. interruption, for Capehart is the 2. Beach at Rockport. only Phonograph- radio combina- 3. Pemigewasset River, Plymouth, New Hampshire. tion with the exclusive Capehart 4. New Hampshire Hills. record changer, handling from 5. Bach Organ, Germanic Museum, three to twenty records, both 10- Harvard University. inch and 12-inch, intermixed, and 6. Back Bay Roof-tops. playing each record on both sides 7. Football Arrangement. successively. No re-stacking or re- 8. Folly Cove. loading of the records . plus 9. Deserted Mill. radio whose many exclusive fea- 10. Hayfield, County Antrim. reputation as 11. Cornfield, County Antrim. tures account for its 12. Wayne Crouse. the finest radio obtainable. 13. Julia Stark. 14. Tugboat. 15. King Philip Bridge. 16. Henry Fonda. 17. Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Jvcv 18. Mother and Child. 19. Chick Marston. 20. Charles Upham, Sr. 21. Laura Barr. 22. Robert Livingston, Sr. 23. Hanna. 24. Abandoned Quarry. J. McKEMA 25. Hurricane. 19 BRATTLE STREET 26. New England Conservatory of Music. HARVARD SQ., CAMBRIDGE 27. Study in Lamplight. Telephone, KIR. 0809 28. Federal Building, Boston. 29. Back Bay Station. [629] Padd dyed to match any sample A new Chandler service! An exclusive Chandler hat! Young, gay, brimful of flattery! Buy it to match your cruise clothes, your town costumes, your country tweeds! We'll match it to any sample at NO EXTRA CHARGE. Sizes 21# to 23. SECOND FLOOR flHfatiMw & (Ha Tremont and West Streets [630] FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE Fourteenth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, January 27, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, January 28, at 8:15 o'clock Sibelius Symphony No. 7 (in one movement), Op. 105 Saint-Saens Concerto for Violoncello No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 INTERMISSION Bloch "Schelomo" ("Solomon"), Hebrew Rhapsody for Violoncello and Orchestra Scriabin "The Poem of Ecstasy," Op. 54 SOLOIST GREGOR PIATIGORSKY This programme will end about 4:30 on Friday Afternoon, 10:15 o'clock on Saturday Evening For information about the Pension Fund Concert see pages 627 and 668 [631] OUR OOLrl BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! THE SALE THAT MAKES JANUARY do xaan-dVyonui in jDo±ton This January ... as during the 87 that have led up to it . we've provided substantially for New England's Savings Accounts, with Birthday Sale Values for every member of the family and the houses they live in. The fact that unchanging quality and dependability account for our being hearty octogena- rians in the first place, adds compelling importance to every price appeal, and in- dicates why New England itself has made 7 January "Jordan-Month in Boston/ 185 1 • • 1939 [632] SYMPHONY NO. 7, Op. 105 By Jean Sibelius Born December 8, 1865, at Tavastehus, Finland The symphony was first performed by the orchestra in Stockholm, Sibelius con- ducting, March 24, 1924, within the month of its completion. The first Helsingfors performance took place on April 25 of the same year, Kajanus conducting. The first performance in this country was by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conductor, on April 3, 1926. Dr. Koussevitzky introduced the symphony to Boston on December 13 of the same year, and repeated it January 30, 1931, April 21, 1933, March 8, 1935, and March 19, 1937. It is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, timpani, and strings. The last three symphonies of Sibelius progressed by slow stages to their completion. In a statement made to Karl Ekman, his recent biographer, Sibelius has said: "My work has the same fascination for me as when I was young, a fascination bound up with the difficulty of the task.
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