Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 58,1938
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FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor Concert Bulletin of the First Concert TUESDAY EVENING, October 18 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk 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 [1] SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 Thi Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor TWO SERIES of SIX CONCERTS EACH The six pairs of Boston Symphony concerts in Symphony Hall are a shorter counterpart of the series of twenty-four Friday after- noon and twenty-four Saturday evening concerts. I oloists for the Monday and Tuesday series will include Myra C y Hess, the famous English pianist. Pierre and Genia Luboshutz will perform Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos And Orchestra. n one pair of concerts, Igor Stravinsky, who is to visit 3:America next March, will appear as guest conductor in music of his own. Georges Enesco, another eminent figure in music, whose appearance at the Friday and Saturday concerts was an outstanding event of the season past, will return, and conduct in the Monday and Tuesday series as well. Serge Koussevitzky will conduct four pairs of concerts. 6 Monday Evening Concerts (at 8.15) October 24, December 26, January 16, February 20, March 20, April 17. Seats available at $9, $12, and $15. 6 Tuesday Afternoon Concerts (at 3) October 25, December 27, January 17, February 21, March 21, April 18. Seats available at $6, $9, $12, and [2] Boston Symphony Orchestra [Fifty-eighth Season, 1938-1939] SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Personnel Violins BURGIN, R. ELCUS, G. LAUGA, N. SAUVLET, H, RESNIKOFF, V. Concert-master GUNDERSEN, R KASSMAN, N. CHERKASSKY, P. EISLER, D. THEODOROWICZ,J. HANSEN, E. MARIOTTI, V. FEDOROVSKY, P. TAPLEY, R. LEIBOVICI, J. PINFIELD, C. LEVEEN, P. KRIPS, A. KNUDSON, C. ZUNG, M. BEALE, M. GORODETZKY, L. MAYER, P. DIAMOND, S. DEL SORDO, R. FIEDLER, B. BRYANT, M. STONESTREET, L. MESSINA, S. DICKSON, H. MURRAY, J. ERKELENS, H. seiniger, s. Violas LEFRANC, J. FOUREL, G. BERNARD, A. GROVER, H. ARTIERES, L. cauhape', J. VAN WYNBERGEN, C. WERNER, H. AVIERINO, N. JACOB, R. GERHARDT, s. HUMPHREY, G. Violoncellos E. BEDETTI, J. LANGENDOEN, J. CHARDON, Y. STOCKBRIDGE, C. FABRIZIO, L. ZIGHERA, A. TORTELIER, P. DROEGHMANS, H. WARNKE, J. MARJOLLET, ZIMBLER, J. Basses KUNZE, M. LEMAIRE, J. FRANKEL, I. GIRARD, H. DELESCLUSE, P. VONDRAK, A. MOLEUX, G. JUHT, L. DUFRESNE, G. BARWICKI, J. Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons LAURENT, G. GILLET, F. POLATSCHEK, V. ALLARD, R. RATEAU, R. DEVERGIE, J. VALERIO, M. PANENKA, e. 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Allegro con fuoco [5] DIVERTIMENTO IN B-FLAT (Koechel No. 287) (For strings and two horns) By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791 This Divertimento was composed in 1777 and performed in Munich in the same year, Mozart taking the first violin part. Written in six parts (two violins, viola, "bass," and two horns), the Divertimento is here performed by the combined strings with horns.* Mozart's contemporaries expected from him, as from any musician of high standing, an inexhaustible fertility in deft music, which could be ordered at will by the prosperous citizens, for their enter- tainments. The "Unterhaltungsmusik" would grace the festivities at a wedding, or offer pleasing interludes to the good wine and conversa- tion at table. It might help celebrate the "name day" of some promi- nent personage, with perhaps a serenade in a garden where a small group of wind players, with "Nachtmusik" composed for the occasion, would make an evening party quite charming. Divertimenti, serenades, cassations, Mozart provided on the shortest notice (Koechel's cata- logue lists thirty-three of them as surviving). A standing wonder of Mozart's genius was that he often gave something infinitely better *There was a performance of this work under the auspices of the "New Friends of Music" in Town Hall, New York, November 21, 1937, by six Boston Symphony players under the leadership of Arthur Fiedler. Julius Theodorowicz took the first violin part. Vict We Come AXELROD-MUSIC gJSELESS Telephone Orders Promptly Delivered Jane Engel Dresses from $14.95. 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Mozart wrote two divertimenti at this time for the Countess Antonie Lodron, a high-born Salzburger, whose two daughters came under his eye for musical instruction.* Both suites were written for string quartet with two horns. The first (K. 247) was written for the Countess's birthday, June, 1776. The one in B-flat is attributed by Jahn to June, 1777, but Koechel's catalogue explains that the date having been cut from the manuscript score, the editor Andre remembered having read the inscription "February, 1777." The two divertimenti are referred to by Mozart and his father in their letters as "cassationi." Mozart re- lates that he played the first violin part in a performance of the * The concerto for three pianofortes (K. 242), was written for the Countess Lodron and her two daughters. RAYMOND-WHITCOMB, Inc. of Rhode Island otters you "77?e Best in Travel" Complete cruise and tour information, steamship, railroad and airline tickets. Hotel Reservations.