Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 49,1929
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oj^MUilUUtyty ?<<,- "^w. ** BOSTON SYAPMONY ORCHESTRA INC. FORTY-NINTH SEASON 1929-1930 m PRSGRKttftE (MONDAY) "J£ ^ ^ The PLAZA, New York Fred Sterry John D. Owen President Manager (The Savoy-Plaza The Copley-Plaza HenryA.Rost NeW York Arthur L. Race Boston President Managing Director Motels of ^Distinction Unrivalled as to location. Distin* guished throughout the World for their appointments and service. & 71 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 istra INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-NINTH SEASON, 1929-1930 MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1929, 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 1 — It will outlast three ordinary pianos The Steinway's astonishing length of life is not the result of chance. It is built in buy a Steinway • There is a slowly, carefully, by skilled wide range of sizes and prices. craftsmen using the finest ma- Make your visit to the nearest terials. It is as much a part of Steinway dealer today. a Steinway as its lovely tone • For 30, 40, or even 50 years A new Steinway Upright and more the Steinway will piano can be bought for 875 and up—plus serve you well. And when at GRANDS f1475 transportation balance in last it has given all that it has 10% down two years to give, it will not be in your Any Steinway piano may be purchased with a cash desposit of 10%, and the bal- lifetime. You need never buy ance will be extended over a period of two years. Used pianos accepted in partial another piano • Such durabil- exchange. ity as this spells real economy. Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall In the end it is far cheaper to 109 West 57th Street, New York THE INSTRUMENT STEINWAY OF THE IMMORTALS Represented in Boston and other New England cities by M. Steinert & Sons 2 .... ... i r Forty-ninth Season, 1929-1930 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Jacob, R. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley. R. Thillois, F. Zung, M. Knudson, C. Gorodetzky, L. Mayer, P. Diamond, S. Zide, L. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Beale, M. Stonestreet, L. Messina, S. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Artieres, L. Cauhap6, J. Bernard, A. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Fiedler, A. Gerhardt, S. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, 0. Girard, H. Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Mimart, P. • PiUer, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Raichman, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Voisin, R. Rochut, J. Van Den Berg, C. Lannoye, M. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Perret, G. Kenfield, L. Mann, J. Adam, E. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. White, L. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. HfWt$MM CijanMer & Co. BOSTON COMMON TREMONT ST. AT WEST Gift Suggestions Brilliant Evening Jewelry Chokers, and pendant necklaces copied from creations of famous jewelers. Rhinestones cut in diamond fashion, and set like diamonds in sparkling white metal. Earrings to match. 2.00 and 3.00 Street Floor Evening Bags Dainty trifles just large enough to carry a handker" chief and compacts and other small necessities. Tiny, simulated pearls, alone or combined with rhinestones, taffeta bags with rhinestones, and flat folded bags paved with rhinestones. 5.00 to 25.00 Street Floor Flattering Scarfs Filmy chiffons of imported qualities with hand painted designs in beautiful combinations of pale and deep tones. Patterned in modernistic or floral effects. 5.00 and 7.50 Street Floor Evening Capes and Wraps Metal brocades in large squares to be manipulated into the most individual of wraps. Also metal cloth :ff soft georgette at neckline. capes with bows |§£ 16.50 Street Floor I . FORTY-NINTH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE AND THIRTY MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, at 8.15 io Handel . Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra, Op. 6, No. Overture—Allegro; Air: Lento; Allegro moderato; Allegro. Schumann . • • Concerto in A minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 54 I. Allegro. II. Adagio. III. Allegro non troppo. Tchaikovsky . Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathetic," Op. 74 I. Adagio; Allegro non troppo. II. Allegro con grazia. III. Allegro molto vivace. IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso. There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony SOLOIST MARTHA BAIRD MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE 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 . Mexico ^MEXICO CITY . capital ofoAztec emperors . of Viceroys ofNew Spain, of Mexican presidents and dictators! No other city in either North or South America has so old or romantic a history; no other has so truly the air of a great Old World capital. Its streets and plazas are as genuinely Spanish as those of ^Madrid and Seville; its restaurants are distinguised alike for their smartness and their cuisine; its enormous cathedral surpasses many a reno'wned cathedral of Europe in its architecture and its richness of treasures. RAYMOND-WHITCOMB LAND CRUISES TO MEXICO Complete round trips—traveling on the Raymond-Whitcomb Land Cruise Trains with special recreation car, bedrooms and private baths. Each cruise will have 11 days in Mexico — 8 days in Mexico City, and will visit Chapultepec and Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Puebla and Cuernarvaca, the famous floating gardens at Xochimilco, the great Aztec Pyramids at Teotihuacan and historic Monterey. Never before has it been possible to visit Mexico in such complete comfort Three Land Cruises: January 29, February 11, February 24. They may be taken either in combination with the Raymond-Whitcomb Land Cruises to California or — by themselves — as complete and unusual winter trips. Send for the booklets "MEXICO" and "CALIFORNIA" Round the World Cruise —January 21, 1930 Mediterranean Cruise—January 23, 1930 Round South America Cruise—February 1, 1930 West Indies Cruises December 21, 1929; January 9; January 29; February 25, 1930 on the new liner, "Statendam" Land Cruises to Florida and Havana RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY 165 TREMONT ST. 122 NEWBURY ST. HANCOCK 7820 BOSTON KENMORE 2870 also at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON 67 Milk Street Liberty 4900 — Concerto Grosso No. 10, in D minor . George Frideric Handel (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. The tenth bears the date October 22. The London Daily Post of October 29, 1739, said : "This day are published proposals for printing by subscription, with His Majesty's royal license and protection, Twelve Grand Concertos, in Seven Parts, for four violins, a tenor, a violoncello, with a thorough-bass for the harpsichord. Composed by Mr. Handel. Price to subscribers, two guineas. Ready to be delivered by April next. Subscriptions are taken by the author, at his house* in Brook Street, Hanover Square, and by Walsh." In an advertisement on Novem- ber 22 the publisher added, "Two of the above concertos will be per- formed this evening at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn." The This was the little house, No. 25 Lower Brook Street (now Brook Street), in which Handel lived from 1725 until his death. Here he composed the "Messiah,*" "Saul," and other oratorios. "After his death his valet rented the house and made the most of Handel's long residence to secure lodgers." "Sydney Smith lived in this house in 1835" (George H. Cunningham's "London." Handel lived for three years in Old Burlington House, erected by the third Earl of Burlington, amateur architect and friend of Pope.) In the rate-book of 1725 Handel was named owner, and the house rated at £35 a year. Mr. 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.