-#* %• BOSTON *m3 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 DY HENRY L. HICCINSON SIXTY-FIRST SEASON 1941-1942 111-1 *7o tUe. SymfJumy AuauenceA: \^y <JHIShis Programme, unique among symphony programmes in the adequacy of its notes, is made possible through the co-operation of advertisers who believe that the Concert Bulletin is a good advertising medium: that money spent on space in its pages gives adequate returns. • Because, in many cases, checking on such re- turns is difficult, readers of this programme are asked to mention the Concert Bulletin in purchasing from the firms whose advertisements appear in it — either personally or through a note when a bill is paid. • In this way each member of the audience will make a direct contribution toward maintaining the high standard of this publication — by justifying the advertisers' faith in this medium. SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FIRST SEASON, 1941-1942 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1941, 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 Reginald C. Foster Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer Jerome D. Greene Edward A. Taft N. P'enrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager ri i The Price!riceiess Gift i MUS1C . 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He had had to leave At a time when beauty com- behind him in a studio in Milan, where bined with quality never he had made studies of royalty and meant more in sound invest- peasants, most of his photographic equip- ment, we present furs of our ment and funds. He is now established traditional dependableness in Boston. Members of the Symphony at prices that spell thrift. audiences will recall the exhibits last Furs range in price from spring of photographs he took at lapin (rabbit) at $79 to Tanglewood. regal mink at $2800. Engravings and drawings by Lino S. Lipinsky are to be seen on the south Stearns wall of the Gallery. Mr. Lipinsky, whose work is here shown for the first time in [3] Boston, comes of a family well known in the artistic world for almost two centuries—among his ancestors are the composer Felix Lipinsky (1761-1797), and the latter's son, Charles L. (1790- 1861), a famous virtuoso and composer for the violin, and friend and com- panion of Paganini. His father, Sigis- mondo Lipinsky, was a famous etcher and engraver. Mr. Lipinsky was born in Rome, and was educated there and at Munich. He has had more than fifty exhibitions abroad, from Amsterdam to Zurich, and has received numerous awards. His works hang in galleries in Rome, Naples, Trieste, Riga and almost a score of other cities. V PERFECT STRUCTURAL FORM IN THIS WOMAN'S DRESS Colorful rayon velvet is softly ,; ?"*'*?^^ ; ; . : ; : 'ft " ' ft: drawn across the bodice of R;:'>^i'' '^'Si! *^^*^^;'•w^.;^;^Av: ftfti ft ft: „ .: ft:ft:ft ft" ft this rayon crepe dress to end Design for the City of Kiev in a bow at the waist. A skirt by Victor Hartmann "sits well" of gentle lines that THE NEW UNDERPASS and a silhouette that seems to shear off inches. Black with The new underpass at the crossing American beauty or blue vel- before Symphony Hall is expected to be vet, or brown with blue $35. ready for use this month. The underpass, fine in design and material, is constructed Sizes 36 to 42 so as to relieve traffic congestion in a number of ways. It will be an addi- tional convenience to patrons of Sym- phony Hall in that cars approaching on Huntington Avenue and headed east will be able to make a "U" turn in a special lane and draw up before the Huntington Avenue entrance. [4] New England Trust Company BACK BAY BRANCH - 99 NEWBURY STREET Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [5] Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Investment and Management of Property Income Collection Tax Accounting Do you realize the small cost of having us shoulder these burdens for you? Conferences with our officers entail no obligation. AGENT * TRUSTEE * GUARDIAN * EXECUTOR <tAHied with The First National Bank ^Boston [6] SIXTY-FIRST SEASON . NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE AND FORTY-TWO First Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 10, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, October 11, at 8:15 o'clock Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; trio IV. Finale: Allegro INTERMISSION Prokofieff "Romeo and Juliet," Ballet, Second Suite, Op. 64 ter Montagues and Capulets Juliet, the Maiden Dance Romeo by Juliet s Grave Moussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition," Pianoforte Pieces arranged for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel Promenade — Gnomus — II Vecchio Castello — Tuileries — Bydlo — Ballet of Chicks in their Shells — Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuyle — Limoges; The Marketplace — Catacombs (Con mortuis in lingua mortua) — The Hut on Fowls* Legs — The Great Gate at Kiev BALDWIN PIANO This programme will end about 4:30 on Friday Afternoon, 10:15 o'clock on Saturday Evening [71 HOItlft/% IN OUR IMPORTANT COLLEC- TION OF PRINTS AND RARE ANTIQUE MAPS iStU QerUuruf Mud,ic Sheets DECORATED IN COLOR $2 Quaint, irreplaceable treasure of vanished centuries, bought in London at sacrifice prices! Have a pair framed as an interesting decora- tive touch . add one to your print collec- tion ... or put a group away cannily, for gifts to give later on . ENGLISH ROOM STREET FLOOR ANNEX Old Coaching Prints Bartletts' Views of Early $2 to $10 19th Century America in Color 79c Other sportingand hunt- John Speede Maps circa ing prints . frorrf$1.50 1630 $5 [8] SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN E-FLAT, "EROICA," Op. 55 By Ludwig van Beethoven Born at Bonn, December i6(?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 Composed in the years 1802-1804, the Third Symphony was first performed at a private concert in the house of Prince von Lobkowitz in Vienna, December, 1804, the composer conducting. The first public performance was at the Theater an der Wien, April 7, 1805. The parts were published in 1806, and dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz. The symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. The most recent performance at these concerts was October 13, 1939. The Third Symphony is set down by Paul Henry Lang, in his "Music in Western Civilization,"* as "one of the incomprehensible deeds in arts and letters, the greatest single step made by an individual composer in the history of the symphony and the history of music in general." The statement is well considered; it looms in a summation which is broad, scholarly, and musically penetrating. Indeed, wonder- ment at that mighty project of the imagination and will is not lessened * Published this month by W. W. Norton & Company. Carols and Choruses for CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS ONCE IN A MANGER (satb) (New) . Edward Shippen Barnes THREE NOeLS (ssaa) Marion Bauer HAIL YE TYME OF HOLIEDAYES (ssa, ttbb, satb) Gena Branscombe MARY'S LULLABY (ssaa) G.W. Chadwick THROUGH THE DARK THE DREAMERS CAME (ssa, satb) Mabel Daniels THE HOLY STAR (ssaa, satb) Mabel Daniels A HOLIDAY FANTASY (satb) Mabel Daniels THE CHRIST-CHILD (satb) Mabel Daniels FOUR OLD ENGLISH CAROLS (ssa, satb) . Gustav Hoist CAROLS FOR CHRISTMAS-TIDE (Unison) (satb) . Walter Howe IN PRAESEPIO (In the Manger) (ssaa, satb) Margaret Ruthven Lang THE HEAVENLY NOeL (ssaa) . Margaret Ruthven Lang TRYSTE NOeL (ssa) Margaret Ruthven Lang SIX OLD DUTCH CAROLS (ssa) Julius Rontgen THE CHRIST-CHILD LAY ON MARY'S LAP (satb) w.