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Symphony Hall, Boston Huntington and Massachusetts Avenues SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration OfSces. Back Bay 1492 Best©!! Sympl]i®imy Orcliestra INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX. Conductor FORTIETH SEASON. 1920-1921 Vogramme of the Fourteeetli tem©©e and E¥einiiiig Concerts FRIDAY at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY at 8.00 o'clock FEBRUARY 11 and 12 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 833 "CHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred -^ the Steinway. Wagner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master-musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instrument. It is these traditions that have inspired Steinway achievement and raised this piano to its artistic pre-eminence which is today recognized throughout the world. STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL 107-109 East 14th Street New York City Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE 834 B©§t( m S)^/ DWCBBI Fortieth Season. 1920-1921 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Every lover ofPiAisio Music should Hear the AMPICO This wonderful instrument brings the playing of the world's greatest pianists right into your own home. Mr. Phillip Hale, in reviewing the public com- parison of the Ampico's reproduction with the actual playing of Richard Buhlig at the Copley-Plaza wrote: " It is not easy to believe that there was a mechanical reproduction. The impres- sion is made on the hearer that thepian- ist is playing then and there. " Hearing the Ampico which never sug- gested the purely mechanical^ one wishes that this instrument had been known in the days of Liszt, Chopin, Hensel, Rubinstein and Tausig.'' It will give us great pleasure to show the Ampico in the Chickering to any one interested in this mar- velous invention. Itisthelastwordinthedevelopment of the art of producing music by scientific means. • Established 1823(2^ Warerooms 169 Tremont Street 836 ; FORTIETH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY AND TWENTY-ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 11, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, at 8 o'clock Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 6i I. Sostenuto assai; Allegro ma non troppo. II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace: Trio (i), Trio (2). III. Adagio expressive. IV. Allegro molto vivace. Strauss Orchestral Suite from "Der Burger als Edelmann," Opera based on Moliere's Play, "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" (First time in America) Overture to Act I—Jourdain the Bourgeois. Minuet. The Fencing Master. Entrance and Dance of the Tailors. The Minuet of Lully. Introduction to Act II (Intermezzo) Dorantes and Dorimene—Count and Countess. Entrance of Cleonte. The Dinner; (Music at Table and Dance of the Young Kitchen Servants). See page 864. (Piano, Mr. DeVoto) Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C minor for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 37 I. Allegro con brio. II. Largo. III. Rondo: Allegro. SOLOIST MISCHA LEVITZKI STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony The ladies oj the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats bejore the end oj a number. The doors oj the Juill will be closed during the perjormance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave bejore the end oj the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1 898,—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 cA tHe exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low h«ad covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN. City Clerk 837 —for the rest of the winter RAYMOND-WHITCOMB Tours to Florida or California, Raymond-Whitcomb Cruises to the balmy Caribbean, assure you perfect weather during the dreary days of late February and March. Havana, Santiago, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica Sailing March 5 and March 26 St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami, Tampa, etc. February 17, 21, 24, 28. March 3 and 7 CALIFORNIA Riverside, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, etc. February 14, 16, 21, 23, 28. March 2, 7 and 16 North Cape Cruise—Sailing June 25 Europe—Arabian Nights Africa—Japan-China South America^Round the World Raymond & Whitcomb Co. 17 Temple Place, Boston Telephone: Beach 6964 S38 Symphony in C minoR;, No. 2, Op. 61 Robert Schumann (Born at Zwickau, June 8, 1810; died at Endenich, July 29, 1856.) In October, 1844, Schumann left Leipsic, where he had lived for about fourteen years. He had given up the editorship of the Neue ZeitscJw'ift in July. He had been a professor of pianoforte playing and composition at the Leipsic Conservatory from April, 1843. A singularly reserved man, hardly fitted for the duties of a teacher, without pupils, he was in a highly nervous condition, so that his physician said he should not hear too much music ; a change of scene might do him good. Schumann therefore moved to Dresden. "Here," he wrote in 1844, ''one can get back the old lost longing for music; there is so little to hear. This suits my condition, for I still sufifer very much from my nerves, and everything affects and exhausts me directly." He lived a secluded life. He saw few, and he talked little. In the early eighties they still showed in Dresden a restaurant frequented by him, where he would sit for hours at a time, dreaming day-dreams. He tried sea-baths. In 1846 he was exceedingly sick, mentally and bodily. "He observed that he was unable to remember the melodies that occurred to him when composing, the effort of invention )llm by 4onr|L||r |o aS i^iJ. ^Oi tA (LL dJi ^-Cn::^ clii NJ Just Issued THE RED ROSE WHISPERS OF PASSION (2 Keys) 50 SHADOWS Sung by John McCormack Price .50 Sung by Florence Macbeth HOW MANY TIMES DO I LOVE THEE, DEAR (2 Keys) 50 TRANQUILLITY (2 Keys) 50 Sung by Christine Miller. Sung by Mabel Garrison, Lambert LILAC TIME (2 Keys) 60 Murphy, Christine Miller, Alice Sung by Charles Bennett, Florence Sjoselius and others. Otis. PIANOFORTE Op. 41. Five Poems (After Omar Khayyam). Complete 1.00 Op. 45. Serenade in F. Complete (Invention. Air. A Dance. Finale). .75 Op. 52. Twenty Preludes in the Form of Short Technical Studies. Complete 1.00 Op. 27. Nine Etudes for Musical and Technical Development 1.00 Op. 34. No. 1, Pierrot 40 Op. 6 . No. 4, Petite Valse. For Left Hand Alone 30 Op. 37. No. 1, Prelude and Etude. For Left Hand Alone . .40 SOME PRACTICAL THINGS IN MODULATION PIANO PLAYING And Related Harmonic Questions Price $1.25 Price 60 cents A statement of the various means of part A clear exposition of the technical modulation found in music from Bach to gleaned of the subject with able comments the present time. Illustrations from com- years of experience. from many posers of all periods show the practical — Musical Review Harvard application of principles. THE ARTHUR R f HMIDT CO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON, MASS. For Sale by all Music Dealers 839 — fatiguing his mind to such a degree as to impair his memory." When he did work, he applied himself to contrapuntal problems. The Symphony in C major, known as No. 2, but really the third, for the one in D minor, first written, was withdrawn after perform- ance, remodelled, and finally published as No. 4,—was composed in the years 1845 and 1846. Other works of those years are four fugues for pianoforte, studies and sketches for pedal piano, six fugues on the name of Bach for organ, intermezzo, rondo, and finale to 'Tantasie" (published as Concerto, Op. 54), five songs by Burns for mixed chorus, four songs for mixed chorus. Op. 59, and a canon from Op. 124. The symphony was published, score and parts, in November, 1847. The symphony was first played at the Gewandhaus, Leipsic, under Mendelssohn's direction, on November 5, 1846.* The first perform- ance in Boston was at a concert of the Harvard Musical Association, March 1, 1866. The Philharmonic Society of New York performed it as early as January 14, 1854. Schumann wrote from Dresden on April 2, 1849, to Otten,t a * The first part of the programme included the overture, an aria, and the finale of Act II. of "Euryanthe" and the overture and finale of Act II. of "William Tell." The latter overture made such a sensation under Mendelssohn's direction that it was im- periously redemanded. The symphony, played from manuscript, pleased very few. Some went so far as to say that the demand for a second performance of Rossini's overture was a deliberate reflection on Schumann, whose symphony was yet to be heard. t George Dietrich Often, born at Hamburg in 1806, showed a marked talent for drawing, which he studied, as well as the pianoforte and the organ ; but he finally devoted himself to music, and became a pupil of Schneider at Dessau (1828-32). He taught at Hamburg, and led the concerts of the Hamburg Musik-Verein, which he founded, from 1855 to 1863.
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