SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1925-1926 MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT . President GALEN. L. STONE . Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE . .... Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT ERNEST B. DANE . HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN ARTHUR LYMAN E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1 After more than half a century on Fourteenth Street, Steinway Hall is now located at 109 West 57th Street. The new Steinway Hall is one of the handsomest buildings in New York on a street noted for finely designed business structures. As a center of music, it will extend the Steinway tradition to the new generations of music lovers. THE INST%USMENT OF THE IMMORTALS Forty-fifth Season, 1925-1926 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Gundersen, R. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Eisler, D. Sauvlet, H. Kassman, N. Theodorowicz, J. Cherkassky, P. Pinfield, C. Mayer, P. Siegl, F. Risman, J. Fedorovsky, P. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Riedlinger, H. Murray, J. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Diamond, S. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Zung, M. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhardt, S. Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Zighera, A. Langendoen, J. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Keller, J. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L: Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. 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The Chickering courts com' parison with any other instrument ' - ' - under any conditions you choose to impose. Chickering " Ampico ' Brewster Marshall fe? Wendell Easy terms? '" of course! l69TremontSt. FORTY -FIFTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY -FIVE & TWENTY-SIX MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7 AT 8.15 Liadov Fragment from the Apocalypse, Symphonic Picture, Op. 66 Liadov "Kikimora," a Folk Fairy-tale, Op. 63 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from the Opera, "Tsar Saltan" Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro. II. Andante sostenuto. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso. IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio. There will be an intermission before the symphony 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. CALVIN, City Clerk. The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music collection ol the Boston Public Library one week before the concert. The Raymond- Whitcomb West Indies Cruises this winter will sail on the largest and most luxurious steamship that has ever cruised the Caribbean — the S. S. "Columbus" (of 32,000 registered tons). This is the first time that one of the great trans-Atlantic luxury liners has been sent on a West Indies Cruise. 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And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices." The score, published in 1913, calls for three flutes (the third inter- changeable with piccolo), two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, two bassoons, double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, two tubas, four kettle-drums (two players), bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tam-tam, bells, celesta, harp, and strings. This composition was performed in New York at a concert of the Symphony Society on November 5, 1922. Liadov's father and grandfather -were professional musicians. His father, Constantine, a court conductor (1820-68), was his first teacher, for the boy showed uncommon talent at a very early age. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory, and took lessons in composition of Rimsky-Korsakov. Leaving the Conservatory in 1877, he went back the next year as assistant teacher in the lower classes for theory, and in *Some music lexicons say at Novgorod ; others say at Leningrad. Slattery's Christinas Bazaar From Paris — yes, — but from the far corners of earth, too — gifts specially for Christmastide. Amusing trinkets from Vienna, decorative embroideries from Egypt, India; the really useful transformed to the really beautiful by skilled French fingers. In addition, gifts from worthy American makers. 154 Tremont St. E. T. SLA.TTERY CO. Opp. Boston Common : 1878 was made professor of harmony and composition there. He held a similar position in the Imperial Court Chapel. Glazounov, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Liadov were for a time conductors of the Russian Symphony Concerts. Liadov was appointed in 1894. In March, 1908, Liadov, Glazounov, and other leading teachers at the Conservatory- espoused the cause of Rimsky-Korsakov, who was ejected from the Conservatory for his sympathies with students in political troubles, and they resigned their positions. With Balakirev and Liapounov, Liadov at the request of the gov- ernment made researches into the folk-songs of various districts. * . * * His chief works are as follows Okchestra. First Scherzo, Op. 16; Scena: The Inn, Mazurka, Op. 19; Valse Badinage; Ballade, Op. 21, B; Polonaise in memory of Poushkin, Op. 49; "Baba- Yaga," Op. 56; eight Russian Folk-songs for orchestra, Op. 58; "The Enchanted Lake," Op. 62; "Kikimora," Op. 63; Suite, "To Maeterlinck." "From The Apoc- alypse," Op. 66; "Nenia," Op. 67. A ballet "Leila and Adelai" was left unfinished. Choral. Last scene from Schiller's "Bride of Messina" for mixed chorus and orchestra, Op. 28; "Slava," for female voices, two harps, and two pianos (8 hands), Op. 47; songs for female chorus and piano, Op. 50; female chorus (in honor of W Stassov, 1894); music to Maeterlinck's "Sceur Beatrice,"—chorus of Beggars, "Ave Maria"; "Ave Maris Stella"; Death of Beatrice, Requiem ^Eternam, Op. 60. Songs. Four songs, Op. 1; Albums of six songs for children to national words, Op. 14, 18, 22; ten national songs for female voice, Op. 45; Russian national songs, Op. 48; one hundred and twenty national songs in three volumes. Pianoforte. "Birioulki," Op. 2; six pieces, Op. 3; Arabesques, Op. 4; Studies, Op. 5; Intermezzi, Op. 6, 7, 8; Preludes and Mazurkas, Op. 9, 10, 11; Studies, Op. 12; Four Preludes, Op.