Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 50,1930
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CARNEGIE HALL .... NEW YORK Friday Evening, February 6, at 8.30 Saturday Afternoon, February 7, at 2.30 PRoGRHAttE K 3 j§ 68 years of skillful yesterdays in order to give you today's Baldwin of countless tomorrows. HAROLD BAUER writes of the Baldwin "I feel privileged to join so distinguished a group and I look forward to playing upon an instrument which my closest examination has shown to possess all the qualities I desire in order to bring beautiful music to my audiences." Baldwin Pianos are on display and sale exclusively at the warerooms of Baldwin Piano Company 20 East 54th Street New York City CARNEGIE HALL - - - NEW YORK Forty-fifth Season in New York FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, at 8.30 AND THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, at 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. 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U , ilM Ul l H. .W.IIl .WUH t | * * * • • » CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Forty-fifth Season in New York Fiftieth Season, 1930-1931 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6 AT 8.30 PROGRAMME Elgar Introduction and Allegro for String Orchestra, Op. 47 Sibelims Symphony No. 7, Op. 105 (In one movement) Strauss Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (In one movement) There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Sibelius' Symphony The music of these programmes is available at the 58th Street Library 5 Introduction and Allegro, Or. 47, for String Orchestra Edward Elgar (Born at Broadheath near Worcester, England, June 2, 1857; now living) This work was performed for the first time at Queen's Hall, London, March 8, 1905, by the London Symphony Orchestra. The whole programme was devoted to compositions by Elgar, who conducted : Overture, "In the South" ; Funeral March from "Grania and Diarmid" ; the song-cycle "Sea Pictures," for contralto and orchestra, sung by Miss Ada Crossley; "Pomp and Circumstance," March No. 3; Overture, "Cockaigne"; Introduction and Allegro for string orchestra; "Enigma" variations. The march, like the work for string orchestra, was played for the first time. The In- troduction and Allegro was produced for the first time in the United States by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Chicago on March 23-24, 1906. Frederick Stock was the conductor. Elgar told Ernest Newman, the celebrated writer, about music, that this work had its origin in Wales, "when he was impressed by the sound of distant singing, in which the cadence of a falling third caught his fancy. From the train of thought thus generated sprang the main theme of the work—the pseudo-Welsh tune. Later on, a song heard in the valley of the Wye reinforced the Welsh impres- sions, and led to the completion of the work." The composition is written for a solo quartet with string orches- tra, all divisi. Elgar's dedication is "to his friend, Professor S. S. Sanford, Yale University, U. S. A." The score was published in 1905. The work begins Moderato, G minor, 4-4, with a sturdy theme given to both sets of strings. An Allegretto follows, the material of which is based on the subject of the Allegro. This is worked with the opening measures. The succeeding Welsh tune is given to the viola. After a pause, the subject of the Allegro is announced by the first violins pp. After development, a second theme comes in, staccato, in the quartet. The orchestra alternates with it, nor are the sturdy opening measures of the work ignored. There is a reminder of the Welsh tune. A fugato follows: the subject is announced by the second violins; the first violins take it up; the preceding thematic material is worked. Then comes the recapitulation section. The Welsh theme, now in G major, is given to all the strings. At the end, there is reference to the first subject of the Allegro.