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[776] EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE -SIXTY-TWO Thirteenth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, January 19, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, January 20, at 8:30 o'clock RICHARD BURGIN, Conductor Stravinsky Zvezdoliki (The Star-Faced) Cantata for Male Chorus and Orchestra (First performance in Boston) Mahler Symphony No. 3, in D minor, with Women's Chorus and Contralto Solo I. Kraftig, entschieden (Vigorous, decisive) INTERMISSION II. Tempo di Menuetto: Sehr massig (Very moderately) III. Comodo; scherzando IV. Sehr langsam, misterioso (Slow, mysterious) (with Contralto solo) V. Lustig in Tempo und keck im Ausdruck (Lively in tempo and jaunty in expression) (with Chorus and Contralto solo) VI. Langsam, ruhevoll, empfunden (Slow, peaceful, expressive) (First complete performance in Boston) CHORUS PRO MUSICA Alfred Nash Patterson, Conductor Contralto Solo: Florence Kopleff These concerts will end about 4:20 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:35 o'clock on Saturday evening. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [777] to Mfym, for the gay for the bright for the new for where the sun is shining Boston • Chestnut Hill ZVEZDOLIKI (THE STAR-FACED), CANTATA FOR MALE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA By Igor Stravinsky Born in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, June 17, 1882 Zvezdoliki, literally the Star-Faced, is otherwise known in English as "The King of the Stars," after the usual French title, Le Roi des etoiles. Stravinsky composed this cantata in 1911. It is a setting of a text by the Russian poet Constantin Balmont. The score was published by P. Jurgenson in Moscow in 1913, but has long been out of print, a probable reason for its very infrequent performances. For the present performance, parts have been prepared from a reproduction of the score which is in the Library of Congress. The score is dedicated "To Claude Debussy — Oustiloug, 1911." The first performance was by the Brussels Radio, under Franz Andr£, April 19, 1939. The first American performance was directed by Robert Craft in Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1949. A performance announced for December 9-10 by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski was cancelled on account of a dispute about performing rights.