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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 48,1928-1929, Trip CARNEQIE HALL .... NEW YORK .Thursday Evening, November 22, at 8.30 Saturday Afternoon, November 24, at 2.30 \ \ i "tifc PRSGRffttAE CHOOSE YOUR PIANO AS THE ARTISTS DO P I AN O One of the beautiful New Baldwin Models An Announcement of "New Models Distinctive triumphs of piano Baldwin yourself, will you craftsmanship, pianos which fully appreciate what Baldwin attain the perfection sought by craftsmen have accomplished. world famous pianists. ((Spon' ((Come to our store today and sored by the ideals by which make the acquaintance of this these artists have raised them' new achievement in piano selves to the very pinnacle of making. C[ Grands at $1450 recognition. C[ Only when and up, in mahogany. you hear and play the new palbtom pano Company 20 EAST 54th STREET NEW YORK GITY CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Forty-third Season in New York FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1928-1929 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, at 8.30 AND THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 24, at 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President BENTLEY W. WARREN Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W WARREN W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager — ¥* * WELL BUILT THAT IT VIRTUALLY NEVER WEARS OUT Steinways are built the way all fine price may be paid in convenient in- mechanisms are constructed stalments, beginning with 10% and carefully, step by step. The best ma- extending over two years ! Select terials go into them, the most skilful your Steinway today. craftsmen work upon them. 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Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin. B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley, R. Jacob, R. Zung, M. Knudsen, C. Gorodetzky, L. Mayer, P. Diamond, S. Zide, L. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Beale, M. Stonestreet, L. Messina, S. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhard t, S. Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans,H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, 0. Girard, H Kelley, A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. 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Stand apart and shut your eyes—your whole body actually throbs with the impact of musical reality. You not only hear the music— you feel it. 1$ The element of superlative beauty is unmistak- able— the beauty that pleases the eye no less than the new beauty that astounds the ear. €J Ask for Columbia Master- works Catalog of Eighty-Seven Album Sets Comprising the Most Celebrated Works of the Great Composers. THE COLUMBIA PHONO|GRAPH COMPANY WJ8S 1819 Broadway New York City 18-25 Shubert Week—Back | to Melody— Nov. COLOMBIAOrganized by Columbia Phonograph Company CARNEGIE HALL . NEW YORK Forty-third Season in New York Forty-eighth Season, 1928-1929 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIRST CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22 AT 8.30 PROGRAMME Stravinsky • . • • . • Apollon Musagete, Ballet Scene I: Birth of Apollo. Scene II: Variation of Apollo (Apollo and the Muses) — Variation of Polymnia — Variation of Terpsichore — Variation of Apollo — Apollo and Terpsichore — Coda (Apollo and the Muses)—Apotheosis. Schumann . Symphony in B-flat major, No. i, Op. 38 I. Andante un poco maestoso; Allegro molto vivace. II. Larghetto. III. Scherzo: Molto vivace. Trio I: Molto piu vivace; Trio II. IV. Allegro animato e grazioso. Scriabin .... "The Poem of Ecstasy," Op. 54 MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE There will be an intermission after the symphony The music of these programmes is available at the 58th Street Library 5 4 % d Table Mountain A Cruise for True Travelers $ TO LANDS AND CITIES FAR FROM THE *8 WORN ROUTES OF TRAVEL ig CAPE TOWN ST. 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Stravinsky conductor "Apollon Musagete," also the ballet "Ode"* by Nicolas Nabokov. "Apollo Musagetes," with the same dancers and conductor, was' produced in London at His Majesty's Theatre on June 25, 1928. The other compositions were "Cimarosiana," conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent, and "The Fire Bird," conducted by Stravinsky. This "Ode" is written to the verses of an eighteenth-century poet. The verses celebrate the glory of God as represented in an aurora borealis. A RARE COLLECTION OF Modern Music on Imported Records (ELECTRIC RECORDING) DEBUSSY KRENEK Pelleas et Melisande—Album f "Jonny Spielt Auf" ("Johnny Q. Four orchestra Interludes, five Strikes Up the Band"), the first Album double-faced vocal records. The P 12" Jazz Opera. Hymn of Johnny, Set soloists are M. Vani Marcoux, $2.00 i "Now Is the Fiddle Mine." $15.00 M. Panzera, Mile. Yvonne Bleues and Song "Farwell," 3 Brothier, and M. Willy Tubiana. 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