Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 47,1927-1928
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BOSTON COMMON OPPOSITE SUBWAY TREMONT ST. AT WEST SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 ioston Symphony Orchestra INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-SEVENTH SEASON. 1927-1926 Programme TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3, at 3.00 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. 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Such an instrument costs more Prices: an^ up than a commonplace product—yet *tPO 4 O in point of long life, prestige, and Plus transportation STEINWAY & SONS, Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th Street, New York Represented by the foremost dealers everywhere . Forty-seventh Season, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven and Twenty-eight Fourth Programme TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3 AT 3.00 Berlioz . Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini," Op. 23 Schubert Symphony in B minor ("Unfinished") I. Allegro moderate. II. Andante con moto. Strauss "Don Juan," Tone-poem, Op. 20 (after Lenau) Debussy "Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"), Eclogue by S. Mallarme Stravinsky . Orchestral Suite from the Ballet "Petrouchka" Russian Dance — Petrouchka — Grand Carnival — Nurses' Dance —The Bear and the Peasant Playing a Hand Organ — of the Coach- , The Merchant and the Gypsies — The Dance men and Grooms — The Masqueraders. 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Berlioz wrote to Maurice Schlesinger, the publisher, on January 7, 1838: "It is absolutely necessary that I should rest and find a shelter from albums. For a fortnight I have searched vainly for three hours to dream at leisure over the overture of my opera. The inability to obtain them is a torture of which you have no idea, one that is abso- lutely insupportable. I warn you then that if I were forced to live on bread and water up to the moment when my score would be com- pleted, I do not wish to hear anything more about a criticism of any sort. Meyerbeer, Liszt, Chopin, and Kalkbrenner are not in need of my praise." The story has been condemned as weak and foolish. It is also wholly fictitious. It is enough to say that in 1532 Cellini is in Rome, called thither by the Pope. He falls in love with Teresa, the daughter of Balducci, an old man, who favors another suitor, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor. Cellini attempts to elope with her, and neglects work on his Perseus, which he at last finishes in an hour's time, fired by the Paris creates for Spring IQ28 The Animated Coat jPHE swinging silhouette! The mode may be fluttering, feminine as all leading French couturiers unite in saying — yet this does not mean an excess of elaboration — indeed, the reverse. And one notes the new "femininity" in coats by its capes, scarfs and tiers — by its flying panels, flaring cuffs — by its elbow-creeping furs with tails! Opposite Boston Common promise of Cardinal Salviati to reward him with the hand of Teresa. Cellini and his pupils and friends are disgusted early in the opera at a paltry sum of money given to Cellini by the Pope through Ascanio, but only after he had promised solemnly to complete the statue of Perseus. They decided to revenge themselves on the stingy and avari- cious treasurer, Balducci, by impersonating him in the theatre. Fieramosca, who has overheard the plot, calls in the help of Pompeo, a bravo. They plan to outwit Cellini by adopting the same costumes that he and his pupil Ascanio will wear. The pantomime of "King Midas" is acted; Balducci, among the spectators, recognizes the king in a caricature of himself. He advances to lay hands on the actor; Cellini profits by the confusion to go towards Teresa, but Fieramosca also comes up, and Teresa cannot distinguish her lover on account of the similarity of the masks. Cellini stabs Pompeo. He is arrested. The people are about to kill him, when the cannon-shots announce that it is Ash Wednesday. The lights are turned out, and Cellini escapes. The thematic material of the overture, as that of "Le Carnaval Romain," originally intended by Berlioz to be played as an introduction to the second act of "Benvenuto Cellini," but first performed at a con- cert in Paris, February 3, 1844, is taken chiefly from the opera. 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