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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 50,1930 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 Programme 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. 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 WILLIAM PHILLIPS M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE EDWARD M. PICKMAN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE HENRY B. SAWYER BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1209 WAGNER AND LISZT CHOSE THE STEINWAY Virtually every musician of note since Wagner has chosen the Steinway. And it is the piano of the fine home, of the cultured family. There is little doubt in the minds of informed people as to which piano they would prefer to own. • For there is no other piano that commands the marvelous richness of tone that * s so n°tably Steinway's. There is \\\\\\\\ g^ll^^3^ no other piano that will render E^\ Kl such perfect service over so long a time. And this great, long- lived instrument is no more diffi- cult to obtain, even for the modest income, than an automobile! STEINWAY THE INSTRUMENT OP THE IMMORTALS A new Steinway Upright piano can be bought for a total as low as |O^C * CIOWI1 balance in three years Baby Grand at *UT5 lO% As the Steinway is made in New York City, this price, naturally, must be "plus transportation" beyond New York and its suburbs. Used pianos accepted in partial exchange. If there is no Steinway dealer near you, write for information to Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall, 109 West 57th Street, New York City. Represented in Boston and other New England cities by M. Steinert & Sons 1210 Fiftieth Season, 1930-1931 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. 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. Thillois, F. Zung, M. Knudson, 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. Bernard, A. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Van Wynbergen, C. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Deane, C. Gerhardt, S. Jacob, R. Violoncellos. C. Fabrizio, E. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, L. Zighera, A. Earth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, Basses. G. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig, O. Girard, H. Moleux, Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Frankel, I. Dufresne, G. Kelley, A. Flutes. Oeoes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Polatschek, V. Laus, A. Allard, R. Bladet, G. Dcvergie, J. Mimart, P. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Arcieri, E. Panenka, E. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Pigassou, G. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Boettcher, G. Valkenier, W Mager, G. Raichman, J. Pogrebniak, S. Schindler, G. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C). Lannoye, M. Grundey, T. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Terret, G. Adam, E. Voisin, R. Mann, J. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Sternburg, S. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. White, L. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 1211 (fancier & Co. BOSTON COMMON TREMONT ST. AT WEST Drawn from Hat shown by Chandler &° Co. MILLINERY OPENING FRENCH SALON—SECOND FLOOR 1212 FIFTIETH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY AND THIRTY-ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, at 8.15 o'clock Haydn .... Symphony in D major (B. & H. No. 10) I. Adagio; Allegro spiritoso. II. Capriccio: Largo. III. Minuetto. IV. Finale. Steinert ........ Leggenda Sinfonica (First performance in the United States) Brahms .... Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace. Brahms ....... Two Hungarian Dances No. 2, in F major. No. 1, in G minor. SOLOIST NATHAN MILSTEIN There will be an intermission after Steinert's "Leggenda' Original plans for Symphony Hall by Charles F. McKim are now to be seen in a central case of the exhibition in the first balcony foyer 1213 the MEDITERRANEAN and RUSSIA A New Cruise by Raymond-Whitcomb • SPRING OF 193 1 • A Mediterranean Cruise that includes more than the "Mediterranean •Jit will go through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea. It will visit Odessa, a typical city of Red Russia . Sevastopol in the Crimea . Balaclava, of the charge of the Light Brigade . Bakhtchisarai, a fascinating Oriental city, which was the Tartar capital of the Crimea ... the Crimean Riviera, studded with resorts and the palaces and villas of Czars and Grand Dukes, flln the Mediterranean itself there will be visits (new on cruises) to Homeric Mycenae and other cities or shrines in Greece . and to Athens, Constantinople, Naples, Algiers, and other usual cruise-ports. flTake it for a complete spring holiday. Or for a prelude to travel in Europe ... a four-weeks* voyage through the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to Naples. flThe rates include return pas- sage at any time . $725 and up. To sale April 14 on the S. S. "Carinthia" Send now for the$Booklet—"Mediterranean Spring Cruise" NORTH CAPE CRUISE A summer cruise to the Lands of the Midnight Sun. It will include Russia also . and spend two days in Moscow, the capital, and two more in Leningrad. June 30 on the "Carinthia" $800 and up . homeward passage at any time. Land Cruises and Tours to California, Alaska, the Northwest Tours to Europe—Independent Trips RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 165 Tremont Street, Telephone Hancock 7820 122 Newbury Street, Telephone Kenmore 2S70 1214 — in (B. Symphony D major & H. No. 10) . Joseph Haydn (Born at Rohrau, Lower Austria. March 31, 1732; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809) This symphony is the fifth of six written by Haydn for a society in Paris known as the Concert de la Loge Olympique. The sym- phonies were ordered in 1784, when Haydn was living at Esterhaz. Written during 1784-89, they are in C, G minor, E-flat, B-flat, D, and A. They were published in Paris as Op. 51, "Repertoire de la Loge Olympique." The symphony that is No. 10 in Breitkopf and HarteFs Catalogue is No. 24 in Sieber's (orchestral parts only), No. 13 in the Library of the Paris Conservatory (copies of the scores), No. 12 in Bote and Bock's (scores). Early in the eighteenth century,- there were no performances at the Paris Opera on certain solemn days of the Roman Catholic Church—the Festival of the Purification of the Virgin, the An- nunciation, from Passion Sunday to the Monday of Quasimodo or Low Sunday, Ascension, Whitsunday, Corpus Christi, the Assump- tion of the Virgin, the Day of the Nativity (September 8), All Saints, Day of the Conception, Christmas Eve, Christmas, etc. DUO CONCERTANTE Op. 200 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO or FOR VIOLIN, 'CELLO AND PIANO by FRANZ DRDLA Composer of the famous "Souvenir" "Mr. Franz Drdla has dedicated his 'Duo Concertante' to Fritz Kreisler. It is well named, for the 'cello as well as for the violin, its concert-like nature requiring fine technical equipment. The number is very much in line with the Kreisler crisp, clear playing." The Violinist. Price $1.00 net New Solos for Violin and Piano by the Same Composer Net Net Op. 180. Graziella 60 Op. 184. D'Automne 60 Op. 182. Le Trouvere 50 Op. 186. Pierrette 60 Op. 183. Notturno 60 Op. 187. Valse Viennese 60 Op. 187. Valse Viennese (Encore Edition) 50 "This skillful and ingenious composer has found some winning effects in these new pieces, any of which make satisfying and pleasing program pieces." —Musical Leader. The ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylstoe St. £ 1215 In 1725 Anne Danican Philidor,* one of the famous family, ob- tained permission to give concerts on those days. He agreed to pay a yearly sum of 10,000 livres. (Some say the sum was 6,000 livres.) He also agreed that no operatic music and no composition of any nature with French text should be performed, but this obligation was afterwards annulled. Thus were the Concerts Spirituels founded. They took place in the Salle des Suisses at the Palace of the Tuileries. The first was on Passion Sunday, March 18, 1725, when the programme comprised a Suite of airs for violin ; a Caprice; a motet "Confitebor"; a motet "Cantate Domino" all by Michel Kichard de Lalandef ; and the concerto "Christmas Mght," by *This Philidor, born at Paris in 1681, died there in 1731. A member of the King's orchestra, he published pieces for flute, violin, oboe (1712), and composed pastoral operas, "1/Amour vainqueur" (1697) ; "Diane et Endymion" (1698) ; "Danae" (1701). 1 He is not to be confounded with Frangois Andre Danican Philidor, the celebrated com- poser of operas, even more renowned as a chess player (1726—1795). fLalande, the fifteenth child of a poor Parisian tailor, was born in 1657. He died in 1726, master of Louis XIV's chamber music. Lalande wrote sixty motets for five voices with orchestra which were published in handsome form in 1729 at the expense of the King. Lalande also wrote a "Melicent" (libretto after Moliere), which was not performed; also ballets—one, "Les Elements" (1721) with Destouches.
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