SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 in INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX. Conductor FORTIETH SEASON. 1920-1921 FRIDAY at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY at 8.00 o'clock DECEMBER 17 and 18 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 449 "UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred ~d the Steinway. Wagner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master-musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instrument. It is these traditions that have inspired Steinway achievement and raised this piano to its artistic pre-eminence which is today recognized throughout the world. STEINWAY & SONS, STEINWAY HALL 107-109 East 14th Street New York City Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE 450 bstoe Symiplioey Orcliiesira Fortieth Season. 1920-1921 PIERRE MONTEUX. Conductor PERSONNEL Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Concert-master. Mahn, F. Theodorowicz, J. Gundersen, R. Berger, H. Pinfield, C. Hoffmann, E. Every lover ^ Piano Music should Hear the AMPICO Jtehroduclrici S^umxy This wonderful instrument brings the playing of the world's greatest pianists right into your own home. Mr. Phillip Hale, in reviewing the public com- parison of the Ampico's reproduction with the actual playing of Richard Buhlig at the Copley-Plaza wrote: " // is not easy to believe that there was a mechanical reproduction. The impres- sion is made on the hearer that thepian- ist is playing then and there. " Hearing the Ampico which never sug- gested the purely mechanical^ one wishes that this instrument had been known in the days of Liszt^ Chopin^ Hensel^ Rubinstein and Tausig" It will give us great pleasure to show the Ampico in the Chickering to any one interested in this mar- velous invention. It is the last word in the development of the art of producing music by scientific means. '^xlkmffi ^*==^ ^O Established 1823(S^ ^" Warerooms 169 Tremont Street 452 ., FORTIETH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY AND TWENTY-ONE OBS^A^^ A A %*A A JL jL ^^^^ & ^Qi»&&& FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 17. at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 18, at 8 o'clock Beethoven . Overture, "Dedication of the House," Op. 124 Bax . "An Sluagh Sidhe" ("In the Faery Hills") Symphonic Poem (First time in America) Brahms . Concerto in D major, for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace. Balakirefif . "Islamey," Oriental Fantasy (Orchestrated by Alfredo Casella) (First time in Boston) SOLOIST RICHARD BURGIN There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Bax's Symphonic Poem Please note that the EVENING concert next week will be given THURSDAY, December 23 The ladies of the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end oj a number. The doors oj the hall will be closed during the performance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval betzoeen the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1 898, —Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not. in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstruct* the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators it beins understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn Attest: J. M. GALVIN. City Clerk. 453 Raymond & Whitcomb Company STBEB-r. » have secured an assignment ,-4 WASHINGTON Mos»- of rooms for their parties dur- „ , f^YTce Boston. ing the entire high season at the famous Florida hotels, AN EARLIER "RESORT" SEASON^ among others: The quality or weakness of th&-«>ffirrLa7i mind which litfjir In— i'ITr~ri rri1niiiiiri| was denomiwaVia" "climate cowardice," and w>rf?h evidences itself In a developing dis- The Royal Poinciana position to take flight betimes from the Eeverities of our Northern winter, is re- wel in a new prosperity for the Florida thJ Time was. not so Ions ago, -when tliTs timorousnesa in the face of blizzards did not appear to develop, in the Northern consciousness, until about the middle o£ January, and the result Tvas that the Florida hotels did not open until that date. But a change has come over them. Tho Jacksonville Times-Union says, that th's year all of the tourist hotels in Florida that were open in October have 'been con- fltantly filled, while the big hotels that never opened until late in November or all of them, and are well filled, with ap- until late" in the season. The city of Miami, which is keen to pursue any new advantage, has met this vtendency by in- del stltutlng a "palm fete" to be held In that city from Dec. 7 to 11. which will formally Inaugurate the tourist season. At a date, therefore, when silence and eolltude en once prevailed In the Florida resorts, they|th vill this year t)^ humming with activity. Overture *'Dib Weihe des Hause" ("Dedication of the House") ^ Op. 124 LuDwiG van Beethoven (Born at Bonn on December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna on Marcli 26, 1827.) Carl Meisl wrote a "Festspiel," which he also described as a "Gelegenheitsstiick" for the opening of the Josefstadter Theatre in Vienna, October 3, 1822. He introduced as characters Apollo, Thespis, the Dance, Comedy, Satire, Farce, Parody, Melodrama, Priests, Young Men and Maidens. Zeus, God, and the Emperor were alike entreated for favor, and the apotheosis was to the honor of the Emperor {^'Grosses Tableau"). When the overture was performed at the great concert of 1824, he wrote to Hensler, the theatre director, asking for the parts. "As I have a larger orchestra, the parts must be doubled." He said that the theatre parts were written in great haste and very untidily by the copyists. Beethoven summered in 1822 at Baden, and was asked to write music for the play. He wrote this overture and a chorus in B-flat, "Wo sich die Pulse." He rearranged the rest of the music from his music for Kotzebue's "The Ruins of Athens," performed at Buda- pest in 1812. Walking one day, September 2, with Schindler, he noted two themes for the Allegro of an overture to this dull show- piece of Meisl. One theme was for free development and one for fugal treatment. Schindler advised him to take the latter ; it might be worked out in the style of Handel, for whom Beethoven had a limitless admiration. Beethoven chose the fugal form. As Notte- Selected Songs by DAYBREAK Sung by BEYOND Sung by Mme. Edith Ellis Goudreault, Arthur Helen Allen Hunt, Laura Littlefleld, Hackett, Roland Hayes, Marie Mor- William Simmons. risev, Lilla Ormond, Marie Sundelius, Ethelynde Smith, Herbert W. Smith, THE DESOLATE CITY Grace Bonner Williams. (Aria for Baritone and Orchestra) Sung by soldier-cap Cecil Fanning, Bernard Ferguson, Sung by Loyal Phillips Shawe, Wm. Simmons, Martha Atwood, Mme. Calvert, Mme. Stephen Townsend, Reinald Werren- Hudson-Alexander, Marie Sundelius. rath, F. Morse Wemple. THE LADY OF DREAMS UNDAUNTED Sung by Sung by Bertha Barnes, Edith Castle, Mme. Willard Flint, Lambert Murphy, Loyal Wyse Fournier, Love Hewins, Laura Phillips Shawe. Littlefleld, Etta Hamilton Morris. SONG OF THE PERSIAN CAPTIVE TWO TRIOLETS : f SOLITAIRE t THE MISTLETOE Sung by Sung by Bertha Gushing Child, Florence Jep- William Simmons. person, Christine Miller, Alice Bates Rice. THE VILLA OF DREAMS THE FIELDS O' BALLYCLARE Sung by Sung by Earl Cartright, Lambert Murphy, Lambert Murphy, William Simmons. Marie Sundelius, Reinald Werrenrath. 120 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON, MASS. For Sale by all Music Dealers 455 " bohm claims, the Allegro is now joined to an introduction with which it originally had nothing to do. The overture was composed after the chorus. The sketch-book in which the Allegro occurs also contains sketches of Sonata 111, the "Agnus Dei" of the Missa Solemnis, and a song, "Der Kuss." The overture is also known as "Overture in Handel's Manner." This second overture, "Dedication of the House," is sometimes called "Overture in Handel's Style," and Beethoven himself alluded to it by this name. He wrote to a friend that he had two themes in his mind for an overture: one in his own manner, and one a la Handel; and he was in doubt which to choose. He finally took the Handelian theme for the main body of the overture. This overture begins with a slow Introduction, Maestoso e soste- nuto, C major, 4-4, of a stately and festival nature. Beethoven's peculiar use of the trombones is to be noted. "Except in the first few fortissimo chords," wrote Mr. Apthorp, "he has not used the trombones in connection with the rest of the orchestra, but either by themselves or in combination with the trumpets and kettledrums, as a sort of small brass band which comes in every now and then with a few solemn harmonies between the phrases of the stately theme played by the main orchestra. After this introductory move- ment the trombones are silent for the rest of the overture.