Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 57,1937
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1937-1938 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1937, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Bentley W. Warren President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Allston Burr M. A. De Wolfe Howe Henry B. Cabot Roger I. Lee Ernest B. Dane Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. SPALDING, Assistant Manager [289] . Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON The principal business of this company is: 1 Investment of funds and management of property for living persons. 2. Carrying out the provisions of the last will and testament of deceased persons. Our officers would welcome a chance to dis- cuss with you either form of service. Allied with The First National Bank ^Boston [290] SYMPHONIANA Appia's Stage Designs TAILORED "The Boston Symphony Gives Its First New York Concert of the Season" to the Queen's taste (The Announcement of the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wed., Dec. 1st, will be found on pages 312-313.) APPIA'S STAGE DESIGNS Supplementary to the etchings and drypoints of Arthur William Heintzel- man listed in these columns last week are two prints by the same artist of Adolphe Appia which may be seen in the cases in the First Balcony Gallery. Reproductions of a number of Appia's Adolphe Appia by A. W. Heintzelman stage designs from a collection pre- sented to Mr. Heintzelman in memory Above: In black suede with calf of his friendship with the artist philoso- trim and leather heel §9.75. pher are displayed with the prints. Center: In black, brown suede - It will be remembered that Appia calf trim, leather heel $14.75, was a pioneer in what we commonly term "modern" stage devices. His teach- Below: In black, brown suede - alligator trim 815.75. ing embraced the fundamental laws of genuine theatre-craft in an intense simplifica- 47 tion of traditional technique. He argued TEMPLE PLACE that attention must be directed to the 414 BOYLSTON STREET actor, who was a three-dimensional pro- WELLESLEY SQUARE tagonist in an absolute and concentrated reality. Certainly three-dimensional THAYER McNEIL scenery in the form of painted back- [291 ] drops would but limit the actuality of the actor. Hence he must act in space which could be controlled by a general "diffused" light and by a dramatic beam WetakeTime which would throw him into relief while at the same time casting signifi- cant and delineating shadows. Appia be- lieved that scenery must be perpendicu- to take Qare lar to exhibit the rounded movements of individuals to their best advantage. Sometimes we lose business. Es- Music was the medium of his inspira- lovely pecially if the owner of a tion and his achievement. It occupied to use undue haste dress wants us him from his youth in Geneva, where in cleansing. he was born in 1862, until his death in For we know after one hundred 1928. At the age of fifteen, a perform- years of cleansing just what can ance of the Saint Matthew Passion re- be done safely, and what cannot. We know definitely when there are vealed the breadth of the world of art no safe shortcuts ... no speedy to him. Shortly afterwards, Beethoven's expedients that justify the danger Ninth Symphony continued this revela- of damage. So we say "No" and tion. But it was the abysmal deception lose some business. of his first experience in the theatre — But out of this has come the with Gounod's "Faust" — that pointed reputation — a reputa- reward of the way to a study of staging. tion for reliability. And to our- selves we have attracted thousands Wagner was Appia's ultimate dis- who respect us for taking time to covery. To the Bayreuth master's ex- take care. traordinary union of action and music, If you want cleansing well done he tried to add the ultimate perfection dependable ... if you want safe, of setting. Certain drawings for "Das service always ... if you like Rheingold" are on view this week, to- painstaking care, individualized gether with two "rhythmic" drawings care, may we suggest that you call Appia made for his friend, Jacques Lewandos. Dalcroze. G. H. L. S. Lewandos, as you probably know, cleanses ANYTHING - and anything that Lewandos cleanses is well cleansed. For we take time to take care — with your things. You Can Rely on Lewanaosx Cleansers -:- Launderers Dyers -:- Fur Storage For Service-At-Your-Door Telephone MIDDLESEX 85OO Emma Boynet Soloist, December 3-4 [292] "THE BOSTON SYMPHONY GIVES ITS FIRST NEW YORK CONCERT OF THE SEASON Kranich & Bach "A huge audience, in festal mood, greeted the Boston Symphony Orches- tra last evening in Carnegie Hall at its first New York concert of the season. "The instrumentalists from the zone J of the East Wind were never more ad- mired and renowned in the metropolis than they are today. Their reputation is prodigious. Places at their concerts are almost unobtainable. The audiences that gather to hear them in Carnegie Hall are the cream of New York's con- cert-going public. Their enthusiasm is Priced from $ 675 thunderous, electric, and unfailing. For- tunate indeed is the Boston Symphony Makers of the world's finest Orchestra in this fourteenth year of the small grand, mastercraftsmen reign of Serge the First! have been building the Kranich "Its state of felicity is deserved. The & Bach since 1864 and it is one concerts of the Boston Or- Symphony of the few pianos still manufac- chestra are models of dignity, expert- tured by members of the origi- ness, and fine taste. Their programmes nal families who founded the are seldom or never dull, and certainly company. never maladroit. The orchestra is al- ways on its mettle, and the occasions The exquisite tone quality and when it has not played admirably are unusual volume of the Kranich difficult to recall. & Bach baby grand are an "Mr. Koussevitzky was his familiar achievement of modern science. visual and interpretative self—perhaps grands we a shade less ascetic in appearance than In reconditioned hitherto, but no less concentrated, taut, offer Steinways, Chickerings, imperious, and controlling. Also, as of Ivers & Pond, Knabe, C. C. yore, he was fervently greeted and ac- Harvey, Charles S. Norrif, claimed by his audience. Hazelton. Priced from $150. "He was at his best in the superb Small uprights and grands creation of Sibelius, one of the most rented at low rates. original, exciting, and extraordinary achievements of the modern musical mind. If Sibelius had written nothing Convenient Terms but this single symphony, with its mysterious intensities, its haunting imaginative power, he would stand Norris <S» Company among the masters." INCORPORATED —Lawrence Gilman, New York 41 Boylston Street, Boston Tribune, Friday, November 19, 1937. (Between Arlington and Berkeley Sti.) Established 1852 Tel. COM 3033 [293] Clfwxbht $c Co: Tremont and West Streets Persian superbly casual A coat of richly lustrous, care- fully matched and individu- ally selected skins. $495 The Black Persian Lamb possesses so much elegance in itself that you wear it with your formal afternoon gowns . over your dinner costumes. The casual lines make this coat perfect with wools, too. Other Persian Coats $295.00 to $750.00 Second Floor [294] FIFTY-SEVENTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN and THIRTY-EIGHT Seventh Pnogramme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, November 26, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, November 27, at 8:15 o'clock Richard Burgin. Conducting Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major (Edited by Felix Mottl) Violas concertante: Jean Lefranc and Louis Artieres; Violoncellos: Jean Bedetti, Alfred Zighera, Jacobus Langendoen I. Allegro II. Adagio ma non tanto III. Allegro (First performances at these concerts) Poot Symphony I. Allegro vivo II. Andante III. Rondo, Jazz-Allegro (First performances at these concerts) INTERMISSION Chausson Symphony in B-flat major, Op. 20 I. Lent; Allegro vivo II. Tres lent III. Anime Dolmetsch Harpsichord by courtesy of the New England Conservatory of Music. This programme will end about 4:05 on Friday Afternoon, 9:50 o'clock on Saturday Evening [295] WHEN ^umfikonu cz)yaLl WAS A-BUILDING . Fashionable Boston was wearing rococo gilt and passementerie, then . great scroll initials on its handbags . massive, ornate jewels (and perhaps a paste gem among the real ones!). Today, fashion history is repeating itself, and if a raid on ancestral jewel-boxes doesn't yield all these things, our accessories collec- tions will! Walk through our Street Floor— as fashionable Boston did when Symphony Hall was a-building — and see! The "Gold Mine" of Jewelry, $1 to $24 . • . and "Rhinestone Row" ideas, $1 to $45, both invite your interest. STREET FLOOR— MAIN STORE [296] BRANDENBURG CONCERTO IN B-FLAT MAJOR, NO. 6 (Edited ry Felix Moth) By Johann Sebastian Bach i> i ( '' (>t ' ;it Born at Eisenach on March . 1685; Leipzig, July 28, 1750 Bach wrote the last of his set of Brandenburg Concertos in six parts for two "viole da braccia/' two "viole da gamba/' one violoncello, and string bass, with harpsichord cohtinuo. This would indicate a chamber piece by six string players,* since a manifold performance of the parts by an orchestra would hardly have been possible, viola da gamba players having been far from numerous in Bach's time. Felix Mottl, arranging the score for orchestral performance, has preserved the five solo parts and given them to two violas and three 'cellos.