SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 \ :©m Symptioey ©rdhesta INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1924-1925 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN ARTHUR LYMAN E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 841 — THE INST%U£MENT OF THE IMMORTALS It IS true that Rachmaninov, Pader- Each embodies all the Steinway ewski, Hofmann—to name but a few principles and ideals. 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Organ Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (Arranged for Orchestra by Elgar) (First time in Boston) Respighi Concerto Gregoriano for Violin and Orchestra (First time in Boston) Wagner "The Ride of the Valkyries" (Act III), "The Valkyrie" Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "Rienzi" SOLOIST ALBERT SPALDING There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Respighi's concerto City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898, —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 obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J. M. GALVIN. City Clerk. The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. 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This particular composition narrowly escaped going into the hands as waste paper. When Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl with F. August Roitzch was preparing an edition of Bach's organ-works for the Peters publishing house at Leipsic, an organist at Altenburg named Reichardt called Griepenkerl's attention to the Fantasia with Fugue, which hitherto had been unknown. Elgar first orchestrated the Fugue, and it was performed for the first time at one of Eugene Goossen's concerts in London on Octo- ber 27, 1921. It then pleased the audience so much that a repetition was demanded and granted. The Fantasia was published in 1922. It was performed with the Fugue at the Gloucester Festival of that year. Sir Edward conducted the two at the Bournemouth Festival on April 4, 1923. The [transcription is scored for these instruments: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two TWO PIANO PIECES BY AMERICAN COMPOSERS from the programmes of :y IRi jij MARION BAUER, Op. 15, No. 1 ALEXANDER STEINERT, Jr. Prelude in D for Left Hand Mirage Price, separately, 40c. net Price, 60c. net 6 Preludes, Op. 15, complete, 75c. net Mr. Grainger writes of Marion Bauer's Prelude as follows: "Just a line to tell you how very much I like your left hand prelude which I have programmed for about twenty concerts this side of Christmas and will probably be playing it after Christmas too. It seems to me the best left hand composition I have ever met and the audiences seem to take well to it." (Signed) PERCY GRAINGER- THE ARTHUiR P. SCHMIDT O BOSTON NEW YORK 120 BOYLSTON STREET 8 WEST 40th STREET 847 bassoons, double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, kettledrums, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, Glockenspiel, tambourine, two harps, and strings. It was stated in English journals shortly before the Gloucester Festival that Elgar had written a special organ part for the performance. The first performance in the United States was at a concert of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., on October 23, 1924. * * * It is thought that this Fantasia and Fugue were written during Bach's sojourn at Weimar. He went there in 1708 as court organist and Kammermusikus; there his reputation as an organist reached its height. In 1714, he was appointed Court Concertmaster. He had been in Weimar in 1703 for a few months, a first violinist in the orchestra of Prince Johann Ernst, brother of the reigning duke. This duke then and in 1708 was Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. He began to rule in 1683, and was forty-six years old when Bach went to his court; his reign lasted forty-five years in all.