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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 42,1922 PARSONS THEATRE . ,. HARTFORD Monday Evening, November 27, at 8.15 .-# BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHCSTRS INC. FORTY-SECOND SEASON J922-J923 wW PRSGRsnnc 1 vg LOCAL MANAGEMENT, SEDGWICK & CASEY Steinway & Sons STEINERT JEWETT WOODBURY «. PIANOS w Duo-Art REPRODUCING PIANOS AND PIANOLA PIANOS VICTROLAS VICTOR RECORDS M, STEINERT & SONS 183 CHURCH STREET NEW HAVEN PARSONS THEATRE HARTFORD FORTY-SECOND SEASON 1922-1923 INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1922, 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 ALFRED L. AIKEN ARTHUR LYMAN FREDERICK P. CABOT HENRY B. SAWYER ERNEST B. DANE GALEN L. STONE M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE BENTLEY W. WARREN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager *UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS QOMETIMES people who want a Steinway think it economi- cal to buy a cheaper piano in the beginning and wait for a Steinway. Usually this is because they do not realize with what ease Franz Liszt at his Steinway and convenience a Steinway can be bought. This is evidenced by the great number of people who come to exchange some other piano in partial payment for a Steinway, and say: "If I had only known about your terms I would have had a Steinway long ago!" You may purchase a new Steinway piano with a cash deposit of 10%, and the bal- ance will be extended over a period of two years. 'Prices: $875 and up. Convenient terms. Used pianos taken in exchange. 09 EAST 14th STREET NEW YORK Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE I •©sitoim £>ympn Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Burgin. R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V. Concert-master. Mahn, F. Krafft. W. Sauvlet, H. Theodorowicz, J. Gundersen, R. Pinfield, C Fiedler, B. Siegl, F. Kassman, N. Barozzi, S. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Murray, J. Berger, H. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Riedlinger, H. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Diamond, S. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Violas. Fourel, G. Werner, H. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Van Wynbergen, C. Shirley, P. Mullaly, J. Gerhardt, 3. Kluge, M. Deane, C. Zahn, F. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Keller. J. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Langendoen, J Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Kelley, A. Girard, H. Keller, K. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy, G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Vannini, A. Bettoney, F. Piccolo. English Horns. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Mueller, F. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Speyer, L. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Hess, M. Mager, G. Hampe, C. Lorbeer, H. Van Den Berg, C. Mann, J. Adam, E. Hain, F. Perret, G. Mausebach, A. Gebhardt, W. Kloepfel, L. Kenfield, L. Tuba. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Adam, E. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Zahn, F. Delcourt, L. Kandler, F. Sternburg, S. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 3 - Boston Symphony Orchestra VICTOR RECORDS There are dealers in Victor products everywhere and any of them will gladly play any of the Boston Symphony Orchestra records for you. Victrolas $25 to $1500 Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden N.I HIS MASTERS VOICE' PARSONS THEATRE HARTFORD Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FIRST CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Beethoven . Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio. II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; Trio. IV. Finale: Allegro molto. Debussy .... "Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune (Eglogue de S. Mallarme)" ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun [Eclogue by S. Mallarme]") Liszt . Concerto in A major No. 2 for Pianoforte and Orchestra Glazounoff . "Stenka Razin," Symphonic Poem, Op. 13 SOLOIST ERWIN NYIREGYHAZI KNABE PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 S. S. "Resolute" Jan. 9. S. S. "Volendam" Jan. 16. 125 days of entertaining, healthful travel under ideal conditions on ideal cruise-ships. Under the auspices of the oldest American Travel Company and on a splendid new Cruise-ship you are doubly assured of that high standard of service which every discriminating American traveler expects. S. S. "Rotterdam," sailing Feb. 10. 65 days amidst the lands of the an- markable Cruise will enable you to cients, the Romans, the Greeks, the see the interior of beautiful Spain, Egyptians. Besides many other in- while the trips in the HolyLand and teresting shore excursions this re- Egypt are most comprehensive. S. S. "Reliance," sailing Feb. 3. 45 days from New York to New York on a superb Ameri- can Cruise-ship. This unique cruise is an ideal winter vacation and is the only specially chartered steamship- cruise offered to the public that includes Rio de Janeiro and the West Indies. This year the great Centennial Exposition is making Rio de Janeiro doubly interesting. Six special De Luxe Tours to the Winter resorts of Southern Europe. Promenade deck accommodations on splendid liners at attractive rates. In connection with the famous suming our popular tours to Mex- Raymond-Whitcomb Winter Tours ico. We suggest that you include a to the Southwest, the Pacific Coast trip to Mexico City on your way to and Hawaii, we are this season re- California this winter. On your request we ivill gladly send you the Book- let descriptive of the par- ticular Cruise or Tour that appeals to you most. F. Irvin Davis, 82 Pearl St. Ward W. Jacobs & Co., 750 Main St. Elliott & Pearl, 54 Church St. 17 Temple Place, Boston Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica,7 Op. 55 Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827.) Anton Schindler wrote in his life of Beethoven (Munster, 1840): "First in the fall of 1802 was his [Beethoven's] mental condition so much bettered that he could take hold afresh of his long-formulated plan and make some progress: to pay homage with a great instru- mental work to the hero of the time, Napoleon. Yet not until 1803 did he set himself seriously to this gigantic work, which we now know under the title of 'Sinphonia Eroica': on account of many interrup- tions it was not finished until the following year. The first idea of this symphony is said to have come from General Bernadotte, who was then French Ambassador at Vienna, and highly treasured Beet- hoven. I heard this from many friends of Beethoven. Count Moritz Lichnowsky, who was often with Beethoven in the company of Berna- dotte, . told me the same story." Schindler also wrote, with refer- ence to the year 1823: "The correspondence of the King of Sweden led Beethoven's memory back to the time when the King, then General Bernadotte, Ambassador of the French Republic, was at Vienna, and Beethoven had a lively recollection of the fact that Bernadotte in- " deed first awakened in him the idea of the 'Sinphonia Eroica.' These statements are direct. Unfortunately, Schindler, in the third Steinway has been the chosen piano of the masters from Liszt and Rubinstein to Paderewski, Rachman- inoff and Hofmann. It is the instrument by which all other pianos are measured. 241 ASYLUM STREET Sole Steinway Agents edition of his book, mentioned Beethoven as a visitor at the house of Bernadotte in 1798, repeated the statement that Bernadotte in- spired the idea of the symphony, and added: "Not long afterward the idea blossomed into a deed"; he also laid stress on the fact that Beethoven was a stanch republican, and cited, in support of his ad- miration of Napoleon, passages from Beethoven's own copy of Schleier- macher's translation of Plato. Thayer admits that the thought of Napoleon may have influenced the form and the contents of the symphony; that the composer may have based a system of politics on Plato; "but," he adds, "Bernadotte had been long absent from Vienna before the Consular form of gov- ernment was adopted at Paris, and before Schleiermacher's Plato was published in Berlin." The symphony was composed in 1803-04. The story is that the title-page of the manuscript bore the. word "Buonaparte" and at the bottom of the page "Luigi van Beethoven"; "and not a word more," said Ries, who saw the manuscript. "I was the first," also said Ries, "who brought him the news that Bonaparte had had himself declared Emperor, whereat he broke out angrily: 'Then he's nothing but an ordinary man! Now he'll trample on all the rights of men to serve his own ambition; he will put himself higher than all others and turn " out a tyrant!' Furthermore, there is the story that, when the death of Napoleon at St. Helena was announced, Beethoven exclaimed, "Did I not fore- see the catastrophe when I wrote the funeral march in the 'Eroica'?" M. Vincent dTndy in his remarkable Life of Beethoven argues against Schindler's theory that Beethoven wished to celebrate the French Revolution en bloc. "C'etait Vhomme de Brumaire" that Beet- hoven honored by his dedication (pp. 79-82). The original score of the symphony was bought in 1827 by Joseph Dessauer for three florins, ten kreuzers, at auction in Vienna. On the title-page stands "Sinfonia grande." Two words that should follow immediately were erased.
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