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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-SEVENTH SEASON. 1927-1928 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1927, 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 EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 161 STEINWAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, but the best piano value It is possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . 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Phillips Exeter Academy . and scores of others Pianos in infinite variety from #395 to #18,000 — so easy to own on small monthly payments. 3 95 BoyIs ton StJ 164 Forty-seventh Season. Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven and Twenty-eight ° Tlhii FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 21, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, at 8.15 o'clock Haydn Symphony in G major (Breitkopf and Hartel, No. 13) I. Adagio; Allegro. II. Largo. III. Menuetto; Trio. IV. Finale : Allegro con spirito. Prokofieff .... Suite from the Ballet "Le Pas d'Acier" ("The Ballet of Steel") Train of Men Carrying Provision Bags—Sailor with Bracelet and Working Woman — Reconstruction of Scenery — The Factory — The Hammers — Final Scene. (First time in the United States) Ravel . "Ma Mere l'Oye" ("Mother Goose") Five Children's Pieces Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant. (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty.) II. Petit Poucet. (Hop o' my Thumb.) in. Laideronnette, ImpSratrice des Pagodes. (Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas.) IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la B£te. (Beauty and the Beast Converse.) Le Jardin Feerique. (The Fairy Garden.) Loeffler . A Pagan Poem (after Virgil) for Orchestra, Pianoforte, English Horn, and Three Trumpets Obbhgati, Op. 14 Piano: Bernard Zighera English Horn: Louis Speyer MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE For Programme and Prices for Mr. Koussevitzky's Benefit Recital see page 231 There will be an intermission after Prokofieff's "Le Pas d'Acier" The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert 165 1 O'J *7 wfc^ mL'' M> \ CHRISTMAS /CRUISE ' December 22 to January 7 — on the S. S. "Colut A perfect holiday voyage in the holiday season—visiting in its sixteen days the 'Panama Canal, Havana, Jamaica and J^assau. Rates, $200 and upward THE LUXURY CRUISE On the 32,000 ton liner "Columbus," the only ship to bring the luxuries of the largest Atlantic liners to the West Indies. 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Rates, $200 and upward Send for the book, "West Indies Cruises" Mediterranean Cruises — Sailing January 21 & April 7 Round Africa Cruise — January 14 Land Cruises to California Tours to Europe & South America Telephone: HANC 166 Symphony in G major (B. & H. No. 13) . Joseph Haydn (Born at Rohrau, Lower Austria, March 31, 1732; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809) Haydn wrote a set of six symphonies for a society in Paris known as the "Concert de la Loge Olympiqne." They were ordered in 1784, when Haydn was living at Esterhaz. Composed in the course of the years 1784-89, they are in C, G minor, E-flat, B-flat, D, A. No. 1, in C, has been entitled "The Bear"; No. 2, in G minor, has been entitled "The Hen" ; and No. 4, in B-flat, is known as "The Queen of France." The symphony played at this concert is the first of a second set, of which five were composed in 1787, 1788, 1790. If the sixth was written, it cannot now be identified. This one in G major was written in 1787, and is "Letter V" in the catalogue of the London Philharmonic Society, No. 13 in the edition of Breitkopf & Hartel, No. 8 in that of Peters, No. 29 in that of Sieber, No. 58 in the list of copied scores of Haydn's symphonies in the library of the Paris Conservatory of Music. This symphony in G major is the first of the second series, and with the second, "Letter W," it was composed in 1787. The others are as follows: the third, "Letter K" (1788) ; the fourth, "The Ox- ford" (1788), so called because it was performed in the Sheldonian A NEW BOOK EXPLAINING THE PROCESSES OF MUSICAL COMPOSITION And Their Use in the Simple Forms of Music By ALFRED HILL "Melodic writing and harmonic study are developed side by side. As soon as tonic and dominant chords have been made familiar, short pieces are written in periods of four or eight measures, which are then combined into the three section song form. Cadences, sequences, imitation, seventh chords, modulation, and chromatic writing follow in due order, all with thorough and yet always lucid explanations and copious illustrations." The Musical Leader. "Mr. Hill ad\fences no new theories in his treatment of the material of music, but he is eminently practical in that from the beginning he shows the student how to use the material in actual composition. With the introduction of each new harmony he shows how to convert it into melody and use it in composition. When the student has finished this book he will know how to use everything in it in writing." DANIEL A. CLIPPINGER in "Musical West." Price $1.50 net THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street 167 Theatre in Oxford when Haydn received his doctor's degree (1791) ; the fifth (1790),—the last symphony composed by Haydn before he left Vienna for London,—"Letter T." I.