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SANDERS THEATRE . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Thursday Evening, February 7, at 8.00 :# ?%> ~3 BOSTON SYAPliONY orchestra INC. FORTY-THIRD SEASON 1923-J924 prsgrkame mm i5l M. STEINERT & SONS New England Distributors for STEINWAY STEINERT JEWETT WOODBURY PIANOS Duo -ART Reproducing Pianos Pianola Pianos ifmiwimTi V1CTROLAS VICTOR RECORDS DeForest Radio Merchandise STEINERT HALL \hi Boylston Street IUKIDN MASS. SANDERS THEATRE ' . CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY FORTY-THIRD SEASON, 1923-1924 INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor SEASON 1923-1924 THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, at 8.00 o'clock WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1924, 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 — -BEETHOV£C\, and ^\iturc Collection STEINWAYi » J— r r X r r r r t r r THE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS the 26th of March, 1827, died Liszt and Rubinstein, for Wagner, Herb ONLudwig van Beethoven, of whom and Gounod. And today, a still greel it lias been said that he was the Steinway than these great men knr greatest of all musicians. A generation responds to the touch of Paderewk later was born the Steinway Pia no, which Rachmaninoff and Hofmann. Such, ' is acknowledged to be die greatesl ol -ill fact, are the fortunes of time, thai pianofortes. What a pity it is that the this Instrument of the Immorta greatest master COIlld not himself have this piano, more perfect than at 1 upon the greatesl instrument* Beethoven ever dreamed of, can be p 1 that these two COIlld not have been born i and played and cherished no Though the Steinway w by the few who are the masters of mu n, it was here in tune for but by the many who -arc its lovers. StcinWO Strinuau 'r Sotlt and llirir dealer* httOt made it < onrrnirnllu fiotifbh far mmic /otvr.l to Oli'n a I'turi: $S73 and up, plus freight at poind data nt from New York- STEINWAY 8 SONS, Steinway Hall, 109 E. 14th Street, NewYc Forty-third Season, 1923-1924 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Violins. 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, Cherkassky, P. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Riedlinger, H Murray, J. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, I.. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Diamond, S. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Fourel, G. Werner, H. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Arti&res, L. Shirley, Van Wynbergen, C P. Mullaly, J. Gerhardt, S. Kluge, M. Deane, C Zahn, F. Violoncellos. Bedetti, Keller, Belinski, M. Warnke, J. J. J. Langendcen, J. Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, O. Kelley, A. Girard, H. Keller, K. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Flutes Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy, G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Bladet, G. 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. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Hampe, C. Schindler, G. Hain, F. Mann, J. Adam, E. Hess, M. Van Den Berg, C. Perret, G. Mausebach, A. Lorbeer, H. Gebhardt, W. 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CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Forty-third Season, 1923-1924 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FIFTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante. III. Poco allegretto. IV. Allegro. Saint-Saens Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Allegretto con moto. III. Allegro non troppo. Strauss Tone Poem, "Tod und Verklarung," ("Death and Transfiguration"), Op. 24 SOLOIST JEAN BEDETTI There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 Where Will You Stay in Paris? You will go to Paris when you go abroad, but at what hotel will you stop? At what hotel in London or Paris or Rome? What are the best trains from one great city to another? Where will you stop en route for sightseeing? How much time will the trip you want to make require? What will it all cost? 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It is really worth while, and in every way desirable, that you should come and inspect them. You will be filled with envy, but come all the same." Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells how the composer took off his boots every night on returning to the house, and went up the stairs in his stockings, that he might not disturb an elderly and delicate woman on the first floor. Miss May also tells a story of Brahms's brusqueness when a private performance of the new symphony, arranged for two piano- fortes, was given by Brahms and Brull at Ehrbar's* in Vienna. One of the listeners, who had not been reckoned among the admirers of Brahms, was enthusiastic over the new work. "Have you had any talk with X.?" asked young Ehrbar of Brahms; "he has been telling me how delighted he is with the symphony." To which Brahms answered, "And have you told him that he often lies when he opens his mouth?" The first performance of the Third Symphony was at a Philhar- monic concert in Vienna, December 2, 1883. Hans Richter con- ducted. Brahms feared for the performance although Kichter had conducted four rehearsals. He wrote to Btilow that at these re- hearsals he missed the Forum Romanum (the theatre scene which in Meiningen served as a concert hall for rehearsals), and would not be wholly comfortable until the public gave unqualified ap- proval. After the last rehearsal he replied angrily to the viola player Rudolf Zollner, who asked him if he were satisfied, "The Philharmonic Orchestra plays my pieces unwillingly, and the per- formances are bad." Max Kalbeck states that at the first perform- ance in Vienna a crowd of the Wagner-Bruckner ecclesia militans stood in the pit to make a hostile demonstration, and there was hissing after the applause following each movement had died away but the general public was so appreciative that the hissing was drowned and enthusiasm was at its height. Arthur Faber came near fighting a duel with an inciter of the Skandal sitting behind him, but forgot the disagreeable incident at the supper given by him in honor of the production of the symphony, with Dr. Billroth, Sim- rock, Goldmark, Dvorak, Brull, Hellmesberger, Richter, Hanslick, among the guests. At this concert Franz Ondricek played the new violin concerto of Dvorak.