SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth i4g2 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 [*9S] . 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. <lAHied with The First National Bank of Boston [!94] : SYMPHONIANA Albert Roussel TAILORED Jacques Fevrier and Ravel's Concerto Mozart and Strauss to the Queen's taste Exhibition of Etchings The "Romeo and Juliet" Records ALBERT ROUSSEL April 5, 1869-August 23, 1937 L'ART D'ALBERT ROUSSEL VIVRA TOUJOURS. SA MUSIQUE EST UNE PAGE INEFFACABLE DANS LE LIVRE DOR DE L'ART MUSICAL FRANCAIS. SON GENIE CREATEUR GARDE "L'ELAN VITAL" INVISIBLE, PULSATIF ET SCINTILLANT DE LA PERFEC- TION ORGANIQUE. LA MORT D'ALBERT ROUSSEL LAISSE UN VIDE IRREMEDIABLE DANS LE MONDE MUSICAL, AINSI QUE DANS LA VIE PRIVEE DE TOUS CEUX QUI L'ONT CONNU. CAR LE CONNAITRE S'ETAIT L'AIMER. SON AME SI NOBLE, DUNE CULTURE SI ELEVEE, SAVAIT TROUVER LE MOT D'ENCOURAGEMENT AUX JEUNES ET DE GAGNER L'AD- MIRATION ET L'AMITIE DE SES CONTEMPORAINS. SON ART LUI ETAIT CHER ET ESSENTIAL D'AUTANT QU'IL RENDAIT SERV- ICE A L'ART MONDIAL. The above message, sent by Dr. Koussevitzky to La Revue Musicale for Above: In black suede with calf its Roussel memorial issue, may be trim and leather heel $9.75. translated as follows Center: In black, brown suede - "The art of Albert Roussel will live calf trim, leather heel $14.75. forever. His music is an ineradicable Below: In black, brown_ suede - page in the golden book of French mu- genuine alligator trim $15.75. sical art. His creative genius, even in attaining technical mastery, retains the 47 TEMPLE PLACE invisible, throbbing, and glowing "vital 414 BOYLSTON STREET spark" of organic perfection. WELLESLEY SQUARE "The death of Albert Roussel leaves a gap which cannot be filled in the musical THAYER McNEIL world, as well as in the lives of all those 095] who knew him. To know him, indeed, was to love him. His noble and culti- vated soul knew how to find the word of WetakeTime encouragement for the young and to gain the respect and friendship of his contemporaries. His art was dear to to take Qare him, and more especially important in that it promoted the development of the world of art." Sometimes we lose business. Es- pecially if the owner of a lovely dress wants us to use undue haste in cleansing. For we know after one hundred years of cleansing just what can JACQUES FEVRIER AND RAVEL'S be done safely, and what cannot. We know definitely when there are CONCERTO no safe shortcuts ... no speedy expedients that justify the danger Report comes from Paris of the re- of damage. So we say "No" and vival of Ravel's Piano Concerto for lose some business. the Left Hand. The Concerto was per- But out of this has come the formed at the concerts of the Conser- reward of reputation — a reputa- tion for reliability. And to our- vatoire under the direction of Philippe selves we have attracted thousands Gaubert on October 17 last. Ravel was respect us for taking to who time present. The soloist was Jacques take care. Fevrier, who has made a close study of If you want cleansing well done ... if you want safe, dependable the score with its composer. Word is at service always ... if you like hand of the pianist's success and of a painstaking care, individualized renewed interest in the music. care, may we suggest that you call Lewandos. M. Fevrier has accepted an invitation Lewandos, as you probably to play the Concerto with the Boston know, cleanses ANYTHING — and Symphony Orchestra. He sailed from anything that Lewandos cleanses France in the present week and will ap- is well cleansed. For we take time to take care — pear at the next pair of concerts in with your things. Symphony Hall (November 12-13). He will likewise play the Concerto with the Orchestra on its first visit to New York in the week following (Carnegie Hall, Saturday, November 20). It will be remembered that Ravel composed this concerto for Paul Witt- the Austrian pianist who lost You Can Rely on genstein, his right arm in the World War. Com- posed and published in 1931, the piece was performed by this pianist in various Lewanaosi European cities and in Paris on January 17, 1933, the composer conducting. Paul Cleansers -:- Launderers Wittgenstein visited this country in the Dyers -:- Fur Storage season of 1934-35, and appeared in the For Service-At-Your-Door first performances of the work in this country at concerts of the Boston Sym- Telephone phony Orchestra, in Symphony Hall on MIDdlesex 5700 November 9 and 10. The performance was repeated in New York. 196] MOZART AND STRAUSS Richard Strauss will be represented at these concerts for the third time this season when his "Ein Heldenleben'' is Kranich & Bach given next week. Mozart's little Symphony in A major, which will also be performed at next week's concerts, was first played by this orchestra October 16 of the season past. It was written in the composer's eighteenth year. EXHIBITION OF ETCHINGS An exhibition of etchings by Arthur W. Heintzelman may be seen in the First Balcony Gallery, together with pictures, music and autographs of the $ composers on the current programmes. Priced from 675 A complete list of the prints, which have been chosen to represent Mr. Makers of the world's finest Heintzelman's mature style, will appear small grand, mastercraftsmen in these columns next week. have been building the Kranich Three Oriental Lowestoft plates, & Bach since 1864 and it is one circa 1735, in grisaille and gold, depict- of the few pianos still manufac- ing mythological scenes, may also be seen in the exhibition cases. These ex- tured by members of the origi- tremely rare examples of the Yung nal families who founded the Tching period have been loaned through company. the courtesy of Katrina Kipper. The design on each plate has a mu- sical subject. The exquisite tone quality and unusual volume of the Kranich & Bach baby grand are an THE "ROMEO AND JULIET" achievement of modern science. RECORDS In reconditioned grands we Further opinions of the recording by offer Steinways, Chickerings, this orchestra of Tchaikovsky's Over- Ivers & Pond, Knabe, C. C. ture-Fantasia "Romeo and Juliet" have appeared in New York publications. Harvey, Charles S. Norris, From the New Yorker, September 25: Hazelton. Priced from $150. "Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet' has appeared in a fresh presentation by Small uprights and grands the Boston Symphony, in charge of rented at low rates. Serge Koussevitzky. It is one of the finest recording demonstrations to date, and as Mr. Koussevitzky turns in one Convenient Terms of his top jobs, the choice is M-347." From Robert C. Bagar of the New York World-Telegram (October 2) : "The Boston Symphony organization does itself proud. There is a fine co- Norris Cr Company operation and balance in the perform- INCORPORATED ance — things for which this group is famous. And Mr. Koussevitzky's read- 41 Boy Is ton Street, Boston ing, it is safe to say, is filled with a (Between Arlington and Berkeley Sts.) devotional fervor. knows his Everyone Established 1852 Tel. COM 3033 particular fondness for the music of the great Russian melodist." [!97] . - -Cljanbler & Co Tremont and West Streets Royal Mink Our Fur Salon with its reputation for quality Furs places upon Sale an enviable collec- tion of Gorgeous Mink Coats! The model sketched shows the full loose sleeve . ext etnely smart this season ! The smaller collar. more youthful and becoming! Silhouette . simple as befits the elegance of the glorious mink! $1850 Other Mink Coats 1150.00 to 2250.00 Second Floor [198] FIFTY-SEVENTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN and THIRTY-EIGHT Fifth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, November 5, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, November 6, at 8:15 o'clock Sibelius "Tapiola," Tone Poem, Op. 112 Kodaly Ballet Music (First performances in the United States) Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet," Overture-Fantasia INTERMISSION Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, "Scotch," Op. 56 I. Andante con moto; Allegro un poco agitato II. Vivace non troppo III. Adagio IV. Allegro vivacissimo; Allegro maestoso assai (Played without pause) STEINWAY PIANO This programme will end about 4:25 on Friday Afternoon, 10:10 o'clock on Saturday Evening [!99] cor WHEN 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 Roor^as fashionable Boston did when Symphony Hall was a-building — and see! The ''Gold Mine" of Jewelry, $1 to $24 .