Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 50,1930-1931
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 1> INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 '©gramme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1931, 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. l6wELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL WILLIAM PHILLIPS M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE EDWARD M. PICKMAN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE HENRY B. SAWYER BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1557 INSTANT POSSESSION OF A STEINWAY* PAY AT YOUR LEISURE By depositing 10% of a Steinway's price, you can have the great piano delivered to your home at once. 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Supplication of the Fire-Bird. III. The Princesses Play with the Golden Apples. IV. Dance of the Princess. V. Infernal Dance of all the Subjects of Katschei. Chorus of the Cecilia Society, Arthur Fiedler, Conductor STEINWAY PIANO There will be an intermission after the symphony. Announcement of the new book "THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 1881-1931," on page 1611. 1561 Your own individual trip to TLurope as laid out for you by Raymond-Whitcomb, in accordance with your instructions, will be written out for you in a detailed program. This program will be a complete, day-by-day itinerary. It will describe your trip from beginning to end with full particulars. It will tell you at exactly what hour you can arrive at each place you are to visit; at what hotel you may stop; at what hour and by what train, or other means, you can leave. It will outline the drives and other sight-seeing that can be arranged for you. 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Kenmore 2870 1562 Symphony in C major, No. 7 Franz Schubert (Born at Lichtenthal, Vienna, January 31, 1797; died at Vienna November 19, 1828) The manuscript of this symphony, numbered 7 in the Breitkopf & Hartel list and sometimes known as No. 10, bears the date March, 1828. In 1828 Schubert composed besides this symphony the songs "Die Sterne" and <*Der Winterabend" ; the oratorio, "Miriams Sieges- gesang" ; the song "Auf dem Strom"; the "Schwanengesang" cycle; the string quintet Op. 163 and the Mass in E-flat. On November 14 he took to his bed. It is said that Schubert gave the work to the Musikverein of Vienna for performance; that the parts were dis- tributed; that it was even tried in rehearsal; that its length and difficulty were against it, and it was withdrawn on Schubert's own advice in favor of his earlier Symphony in C, No. 6 (written in 1817). All this has been doubted; but the symphony is entered in the catalogue of the society under the year 1828, and the statements just quoted have been fully substantiated. Schubert said, when he gave the work to the Musikverein, that he was through with songs, and should henceforth confine himself to opera and symphony. From Recent Programs of Prominent Artists SONGS KATHERINE FOLLETT MANN MME. SCHUMANN-HEINK Mabel W. Daniels, Cherry Flowers G. W. Chadwick, The Danza WALTER KIDDER JOHN McCORMACK Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Spring Arthur Foote, Memnon Interlude MARIA JERITZA ROSE ZULALIAN Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Ah, Love, but Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Spring Inter- a Day lude, Hollyhocks, Pan and the GIOVANNI MARTINELLI Little Green Reed Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Ah, Love, but MAUDE ERICSON Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Spring DOROTHY GEORGE Interlude Marion Bauer, The Linnet is Tuning AVERINO her Flute OLGA Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Spring Inter- Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Ah, Love, but lude, Hollvhocks a Day EMMA ROBERTS JAMES R. HOUGHTON Spring Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Ah, Love, but Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, a Day Interlude G. W. Chadwick, The Danza ESTA CANTOR ANNA HAMLIN Arthur Foote, A Song of Four Seasons Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, On a Hill G. W. Chadwick, The Lament (Negro Melody) INSTRUMENTAL FELIX FOX (Pianist) MAIER and PATTISON (Two Pianos) Felix Fox, Fantaisie lyrique ' from F. Chopin, Op. 73. Rondo Edward MacDowell, Finale (Abbreviated and revised by Lee Keltic Sonata. Played at Boston, Pattison) Providence, Andover, Greenfield, Edward MacDowell, Forest Elves Farmington, etc. (Transcribed by Felix Fox) ADOLPHE HALLIS (Pianist) WALTER EDELSTEIN (Violinist) Theophil Wendt, Valse Glissando on A. Walter Kramer, Eklog Black Keys PHILADELPHIA SINFONIETTA, Fabien Sevitzky, Conductor Arthur Foote, Suite in E for Strings The ARTHUR P.