Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 45,1925-1926
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1925-1926 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1926, 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 FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN FREDERICK E. LOWELL E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1429 After more than half a century on Fourteenth Street, Steinway Hall is now located at 109 West 57th Street. The new Steinway Hall is one of the handsomest buildings in New York on a street noted for finely designed business structures. As a center of music, it will extend the Steinway tradition to the new generations of music lovers. W A THE INST%UMENT OF THE IMMORTALS 1430 Forty-fifth Season, 1925-1926 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A Hamilton, V. Gundersen, R. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Eisler, D Sauvlet, H. Kassman, N. Theodorowicz, J. Cherkassky, P. Pinfield, C. Mayer, P. Siegl, F. Risman, J. Fedorovsky, P. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Riedlinger, H. Murray, J. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Diamond, S. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Zung, M. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Werner, H. Shirley, P. Avierino, N. Gerhardt, S. Bernard, A. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Zighera, A. Langendoen, J. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Keller, J. Barth, C. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Kelley, A. Girard, H. Vondrak, A. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Oliver, F. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Allegra, E. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R.. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Bettoney, F. E-Flat Clarinet. Vannini, A. Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. »Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Mimart, P. Piller, B. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Valkenier, W. Mager, G. Rochut, J. Schindler, G. Gebhardt, W. Perret, G. Adam, E. Neuling, H. Van Den Berg, C. Schmeisser, K. Hansotte, L. Lorbeer, H. Lannoyo, M. Mann, J. Kenfield, L. Kloepfel, L. Tuba. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Caughey, E. Polster, M. Sternburg, S. Zahn, F. Organ. Piano. Celesta. - Librarian. Snow, A. Sanroma, J. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J 1431 It's so easy to own a Chickering OT everyone knows that the Chickering may be purchased "*' on the month to month plan * ' * a little at a time as though it were rent. Chickering prices range up- ward from $875. Ten per cent may be paid down as a cash deposit and the balance spread . over a period of years. * " and it's just as easy to own an AMPICO l69TremontSt 1432 , FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE * TWENTY-SIX FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, at 8.15 o'clock Beethoven Symphony No. 8, in F major, Op. 93 I. Allegro vivace e con brio. II. Allegretto scherzando. III. Tempo di menuetto. IV. Allegro vivace. Hindemith . Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (First Performance) I. Mit Kraft, ohne Pathos und stets lebendig. II. Sehr schnell. III. Marsch fur Holzblaser. IV. Basso ostinato. Tailleferre "Jeux de Plein Air" ("Out-door Games") (First Performance) Tirelitentaine. Cache-cache Mitoula. Chausson . Concert for Violin, Pianoforte and String Quartet (First time at these concerts) DeFalla . Three Dances from the Ballet, "El Sombrero de tres picos." ("The Three-Cornered Hat") I. The Neighbors. II. Dance of the Miller. III. Finale Dance. SOLOISTS GEORGES ENESCO ERNEST HUTCHESON STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission after "Jeux de Plein Air" by Tailleferre of City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1 898,—Chapter 3, relating to the covering the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shall not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstrufcts the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. Attest: J . M. GALVIN. City Clerk. 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 1433 SPRING The MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE Sailing April 3 on the "Carinthia"—the newest Cunarder Take it for a complete holiday—at the most delightful season—6 weeks from New York to New York. 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France July 29, $800 & upward, with return any time this year. EUROPE Tours that travel by the best great liners, stop at the best hotels, and use automobiles with unexampled freeness. For persons who prefer to travel without escort we will make complete advance » arrangements. - Send for the' "Guide, to European Travel." RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. 165 Tremont Street BOSTON Tel. Beach 6964 1434 Symphony in F major, No. 8, Op. 93 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 ) This symphony was composed at Linz in the summer of 1812. The autograph manuscript in the Koyal Library at Berlin bears this in- scription in Beethoven's handwriting : "Sinfonia—Lintz, im Monath October 1812." GloggPs Linzer Musikzeitung made this announce- ment October 5 : "We have had at last the long-wished-for pleasure to have for some days in our capital the Orpheus and the greatest musical poet of our time, Mr. L. van Beethoven; and, if Apollo is gracious to us, we shall also have the opportunity of wondering at his art." The same periodical announced November 10 : "The great tone- poet and tone-artist, Louis van Beethoven, has left our city without fulfilling our passionate wish of hearing him publicly in a concert." Beethoven was in poor physical condition in 1812, and as Stauden- heim, his physician, advised him to try Bohemian baths, he went to Toplitz by way of Prague; to Carlsbad, where a note of the postilion's horn found its way among the sketches for the Eighth Symphony ; to Franzensbrunn and again to Toplitz ; and lastly to his brother Johann's* home at Linz, where he remained until into November. Nikolaus Johann, Beethoven's second younger brother, was born at Bonn in 1776. He died at Vienna in 1848. He was an apothecary at Linz and Vienna, the Gutsbesitzer of the familiar anecdote and Ludwig's pet aversion. NEW VOLUMES from SCHMIDT'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES PIANO VIOLIN, etc. Vol. Net Vol. Net FLORENCE NEWELL BARBOUR 227b THE LEISURE HOUR. Selected Com- positions 340 Caprice-Etudes in Brilliant for Violin and Pianoforte. Book II 1.00 Melody Playing . .75 MARION BAUER ALFRED MOFFAT 79b Mechanism and Expression. A Progres- 286 Op. 15. Six Preludes .... .75 sive Collection of Studies for the Violin. ARTHUR FOOTE Book II . 1.00 AUGUST NOLCK 281 From Rest Harrow. Little Suite . .75 333 Op. 247. Arabesques. For Violin and G. A. GRANT-SCHAEFER 250 Tales of the Red-Man .... 1 .00 325 SCHMIDTS COLLECTION OF 264 In a Chinese Garden. Suite . .75 SHORT TRIOS CHARLES HUERTER For Violin, 'Cello and Pianoforte . 1 .25 . 1.00 VOCAL H. HUYTS SCHMIDTS COLLECTION OF . .75 SACRED SONGS, Vol. Ill T. TORJUSSEN 80c High Voice 1.00 81c Medium Voice 1.00 320 Op. 32. Summer in Norway . .75 82c Low Voice 1.00 THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street 1435 At the beginning of 1812 Beethoven contemplated writing three symphonies at the same time; the key of the third, B minor, was already determined, bnt he postponed work on this, and as the auto- graph score of the first of the remaining two, the Symphony in A, No. 7, is dated May 13, it is probable that he contemplated the Seventh before he left Vienna on his summer journey. His sojourn in Linz was not a pleasant one. Johann, a bachelor, lived in a house too large for his needs, and so he rented a part of it to a physician, who had a sister-in-law, Therese Obermeyer, a cheerful and well- proportioned woman of an agreeable if not handsome face. Johann looked on her kindly, made her his housekeeper, and, according to the gossips of Linz, there was a closer relationship. Beethoven meddled with his brother's affairs, and, finding him obdurate, visited the bishop and the police authorities and persuaded them to banish her from the town, to send her to Vienna if she should still be in Linz on a fixed day.