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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 50,1930-1931, Subscription Series SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 rogramme 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. LOWELL 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 1421 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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Schindler, G. Lafosse, M. Hansotte, L. Van Den Berg, C Lannoye, M. Grundey, T. Kenfield, L. Lorbeer, H. Blot, G. Ferret, G. Adam, E. Voisin, R. Mann, J. Tubas. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Sidow, P. Zighera, B. Ritter, A. Sternburg, S. Adam, E. Caughey, E. Polster, M. White, L. Organ. Celesta. L ibrarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 1423 ClfatiMwr $c Co. BOSTON COMMON TREMONT AT WEST ST. Sketched from This charmeuse Hat shown by sailor proves the Chandler & Co. smartness of gardenia trims, $10.00 Smart Straw Hats 10.00 15.00 25.00 French Salon — Second Floor 1424 FIFTIETH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY AND THIRTY-ONE J, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, at 8.15 o'clock Rimsky-Korsakov . "The Russian Easter," Overture on Themes of the Russian Church, Op. 36 Wagner ........ Prelude to "Parsifal" Hindemith . Konzertmusik for String and Brass Instruments I. Massig schnell, mit Kraft. II. Lebhaft; langsam; lebhaft. First Performance: Composed for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; allegro. II. Andante sostenuto. III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso. IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio. There will be an intermission before the symphony. Original plans for Symphony Hall by Charles F. McKim are now to be seen in a central case of the exhibition in the first balcony foyer 1425 1 All in One Office No matter what steam- ship or line you travel by . you can get your tickets in any Raymond -Whitcomb office . at the steamship company's own published rates* VOiffJ Raymond-Whitcomb ^t *I are authorized agents for all the leading steamship lines. Every office is head- quarters for steamship in- formation. 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He is the viola player in the Amar Quartet (Li ceo Amar, Walter Casper, Paul Hindemith, and Maurits Frank—in 1926 his brother Rudolf was the violoncellist). * * Apropos of a performance of one of his works, in Berlin, the late Adolf Weissmann wrote in a letter to the Christian Science Mon- itor: "Promising indeed among the young German composers is Paul Hindemith. More than promising he is not yet. For the viola- player, Paul Hindemith, traveling with the Amar Quartet through half Europe, has seldom time enough to work carefully. The greater part of his compositions were created in the railway car. Is it, *He gave up this position in 1923 to join the Amar Quartet. CHORUSES by MABEL W. DANIELS Notable Performances this Season EXULTATE DEO (Mixed Chorus and Orchestra) To be performed at Symphony Hall, April 5th HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY, Thompson Stone, Conductor SONGS OF ELFLAND The Fairy Road—The Fairy Ring (Women's Voices, Soprano Soli, Flute, Harp and Strings) Performed at Repertory Hall and Boston Public Library CHORUS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FEDERATED WOMEN'S CLUBS George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor Also by THE PHILADELPHIA MUSIC CLUB, PHILADELPHIA Dr. H. A. Matthews, Conductor THE HOLY STAR (Women's Voices) THE MADRIGAL CLUB, DETROIT, Charles Frederic Morse, Conductor THROUGH THE DARK THE DREAMERS CAME (Mixed Voices) Performed at Jordan Hall PEOPLE'S CHORAL UNION, Leland A. Arnold, Conductor THROUGH THE DARK THE DREAMERS CAME (Women's Voices) To be performed at the Spring Convention of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs at Swampscott, May 19th MASSED CHORUS OF THE STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Amy Young Burns, Conductor Also by WOMEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB CHORUS, Arthur Fiedler, Conductor THE MADRIGAL CLUB, DETROIT, Charles Frederic Morse, Conductor SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, BRONXVILLE, Paul Belucci, Conductor The ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston St. 1427 therefore, to be wondered at that their principal virtue lies in their rhythm? The rhythm of the rolling car is, apparently, blended with the rhythm springing from within. It is always threatening to out- run all the other values of what he writes. For that these values exist cannot be denied." A foreign correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, having heard one of his compositions, wrote: "It was all rather an ex- hilarating nightmare, as if Hindemith had been attempting to prove the theorem of Pythagoras in terms of parallelograms, which is amusing, but utterly absurd." It has been said by A. Machabey that Hindemith has been in- fluenced in turn by Wagner, Brahms—"an influence still felt"; Richard Strauss; Max Reger, who attracted him by his ingenuity and freedom from elementary technic; Stravinsky, who made him- self felt after the War; and finally by the theatrical surroundings in which he lives.
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