Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 52,1932-1933
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Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTY-SECOND SEASON, 19*2-1933 BRAHMS FESTIVAL APRIL 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 1933 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1933, 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 HENRY B. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE WILLIAM PHILLIPS N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1113 THE OLD GIVES WAY to the NEW It was during Gericke's second term as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra that Music Hall was quitted for the newly completed Symphony Hall. The last Symphony Concert given there was on April 28, 1900. Boston's best music had been heard there for fifty years, and for nineteen of them it had been the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 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Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON ^Affiliated with The First National Bank of Boston 1114 CONTENTS pkj Frontispiece Page 1116 Title Pages 1113-1117 Programmes 1119-1120-1121-1122-1123 List of Subscribers to the Deficit and Endowment Funds 1148 Analytical Notes by Philip Hale: Variations on a Theme by Haydn 1124 Concerto for Violin and Violoncello 1125 Symphony No. 4, in E minor 1127 Quintet for Clarinet and Strings 1136 Songs • 1138. Liebeslieder 1139 Quartet for Pianoforte and Strings 1142 "Tragic" Overture 1142 Concerto No. 2 for Pianoforte , 1144 Symphony No. 2 in D major 1153 Academic Festival Overture 1155 Concerto No. 1 for Pianoforte 1158 Symphony No. 1 in C minor 1160 A German Requiem 1162 List of Works Performed this Season at the Friday Afternoon and Saturday Evening Concerts 1165 List of Works Performed this Season at the Monday Evening and Tuesday Afternoon Concerts 1173 Announcement for Next Season 1177 Pops Announcement 1178 Other Concert Announcements 1179-1181 Teachers' Directory 1182-1184 Personnel Opposite page 1184 1115 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY 1110 SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON April 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 1933 BRAHMS FESTIVAL Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Johannes Brahms BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Assisted by HARVARD GLEE CLUB Dr. ARCHIBALD T. DAVISON, Conductor RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY G. WALLACE WOODWORTH, Conductor OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH I Piano JEANNETTE VREELAND Soprano DAVID BLAIR McCLOSKY Baritone RICHARD BURGIN JEAN BEDETTI Violin Violoncello Robert Gundersen, Violin Jean Lefranc, Viola Victor Polatschek, Clarinet Jesus Maria Sanroma, Piano 1117 ! CfjanMer $c Co. Famous for Quality and Style for Over a Century The Rougher the STRAW The Smarter your HAT $ Scores of New Models 5 Mat surfaced, rather loosely woven straws are strictly, dashingly tailored in sailors with cleverly stitched bands that tie pertly! Again they are stunning in hats with crowns slightly crushed in front and brims swooped a bit low over one eye ! Lacy hair braid swirls out in shoulder- wide brims on hats with small, close crowns, banded in crisp white organdie ! 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(Victor Polatschek, Richard Burgin, Robert Gundersen, Jean Lefranc, Jean Bedetti) Songs: "Liebestreu" "Das Madchen spricht" "So Willst du des Armen" "Wir wandelten" "Der Schmied" (Jeannette Vreeland) (Helen Ernsberger, Accompanist) Liebeslieder Waltzes, for Pianoforte Duet and four vocal parts, Op. 52 and 65 (Small Chorus from the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society Pianists: Dr. Archibald T. Davison and G. Wallace Woodworth) Quartet for Piano and Strings, in G minor, Op. 25 I. Allegro. II. Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo. III. Andante con moto. IV. Rondo alia Zingarese. (Jesus Maria Sanroma, Richard Burgin, Jean Lefranc, Jean Bedetti) STEINWAY PIANO USED 1120 1933 To E. B. Dane, Treasurer, 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. I hereby subscribe % to the deficit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. PROGRAMME FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28, at 2.30 Overture, "Tragic," Op. 81 Concerto No. 2, in B-flat major for Pianoforte and Orchestra, Op. 83 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Allegro appassionato. III. Andante. IV. Allegretto grazioso. Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio non troppo. III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino. IV. Allegro con spirito. SOLOIST OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission after the concerto 1121 PROGRAMME SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, at 8.15 Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Concerto for Pianoforte No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 I. Maestoso. II. Adagio. III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo. 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. SOLOIST OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission after the concerto 1122 PROGRAMME SUNDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 30, at 3.30 (PENSION FUND CONCERT) A GERMAN REQUIEM, for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 45 I. Chorus. II. Chorus. III. Baritone Solo and Chorus. IV. Chorus. V. Soprano Solo and Chorus. VI. Baritone Solo and Chorus. VII. Chorus. HARVARD and RADCLIFFE CHORUSES SOLOISTS JEANNETTE VREELAND, Soprano DAVID BLAIR McCLOSKY, Baritone 1123 Variations on a Theme by Josef Haydn, in B-flat major, Op. 56a Johannes Brahms (Joseph Haydn, born at Rohrau, Lower Austria, March 31, 1732; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809. Johannes Brahms, born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897) At Bonn in August, 1873, Brahms with Clara Schumann played to a few friends the Variations on a Theme by Haydn in the version (Op. 56b) for two pianofortes. It is not definitely known whether the orchestral version or the one for two pianofortes was the earlier. The orchestral stands first in thematic catalogues of Brahms's compositions, but the pianoforte version was published first—in November, 1873. The probability is that the orchestral version was the first. The autograph manuscript of Op. 56b is dated at the end "Tutzing July 1873."* It was in November, 1870, that C. F. Pohl showed Brahms the compositions of Haydn to which reference will be made later : an Andante from a symphony and the Chorale that gave Brahms his theme. Kalbeck believed that the score of Haydn's Chorale put Brahms in mind of the excellent wind choir of the Detmold Court Orchestra, and the *The statement that "he composed these variations at Tutzing in the summer of 1873" seems to be unfounded, unless he wrote them at the Seerose Inn in half a night. Executor and Trustee under Wills Trustee under Living Trusts Trustee under Life Insurance Trusts Agent and Custodian of Securities Checking Accounts and Time Deposits Harris Forbes Trust Company HARRIS FORBES BUILDING 24 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON 1124 thought of. the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra gave him greater desire to write an orchestral work. The theme is taken from a collection of divertimenti for wind instruments by Haydn. In the original score it is entitled "Chorale St.