Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 53,1933
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTY-THIRD SEASON, 1933-1934 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 ALLSTON BURR ROGER I. LEE HENRY B. CABOT WILLIAM PHILLIPS ERNEST B. DANE EDWARD M. PICKMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 337 zJe aain uie mii wene/itW ((Jut iocwn/ii zJ^abt womAaiiwb uaacmwif bewtdce ueew WtU bAomd name inch com/wmu a& (oocemfaw- ana ' <J mibtee. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON ^Affiliated with The First National Bank of Boston EXECUTOR * TRUSTEE • GUARDIAN • CONSERVATOR * AGENT 338 CONTENTS Title Page Page 337 Programme ......... 341 Analytical Notes: Mahler . Symphony No. 9 343 Olga Averino . Biographical Sketch 366 Ravel "Sheherazade," Three Poems for Voice and Orchestra, to the Verses of Tristan Klingsor 367 Ravel . "Daphnis et Chlop," Ballet: Orchestral Excerpts (Second Suite) 371 Advance Programme . 377 Special Concert Announcements .... 378-381 Teachers' Directory 382-384 Personnel . Opposite page 384 339 — M Famous for Style and Quality for Over a Century w- Buy Your Christmas Gift Stockings Now! Centtirp prantr Silk Stockings .17 1 Chiffons A fine, sheer stocking — four threads of pure silk, with picot top, garter run, shadow welt, panel toe and heel for extra wear. A stocking that is pure silk from top to toe. Modern Service A forty-five-gauge stocking — seven threads of pure silk. 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"Daphnis et Chloe," Ballet: Orchestral Excerpts (Second Suite) Lever du Jour—Pantomime—Danse Generate. SOLOIST OLGA AVERINO Soprano There will be an intermission after the symphony City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,— Chapter 3, relating to the covering of 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 obstructs 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 341 Authentic Reproductions at $12 the pair These sterling silver peppers are exquisite copies of an old English pair dated 1760. They stand 5 inches in height and are of substantial weight. Here indeed is a happy suggestion for Christmas. Shreve CRUMP & LOW COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1800 BOYLSTON AT ARLINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 342 — — Symphony No 9 Gustav Mahler (Born at Kalischt in Bohemia, on July 7,* 1860 ; died at Vienna on May 8, 1911) Mahler completed his "Lied von der Erde" and his Ninth Sym- phony in the summers of 1908 and 1909 respectively, after his first two winter seasons as conductor in America. Neither was performed in his lifetime. Bruno Walter introduced "The Song of the Earth" in Munich in November, 1911, six months after the composer's death, and the Ninth Symphony in Vienna, June, 1912. Mahler was held by the thought of death in these, his last years. Paul Stefan writes : "Mahler's grief at the death of his eldest daughter (1907); the knowledge of his heart-disease; a new and overpowering revelation of nature ; these are the springs from which 'The Song of the Earth' (and a year later the Ninth Symphony) sprang." " 'The Song of the Earth'" would have been the Ninth Sym- phony," says Stefan, "but Mahler held back from a 'Ninth,' which seemed to lead the musical world to new expectations and at the same time to be fatal to the composer. Since the great 'Ninths,' no composer had yet completed a Tenth. That is why the 'Chinese Songs' do not bear this title. The next work was, in spite of all, called so, and, curiously enough, Mahler has not finished his Tenthf either." *Mahler's parents, as he himself said, believed July 1st to be the correct date. The papers relating to his birth were lost. t An account of the incompleted Tenth Symphony will be found on page 363. LEE PATTISON TOLD IN THE HILLS Suite for piano 1. Moderato : In- the style of a folk-song —2. Allegretto Scherzando—3. Andante 4. Allegro giocoso—5. Andante—6. Moder- ato : Like a processional—7. Epilogue : On remembering a child's tune. Price $1.00 net ". gorgeously set upon the keyboard and makes a real display of the piano's acoustic possibilities . real piano music ... a noble example of melody ... a deep and movingly eloquent definition of mood." Chicago Herald-Examiner. For Two Pianos—Four Hands F. CHOPIN . RONDO, OP. 73 Edited and Abridged As played by by LEE PATTISON MAIER and PATTISON Price $1.25 net The ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO. 120 Boylston St 343 Perhaps you've noticed this about a PACKARD PERHAPS you've noticed that The newest Packard models, rep- a Packard, no matter what its resenting the greatest achievement age, is always a Packard a car — in Packard's 34 years of history, are distinctive from all others — a car on display at our showrooms. 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Meyer in the Boston Transcript (October 15, 1931) is here quoted "It has been said that the music of 'The Song of the Earth' and of the Mnth Symphony is music such as an old man might be ex- pected to write—in spite of the fact that Mahler was only at the end of his forties when he composed both. But death was soon to come ; and this music is full of the feeling that life is complete. Thus in 'The Song of the Earth,' he set 'The Drinking Song of Earthly Woes,' 'One Lonesome in Autumn,' 'Of Youth,' 'Of Beauty,' 'One Drunken in Spring,' 'Farewell.' Now in the Ninth Symphony he writes an opening Andante of peace and of passion in which death itself finds place ; a Scherzo which looks back at life with irony and as a mockery and fantastic orgy ; a third movement which continues the derision of this world in a 'Rondo-Burlesque' that mounts to a tremendous climax; that is in many respects a larger counterpart of the 'Drinking Song of Earthly Woes' from 'The Song of the Earth/ but that contains also a melody of transfiguring prophetic vision. This 'Rondo-Burlesque' finally exhausts itself in its own fury. (Many a composer has deemed a similar content sufficient for a whole symphony.) A final Adagio ensues trying to pierce the veil, "EVENING ENCHANTMENT" —THE MAGNIFICENT MODE OF RICH FABRICS AND FURS, TOGETHER WITH SUAVE SPLENDOR AND SHEATH SLIMMING LINES, IS EMBODIED IN OUR NEW EVENING GOWNS AND WRAPS DESIGNED FOR FORMAL HOLIDAY OCCASIONS AND EARLY PALM BEACH WEAR— Huruntch Bros 71[«|il4W^aK^>]aiQIM^>yJlt#lV4^Lll 345 singing into the heart the message that (in Bekker's phrase) 'Death is Godly Love.' "The orchestra of the Ninth Symphony is modest—for Mahler. Wood-winds in threes, except that there are four flutes ; four horns, three trumpets and the usual trombone-tuba quartet ; the quintet of strings ; for percussion only, two kettledrums, triangle, Glockenspiel. None of the four movements is in the traditional sonata-form. In all the preceding eight symphonies, whatever his structural experi- ments, Mahler had never abandoned this form. The first movement of the Ninth presents the duality of themes which lies at the basis of sonata-form. But, the two themes presented, he places them in opposition to each other and works them with improvisatory free- dom.