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The C^ommunity rederation ol Boston invites you to see a ohort JVLoving .Picture to be shown during the intermission in the (chorus JYoom at the end ol the lelt-hand corridor ol the first oalcony Philip .Morris Cigarettes, which have heen donated by the Manufacturers, will be given away SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephone, Ticker and Administration Offices, Com. I 192 FIFTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1935-1936 Boston Symphony Orchestra INCORPORATED Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Third Concert MONDAY EVENING, January 27 with historical and descriptive notes By John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I93G, 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 Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Pierpont L. Stackpole M. A. De Wolfe Howe Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [1] zJAe A^ineiAat mibineM m mib eemAanu td> to 'Sett (obtateb ab (occecittor- ana monetaeaat zywnm ah ^J wa&tee o^ aA lent. tylyLcmw vteavb 0£ exAewience and a cemMete o^aanl^atlen enaMe aS to oue^ efficient and AwmAt Sevmce. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON ^Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [2] Boston Symphony Orchestra [Fifty-fifth Season, 1935-1936] Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Personnel Violins BURGIN, R. ELCUS, G. LAUGA, N. SAUVLET, H. RESNIKOFF, V Concert-master GUNDERSEN, R. KASSMAN, N. CHERKASSKY, P. EISLER, D. THEODOROWICX, J. HANSEN, E. MARIOTTI, V. FEDOROVSKY, P. TAPLEY, r. leibovici, j. PINFIELD, C. LEVEEN, P. KRIPS, A. KNUDSON, C. ZUNG, M. BEALE, M. GORODETZKY, L. MAYER, P. DIAMOND, S. DEL SORDO, R. FIEDLER, B. BRYANT, M. STONESTREET, L. MESSINA, S. MURRAY, J. ERKELENS, H. SEINIGER s. Violas LEFRANC, J. FOUREL, G. BERNARD, A. GROVER, H. ARTIERES, L. CAUHAPE, J. VAN WYNBERGEN, C. WERNER, H. AVIERINO, N. DEANE, C. HUMPHREY, G. GERHARDT, S. JACOB, R. Violoncellos BEDETTI, J. langendoen, j. chardon, y. stockbridge, c. FABRIZIO, E. ZIGHERA, A. barth, c. droeghmans, h. warnke, j. MARJOLLET, L. ZIMBLER, J. Basses K.UNZE, M. LEMAIRE, J. LUDWIG, O. GIRARD, H. JUHT, L. VONDRAK, A. MOLEUX, G. FRANKEL, I. DUFRESNE, C. Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons LAURENT, G. GILLET, F. polatschek, v. LAUS, A. BLADET, g. devergie, j. valerio, m. ALLARD, R. amerena, p. stanislaus, h. MAZZEO, R. PANENKA, e Eb Clarinet Piccolo English Horn Bass Clarinet Contra-Bassoon MADSEN, G. SPEYER, L. MIMART, P. PILLER, B. Horns Horns Trumpets Trombones BOETTCHER, G. VALKENIER, W. MAGER, G. RAICHMAN, J. MACDONALD, W. LANNOYE, m. LAFOSSE, M. HANSOTTE, L. VALKENIER, w. SINGER, J. VOISIN, R. L. LILLEBACK, W. GEBHARDT, W. LORBEER, H. VOISIN, R. ADAM, E. MANN, J. Tuba Harps Timpani Percussion \DAM, E. ZIGHERA, B. SZULC, R. sternburg, s. CAUGHEY, E. POLSTER, M. WHITE, L. ARCIERI, e. Organ Piano Celesta Librarian SNOW. A. sanroma', j. fiedler. a. ROGERS, L. .! [3] Cfjanbler & Co. TREMONT AND WEST STREETS Exciting New Millinery Fashions Have Arrived 12.50 SUZY herself designed the original of the pert young hat sketched above! Audacious — and exciting — a little upturned felt with an amusing taffeta bow perched directly in front! Just one model from an intriguing selection of brand new hats. Second Floor [4] APPLICATION BLANK For the concert by the PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ARTURO TOSCANINI, Conductor Monday Evening, March 16, 1936 in Symphony Hall (To be used only by those who own season tickets for the Boston Symphony Monday Evening concerts) Box Office, Symphony Hall, Boston. I apply for tickets at $ each, for which please find my check (payable to Symphony Hall) for $ Tickets are to be mailed to me. Name . 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Trices Floor First Balcony _ A center } A to C at $3.00 at $3.50 A to c sides [ " D to AA 4.00 B to E center " 2.50 " F to T center " 2 °° BB to EE 3.50 " Second Balcony FF to JJ 3.00 „„ ^ T ^ T „ A and B center and sides at $2.00 KK to NN 2 -5° C to H center > " at * l 5° OO to TT 2.00 C side f (No Tax) Symphony Hall Boston Symphony Orchestra Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FRIDAY AFTERNOON, January 31, at 2.30 SATURDAY EVENING, February 1, at 8.15 DIMITRI MITROPOULOS, Conducting Programme Mahler Symphony No. 1 Schmitt "The Tragedy of Salome" Bach-Mitropoulos Fantasia and Fugue in G minor THIRD CONCERT OF THE TUESDAY AFTERNOON SERIES TUESDAY, February 4, at 3 o'clock Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conducting Russian Programme 1'rokofieff Classical Symphony, Op. 25 Rimsky-Korsakov "Night on Mount Triglav," Act III of the Opera-Ballet "Mlada," arranged in concert form Tchaikovsky Symphony in E minor, No. 5 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Boston Symphony Orchestra Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT of the MONDAY EVENING SERIES MONDAY EVENING, January 27, at 8:15 o'clock DIMITRI MITROPOULOS, Conducting Programme Beethoven Overture to "Leonore," No. 2, Op. 72 Rivier Overture for a Don Quixote Debussy "La Mer," Three Symphonic Sketches I. De l'aube a midi sur la mer II. Jeux de vagues III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer INTERMISSION Strauss Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (In one movement) STEINWAY PIANO (A number o£ paintings by Lilla Cabot Perry, together with music, autographs, and pictures of the composers whose works are in the Orchestra's current repertory may be seen in the Huntington Avenue Foyer. See page 32 .) [5] DIMITRI MITROPOULOS Dimitri Mitropoulos was born in Athens in 1896. He made his first studies at the Athens Conservatory, having been a pupil of Ludwig Wassenhoven in piano, and of Armand Marsick in composi- tion. He completed his studies of composition with Paul Gilson at Brussels, and with Ferruccio Busoni at Berlin. He was thereupon made assistant conductor of the Staatsoper in Berlin, a position which he held until 1924, when he was called back to Athens to take the directorship of the symphony orchestra of its Conservatory, a place which he still holds. As a composer, the first ambitious work of Mr. Mitropoulos was an opera, "Beatrice," drawn from the drama of Maeterlinck. He has since composed orchestral and chamber music, piano works and songs. Mr. Mitropoulos conducted concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in February, 1930, his first appearance there since the days of his apprenticeship. At that time he presented his own Concerto Grosso. He made his Paris debut conducting the Orchestre Sym- phonique de Paris, February 14, 1932. At this concert he played the solo part in Prokofieff's Third Piano Concerto, while conducting the orchestra. A fortnight later, he was first heard in England. He made a tour of the principal Italian cities in February, 1933, and again visited Italy in 1934 and 1935. In May, 1934, he went to Russia, con- ducting in Leningrad and Moscow. As guest conductor at the Lamoureux Concerts in Paris in 1935, he presented among other works the Symphony in A major of Ferroud; the "Symphonic Concertante" of Florent Schmitt; and the Suite in F of Albert Roussel. For the past three years, Mr. Mitropoulos has conducted a three months' season of the orchestra at Monte Carlo. He returns to his post in Monte Carlo at the expiration of his present visit to America. oi^xiys? [6] OVERTURE TO "LEONORE" NO. 2, Op. 72 By Ludwig van Beethoven Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 Within a few weeks of his death, Beethoven extracted from his confusion of papers the manuscript score of his opera "Fidelio" and presented it to Schindler with the words: "Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs, the one that brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me." The composer spoke truly. Through about ten years of his life, from 1803 or 1804, when he made the first sketches, until 1814 when he made the second complete revision for Vienna, he struggled intermittently with his only opera, worked out its every de- tail with intensive application. They were the years of the mightiest products of his genius. Between the "Fidelio" sketches are the work- ings out of the Fourth through the Eighth symphonies, the "Corio- lanus" Overture and "Egmont" music, the Fourth and Fifth piano concertos, the Violin Concerto, the Razoumovsky Quartets. Into no one of these did he put more effort and painstaking care than he expended upon each portion of the opera, constructing it scene by scene in the order of the score, filling entire books with sketches. He was struggling first of all, of course, with his own inexperience of the OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, INC. Retail Music Store 359 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MASS. 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Beethoven did indeed rewrite the overture but, absorbed in his subject he seems to have forgotten to make it simpler, either to play or to understand. He retained its essential matter, but gave it different stress, a greater and more rounded symphonic develop- * Beethoven greatly preferred the title "Leonore," which was the title of the French text of Bouilly ("Leonore, ou VAmour Conjugal") from which Joseph Sonnleithner had written the German libretto for Beethoven as "Fidelio, oder die eheliche Hebe." "Leonore" was considered ill-advised in that Paer had produced a piece of the same name (pirated, as was Sonnleithner's text, from Bouilly), in Dresden, even while Beethoven was in full process of composition. He tried more than once in vain to have the title "Leonore" restored. rJJiscovev your Ivue oeauiy iviin a ^l/elva ^1 rlaslc ^reaiment © The Velva Mask Treatment is Elizabeth Arden's latest discovery — mask light as a cream, delicate as blanc mange. 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When again the opera was thoroughly changed for the Vienna production of 1814, Beethoven realized that his fully developed overture was quite out of place at the head of his opera, and he accordingly wrote a typical theatre overture, soon permanently known as the "Fidelio" over- ture, since it was publicly accepted and became one with the opera. There remains to be accounted for the so-called Overture to "Leonore No. 1." This was discovered and performed the year after Bee- thoven's death, and it was immediately assumed that this was an early attempt, rejected by Beethoven in favor of the one used at the initial performance. Erich Prieger accepted this belief, based upon his own researches in restoring the different versions of the opera, and upon the assertion of Schindler that Beethoven tried over an overture at Prince Lichnowsky's house in 1805, and put it aside as "too simple." However, Seyfried set forth the upsetting theory that this posthumous overture was the one which Beethoven wrote for an intended performance at Prague in 1808, a performance which never took place. Nottebohm, studying the sketches, agreed with him, and the judicious Thayer, supporting them, created an authoritative front which prevailed for a long time. This of course would place the debated overture as the third in order, a point of view highly embar- rassing to those who had set forth the evolution of the three overtures Sweaters 555 T Sets x^HT *^ "^ , Knit Suits S aM,Is j^m "foe. ^fcv o \ T Scarfs Spo Hats // 4:'Tx+ \v Clann Tartans£ Auto Robes If J W165I Vl Men s Socks , Sport Hose /M ( tf j \\ . 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Record Number Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major M 272 (8721-8726) Also Sprach Zarathustra M 257 (8619-8623) Symphony No. 6 (Tschaikowsky) ("Pathetique") M 85 (7294-7298) Petrouchka Suite (Stravinsky) M 49 (6998-7000) Bolero (Ravel) 7251-7252 Love for Three Oranges — Scherzo and March 7197 Wiener Blut—Walzef (Vienna Blood) (Strauss) 6903 Classical Symphony—Prokofieff 7196-7197 • • CHARLES W. HOMEYER 498 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. NEXT TO HOTEL BRUNSWICK M. STEINERT & SONS 162 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. TEL. HANCOCK I9OO BOSTON MUSIC CO. 116 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. TEL. HANCOCK 1 56 [»] from the simpler "No. 1." Of more recent writers, Paul Bekker (1912) is inclined to believe that the "No. 1" is after all the early work it was originally supposed to be, and Romain Rolland (1928) takes the same stand, citing as additional authority Josef Braunstein's "excel- lent work, Beethoven's Leonore-Quvertiiren, eine historisch-stilkritische Untersuchung (1927), which enables us at last to correct the errors in which, following Seyfried and Nottebohm, criticism had become en- tangled." This is a convenient theory, supported by the evidence of the music itself, and dispelling the rather lame arguments that Beethoven could have shortly followed his magnificent "No. 3" with such a com- promise, whether for the limitations of the Prague theatre orchestra, or for any other reason. The "Fidelio" Overture which he wrote in 1814 had no tragic pretensions. It was a serviceable theatre overture, preparing the hearer for the opening scene of Marcellina with her ironing, and her preposterous suitor. The Overture to Leonore No. 3 retains all of the essentials of its predecessor, Leonore No. 2.* There is the introduction, grave and songful, based upon the air of Florestan: "In des Lebens Friihlings- tagen," in which the prisoner sings sorrowfully of the darkness to which he is condemned, and dreams hopefully of the fair world out- * A variant upon the "No. 2" Overture, with alterations apparently in Beethoven's own hand, was discovered in 1926, in the files of Breitkopf and Hartel at Leipzig. 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This section of working out, or dramatic struggle, attains its climax with the trumpet call (taken directly from the opera, where the signal heard off stage, and repeated, as if closer, makes known the approach of the governor, whereby the unjustly imprisoned Florestan will be saved from death). In the "No. 2," the coda of jubi- lation, introduced by the famous string scales of gathering tension for the outburst, follows almost immediately the trumpet calls of de- liverance — surely the inevitable dramatic logic, even though it went directly against the formal convention which required a reprise at this point. Beethoven, more closely occupied in the "No. 2" with the events of the opera itself, omitted the reprise, following the trumpet fanfare with a soft intonation of Florestan's air, a sort of hymn of thanksgiving, as if the joy of the freed prisoner must be hushed and holy in its first moments. The melody is suspended on its final cadence, and the last three un- resolved notes, hovering mysteriously, become the motto of the famous string passage in which the emotion is released. Beethoven sacrificed this direct transition in the "No. 3" Overture. He evidently felt the need of a symphonic rounding out, and ac- cordingly inserted a full reprise,* delaying the entrance of the coda of jubilation which dramatic sequence would demand closely to fol- low the trumpet fanfare. But the subject had developed in Bee- * Wagner reproached Beethoven for not omitting the conventional but undramatic reprise in his Overture to Leonore No. 3 ("Uber Franz Liszts symphonische Dichtungen," 1857). NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY of MUSIC = WALLACE GOODRICH, Director FREDERICK S. 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The "third Leonore Overture" shows in general a symphonic "tightening" and an added forcefulness. The introduction eliminates a few measures, the development many measures, in which music of the greatest beauty is discarded. Beethoven, having thus shortened his development, evens the total length by adding the reprise and en- larging the coda. To enroll as a Friend of the Orchestra simply make out a cheque or sign a pledge card to Boston Symphony Or- chestra, for whatever amount you care to contribute and mail it to E. B. Dane, Treasurer, 6 Beacon Street, Boston. Gifts to the Orchestra are deductible donations under the Federal Income Tax Law. 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Davis Miss Edith M. Esterbrook Dr. James B. Conant Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Clarence H. Esty Mrs. Howard P. Converse Stephen B. Davol Mrs. David Evans Mrs. Algernon Coolidge Miss Mary B. Davoll J. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Coolidge Mrs. Frank A. Day Mr. Jarvis Farley Miss Elsie W. Coolidge Mrs. Henry B. Day Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. Harold Jefferson Mr. and Mrs. James Dean John W. Farlow Coolidge Miss Dorothea Dean Mrs. Frank A. Farnham Mrs. John S. Cooke Mr. Benjamin A. Delano Mrs. George E. Farrington Mrs. William Adams Mrs. D. C. Dennett Mr. A. D. Fay Copeland Miss Emily G. Denny Mrs. D. B. Fay Miss Margaret W. Cooper Mrs. Philip Y. DeNormandie Mrs. Henry H. Fay Cotton Mrs. Richard D. Fay Miss Rachel E. Mr. Frederic J. DeVeau [16] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA {continued) Mr. Thomas Fenno Mr. L. N. Gebhard Miss Lilian Harmon Miss Myra Ferguson Mrs. K. H. Gibson Mrs. Orrin C. Hart Miss Margaret A. Fish Mrs. W. S. Gierasch Mr. Alfred S. Hartwell Miss Edith S. Fisher Miss Helen C. Gilbert Miss Mary A. Hartwell Mrs. Richard T. Fisher Miss Margaret E. Gilman Mrs. Frederic S. Harvey Miss Sara L. Fisher Mrs. G. L. Gilmore (Lowell) The Rev. George Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Sydney Harwood Fiske William H. Glover Mrs. Clarence G. Haskell Miss Carrie T. Fitch (Lawrence) Miss Marian R. Haskell Mrs. Alfred W. Fitz Miss Ruth Goddard Mrs. Charles H. Haskins The Hon. and Mrs. Miss Susan Godoy Mrs. Francis Hastings John F. Fitzgerald Mrs. W. N. Goodnow Miss Ellen R. Hathaway Mrs. Charles H. Flood Mr. and Mrs. (New Bedford) Miss Elizabeth G. Fogg Wallace Goodrich Miss Alison Haughton Mr. Arthur Foote Mrs. Joseph H. Goodspeed Mr. Parkman B. Haven Mr. George L. Foote Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. George Hawley Mr. Allyn B. Forbes Frederic S. Goodwin Miss Christine Hayes Mr. Edward W. Forbes Mr. and Mrs. Mr. William C. Heilman Mrs. Ralph E. Forbes Harry M. Goodwin Mrs. Franklin C. Henderson Miss Jessie W. Ford Miss Eleanore P. Gould Miss Laura Henry Mrs. Arthur A. Forness Mrs. E. S. Goulston, Jr. Mrs. Joseph M. Herman Mrs Leonard Fowle Mr. Martin Grabau Mr. Robert F. Herrick Miss Edith M. Fox Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. A. H. Hersey Mr. Isador Fox G. Philip Grabfield Mrs. John W. Higgins Mrs. L. S. Fox (Lowell) Miss Isabella Grandin (Worcester) Mr. Walter. S. Fox, Jr. Mrs. Arthur E. Grannis Mr. Charles Higginson Miss Katharine French Mrs. Gerald Gray Mrs. Thomas W. Higginson Mr. Richard Frederic French Mr. Reginald Gray Miss Dorothy E. Hildreth Mr. Harry A. Friedland Mrs. Russell Gray Miss Grace G. Hiler Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Alfred S. Hill A Friend Louis M. Greeley Mr. Arthur D. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Miss Dorothy Bradford Green Mrs. John F. Hill Donald McKay Frost Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. Samuel Hoar Miss Evelyn P. Frost Robert M. Green Mr. Richard B. Hobart Mrs. Harold L. Frost Mr. David H. Greenberg Mrs. Franklin Warren Hobbs Mr. Horace W. Frost Mr. Henry Copley Greene Miss Dorothy M. Hobson Mrs. Langdon Frothingham Mr. John Gardner Greene Miss Alice Marion Holmes Mrs. Louis A. Frothingham Prof, and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Mr. William C. Fry Chester N. Greenough Edward J. Holmes The Hon. and Mrs. Mrs. H. V. Greenough Miss Holmes Alvan T. Fuller Mrs. Allen Greenwood Mrs. Hector M. Holmes Miss Marjorie Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gregg Miss Katharine A. Homans S. Mrs. William E. Fuller, Jr. Mr. Henry Grew Miss Marian J. Homans (Fall River) Miss Josephine Griffith Mrs. W. P. Homans Mrs. Frances L. Grover Mrs. Joseph W. Homer Mrs. Homer Gage Mrs. E. A. Grozier Mr. James R. Hooper, 3d (Worcester) Miss Mary F. Hooper Mr. and Mrs. William W. "Philip Hale" (from Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher Philip Hale) Roland G. Hopkins Mr. R. H. Ives Gammell Mrs. Richard W. Hale Mrs. Charles Hopkinson Mr. Franklin W. Ganse Mrs. Frederick G. Hall Miss Phoebe Lee Hosmer Mrs. Harry Ganz Mrs. H. S. Hall (Orange) Mr. Stanley S. Ganz Mrs. Harry Warren Hall Mrs. C. T. Hough Miss Mary A. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. N. Penrose Mrs. Clement S. Houghton (Fall River) Hallowell Mrs. H. M. Houser Mr. and Mrs. James Garfield Mrs. Parker Hamilton Mr. James C. Howe Miss Elizabeth M. Garritt Miss Elizabeth M. Hammond Mrs. J. Murray Howe Mr. Heinrich Gebhard Mr. Emor H. Harding Mr. M. A. DeWolfe Howe [17] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (continued) Mr. Alexander E. Hoyle The Misses King Mrs. W. S. H. Lothrop Mr. J. P. Hughes Miss Jessie E. Kloseman Mr. Winslow H. Loveland Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Henry F. Knight Miss Lucy Lowell Chester B. Humphrey Mrs. B. Kopf Miss Mariana Lowell Miss Ida Hunneman Dr. and Mrs. Mr. Stephen B. Luce Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell Serge Koussevitzky Miss Alma Lutz Miss Emily J. Hurd Mrs. Alexander H. Ladd Mrs. Arthur Lyman Mrs. Charles P. Hutchins Mrs. Horatio A. Lamb Mr. Herbert Lyman Mrs. Edward W. Hutchins Miss Alice Lamprey Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman Mrs. Maynard Hutchinson Miss Winnetta Lamson Mrs. George Armstrong Lyon Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane Dr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Jack Miss Margaret Ruthven Lang Mr. Alden H. Maclntyre Dr. Frederick L. Jack Mrs. Henry G. Lapham Mr. Edward F. MacNichol Dr. Henry Jackson Mrs. Chester W. Lasell Mrs. W. N. Magoun Mrs. Henry B. Jackson (Whitinsville) Mrs. Emily M. Maguire Mr. Robert A. Jackson Mrs. George D. Latimer Mrs. D. E. Manson Mr. and Mrs. Eldon R. James Mr. and Mrs. Miss Anna Theresa Marble Mrs. William James Henry A. Laughlin (Worcester) Miss Helen M. Jameson Mrs. Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. Mrs. F. P. Marble (Lowell) Mrs. A. S. Jenney Mr. F. A. Laws Miss Helen C. Marble Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Jewell Mrs. Herbert Lawton Mr. Philip S. Marden In Memory of Howard Miss Bertha Lee Miss Alice F. Marsh Clifton Jewett, M.D. Mrs. George Lee Mrs. Mary P. Marsh Mrs. R. Jewett J. Mrs. Halfdan Lee Miss Fanny P. Mason Professor Edith C. Mrs. John C. Lee Miss H. Florence Mason Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee Mr. Harold F. Mason Miss Edith Morse Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Roger I. Lee Miss Anna R. Maxwell Mrs. George F. Johnson Miss Sylvia Lee Mrs. Maude A. May Miss Harriet E. Johnson Dr. Henry Lefavour Mrs. Charles W. McConnel Mr. Stowell F. Johnson Mr. William A. Lefavour Mrs. Stanley Dexter Miss Winifred H. Johnstone Miss Helen A. Legate McCormick Miss Ethel G. Jones Miss Francesca Leighton Mrs. Lewis S. McCreary Miss Margaret H. Jones Miss Elizabeth C. Leland Mrs. Henry McGoodwin Mrs. Carl J. Kaffenburgh Mrs. Russell H. Leonard Mrs. Allyn B. Mclntire Mrs. Benjamin A. Kaiser Mrs. H. Frederick Lesh Miss Emily W. McKibbin Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Coleman Levin Miss Nathalie McLean Stuart B. Kaiser Mrs. George Lewis Mrs. Norman McLeod Miss Bessie Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Frederick S. Mead In Memory of George Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell B. Kaufman Mr. Alexander Lincoln C. H. S. Merrill Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. E. P. Lindsay Mrs. Roger B. Merriman Carl F. Kaufmann Miss Esther Lissner Mr. Nestor Merritt Mrs. L. M. Keeler Miss Lucy Littell Miss A. Louise Messer (Whitinsville) Mrs. David M. Little Mrs. George Putnam Metcalf Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. J. Lovell Little Mr. and Mrs. S. J. H. Keenan Mrs. C. Livingstone Thomas N. Metcalf Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. H. deForest Lockwood Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Metcalfe Carl Tilden Keller Mrs. George Wood Logan Miss Margaret Ogden Miller Mrs. Edward L. Kent (Lowell) Miss Mildred A. Miller Mrs. Everett E. Kent Mrs. Laurence M. Lombard Mr. Arthur N. Milliken Mr. Phillips Ketchum Mrs. Percival H. Lombard Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Charles W. Keyes Mrs. Alfred L. Loomis George A. Mirick Mr. I. S. Kibrick Mrs. W. H. Lord Mr. Stewart Mitchell Miss Barbara Kidder Miss Marjorie C. Loring In Memory of Mrs. John Moir Mrs. C. W. Kidder Miss Miriam Loring Mr. Arthur E. Monroe Dr. Eleanor B. Kilham Mrs. O. L. Loring Mrs. Hugh Montgomery Mr. Charles A. King Mrs. Arthur E. Lothrop Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Henry P. King Miss Mary B. Lothrop Arthur W. Moors [18] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (continued) Prof, and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Albert W. Rice Samuel Eliot Morison Philip S. Parker Mrs. John C. Rice Miss Charlotte G. S. Morse Mrs. Willam Stanley Parker Mrs. William E. Rice Mrs. James F. Morse Miss Alice R. Pattee (Worcester) Jeska Swartz Morse Mrs. C. Campbell Mrs. William Foster Rice Miss Jessie G. Morse Patterson, Jr. Mrs. Theodore W. Richards Miss Leonice S. Morse Mrs. Samuel C. Payson Mrs. Charles F. Richardson Miss Marion B. Morse Miss Anne P. Peabody Mrs. John Richardson, Sr. Miss Marjory Morse Mrs. W. Rodman Peabody Mrs. Mark W. Richardson Dr. and Mrs. Miss Alice W. Pearse Miss Ruth K. Richardson William I. Morse Miss Annie J. Pecker Mr. W. K. Richardson Mrs. Henry A. Morss Miss Alice Foster Peirce Miss Emma Richter Mr. Henry A. Morss, Jr. Mrs. Gino L. Perera Miss Mabel Louise Riley Mrs. F. S. Moseley Mrs. E. G. Perry Mrs. Wellington Rindge Mrs. E. Preble Motley, Sr. Prof. Ralph Barton Perry Mr. Alfred L. Ripley Mrs. M. I. Motte Mrs. Franklin T. Pfaelzer Mrs. Philip F. Ripley Mr. and Mrs. Penfield Mower Mrs. John C. Phillips Miss Alice Marie Ritz Mrs. George S. Mumford, Jr. The Hon. and Mrs. Mrs. Russell Robb, Sr. Mrs. S. C. Murfitt William Phillips Mrs. Royal E. Robbins Miss Helen A. Murphy (Washington) Miss Jane L. Roberts Mrs. H. Dudley Murphy Mr. C. M. Pickett, Jr. Mr. Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Miss Grace E. Murray Mr. Dudley L. Pickman A Friend Mr. Dudley L. Pickman, Mr. F. H. Nash Jr. Miss Katherine Robinson Mrs. Mrs. Albert B. Neill Edgar Pierce Miss Bertha F. Rogers Mrs. W. LaCoste Neilson Mrs. George W. Pierce Miss Miriam Rome Mrs. James W. Newell Miss Helen C. Pierce Mrs. Caroline Ropes Mrs. Walter H. Newey Miss Rosamond Pierce Mr. Walter Bigelow Rosen Mrs. Charles Pike Miss Gertrude E. Newhall G. Mrs. Eugene Rosenthal Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman Mrs. Louis Rosenthal Mrs. Samuel J. Newman Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Harold A. Pitman Mrs. Morris Rosenthal Edwin M. Newton Mr. Frederick Plummer Mrs. Adolph Rossbach Mrs. Henry K. Porter Miss Ruth Nicholson Mr. Bernard J. Rothwell Mrs. Roland Nickerson Mrs. Murray A. Potter Miss Mary S. Rousmaniere Mrs. John T. Nightingale Mrs. Samuel L. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Betty Mrs. F. O. North Miss Prather C. Adrian Rubel Miss E. G. Norton Mrs. Frederick S. Pratt Mr. Philip Rubenstein Miss Annie Anthony Noyes Dr. and Mrs. Henry N. Pratt Mr. George L. Ruffin A Friend Miss Julia C. Prendergast Mr. Charles Runyon Mr. George R. Nutter Mrs. Elwyn G. Preston Mrs. Edward W. Pride Miss Mary L. Sabine Mrs. Francis Oakes, J. Jr. Mrs. Charles A. Proctor Mrs. S. W. Sabine Miss Mary E. OBrion Mr. and Mrs. Lewis I. Prouty Miss Elizabeth Saltonstall Miss Mary Elizabeth Mrs. F. Delano Putnam Mrs. Robert Saltonstall O'Connor Miss Louisa H. Putnam Mrs. Robert deW. Sampson Mr. Otto Oldenberg Mr. and Mrs. Miss Margaret Olmsted Mrs. Felix Rackemann Ashton Sanborn Mr. Otis James Prof, and Mrs. E. K. Rand Miss Ruth D. Sanderson Mrs. M. B. Otis Miss Frieda Rand Miss Gertrude Sands Miss Louise Packard Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Sabin P. Sanger Rev. George L. Paine Harry Seaton Rand Mr. Porter Sargent Mr. and Mrs. The Misses Rantoul Mrs. Florence W. Saunders Richard C. Paine Mrs. Neal Rantoul Mrs. William Saville Mrs. Russell Sturgis Paine "A. E. R." Mr. and Mrs. (Worcester) Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Paine, Franklin F. Raymond Mr. and Mrs. 2nd Miss Mary E. Reilly Robert W. Sayles Mrs. Stephen Paine (Lowell) Miss Martha McLeod Miss E. M. Parker Mrs. Frank W. Remick Schenck U9] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (continued) Miss Elizabeth Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Winthrop H. Wade (Methuen) Pierpont L. Stackpole Mrs. Alexander F. Wadsworth Miss Muriel Headley Scott Miss Lena M. Stadtmiller Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth Mrs. Wallace M. Scudder Mrs. Daniel Staniford Mrs. William Wadsworth Mr. Wallace M. Scudder, Jr. Mrs. Francis M. Stanwood Mrs. Robert Walcott Mrs. Francis B. Sears Miss Alice K. Stearns Miss Alice S. Wales Mrs. Henry F. Sears Miss Frances E. Stebbins Mrs. Nathaniel Wales Miss Jean S. Sears Mrs. Alexander Steinert Dr. D. H. Walker Mr. Richard D. Sears Mr. Moses T. Stevens Miss Esther M. Walker Miss Rosamond Sears Mrs. S. W. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Samuel P. Sears Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Stewart Joseph T. Walker, Jr. Mr. Llewellyn D. Seaver Mrs. Frederic M. Stone Mrs. George R. Wallace Mrs. Arthur J. Seaverns Mrs. Galen L. Stone Miss Anne Walmsley B. Sewall Mrs. J. Mrs. James J. Storrow Miss Sarah Walmsley Mrs. Benjamin Sharp Mr. J. H. Strauss Dr. J. Raymond Walsh Miss Alice Shattuck Mrs. Louis Strauss Mrs. W. A. Walter Dr. and Mrs. Miss Mary Strickland Miss Alice Walton George C. Shattuck Miss Grace May Stutsman Miss Harriet E. Walworth Mr. Henry L. Shattuck Mrs. T. Russell Sullivan Miss Anita S. Ward Miss Lillian Shattuck Mrs. Charles P. Sumner Miss Edith Ward Mr. and Mrs. (Haverhill) (Worcester) Arthur Hunnewell Shaw Mrs. Ralph D. Sutherland Mrs. Sheldon E. Wardwell Mrs. Edward L. Shaw (Athol) Mr. Henry Ware Mr. Louis Agassiz Shaw, 2nd Mrs. E. Kent Swift Miss Mary Lee Ware Miss Miriam Shaw (Whitinsville) Mrs. Guy Waring Mrs. Sohier Shaw Mrs. George H. Swift Mrs. Arthur M. Warren Dr. Thomas B. Shaw Miss Lucy W. Swift Mr. and Mrs. (Worcester) Bentley Warren The Rev. Grieg Taber W. Mrs. T. Mott Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. George E. Warren Music Lover" Miss Gertrude Warren "A Edward A. Taft Miss K. F. Sherwood Miss Miriam E. Warren Miss Alice P. Tapley Miss Martha G. Sias Mr. H. B. Washburn Professor F. W. Taussig Miss Kathleen Sibley Mrs. Richard P. Waters Miss Abigail F. Taylor Sigilman Mr. Charles Hadley Watkins Mr. Samuel Miss Millicent Taylor Miss Olive Simes J. Mrs. George H. Watson Mrs. William O. Taylor Mrs. Charles Lewis Slattery Mrs. Lester Watson Miss Elisabeth B. Thacher Mr. and Mrs. Miss Sylvia H. Watson Mr. Thomas C. Thacher Slayman Mrs. Thomas R. Watson Howard Mrs. Edward Thaw Slocum Miss C. Watts Mr. William H. Mrs. W. H. Thayer Jenny Mrs. Winfield S. Slocum, Sr. Mr. Murray M. Waxman, Dr. and Mrs. Jr. Mr. Herbert Small Augustus Thorndike Mr. C. A. Weatherby Mr. and Mrs. Miss A. Marguerite Smith Mrs. Ward Thoron Miss Alice M. Smith Edwin S. Webster Miss Ruth F. Tinkham Mr. Carroll Smith Prof. K. G. T. Webster Mrs. Abner J. Tower Mrs. Charles Gaston Smith Mr. and Mrs. Miss Florence E. Tower Albert H. Wechsler Mr. Charles Lyman Smith Miss Annie R. Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Alfred M. Tozzer Robert S. Weeks F. Morton Smith Mrs. Alfred Tucker J. Weidhorn Mrs. M. N. Smith-Petersen Mr. Luther Tucker Mr. Leo Mrs. P. A. Sorokin Dr. Weinrebe Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Tucker Joseph Mrs. Alvin F. Sortwell Mr. and Mrs. E. Sohier Welch Mrs. L. S. Tuckerman Prof, Mrs. Mrs. Bernard C. Weld and Mrs. George T. Tuttle Walter R. Spalding Mrs. C. Minot Weld Mrs. Philip R. Spaulding Mr. A. Ullman Mrs. Charles G. Weld Usher Mrs. Henry M. Spelman Mrs. Kenneth Shaw Mr. Raynor G. Wellington Mrs. Samuel Usher Mrs. Guilford L. Spencer Mr. J. Cheney Wells Mrs. Charles Sprague Miss Bertha H. Vaughan (Southbridge) Miss Alice Stackpole Mrs. R. G. Vickery Miss Louisa A. Wells [20] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (continued) Mrs. Barrett Wendell Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman Miss Florence B. Windom Mrs. Alonzo A. West Mrs. Charles F. Whitney Mrs. Charles F. Wing Mrs. George S. West Mrs. Matthew John Whittall Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Frederic A. Wetherbee Miss Louise Adams Hobart W. Winkley Miss Martha Wetherbee Whittemore Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow In Memory of Miss Mary Emerson (Leicester) Emma M. Wethern Mr. and Mrs. Roger Wolcott Whittemore Mr. Edward C. Wheeler, Jr. Miss Charlotte Wood Mrs. Wyman Whittemore Miss Eunice Wheeler Dr. Nathaniel K. Wood Miss Patience B. Widger (Worcester) The Misses Woodman Miss Mary Wheeler Mr. Arthur M. Wiggin Mrs. Edith Christiana Mr. Frank W. Whitcher Mrs. Edward F. Wilder Woolley Miss Gertrude F. Whitcomb Mr. Alexander W. Williams Mr. Philip W. Wrenn Miss Esther White Mrs. Arthur Williams Mrs. Walter P. Wright Mrs. Franklin K. White Mr. Moses Williams Miss Gertrude R. White Mrs. Ralph B. Williams Mrs. William B. Yates Mr. Huntington White Miss Clara A. Williamson Mr. Robert W. White Miss Margaret Williamson Mrs. G. Marston Whitin Miss Clara L. Willis Mr. S. Zemurray (Whitinsville) Mr. Donald B. Willson Mrs. Louis Ziegel Members in Other Cities Mrs. William Ackerman — Towners, N.Y. Miss Luna B. Converse — Woodstock, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Aiken — New York Mrs. F. S. Crofts -New York City City Mrs. William S. Dennett — New York City- Mrs. Arthur M. Allen — Providence, R.I. Miss Margaret de Schweinitz — Poughkeep- Mr. George C. Arvedson — New York City sie, N.Y. Miss Caroline C. AtLee — New York City Miss Emily Diman — Providence, R.I. Mrs. Charles T. Barney — New York City Miss Madeleine I. Dinsmore — Staatsburgh- Miss Lydia M. Barwood — Brooklyn, N.Y. on-Hudson, N.Y. Mr. Emil J. Baumann — Hartsdale, N. Y. Mrs. Charles W. Dodge — Rochester, N.Y. Miss Frieda Behr — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dutch — Glen Ridge, Mr. Elliot S. Benedict — New York City N.J. Mr. Henry J. Bernheim — New York City Miss Helen S. Eaton — New York City Miss Dorothy L. Betts — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Walter H. Eddy — New York City Mrs. A. W. Bingham, Jr. — New York City Mrs. Albert Eiseman — Scarsdale, N.Y. Major Theodore Bitterman — Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Lewis A. Eldridge — Great Neck, N.Y. N.Y. Miss H. Wilhelmina Ericsson — Brooklyn, Miss Louise Blake — Brooklyn, N.Y. N.Y. Misses Ada and Janet Blinkhorn — Provi- Mr. J. R. Fast — New York City dence, R.I. Mrs. Morris Fatman — New York City Miss Mattie Blogg — New York City Mr. Arthur L. Friedman — New York City Miss Susan S. Boice — New York City Miss E. W. Frothingham — Tarrytown, N.Y. Mrs. Raymond Brooks — Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Robert Ives Gammell — Providence, Mr. Herbert S. Brussel — New York City R.I. Mrs. Cecilia Buek — Brooklyn, N.Y. Miss Marion A. Gardner — New York City Mrs. F. H. Cabot — New York City Mrs. Otto Goepel — Brooklyn, N.Y. Miss Florance Carr — New York City Mr. I. Edwin Goldwasser — New York City Miss Martha Casamajor — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. William B. Goodwin — New York City Mrs. B. D. Chambers — Roxbury, Va. Mr. and Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell —New Mr. William P. Chapman, Jr. — New York York City City Mrs. F. M. G. Hardy — Reading, Conn. Mrs. Prescott O. Clarke — Providence, R.I. Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Hatch — Exeter, Mr. James C. Collins — Providence, R.I. N.H. Miss H. A. Colton - Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Harold B. Hayden - Plattsburgh, N.Y. Mrs. W. P. Conklin, Jr. — Farmington, Conn. Mr. Irving Heidell — New York City [21] FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (concluded) Mr. Clarence H. Hill — New York City The Hon. and Mrs. William Phillips — Mr. Thomas D. Hinshaw — Ann Arbor, Washington, D.C. Mich. Mrs. Paul J. W. Pigors — Rochester, N.Y. Mrs. H. Hoermann — Montclair, N.J. Miss Eliza H. Pigot — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Henry Homes — New York City Mr. Robert H. Pitney — Mendham, N.J. Miss Emma Ingles — Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Joseph M. Price — New York City Mr. Robert I. — Mrs. Arthur Ingraham — Little Compton, Raiman Hollis, N.Y. Miss Hetta — R.I. Randerbrock New York City The Misses — Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Jacobson — Provi- Ray Brooklyn, N.Y. Miss Edith Rice — dence, R.I. New York City Miss Helen C. Robertson — Miss Amy Jaeger — New York City Providence, R.I. Mrs. John Rogers, — York City Mr. Sidney Jarcho — New York City Jr. New Mrs. West Roosevelt — New York City Mrs. Edward L. Johnson — Providence, R.I. J. Mrs. Kate C. Ropkins — Hartford, Conn. Miss Loraine Johnson — Providence, R.I. Mr. Warren L. Russell — Queens Village, — York City Mrs. Edouard Jonas New N.Y. E. S. Wells Kerr -Exeter, Mr. N.H. Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee — New York City Miss Elena H. Klasky — New York City Mrs. F. R. Schepmoes — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Charles Klingenstein — New York City Miss Edith Scoville — New York City Miss Edith Kneeland — New York City Mr. Clifford Seasongood — New York City Mr. Alfred A. Knopf — New York City Miss Ellen D. Sharpe — Providence, R.I. Mr. Arthur Landers — Exeter, N.H. Mrs. Henry D. Sharpe — Providence, R.I. Mrs. Henry S. Lanpher — Providence, R.I. Mrs. Henry S. Shaw — Exeter, N.H. Mrs. Austin — Harrisville, R.I. T. Levy Mrs. George St. J. Sheffield — Providence, Mrs. Frank L. Locke — Newfields, N.H. R.I. Mrs. Alfred L. Lustig — Providence, R.I. Mr. William Sidney Smith — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Hugh F. MacColl — Providence, R.I. Mr. Joseph H. Spafford — New York City Miss Anne Bush MacLear — Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Huntley Nowell Spaulding — Rochester, N.Y. N.H. Mrs. George B. H. Macomber — Little Mrs. Foster Stearns — Hancock, N.H. Compton, R.I. Mrs. Frederick T. Steinway — New York City Miss Margaret E. Maltby — New York City Mrs. Henry A. Stimson — New York City Mr. and Mrs. Everett Martine — Palisades, Mrs. M. B. Stower — Providence, R.I. N.Y. Mrs. Sol M. Stroock - New York City Miss Mabel K. McCue — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Cyrus L. Sulzbet ger — New York City Dr. Charles A. McDonald — Providence, Mr. Thornton C. Thayer — Brooklyn, N.Y. R.I. Miss Mabel Thuillard — Jamaica, N.Y. Mrs. G. Pierce Metcalf — Providence, R.I. Mr. Stirling Tomkins — New York City Mrs. Houghton P. Metcalf — Providence, R.I. Mr. Howard M. Trueblood — New York City Mrs. I. Harris Metcalf — Providence, R.I. Mr. Albert W. von Lilienthal — Yonkers, Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf — Providence, R.I. N.Y. Mrs. David P. Moulton — Providence, R.I. Mr. Allen Wardwell — New York City Mr. Walter W. Naumburg — New York City Mrs. George H. Webb — Providence, R.I. Mrs. Charles Neave — New York City Miss Cora A. Week — Fieldston, N.Y. Miss K. B. Neilson — Darien, Conn. Mr. Robert C. Weinberg — Scarsdale, N.Y. Dr. Harold Neuhof — New York City Miss Frances E. White — Brooklyn, N.Y Mr. John S. Newberry, Jr. — Detroit, Mich. Miss H. H. White - Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Acosta Nichols, Jr. — Oyster Bay, N.Y. Miss Rosa White — Larchmont, N.Y. Miss Marjorie L. Nickerson — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Matthew John Whittall — Washington,. Mr. Gouverneur H. Nixon — Flushing, N.Y. D.C. Mrs. Theodore Obermeyer — New York City Mrs. George N. Whittlesey — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. Gabriel Paitchadze — Paris, France Mrs. H. Van Wyck Wickes — Rye, N.Y. Mrs. Joseph Parsons — Lakeville, Conn. Miss Elin Wikander — Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. C. E. Perkins — Brooklyn, N.Y. Miss Josephine D. Wilkin — Jamaica, N.Y. Mr. Francis D. Perkins — New York City Mrs. Kenneth F. Wood — Providence, R.I. Dr. Lewis Perry — Exeter, N.H. Mr. Wilfred J. Worcester — New York City [22] OVERTURE FOR A DON QUIXOTE By Jean Rivier Born at Ville-meuble, France, in 1896 1-ihis overture was composed in 1929 and dedicated to "Nikolai Sokoloff and his orchestra at Cleveland." It was performed by this orchestra for the first time on November 14, 1929. The piece had its first European performance at the Lamoureux Concerts in Paris on February 15, 1931. The composer has given the following explanation of the title and the music itself: "The author has not felt himself restricted to a depiction of the particular personality of Don Quixote as conceived by Cervantes, and there is no single passage of the work that corresponds with a given episode of the life of the celebrated hero. It is the eternal Don Quixote whose profoundly human character belongs to all times and all countries. "A theme, presented by the trumpet, accompanied by the strings, bursts forth at a vigorous gait, and with clearly outlined contours, it is toned down quickly and assumes an almost debonair joviality, through episodes in turn tender, burlesque, or sentimental. Presenting forYour Pleasure ^ VIKING At 442 Stuart St. - Boston Dartmouth Street - Off Copley Square • SWEDISH PEASANT ROOM Smorgesbord - Luncheon • Dinner • ROOM OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Swedish "Snops" - Aquavit- Cocktails (Music at Cocktail Time) • SUPPER ROOM and BAR tOUNGE Supper Dancing from 9.00 P.M. (Thursday and Saturday Tea Danaants) Rollie Rogers & Orch. LANGUAGES FRENCH — GERMAN — ITALIAN — SPANISH — RUSSIAN A Fuller Appreciation of Music —A Practical Travel Vocabulary I Private or Small Group Instruction FREE TRIAL LESSON Tel. COM. 1814 Berlitz 140 NEWBURY ST. [23] "A second theme by the brasses accentuated by the 'cellos and the string basses then intervenes, following which a fanfare develops, broadening out into powerful chords, yielding to a more supple phrase, announcing the slow part which immediately follows. The saxophone sadly exhales a nostalgic theme over the sustained notes of the horns and the dull pulsations of the timpani; flutes, oboes, and clarinet respond in an echo, and the muted strings are heard recalling briefly one of the initial episodes. The lento theme then returns, this time by the trumpet and then by the bassoon, over the pianissimo chords of the trombones. Everything seems to subside, when suddenly the fanfare bursts forth again, supported this time by the strings. After a sudden silence, the movement is resumed by the bassoons and clar- inets, gradually accelerating, leading to the re-exposition of the initial theme played this time by the first and second violins, and supported by the punctuating chords of the trumpets and trombones. 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In a preliminary draftf of "La Mer/' Debussy labeled the first movement "Mer Belle aux lies Sanguinaires"; he was attracted prob- ably by the sound of the words, for he was not familiar with Corsican * "La Mer" was first performed at these concerts March 2, 1907, Dr. Karl Muck conductor (this was also the first performance in the United States). It was repeated at the concerts of April 20, 1907, March 1, 1913, December 18, 1915, November 16, 1917, January 14, 1921, November 21, 1924, April 27, 1928, October 11, 1929, October 24, 1930, March 9, 1934. f This draft, dated "Sunday, March 5 at six o'clock in the evening," is in present posses- sion of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester. 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There could be no denying Debussy's passion for the sea: he fre- quently visited the coast resorts, spoke and wrote with constant en- thusiasm about "my old friend the sea, always innumerable and beauti- ful." He often recalled his impressions of the Mediterranean at Cannes, where he spent boyhood days. It is worth noting, however, that Debussy did not seek the sea-shore while at work upon his "La Mer." His score was with him at Dieppe, in 1904, but most of it was written in Paris, a milieu which he chose, if the report of a chance remark as trustworthy, "because the sight of the sea itself fascinated him to such a degree that it paralyzed his creative faculties." When he went to the country in the summer of 1903, two years before the completion of "La Mer," it was not the shore, but the hills of Burgundy, whence Jhe wrote to his friend Andre Messager (September 12): "You may not know that I was destined for a sailor's life and that it was only quite by chance that fate led me in another direction. But I have al- ways retained a passionate love for her [the sea]. You will say that the Ocean does not exactly wash the Burgundian hillsides — and my seascapes might be studio landscapes; but I have an endless store of memories, and to my mind they are worth more than the reality, whose beauty often deadens thought." "La Mer" is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, three bassoons, double bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, two cornets-a-pistons, three trombones, tuba, cymbals, tri- angle, tam-tam, glockenspiel (or celesta), timpani, bass drum, two harps, and strings. It would be hard to think of a score more elusive than "La Mer" to minute analysis. The cyclic unity of the suite is cemented by the recurrence in the last movement of the theme in the first, heard after the introductory measures from the muted trumpet and English horn. A theme for brass, also in the opening sketch, becomes an integral part of the final peroration. Music to set the imagination aflame, it has induced from the pen of Lawrence Gilman one of his most pro- vocative word pictures: "Debussy had what Sir Thomas Browne would have called 'a solitary and retired imagination.' So, when he essays to depict in his music such things as dawn and noon at sea, sport of the waves, gales and surges and far horizons, he is less the poet and painter than the spiritual mystic. 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He said to an interviewer: "I wish my music to be listened to purely as music." When the new "symphony" was played at Frankfort-on-the-Main in June of that year, in Dresden in November, and in Berlin in Decem- ber, divisions and subtitles appeared in the programmes. When it was played in London, in February, 1905, there were disclosures branded as "official" which had not previously appeared. "In accordance with his custom," said the Daily News, "he has not put forward a definite programme of his own, but, with some inconsistency, he has allowed a description to be made public — with some inconsistency because he has declared that he wishes his music to be listened to as if it meant nothing in particular if the hearer feels more comfortable in ignoring the programme." The description which followed interpreted the scherzo "as representing the child in its bath," the subject of the fugue as a "merry argument," the "dispute between father and mother being the future of the son." A nine-page analysis of- the score by William Klatte, whose analyses have been taken as sanctioned by the com- poser, had appeared in Die Musik for January, 1905. Strauss, who after writing each of his tone poems had been harassed by the curious when he withheld a programme, upbraided by the conventional when he gave one out, in this case suffered both ills, and was additionally accused by some of not knowing his own mind, by others of publicity- seeking. "With each new work of Strauss," wrote Ernest Newman, "there is the same tomfoolery — one can use no milder word to de- scribe proceedings that no doubt have a rude kind of German humor, but that strike other people as more than a trifle silly. So it is now with the 'Symphonia Domestica.' " Strauss, not unlike most artists, * He told a reporter of the Musical Times_ in London, 1902: "My next tone-poem will illustrate 'a day in my family.' It will be partly lyrical, partly humorous — a triple fugue, the three subjects representing papa, mamma, and baby." [30] Symphony Hall Boston Symphony Orchestra Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Monday Evening, February 10, 1936 at 8:15 o'clock THE FOURTH PROGRAMME OF THIS SERIES [31] may be reasonably supposed to have hoped, above all, for a general understanding of his musical intentions — a clear and straight appre- hension of his music, as he himself felt it. There intervened the in- evitable obstacle of the programme. In trying to explain himself he usually started up a babble of altercation which obscured his true musical purposes to the world. Striving to avoid the dilemma, he some- times brought it more than ever upon his head. The "Domestica" divides into the four distinct sections of a sym- phony, although there is no break in the flow of the score, and the whole is far more closely integrated by the constantly recurring themes of its three characters than the most "cyclic" of symphonies. The work starts with the depiction of the husband in his several moods, which blend one into the other. There are three principal themes set forth in close succession. The 'cellos open the score with a theme marked "gemachlich" ("comfortable," "good-humored," "easy-going"); in the fifth bar the oboe gives a gentle, "dreamy" theme; there is a subsidiary theme (for the clarinets) marked "murrisch," but it is not sufficiently "grumpy" to ruffle the prevailing serenity. The violins set forth one more theme of the husband, "fiery," and rising to forte. The first theme, repeated by the bassoons TO BE SEEN- In the Huntington Avenue Lobby You are invited to inspect the collection of music, manuscripts, and pictures referring to the works in the orchestra's current repertory. There are now being shown the following pictures by LILLA CABOT PERRY (January 13, 1848 — February 28, 1933) The Tea Party 2. On the River 3. Scampo and the Parrot 4. Long Pond, Late October 5. Portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson 6. Mount Crotched, 9 a.m. March Afternoon, Hancock, N.H. Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew Snow Storm on the Knolls Scampo, Spring Sunshine The Green Hat Two Friends (Kindly loaned by Miss Margaret Perry) [32] and 'cellos, leads directly to the theme of the wife (lively and capri- cious, with prominent violin solo). It is developed with the husband's first and "fiery" themes, and there enters the third character in the domestic drama. The child's theme is tenderly sung by the oboe d'amore, over a string accompaniment. There are boisterous trills, adoring exclamations,* and there follows a joyous, romping scherzo, with themes of husband and wife worked in in grazioso spirit. If the child is being put to bed, as the German analysts tell us, the father takes a conspicuous part in the process. The music subsides to a cradle song which ends as the clock softly strikes seven, and there follows a last gentle lullaby for successive wood-wind instruments and 'cello, to an accompaniment of clarinet arpeggios. The adagio follows. The themes of the husband appear still again, and are treated with fuller orchestration and new variety. This sec- tion has been labelled "Doing and Thinking," but the score itself gives no verbal aid. The wife's chief theme is treated also with in- creased lyricism, and the two are blended in what is called the "Love Scene," rising to a moving climax. There follows a section which has acquired the label "Dreams and Cares," a soft music of blissful reminiscence, in which the child, too, is fondly remembered. The dreams fade; day has come again. The morning hour of seven strikes, and at once the child is awake, as joyous trills on the flutes and muted trumpets attest. There is a family romp before which the former one pales, in the * Over brass notes in the score is inscribed: "Die Tauten: 'Gam der Papa' -Die Onkels: " 'Gam die Mama I ' A nook of old Rome MARIOS Famous for Food and Fine Liquors Announces the opening of "The Catacomb's Canteen" A Distinctive Roman Bar 69 Church Street, corner of Stuart Rear of Statler Hotel LIBerty 3776 [33] form of a double fugue. The bassoons start the first subject, which is picked up by the other winds. The violins in their high register start the second subject. Themes of the husband and wife are both involved. The climax of the fugue is reached and diminishes over a long pedal point. 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