Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 55,1935-1936
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[Monday] JORDA|l|lMARSH WE PAID <i)\iana'fia ^yl/{an±risLd $6 A WEEK IN THE '70s Not for dramatics — but for flourishing a pen at far more prosaic duties, since it was some considerable time before his Monsieur Beaucaire and Cyrano. For all we know, he may have had his first histrionic call from the ghostly voices that echoed from the Theatre Comique stage which once stood about where you purchase our cosmetics, now. Barnum's Aquarial Gardens had marked the site before, and the Adelphi somewhat later. Hallowed ground indeed, for our displays of sprightly new fashions to succeeding genera- tions. The generations of customers, incidentally who have caused our expansion to two massive buildings that house stocks Richard Mansfield and his contemporaries never would have visioned possible—even in their world of make-believe! 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 . Address Insofar as tickets are available, these applications will be filled in order of their receipt shortly after February 1 and prior to the public sale. 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.