The regulations of the Academy of Music will not permit the distribution of these programme books at the concert. They may be had at the Liggett Druji Co., Fulton i Street and Lafayette Avenue. ACADEMY OF MUSIC . BROOKLYN Friday Evening, February 2, at 8.15 Under the atnpioea of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn ill/% &T 7't s \V^ ^VsS' 5? mm BOSTON •%J\MY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. FORTY SECOND SEASON J922-J923 PRoGRHttttE Ii£ jHew evidence of the superior tonal qualities of is provided by the decision of THE CHICAGO OPERA COMPANY to make it their official piano ^hu^Jalcltom ptano do. CINCINNATI CHICAGO NEW YORK INDIANAPOLIS ST. LOUIS LOUISVILLE DENVER DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO ACADEMY OF MUSIC BROOKLYN FORTY-SECOND SEASON 1922-1923 i'tai Synaptu© INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Pro; THIR] FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. 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J. 3 Boston c Symphony Orchestra VICTOR RECORDS There are dealers in Victor products everywhere and any of them will gladly play any of the Boston Symphony Orchestra records for you* Victrolas $25 to $1500 Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden NJ. ^ HIS MASTERS VOICE' ACADEMY OF MUSIC .... BROOKLYN Thirty-fifth season in Brooklyn '©ston Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor THIRD CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 I. Allegro vivace e con brio. II. Allegretto scherzando. III. Tempo di menuetto. IV. Allegro vivace. Smetana . Symphonic Poem, "Vltava" ("The Moldau") from "Ma Vlast" ("My Country"), No. 2 Brahms . Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace. Wagner . Siegfried's Ascent to Briinnhilde's Rock ("Siegfried"); Morning Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Close of "Dusk of the Gods" SOLOIST GEORGES ENESCO There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Smetana's Symphonic Poem 5 " "The Best SSffiiWPPH The Best in Travel" in ¥IT / m \ Travel" Individual Trave. Travel arrangements for individuals who contemplate travel at any time to any part of the world where travel is safe or desirable is an important factor of our service. The staff of travel experts which we maintain consists of experienced gentlemen who will gladly furnish accurate, dependable information and render courteous assistance in travel planning. Pullman and hotel reservations; railroad and steamship tickets by any route or line can be secured through us. We also render assistance with baggage, insurance, travelers' checks, passports and visas. In short, our individual arrangements present as compre- hensive and efficient a travel service as can be desired. 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GloggFs Linzer Musikzeitung made this announcement October 5: "We have had at last the long-wished-for pleasure to have for some days in our capital the Orpheus and the greatest musical poet of our tune, Mr. L. van Beethoven; and, if Apollo is gracious to us, we shall also have the opportunity of wondering at his art." The same periodical announced November 10: "The great tone-poet and tone- artist, Louis van Beethoven, has left our city without fulfilling our passionate wish of hearing him publicly in a concert." Beethoven was in poor physical condition in 1812, and as Stauden- heim, his physician, advised him to try Bohemian baths, he went to Toplitz by way of Prague; to Carlsbad, where a note of the postilion's horn found its way among the sketches for the Eighth Symphony; to Franzensbrunn and again to Toplitz ; and lastly to his brother Johann's home at Linz, where he remained until into November. The Seventh and Eighth Symphonies were probaby played over for the first time at the Archduke Rudolph's in Vienna, April 20, 1813. Beethoven in the same month endeavored to produce them at a con- cert, but without success. The Seventh was not played until December 8, 1813, at a concert organized by Malzel, the mechanician. The first performance of the Eighth Symphony was at a concert given by Beethoven at Vienna in the "Redoutensaal" on Sunday, February 27, 1814. The Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung in a review of this concert stated that The Brooklyn Home for More Than Thirty Years of Ivers & Pond Pianos - Players - Grands Thi choice of several hundred leading American Conservatories of Music and Educational Institutions. Refinement in design of caje and its perfect musical expression maVes it truly the Aristocrat of Piamodom LEK ™Pr™denU f*vU AM FlI P l\ REPAIRING T. F. ENGLISH ^>illllXA^iUJUJI% NEW PIANOS (Treasurer. Manager) pJ^fJO COMPANY TO RENT - TeL 0159 Main 222 LIVINGSTON STREET Brooklyn. the Seventh Symphony (first performed December 8, 1813) was again heartily applauded, and the Allegro was repeated. "All were in anxious expectation to hear the new symphony (F major, 3-4), the latest product of Beethoven's muse; but this expectation after one hearing was not fully satisfied, and the applause which the work re- ceived was not of that enthusiastic nature by which a work that pleases universally is distinguished. In short, the symphony did not make, as the Italians say, furore. I am of the opinion that the cause of this was not in weaker or less artistic workmanship (for in this, as in all of Beethoven's works of this species, breathes the peculiar genius which always proves his originality), but partly in the mistake of allowing this symphony to follow the one in A major, and partly in the satiety that followed the enjoyment of so much that was beautiful and excel- lent, whereby natural apathy was the result. If this symphony in future should be given alone, I have no doubt concerning its favorable reception." Czerny remembered that on this occasion the new Eighth Symphony did not please the audience; that Beethoven was irritated, and said: "Because it is much better" (than the Seventh).