SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1938, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Ernest B. Dane Treasurer Allston Burr M. A. De Wolfe Howe Henry B. Cabot Roger I. Lee Ernest B. Dane Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer Jerome D. Greene Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [385] Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE for INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. Executor and Administrator We settle estates as Executor and Administrator. Trustee We act as Trustee under wills and under voluntary or living trusts. 4rent We act as Agent for those who wish to be relieved of the care of their investments. &<h The officers of Old Colony Trust Company are always glad to discuss estate and property matters with you and point out if and where our services are applicable. Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ^Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [386] SYMPHONIANA Exhibition of Musical Prints The Orchestra Visits Cleveland EXHIBITION OF MUSICAL PRINTS An exhibition of prints and drawings on musical subjects may be seen in the First Balcony Gallery through the A Graceful Prelude courtesy of Donald B. Willson, Esq. Several principal categories have been to the Evening Hours is chosen for the present showing: there Cocktail Time at are groups of composers, conductors, The Copley-Plaza pianists, and violinists. Among the violinists and pianists are such figures A few steps from the is Copley-Plaza's beautiful, spacious Restaurant — the focal center of social Boston To climax a perfect day Supper Dancing in the gorgeous SUefrcdott (loam Hugo Wolf from 9 until 1 a. m. by Schmutzer You will thoroughly enjoy as Paganini and Joachim; Liszt, Thal- berg, Rachmaninoff, and Busoni. There the entrancing music of Nye is an interesting drawing of Rudolph Mayhew and His Orchestra Serkin playing before the contrasted of Sophisticated Melodies forces of a symphony orchestra. Conduc- tors include Serge Koussevitzky, Otto Klemperer, Hans Richter and Richard Strauss. Naturally the most extensive THE is the gathering of composers, in which there are unusual prints of Johann Strauss and Darius Milhaud. Hogarth's BOSTON famous engraving "The Enraged Musi- cian" is included as a single example Arthur L. Race, Managing Director from the wide field of the anecdotal print. [ ?,8 7 ] THE ORCHESTRA VISITS CLEVELAND Giving concerts last week in Roches- ter, Buffalo, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Cleve- land, and Pittsburgh, the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra was received in each city with great acclaim. Herbert Elwell described the Cleveland concert (of De- cember 9) in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "This was the first time in many years music lovers here have had the pleasure of a visit from this veteran organization, headed by one of the most dynamic figures in the world of music. They were not slow to show their appreciation. If there was a vacant seat anywhere in the hall, it would have been hard to discover. And this throng, thrilled by a program of constantly mounting intensity, voiced its enthusi- asm in unrestrained applause, recalling the conductor time and time again. "He and his 110 men rewarded their listeners with playing of superb quality and with music that moved by pro- gressive degrees of intensity to a really stupendous climax in the Finale of Sibelius' Second Symphony. "In the opening B-flat major Sym- phony of Haydn one was conscious at once of the superior balance and finish You can have all the loveliness of this orchestra, of the mellowness and of the new fall colors — Teal Blue, purity of its singing strings, of the soft- Fuchsia, Plum or Violet. Lewandos ness and precision of its attacks. 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"What he made of it was something so strikingly at one with its essential character that one may perhaps be for- given for speaking of it in rhapsodical terms. It took on an ethereal quality so vividly suggestive that one could fairly feel the light spray of water and the warm sunlight making rainbows through the luminous orchestral texture. And this magical effect was produced with such ease that one was led to conclude that a gigantic task of clearing away The Adam obstacles had been achieved in the preparation of this work, a task which With CAPEHART . left the conductor free in performance to transmit nothing but unadulterated Conduct your own orchestra feeling, nothing but the distilled essence of what had transpired in the fascinating Capehart Maestro Tone Con- realm of Debussy's fertile imagination. trol enables the listener to adapt the tone of the Capehart to his in- 'This same directness of contact with dividual hearing. From fortissimo the inner spirit of the music was again to pianissimo, from bass to middle in force in the Sibelius Symphony, register and treble, you can com- though the change in style brought a mand the tone of instruments corresponding change of approach from and voices surely and effectively. a delicate, evanescent blending of sur- You can face impressions to a type of phrasing offer your guests a whole evening that brought out the deep earnestness of music without of a interruption, for northern temperament and un- Capehart is the earthed only Phonograph-radio imposing realms of turgid and combina- passionate tion with the exclusive expression. The 'cellos sang Capehart with record magnificent fervor. There was no changer, handling from blaring brass three to twenty records, 10- nor strident intensity of both strings, but an ever throbbing upward inch and 12-inch, intermixed, and surge and playing each unanimity of feeling in the record on both sides entire orchestral successively. body that brought the No re-stacking or re- splendid architecture loading of the records . of this work to a plus focus with an impressiveness that has radio whose many exclusive fea- seldom been tures recognized in it here, account for its reputation as livery nerve in the conductor seemed the finest radio obtainable. on fire with the emotional urgency of this music. And this high voltage was transmitted throughout every fiber of the instrumental texture until it reached an audience breathless with the ths*** excitement of its irresistible current. "Here is indeed an admirable orches- tra and a conductor who knows how to show it off to advantage, but whose musicianship is so great that no mere J. McKEMA act of showmanship arises to obstruct our view 19 BRATTLE STREET of or diminish our admiration tor an imaginative force in full, free HARVARD SQ., CAMBRIDGE possession of tremendous communica- Telephone, KIR. 0809 tive power." [389] Treuiont and West Streets (A emu. eusimas ana a G/fjarKiing ^tletv cJJear! A Misses' Gown for both! This evening gown with its glittering bolero ablaze with si Ivery single beads and mar- quise-cut rhine- stones wears two massive clips on its slender straps. The heavy rayon sheer comes in Rose-Ash and Frosting-White. 49.95 ''I"''" GUjanMrc $c Ok Tremont and West Streets [390 J FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT AND THIRTY-NINE Ninth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, December 16, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, December 17, at 8:15 o'clock Haydn Symphony in B-flat, No. 102 I. Largo: Allegro vivace II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegro: Trio IV. Finale: Presto Dukelsky "Dedicates," for Piano and Orchestra, with Soprano obbligato I. L 'Envoi II. a la Ville III. a la Campagne IV. a la Mer V. Epilogue Soprano: Marguerite Porter (First performances) INTERMISSION Sibelius Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 43 I. Allegretto II. Tempo andante ma rubato III. { Vivacissimo; Lento e suave IV. \ Finale: Allegro moderato SOLOIST JESUS MARIA SANROMA STEINWAY PIANO This programme will end about 4:30 on Friday Afternoon, 10:15 o'clock on Saturday Evening Notice: The evening concert of next week will take place Thursday, December 22. [391 3 JORDAM WE'VE IXEECl SOME NICE SPECIMENS FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS * it Stalking the gift problems of New England for 87 years has sharpened our eye. Spotting off-the-beaten- track ideas in all the countries of the world, has netted us some pretty good trophies. With rod and gun through Darkest Bafflers is just plain second nature to the store that needs TWO buildings to hold the prize specimens — ready for your ribbons and wrappings.