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SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, at 8.15 WITH. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President BENTLEY W. WARREN ... Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE . Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1 STEIN WAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, but the best piano value It IS possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . Convenient terms will be piano under such conditions. arranged, if desired. 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ALBEE THEATRE PROVIDENCE One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Concert in Providence Forty-seventh Season, 1927-1928 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIRST CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Berlioz . Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini," Op. 23 Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante. III. Poco allegretto. IV. AUegro. Ravel . "Ma Mere TOye" ("Mother Goose") Five Children's Pieces I. Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant. (Pa vane of Sleeping Beauty.) II. Petit Poucet. (Hop o' my Thumb.) III. Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes. (Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas.) IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bete. (Beauty and the Beast Converse.) V. Le Jardin Feerique. (The Fairy Garden.) 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I warn you then that if I were forced to live on bread and water up to the moment when my score would be com- pleted, I do not wish to hear anything more about a criticism of any sort. Meyerbeer, Liszt, Chopin, and Kalkbrenner are not in need of my praise." The story has been condemned as weak and foolish. It is also wholly fictitious. It is enough to say that in 1532 Cellini is in Rome, called thither by the Pope. He falls in love with Teresa, the daughter of Balducci, an old man, who favors another suitor, Fieramosca, the Pope's sculptor. Cellini attempts to elope with her, and neglects work "The House of Dependable Values" Better Music in Your Home J Nowhere can you find a better selected I \ stock of musical instruments under one js roof than at MeikleJohn's in Providence PIANOS: The aristocratic ! RADIO: RCA Radiolas, Mason & Hamlin, Ampico, Stewart - Warner, Atwater and reasonably priced up- Kent, Kolster. rights, grands and players. 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