CARNEGIE HALL .... NEW YORK Thursday Evening, April 7, at 8.45 Saturday Afternoon, April 9, at 2.30 PR5GR7WVE "Ike BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA : 188M931" By M. A. De WOLFE HOWE Semi'Centennial Edition It is seventeen years since M. A. De Wolfe Howe's history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was published. The Fiftieth season of the Orches- tra seemed a fitting time to re-publish this prized narrative of its earlier days, and likewise to record, in additional chapters, the last years of Dr. Muck's conductorship, and the years of Henri Rabaud, Pierre Monteux, and Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. New appendices include a complete list of the music played at the regular concerts, giving the dates of performances. The soloists and the personnel through fifty years are also recorded, and the address on Henry Lee Higginson made by Bliss Perry at the Bach Festival, March 25, 1931. Now on sale at the Box Office, or by money order to Symphony Hall, Boston P-ice fl.ftO (postage included) CARNEGIE HALL - - - NEW YORK Forty-sixth Season in New York FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, 1931-1932 INC. Di SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, at 8.45 AND THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9, at 2.30 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. BENTLEY W. WARREN President ERNEST B. DANE . Treasurer ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL WILLIAM PHILLIPS M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE EDWARD M. PICKMAN FREDERICK E. LOWELL HENRY B. SAWYER BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. 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CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK Forty-sixth Season in New York Fifty-first Season, 1931-1932 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FIFTH CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7 AT 8.45 PROGRAMME Toch Bunte Suite, Op. 48 I. March Tempo. II. Adagio expressivo. III. Marionetten Tanz. IV. Galante Passacaglia. V. Karrusel. (First Performance in New York) Schubert German Dances (1824) Transcribed for Orchestra by Anton Webern (First performance in America) Strauss "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, after the Old-fashioned Roguish Manner,"—in Rondo Form, Op. 28 Tchaikovsky .... Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 I. Andante ; allegro con anima. II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza. III. Valse (Allegro moderato). IV. Finale: Andante maestoso; Allegro vivace. MASON & HAMLIN PIANOFORTE There will be an intermission of ten minutes before the symphony The music of these programmes is available at the 58th Street Library 5 ; Bunte* Suite for Orchestra, Op. 48 . Ernst Toch (Born at Vienna on December 7, 1887; at home in Mannheim) This Suite, composed for radio in 1928, was performed at Frank- fort-on-Main in 1929. It is scored for two flutes (one interchange- able with piccolo), oboe, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, bass trombone, kettledrums, glockenspiel, xylophone, side drum, wood drum (wood block), triangle, Eatsche (ratchet rattle), two Ruten C switches), Pfeifsirene. Toch studied medicine, also philosophy, in Vienna. He gave up the practice of medicine for music. As a composer, he is self-taught. He won the Mozart Prize in 1909 ; the Mendelssohn Prize in 1910 the Austrian State Prize for composition four times. He lived at Frankfort-on-Main in 1909 and there studied pianoforte-playing with Willy Rehberg.f In 1913 he taught musical theory at the Mannheim High School for Music. In the World War he served in the Austrian army. In 1921 he lived at Heidelberg, but he re- turned to Mannheim, where he now privately teaches composition. The catalogue of his works comprises, among the compositions for orchestra : - Scherzo, Op. 11a (1906—Danzig). Symphony, "An Mein Vater- land," for orchestra, organ, solo voices, chorus, Op. 22 (1912—not performed). Phantastische Nachtmusik, Op. 27 (1921—Mannheim). "Die chinesische Flote, chamber symphony for fourteen solo in- struments and soprano voice, Op, 29 (1923—Frankfort). Tanz Suite for chamber orchestra, Op. 30 (1924—after the dance poem "Der Wald," by Frieda Ursula Back). Five Pieces for chamber orchestra, Op. 33 (1924). Concerto for violoncello and chamber orchestra, Op. 35 (1925). Spiel for wind instruments, Op. 39 (for military band and out-of-door performance—1926). Komedie for Orchestra, Op. 42 (the abstract idea of comedy; the orchestra, the comedian—1927). Fanal for orchestra and organ, Op. 45 (1928). Little-Theatre Suite (Over- ture, "Bashful Wooing," dance, nocturne, finale!) ; "Music for Or- *Bunte: Varied, variously colored, diversified. tRehberg, a Swiss pianist and composer, was born at Morges on September 2, 1863. His teachers at the Zurich Conservatory (1879-1881) were Robert Freund, Fr. Heg>ar, and Gustave Weber; at the Leipsic Conservatory (1881-84), Reinecke and Jadassohn. After the final examination, he was engaged at the Leipsic Conservatory. In 1890 he was a professor at the Geneva Conservatory, and he conducted symphony concerts in that city. In 1908 . he taught at the Frankfort Conservatory ; in 1917 he was director of the Mannheim Conservatory ; in 1921 he became director and professor of master classes at the Basle Conservatory. The list of his compositions includes a string quartet, violin sonata, many songs, and pianoforte pieces. He is not to be confounded with his son Walter (born at Geneva in 1900), a pianist of high reputation. | Played at New York by the Philharmonic Society of New York, Erich Kleiber, con- ductor, on November 5, 1931. 6 chestra and Baritone Voice," Op. 60 : "there is no question of 'Lieder' with orchestra, for it is an instrumental work which, on two occasions, makes use of the voice to emphasize and clarify the emotional mean- ing. In this music the expression is clear, unalloyed, and concen- trated; its opening is reserved and on a small scale, but it de- velops toward the end into intense emotional feeling that is very impressive. Through the finely constructed orchestral parts, the tender melodic line of the voice is heard, introducing the words of Rilke's text ; it is a genuine, deeply felt music, and Toch has written scarcely anything more beautiful. Kleiber's performance was notable for delicacy of color and intense emotional expression. The solo was sung by Hermann Schey with much feeling and a beauti- fully controlled voice."—Berlin correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 1932. Music for the Stage : Incidental music for "Der Kinder Neujahrstraum," Op. 19 (1910—MSS.). "Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse," opera in one act (after Hans Christian Andersen), Op. 43 (Baden-Baden—1927). "Egon und Emilie," opera in one act, Op. 46 (1928—Mannheim). "Der Faecher," opera in three acts, Op. 51. Analytic Symphony Series A ndeth n,un DITSON : PUBLICATION MusicalM TT„Home S5Necessity THE ANALYTIC SYMPHONY SERIES Great Symphonies, arranged in the simplest possible playable form for two hands on the piano, with remarkably clear analy- ses by the eminent teacher and theorist, Dr. Percy Goetschius. Understanding depends upon knowledge, and this can be secured only by a study of the music itself, therefore real enjoyment of symphonic works is hugely enhanced by the use of this simplified edition. The cost is nominal — for sale by all representative dealers, or may be obtained direct from the publishers. Illustrated booklet describing the Analytic Symphony Series mailed on request. OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, Inc. 359 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. — Music for "The Bacchae" of Euripides (Mannheim—1926). "Klabunds Kirschblutenfest" (Hamburg—1927). Prelude to a "Maerchen" (1927). Music for a Paramount film, "Die Kinderfabrik" ("which with the hoarse sound of the wood instruments adroitly imitates the eternal screaming of children—something complete in its way;" Baden-Baden—1928) Incidental music for "The Saint from the United States," a play with Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy for heroine, by Use Langner (Berlin 1931). The catalogue also names string quartets, sonatas for various in- struments, piano pieces, violin pieces. In 1921, Toch received the de- gree of Doctor of Philosophy for his "Beitragen zur Stilkunde der Melodie." Among his pedagogic works are 50 Piano Studies : Vol. I, 10 Etudes for Beginners ; Vol. II, 10 Simple Etudes ; Vol. Ill, 10 Intermediate Etudes; Vol. IV, 10 Etudes for Interpretation; Vol. V, 10 Concert Etudes. Toch's "Chinese Flute" (text by Bethge) was first performed in Boston by the Boston University Orchestra, Augusto Vaninni conductor, on March 7, 1932. Gladys de Almeida was the soprano. The words of Chinese lyrics were translated into German by Hans Bethge. Mahler chose some and revised them for his own purpose, composing "Das Lied von der Erde." * When Toch arrived in New York last fall, he talked with a representative of the New York Times. "It surprised Toch's interviewer, after a conversation in which Mozart and Brahms had been mentioned, the first as an enduring and the second as a temporary influence in the development of the modern musician, when, in reply to a further question as to whom he considered the most important modern composer, Toch answered, with enthusiasm flashing from his eyes, 'Schonberg, and only Schonberg.' " 'And why only Schonberg?' " 'Because he is strongest, the firmest, the most consistent, yet the richest in ideas of them all.