SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 toe Bymmpltoey Orchestra INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1924-1925 Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT ERNEST B. DANE . HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN ARTHUR LYMAN E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 505 — THE INST%U£MENT OF THE IMMORTALS IT IS true that Rachmaninov, Pader- Each embodies all the Steinway ewski, Hofmann—to name but a few principles and ideals. 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"To love and understand Faure constitutes a privilege from which it is difficult not to derive a sort of innocent pride. It is the mark of a subtle ear, the flattering indication of a refined sensibility."- Emile Vuillermoz. "The world at large has particular need of Gabriel Faure to-day; need of his calm, his naturalness, his restraint, his optimism; need, above all, of the musician and his great art. 'La, ou tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute, " Luxe, calme, et volupte.' * Aaron Copland. Ini ^~k jf^> ifA. A csJ 4=y & 1 I Faure was born not far from the Montsalvat of Parsifal and the enchanted and pagan forest of Beestar, yet in many respects he was a northerner rather than one born near the Spanish frontier. At the age of three, he went to Foix with his father, who was appointed director of the ficole Normale in that town. The boy showed so great a taste for music that he was sent in 1854 to Niedermeyer's ficole de Musique Religieuse in Paris, where in his first year he obtained a prize for piano- forte playing. The father was not well-to-do, and wondered whether his son's talent was sufficient to justify the expense, a heavy burden for him, if Gabriel should undergo long training. Niedermeyer* generously offered free instruction. The boy's teachers were Niedermeyer himself, Dietsch,f and Saint-Saens. The last-named taught pianoforte playing at the school, and became Faure's intimate friend, *Louis Niedermeyer, born at Nyon, Switzerland, on April 27, 1802, died at Paris, March 13, 1861. He studied with Moscheles and Foerster at Vienna; Floravanti at Rome; Zingarelli at Naples, where his opera "II reo pei amore" wa? brought out in 1821. In that year he went to Geneva, and attracted attention by his songs. In 1823 he went to Paris, where he remained, except for two years in Brussels, as a pianoforte teacher. As his operas "La casa nel bosco" (Paris, 1828), "Stradella" (Paris, 1837), "Maria Stuart" (Paris, 1844), and "La Fronde" (Paris, 1853), met with little success, he took over Choron's school, with a subsidy from the State, and soon made it famous. His best compositions are for the church. His song "The Lake" (Lamartine) was long popular, and he is probably the author of the "Church aria" attributed erroneously to Stradella. He wrote with d'Ortigue a treatise on the accompaniment of plain song, and one on the organ accompaniment for services of the church. tLouis Dietsch, born at Dijon, March 17, 1808, died at Paris, February 20, 1865. A pupil of Choron and the Paris Conservatory, he was chapel master at St.