SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 ciaesl INCORPORATED PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTIETH SEASON. 1920-1921 : of the FiiRtl FRIDAY at 2.30 o'clock. SATURDAY at 8.00 o'clock NOVEMBER 12 and 13 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President GALEN L. STONE Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK E. LOWELL FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 257 "CHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred -J the Steinway. Wagner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master-musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instrument. 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Arabian Nights Africa 17 Temple Place, Boston Japan-China Telephone: Beach 6964 South America Round the World 262 Symphony in E minor, Op. 98 Johannes Brahms (Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897.) This symphony was first performed at Meiningeu, October 25, 1885, under the direction of the composer. Simrock, the publisher, is said to have paid Brahms forty thousand marks for the work. It was played at a public rehearsal of the Sym- phony Orchestra in Boston, November 2G, 1886. Although Mr. Gericke "did not stop the orchestra,"—to quote from a review of the concert the next day,—he was not satisfied with the performance. Schumann's Symphony in B-flat was substituted for the concert of November 27 ; there were further rehearsals. The work was played for the first time at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 23, 1886. The first performance in the United States was by the Symphony Society, New York, December 11, 1886. This sjanphony was composed in the summers of 1884 and 1885 at Murzzuschlag in Styria. The Allegro and Andante were composed during the first summer, the Scherzo and Finale during the last. Miss Florence May, in her Life of Brahms, tells us that the manu- script was nearly destroyed in 1885 : "Returning one afternoon from a walk, he [Brahms] found that the house in which he lodged had caught fire, and that his friends were busily engaged in bringing his papers, and amongst them the nearly finished manuscript of the new symphony, into the garden. He immediately set to work to help in getting the fire under, whilst Frau Fellinger sat out of doors Just Issued NEW VOLUMES FOR MEDIUM VOICE LYRIC FANCIES A SELECTION OF SONGS BY AMERICAN COMPOSERS II VOL I VOL BRANSCOMBE The Morning Wind. LANG. Day is Gone. PARK. A Memory BISCHOFF. Five Little White Heads BRANSCOME. 1 Send My Heart up to Thee FOOTE. InPicardie SALTER. The Sweet o' the Year Irish Love LANG, An Song CLOUGH-LEIGHTER. O Heart of Mine ! LYNES. Hark ! The Robin's Early Song FOOTE Lm Wearing Awa' DANIELS The Lady of Dreams LYNES. Roses BEACH. ShenaVan FRIML. At Twilight WARD-STEPHENS. The Rose's Cup BARBOUR. Awake ! It is the Day CHADWICK. Thou art so like a Flower RISHER Sail, White Dreams MILLIGAN. My Heart is like a Lute GRANT-SCHAEFER. A Garden Romance COX. April-Tide COX Peggy BEACH. Ah, Love, but a day CLOUGH-LEIGHTER. April Blossoms BRANSCOMBE. Only to Thee (Schmidt's Educational Series No. 238-239) ALSO PUBLISHED IN EDITIONS FOR HIGH AND LOV/ VOICE CONTAINING FAVORITE SONGS BY „ BEACH, BRANSCOMBE, CHADWICK. DANIELS, FOOTE HADLEY. LANG, LYNES, MacDOV/ELL,METCALF,NElDLINGtR,PARK, SALTER, WARD-STEPHENS-and others Two Volumes for High Voice Two Volumes for Low Voice Price $1.25 Each THE ARTHUR R SCHMIDT CO. 120 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON, MASS. For Sale by all Music Dealers 263 with either arm outspread on the precious papers piled on each side of her." A scene for the "historical painter" ! We quote the report of this incident, not on account of its intrinsic value, but to show in what manner Miss May was able to write two volumes, containing six hundred and twenty-five octavo pages, about the quiet life of the composer. But what is Miss May in comparison with Max Kalbeck, whose Life of Brahms contains 2,138 pages? In a letter, Brahms described this symphony as "a couple of entr'actes," also as "a choral work without text." Franz Wiillner, then conductor of the Gtirzenich concerts at Cologne, asked that he might produce this new symphony. Brahms answered that first performances and the wholly modern chase after novelties did not interest him. He was vexed because Wiillner had performed a sym- phony by Bruckner; he acted in a childish manner. Wiillner an- swered that he thought it his duty to produce new works; that a symphony by Bruckner was certainly more interesting than one by Gernsheim, Cowen, or Scharwenka. Brahms was doubtful about the value of his fourth symphony. He wished to know the opinion of Elisabet von Herzogenberg and Clara Schumann. He and Ignaz Briill played a pianoforte arrange- ment in the presence of Hanslick, Dr. Billroth, Hans Richter, C. F. Pohl, Gustav Dompke, and Max Kalbeck. He judged from their attitude that they did not like it, and he was much depressed. "If persons like Billroth, Hanslick, and you do not like my music, whom will it please?" he said to Kalbeck.