SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 iostoe Symphony Dircliesftira INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTY-SECOND SEASON, 1922-1923 Pr©i WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1922, 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 ALFRED L. AIKEN ARTHUR LYMAN FREDERICK P. CABOT HENRY B. SAWYER ERNEST B. DANE GALEN L. STONE M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE BENTLEY W. WARREN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager <UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS According to Your Means THE lover of art who aspires to own a great masterpiece of painting cannot realize his dream unless he is possessed of wealth. But the music lover who longs for a Steinway is more fortunate. 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It originally bore the opus number 24, but at the request of Simrock the publisher Dvorak changed it to 76. Dvorak's name first became known by his Slavonic dances, Brahms having called the attention of Simrock to them and to the talent of the composer. Simrock was for a time unwilling to bring out any im- portant orchestral or chamber work of Dvorak's, who insisted on the worth of some that were in manuscript and had not been performed. He said in his letter to Simrock (May 29, 1887) : "Hans Richter writes me from London: 'Your Symphonic Variations have had a great suc- cess, and in hundreds of concerts that I have directed in my life I have never had so great a success as with this.' I have still some more of such older works. I will enumerate them: F major symphony, Opus 24, year 1875; Symphonic Variations, Opus 27, 1877; quartet for strings, Opus 18, 1871; string quartet in E major, 1875; quartet, A minor, Opus 16; and besides these, three symphonies, B-flat, E-flat, and D-minor, and still other things." Simrock answered that Dvorak could prepare the symphony in F major for the engraver. In November Dvorak wrote: "Hans von Billow has accepted the dedication and has written me a letter that you should read! It is heavenly! Manns, of the Crystal Palace, has taken the new symphony, of which something had been told him by Ondricek. As at the last minute I am being plagued in England for a JUST ISSUED JUST ISSUED Edward Ballaimtroe laytomi Jokes LYRICS FROM THE GREEK "ONCE UPON A TIME" No. 1. Corinth 60 (Un Pas Vite) No. 2. Aphrodite 50 Piano Solo 50 No. 3. 'Neath this Tall Pine .50 PERSUASION No. 4. My Star 50 (Valse lente) No. 5. Cypris 50 Piano Solo 60 No. 6. The Shepherd's Elegy .50 SALUTATION. Waltz No. 7. To Kale 50 Piano Duet 75 E ARTHUR R SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston St. 7.-, — novelty, you must be so good as to give Manns alone the first per- formance of the F major symphony. He must be the first to make it." When the symphony was produced and published, the sale did not come up to Simrock's expectations. We quote Mr. Borowski, the excellent editor of the Chicago Symphony Programme Books: "The publisher, who was not accustomed to give to Dvorak anything but the truth—especially if the truth was unflattering and likely to make the composer's future demands more modest than usual—sent him a tart letter, in which he caused it to be clear that he was displeased. The Bohemian master answered (December 23, 1888) rather pathetically, 'My F major symphony has pleased very much in Kiel, Meiningen, " Mannheim, and Budapest, and cannot therefore be so very bad.' The first performance of this symphony was at the Crystal Palace. London, on April 7, 1888. The conductor was August Manns. The programme was as follows: Weber's overture to "Oberon"; Spohr's seventh concerto for violin (Hans Wessely); Elsa's Dream from "Lohengrin" (Mme. Valleria); the F major symphony by Dvorak; two songs—"Winterlied," by Mendelssohn, and Schumann's "Wid- mung" (Mme. Valleria); Wieniawski's fantasie on Gounod's "Faust" (Hans Wessely); and the overture to Wagner's "Tannhauser." Dvorak's symphonies when published were not numbered as they were composed. He had two symphonies completed as early as 1864 B-flat major and E minor. A symphony in E-flat major and the Scherzo of one in D minor were performed in Bohemia in 1874. * * * The symphony in F major is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two QUALITY and REPUTATION enable you to know in advance that the ^©HH is a most satisfactory piano. WE CHALLENGE COMPARISON DSE & SONS PIANO CO. 16CKBoylston St., Boston, Mass. 70 L. P. HOLLANDER CO. 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