SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FORTY-SECOND SEASON, 1922-1923 Programme WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1923, 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 S97 "UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS QOMETIMES people who want a Steinway think it economi- cal to buy a cheaper piano in the beginning and wait for a Steinway. Usually this is because they do not realize with what ease Franz Liszt at his Steinwa* and convenience a Steinway can be bought. 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"?yl voice that quickens the musical ear of childhood — a voice that stirs the musician to his most inspired moments, and yet a voice that is as human and intimate as the voice of a lifelong friend?* Thus is described the exquisite Tone — the "Voice" of the *^^lfx^raS^§)- ^ ' ^Established 1823O- C PIANO shall be glad to welcome you to our isic Rooms, and let the Chickering carry own message to you in a half hour or so 900 FORTY-SECOND SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO & TWENTY-THREE Pounrteeimtihi ProETammc FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 9, at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, at 8.15 o'clock Chausson Symphony in B-flat major, Op. 20 I. Lent; Allegro vivo. II. Tres lent. III. Anime. Ballantine . "From the Garden of Hellas," Suite for Orchestra (First Performance) a. Invocation to Pan. b. Nocturne. c. Aphrodite. d. Unloose your Cables. Mendelssohn .... Concerto in E minor for Violin, Op. 64 I. Allegro molto appassionato. II. Andante. III. 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This symphony, completed, if not wholly written, in 1890, was performed for the first time at a concert of the Societe Nationale, Paris, April 18, 1891, and again at its concert on April 30, 1892 but it was first "revealed to the Parisian public"—to quote the phrase of M. Pierre de Breville—at a concert of the Berlin Philhar- monic Orchestra, led by Arthur Mkisch, at the Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, on May 13, 1897. In 1897 it was performed at an Ysaye con- cert in Brussels (January 10). The first performance of the symphony in this country was by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Vincent d'Indy conductor by invi- tation, at Philadelphia, December 4, 1905. The first performance in Boston was at a concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Gericke conductor, January 19, 1906; the second performance was on October 20, 1916; the third on November 28, 1919. The symphony, dedicated to Henry Lerolle, is scored for three flutes (one interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, four horns, four trum- COMPOSITIONS BY \I IALLANTIN LYRICS FROM THE GREEK No. 1. Corinth 60 No. 4. My Star .50 .50 2. Aphrodite ... .50 5. Cypris . 3. 'Neath this Tall Pine . .50 6. The Shepherd's Elegy .50 No. 7. To Kale . .50 Everywhere the dignity, the Attic restraint, the frequent nobility of the verses find adequate, often elequent expression in Mr. Ballantine's music. For the encouragement of singers let it be said that these songs are essentially "vocal." exacting demand is that of interpretation. Their most Boston Transcript VIOLIN and PIANO pets, three trombones, bass tuba, a set of three kettledrums, two harps, and strings. It is in three movements. The following sketch is, in large measure, a paraphrase of an article written by Stephane Risvaeg. I. Lent, B-flat, 4-4. An introduction in a broad and severe style begins with a clearly defined figure in unison (violas, violoncellos, double-basses, clarinet, horn). The composer establishes at once the mood and announces the leading motives of the symphony, in their subtle essence at least, if not in their plastic reality. Strings and woodwind instruments are used delicately in counterpoint. After short episodes (horns and violas) the orchestra little by little becomes quiet, and, while the background is almost effaced, a little run of violins and wood-wind instruments introduces the Allegro vivo (3-4). The chief theme, one of healthy but restrained joy, exposed in a simple maimer (m/) by horn and bassoon, passes then from horn and bassoon to oboe and violoncello and in fragments to other in- struments. The ornamentation, though habitually sombre, under- goes modifications. 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In the final measures of this move- ment the initial theme becomes binary (Presto) ; the basses repeat the elements of the Allegro, and the hearer at the end is conscious of human, active joy. II. Tres lent (with a great intensity of expression). The title should be "Grief." At first a deep and smothered lamentation, which begins and ends in D minor without far-straying modulations.