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SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, at 8.00 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT President BENTLEY W. WARREN Vice-President ERNEST B. DANE Treasurer FREDERICK P. CABOT FREDERICK E. LOWELL ERNEST B. DANE ARTHUR LYMAN N. PENROSE HALLOWELL EDWARD M. PICKMAN M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager Zm 1 STEIN WAY the instrument of the immortals Not only the best piano, but the best piano value It is possible to build a piano to beauty of line and tone, it is the sell at any given price, but it is not greatest piano value ever offered! often possible to build a good . Convenient terms will be piano under such conditions. arranged, if desired. 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Le matin d'un jour de fete (The morning of a festival day). Wagner Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner . Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" 5 TWO WEST INDIES CRUISES — DECEMBER 22 and FEBRUARY 9 (On the largest steamer ever to sail in the Caribbean — S. S. "Columbus") ROUND AFRICA CRUISE — JANUARY 14, 1928 MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE — JANUARY 21, 1928 SPRING MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE — APRIL 7, 1928 LAND CRUISES IN AMERICA (Trans-Continental trips on the most luxurious railroad trains in the world. Cruise-Tours to California. Hawaiian Trips.) TOURS IN EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL (At Home and Abroad) STEAMSHIP TICKETS BY ALL LINES INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS Symphony in G major (B. & H. No. 13) . Joseph Haydn (Born at Ro-hrau, Lower Austria, March 31, 1732; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809) Haydn wrote a set of six symphonies for a society in Paris known #s the "Concert de la Loge Olynipique." They were ordered in 1784, when Haydn was living at Esterhaz. Composed in the course of the years 1784-89, they are in C, G minor, E-flat, B-flat, D, A. No. 1, in C, has been entitled "The Bear"; No. 2, in G minor, has been entitled "The Hen"; and No. 4, in B-flat, is known as "The Queen of France." The symphony played at this concert is the first of a second set, of which five were composed in 1787, 1788, 1790. If the sixth was written, it cannot now be identified. This one in G major was written in 1787, and is "Letter V" in the catalogue of the Lon- don Philharmonic Society, No. 13 in the edition of Breitkopf & Hilrtel, No. 8 in that of Peters, No. 29 in that of Sieber, No. 58 in the list of copied scores of Haydn's symphonies in the library of the Paris Conservatory of Music. — around their treatment revolves the fashionable mode in COATS! Collars tend to follow the contour of fashion with its trend towards the geometric—curves or angles. Away-from-the- face collar Double animal collar . Diagonal collar Scarf-Cape collar Medici fur collar Notched fur collar OPPOSITE BOSTON COMMON Orchestral Suite from "Petrouchka." Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky (Born at Oranienbaum, near Leningrad, on June 5, 1882; now living) The ballet "PStrouchka : Scenes burlesques en 4 Tableaux," scenario by Alexandre Benois, was completed by Stravinsky at Home in May (13-26), 1911. It was produced at the Chatelet, Paris, on June 13, 1911. The chief dancers were Mme. Tamar Karsavina, La Ballerine; Mjinski, P6trouchka; Orloff, Le Maure; Cecchetto, the old Charlatan; Mme. Baranowitch, First Nurse. Mr. Monteux conducted; Mr. Fokine was the ballet-master. The scenery and costumes were designed by Benois; the scenery was painted by Anisfeld; the costumes were made by Caffi and Worobieff. The management was G. Astruc and Company, organized by Serge de Diaghilev. "This ballet depicts the life of the lower classes in Russia, with all its dissoluteness, barbarity, tragedy, and misery. P£trouchka is a sort of Polichinello, a poor hero always suffering from the cruelty of the police and every kind of wrong and unjust persecu- tion. This represents symbolically the whole tragedy in the ex- istence of the Kussian people, a suffering from despotism and in- justice. 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