E. F. ALBEE THEATRE . PROVIDENCE Tuesday Evening, January^O, at 8.15 a? w BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. FIFTIETH SEASON J930-J93I PRSGR7W1E g 3 g Mrs* John A. Tuckerman Kenmore 9412 Madame et La Jeune Fille INCORPORATED 130 Newbury Street, Boston Sport Costumes** Day and Evening Dresses a Ijsfo] Ready to wlear and Made to order clothes for Girls 14 years up Our Cash Policy Permits Moderate Prices Christmas Novelties JnLats » • • £> MRS. E. N. POTTER, JR. 553 Madison Avenue New York City E. F. ALBEE THEATRE PROVIDENCE FIFTIETH SEASON, 1930-1931 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, at 8.15 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1931, 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. 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ALBEE THEATRE PROVIDENCE Two Hundred and Fourteenth Concert in Providence Fiftieth Season, 1930-1931 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Beethoven .... Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 I. Adagio molto; Allegro con brio. II. Andante cantabile con moto. III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace; Trio. IV. Finale: Adagio; Allegro molto e vivace. Stravinsky Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra I. Presto. II. Andante rapsodico. III. Allegro capriccioso, ma tempo giusto. (Played without pause) Wagner Ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walkure" Wagner Prelude and Love-Death from "Tristan und Isolde" Wagner Overture to "Rienzi" SOLOIST JEStJS MARlA SANROMA STEINWAY PIANO There will be an intermission often minutes after Stravinsky's Capriccio For the music on these programmes, visit the Music Department at the Providence Public Library Foreign Cities in America You need not cross oceans to see foreign lands! 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RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY Aylsworth Travel Service, 36 Weybosset Street Church Ticket Agency, 54 Exchange Street : Symphony No. 1, in C major, Op. 21 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Bora at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827) Beethoven had composed two works Tor orchestra before the com- pletion and performance of his first season,—the Concerto for piano- forte and orchestra, Op. 15 (179G) ; the Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra, Op. 19 (1794-95). It is probable that Beethoven medi- tated a symphony in C minor: there are sketches tor the first move- ment. Nottebohm, studying them, came to the conclusion that Beethoven worked on this symphony in 1794 or early in 1795. He then abandoned it and composed the one in C major. Whether he used materia] designed for the abandoned one in C minor, or in- vented fresh material, this is certain : that the concert at which the Symphony in C major was played for the first time was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, March 26, 1800. It should be observed, how- ever, that one of the phrases in the sketches for the earlier symphony bears a close resemblance to the opening phrase of the allegro molto in the Finale of the one in C major. It is thought that Beethoven composed a few symphonies in Bonn. A symphony once thought by a few to have been composed at Bonn was found at Jena by Professor Fritz Stein and performed there January 17, 1910. The Boston Symphony Orchestra played it in Boston on December 30, 1911. The first performance was at a concert given by Beethoven at the 7 National Court Theatre, "next the Burg,' Vienna, of April 2, 1800. 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