PARSONS THEATRE . HARTFORD Monday Evening, January 8, at 8.15 THIRD CONCERT OF THE SEDGWICK CONCERT COURSE PRoGRKttAE LOCAL MANAGEMENT, SEDGWICK & CASEY ttWHITlM Steinway & Sons STEINERT JEWETT WOODBURY is PIANOS * Duo-Art REPRODUCING PIANOS AND PIANOLA PIANOS VICTROLAS VICTOR RECORDS M. STEINERT & SONS 183 CHURCH STREET NEW HAVEN PARSONS THEATRE • • HARTFORD FORTY-SECOND SEASON 1922-1923 INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, at 8.15 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. WAttREN JOHN ELLERTON LODGE E. SOHIER WELCH W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1 <UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS QOMETIMES people who want a Steinway think it economic 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 Steinway and convenience a Steinway can be bought. This is evidenced by the great number of people who come to exchange some other piano in partial payment for a Steinway, and say: "If I had only known about your terms I would have had a Steinway long ago!" You may purchase a new Steinway piano with a cash deposit of 10%, and the bal- ance will be extended over a period of two years. 'Prices: $875 and up. Convenient terms. Used pianos taken in exchange. STEM 109 EAST 14th STREET NEW YORK Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Hoffmann, J. Gerardi, A. Hamilton, V« Concert-master Mahn, F. Krafft, W. Sauvlet, H. Theodorowicz, J Gundersen, R. Pinfield, C Fiedler, B. Siegl, F. Kassman, N. Barozzi, S. Leveen, P. Mariotti, V. Thillois, F. Gorodetzky, L. Kurth, R. Murray, J. Berger, H. Goldstein, S. Bryant, M. Knudsen, C. Stonestreet, L. Riedlinger, H. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Diamond, S. Tapley, R. Del Sordo, R. Messina, S. Violas. Fourel, G. Werner, H. Grover, H. Fiedler, A. Artieres, L. Van Wynbergen, C. Shirley, P. Mullaly, J. Gerhardt, >5. Kluge, M. Deane, C. Zahn, F. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Keller. J. Belinski, M. Warnke, J. Langendoen, J Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Marjollet, L. Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Kelley, A. Girard, H. Keller, K. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, I. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Longy,'G. Sand, A. Laus, A. Brooke, A. Lenom, C. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H, Vannini, A. Bettoney, F. Piccolo. English Horns. Bass Clarinet. Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Mueller, F Mimart, P. Piller, B. Speyer, L. Horns. Horns. Trumpets. Trombones. Wendler, G. Hess, M. Mager, G. Hampe, C. Lorbeer, H. Van Den Berg, C. Mann, J. Adam, E. Hain, F. Perret, G. Mausebach, A. Gebhardt, W. Kloepfel, L. Kenfield, L. Tuba. Harps. Timpani. Percussion. Adam, E. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Zahn, F. Delcourt, L. Kandler, F. Sternburg, S. Organ. Celesta. Librarian. Snow, A. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. J. 3 Boston c oymphony Orchestra VICTOR RECORDS There are dealers in Victor products everywhere and any of them will gladly play any of the Boston Symphony Orchestra records for you, Victrolas $25 to $1500 Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden NJ. fe HIS MASTERS VOICE" PARSONS THEATRE - - - HARTFORD B©§t©mi Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor SECOND CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, JANUARYi8 AT 8.15 PROGRAMME Tchaikovsky .... Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 I. x^ndante sostenuto; moderate* con anima. II. Andantino in modo di canzona. III. Scherzo; Pizzicato ostinato: Allegro. IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco. Rabaud . "The Nocturnal Procession/' Symphonic Poem (after Lenau) Lalo ..... Concerto for Violoncello with Orchestra I. Prelude: Allegro maestoso. II. Intermezzo. III. Introduction: Rondo. Wagner . Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" SOLOIST JEAN BEDETTI There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the symphony 5 |HE Raymond-Whitcomb Guide to Winter Travel in America — new edition is a concise and attractive handbook full of information valuable to every traveler. You will find it absolutely indispensable in planning your Winter holiday. We suggest that you apply for your copy now, before this popular little volume is exhausted. VERY day and in every way, wet or fine, East or West, Raymond-Whitcomb arrangements are "The Best in Travel." Make us your travel specialists and you will be relieved of the irksome details too often associated with travel. Let us make your hotel and railroad reservations, arrange your automobile tours either here or abroad, purchase your steamship tickets and in general give you that expert advice so essential to you in planning your trip. |HEN you are abroad and require help in the travel line — whether it be in connec- tion with tickets, baggage or passports — you will find the experts in our London and Paris offices pleased to offer you courteous assistance. UR wide experience — extending over five decades — has gained for us enviable world-wide relations, so that whether you are planning to travel in America or in Europe, to the Far East or to the West Indies, to South America or to Alaska, in North Africa or Egypt and the Holy Land — in short any part of the world where it is safe and desirable to travel — we urge you to benefit by the expert and up-to-the-minute knowledge of Raymond-Whitcomb, whose service is famous as "The Best in Travel." & II II 11 (1,^4&>^J/ H i! H F. Irvin Davis, 82 Pearl St. Ward WJacobs & Co., 750 Main St. Elliott & Pearl, 54 Church St. 17 Temple Place, Boston Symphony in F minor, No. 4, Or. 36 Peter Tchaikovsky (Born at Votkinsk, in the government of Viatka, Russia, May 7, 1840; died at Petrograd, November 0>, 1893.) Tchaikovsky composed this symphony during the Avinter of 1877-78. He had lost interest in an opera, "Othello," for which a libretto at his own wish had been drafted by Stassoff. The first draft was finished in May, 1877. He began the instrumentation on August 23 of that year, and finished the first movement Septem- ber 24. He began work again towards the end of November. The Andantino was finished on December 27, the Scherzo on January 1, 1878, and the Finale on January 7, 1878. The first performance was at a symphony concert of the Kussian Musical Society, Moscow, February 22, 1878. Nicholas Rubinstein conducted. The first performance in the United States was at a concert of the Symphony Society at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, February 1, 1890, Walter Damrosch conductor. The dedication of this symphony is as follows : "A mon meilleur ami" ("To my best friend"), and thereby hangs a tale. This best friend was the widow Nadejda Filaretovna von Meek. Her maiden name was Frolowsky. She was born in the village Snamensk, government of Smolensk, February 10, 1831. She mar- ried in 1848 an engineer, and for some years she knew poverty. Her courage did not give way; she was a helpmeet for her husband, who finally became famous and successful. In 1876 her husband died. She was left with eleven children and a fortune of "many Steinway has been the chosen piano of the masters from Liszt and Rubinstein to Paderewski, Rachman- inoff and Hofmann. It is the instrument by which all other pianos are measured. 241 ASYLUM STREET Sole Steinway Agents ; millions of rubles." Dwelling at Moscow, fond of music, she ad- mired beyond measure certain works by Tchaikovsky. Inquiring curiously concerning his character as a man and about his worldly circumstances, she became acquainted with Kotek, a pupil of Tchai- kovsky in composition. Through him she gave Tchaikovsky com- missions for transcriptions for violin and pianoforte of some of his works. There was an interchange of letters. In the early sum- mer of 1877 she learned that he was in debt. She sent him three thousand rubles ; in the fall of the same year she determined to give him yearly the sum of six thousand rubles, that he might com- pose free from pecuniary care and vexation; but she insisted that they should never meet. They never spoke together; their letters were frequent and intimate. Tchaikovsky poured out his soul to this woman, described by his brother Modest as proud and ener- getic, with deep-rooted principles, with the independence of a man a woman that held in disdain all that was petty and conventional; was pure in thought and action; a woman that was compassionate, not sentimental.* The composer wrote to her May 13, 1877, that he purposed to dedicate this symphony to her. "I believe that you will find in it echoes of your deepest thoughts and feelings. At this moment any other work would be odious to me ; I speak only of work that pre- supposes the existence of a determined mood. Added to this I am in a very nervous, worried, and irritable state, highly unfavorable to composition and even my symphony suffers in consequence." In August, 1877, writing to her, he referred to the symphony as "yours." "I hope it will please you, for that is the main thing." He wrote August from Kamenka: "The first movement has cost me much trouble in scoring it. It is very complicated and long ; but it seems to me it is also the most important. The other movements are simple, and it will be fun to score them.