m I \ \ .• BOSTON SYAPnONY ORCnCSTRS INCORPORATED THIRTY-NINTH SEASON ^^^n^ I9I9-I920 PRoGRT^^nnC ^'21 1| Established 1833 WEBSTERi AND i ATLAS i NATIONAL BANKi OF BOSTON \ WASHINGTON AND COURT STREETS AMORY ELIOT President RAYMOND B. COX. Vice-President In ?mI\^'t.^?^<! ^\ ^"i!*' JOSEPH L. FOSTER. Vice-President and Cashier ARTHUR WTL^.Vbst.CMhie'r EDWARD M. HOWLAND, Vice-President HAROLD A. YEAMES, Asst Cashier Capital $1,000,000 Surplus and Profits $1,600,000 Deposits $11,000,000 The well-estabKshed position of this bank in the community^ the character of its Board of Directors, and its reputation as a solid, conservative institution recommend it as a particularly desirable depository for Accounts of TRUSTEES, EXECUTORS and INDIVIDUALS For commercial accounts it is known as A STRONG BANK OF DEPENDABLE SERVICE DIRECTORS CHARLES B. BARNES GRANVILLE E. FOSS JOSEPH S. BIGELOW ROBERT H. GARDINER FESSENDEN S. BLANCHARD EDWARD W. GREW THEODORE G. BREMER OLIVER HALL WILLIAM R. CORDINGLEY WALTER HUNNEWELL RAYMOND B. COX HOMER B. RICHARDSON AMORY ELIOT DUDLEY P^ROGERS ROGER ERNST THOMAS W. THACHER JOHN W. FARWELL WALTER TUFTS SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephones Ticket Office j { Back Bay' 1492 Branch Lxchange ( Administration Umces ) ^ Bd at Oil SfmpIboBf OirduBstra INCORPORATED THIRTY-NINTH SEASON, 1919-1920 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor ^"^oi"^:rammt) of tt. T'\vm^\]}J''{{Te>[ Concerts WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 9 AT 2.30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10 AT 8.00 O'CLOCK COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INCORPORATED W. H. BRENNAN. Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1497 — I ^,i 1 [ I ;: fV. ' , ( A name that is spoken with the full pride of ownership—that carries with it the deep satis- faction of possessing the ultimate expression of man's handiwork in Musical Art. A name that is cherished as a Family Tradition that keeps afresh for the next generation the associations and fond remembrances which cluster around the home piano. Supreme achievement of patience, skill and ex- perience, founded on inborn Ideals of Artistry. FEINWA Catalogue and prices on application Sold on convenient payments Old pianos taken in exchange Inspection invited r^ 107-109 East 14th Street New York Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE 1498 35TH 5E/I50N STHPHONT HflLL MflKE E4RLY RE5ERV/ITION5 FOR THE OPENINQ NIQHT, nOND/IT, MflT 3 OF THE F/inOUS ORCHESTRA OF 5TnFH0NT FLAYERS CONDUCTOR TicKet s^W opens AXopday, April 26 A\2iil orders now r^c^iv^d SEATS AT CENTER TABLES $1, No Tz^x A«J«lrcss Box Office, 5yn7pbony Hall» Boston W. H. BRENM/IN Q. E. J^hh n^N^QER A5ST, n/IN/IQER 1499 " SAVING MUSICIANS FROM OBLIVION An editorial from the Sun and N. Y. Herald, February 6th, 1920. ' 'As a result of certain of the almost uncanny inventions on special display in New York this week, the musical lives of thousands of artists will be indefinitely prolonged. Records of the products of their genius, at first crude and consequently resulting in mere approximations, have been brought to a high state of perfection. Through them, future ages, in discussing the gift or talent of the pianists of today will have real evidence to go upon, in- stead of the vague tradition which is all that is available in the case of artists of the past. ' 'But not only are the inventors and the music merchants conferring immortality in a true sense on the stars of the concert platform; they are extending the size of the aud- ience until it reaches from China to Peru. From one person who used to be familiar with notable performan- ces from sense of actual contact, there are hundreds of thousands at present who are able to gain experience in an indirect way. "A notable example of what can be done already was given the other day when five distinguished musicians played before a hall full of persons who afterward heard the programme reproduced artificially. It is astonishing to realize that a machine should record, as on a highly sensitive plate, not merely the general characteristics but the color, the elusive manner, the most secret and puzzling qualities of the original. TH E instrument referred to is the Ampico Reproducing Piano, which reproduced the playing of Godowsky, Levitzki, Moiseiwitsch, Ornsteinand Rubinstein immed- iately after those artists had finished playing a variety of pieces, in a public concert at Carnegie Hall, New York. Its function is the dissemination and perpetuation of the playing of the world's greatest pianists, whose art is re- produced with absolute fidelity. It is possible to hear the Ampico in the Chickering Piano at the Ampico Stu- dios, Chickering Retail Warerooms, 169 Tremont St- 1500 . SYMPHONY HALL 40th Season 1920-1921 24 FRIDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS 24 SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS BEGINNING OCTOBER 8-9, 1920 BY THE Boston Symphony Orchestra PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor WITH DISTINGUISHED SOLOISTS SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION This year's subscribers for the series of 24 Friday after- noon and 24 Saturday evening concerts have an option until May 1 to retain their seats for the following season of 1920-21. Subscription notices, containing cards and envelopes for reply, have been mailed all present subscribers. A prompt reply will be much appreciated. Meanwhile, application may be made for additional seats by present subscribers or by those who wish to be- come subscribers. These applications will be filed in order of receipt and seats allotted as near the desired location as possible shortly after May 1 Address all communications to W. H. BRENNAN. Manager Symphony Hall, Boston . THIRTY-NINTH SEASON. NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETEEN AND TWENTY FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9. at 2.30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 10, at 8 o'clock Mozart . Concertante Symphonie for Violin and Viola (Kochel No. 364) I. Allegro maestoso. II. Andante. m. Presto. Violin solo: J. Theodorowicz Viola solo: F. Denayer Dukas . "Polyeucte" (Overture to Corneille's Tragedy) (First time at these concerts) Ravel "Ma Mere I'Oye" ("Mother Goose") Five Children's Pieces Pavane de la Belle au Bois Dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty). II. Petit Poucet (Hop o' my Thumb), III. Laideronnette, Imperatrice des Pagodes (Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas). IV. Les Entretiens de la Belle and de la Bete (Beauty and the Beast Converse). Le Jardin Feerique (The Fairy Garden) Borodin Polovtskian Dances from the Opera "Prince Igor" (First time at these concerts) There will be an intermission of ten minutes after Mozart's Concertante Symphonie The ladies oj the audience are earnestly requested not to put on hats before the end oj a number. The doors oj the hall will be closed during the perjormance of each number on the programme. Those who wish to leave bejore the end of the concert are requested to do so in an interval between the numbers. City of Boston, Revised Regulation of August 5, 1898,— Chapter 3, relating to the covering of the head in places of public amusement Every licensee shail not, in his place of amusement, allow any person to wear upon the head a covering which obstructs the view of the exhibition or performance in such place of any person seated in any seat therein provided for spectators, it being understood that a low head covering without projection, which does not obstruct such view, may be worn. 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This composition in E-flat major is for solo violin and solo viola, with accompaniment of two oboes, two horns, and strings. The date of the composition is unknown. The original manuscript is prob- ably not in existence. When the work was performed at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, 1856, a copy owned by Andr6 was used, in which cadenzas in Mozart's handwriting were inserted. Otto Jahn thought the concerto could not have been written before 1776 or 1777, perhaps not before 1780, on account of the maturity shown in the invention of the themes, the coherency of the development, the charm and sureness of modulations, the treatment of the orches- tra, separately and in connection with the solo instruments.