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CAMBRIDGE HARVARD UNIVERSITY Forty-seventh Season, 1927-1928 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor THIRD CONCERT THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1 AT 8.00 PROGRAMME RICHARD BURGIN will conduct this concert Cherubini Overture to "Ali Baba" Brahms . Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77 I. Allegro non troppo. II. Adagio. III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace. Schrecker Prelude to a Drama Liszt . "Mazeppa," Symphonic Poem No. 6 (after Victor Hugo) SOLOIST ALBERT SPALDING STEINWAY PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the concerto for CALIFORNIA RAYMOND - WHITCOMB LAND CRUISES The only trains that run from the Atlantic to f[[ jU the Pacific without change. The only trains with real beds and private f][ *U baths. The only trains with recreation cars for bridge, f] [ :ll dancing, lectures, movies, other amusements. J1[ The only trains with a gymnasium for exer- j\ cise en route. £ Eight days from Boston to Los Angeles. 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Send for the Booklet "Land Cruises" TOURS TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS EUROPE AND SOUTH AMERICA CRUISES TO THE WEST INDIES AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Raymond & Whitcomb Company 165 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Telephone: HANCOCK 7820 Overture to the Opera "Ali-Baba, ou les Quarante Voleurs" Maria Luigi Zenobio Carlo Salvatore Cherubini (Born in September, 1760—baptized on September 15—at Florence, Italy; died at Paris, on March 15, 1842) "Ali-Baba, or The Forty Thieves/' opera in four acts with a pro- logue, libretto by Eugene Scribe and Anne Honore Joseph Duveyrier Melesville, was produced at the Theatre de F Academie de Musique (Paris Opera), Paris, on July 22, 1833. Nadir, Nourrit; Ours-Kan, Dabadie; Ali-Baba, Levasseur; Aboul-Assan, Prevost; Phaor, F. Prevot; Calaf, Massol; Thamar, 'Derivis; Delie, Mme. Damoreau; Morgiane, Mile. Falcon. The ballets were by Coralli; scenery by Ciceri, Philastre, and Cambon. In the divertissement of the last act, the Bacchanale from "Achille a Scyros"* was introduced; the march in his "Faniska"f was also introduced. There were only eleven performances. The libretto was thought to be cold and boresome; the music to lack movement and vitality; but in Berlin and other German cities, the opera met with brilliant success, so that *This ballet in three acts, scenario by P. Gardel, music by Cherubini, was produced at the Paris Opera on December 18, 1804, with great success. The part of Achilles was taken by Duport. The Bacchanale was considered one of Cherubini's finest orches- tral works. f'Faniska," an opera in three acts, described as a S'ingspiel, with German text, music by Cherubini, was produced at Vienna on February 25, 1806. Edited by PERCY GOETSCHIUS, Mus. Doc. An analytic edition of the master symphonies, symphonic poems, and classic overtures, arranged for the piano, two hands. Designed for analysis and appreciation classes and for all students of music in its higher forms. Each volume contains a portrait and biographical sketch of the composer and a critique of the work. No. 1 Haydn, No. 6, in G major (Surprise) 75 No. 2 Mozart, No. 48, in G minor 75 No. 3 Beethoven, No. 5, in C minor 1 .00 No. 4 Schubert, No. 7, in B minor (Unfinished) 75 No. 5 Schumann, No. I, in B-flat major 75 No. 6 Brahms, No. 2, in D major 1.00 No. 7 Tchaikovsky, No. 6, in B minor (Pathetic) 1.25 Other numbers to follow OLIVER DITSON COMPA 179 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Founded 1783 Established 1835 Incorporated 1889 Adolphe Adam wrote in his "Derniers Souvenirs d'un Musicien" that Germany avenged Cherubini for the coldness of France. * * * Cherubini's librettists took the story from Antoine Galland's translation "Les Mille et une Nuits." Burton included the "Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in the third volume of "Supple- mental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night" ("Aladdin" and the voyages of Sindbad are also in the "Supple- mental Nights." W. A. Clouston contributes to Burton's third vol- ume an interesting essay on "Ali Baba" a story of "Asiastic invention," and gives variants as found in North German, Chinese, and Modern Grecian legends (pp. 590-595; 650-651). * • * Cherubini had composed in 1793 music for "Koukourgi," in three acts, by the elder Daveyrier-Melesville. It was not performed. Scribe and Melesville, having heard some of this music, wrote the libretto for "Ali-Baba." Cherubini, then sixty-three years old, added new pages to the score.