SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Back Bay 1492 INC. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1925-1926 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1926, 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 FREDERICK P. CABOT ARTHUR LYMAN ERNEST B. DANE HENRY B. SAWYER M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE GALEN L. STONE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W, WARREN FREDERICK E. LOWELL E. SOHIER WELCH W. H, BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager 1177 •Ve i\ After more than half a century on Fourteenth Street, Steinway Hall is now located at 109 West 57th Street. The new Steinway Hall is one of the handsomest buildings in New York on a street noted for finely designed business structures. 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We know that he was director of music to Duke Philip of Hesse—some say Duke Philip of Hesse-Phil- ippsthal, Ernest Ludwig—at Mantua, where the Duke had a residence from 1707 to 1713, when he returned to Venice. He was appointed maestro de concerti at the Ospedale-della Pieta, a foundling hospital for girls, with a choir and an orchestra, all women. In 1714 he was appointed violinist at St. Mark's Church. He was red-headed and a priest, so he was known as "II Prese rosso." Vivaldi composed a great quantity of music for the violin (according to Riemann, there are in Dresden alone eighty concertos in manuscript), and he wrote operas from 1713 'to 1739—thirty-eight, it is said, twenty-two of them for Venice. Few of his works have been printed. His published compositions include twelve trios for two violins and violoncello . (Op. 1); eighteen violin sonatas with bass (Op. 2 and 5); "Estro Poetico," twelve concertos for four violins, two violas, violon- JUST ISSUED Schmidt's Collection of Short Trios FOR Violin, 'Cello and Pianoforte Short trios are always in demand and when musicians can find a number of interesting compositions in one collection they may well be grateful. In the Schmidt Collection of Short Trios are some exceptionally attractive works. — The Musical Leader. CONTENTS FERNANDO D'ALMEYDA EDWARD MacDOWELL Menuett in G Nautilus RUDOLF FRIML M. MOSZKOWSKI Twilight (Crepuscule) Dawn in the Forest. Cantilena BORIS LEVENSON ' ANNA PRISCILLA RISHER Priere Mazurka Price complete $ 1 . 25 net THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO.,. 120 Boylston Street 1183 cello, and organ bass (Op. 3) ; twenty-four concertos for solo violin, two violins ripieni, viola, and organ bass (Op. 4, 6, and 7); "Le Quatro Stagioni," twelve concertos for four and five voices (Op. 8) ; "La Cetera," six concertos for five voices (Op. 9) ; six concertos for flute, violin, viola, violoncello, and organ bass (Op. 10); twelve concertos for solo violin, two violins, viola, violoncello, and organ bass (Op. 11 and 12). * * * It has long been said that Bach transcribed eleven of Vivaldi's violin concertos, six for clavier, four for organ, and Bach's concerto in A minor for four claviers (Vivaldi's concerto in B minor for four solo violins); but about 1912 the authenticity of Bach's transcriptions of the con- certos for the organ was strenuously denied. Other transcriptions for the clavier were made by Duke Ernst of Saxony, Benedetto Marcello, and Telemann. Vivaldi was a virtuoso, and as a composer he has been accused of writing for mere display and inventing novel effects to win applause. Dr. Burney pooh-poohed his "Stravaganze" for solo violin. Sir John Hawkins said of Op. 8: "The first four concertos are a pretended para- phrase in musical notes of so many sonnets on the four seasons, wherein the author endeavors by the force of harmony and particular modi- fications of air and measure to excite ideas correspondent with the sentiments of the several poems." But the Germans, Bach, Benda, and Quanz among them, thought highly of the Venetian.