«ff W* Aavbo : (a. ffi *w -> \« BOSTON SYAPHONY OROIESTRK INC. FORTY-NINTH SEASON PR5GR7WVE mm setting new standards of radio performance ictor- MICRO-SYNCHRONOUS Radio with ELECTROLA An instant radio triumph, that marks a new era in radio entertainment. Vic- tor Radio is the only micro-synchro- nous receiver, an exclusive Victor development, and with the Electrola also provides electrical reproduction of recorded music. VICTOR RADIO-ELECTROLA ; less 275 radiotrons Convenient Terms CGHARVEY® 144 Boylston Street Phone HANcock 5180 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Branch Exchange Telephones, Ticket and Administration Offices, Commonwealth 1492 INC. Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor FORTY-NINTH SEASON, 1929-1930 WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1929, 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. DE WOLFE HOWE HENRY B. SAWYER JOHN ELLERTON LODGE BENTLEY W. WARREN W. H. BRENNAN, Manager G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager For your home... the right STEINWAY and the right 1 price The Steinway has been the personal instrument of almost every great pianist since Liszt. In the truest suit every home, and the terms are sense, therefore, it is "The Instru- very convenient. Make your visit to ment of the Immortals." Yet it* is the nearest Steinway dealer today. primarily a piano for the home, and particularly for the home of A new Steinway Upright 6St C^ ^f Hf piano can be bought for ™ CP • CP limited income • For the lifelong GRANDS #1475 service which this great piano will riP"££t give you—30, 40, or even 50 years 10% down ^Tei" Any Steinway piano may be purchased and more — spells real economy. with a cash desposit of 10%, and the bal- You will save in repair bills and ance will be extended over a period of two years. Used pianos accepted in partial replacements. Its sing- wonderful exchange. ing tone will be always yours. Steinway & Sons, Steinway Hall There is a model and a price to 109 West 57th Street, New York THE INSTRUMENT STEINWAY OF THE IMMORTALS Forty-ninth Season, 1929-1930 Dr. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Violins. Burgin, R. Elcus, G. Gundersen, R. Sauvlet, H. Cherkassky, P. Concert-master Kreinin, B. Kassman, N. Hamilton, V. Eisler, D. Theodorowicz, J. Hansen, E. Lauga, N. Fedorovsky, P. Leibovici, J. Jacob, R. Pinfield, C. Mariotti, V. Leveen, P. Tapley, R. Thillois, F. Zung, M. Knudson, C. Gorodetzky, L. Mayer, P. Diamond, S. Zide, L. Fiedler, B. Bryant, M. Beale, M. Stonestreet, L. Messina, S. Murray, J. Del Sordo, R. Erkelens, H. Seiniger, S. Violas. Lefranc, J. Fourel, G. Van Wynbergen, C. Grover, H. Artieres, L. Cauhape, J. Bernard, A. Werner, H. Avierino, N. Fiedler, A. Gerhardt, S. Deane, C. Violoncellos. Bedetti, J. Langendoen, J. Chardon, Y. Stockbridge, C. Fabrizio, E. Zighera, A. Barth, C. Droeghmans, H. Warnke, J. Marjollet, L. J5ASSi:s. Kunze, M. Lemaire, J. Ludwig , 0. Girard, Jr. l. Kelley,A. Vondrak, A. Oliver, F. Franke ., I. Dufresne, G. Demetrides, L. Flutes. Oboes. Clarinets. Bassoons. Laurent, G. Gillet, F. Hamelin, G. Laus, A. Bladet, G. Devergie, J. Arcieri, E. Allard, R. Amerena, P. Stanislaus, H. Allegra, E. Bettoney, F. (E-flat Clarinet) Piccolo. English Horn. Bass Clarinet. i Contra-Bassoon. Battles, A. Speyer, L. Mimart, P. 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Dialogue du Vent et de la Mer (Dialogue of Wind and Sea). Beethoven . Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio. II. Andante con moto. j III. Allegro; Trio. I IV. Allegro. There will be an intermission before the symphony The works to be played at these concerts may be seen in the Allen A. Brown Music Collection of the Boston Public Library one week before the concert 1880-1890 "Wi At 296 Washington Street, during the Ws and '90's, Raymond=Whitcomb managed and sold to the people of Boston. 'Raymond's Vacation Excursions ALL TRdYELLINQ— EXPENSES INCLUDED." !&" The old office in the shadow of the Old South Meeting House had an historic background. It stood on land that had be- longed to Governor Winthrop, and fol- lowed an ancient house that served the Church as a parsonage until it was broken up for firewood by the British. 13T Raymond-Whitcomb also has some- thing of a place in history. It was founded in 1 879 and is the oldest American travel company. It has had a large part in mak- ing travel a favorite vacation pastime. At a time when trips to the West were still regarded as adventure it ran special trains to California. It introduced Alaska, the Canadian Rockies and Yellowstone Park to New Englanders of those days. %W Today the Raymond -Whitcomb clients come from all the United States, The Company maintains 1 4 offices in nine cities in America and Europe. Its activities cover the entire globe & include Escorted Tours (as in the old days). Land Cruises on specially built trains, Sea Cruises on chartered liners, and In- dependent Travel everywhere. m* THE PRESENT BOSTON OFFICES ARE AT 165 TREMONT STREET :: 122 NEWBURY STREET, and with the Foreign Department of the First National Bank at 67 Milk Street. Overture to "Egmont," Op. 84 . Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827) This overture was composed in 1810; it was published in 1811. The music to Goethe's play—overture, four entr'actes, two songs sung by Clarchen, "Clarchen's Death/' "Melodrama," and "Triumph Symphony" (identical with the coda of the overture) for the end of the play, nine numbers in all—was performed for the first time with the tragedy at the Hofburg Theater, Vienna, May 24, 1810. Antonie Adamberger was the Clarchen. When Hartl took the management of the two Vienna Court thea- tres, January 1, 1808, he produced plays by Schiller. He finally de- termined to produce plays by Goethe and Schiller with music, and he chose Schiller's "Tell" and Goethe's "Egmont." Beethoven and Gyrowetz were asked to write the music. The former was anxious to compose the music for "Tell" ; but, as Czerny tells the story, there were intrigues and, as "Egmont" was thought to be less suggestive to a composer, the music for that play was assigned to Beethoven. Gyrowetz's music to "Tell" was performed June 14, 1810. It was described by a correspondent of a Leipsic journal of music as "char- acteristic and written with intelligence." No allusion was made at the time anvwhere to Beethoven's "Egmont." LEE PATTISON at Jordan Hall, Thursday, October 24th is featuring his new PIANO SUITE "TOLD IN THE HILLS" 1 . Moderato : In the style of a Folksong 2. Allegretto Scherzando 3. Andante " Sleep well, my child, "Sleep softly under the trees." 4. Allegro giocoso 5. Andante "Ripples the brook, "Gleams the shifting sky." 6. Moderato : like a Processional 7. Epilogue: On Remembering a Child's Tune. His program also includes works by Padre Antonio Soler (1729-178 3), Pure ell, John Bull, Schumann and Chopin. THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 Boylston Street ! The overture has a short, slow introduction, sostenuto ma non troppo, F minor, 3-2. The main body of the overture is an allegro, P minor, 3-4. The first theme is in the strings; each phrase is a de- scending arpeggio in the violoncellos, closing with a sigh in the first violins ; the antithesis begins with a "sort of sigh" in the wood-wind, then in the strings, then there is a development into passage-work. The second theme has for its thesis a version of the first two meas- ures of the sarabande theme of the introduction, fortissimo (strings), in A-flat major, and the antithesis is a triplet in the wood- wind. The coda Allegro con brio, F major, 4-4, begins pianissimo. The full orchestra at last has a brilliant fanfare figure, which ends in a shouting climax, with a famous shrillness of the piccolo against fanfares of bassoons and brass and between crashes of the full orchestra. The overture is scored for two flutes (one interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, kettledrums and strings. Long and curious commentaries have been written in explanation of this overture. 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