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 1093 Vt N 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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Beach 6964 1098 — "Une Nuit sur le Mont-Chauve" ("A Night on Bald Mountain") ; Fantaisie for Orchestra: Posthumous Work Completed and Orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov Modest Petrovitch Moussorgsky (Born at Karevo, district of Toropeta, in the government of Pskov, on March 28, 1835; died at Leningrad on March 28, 1881) In September, 1860, Moussorgsky wrote to Balakirev: "I have also been given a most interesting piece of work to do, which must be ready by next summer : a whole act of 'The Bald Mountain' (after Megden's drama 'The Witch'). The assembly of the witches, various episodes of witchcraft, the pageant of all the sorcerers, and a finale, the witch dance and homage to Satan. The libretto is very fine. I have already a few materials for the music, and it may be possible to turn out something very good."* In September, 1862, he wrote to Balakirev, saying that his friend's attitude towards "The Witches" (sic) had embittered him. "I considered, still con- sider, and shall consider forever that the thing is satisfactory. I come forth with a first big work. ... I shall alter neither plan nor working-out; for both are in close relationship with the con- tents of the scene, and are carried out in a spirit of genuineness, without tricks or make-believes. ... I have fulfilled my task as best I could. The one thing I shall alter is the percussion, which I have misused." A letter to Rimsky-Korsakov dated July, 1867, shows that he did rewrite "A Mght on' Bald Mountain," but re- mained unwilling to make further alterations : The extracts from Moussorgsky letters are taken from an interesting article by M. D. Calvocoressi published in the Musical Quarterly (N.Y.) of July, 1923. 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 1099 "On the eve of St. John's night, June 23, I finished, with God's help, 'St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain,' a tone picture consisting of the following episodes: (1) Assembly of the Witches, hubbub and chatter; (2) Satan's pageant; (3) Ceremonies in honor of Satan; (4) Witch-dance. I wrote the score straight away, without preliminary rough draft. I began on June 10th or thereabouts, and on the 23d came the time to rejoice. The work is inscribed to Balakirev by special request—and, I need not add, to my great joy. Your favorite bits have come out quite well in the scoring, and I have added a good deal to what I wrote. In the 'Ceremonies,' for instance, comes a passage which will make Cui say that I ought to attend a musical class. Here it is :" (seven measures in notation) "in B minor —the witches glorifying Satan, as you see, nakedly, in all primitive barbarity. In the witch dance comes the following rather original call, the strings and piccolo trilling on B-flat" (five measures in notation), "as I have said, over a trill on B-flat! G minor over B-flat major alternates in amusing wise with G-flat major over B-flat minor, with interruptions by the chords in F-sharp minor breaking in—a thing which would lead to my expulsion from the class to which Cui would have me consigned for the greater glory of my witches.