J '\ f BOSTON \ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA POUNDED IN 1881 DY HENRY L. HIGGINSON FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1938-1939 [Fl [Monday and Tuesday] ^Programmes of the Sixth ^Annual ^Berkshire Symphonic Festival (at "Tanglewood," between Lenox and Stockbridge, Mass.) BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor SERIES A August 3-Thursday, 8:30 p.m. August 5 —Saturday, 8:30 p.m. August 6—Sunday, 3:30 p.m. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Brahms Symphony No. 1 Mozart Symphony in E-flat Piston Concerto for Orchestra Prokofieff "Peter and the Wolf Rimsky-Korsakoff "Scheherazade" Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 SERIES B August 10—Thursday, 8:30 p.m. August 12—Saturday, 8:30 p.m. August 13 —Sunday, 3:30 p.m. Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Debussy "L'Apres-midi d'un Faune" Haydn Symphony Ravel "La Valse" Moussorgsky-Ravel "Pictures at an Exhibition" Schumann Symphony No. 4 Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Strauss "Thus Spake Zarathustra" Stravinsky . 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CHERKASSKY. P. EISLER, D. THEODOROWICZ, J. HANSEN, E. MARIOTTI, V. FEDOROVSKY, P. TAPLEY, R. P. LEIBOVIQ, J. PINFIELD, C. LEVEEN, KRIPS, A. KNUDSON, C. BEALE, M. GORODETZKY, L. MAYER, P. DIAMOND, S. del sordo, r. FIEDLER, B. BRYANT, M. STONESTREET, L. messina, s. DICKSON, H. MURRAY, J. ERKELENS, H. sein1ger, s. Violas LEFRANC, J. FOUREL, G. bernard, a. GROVER, H. WERNER, H. ARTIERES, L. CAUHAPE, J. van wynbergen, c. AVIERINO, N. JACOB, R. GERHARDT, S. HUMPHREY, G. Violoncellos FABRIZIO, E. BEDETTI, J. LANGENDOEN, J. chardon, y. STOCKBRIDGE, C. l. ZIGHERA, A. TORTELIER, P. droeghmans, h. WARNKE, J. MARJOLLET, ZIMBLER, J. Basses KUNZE, M. LEMAIRE, J. frankel, i. girard, h. delescluse, p. vondrak, a MOLEUX, G. juht, l. dufresne, g. barwickj, j. Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons laurent, g. GILLET, F. polatschek, v. ALLARD, R. RATEAU, R. DEVERGIE, J. VALERIO, m. PANENKA, E. pappoutsakis, j LUKATSKY, J MAZZEO, R. LAUS, A. 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The first performance was at St. Petersburg in 1885. There was a performance in Moscow in 1897. The orchestration of the Prelude calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, timpani, harp, tam-tam, and strings. "\T hovanstchina is a formidable name, especially when written as J\ ' Chowdnschtschina,' in the German transliteration" (so writes Oskar von Riesemann, in his readable life of Moussorgsky). "The word (the accent is on the first 'a') looks as if it were invented to dis- play the tongue-twisting properties of the Russian language. The last syllables hiss like a brood of snakes. What is the meaning of this monstrous word? Nothing much — its sense is more innocent than GLEAMING PATENT FOR EARLY SPRING Sleek as a panther, black as ebony, and surprisingly soft and supple is the new patent . one of the highlights of Spring. In many attractive styles. a. An unusually graceful platform sole model $8.75 b. In black patent or blue calf - pert bow $12.75 c. 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It is a musical landscape in which the composer prepares his audience to see the quarters of the Streltsi in Moscow, in the early morning. Riesemann attributes the "five melodic variations" which are the basis of this prelude to "a method of musical expression long familiar to the Russian people, through their popular songs. When a song is sung in a Russian village — especially by several singers in succession — no two stanzas are usually sung alike. Each singer tries to introduce indi- vidual variations in the melody to suit his or her own voice and mood, and in accordance with the meaning of the particular verse. Thus the song loses all rigidity and seems to be a living, breathing organism, it's spring here and clothes were never so excit- ing ... so feminine . and so different . soft suits with chic dressmaker touches . coats with dash and flare such as only Fredleys can achieve ... in Wellesley, too. 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