Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, Season
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Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, Season
PARSONS THEATRE ,. . Monday Evening, November . HARTFORD 27, at 8.15 .-# BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHCSTRS INC. FORTY-SECOND SEASON J922-J923 wW PRSGRsnnc 1 vg LOCAL MANAGEMENT, SEDGWICK & CASEY Steinway & Sons STEINERT JEWETT WOODBURY «. PIANOS w Duo-Art REPRODUCING PIANOS AND PIANOLA PIANOS VICTROLAS VICTOR RECORDS M, STEINERT & SONS 183 CHURCH STREET NEW HAVEN HARTFORD PARSONS THEATRE FORTY-SECOND SEASON 1922-1923 INC. PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER at 8.15 27, WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY PHILIP HALE COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. FREDERICK P. CABOT GALEN L. STONE ERNEST B. DANE ALFRED L. AIKEN FREDERICK P. CABOT ERNEST B. DANE M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE JOHN ELLERTON LODGE W. H. BRENNAN, Manager President Vice-President Treasurer ARTHUR LYMAN HENRY B. SAWYER GALEN L. STONE BENTLEY W. WARREN E. SOHIER WELCH G. E. JUDD, Assistant Manager *UHE INSTRUMENT OF THE IMMORTALS QOMETIMES people who a Steinway think cal to buy a it want economi- cheaper piano in the beginning and wait for Steinway. Usually this is a because they do not realize with what ease Franz Liszt at his Steinway and convenience a Steinway can be bought. the great come to This is evidenced by number of people who exchange some other piano in partial payment for a Steinway, and say: "If known about your I had only terms I would have had a Steinway long ago!" You may purchase a new Steinway piano with a cash deposit of 10%, and the balance will be extended over a period of two years. 'Prices: Convenient terms. 09 EAST 14th STREET $875 and up. Used pianos taken in exchange. NEW YORK Subway Express Stations at the Door REPRESENTED BY THE FOREMOST DEALERS EVERYWHERE •©sitoim I £>ympn Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Burgin. R. Hoffmann, Mahn, Concert-master. Theodorowicz, J. F. Hamilton, V. Gerardi, A. Krafft. W. Sauvlet, Fiedler, B. Leveen, P. Siegl, F. Mariotti, V. Kurth, R. Bryant, M. Murray, J. Knudsen, C. Erkelens, H. Del Sordo, R. Messina, H. J. C Gundersen, R. Pinfield, Kassman, N. Barozzi, S. Thillois, F. Berger, H. Gorodetzky, L. Goldstein, S. Stonestreet, L. Riedlinger, Diamond, Tapley, R. S. Conductor H. Seiniger, S. S. Violas. Werner, H. Fourel, G. Artieres, L. Van Wynbergen, Gerhardt, Grover, H. Shirley, P. C. Fiedler, A. Mullaly, J. Kluge, M. Zahn, F. 3. Deane, C. Violoncellos. M. Bedetti, J. Keller. J. Belinski, Schroeder, A. Barth, C. Stockbridge, C. Warnke, Langendoen, J J. Fabrizio, E. Marjollet, L. Kelley, A. Demetrides, L. Girard, Basses. Kunze, M. Seydel, T. Ludwig, 0. Keller, K. Gerhardt, G. Frankel, Flutes. Oboes. Laurent, G. Brooke, A. Amerena, P. Longy, G. Lenom, C. Stanislaus, English Horns. Piccolo. Battles, A. Horns. Horns. M. Van Den Lorbeer, H. Tuba. Adam, E. Organ. Snow, A. W. Bassoons. Sand, A. Arcieri, E. Vannini, A. Laus, A. Trumpets. Mager, G. Hess, Mann, Berg, C. J. Perret, G. Kloepfel, L. . Harps. H. Clarinets. Allard, R. Bettoney, F. Bass Clarinet. Mimart, P. Mueller, F. Speyer, L. Wendler, G. Hain, F. Gebhardt, H. I. Timpani. Contra-Bassoon. Piller, B. Trombones. Hampe, C. Adam, E. Mausebach, A. Kenfield, L. Percussion. Holy, A. Ritter, A. Ludwig, C. Delcourt, L. Kandler, F. Sternburg, S. Zahn, F. Celesta. Librarian. Fiedler, A. Rogers, L. 3 J. - Boston Symphony Orchestra VICTOR RECORDS There are dealers in Victor products everywhere and any of them will gladly play any of the Boston Symphony Orchestra records for you. Victrolas $25 to $1500 Victor Talking Machine Camden N.I HIS MASTERS VOICE' Co. HARTFORD PARSONS THEATRE Forty-second Season, 1922-1923 PIERRE MONTEUX, Conductor FIRST CONCERT MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER AT 27 8.15 PROGRAMME Beethoven II. III. IV. .... Debussy Liszt Symphony No. . . 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 Allegro con brio. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. Scherzo: Allegro vivace; Trio. Finale: Allegro molto. I. . Glazounoff Concerto in . . . . A "Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune (Eglogue de S. Mallarme)" ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun [Eclogue by S. Mallarme]") major No. 2 for Pianoforte and Orchestra "Stenka Razin," Symphonic Poem, Op. 13 SOLOIST ERWIN NYIREGYHAZI KNABE PIANO USED There will be an intermission of ten minutes after the 5 symphony S. S. "Resolute" Jan. S. S. 9. "Volendam" Jan. 16. 125 days of entertaining, healthful travel under ideal Under the auspices of Company and on a splendid conditions on ideal cruise-ships. the oldest American Travel new Cruise-ship you are doubly assured of that high standard of service which every discriminating American traveler expects. S. S. "Rotterdam," sailing Feb. 65 days amidst the lands of the ancients, the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians. 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Six special In suming our popular tours to MexWe suggest that you include a trip to Mexico City on your way to connection with the famous Raymond- Whitcomb Winter Tours ico. to the Southwest, the Pacific Coast this season re- California this winter. and Hawaii, we are On your request we ivill gladly send you the Booklet descriptive of the particular Cruise or Tour that appeals to you most. F. Irvin Davis, 82 Pearl St. Elliott 17 Ward W. Jacobs & & Pearl, Temple 54 Church Place, Boston St. Co., 750 Main St. Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica,7 Op. 55 Ludwig van Beethoven (Born at Bonn, December 16 Anton Schindler wrote "First in the much (?), in his 26, 1827.) Beethoven (Munster, 1840): [Beethoven's] mental condition so life 1802 was his fall of March 1770; died at Vienna, of bettered that he could take hold afresh of his long-formulated pay homage with a great instrumental work to the hero of the time, Napoleon. Yet not until 1803 did he set himself seriously to this gigantic work, which we now know make some plan and progress: to 'Sinphonia Eroica': on account of many interrupfinished until the following year. The first idea of not was this symphony is said to have come from General Bernadotte, who was then French Ambassador at Vienna, and highly treasured Beet- under the tions title of it . . . heard this from many friends of Beethoven. Count Moritz Lichnowsky, who was often with Beethoven in the company of Berna- hoven. dotte, I . . . told me the same story." Schindler also wrote, with refer- "The correspondence of the King of Sweden led Beethoven's memory back to the time when the King, then General Bernadotte, Ambassador of the French Republic, was at Vienna, and Beethoven had a lively recollection of the fact that Bernadotte indeed first awakened in him the idea of the 'Sinphonia Eroica.' " ence to the year 1823: These statements are direct. Unfortunately, Schindler, in the third Steinway has been the chosen piano of the masters from Liszt and Rubinstein to Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann. It is the which all measured. 241 ASYLUM STREET Sole Steinway Agents instrument by other pianos are edition of his book, mentioned Beethoven as a visitor at the house Bernadotte in 1798, repeated the statement that Bernadotte inspired the idea of the symphony, and added: "Not long afterward the idea blossomed into a deed"; he also laid stress on the fact that Beethoven was a stanch republican, and cited, in support of his admiration of Napoleon, passages from Beethoven's own copy of Schleiermacher's translation of Plato. of Thayer admits that the thought of Napoleon may have influenced the form and the contents of the symphony; that the composer may have based a system of politics on Plato; "but," he adds, "Bernadotte had been long absent from Vienna before the Consular form of government was adopted at Paris, and before Schleiermacher's Plato was published in Berlin." The symphony was composed in 1803-04. The story is that the title-page of the manuscript bore the. word "Buonaparte" and at the bottom of the page "Luigi van Beethoven"; "and not a word more," said Ries, who saw the manuscript. "I was the first," also said Ries, "who brought him the news that Bonaparte had had himself declared Emperor, whereat he broke out angrily: 'Then he's nothing but an ordinary man! Now he'll trample on all the rights of men to serve his own ambition; he will put himself higher than all others and turn out a tyrant!' " Furthermore, there is the story that, when the death of Napoleon at St. Helena was announced, Beethoven exclaimed, "Did I not fore- when M. Vincent dTndy in see the catastrophe wrote the funeral march in the 'Eroica'?" his remarkable Life of Beethoven argues I against Schindler's theory that Beethoven wished to celebrate the French Revolution en bloc. "C'etait Vhomme de Brumaire" that Beethoven honored by his dedication (pp. 79-82). The original score of the symphony was bought in 1827 by Joseph Dessauer for three florins, ten kreuzers, at auction in Vienna. On the title-page stands "Sinfonia grande." Two words that should follow immediately were erased. One of these words is plainly "Bona- Sarhrarfj Portraits for Their appreciated quality Make 69 CHRISTMAS and prestige are known and everywhere. To properly will finish be them requires time and care. an appointment for a sitting now. PRATT STREET - - - HARTFORD JX.ew evidence of the superior tonal qualities of is provided by the decision or THE CHICAGO OPERA COMPANY to make it tneir official piano Sh^^aldumtptmuk (&>« CINCINNATI INDIANAPOLIS DENVER CHICAGO ST. LOUIS DALLAS NEW YORK LOUISVILLE SAN FRANCISCO and under his own name the composer wrote in large characters with a lead-pencil: ''Written on Bonaparte." The first performance of the symphony was at a private concert at Prince Lobkowitz's in December, 1804. The composer conducted, and in the second half of the first allegro he brought the orchestra to grief, so that a fresh start was made. The first performance in public was at a concert given by Clement at the Theatre an der Wien, April 7, 1805. The symphony was announced as "A new grand Symphony in D-sharp by Herr Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to his Excellence Prince von Lobkowitz." Beethoven conducted. Czerny remembered that some one shouted from the gallery: "Fd give another kreuzer if they would stop." Beethoven's friends declared the work a masterpiece. Some said it would gain if it were shortened, if there were more "light, clearness, and unity." Others found it a mixture of the good, the grotesque, the tiresome. The symphony was published in October, 1806. The title in Italian stated that it was to celebrate the memory of a great man. And there was this note: "Since this symphony is longer than an ordinary symphony, it should be performed at the beginning rather than at the end of a concert, either after an overture or an aria, or after a concerto. If it be performed too late, there is the danger that it will not produce on the audience, whose attention will be already wearied by preceding pieces, the effect which the composer purposed in his own mind to parte/' attain." WEBER STERLING VOSE HUNTINGTON ^he Music VICTROLAS Center of Hartford and STEINWAY DUO ART VICTOR RECORDS PIANOLA PIANOS 10 Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun (after the Eclogue of Achille Claude Debussy Stephane Mallarme)" (Born at St. Germain (Seine and Oise), August 22, 1862; 26, 1918.) died at Paris, March "Prelude a FApres-Midi d'un Faune (Bglogue de S. Mallarme)" was played for the first time at a concert of the National Society of Music, Paris, December 23, 1894. The conductor was Gustave Doret. The first performance in Boston it was also the first in the United States was at a concert of the Boston Orchestral Club, Mr. Longy conductor, April 1, 1902. Let us read Mr. Gosse's explanation of the poem that suggested music to Debussy: "It appears in the florilege which he has just published, and I have now read it again, as I have often read it before. To say that I understand it bit by bit, phrase by phrase, would be excessive. But, if I am asked whether this famous miracle of unintelligibility gives me pleasure, I answer, cordially, Yes. I even fancy that I obtain from it as definite and as solid an impression as M. Mallarme desires to produce. This what I read in it: A faun a simple, sensuous, passionate being wakens in the forest at daybreak and tries to recall his experience of the previous afternoon. Was he the fortunate recipient of an actual visit from nymphs, white and golden goddesses, divinely tender and indulgent? Or is the memory he seems to retain nothing but the shadow of a vision, no more substantial than the 'arid rain' of notes from his own flute? He cannot tell. Yet surely there was, surely there is, an animal whiteness among the brown reeds of the lake that shines out yonder? Were they, are they, swans? No! 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A garden ! He would perience. golden-headed, white-stalked, behind the trellis of red roses? Ah the effort is too great for his poor brain. Perhaps if he selects one lily from the garth of lilies, one benign and beneficent yielder of her cup to thirsty lips, the memory, the ever-receding memory, may be forced back. So when he has glutted upon a bunch of grapes, he is wont to toss the empty skins into the air and blow them out in a visionary greediness. But no, the delicious hour grows vaguer; experience or dream, he will never know which it was. The sun is warm, the grasses yielding; and he curls himself up again, after worshipping the efficacious star of wine, that he may pursue the dubious ecstasy into the more hopeful boskages of sleep. of lilies, ! Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 2, in A major (Born at Raiding, near Odenburg, Hungary, October Franz Liszt 22, 1811; died at Bayreuth, July 31, 1886.) This concerto was sketched in 1839. It was completed and scored The concerto is dedicated to Hans von Bronsart, by whom it in 1849. was played from manuscript for the first time at a concert for the benefit of the Orchestral Pension Fund in the Grand Ducal Court Theatre, Weimar, January 7, 1857. Liszt conducted. His symphonic poem "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne" was also performed for the first time at this concert. The second performance of the concerto was at Berlin, January 14, 1858, in the Sing-Akademie, when Karl Tausig was the pianist and von Billow conducted. The first performance in Boston was at a concert of Theodore Thomas's Orchestra, October 5, 1870, when Anna Mehlig was the pianist, and this performance is said to have been the first in the United States. The autograph manuscript of this concerto bore the title "Concert symphonique," and, as Mr. Ap thorp once remarked, the work might be called a symphonic poem for pianoforte and orchestra, with the title "The Life and Adventures of a Melody." The concerto is in one movement. The first and chief theme binds the various episodes into an organic whole. But let us use the words of Mr. Apthorp rather than a dry analytical sketch: "From this point onward the concerto is one unbroken series of kaleidoscopic effects of the INCORPORATED Thirty-third season, 1922-1923 BOARD OF MANAGERS ----.- a a ,„ci ru Mr. A. A. WELCH *„ Mrs. T. B. BEACH Miss M. H. WILLIAMS Mrs. J. P. Miss K. E. ANDREWS Mrs. A. S. COOK Mrs. JULIUS CAY Mrs. S. B. ST. JOHN ,. Secretary Treasurer ANDREWS RALPH WALDO L. S. FACULTY BALDWIN, Classes . , p Piano . - - - - - - - - ......... oiccn t LILLIAN L. BlbbLLL FLORENCE A. ATKINS ELLIOT STANLEY FOOTE - „,.„. DrwAD EVELYN BONAR ROSA DUNNE in Theory MARGUERITE FOSTER ALFRED TROEMEL (New r Rn V M VI/ACURITRM WASHBURN CAROLYN ARTHUR PRIEST . PRATT. WM. L. WHITNEY .. rmDM (New M v AURELIO GIORNI York) . -j d President Musical History (Boston and New York). Voic e 14 York) , - - - Violin - Organ brilliant and ever-changing description; of musical form, of musical coherence even, there is less and less. It is as if some magician in some huge cave, the walls of which were covered with glistening stalactites and flashing jewels, were revealing his fill of all the wonders of color, Never has brilliancy, and dazzling light his wand could command. even Liszt rioted more unreservedly in fitful orgies of flashing color. It is monstrous, formless, whimsical, and fantastic, if you will; but it It is also magical and gorgeous as anything in the 'Arabian Nights.' And ever and anon the is its very daring and audacity that save it. first wailing melody, with its unearthly chromatic harmony, returns in one shape or another, as if it were the dazzled neophyte to whom the magician Liszt were showing all these splendors, while initiating it into the mysteries of the world of magic, until it, too, becomes magical, and possessed of the power of working wonders by black art." most * This concerto is scored for solo pianoforte, three flutes (one interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, horns, two trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, kettledrums, cymbals, strings. "Stenka Razin," Symphonic Poem for Full Orchestra, Op. 13 Alexander Glazounov (Born at Petrograd, July 29, 1865; now living at Petrograd.) "Stenka Razin" was composed at Petrograd in 1885. Dedicated "to the memory of Alexander Borodin," it is scored for three flutes (one interchangeable with piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, four kettledrums, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, harp, and strings. The composer conducted the symphonic poem at a concert of Russian music at the Trocadero, Paris, on June 22, 1889, the year of a World's Exposition — there. .. CONCERT "DIRECTION PIERGE BUILDING - - .. BOSTON - As heretofore, Mr. Richmond continues his policy of featuring artists Appearing under his direction this season: of distinction. RICHARD BURG IN, Violinist — FELIX FOX, Pianist — LAURA LITTLEFIELD, Soprano (lyric)— MARIA CONDE, Soprano (coloratura)— JEAN TRIO — Henry Gideon MENTS" -and BEDETTI, Cellist— FIEDLER in "CONCERTS with BOSTON SYMPHONY ENSEMBLE "A Miniature Symphony Orchestra" AUGUSTO VANNINI, 15 Conductor COM- — — — "Stenka Razin" is built on three themes: the first is the melancholy song of the barge-men of the Volga; the second theme, short, savage, bizarre, typifies the hero who gives his name to the piece; and the third, a seductive melody, pictures in tones the captive Persian princess. The chant of the barge-men is that which vitalizes the orchestral piece. It is forever appearing, transformed in a thousand ways. The river is personified. This Razin was a Cossack, who long ago ruled the Volga, led an insurrection, took Astrakan, devastated provinces; at last, a prisoner, he was broken on the wheel in the reign of the Tsar Alexis, 1672. "The Volga immense and placid! For many years those along its banks had dwelt in peace when suddenly appeared the terrible hetman Stenka, who at the head of his savage band ran up and down the Volga devastating and pillaging the villages and towns along its shores. As the folk-song has it : "Forth swiftly swam the light canoe, The light canoe of the Ataman, Of the Ataman, Stenka Razin. The craft was everywhere adorned; Seats it had for the Kazaki; The sails were wove of silken cloth; The sweeps were tipt with solid gold. Amid the boat was a brocaded tent, And in that brocaded tent there lay Great barrels stuft with golden hoards. On the treasure sat a beauteous maiden, The mistress of the Ataman. ... Persian princess, taken captive by Stenka Razin. A "One day she grew pensive, and addressing them a dream she had once dreamt of her master, she told of comrades herself to the : " 'Listen to me, ye gallant braves; When was young, I my sleep was light; My sleep was light, but much I dreamed. To me my dream seemed far from good: I dreamed our chief was shot to death; The Kazak oarsmen sat chained in prison; And I— I "The dream was drowned in of the Princess Mother came Volga.' true. Stenka was surrounded by the soldiers of the Tsar. Seeing his ruin at hand, Stenka cried out: " 'Never, during all the thirty years of my going up and down Mother Volga, have I made her a gift. To-day I shall give her what is in my eyes the most precious of earthly treasures.' Saying this, he threw the Princess into the Volga. The savage band began to sing the praise of their leader, and they all rushed upon the soldiers of the Tsar." SEVENTY YEARS' REPUTATION An old form. :8 and reliable remedy Sold only in boxes K for Free from opiates in any throat troubles caused by cold or use of the voice. Prices. 15c, 35c, 75c. $1.25. at druggists or by mail in bulk. — never OWN S Will keep the teeth and Ma°creaotue d s ' gums in JOHN I. 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