Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes

by Philip Hale

INDEX

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] Q [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X Y Z

A Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy), [119]-22. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss), [313], [316]-19, [330]. Altschuler, Modeste, [288]-89. Amor Brujo, El (Love, the Sorcerer), de Falla, [140]-42. Apthorp, William F., [52], [77], [78]-79, [171], [178], [281], [311], [350], [380].

B Bach, Johann Sebastian, [2]-6, [151]. The Brandenburg Concertos, [2]-3. The Concertos for Pianoforte, [4]-5. The Orchestral Suites, [5]-6. Balakirev, M., [207]. Baudelaire, P. C., [122]. Beaumarchais, P. A., [217]. Beethoven, Ludwig van, [7]-55, [102], [112]-13, [154]. Symphony No. 1, [7]-10. Symphony No. 2, [10]-13. Symphony No. 3, [13]-17. Symphony No. 4, [18]-22. Symphony No. 5, [19]-20, [22]-26. Symphony No. 6, [26]-29. Symphony No. 7, [29]-33, [36]. Symphony No. 8, [34]-37, [109]. Symphony No. 9, [38]-44. Overture to Leonore No. 3, [44]-47. Overture to Egmont, [47]-49. Overture to Coriolanus, [49]-57. Piano Concerto No. 4, [51]-52. Piano Concerto No. 5, [52]-54. Violin Concerto, [54]-55. Fidelio, [19], [45]. Wellington’s Victory, [30], [32]. Bekker, Paul, [15]. Berlioz, Hector, [8], [12]-13, [20]-22, [23]-26, [56]-65, [175], [254], [390]. Symphonie Fantastique, [56], [57]-64, [92]. Overture, The Roman Carnival, [64]-65. Blake, William, [263]. Bloch, Ernest (Schelomo), [66]-69. Blom, Eric, [71]. Boito, Arrigo, [175]. Bolero (Ravel), [170], [239]-40. Borodin, Alexander (Symphony No. 2), [70]-74. Borowski, Felix, [136]. Boschot, Adolphe, [60]. Boucher, Maurice, [170]. Brahms, Johannes, [75]-99, [100], [113]. Symphony No. 1, [77]-80. Symphony No. 2, [80]-83. Symphony No. 3, [83]-85. Symphony No. 4, [86]-88. Haydn Variations, [88]-90. Tragic overture, [90]-91. Academic overture, [91]-94. Piano Concerto No. 1, [94]-95. Piano Concerto No. 2, [95]-97. Violin Concerto, [97]-99. Brenet, Michel (Marie Bobillier), [9], [159]. Bruckner, Anton, [100]-13. Symphony No. 7, [102]-06. Symphony No. 8, [106]-11. Bruneau, Alfred, [123]. Buckley, R. J., [137]. Bülow, Hans von, [81], [182], [254], [311], [356]. Burke, Harry R., [141].

C Calvocoressi, M. D., [167]. Canudo, Ricciotto, [38]-39. Caprice on Spanish Themes (Rimsky-Korsakov), [250]-52. Carpenter, J. A. (Adventures in a Perambulator), [114]-17. Cervantes, Miguel de, [320]-27. Cherubini, Luigi, [63]. Clouds (Debussy), [122]-24. Coates, Albert, [390]. Cocteau, Jean, [27].

D Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2 (Ravel), [237]-38. David, Ferdinand, [203]. Death and Transfiguration (Strauss), [310]-13. Debussy, Claude, [34], [118]-29. Afternoon of a Faun, [119]-22. Nocturnes, [122]-24. La Mer, [124]-26. Iberia, [127]-29. De Quincey, Thomas, [22], [35], [242]. Diaghilev, Serge de, [143], [237], [331]-33. Dieters, Dr. Hermann, [91]. Don Juan (Strauss), [308]-10, [313]. Don Quixote (Strauss), [313], [320]-27, [330]. Dvořák, Anton, [130]-34. Symphony No. 5 (From the New World), [130]-34. Dwight, John S., [1], [79]-80.

E Elgar, Edward (Enigma Variations), [135]-39. Euryanthe overture (Weber), [385]-88. Evans, Edwin, [337].

F Falla, Manuel de, [140]-44. El Amor Brujo (Love the Sorcerer), [140]-42. El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-cornered Hat), [142]-44. Faust (Goethe), [25]. Faust symphony (Liszt), [175]-80. Festivals (Debussy), [122]-24. Fidelio (Beethoven), [19], [45]. Figaro overture (Mozart), [217]-19. Fingal’s Cave (Hebrides) overture (Mendelssohn), [201]-03. Finlandia (Sibelius), [302]-04. Fire-Bird (Stravinsky), [331]-33. Fliegende Holländer overture (Wagner), [366]-67. Fokine, Michel, [237]. Franck, César (Symphony), [102], [145]-49, [167]. Freischütz, Der, overture (Weber), [382]-85.

G Gatti, Guido M., [68]. Gilman, Lawrence, [301]-02. Gluck, C. W. von, [150], [214], [310]. Goepp, Philip H., [294]. Goethe, J. W. von, [25], [48], [175]-80, [309]. Goldmark, Carl, [96]. Gray, Cecil, [136], [295], [299]. Grove, Sir George, [197], [264].

H Habeneck, F. A., [65]. Handel, G. F. (Twelve Concerti Grossi), [150]-53. Hanslick, Edouard, [84]-5, [100]-01, [108], [113], [183], [359]-60. Haydn, F. J., [154]-60. Symphony No. 88, [158]-60. Symphony No. 94, [157]-58. Symphony No. 104, [155]-57. Hazlitt, William, [210]. Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) overture (Mendelssohn), [201]-03. Heldenleben, Ein (Strauss), [13], [313], [327]-30. Henderson, W. J., [298], [378]. Herodotus, [227]. Hindemith, Paul (Konzertmusik), [161]-63. Hoffmann, E. T. A., [211]. Honegger, Arthur (Pacific 231), [164]-65. Hugo, Victor, [181], [287]. Huneker, James, [146].

I Iberia (Debussy), [127]-29. Images (Debussy), [127]-29. Indian Suite (MacDowell), [186]-88. d’Indy, Vincent, [17], [27]-8, [34], [102], [147]-49, [166]-72. Symphony No. 2, [166]-69. Istar variations, [170]-72.

J Jean-Aubry, G., [141]. Joachim, J., [84], [94], [97]. “Jupiter” symphony (Mozart), [277].

K Kalbeck, Max, [85], [93], [98]. Kelly, Michael, [215]-16, [218]-19. Koechlin, Charles, [120]. Krehbiel, Henry E., [259]-60, [314]. Kretzschmar, A. F. H., [151].

L Laforgue, Jules, [209], [234]. Lalo, Édouard, [149]. Laloy, Louis, [121]. Lamartine, A. M. L., [181]. Landowska, Wanda, [1]. Lampadius, W. A., [197]. Legouvé, Ernest, [64]. Lenau, Nicolaus, [308]-10. Liszt, Franz, [173]-83, [207], [254], [258], [271], [368]-69, [370]. Faust symphony, [175]-80. Les Préludes, symphonic poem, [181]-82. Piano Concerto No. 1, [182]-83. Loeffler, C. M. (A Pagan Poem), [184]-85. Lohengrin prelude (Wagner), [368]-69. London Symphony (Vaughan Williams), [389]-93. Love the Sorcerer (El Amor Brujo) (de Falla), [140]-42.

M MacDowell, Edward (Indian Suite), [186]-88. Machabey, A., [162]. Magic Flute, The, overture (Mozart), [219]-21. Mahler, Gustav, [189]-94. The Symphonies, [190]-92. Symphony No. 5, [192]-94. Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) suite (Ravel), [234]-36. Mason, D. G., [139]. May, Florence, [86], [97]-98. Meistersinger, Die, prelude (Wagner), [113], [371]-73. Mendelssohn, Felix, [80], [195]-205, [268], [285], [378]. “Italian” symphony, [195]-99. Incidental music, Midsummer Night’s Dream, [199]-201. Hebrides overture, [201]-03. Violin concerto, [203]-05. Mer, La (Debussy), [124]-26. Montagu-Nathan, [332], [334]. Mother Goose (Ma Mère l’Oye) Suite (Ravel), [234]-36. Moussorgsky, Modeste, [118], [206]-08. Night on Bald Mountain, [206]-08. Mozart, W. A., [154], [209]-24, [263]. Symphonies (E flat, G minor, C major—“Jupiter”), [211]-17. Overture to Figaro, [217]-19. Overture to The Magic Flute, [219]-21. Violin concertos, [221]-22.

N Napoleon Bonaparte, [14]. Newman, Ernest, [139], [179], [243], [346]. Newmarch, Rosa, [304], [306]-07, [347]. Niemann, Walter, [75], [78], [80]. Nietzsche, Friedrich, [316]-19. Night on Bald Mountain (Moussorgsky), [206]-08. Nijinsky, Vaslav, [237], [333], [336]. Nikisch, Arthur, [47]. Nocturnes (Debussy), [122]-24.

O Oberon overture (Weber), [381]-82. Oiseau de Feu, L’ (Stravinsky), [331]-33.

P Pagan Poem (Loeffler), [184]-85. Parry, C. H. H., [4]. Parsifal (Wagner), [298], [376]-79. Péladan, Joséphin, [76]. Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy), [119]. Petrouchka (Stravinsky), [333]-35. Pines of Rome (Respighi), [241]-43. Plotinus, [124]. Poe, Edgar Allan, [129]. Poème de l’Extase, Le (Scriabin), [287]-91. Pohl, C. F., [88], [158]. Ponte, Lorenzo da, [218]. Preludes, The (Liszt), [181]-82. Prod’homme, J. G., [33]. Prokofieff, Serge, [225]-28. Scythian suite, [225]-27. Classical symphony, [227]-28.

R Rachmaninoff, Sergei, [229]-33. Symphony No. 2, [229]-31. Piano Concerto No. 2, [232]-33. Radiant Night (Verklärte Nacht) (Schoenberg), [259]-60. Raff, J. J., [230]. Ramann, Lina, [175], [178], [181]. Ravel, Maurice, [234]-40. Ma Mère l’Oye, Suite, [234]-36. Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2, [237]-38. Bolero, [170], [239]-40. Reichert, Johannes, [106]. Reimann, Heinrich, [9], [87], [91]. Respighi, Otterino (Pines of Rome), [241]-43. Richter, Hans, [84], [113], [136]. Rienzi, overture (Wagner), [365]-66. Ries, Ferdinand, [15]. Rimsky-Korsakov, N., [206], [244]-52. Scheherazade suite, [244]-50. Caprice on Spanish Themes, [250]-52. Rite of Spring, The (Stravinsky), [336]-38. Ritter, William, [133]. Rolland, Romain, [56], [151], [152]-53, [328]. Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasia (Tchaikovsky), [354]-55. Rosenfeld, Paul, [294], [295]. Rossini, Giacomo, [34], [41]. Rubinstein, Nicholas, [356]-58. Runciman, J. F., [150].

S Sacre du Printemps, Le (Stravinsky), [336]-38. Saint-Saëns, C., [149], [223]-24. Symphony No. 3, [253]-58. Salomon, J., [154]-55. Scheherazade suite (Rimsky-Korsakov), [244]-50. Schindler, Anton, [14], [42]. Schoelcher, Victor, [152]. Schoenberg, Arnold (Verklärte Nacht), [259]-60. Schubert, Franz, [132], [261]-69. Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”), [264]-67. Symphony No. 7, [267]-69. Schumann, Clara, [78], [81], [88], [95], [272], [273], [274], [279], [282], [286]. Schumann, Robert, [78], [94], [268], [270]-87. Symphony No. 1, [272]-75. Symphony No. 2, [275]-78. Symphony No. 3, [278]-81. Symphony No. 4, [282]-85. Piano Concerto, [285]-87. Schweitzer, Dr. Albert, [5]. Scriabin, Alexander (Le Poème de l’Extase), [287]-91. Scythian suite (Prokofieff), [225]-27. Shakespeare, William, [22], [24], [49], [60], [199], [354]. Sibelius, Jean, [292]-307. Symphony No. 1, [292]-95. Symphony No. 2, [295]-97. Symphony No. 4, [298]-99. Symphony No. 5, [300]-01. Symphony No. 7, [301]-03. Finlandia, [302]-04. Swan of Tuonela, [305]-07. Siegfried Idyl (Wagner), [373]-75. Sierra, Martinez, [140]. Siloti, Alexander, [353]. Sirens (Debussy), [122]-24. Sombrero de Tres Picos, El (The Three-cornered Hat), (de Falla), [142]-44. Specht, Richard, [79], [82]-83, [97]. Stassov, Vladimir, [73], [208], [246], [344]. Steinitzer, Max, [321]. Strangways, Fox, [299]. Strauss, Richard, [190]-91, [308]-30. Don Juan, [308]-10, [313], [330]. Tod und Verklärung, [310]-13, [330]. Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, [313]-15, [330]. Also Sprach Zarathustra, [313], [316]-19, [330]. Don Quixote, [313], [320]-27, [330]. Ein Heldenleben, [13], [313], [327]-30. Stravinsky, Igor, [331]-38. L’Oiseau de Feu, [331]-33. Petrouchka, [333]-35. Sacre du Printemps, Le, [336]-38. Swan of Tuonela (Sibelius), [305]-07.

T Tannhäuser Overture (Wagner), [85] 137, [367]-68. Taylor, Deems (Through the Looking Glass suite), [339]-42. Tchaikovsky, Peter, [71], [250], [343]-62. Symphony No. 4, [344]-46. Symphony No. 5, [346]-50. Symphony No. 6, [92], [147], [350]-54. Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasia, [354]-55. Concerto for Piano No. 1, [356]-59. Concerto for Violin, [359]-62. Thayer, A. W., [14], [37], [42]. Thomas, Theodore, [368]. Three-cornered Hat, The (El Sombrero de Tres Picos) (de Falla), [142]-44. Through the Looking Glass suite (Taylor), [339]-42. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Strauss), [313], [316]-19, [330]. Tiersot, Julien, [63]. Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (Strauss), [313]-15, [330]. Tod und Verklärung (Strauss), [310]-13. Tristan und Isolde prelude and Liebestod (Wagner), [370]-71. Turina, Joaquin, [143].

U Ulibichev, Alexander von, [9].

V Vechten, Carl Van, [337]. Verklärte Nacht (Radiant Night) (Schoenberg), [259]-60. Virgil, [184].

W Wagner, Richard, [85], [100], [103], [110], [113], [137], [173], [298], [363]-79. Rienzi overture, [365]-66. Fliegende Holländer overture, [366]-67. Tannhäuser overture, [85], [137], [367]-68. Lohengrin prelude, [368]-69. Tristan und Isolde prelude and Liebestod, [370]-71. Die Meistersinger prelude, [113], [371]-73. A Siegfried Idyl, [373]-75. Ride of the Valkyries, [375]-76. Parsifal prelude, [376]-79. Parsifal, Good Friday Spell, [379]. Weber, Carl Maria von, [380]-88. Oberon overture, [381]-82. Der Freischütz overture, [382]-85. Euryanthe overture, [385]-88. Weingartner, Felix, [42], [56], [81], [272], [282]. Weissmann, Adolf, [162]. Wellington’s Victory (Beethoven), [30], [32]. Whitman, Walt, [262]-63. Williams, Ralph Vaughan (A London Symphony), [389]-93. Wolf, Hugo, [112]. Wolff, Werner, [111]. Wüllner, Franz, [47], [84], [315].