This evening at 8 o'clock, the Boston Symphony will give its first concert of the season at Sanders Theatre. Each of the four numbers on the program is noteworthy, but perhaps the most interesting is the last, the great Third or "Eroica" Symphony of Beethoven.

Beethoven, living in Vienna, was a profound admirer of the republican principles of the French Revolution, and in 1804 he wrote in honor of Napoleon the majestic symphony known as the "Eroica". The work was completed just at the time of Napoleon's coronation.

Sadly, indeed, was Beethoven to be disappointed. "When the phrase 'your subjects' was publicly assigned to the Corps Legislative . . ." says J. H. Rose, the historian, "there was a flutter of wrath among those who had hoped that the new Empire was to be Republican. But it quickly passed away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great man."

Lectures which should prove of interest are:

9 O'clock

"The Philosophy of St. Augustine," Professor Gilson, Emerson F. Philosophy 13a.

10 O'clock

"Giotto's early painting," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts 5h.

"The pseudo of Physiognomy and Phrenology," Professor Horton, Peabody Museum, Anthropology 3a.

"New England Puritanism the Plymouth Colony," Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English 33.

11 O'clock

"Significant periods in German literary history," Professor Howard. Germanic Museum, German 25.