The program: Vivaldi  Concerto with organ Josten  "The Jungle", symphonic poem Tschaikowsky  Symphony No. 6, "Pathetic"

This evening Dr. Koussevitsky presents two tried and true numbers, and the first performance of a symphonic poem. The Vivaldi concerto is a number for orchestra with organ, and is of historical interest as the first composition conducted by Dr. Koussevitsky in Boston.

For the flower of contemporary music, he second number will be especially noteworthy. Professor Josten of Smith is a composer and conductor of recognised prowess. His bent is toward the primitive and naturalistic, rather than the mechanistic, and the subject of his selection is one in which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective; it offers some translation of the former, and simultaneously treats the emotions of the white man in the jungle.

The Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving.