Twentieth Programme

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, March 25, at 2:30 o’clock

SATURDAY EVENING, March 26, at 8:15 o’clock

SERGE PROKOFIEFF Conducting

Prokofieff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Chout” (“Buffoon”), Ballet Suite, Op. 21

• Dance of the Buffoons’ wives
• The Buffoon masquerades as a young girl
• The arrival of the merchant
• Fifth Entr’acte, and burial of the goat
• Final dance

Prokofieff . . . . . . . . . . . . Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10

(The composer playing the piano part, Richard Burgin, conducting)

(First performances in Boston)

intermission

Prokofieff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Peter and the Wolf,” An Orchestral Fairy

Tale for Children, Op. 67

Narrator: Richard Hale

(First performances in the United States)

Prokofieff . . . . . “Romeo and Juliet,” Ballet, Second Suite, Op. 64 ter

• Montagues and Capulets
• Juliet, the Maiden
• Friar Laurence
• Dance
• The Parting of Romeo and Juliet
• Dance of the West Indian Slave Girls
• Romeo by Juliet’s Grave

(First performances in the United States)