BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAMMES FOR THE 1910-1911 SEASON. Max Fiedler, conductor. With Historical and Descriptive Notes by Philip Hale. (24 issues bound in one volume).

- Octavo,8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. 24 programs bound together without the original wraps into three-quarter black morocco & marbled boards. The covers are detached with the leather chipped at the corners. The spine is heavily rubbed and chipped. The contents consist of 1,832 consecutively numbered pages. A number of pictorial black-and-white ads are included; however, the 14-16 pages of ads at the end of each program were not bound in. Inserted is a reminder of an 1898 law regarding the wearing of hats by ladies during public performances. There is some soiling to the blank endpapers else the contents are clean and in very good condition. From the library of New York Times music editor William B. Chase with the shipping label from Symphony Hall laid in. Chase was the music editor for The New York Sun from 1896-1916 and for The New York Times from 1916-1935.This volume includes the programs for 24 concerts from October 17, 1910 through April 29, 1911 with historical and descriptive notes throughout by Philip Hale. The volume includes 21 pages of highly useful indexes and summaries at the end. Max Fiedler was music director. Among the soloists featured in these concerts were pianists Carlo Buonamici, Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Hofmann and Xaver Scharwenka performing his own Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor. Singers included Geraldine Farrar, Jeanne Jomelli, Louise Kirkby Lunn, Nellie Melba, Corinne Rider-Kelsey and Carolina White. Violinists who performed as soloists included Felix Berber, Mischa Elman, Francis Macmillen, Sylvain Noack, Kathleen Parlow and Anton Witek. Cellists included Alwin Schroeder and Heinrich Warnke. The season included a World Premiere by Arthur Mansfield Curry, "Atala', conducted by the composer. Other composers conducting their own works were George Whitfield Chadwick and Henry Hadley.On page 193 appears an ad for a "Private Piano Recital" featuring Paderewski, Busoni and Josef Hofmann "Reproduced on the Welte-Mignon Autograph Piano".…