— 5k ***•*» BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON A" "/ss^ tf SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1958-1959 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN. JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE A Signal for a Safe Landing Lack of proper guidance may mean a difference between a safe or a crash landing. Lack of insur- ance coverage may mean the difference between solvency or bankruptcy. Insurance counsel from this Agency gives proper guidance to financial safety when losses occur. A signal from you and we are at your service! CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LAfarette 3-5700 SEVFNTV-ElGHf H SEASON, 1958-1959 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. 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He made his first public ap- earance in 1943 with the Philadelphia )rchestra. He has played with many rchestras since, with this Orchestra at le Berkshire Festival, August 7, 1955. le has played at the Festivals or- anized by Pablo Casals in Prades and ZJravelina 'erpignan and among many concerts in fJLlahtli Europe has given joint recitals with lat artist. Our kimono of pure silk bro- cade with its own small case S2^> to match—the lightest pair of traveling com- panions you can have. An EXHIBITION import from Paintings by eight artists of New Hong Kong. In England constitute the exhibition loaned Poppy Pink, >y the Institute of Contemporary Art, Persian Blue, md now on view in the gallery. Lacquer Red, Jade Green, Anne L. Jenks, the Curatorial Assist- Peacock, or Seafoam. Small, mt of the Institute, has contributed the iollowing comments about the show. Medium, or Large. $25.00 "Donald Stoltenberg treats the urban scene in his dramatic shipyard cranes, 416 BoylstonSt. 54 Central St. the El and the Boston Opera House. Boston 16, Weilestey The human figure, however, is the sub- KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 ject of William Bailey's works and two of Walter Stein's paintings. The spirit [3] — of fantasy prevails in the canvases < Jack Wolfe and Robert Hamilton, at the audience is asked to perceive w'v acuteness and abandonment the artist elusive hints. If Gabor Peterdi's worl appear—at first—abstract, sympathet attention to the titles will reveal th artist's keen observation of natur Although more abstract, Albert AIci lay's paintings are full of a nostalgi that has recognizable counterparts i music and poetry. Robert Neuman : perhaps consistently the most abstrao We love the gay Frenchmen . artist and, as such, possibly the mo: adore the romantic Italians . demanding artist in the group. Noi admire our British cousins . but withstanding, one may observe in hi when it comes to fashion, no one very late work, 'Vista de la Mar,' interprets American women as wisely pronounced suggestion of the humai as American designers. And this figure. spring's fashions prove it. "Although the works were chosen wit) only one thought in mind—their qualit Who else could design, or wear with —it is interesting to observe that mos such aplomb, this spring's cape-deep of these paintings carry hints of very . the fly-away jacket . collar definite subject matter. A stimulatinj coat with the roundly cupped the question then arises: do these artist: convex back? connected with the New England scene represent a conservative aspect of con- Willowy waistlines are back . temporary art? Or are they, perhaps,: clutched with wide kid belts, wrapped not more radical than one suspects with ascot ties, or drawstring cinched, and does this return to the subject not! or belittled with short story jackets. presage a new movement in American! Like stereo, checks have a converging art today? So far, one can only raise questions give conjectures to impact this spring . woven checks, and a question that tantalizes.'* houndstooth checks, lacey checks • • • in sharp contrast to flower garden prints in palpitating sun and shadow tones. And if you're the woman who OVERSEAS BROADCAST " wears beige well, really wears it, by The Boston Symphony programs of [ all means capitalize on the season's Friday, January 23, and Friday, Feb- color sweep of pure beige. ruary 13, were transmitted directly by Transatlantic Cable to Europe. In ad- American fashions in all their scope dition to the British Broadcasting Cor- of color, fabric and line have come poration, and Radio Brussels, the second of age. Come see them at was taken by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and the Yugoslav Radio. Many messages have been received from Europe as a result of the initial broadcast on January 23. Among them a letter from H. G. Wonnacott, Man- ager of the London office of William twenty newbury Filene's Sons Company, to Harold D. (Continued on page }i) [4] filene's ian dresses izy Perette sings of spring . a scale of slim shantung in an elegant dress scored with peppery polka dots, sashed high with faille in the rectoire manner. A composition every ling Bostonian will love in her fashion repertoire for Spring . 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WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST Old Colony Trust Company ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY-NINE Seventh Program TUESDAY EVENING, March 3, at 8:30 o'clock Schumann Overture to Byron's Manfred, Op. 115 Schumann Pianoforte Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 I. Allegro affettuoso II. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso III. Allegro vivace INTERMISSION Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, in C minor (with Organ), Op. 78 I. Adagio; Allegro moderato; Poco adagio II. Allegro moderato; Presto; Maestoso; Allegro Organ: Berj Zamkochian SOLOIST EUGENE ISTOMIN Mr. Istomin uses the Steinway Piano BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] in bud now, to flower through summer . blossom-laden hats millinery salons, both stores BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] . OVERTURE TO BYRON'S "MANFRED," Op. 115 By Robert Schumann Born in Zwickau, Saxony, June 8, 1810; died in Endenich, near Bonn, July 29, 1856 Schumann composed his music for Byron's "Manfred" in the latter part of 1848. The Overture, completed on November 4 at Dresden, had its first concert per- formance at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, March 14, 1852, as part of a "Schumann evening," when Robert conducted from the manuscript. The first performance of the complete music — a stage production — was given at Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt, June 13, 1852. The first concert performance was at Leipzig, March 14, 1859, when Schumann conducted. The Overture was first played in New York at a Philharmonic concert November 21, 1857. The complete "Manfred" music was performed by the same orchestra May 8, 1869, when Edwin Booth impersonated Manfred. The Overture was first performed in Boston at a Harvard Musical Association concert November 17, 1869. The complete music was first heard in Boston when the Cecilia Society performed it April 24, 1880.