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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 79, 1959-1960 SEVENTY-NINTH SEASON, 1959-1960 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director > Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor C ON CERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1960, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Shirk Norman James J. 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CONTENTS Program (January 15-16) . 775 Program (January 29-30) . 829 Program (February 5-6) . .831 uSutWi Notes BROS. Wagner (Overture to Tannhauser) 777 Hindemith (Pittsburgh Symphony) 780 Entr'actes Paul Hindemith — Master of Many Trades (Eric Salzman) 790 Apropos "Le Sacre Du Printemps" (Igor Stravinsky) 798 Notes Schubert (Symphony No. 2) . 809 Stravinsky ("The Fire-Bird") . .818 Symphoniana EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS An exhibition of photographs is in the gallery. Four Boston artists are repre- sented : Nicholas Dean, John Brook, Paul Caponigro and Fred Stone. Art galleries experienced which represent painters and sculptors likewise show the work of these photog- resorters . raphers, Mr. Dean in the Nova Gallery, the costume Mr. Caponigro in the Spiral Gallery, and Mr. Brook in the Kanegis Gallery. that's virtually • • a way of living WILLIAM STEINBERG at resorts William Steinberg, who is making bis everywhere . first appearances here as guest conduc- blossom- tor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, sprinkled silk has been the Music Director of the surah dress Pittsburgh Symphony Society since 1952. and matching Born in Cologne, Germany, August 1, 1899, he showed an interest and talent cashmere for music as a boy, studying violin, sweater. 89.95 piano, and also composing. He also became a violinist in the Cologne Munic- other dress ipal Orchestra under Hermann Aben- and sweater droth, who gave him his first instruction combinations in conducting. Graduating from the Con- from. 29.95 servatory of Cologne in 1920, he won the Wiillner Prize of the City of Cologne, became the assistant to Otto Klemperer at the Cologne Opera and in 1924 be- +A/V n+y ne w b u r came the first conductor. In the follow- / ing year he conducted the Opera at [77i] Prague and was soon made its director. In 1929 he went to Frankfurt and be- came the general music director of the Opera there and the Museums-Kon- zerte, and at the same time guest con* ductor of the State Opera in Berlin. In THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON 1933 the Nazi government deprived him of his position. In 1936 he became the founder-con- ductor of the Palestine Symphony Or- chestra, now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1938, he was invited by Toscanini to become Associate Conduc- tor and in the next year regular Con- ductor of the NBC Orchestra in New York. He also conducted numerous or- Do chestras in America as guest. He was appointed Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic in 1945 and in 1952 took his present position in Pittsburgh. In {Jut* Vlllanu *jrriendi 1958 he became Music Director of the London Philharmonic, a position which requires him to divide his time between this country and England. a Ueru • • COMING CONCERTS Ruggiero Ricci will play for the first AououA Iflew Uftear time with this Orchestra when he ap- pears at the concerts of January 29-30, after the Orchestra's third New York tour. He will also appear in the Sunday afternoon concert on January 31 and the concert in Cambridge on February 2. Gregor Piatigorsky will be the soloist in the regular series in the same week (February 5-6) and at the Tuesday s^> concert on February 9. On February 12-13, "Attis," a new work by Robert Moevs after the poem by Catullus and set for orchestra with a small chorus and tenor solo, will have its first per- formance, singers from the Harvard and Radcliffe choruses assisting. There will be an Open Rehearsal on the Thursday 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. preceding. On February 26-27 Richard Burgin will conduct Mahler's Second Boston 16, Mass. Wellesley, Mass. ("Resurrection") Symphony with the KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-4530 Chorus Pro Musica and soloists. An- other concert with chorus will take place in Holy Week. Dr. Munch will present Mozart's Requiem on Thursday, April 14 and Saturday, April 16. [772] %*y* J, A Monte-Sano coat is always new in shape, exciting in fabric, rich in color &i Prophetic pace setter from a magnificent winter collection . the stained glass plaid reefer dipped in glowing colors illuminated by the sun shining through cathedral windows ... in richly textured mohair tweed. The French Shop's coat collection, from $125. The Monte-Sano coat collection, from $250. To the chess player who makes his moves thoughtfully, slowly, surely Winning chess is not often played by restless men or small boys. 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Molto energico II. Slow march III. Ostinato (First performance at these concerts) INTERMISSION Schubert *Symphony No. 2, in B-flat major I. Largo; Allegro vivace II. Andante III. Minuetto: Allegro vivace IV. Presto vivace Stravinsky Suite from the Ballet, "L'Oiseau de feu" Introduction: Kastchei's Enchanted Garden and Dance of the Fire Bird Dance of the Princesses Infernal Dance of All the Subjects of Kastchei Berceuse Finale These concerts will end about 4:00 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:15 o'clock on Saturday Evening. BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [ 775 ] sun savoir-faire — everywhere at Boston • Chestnut Hill [776] OVERTURE TO "TANNHAUSER" By Richard Wagner Born in Leipzig, May 22, 1813; died in Venice, February 13, 1883 Wagner composed the Overture to "Tannhauser und der Sdngerkrieg auf Wartburg, Romantic Opera in three acts," in the spring of 1845. The Opera had its first production in Dresden on October 19 of that year under Wagner's direction. 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