Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 70, 1950-1951
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ll'l BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON /? a C*r\* i. X "III llillUL H ^^* \« SEVENTIETH SEASON I 95o-i95 I Sunday Afternoon Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN. Jr. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE, Jr. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, Jr. HERBERT SEARS TUCKERMAN OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description "A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen — It Must Be Earned." 108 Water Street Los Angeles, California Boston, Mass. 3275 Wilshire Blvd. Telephone Lafayette 3-5700 Dunkirk 8-3316 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTIETH SEASON, 1950-1951 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. 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Spencer McVoy — Up Back of Burlington V 102 Lee Saperstein — Bottles [3] 113 Janet P. Kaplan — Masses 155 Mrs. Ben Ames Williams — Lady 114 Grace Collier — Magnolia Coote 116 Rodman R. Henry — Old Mill — 158 Daniel Weisberg — Weatherbeaten South Egremont 176 Sheila J. Rubin — On a Chair 119 Kalah Novack — K. O. P. P. 177 Katherine Wilkins — Gloucester Harbor 123 Bessie Howard — Noella 179 Roger Gilman — Eastham Creek 127 Maria W. Lockwood — The Lily Pond 182 Harriet A. Brown — Still Life 128 Frances M. Mordecai — Waiting 188 Margaret Fuller Tyng — Portrait for Fog to Lift of Susan 130 Katharina van Wynbergen — New 189 Margaret Potter — New England England Doorway Farm, New Hampshire 133 Emery H. Greenough — Back- 190 Dann Coriat Wyman — Back Porch ground for Breakfast 191 Lorna Appel Nelson — Meditation 140 Esther Heins — Willows and the 192 Kathryn Nason — Monday in the Sea Alley 143 Barbara Tock Berkowitz — Self- 194 Audrey Soule — August Portrait 196 Elisabeth B. Perlmuter — Three 147 Rosamond Pier Hunt — From the Art Students at Work in the Castle Top Studio 151 Mrs. Alva Morrison — Portrait 198 Josephine Durrell — Butterfly 153 Ellen Isabel Leibovici — Tangle- 199 Grace A. Stone — Still Life wood Theatre 200 Karl Zeise — Ogunquit Beach ANNOUNCEMENT Unclaimed student tickets for the first Open Rehearsal by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Charles Munch are now available to the general public. The first rehearsal of the series of five will be given next Thursday evening, November 9, at 7:30 in Symphony Hall. Admission $2.00 (tax included) . Apply at Box Office. [4] The fall fashion story as interpreted by the world's best designers is eloquently illustrated in Filene's French Shops' panorama of the most distinguished names in fashion. 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Under legislative Trust Company sanction, trust accounts of ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON less than $50,000 which name T. Jefferson Coolidge this Company as trustee to- Chairman, Trust Committee day can enjoy the protection Robert Cutler, President Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY AND FIFTY-' J^irst Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, November 5, at 3:00 o'clock Handel, Suite from the Music for the Royal Fireworks (Transcribed for Orchestra by Sir Hamilton Harty) Overture Alia Siciliana Bourree Menuetto Honegger Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude Roussel "Bacchus et Ariane," Ballet, Second Suite, Op. 43 INTERMISSION Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace IV. Finale: Allegro molto BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal are given on the National Broadcasting Company Network (Station WBZ) Sundays from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. [7] Glamour after Dark From our fourth floor collection of loveli- ness . done with great fashion distinction — we show you just one jewel designed to flatter misses. R. H. STEARNS CO BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] . SUITE from the Music for the Royal Fireworks By George Frideric Handel Born in Halle, Saxony, February 23, 1685; died in London, April 14, 17-/^ Transcribed for Orchestra by Sir Hamilton Harty Born at Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, December 4, 1879; died February 19, 1941 The "Fireworks Music" was composed in 1749. The scheduled first performance took place on April 27 of that year in the Green Park, London, although there had been a public rehearsal in the Vauxhall Gardens on April 21. Handel labelled his manuscript merely "Concerto," but when the music was published by subscription under the edition of Samuel Arnold in 1786, it was entitled "The Musick for the Royal Fireworks." In this edition the movements were entitled: Ouverture, Bourree, Largo alia Siciliana, Allegro, Minuets I and II. The edition of Max Seiffert was used in the only previous performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (January 31, 1941) In the edition of Chrysander made for the Handel Gesellschaft in 1886, the Suite is entitled "Firework Music" and the occasional titles appear "La Paix" for the largo, and "La Rejouissance" for the following allegro (this movement is omitted in Sir Hamilton Harty's version) . The instrumentation indicates three trumpet parts with three players to each part, three horn parts with three to each, three oboe parts with twelve, eight, and four players respectively; two bassoon parts with eight and four for each, tympani with three players, and contra-bassoon. The latter part was originally scored for the serpent, when Handel called upon that unfamiliar instrument for probably the only time in his life.* This would account for a wind band of fifty-eight players in the original performance (according to the account in the Gentlemen's Magazine there were a hundred players at Vauxhall; * It is told that when Handel first heard the tones of the Serpent he asked : "What the devil be that?" "A new instrument, called the Serpent." "Aye," answered Handel, "but not the Serpent that seduced Eve." /4 *i&cf6 Ifote. o*t efoccfi fail a jresli, casual jeeling- a new nonchalance in tnp tnosi elegant ensembles . {he outstanding Jeature 0} our Jail wearables, composed especially for vou *i¥cvuvitc& ^*o4. C wen ly K / lew bury 9] Rolland states that there were "about a hundred" at the performance of April 27). Handel later added to his score string instruments for indoor uses. These are written in with the double reed parts in both editions.