BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEVENTY-THIRD SEASON I 953~ I 95+ BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN We blueprint the basic structure for the insur- ance of our clients and build their protection on a sound foundation. Only by a complete survey of needs, followed by intelligent counsel, can a proper insurance program be constructed. We shall be glad to act as your insurance architects. Please call us at any time. OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LAfayette 3-5700 I——— SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, CO mmonwealth 6- 149s SEVENTY-THIRD SEASON, 1953-1954 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1954, 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 Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Lewis Perry N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Francis W. Hatch Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers [ »»*9] /w THE LIVING TRUST How It Benefits You, Your Family, Your Estate Unsettled conditions . new inventions . political changes . interest rates and taxes, today make the complicated field of in- vestments more and more a province for specialists. Because of this, more and more men and women, with capital to invest and estates to manage, are turning to the Living Trust. 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The National Shawmut Bank of Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ["30] SYMPHONIANA Charles Munch Makanm, Broadcast Prospects Summer Concerts THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON Chamber Concerts at Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center (Season 1953-1954) Exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts) 3 Opportunities to Subscribe 4 On WGBH 4 A Berlioz Season 51 Visitors from Paris 52 Music from Finland and Denmark 99 In Memoriam: William Kapell. 147 Ferenc Fricsay 147 Lithographs by Wengenroth 147 Mrs. Coolidge and Tanglewood .... 195 The Philadelphia Orchestra 196 A Band of Virtuosos 196 A Conductor Remembered (Ernest Ansermet) 243 The Higginson Portrait 244 Jacques Thibaud 291 Ruth Posselt and Jacques Thibaud 339 Krenek and Mahler's Tenth 339 Boston Must Aid Symphony Or- chestra 435 Women's Work 483 Contributors 532 Bequests 532 Koussevitzky Fund 532 Berlioz Redivivus 579 Edward Weston 627 Visitors from the West 675 Exhibition (Boston Society of In- experienced dependent Artists) 723 traveler Friends 724 "Tomorrow's Symphony" 771 Light, easily packed pure silk Young Friends 771 surah robe in a fresh pink or Tanglewood School Announces blue polka dot print. Note Plans 867 the interesting Invitation to the Dance 915 new back yoke Advice to a Symphonist—Age, 22. 963 treatment and the • • smooth fitting notch collar. EXHIBITIONS Sizes 10 to 20. The following exhibitions were hung 39.95 in the gallery during the 1953-54 season: 416 Boylston St., Boston Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Contem- porary American Paintings). Oct. 9- 54 Central St., Wellesley Nov. 1. Stow Wengenroth (Lithographs). Nov. 6-17. Double your National Audubon Society (Photographs of Wildlife). Nov. 20-Dec. 1. record listening Fifth Annual Subscribers Exhibition. Dec. 11-Jan. 5. Art. pleasure. Boston Institute of Contemporary Jan. 8-Jan. 23. Edward Weston (Photographs). Jan. 29-Feb. 7. Boston Society of Independent Artists. Feb. 19-Mar. 6. Boston Camera Club (Photographs). Mar. 19-Apr. 3. Oriental Rugs (Fogg Art Museum). Apr. 13-May 1. Sculptures in Wood (C. Torno Speyer). Apr. 13-May 1. The Higginson Portrait by John Singer Sargent, in a copy by Peter Pez- zati, was presented to the Boston Symphony Orchestra by the Misses Frances, Isabella, Harriot and Margaret Curtis. Model 3HES5 $139.95 CHARLES MUNCH Charles Munch, at the conclusion of RCAVlCTOR the present season, will fly to France to conduct several concerts there, notably HIGH FIDELITY in Paris and in his native Strasbourg. After the six weeks' Berkshire Music m ff, Victrola Phonograph Festival which ends in mid-August, he will again return to Europe and will and RCA Victor conduct at the Edinburgh Festival. Mr. Munch has written a book entitled High Fidelity Records Je suis chef d'orchestre (I am a con- ductor) and this book is about to be New High Fidelity "Victrola" phono- published by the Edition du Conquista- graphs bring out the hidden "highs" dor in Paris. 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Presto; Allegro Allegro assai Presto Baritone Recitative Quartet and Chorus: Allegro assai Tenor Solo and Chorus: Allegro assai vivace, alia marcia Chorus: Andante maestoso Adagio, ma non troppo, ma divoto Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato Quartet and Chorus: Allegro ma non tanto Chorus: Prestissimo Chorus of the HARVARD GLEE CLUB and RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY (G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor) Soloists Eileen Farrell, Soprano David Poleri, Tenor Janice Moudry, Contralto Mac Morgan, Bass This program will end about 3:35 o'clock on Friday Afternoon, 9:50 on Saturday Evening. The Friday and Saturday concerts are broadcast each week from Station WGBH (FM) . BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [1135] Stearns can make (/ m dreams come true Many Boston brides, through the years, realized the wedding of their dreams . thanks to the wise guidance of Mrs. Reed and her expert staff in Stearns Wedding Embassy. As soon as YOUR date is set, take advantage of their gracious services. Do use our Bride's Preference List to record your wishes and patterns in china, silver and gifts and thus avoid disappointment or duplication. 4 The Bride's Preference List is on the seventh floor. The Wedding Embassy on the fourth. Mtym BOSTON [»S6] OVERTURE TO "CORIOLAN," Op. 62 (after Collin) By Ludwig van Beethoven Born at Bonn, December 16 (?) , 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 Beethoven composed his overture on the subject of "Coriolanus" in the year 1807. It was probably first performed at subscription concerts of Prince Lobkowitz in Vienna, in March, 1807.