BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY SEVENTY-SECOND SEASON I 95 2 " I 953 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, J«. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON. Ja. 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-S700 Dunkirk 8-3S16 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY^SECOND SEASON, 1952-1953 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burr 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. 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A pair of Mozart programs will be played Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, poppy scattered July 19, to include Divertimento K. embossed cotton, crisp and 136 for Strings; Violin Concerto in G, fresh as a flower in May. 216 (Isaac Stern, soloist) ; Serenade K. White with aqua or claret for 13 Wind Instruments K. 361 ; the poppies. Grosgrain belt and Symphony; Overture to "The "Prague" bow to match. Sizes 10 to 20. Marriage of Figaro"; Sinfonia Con- certante for Violin and Viola (Isaac 22.95 Stern, violin, and Joseph de Pasquale, first viola, soloists) ; "Eine kleine 416 Boylston St., Boston Symphony. Nachtmusik"; the "Jupiter" 54 Central St., Wellesley A feature of the final weekend of Theatre concerts, one of contemporary [3] works, one of Haydn, Saturday, July 25 Darius Milhaud's "La Creation du and Sunday, July 26, will be the Cantata, monde," Maurice Ravel's "Le Tombeau "A Parable of Death" by Lukas Foss, de Couperin." The Haydn program will which was commissioned by the Louis- contain the St. Theresa Mass for Chorus, ville, Ky., Orchestra and had its world Soloists and Orchestra (Hugh Ross, con- premiere there on March 11 last. As ductor) ; Symphonies 93 and 100 ("Mili- on that occasion, the composer has been tary"). invited to conduct, and Vera Zorina Nine concerts in the Music Shed by will be the Narrator. the full orchestra will follow on the "A Parable of Death" (for Narrator, three weekends July 31, August 1, 2; Chorus, Tenor Soloist and Orchestra) August 7, 8, 9; August 14, 15, 16, this is from Geschichten vom lieben Gott year for the first time the three series by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria concentrated into three-day weekends, Rilke, English version by Anthony on Friday and Saturday evenings, and Hecht. The balance of the contem- Sunday afternoons. Pierre Monteux will porary program will be Richard Strauss' be guest conductor on August 1; Leon- Divertimento, Op. 86 (after Couperin), ard Bernstein on August 9 and 15. POPSSYMPHONY HALL ARTHUR FIEDLER, Conductor Sixty-eighth Season OPENING NIGHT TUESDAY, APRIL 21 The Pops will be given each Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night through May 23. The regular Pops Orchestra will play every night except Sunday through July 3. Tickets now — Floor (table seats) $2.50; First Balcony $1.50, $1.00; Second Balcony (unreserved) 50 cents. [4] filene's In Filene's French Shops you will find the dramatic collections of all these important designers Larry Aid rich Pierre Balmain Hattie Carnegie Ceil Chapman Lilly Dache Davidow Christian Dior Irene Vincent Monte Sano Traina Norell Laddie Northridge Mollie Parnis Maurice Rentner Adele Simpson Sophie Pauline Trigere B.H. 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It's nice to know that the Stearns label is still your safeguard when seeking fashion needs for yourself, for your children, or essentials for your home. BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] OVERTURE, "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL,'' Op. 5 By Samuel Barber Born at West Chester, Pa., March 9, 1910 Mr. Barber composed his Overture in 1932. It was performed at the summer series of concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Robin Hood Dell, August 30, 1933. The Overture was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, November 15, 1940, and repeated October 16, 1942, February 10, 1950, and April 25, 1952. The orchestration is as follows: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, bass drum and cymbals, bells, triangle, harp, celesta and strings.