Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1954-1956
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nMSHnM \f* TANGLEWOOD — . This "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Album won't be released until September BUT YOU MAY OWN IT NOW! y:*KW ..HTIIOMKWK •- Berlioz III,;,. MUttMTY KHXMUHK4 5 fclv - fvfsr m THE DAMNATION OF FAUST You may enjoy treasured "encores" of this masterful interpretation without waiting! A limited is number of advance copies of this new album are v available to Festival patrons only at the Tanglewood Music Shop on the Festival grounds. x* V "Ml ' ' >l« I.,. INVITE MR. MUNCH AND MR. MONTEUX INTO YOUR HOMES! Hear them conduct these *Romeo and Juliet t Symphonic Fantastique other Berlioz Cycle highlights Complete. Boston Symp. Orch. San Francisco Orchestra con- as often as you choose . conducted by Charles Munch. ducted by Pierre Monteux. Hear the RCA Victor Collector's re-issue of "Harold in Italy' Primrose, Viola; Boston Symp. Orch., Koussevitsky, cond. Other Munch Recordings Other Monteux Recordings * Richard Strauss: Don Quixote *Chausson: Poem of Love and with Piatigorsky, Cellist; Bur- the Sea with Gladys Swarthout, gin, Violinist; de Pasquale, Mezzo Soprano Violist. * Mozart: Concerto No. 12, in A, * Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 K. 414. Concerto No. 18, in B- with Artur Rubinstein, Pianist Flat, K. 456, with Lili Kraus, t Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Pianist Haydn: "London" Symphony * Liszt: Les Preludes t Munch conducts French Music Scriabin: Poeme d'Extase t Schubert: Symphony No. 2 t Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring t Schumann: "Spring" Symph. Rimsky-Korsakoff: * Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Scheherazade, Op. 35 in D Nathan Milstein, Violinist tFranck: Symphony in D Minor * A "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Recording A High Fidelity Recording -f rca\/ictor FIRST IN RECORDED MUSIC BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director ^Berkshire Festival Season 1954 TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS 6 Concerts of Chamber Music in the Theatre-Concert Hall 6 Concerts by Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Theatre-Concert Hall 12 Concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Music Shed THIRD WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I954, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. X Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Philip R. Allen Theodore P. Ferris N. Penrose Hallowell M. A. De Wolfe Howe Palfrey Perkins John Nicholas Brown Alvan T. Fuller Francis W. Hatch Michael T. Kelleher Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lenges Bull George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde X George E. Judd, Manager Assistant Managers: T. D. Perry, Jr., N. S. Shirk 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood Symphoniana *•» The Berlioz Season The Berlioz performances at the Festival sum up a widespread recognition of the genius of this com- poser remembered in many places through the sesqui- centennial season. Mr. Munch conducted Romeo and Juliet in New York and Washington during the MUSIC. season past and the Damnation of Faust in Boston. A Berlioz Society recently formed has focused public IN COMFORT attention on these activities. This orchestra's re- cording of the first of these works has won a Grand Prix du Disque of 1954. A recording of the Imagine yourself entering a cool, Damnation of Faust made just after the perform- tastefully decorated studio a on hot ance is now available at the Tanglewood Music summer . day , relaxing in a comfortable Store before its release in September. The current easychair and listening to fine music (July) issue of High Fidelity Magazine features via quality high fidelity instruments the recordings of this composer. fa pure ntasy you say . , but, In Memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge at Ki^^A^B Fantasy Becomes Reality.1 Berkshire County has long been richly provided Nowhere will you find a demonstration with chamber music through the beneficence of the locale to compare with ASCO's late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The chamber con- much-discussed sound studios. Here certs which she gave at Tanglewood alone or through the Coolidge Foundation of the Library of the world of High Fidelity is opened to your Congress are continued in the Wednesday evening eyes and ears . and you will enjoy chamber series now part of the Festival ; the pro- recorded music as you never have before. ceeds of these concerts will be devoted to the Tangle- You're always welcome at ASCO . even wood Revolving Scholarship Fund. if just to browse around and talk to any The summer chamber music concerts established of the professional ASCO sound men, at South Mountain in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth specialists in the field of High Fidelity. Sprague Coolidge will begin July 10. This season Make sure you hear and see the ASCO six concerts will be given on Saturday afternoons at Miniature-compactly designed to make 4:00, under the joint sponsorship of the Elizabeth Coolidge Foundation of the Library of your summer listening —wherever it Sprague Congress and the Fromm Music Foundation of may be- High Fidelity listening. Chicago, in cooperation with the South Mountain If you would like complete Association. Programs include a Beethoven Sonata information on the ASCO Miniature Series by Alexander Schneider, violin, and Artur line, write to ASCO, Dept. C. Balsam, piano, July 10, 24 and August 7; Leontyne Price, soprano, and Samuel Barber, piano, July 17; John Barrows, horn, Alexander Schneider and Artur Balsam, July 31 ; Juilliard String Quartet, August 14. A limited number of tickets are available without charge on written application to Mrs. Willem Willeke, Musical Director, South Moun- tain Association, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum An exhibition of the Willson Collection of por- traits of composers (engravings, etchings and litho- graphs) is being shown at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield throughout the Festival season. The Berkshire Museum announces exhibitions of special interest for July: paintings by Lawrence R. McCoy and "Massachusetts' Crafts of Today." For July and August there is an exhibition of rooms from the 16th Century to the present, reproduced in miniature by Andrew Zenorini. The Little ZAQnth Program WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, at 8:30 THE ZIMBLER SINFONIETTA {Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) Vivaldi Concert! delle Stagioni (The Four Seasons) for String Orchestra Spring Allegro: *"Spring has come and the birds greet it joyously. The brooks flow with a sweet murmur. Thunder and lightning come and cover the sky with a black mantle. When the storm has passed the birds return to their sweet song. Largo: The goatherd with his faithful dog sleeps on the flowery meadows amidst the murmur of the leaves. Allegro: At the bright coming of spring, nymphs and shepherds dance to the festive sound of shepherds' pipes. Summer Allegro non molto: Men and flocks languish under the hot sun; the cuckoo's voice is heard and the dove sings. A gentle breeze is blowing, but Boreas suddenly appears. Adagio: The shepherd laments because he fears a tempest. The fear of lightning and thunder, as well as the flies, destroy his rest. Presto: Alas! His fears come true, for there is thunder and lightning from Heaven and the hail breaks the tops of the grain and the great trees. Autumn Allegro: Harvest is celebrated with dance and song. Many, heated by wine, finish their pleasure with sleep. Adagio: The temperate air is delightful and everyone leaves dance and song, for the season invites us all to the pleasure of sweetest sleep. Allegro: The huntsmen go forth at dawn with horns and guns. The beasts flee terrified but finally die. Winter Allegro: In the midst of the fierce wind people run stamping their feet and their teeth chatter from the cold. Adagio: One passes quiet, contented days by the fireside while the outside is drenched by rain. Allegro: One walks on ice cautiously for fear of falling. One tumbles, rises and runs until the ice breaks and melts. This is winter with all the winds at war, but still it brings joy. Violin Solo: GEORGE ZAZOFSKY Harpsichord: FERNANDO VALENTI *I he score contains anonymous verses which the music describes. The above paraphrase was made by Margaret Fiske. INTERMISSION Stravinsky . "Apollon Musagete," Ballet in Two Scenes Scene I. The Birth of Apollo — Scene II. Variation of Apollo — Pas d'Action — Variation of Calliope — Variation of Polymnia — Coda (Apollo and the Muses) -- Apotheosis Rossini Sonata for Violins, Cellos and Double Bass Allegro — Andante — Moderato BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood Cinema will show foreign films, each Wednesday NBC Broadcasts through Saturday. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be heard The glassed reception room next to the Main throughout the nation beginning next October when Gate at Tanglewood will have six picture exhibi- the first part of each Saturday evening concert will tions through the Festival weeks arranged by Stuart be broadcast from Symphony Hall over the NBC Henry, Curator of the Berkshire Museum. Sculp- network. ture by Homer Gunn is in the formal garden. Broadcasts of Festival Programs Friends of the Berkshire Music Center WGBH, the FM educational station at Sym- All lovers of music who are interested in the Bos- phony Hall, Boston, of which the Boston Symphony ton Symphony Orchestra's school at Tanglewood Orchestra is a member, will make tapes of the 18 are invited to the numerous performances — orches- orchestral concerts of the Festival for broadcast tral, operatic, chamber and choral, which will be weekly until the winter season begins. Tapes will given through the season. These performances are also be made of concerts, lectures and forums of the open to all who become members by a voluntary Berkshire Music Center and these will be broadcast contribution.