TANGLEWOOD •LONG PLAY (LM-1953) S3. 98 '•LONG PLAY (lM-2097) $3.98 • •LONG PLAY (lM-190o) $3.98 f H I — ,1 rcaVictor iA DEBUSSY THE BLESSED DAMOZEL BERLIOZ SUMMER NIGHTS VICTORIA I)E LOS ANGELES BOSTON SYMPHONY / MUNCH Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Munch • LONG PLAY (LM-1959) $3.98 **LONG PLAY (LM-1893) $3.98 **LONG PLAY (lM-2015) $3.98 BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 • TRAGIC OVERTURE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH /|f\ BOSTON SYMPHONY J CHARLES MUNCH ORCHESTRA MUNCH IN PERSON on rca Victor records To Charles Munch, conducting is not a profession but a THE sacred calling. And this dedication, combined with the WORLD'S magnificence of the Boston Symphony, brings you some GREATEST of the greatest performances of our time. You feel and ARTISTS hear this devotion whether he conducts Brahms, Berlioz ARE ON or Beethoven . whether the performance is in Tangle- wood, Symphony Hall or on RCA Victor Records! rcaVictor Nationally Advertised Prices—Optional **A "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity recording BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Berkshire Festival Season 1957 (TWENTIETH SEASON) TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS »»•» FIFTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes hy John N. Burk Copyright, 1957 By Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Caeot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. Francis W. Hatch E. Morton Jennings Charles H. Stockton Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson Michael T. Kelleher Edward A. Taft Alvan T. Fuller C. D. Jackson Palfrey Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Trustees Emeritus Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry 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 Robert T. Capeless Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, William F. Lawless Lenox, David H. Mackey Lee, Michael J. Sullivan Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector, N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD $##»++#»#»#»#»*—#+»»»++**<>»»»»»+»»+»»»*—+»»»#• ^Manhattan Symphoniana SCHOOL OF MUSIC John Brownlee, Director Courses offered in all major fields Fromm Foundation Concerts leading to the The second of two concerts under the auspices of BACHELOR and MASTER OF the Fromm Music Foundation of Chicago will be given on Tuesday evening, August 6, in the MUSIC DEGREES Theatre. The concerts (together with concerts by the Fromm Fellowship Players, in the Chamber Music Hall, on Saturday, August 3 and Friday, Distinguished faculty includes: August 9, at 2:30) will be open by invitation to Friends of the Berkshire Music Center. pro- Raphael Bronstein The gram for August 6 follows: John Brownlee Palmer Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking VlTTORIO GlANNINI Babbitt Music for Piano Herta Glaz Chavez Energia Robert Goldsand l Piston Quintet for Winds Marcel Grandjany Krenek Lamentatio Bernard Greenhouse Stravinsky Mass William Lincer The performers will include members of the Howard Murphy Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jonel Perlea Hugh Ross Performances by the Alexander Schneider Berkshire Music Center Dora Zaslavsky Many of the thousands of music lovers who attend the Berkshire Festival Concerts may not realize the OPERA extent and importance of the school of music at WORKSHOP Tanglewood. Many on the other hand are inter- open to Special and Degree Students ested in this unusual project and have signified their sympathy with its aims by contributing and so be- coming Friends of the Berkshire Music Center. In For information regarding entrance turn, they are invited to participate in its activities and Scholarships, write to: by attending the performances by each department REGISTRAR through the Tanglewood season. The Music Center, maintained by the Boston Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra and now in its 14th season, has 238 East 105th St., New York 29 about 400 students each summer from nearly every state in the Union, from Canada and numerous for- eign lands. Among them are young musicians of The school is a member of the Middle high skill — instrumentalists, conductors, singers, States Association of Colleges and Sec- and composers. Many are on the threshold of dis- tinguished careers and are benefiting by invaluable ondary Schools and the National Asso- experience in group performance. Their perform- ciation of Schools of Music. ances in this way effect a two-fold benefit — experi- ence for themselves and music of high order for I their listeners. The listeners last summer numbered »*+#++#+###*###++»+#+#+»+»+++#+++++#++*»###+++^ a total audience of approximately 40,000 and a con- 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD sequent total contribution of $51,792. By the terms of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, $36,792 of this sum was matched in equal amount. It is this sort of support which makes possible the continuation of a venture unique in its kind. Gifts are deduct- ible from the Federal Income Tax. A full listing of performances may be found on page 28. Tanglewood on Parade will take place on Thursday, August 8. fvLfVI is proud to be For Further Information See Page 31 the Airline preferred by •S*^V^^^*%*^<*S^^N/SI* Open Rehearsals THE BOSTON The Saturday morning rehearsals by the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the remaining weeks SYMPHONY of the season (August 3, 10, at 10 a.m.) will be opened to the public, the receipts to benefit the ORCHESTRA Pension Fund of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was privileged (Admission One Dollar.) to be chosen by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its transatlantic trip Exhibitions in the Glassed Reception to Europe last summer. Room at Tanglewood KLM looks forward to welcoming Exhibitions to be shown in the Glassed Reception patrons of the Boston Symphony Room at Tanglewood will be as follows: July 29: on board "Flying Dutchmen" Paintings by Isabel Bishop; August 5: Prints by Picasso, lent by Robert Appleton of Albany. serving all six continents. service features These exhibitions are arranged by the Berkshire KLM Museum in Pittsfield. superb Continental **^***mS*1*ii**^i*%*S* cuisine and traditional Dutch hospitality. Red Cross Attendance WORLD'S FIRST AIRLINE First aid coverage at Tanglewood is provided by volunteers of the Berkshire County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Festival Broadcasts The Festival concerts will be tape recorded by Station WGBH-FM, Boston, to be broadcast during the Festival and through the winter season to follow. Tapes of the Berkshire Festival concerts throughout the season made by WGBH are sent to the Voice of America for distribution to broadcasting stations in Athens, London, Madrid, Paris, Sarawak (East In- dies), Tokyo, and Ciudad Trujillo (Dominican Republic). After the Concert The Formal Gardens behind the Main House are a pride of Tanglewood. These Gardens are illumi- nated for an hour after each evening concert for the benefit of those who wish to avoid traffic con- gestion by delaying their departure. I . 1957 BERKSHIRE F E S T V A L . T A N G L E W O OD W W W ^-W y T T VTT TT TT T 'r^^^^^^ — ;- ".•—-r«r ;—«.«^- BERKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. under the direction of William Miles and Eleanor Wilson Week of The above sculpture of horses in motion, June 24 CAROL STONE in "JANUS" executed in polished redwood hy Homer July 1 "BUS STOP" Gunn of Richmond, has been perma- July 8 PAULA TRUEMAN in "CHARM" nently acquired for Tanglewood and is July 15 MARY WICKES in "THE GREAT SEBASTIANS" on view at the main gate. July 22 WM. ROERICK-TOM COLEY «»•» in "TIME LIMIT!" SKEDGE MILLER in July 29 "ANDROCLES AND THE LION" Program JVotes Aug. 5 "THE POTTING SHED" Aug. 12 "KING OF HEARTS" PAUL HARTMAN in Aug. 19 "OH, MEN! OH, WOMEN!" Eighteenth ^Program Aug. 26 DEIRDRE OWENS in "THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE" Carl Schuricht Nightly except Sun. at 8:45 -$3.00, $2.10 and $1.30, tax included. Mats. Weds, and Sat. at 2:30 CARL SCHURICHT was born in Danzig, July 3, 1880, -$2.10 and $1.30, tax included. of a musical family (his father followed a tradition as organ-builder; his mother, of Polish birth, was a well-known singer). For reservations write or telephone His thorough musical education began when he was six; the Hochschule in Berlin was his principal school, Box Office, Stockbridge 460 Humperdinck and Reger his best known teachers. At twenty he became connected with the Stadttheater in Mainz; in 1911 he became Musikdirektor at the adjacent city of Wiesbaden, the beginning of a long association. He also had continuing engagements with the orchestras of Berlin, Frankfort, Leipzig, Dresden, Amsterdam, the Hague, guest appearances in many European cities. In pHBTS PARADis^ 1944, he left Germany and made Switzerland his home and oU the center of his activities. His conducting engagements in Europe since the war are too numerous to mention. He visited the United States in the season past as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Tragic Overture, Op. 81 Johannes Brahms Born in Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died in Vienna, April 3, 1897 The Tragische Ouvertiire, like the Academische Fest Famous for Ouverture, was composed at Ischl in the summer 1880. It was first performed in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter in the same year. Fine Food and Grog OPEN EVERY DAY Gourmet's Buffet Every Tuesday Night Recommended by A.A. A., Gourmet & Duncan Mines ANGEL TRADITIONALLY AT THE END OF A PERFECT DAY RECORDS ON ROUTE 44 Between Canaan and Norfolk, Connecticut Ask for the complete Angel catalogue at your favorite record shop or write: Telephone Taylor 4-7495 38 West 48th Street, New York 36.