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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 80, 1960-1961 FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON \if/k ^ CARNEGIE HALL YORK ^^^^\l MlW^I-:^^ NEW EIGHTIETH SEASON 1960-1961 Boston Symphony Orchestra (Eightieth Season, i960- 1961) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Cellos Bassoons Richard Burgin Samuel Mayes Sherman Walt Concert-master Alfred Zighera Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Jacobus Langendoen Theodore Brewster George Zazofsky MischaNieland Contra Bassoon Rolland Tapley Karl Zeise Joseph Silversteiri Martin Hoherman Richard Plaster Vladimir ResnikofE Bernard Parronchi Horns Harry Dickson Richard Kapuscinski Gottfried Wilfinger James Stagliano Robert Ripley Charles Yancich Einar Hansen Winifred Winograd Joseph Leibovici Harry Shapiro Louis Berger Harold Meek Emil Kornsand John Sant Ambrogio Roger Shermont Paul Keaney Minot Beale Basses Osbourne McConathy Herman Silberman Georges Moleux 1 RUM PETS Stanley Benson Henry Freeman Leo Panasevich Roger Voisin Irving Frankel Sheldon Rotenberg Armando Ghitalla Henry Portnoi Fredy Ostrovsky Andre Come Henri Girard Noah Bielski Gerard Goguen John Barwicki Clarence Knudson Leslie Martin Trombones Pierre Mayer Ortiz Walton William Gibson Manuel Zung William Moyer Samuel Diamond Flutes Kauko Kahila William Marshall Doriot Anthony Dwyer Josef Orosz Leonard Moss Pappoutsakis William Waterhouse James Tuba Phillip Kaplan Alfred Schneider K. Vinal Smith Victor Manusevitch Piccolo Laszlo Nagy Timpani George Madsen Ayrton Pinto Everett Firth Michel Sasson Oboes Harold Farberman Lloyd Stonestreet Ralph Gomberg Julius Schulman Percussion de Vergie Raymond Sird Jean Charles Smith John Holmes Violas Harold Thompson Arthur Press Joseph de Pasquale English Horn Jean Cauhape Louis Speyer Harps Eugen Lehner Bernard Zighera Albert Bernard Clarinets Olivia Luetcke George Humphrey Gino Cioffi Jerome Lipson Manuel Valerio Piano Robert Karol Pasquale Cardillo Bernard Zighera Reuben Green E\) Clarinet Bernard Kadinoff Library Vincent Mauricci Bass Clarinet Victor Alpert Earl Hedberg Rosario Mazzeo William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo [8] EIGHTIETH SEASON, 1960-1961 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb C. D. Jackson Charles H. Stockton E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Henry A. Laughlin Raymond S. VVilkins Oliver VVolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen Lewis Perry N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Shirk Norman James J. Brosnahan As'-^stant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [3] The Boston Symphony conies to NewYork every Sunday after- noon at 3:05 overWQXR...where good music comes to you every day, early morning to late at night. Treat yourself to wonderful listening. WQXR, 1560 AM, 96.3 FM, radio station of The New York Times. EIGHTIETH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY -SIXTY-ONE CARNEGIE HALL Seventy-fifth Season in New York Second Evening Concert WEDNESDAY, January 4, at 8:30 o'clock Program Schumann Symphony No. 4, in D minor, Op. 120 I. Ziemlich langsam; Lebhaft II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam III. Scherzo: Lebhaft IV. Langsam; Lebhaft (Played without pause) Barber "Die Natali," Chorale Preludes for Christmas (First performance in New York) INTERMISSION Mendelssohn * Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, in E minor. Op. 64 I. Allegro molto appassionato II. Andante III. Allegro molto vivace Milhaud Suite Proven^ale Anime — Tr^s Modere — Modere — Vif — Modere — Vif — Lent — Vif soloist JAIME LAREDO Music of these programs is available at the Music Library, 58th Street Branch, the New York Public Library. BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [5] SYMPHONY IN D MINOR, No. 4, Op. 120 By Robert Schumann Born in Zwickau, June 8, 1810; died in Endenich, July 29, 1856 Composed in 1841, at Leipzig, this symphony was first performed at a Gewand- haus concert on December 6 of the same year. Schumann made a new orchestration in December, 1851, at Diisseldorf, and the revision was performed there on March 3, 1853, at the Spring Festival of the lower Rhine. It was published in December, 1853, as his Fourth Symphony. The orchestration includes 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. SCHUMANN wrote this symphony a few months after the completion of his First Symphony in B-flat. The D minor Symphony was numbered four only because he revised it ten years later and did not publish it until 1853, after his three others had been written and published (the Second in 1846, the Third in 1850) . This symphony, then, was the second in order of composition. It belongs to a year notable in Schumann's development. He and Clara were married in the autumn of 1840, and this event seems to have stirred in him a new and significant creative impulse: 1840 became a year of songs in sudden and rich profusion, while in 1841 he sensed for the first time in full degree the mastery of symphonic forms. He had written two years before to Heinrich Dorn, once his teacher in composition: "I often feel tempted to crush my piano — it is too narrow for my thoughts. I really have very little practice in orchestral music now; still I hope to master it." The products of 1841 show that he worked as well as dreamed toward that end. As Mr. W. J. Henderson has well described this moment of his life: "The tumult of young love lifted him from the piano to the voice. The consummation of his manhood, in the union with a woman of noble heart and commanding intellect, led him to the orchestra. In 1841 he rushed into the symphonic field, and composed no less than three of his orchestral works." * These works were the First, the "Spring" Symphony, which he began in January 1841, four months after his marriage, and completed in a few weeks; the "Overture, Scherzo and Finale" of April and May, and the D minor Symphony, which occupied the summer months. There might also be mentioned the "Phantasie" in A minor, composed in the same summer, which was later to become the first movement of the piano concerto. But the two symphonies, of course, were the trium- phant scores of the year. The D minor Symphony, no less than its mate, is music of tender jubilation, intimately bound with the first full spring of Schumann's life — like the other a nuptial symphony, instinct with the fresh realization of symphonic power. The first performance was at a Gewandhaus concert on December 6, Ferdinand David conducting. It was a friendly event, Clara Schumann * "Preludes and Studies."—W. J. Henderson. [6] playing piano solos by their colleagues Mendelssohn, Chopin, Stern- dale Bennett. She appeared jointly with Liszt, in his "Hexameron" for two pianos. Schumann's new "Overture, Scherzo, and Finale" was also played. Unfortunately, the success of the B-flat major Symphony in the previous March was by no means repeated in the new D minor Symphony. The criticisms were not favorable. Clara Schumann, who always defended her husband, wrote that "Robert's Symphony was not especially well performed," and the composer himself added: "It was probably too much of me at a single sitting; and we missed Men- delssohn's conducting too; but it doesn't matter, for I know the things are good, and will make their way in their own good time." But Schumann laid the work aside. It does not seem that he could have considered a revision for some time, for he offered the manu- script to a publisher in 1843 or 1844 as his "Second Symphony, Op. 50." According to the testimony of Brahms, many years later, Schu- mann's dissatisfaction with the symphony preceded its first perform- ance. "Schumann was so upset by a first rehearsal that went off badly," wrote Brahms to Herzogenberg, October 1886, "that subsequently he orchestrated the symphony afresh at Diisseldorf." This revision was made in December, 1851. The fresh score was performed at Diisseldorf on March 3, 1853, at the Spring Festival of the lower Rhine. This time the work had a decided success, despite the quality of the orchestra which, according to Brahms, was "bad and incomplete," and notwith- standing the fact that Schumann conducted, for by the testimony of his contemporaries, he was conspicuously ineffectual at the head of an orchestra. When in the following autumn the committee urged that Schumann conduct only his own works in the future, Clara wrote bitterly about the incident. From the following letter (to Verhulst) it appears that Schumann made the revision because of urgent friends: "When we last heard that Symphony at Leipzig, I never thought it would reappear on such an occasion as this. I was against its being included, but was persuaded by some of the committee who had heard it. I have scored it afresh, and it is now more effective." Schumann dedicated the symphony to Joseph Joachim, who was then twenty-two years old. He wrote on the manuscript: "When the first tones of this symphony were awakened, Joseph Joachim was still a little fellow; since then the symphony and still more the boy have grown bigger, wherefore I dedicate it to him, although only in private." The score was published in December, 1853. • • The Symphony is integrated by the elimination of pauses between the movements, and by thematic recurrence, the theme of the intro- duction reappearing at the beginning of the slow movement, a phrase from the slow movement in the Trio of the Scherzo. The principal [7] theme o£ the first movement is used in the Finale, and a subsidiary theme in the first movement becomes the leading theme in the Finale.
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