FAMOUS ARTISTS SERIES
1959-1960
The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch, Conductor
LINCOLN AUDITORIUM
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SUITE from "THE TENDER LAND"
By Aaron Copland
The opera "The Tender Land" was commissioned by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the League of
Composers, and composed between 1952 and 1954. The text is by Horace Everett. The opera had its first performance by the New York City Opera Company under the dircetion of Thomas Schippers at the New York City Center, April 1, 1954. It was performed by the opera department of the Berkshire Music Center at
Tanglewood on August 2 and 3, 1954, and (revised from a two into a three-act opera) by the Oberlin Conservatory on May 20 and 21, 1955. Two choruses from "The Tender Land" were performed at the benefit concert, "Tanglewood on
Parade," on August 8, 1957, the composer conducting. Choral portions were pre- sented at Brandeis University, again under the composer's direction, June 8, 1957.
The suite requires 3 flutes and piccolo, oboe and English horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, harp, piano and strings.
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(3) PROGRAM NOTES "SCHELOMO" ("Solomon") Hebrew Rhapsody for » Violoncello and Orchestra By Ernest Bloch Born at Geneva, Switzerland, July 24, 1880 Ernest Bloch composed his "Schelomo" early in 1916 at his home in Geneva. The Rhapsody had its first performance at a concert of the So- ciety of Friends of Music in Carnegie Hall, New York, Hans Kindler soloist, Syracuse May 13, 1917. The first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Cor. Warren and Harrison Sts. was on April 13, 1923, Jean Bedetti, 'cellist; the most recent, January 27, 1939, Gregor Piatigorsky, 'cellist. Palm Beach, Florida The piece is scored for 3 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clar- Now Located inets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons Biltmore Hotel and contra-bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trum-
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(Continued from page 4) GLENN GOULD pets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare pianist drum, bass drum, tambourin, cymbals, Thursday, November 12th tam-tam, celesta, 2 harps and strings. The score was published in 1918. A vivid and sympathetic description of "Schelomo" was contributed by Guida M. Gatti to La Critica Musicale. Written as long ago as 1920, it has never been superseded, and is here quoted in the translation of Theodore Baker: "The Hebrew rhapsody for solo violoncello with orchestra bears the name of the great king Schelomo (Solomon). In this, without taking thought for development and formal consistency, without the fetters of a text requiring interpretation, he has given free course to his fancy; the multiplex figure of the founder of the Great Temple lent itself, after setting it upon a lofty throne, and chiseling its lineaments, to the creation of a Tickets, $3.60, $3.00, $2.40, $1.80 (Continued on page 14) Famous Artists, GR 1-0462
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PROGRAM
I. The Tender Land Copland
Orchestral suite from the opera
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II. SCHF.LOMO Block
Hebrew rhapsody for 'cello and orchestra
Soloist, Samuel Mayes
Samuel Mayes joined this orchestra in 1948 as principal 'cellist. He has appeared as solo 'cellist in Strauss' Don Quixote, the Brahms Double Con- certo, Kabalevsky's Concerto and others.
Program continued on page 13
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SYMPHONY No. 2, in D MAJOR, Op. 73 By Johannes Brahms
Born in Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died in Vienna, April 3, 1897
The Second Symphony was composed in 1877, and first performed in Vienna on December 30 of the same year. A performance followed at Leipzig on January 10, 1878, Brahms conducting. Joachim conducted it at the Rhine Festival in Dusseldorf, and the composer led the symphony in his native Hamburg, in the same year. France first heard it at a popular concert in Paris, November 21, 1880. The first American performance was given by Theodore Thomas in New York, October 3, 1878. The Harvard Musical Association introduced it to Boston on January 9, 1879. It was then that John S. Dwight committed himself to the much quoted opinion that "Sterndale Bennett could have written a better symphony." Georg Henschel included this symphony in the orchestra's first season (Feb., 1882). The most recent performances were on April 18-19, 1958, when Richard Burgin conducted. Program Notes by John N. Burk
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