V^ V \ ^h- >J r B OSTON SYMPHONY ORCH E STRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY A -^_7^ EIGHTIETH SEASON 1 960 - 1961 I •aNnuA Ante BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE We blueprint the basic structure for the insurance of our clients and build their protection on a sound foundation. Only by a complete survey of needs, followed by intelligent counsel, can a proper insur- ance program be constructed. Without obligation on your part, we would be happy to act as your insurance architects. Please call us at any time. CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. When You Think of Insurance . Think of us! 141 Milk Street Boston 6, Massachusetts HU bbard 2-6200 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 Copyright, I960, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 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. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Shirk Norman James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [259] . Boston's Pops are known throughout the world as a yardstick for excellence . fine music performed by a team of superb musicians. 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Program (November 3*5 <Fts<3rou$$eau3ti0tts? of33o*to* Program (November 25-26) . 3*7 Notes Bach (Symphony No. 4) . 267 Mozart (Piano Concerto No. 20) 284 Entr'actes Bach's Years of Chamber Music at Cothen (J.N.B.) .... 270 Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius 292 Notes Ravel (Piano Concerto for the Left Hand) 3°4 Milhaud (La Suite Provencale) 312 DIMITRI MITROPOULOS (March 1, 1896-November 2, 1960) Although Dimitri Mitropoulos had visited Boston only occasionally (he conducted the Boston Symphony Or- chestra as guest for two-week periods in 1936, 1937 and 1944, conducted the visiting Minneapolis Orchestra in Sym- phony Hall, and several performances of the Metropolitan Opera Company), this city has figured in a particular way in his life. A mutually warm association began when, in 1936, Serge Koussevitzky invited the Greek conductor, then promi- nent in Athens, Paris and Berlin, to come to the United States and conduct this Orchestra as guest. The audiences in Boston responded instantaneously to the zeal of an extraordinary artist and leader. Nor are his concerts of three seasons forgotten. That he was continuing to share the conducting schedule of the Philharmonic Orchestra in New York with Leonard Bernstein at the time of his death is r pertinent to another incident in Boston, UiMome In 1936, Leonard Bernstein, then an In a delightfully becoming tea- eighteen-year-old freshman at Harvard, gown of wool jersey ... its collar was invited to a party given by a Greek of rayon satin. Geranium Red, club in honor of the newly arrived celeb- Violet, Moss Green, Sapphire Blue. rity. Mitropoulos became interested in Sizes 10-20 $49.95 the young man, and when he returned to 416 Boylston Street 54 Central Street the United States in 1939, he at once Boston 16, Mass. Wellesley, Mass. recommended that Bernstein study con- KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 ducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis [261] — Institute in Philadelphia. There he also studied with Isabelle Vengerova, becom- ing, like the older colleague to whom he is so much indebted, a pianist- conductor. uhuri¥cJ) BROS. COPLEY SOCIETY EXHIBITION The exhibition of paintings now on view in the Gallery has been loaned by a short LONG story the Copley Society of Boston. This Society was founded in 1879 by a group of students from the Boston Museum School, who wished to continue their this season's most association after leaving the school. In talked-about after 1888 it was incorporated. Since its in- ception the membership has increased dark fashion . steadily and there are now 600 members. the LONG gown The Copley Society now includes the North Shore Arts Association, whose pictures have been shown here in recent seasons. The Society maintains a Gal- lery at 158 Newbury Street. [oak, THE SOLOIST Monique Haas, the French pianist who %M*r is taking part in this week's concerts, detail* is making her first tour of the United %rfral ike States. Miss Haas is a first prize grad- <*<&»fog uate of the Paris Conservatoire, where &iars she studied with Lazare Levy. She has toured European centers, Russia, the Middle East, and Australia. WHAT THE LEFT HAND CAN DO Paul Wittgenstein, the pianist who lost his right arm in the First World War, who commissioned Ravel's Piano Con- certo for the Left Hand, and who first performed it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, now lives in New York, is seventy-two years old, and has recorded Strauss' Parergon to the Symphonia Domestica, Op. 73, for Boston Records. In the Coronet Magazine for June, 1959, he described his problem in learning to play with his left hand alone. "It is easier to play with the left hand alone long at-home gowns too, in than with the right hand alone. The thumb of the left hand, its strongest many moods . informal wools finger, is on top. My left thumb does the from Sweden and Ireland . • work of my lost right hand. I play the fashions by Tina melody with the thumb. And every imaginative pianist knows that leaping—the quick Lesser • . • imperial elegance motion from bass to treble and back is with the left than with the right in our Dynasty Collection easier hand. Naturally, I cannot play at the same time the lower and the upper -H/ven-hy newburv notes of a chord with one hand. I must often break them up; but the listener ." must not notice the break. [262] Pauline Trigere's magic touch makes you the exciting star after-dark f The sweep of a great swing skirt . the low pitch of your slim silhouette, designed by Pauline Trigere to make your hipline all but disappear. The most exciting, the newest way to look for your most important appearance after dark. filene's french shops, seventh floor [263] To the lawyer who stands convicted by his family of overwork "I understand, Dad, but how about next Saturday?" . "That's all right, dear, I'll just tell the Browns that something came up." 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Rondo: Allegro assai INTERMISSION Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand (In one movement) Milhaud Suite Provengale Anime — Modern — Vif — Mod6re — Vif — Lent — Vif SOLOIST MONIQUE HAAS Miss Haas uses the Steinway Piano These concerts will end about 3:55 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:10 o'clock on Saturday Evening. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [265] QW> . from our brand new Longwood Shop collection of affordable fashions for smart young misses. Boston • Chestnut Hi [266] SUITE NO. 4 IN D MAJOR By Johann Sebastian Bach Born in Eisenach, March 21, 1685; died in Leipzig, July 28, 1750 This Suite is scored for 3 oboes, bassoon, 3 trumpets, timpani, and strings. There is in each of the suites a figured bass for the presiding harpsichordist. The only previous performances at the Boston concerts of this Orchestra were on October 28-29, 1921, October 15-16, 1954, and October 3-4, 1958. Bach's four orchestral suites are usually attributed to the period (1717-23) in which he was Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cothen.