Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1947-1950
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Now you may HtHHt I W I I Jerome F. Murphy, President purchase a Steinway at terms to suit your individual convenience! 162 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON Branches in Worcester, Springfield, Wellesley Hills Boston Symphony Orchestra Berkshire Festival, Season 1950 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1950, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. 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 Lewis Perry John Nicholas Brown Alvan T. Fuller Francis W. Hatch Charles D. Jackson Edward A. Taft Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller James T. Owens Whitney S. Stoddard Hhnry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lester Roberts Robert K. Wheeler George E. Judd, Manager S<fmfe&ani#M4, Next October the Boston Symphony Orchestra The Saturday morning rehearsals of the Boston will begin its 70th anniversary season, which will Symphony Orchestra for the final two weeks of be its second under the leadership of Charles the Festival will be open to the public at a nominal Munch. In the third week of the season the Or- charge, the receipts to benefit the Pension Fund chestra will undertake its annual tour of mid- of the Boston Symphony musicians. western cities and will then return to the Berkshire area to visit Troy for a concert on October 17 for the first time in twenty-six years. The Orchestra will also play in Syracuse on October 18, Rochester Tanglewood on Parade is listed this year for on October 19, Buffalo on October 20, Detroit on Friday, August 11, (page 29). The many events October 21, Battle Creek on October 23, Kala- will begin in the late afternoon, and continue into mazoo on October 24, and Ann Arbor on October the evening, culminating in a special program 22 and 25. The season will consist of twenty-four by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Various pairs of Friday afternoon and Saturday evening activities of the Berkshire Music Center will also concerts in Symphony Hall, Boston; nine Tuesday be on view. evenings and six Sunday afternoons; series in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge; Carnegie Hall, New York; Academy of Music, Brooklyn; Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, Providence; and concerts in New Haven, Hartford, Washington, Newark, A calendar of the performances to be given by New London, New Brunswick and Philadelphia. the students of The Berkshire Music Center at If those interested will leave their names and Tanglewood will be found on page 31. addresses at the Friends Office they will be sent a historical anniversary booklet of the Orchestra to be published in the fall. * * * Visit The The paintings on view in the reception room TANGLEWOOD MUSIC STORE adjoining the Main Gate have been kindly loaned (near the main gate) by the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, where also an exhibition of pictures, music and autographs in connection with the Festival programs will be shown through the Festival period. The Berk- shire Museum Theatre will present weekly motion pictures of exceptional quality, both American and foreign. The Summer Art School invites the enrollment of amateurs by day, week, month or season. The Boston Symphony Orchestra here, as in its own city, welcomes a friendly association of the arts. * * * The Sculpture in the Garden and in the Recep- TANGLEWOOD tion room has has been lent by the artists, Ivan Souvenir Pictorial Book Mestrovic and Reno Pisano. 50e * * * Recordings and miniature scores, including The summer session of the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will hold classes at works given at the Festival concerts, musical Wheatleigh, the new dormitory of the Berkshire books, postcards, films, etc. Music Center. I TENTH PROGRAM Thursday Evening, August J, at 8:1$ Conducted by VICTOR de SABATA * Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony, in B minor I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto Respighi Symphonic Poem, "Pines of Rome" I. The Pines of the Villa Borghese III. The Pines of the Janiculum II. The Pines near a Catacomb IV. The Pines of the Appian Way INTERMISSION Morton Gould "Spirituals" for String Choir and Orchestra Proclamation Protest Sermon Jubilee A Little Bit of Sin Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan und Isolde" BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Berkshire festival — TANGLEWOOD, 1950 .AAAAAAAJ.AJ.AAXAAJ.AAJ.AAXXAAXAAJ. Tenth ^Program TUNE IN SUNDAYS! VICTOR de SABATA, born in Trieste, April 10, 1892, | graduated from the Milan Conservatory, became conductor of the Monte Carlo Opera and since 1929 at La Scala, Milan. He also conducted the Vienna Philharmonic for U.S. STEEL three years. He has conducted the concerts of the Augus- teo Orchestra in Rome, at the festivals in Bayreuth, and other principal orchestras of Europe. He first came to this HOUR country in 1927, conducting the Cincinnati Orchestra, and again in 1948, since which time he has conducted several of our orchestras, notably in Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Mr. de Sabata has composed the operas, // Macigno, Lysistrata; Symphonic poems, Juventus, La Notte di Platon, Gethsemani, the Ballet, Thousand and One Nights, incidental music for The Merchant of Ven- ice, and an orchestral suite. The NBC Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 By Johannes Brahms SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833 ; died at Vienna, April 3, 1897 These world-famed conductors: When the University at Breslau conferred upon Brahms, in the spring of 1879, the degree of Doctor /<- REINER of Philosophy, the composer responded in kind, and made the institution the handsome present of an over- Alfred WALLENSTEIN ture on student airs. Presents of this sort are not to be unduly hastened when artistic good faith and Eugene the heritage of the musical world are considered. ORMANDY Brahms composed and destroyed another "Aca- demic" overture before this one, if Heuberger is not Milton KATIMS mistaken. The performance came the following January, when Brahms conducted it at Breslau, Arthur FIEDLER while the Herr Rektor and members of the philo- sophical faculty sat in serried ranks, presumably Pierre MONTEUX gowned, in the front rows. It goes without saying that both Brahms and his Erich LEINSDORF overture were quite free of such "academic" for- mality. It is around a tavern table that music wit/red PELLETIER enters spontaneously into German college life. Al- though Brahms never attended a university he had Sigmund ROMBERG BERKSHIRE MUSEUM Vladimir GOLSCHMANN THE PITTSFIELD, MASS. Rajael KUBELIK C^xnioitionS — Paintings by Robert T. 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The "Fuchslied" or Freshman's Song {"Was kommt ") Hills dort von der H'oh' is the choice of the unbuttoned Brahms, and leaves all educational solemnities behind. The air is introduced by two bassoons. When Brahms wrote Kalbeclc that he had composed "a very jolly potpourri on students' songs V_Jffer many cultural attractions a la Suppe," Kalbeclc inquired jokingly whether he had used the "Fox song." "Oh, yes," said Brahms to make your visit a pleasant one complacently.