;:tr~-^ ((€.4ik4* vi- 7^ *m -2. I "— ^^offlC'W'i&^i^, >, J BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY /A HENRY LEE HIGGINSON TUESDAY EVENING SERIES /I K %nf^P^ uUiftult iWRS* e p 7/ EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON 1964-1965 TAKE NOTE The precursor of the oboe goes back to antiquity — it was found in Sumeria (2800 bc) and was the Jewish halil, the Greek aulos, and the Roman tibia • After the renaissance, instruments of this type were found in complete families ranging from the soprano to the bass. The higher or smaller instruments were named by the French "haulx-bois" or "hault- bois" which was transcribed by the Italians into oboe which name is now used in English, German and Italian to distinguish the smallest instrument • In a symphony orchestra, it usually gives the pitch to the other instruments • Is it time for you to take note of your insurance needs? • We welcome the opportunity to analyze your present program and offer our professional service to provide you with intelligent, complete protection. We respectfullyJ J invite Jyour inquiry / . , " / Associated with CHARLES H. WATKINS CO. & /qbrioN, RUSSELL & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton / 147 milk street boston 9, Massachusetts/ Insurance of Every Description] 542-1250 EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1964-1965 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor 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 Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [3] Strauss The Boston Symphony EIN HELDENLEBEN B " v,a,m BOSTON SYMPHONY under Leinsdorf ERICH LEINSDORF " The Boston Symphony neversounded finer" was one critic's reaction to their perform- ance of Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. The Boston Symphony's sound is magnificently appar- ent in the RCA Victor Red Seal recording of this complex masterpiece. Leinsdorf's inter- pretation of Brahms' great First Symphony yields yet another example of the orchestra's "glorious mellow roar" Both these perform- ances have been recorded in Dynagroove . RCA Victor wwThe most trusted name in sound 4 I CONTENTS Program Notes Kodaly ("The Peacock") 11 Schuller (Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee) . 20 Entr'acte "A Simple Bohemian Musikant" (J.N.B.) 30 Notes Dvorak (Symphony No. 3) 52 SUBSCRIBERS EXHIBITION Paintings by Subscribers and Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are now on view in the Gallery. WHY SUPPORT CULTURE? By Erwin D. Canham The Editor-in-Chief of the "Christian Science Monitor" made the following address at a luncheon given by the Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce on October 15, 1963. It is here reprinted with Mr. Canham's permission. We have entered a wonderful period in human history. It is a time when, more than anything else, knowledge and the environment of knowledge determines human progress. Often in the past, I suppose, this has been partly true. But not always, and frequently not dominantly. The kind of knowledge that determines human prog- ress today is increasingly complex. It is a special kind of knowledge, going deep into the atom and molecule and far out toward the stars. It is a kind of knowl- edge that requires many cooperating minds, many interlocked disciplines, to bring itself to fruition. We in Boston have begun to learn the importance of knowledge. Not one of us KJne ^Jouch of ^atin is unaware, today, that the powerhouses of developing and dynamic knowledge On the scalloped collar of our comprised of our great universities and research laboratories have been utterly velvet at-home coat. Black with decisive in the economic salvation of our Pink. Sizes 10-18. $75.00 area. One of the most vivid proofs of the importance of knowledge, and the people who extract, codify, and apply it, is to be found almost daily in the job oppor- tunity advertisements of the daily news- cThc cfro«sscau3t>5us? papers. I do not have to tell anybody of33oslon here that a vast talent-recruiting war is 416 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET taking place continuously to attract and BOSTON 021 16 WELLESLEY employ the men and women who can KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 create and apply our most precious stockpile. 5] The Boston region must continue to interest and utilize the men upon whom the future depends. We are lost if we do not do so. It is a stark challenge, over- riding almost everything else in relation to our economic prospects. If we start slipping in our attraction for the best men and women in the age in which we live, we could slip very fast. We must permit no significant erosion. Among the factors which attract and hold the kind of people we must have, educational opportunities and cultural values are at the top of the list. We can do very little about the physical climate—which is bet- ter than some places and worse than others—but we can do a good deal about the cultural climate. That is why we are here today. To put the matter in its crassest possi- ble terms, an investment in culture is a direct investment in the kind of people we must have if Boston is to survive and thrive. I am saying nothing original when I make this point. But it is just as well to remind ourselves of how totally vital it is. A tax- deductible dol- lar invested in Boston's cultural values may well yield more returns—oh that a newspaperman should say this—than a want ad in the Champaign-Urbana or the Bloomington papers. Perhaps we need both. And yet there is more to it than merely bait to lure and keep good people here. We want and need to have a good com- munity. Knowledge, which I have been praising, is but the beginning of wisdom. We could have enormous technological or scientific prowess and be a very un- healthy community. The balance of American life needs to be rectified. In an awesome and apocalyptical age we preserve our sanity and clarify our values through the not unrelated values of culture and religion. The great universities in our midst have long since recognized the need of keeping the humanities, the arts, the social sciences abreast—indeed, let us hope someday ahead! —of the physical sciences. The fostering of our cultural resources is one important way to keep life in balance. This is vital in the de- A fluid crepe column and velopment of a wise society. How else glowing velvet bodice band- can we learn how to apply man's knowl- in that will save rather than ed in satin. Wine and pink, edge ways destroy man? moss and mortar, red or roy- There are other ways in which the al and white. 6-16. 29.95 support of culture is vital to our future well-being, and I should like to identify Gowns — Third Floor two of them. One relates to the future of work and leisure in our American BOSTON experience, and the other to the social, PEABODY • FRAMINGHAM ethnic, political—indeed, cultural—com- position of this community. We are all aware that technology applied to agricul- [6] ture has revolutionized American farm productivity, bringing with it great prob- lems, still unadjusted. I believe techno- Really darlings ... I know logical change is working in just the same way in our manufacturing industry, it's low, low priced and that continuously the nation's essen- for what is obviously tial work can be performed with fewer the man hours of labor. Crude unskilled highest quality ... and even labor is virtually outmoded already. The of labor is a wonderful phe- upgrading those, er . Top Value Stamps nomenon. How we will adjust to tech- nological change and technological un- with it all . but, employment in our entire economy re- what do I do with it? mains to be seen. That is too large a subject for ten minutes. Of course there are still many unfulfilled wants and needs. And there is the rest of the world. But the trend is unreversibly toward shorter hours of essential labor. What will happen to the rest of the time? There's a lot of work to do around the house, I know, and there is the boat—and other forms of recreation. But do we all want to become suntanned nitwits, riding the everlasting surfboards of cultural sterility? No! Let us arouse in man the opportunity for cultural participation, for the development of in- ner talents and gifts, for the stimulation of thought and creativity. In an age of automation, man can be saved by social, religious, cultural challenges. The role of the mind and the spirit must rescue us from mere recreation, mere spectator- ship, mere banality. And finally, as I have said, what of this particular community? Here we have a strong blend of many cultural in- heritances. So much the better! How can we bind such a community together more effectively, how can we uplift the standards of order and balance and de- cency, more significantly than the con- tinual rebirth of popular culture? The very epitome of this rebirth and cultural integration comes on those spring eve- nings when one walks in the Boston Arts Satisfy Festival and looks not only at the pic- your fondest tures but at the people.