Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 70, 1950
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^IM //'i BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON » 1i • 7 Q U X "W/i mwwi \ SEVENTIETH SEASON 1950-1 95 I Carnegie Hall, New York Boston Symphony Orchestra [Seventieth Season, 1950-1951] CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Violas Bassoons Richard Burgin, Joseph de Pasquale Raymond Allard Concert-master Jean Cauhap^ Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Georges Fourel Theodore Brewster Gaston Elcus Eugen Lehner Rolland Tapley Albert Bernard Contra-Bassoon Norbert Lauga George Humphrey Boaz Filler George Zazofsky Jerome Lipson Louis Arti^res Paul Cherkassky Horns Harry Dubbs Robert Karol Reuben Green James Stagliano Vladimir Resnikofi Harry Shapiro Joseph Leibovici Charles Van Wynbergen Harold Meek Einar Hansen Siegfried Gerhardt Paul Keaney Harry Dickson Walter Macdonald Violoncellos Emil Kornsand Osbourne McConathy Carlos Pinfield Samuel Mayes Alfred Zighera Paul Fedorovsky Trumpets Minot Beale Jacobus Langendoen Mischa Nieland Roger Voisin Herman Silberman Hippolyte Droeghmans Marcel Lafosse Roger Schermanski Harry Herforth Karl Zeise Ren^ Voisin Clarence Knudson Josef Zimbler Pierre Mayer Bernard Parronchi Trombones Manuel Zung Enrico Fabrizio Samuel Diamond Leon Marjollet Jacob Raichman Victor Manusevitch Lucien Hansotte James Nagy Flutes John Coffey Leon Gorodetzky Georges Laurent Josef Orosz Raphael Del Sordo James Pappoutsakis Melvin Bryant Phillip Kaplan Tuba John Murray Piccolo Vinal Smith Lloyd Stonestreet George Madsen Henri Erkelens Harps Saverio Messina Oboes Bernard Zighera Stanley Benson Elford Caughey Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Gomberg Devergie Gottfried Wilfinger Jean Joseph Lukatsky Timpani Basses English Horn Roman Szulc Georges Moleux Charles Smith Louis Speyer Willis Page Ludwig Juht Clarinets Percussion Irving Frankel Gino Ciofii Max Polster Henry Greenberg Manuel Valerio Simon Sternburg Henry Portnoi Pasquale Cardillo Victor di Stefano Gaston Dufresne E\) Clarinet Henri Girard Librarians Henry Freeman Bass Clarinet Leslie Rogers John Barwicki Rosario Mazzeo Leonard Burkat Carnegie Hall, New York Sixty-fifth Season in New York SEVENTIETH SEASON, 1950-1951 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the First Concert WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 15 AND THE First Matinee SATURDAY AFTERNOON, November 18 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The trustees of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Charles D. Jackson Theodore P. Ferris Lewis Perry Alvan T. Fuller Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers [1] Three Words that Saved a New School from "Flunking Out" To the citizens of a small New England town, things looked bad for awhile. Their new school . only half completed . was in trouble. The contractor building the school ran into financial difficulties. His assets were attached. He couldn't finish the job. But three words . Bonded by Employers' . saved that school. For- tunately, the job was bonded by an Employers' Group Insurance Com- pany. And under the terms of our Contract Bond we furnished the money to complete the construction and give the town its new school. The Insurance Man Serves America BONDING SERVICE BY The Employers' Group Insurance Companies no MILK STREET, BOSTON 7, MASS. THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORP., LTD, AMERICAN EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE CO. • THE EMPLOYERS' FIRE INSURANCE CO. [2] Carnegie Hall, New York Sixty-fifth Reason in New York Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director FIRST EVENING CONCERT WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 15 Program The Seventieth Season will open with the National Anthem Handel Suite from the Music for the Royal Fireworks (Transcribed for Orchestra by Sir Hamilton Harty) Overture Alia Siciliana Bourree Menuetto HoNEGGER Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude (First performance in New York) RoussEL "Bacchus et Ariane," Ballet, Second Suite, Op. 43 INTERMISSION Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace IV. Finale: Allegro molto BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Trustees Announcement on page 29 [3] Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music director SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS, Season 1950- 1951 OCTOBER 16 New London 6-7 Boston (Fri.-Sat. I) 17 New York (Wed. 3) 10 Boston (Tues. A) 19 Brooklyn (3) 13-14 Boston (Fri.-Sat. II) 20 New York (Sat. 3) Cambridge 17 Troy 23 (3) 18 Syracuse 26-27 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XIII) 28 Boston 19 Rochester (Sun. c) 20 Buffalo 30 Boston (Tues. E) 21 Detroit FEBRUARY 22 Ann Arbor 2-3 Boston 23 Battle Creek (Fri.-Sat. XIV) 6 Providence 24 Kalamazoo (4) 9-10 Boston 25 Ann Arbor (Fri.-Sat. XV) 27-28 Boston (Fri.-Sat. Ill) 18 Philadelphia Providence 13 Washington (3) %j31 (!)\ / 14 New York (Wed. 4) NOVEMBER 15 Newark 16 3-4 Boston (Fri.-Sat. IV) Brooklyn (4) 17 New York (Sat. 5 Boston (Sun. a) 4) 20 Boston (Tues. F) 7 Cambridge (0 10-11 Boston (Fri.-Sat. V) 23-24 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVI) Boston (Sun. d) 14 New Haven (1) 25 Cambridge 15 New York (Wed. 1) 27 (4) . 16 Washington (1) MARCH[ 17 Brooklyn (1) 18 New York (Sat. 1) 2-3 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVII) 21 Boston (Tues. B) 6 Boston (Tues. G) 24-25 Boston (Fri.-Sat. VI) 9-10 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVIII) 28 Providence (2) 12 Hartford New Haven DECEMBER 13 »4 New York (Wed. 5) 1-2 Boston (Fri.-Sat. VII) S5 New Brunswick 3 Boston (Sun. b) 10 Brooklyn (5) 5 Newark 17 New York (Sat. 5) 6 New York (Wed. 2) 20 Boston (Tues. H) 7 Washington (2) 23-24 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XIX) 8 Brooklyn (2) 27 Cambridge (5) 9 New York (Sat. 2) 30-31 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XX) 12 Cambridge (2) 15-16 Boston (Fri.-Sat. VIII) APRIL 19 Boston (Tues. C) 1 Boston (Sun. e) 22-23 Boston (Fri.-Sat. IX) 3 Providence (5) 29-30 Boston (Fri.-Sat. X) 6-7 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXI) 10 Cambridge (6) JANUARY 13-14 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXII) 2 Providence (3) 17 Boston (Pension Fund) 3 Boston (Pension Fund) 20-21 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXIII) 5-6 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XI) 22 Boston (Sun. f) 9 Boston ('Tues. D) 24 Boston (Tues. I) 12-13 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XII) 27-28 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXIV) [4] SUITE FROM THE Music for the Royal Fireworks By George Friderig Handel* Born in Halle, Saxony, February 23, 1685; died in London, April 14, 1759 Transcribed for Orchestra by Sir Hamilton Harty Born at Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, December 4, 1879 ; died February 19, 1941 The 'Tireworks Music" was composed in 1749. The scheduled first performance took place on April 27 of that year in the Green Park, London, although there had been a public rehearsal in the Vauxhall Gardens on April 21. Handel labelled his manuscript merely "Concerto," but when the music was published by subscription under the edition of Samuel Arnold in 1786, it was entitled "The Musick for the Royal Fireworks." In this edition the movements were entitled: Ouverture, Bourree, Largo alia Siciliana, Allegro, Minuets I and 11. The edition of Max SeifEert was used in the only previous performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (January 31, 1941) . In the edition of Chrysander made for the Handel Gesellschaft in 1886, the Suite is entitled "Firework Music" and the occasional titles appear "La Paix" for the largo, and "La Rejouissance" for the following allegro (this movement is omitted in Sir Hamilton Harty's version) . The instrumentation indicates three trumpet parts with three players to each part, three horn parts with three to each, three oboe parts with twelve, eight, and four players respectively; two bassoon parts with eight and four for each, tympani with three players, and contra-bassoon. The latter part was originally scored for the serpent, when Handel called upon that unfamiliar instrument for probably the only time in his life.* This would account for a wind band of fifty-eight players in the original performance (according to the account in the Gentlemen's Magazine there were a hundred players at Vauxhall; RoUand states that there were "about a hundred" at the performance of April 27). Handel later added to his score string instruments for indoor uses. These are written in with the double reed parts in both editions. Sir Hamilton Harty has orchestrated the Suite quite according to his own taste, using 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, timpani, and strings. The Siciliana, which Chrysander called "La Paix," he gives to the strings only. THE Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the war for the Austrian succession on October 7, 1748, moved the British Government to announce a monster display of fireworks in London. Among verbal glorifications of victorious Britain, one finds an ironic remark in a letter from Horace Walpole to Horace Mann which would indicate that England did not always make the most of her peace treaties and may have been moved to cover up weak strategy in this one by dazzling the populace with a public display. "We are in general so pleased with the peace," wrote Walpole, "that I cannot help being struck with a passage that I read lately in Pasquier, an old French author, who says that 'in the time of Francis I the French used to call their creditors "Des Anglois" from the facility with which the English gave credit " to them in all treaties, though they had broken so many.* Fireworks in the England of 1749 were a novelty sufficient to create enormous anticipation when a display on such a scale was announced. The exhibition was to be given in the Green Park opposite the Royal Library.