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- •• • SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1956-1957 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1957, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, lflC. ' The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Vice-President Jacob J. Kaplan Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Michael T. Kelleher Alvan T. Fuller Palfrey Perkins Francis W. Hatch Charles H. Stockton Harold D. Hodgkinson Edward A. Taft C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager "I Assistant Assistant Treasurer G. W. Rector J. J. Brosnahan, N. S. 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An exhibition of water colors loaned nylon angel crepe by the Boston Society of Water Color <*^ v Painters is now on view in the Gallery. ensemble, the ££ gently moulded COMING EVENTS bodice richly em- Following the Orchestra's last tour of broidered and set the season, which will include its first concert in Baltimore in twenty-two with fine lace. years, a distinguished guest from France, Jean Martinon, will visit Boston as 55.00 guest conductor, then making his first visit to this country. M. Martinon will conduct in all four of the Boston series, on March 29, 30, 31, and April 2. Isaac from a collection of Stern, as the last instrumental soloist trousseaus, treasures of the season, will appear at the twenty- for spring brides. first pair of concerts on April 5-6, in concertos by Mozart and Prokofiefi. Pierre Monteux is to return for the con- certs of April 12 and 13 as the last guest conductor of the season. The second part of Bach's Passion According to St. Matthew will be performed dur- ing Holy Week (Thursday, April 18 and Saturday, April 20). The choruses from Harvard and Radcliffe will again assist the Orchestra. The season will close on April 26-27 with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in which the choral forces will consist of the Chorus Pro Musica of which Alfred Nash Patterson is the Director. The annual meeting of the Friends of the Orchestra will take place on Wednesday evening, March 27. The last of the scheduled Open Re- hearsals will take place on Thursday evening, April 4, the week in which Isaac Stern is to be soloist. An extra Open Rehearsal is announced for the final week, in which Dr. Munch will be preparing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Tickets are now available for this event. The season of Pop Concerts under the direction of Arthur Fiedler will open on Tuesday, April 30, and continue for two months, after which the Berkshire 416 B0YLST0N ST., BOSTON • KE 6-6238 Festival at Tanglewood (July 3 through August 11) will complete the Orches- 54 CENTRAL ST., WELLESLEY • WE 5-3430 tra's activities for the present season. [995] 15th SESSION OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER The fifteenth session of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer school of musical performance will be held during the six weeks from July 1st to August 11th, running concurrently with the Berkshire Festival concerts at Tangle- wood. The Berkshire Music Center, which was founded in 1940 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Kous- sevitzky, continues under the leadership of Charles Munch. It offers an opportu- nity for students to increase their experi- ence in musical performance under the guidance of a distinguished musical faculty including members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Berkshire Music Center consists of five major departments, providing special study in the fields of instrumental music, choral music, composition, opera and the Tanglewood Study Group de- signed for the musical amateur. New developments will be stressed in this year's session of the Berkshire Music Center in the departments of Opera and Composition. Boris Goldovsky, Director of the New England Opera Theatre and head of the Opera Department of the New England Conservatory of Music, will again head the Opera Department, presenting this summer a four weeks' course of special training in operatic leadership for producers, conductors and stage directors, a program developed by Mr. Goldovsky which will give a new direction to the work of the department, turning from the emphasis in previous years on the training of singers for the stage. The department of composition, under the supervision of Aaron Copland, will include in addition to the individual instruction for a limited number of advanced composition students a pro- gram for composition and performance of contemporary music, sponsored by the Fromm Music Foundation. The department of instrumental music will be under the general leadership of Charles Munch, and will include classes in orchestral conducting, membership in the advanced orchestra of the school which gives a weekly concert in the Tanglewood Music Shed, and instruction in chamber music performance and rep- ertoire by a faculty including twenty- three members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and headed by Richard Burgin, assisted by William Kroll, an authority (Continued on page 1027) [996] ' " : • '__'__ " ' - - ' . filene's As welcome as Springtime, the new, romantic and lovely cape silhouette. 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