Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 85, 1965-1966

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We respectfully invite your inquiry Associated with CHARLES H. WATKINS 8c CO. Or>i\lUlN, n.USSH.LL, &C l^U. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton / 147 milk street boston, Massachusetts / Insurance of Every Description Telephone 542-1250 EIGHTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1965-1966 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1966, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot • President Talcott M. Banks • Vice-President John L. Thorndike • Treasurer Abram Berkowitz E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Robert H. Gardiner Edward G. Murray Francis W. Hatch John T. Noonan Andrew Heiskell Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Richard C. Paine 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 Sanford R. Sistare Andrew Raeburn Press and Publicity Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL • BOSTON [963] 5 The Boston Symphony MAHLER/SYMPHONY No. j 8ERG/WO/CZECK(fc««jn»)/Phj.!lk Curtin, Sopraoo under Leinsdorf BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF "It is a revelation" said HiFi/Stereo Review of the Leinsdorf, Boston Symphony recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. In this remarkable performance the emotions, tensions and, perhaps most of all, the superb structure of the work come through with brilliant clarity. Coupled with it in a 2-record album are excerpts from Wozzeck with Phyllis Curtin as Berg's non-heroine, Marie. Another symphonic masterpiece, Brahms' First Symphony, exhibits the Bostonians' famed "glorious mellow roar" in a Dynagmove recording which, r>ke the Mahler, cannot fail to enrich any collection of fine music. RCA Victor^ @The most trusted name in sound r!kr* [964] CONTENTS Program (for this week) 9% Program (February 18-19) . 1019 cHic cFroMsseaiul&use of33oslon Program (February 25-26) . 1021 Notes Mozart (Symphony in A major) 97' ! Sessions (Psalm 140 for Soprano '. and Orchestra) . 980 Entr'acte Some Mahlerian Misconceptions (By Warren Storey Smith) 986 Notes Mahler (Symphony No. 4) . 1000 THE SOLOIST Anne Elgar, who is appearing at these concerts for the first time with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is currently a leading soprano with the New York City Center Opera Company. During the past three seasons she has sung leading roles in Der Fledermaus, La Boheme, Carmen, The Merry Widow, Lizzie Bor- den, Natalia Petrovna and Carmina Burana. Miss Elgar made her operatic debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera at the age of eighteen. She was the win- ner of the Metropolitan Opera Guild Scholarship Award, and was a member of the original Broadway company of The Sound of Music for over two years. Since the fall of 1962 she has been a leading soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Studio, appearing as Fiordiligi in Cost fan tutte, as Norina in Don Pas- quale, and Micaela in Carmen through- out the eastern United States. Miss Elgar has sung in both Philhar- monic Hall and the new State Theatre in Lincoln Center. She was in the cast chosen to perform in the Metropolitan Opera Studio's first performance in Phil- harmonic Hall during its initial two- VIIluted Striped week opening. Pour a freshet of In the summer of 1964, her crowded Spring color down schedule included Lake Chautauqua, this robe of Surah Silk. Zipper clos- ing. New York, where she sang the lead in Gold, Turquoise, Raspberry on - Norma. During the summer of 1965, White. Sizes 8 I 6. $50.00 she sang in Carmel, New York; Robin 4I6 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET Hood Dell in Philadelphia; San Fran- BOSTON 02II6 WELLESLEY KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 cisco and Montreal. [965] — SCHUMANN'S SCENES FROM GOETHE'S "FAUST" During the many months of preparation for the forthcoming performances of Faust a considerable number of people have become acquainted with the score soloists, chorus masters, their assistants and pianists, our librarians, and some guests invited to rehearsals. Virtually all of these people have asked the same question : How can one explain the total neglect of such a glorious work? The answer is amazingly simple. Goethe's Faust from the opening "Zueignung" to the concluding "Chorus Mysticus" contains 12,111 verses. Of these Robert Schumann used 657 in his composition. The first part of Faust, from which Schumann took the first three of his "scenes" is still somewhat familiar; but the second part is a vast, virtually unknown poem. The length and complexity of this work require "advance study" in order to fully ap- preciate it. In an earlier bulletin we suggested two books which might be helpful: Goethe: A Biography by Friedlander, published by World Publishing Company; and Goethe's "Faust" by Stuart Atkins, published by Harvard University Press. We would like to add to these the translation of "Faust" by G. M. Priest, published by Knopf, New York. This translation has a valuable introduction and outline of the Two Parts of "Faust." For those who have at least a fair read- ing ability in German, we recommend the bilingual edition with a translation by Walter Kaufmann, even though this omits certain portions of Part Two. This book is obtainable in paper-back form, Ortik alWv ujtek, published by Doubleday Company, Inc. Goethe once wrote: "There are three kinds of readers, those who enjoy without any judgment, those who sit in judgment without any enjoyment and, be- tween these, a minority which judges minpcinq while it enjoys and enjoys while it judges." Doubtless Goethe liked the last kind of reader and wrote "Faust" for him. Some preliminary research on the part of our subscribers will doubtless increase their enjoyment. [966 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN ABC-TV DOCUMENTARY OWN 11,000 The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be featured on nationwide television Wednesday, March 23, in a special one- PAPERBACKS? hour documentary program presented by the American Broadcasting Com- WE DO. pany. The program will depict the life of Beethoven, with emphasis on his Bui of course, we're in the business. early years, as part of a continuing series One reason many people like to of ABC documentaries entitled "The browse at Book Clearing House is Saga of Western Man." The film, en- the vast assemblage of 11,000 tirely in color, has been in preparation paperback titles (actually about for nine months. It will show actual 100,000 copies), in addition to all locations where the young Beethoven our other books and records. It lived and walked, including the Schoen- makes for one-stop shopping for all brunn and Hofburg palaces, scenes in your food for thought. There are Vienna, Heiligenstadt, Bonn, and other other prerequisites for BCH brows- parts of Germany and Austria. ers, too, such as no-pressure sales- The Boston Symphony Orchestra, people who mind their own business Erich Leinsdorf, Music Director, made until you ask them a question, at available its personnel and facilities for which time they demonstrate a all the music on the program. The Or- sound knowledge of the things they chestra will be heard in portions of sell. But here's the whole list of our Beethoven's First Symphony; the Third offerings: Symphony, "Eroica"; his Contradance, 1. Hundreds of new books No. 7; the Finale from his ballet "Pro- 2. Hundreds of book bargains metheus" ; an excerpt from the First Piano Concerto, with Claude Frank, 3. 11,000 paperback titles pianist; and one movement from Mo- 4. Text and technical books zart's Symphony No. 39. Other music 5. 10,000-title record by Beethoven will be the Trio for Piano, department Violin and Cello, Op. 1, No. 3 with 6. Literary magazines and Claude Frank, piano, Joseph Silverstein, quarterlies violin, and Jules Eskin, cello, all mem- bers of the Boston Symphony Chamber 7. Our left-bank sidewalk carts Players; and a fugue for organ com- of books posed by Beethoven at the age of twelve, You see? Seven kinds played on the Symphony Hall organ of food for thought at by John Ferris, Harvard University Organist. The program on Wednesday, March 23, will be sponsored by B. F. Goodrich BOOK and telecast over the ABC network from CLEARING 10 to 11 p.m. A second telecast is sched- HOUSE uled for Sunday, April 24, at 4 p.m.

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