Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 77, 1957
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fa' mi i 4 f 1 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON X 'Wll Kim/i/ f) H SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1 957" I 958 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE It takes only seconds for accidents to occur that damage or destroy property. It takes only a few minutes to develop a complete insurance program that will give you proper coverages in adequate amounts. It might be well for you to spend a little time with us helping to see that in the event of a loss you will find yourself protected with insurance. WHAT TIME to ask for help? Any time! Now! CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LA layette 3-5700 SEV ENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1957-1958 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN 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 * Talcott M. Banks E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Michael T. Kelleher Alvan T. Fuller Palfrey Perkins Francis W. Hatch Charles H. Stockton Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins C. D. Jackson Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [1] II The LIVING TRUST The Living Trust is a Trust which you establish during your lifetime ... as part of your overall estate plan . and for the purpose of obtaining experienced management for a specified portion of your property ... as a protection to you and your family during the years ahead. May we discuss the benefits of a Living Trust with you and your attorney? Write or call THE PERSONAL TRUST DEPARTMENT The TS[ational Shawmut Bank of Boston Tel. LAfayette 3-6800 Member F.D.I. C. [2] SYMPHONIANA Exhibition Robert Shaw Dr. Munch in Israel Coming Events THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON EXHIBITION An exhibition of paintings from the deCordova and Dana Museum of Lin- JANUARY coln, Massachusetts is now on view in the Gallery. SALE ROBERT SHAW on a large collection of Robert Shaw was born in Red Bluff, California, April 30, 1916. He attended Negligees Pomona College and studied for a short while for the ministry. He worked his Teagowns way through college, also conducting its glee club. Engaged in 1938 by Fred Lingerie Waring to conduct the Waring Glee Club, a radio chorus, he led that group Decorative Linen for seven years. He formed in 1941 the Collegiate Chorale, group of amateur a Children's Clothes singers in New York City which per- formed with principal orchestras and (in Wellesley Only) toured as well. In 1945 he conducted a chorus for the United States Navy at 10% - 40% Martedowns the Sampson, New York, Naval Train- ing Station. In the next year he was appointed Choral Director at the Juil- liard School of Music. Mr. Shaw was White Sale co-director in the Choral Department of the Berkshire Music Center at also on Tanglewood in the season of 1946, 1947 and 1948, also conducting the Festival Wamsutta Sheets Chorus in the concerts of 1947 and 1948. In 1948 he organized the Robert Shaw White, Colored and Chorale and Orchestra, a small profes- sional group which toured the United Candy-Striped States, and visited Europe and the Middle East under the sponsorship of Martex Luxor and the State Department. In the last two seasons he has been the Associate Con- Patrician Towels ductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, and in that city prepares the chorus and 6238 conducts both choral and instrumental 416 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON • KE 6 concerts. 5-3430 54 CENTRAL ST., WELLESLEY • WE In the summers of 1956 and 1957 he has been co-director with Julius Herford of the Anchorage Festival in [Si Alaska, under the auspices of the Uni- versity of Alaska, giving concerts in the large high school auditorium and including such works as Mozart's Re- quiem, Bach's St. John Passion and Honegger's King David. Lectures and •i I,* ? classes are given by the performing forces. For four years he has conducted tammch$ros$ with Mr. Herford a Workshop in Choral Arts in San Diego State College in San i HIM \ , / / Diego, California. DR. MUNCH IN ISRAEL "Dr. Charles Munch scored a tre- mendous success," according to an Associated Press report from Tel Aviv, "in the new 3,000- seat concert hall here Wednesday night in conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's first performance of Samuel Barber's 'Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance.' "Other items on Dr. Munch's program were Schumann's Fourth Symphony and Nocturnes by Debussy with a women's chorus participating. At the end of the concert there was an enthusiastic ova- tion. Dr. Munch is in Israel for ten days and will conduct in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa." (Continued on page 43) and the brightest idea of MUSIC- the south-bound season is more or less? our silk approach to sport The Boston Symphony Orchestra and golf dresses . some maintains its excellence through its with their own matching Friends. Earned income — ticket sales, radio, records — together with orlon sweaters. endowment don't quite balance the budget. About 15 percent must 25.00 to 49.95 come from Friends so that the or- chestra may carry on as one of the world's best. Won't you send a contribution and join us? FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY HALL iff BOSTON ™ltwenty new [4] filene's le sacque de Paris . the dramatic new dress shape for spring, eased and straight, passing by your waist to hip-low pockets and shorter hemline. So new from now on . its lightness goes under a coat with marvelous ease, and you 11 love it later when real spring blooms. The fabric . a peppered blending of wild-textured silk and viscose. Sizes 8 to 16 $25 Filene's Young Bostonian Dresses fifth floor [5] FINANCIAL. JUDGMENT WITH THE HUMAN TOUCH The Sorter, foreground, will arrange punched cards in any sequence. 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Coburn, Jr. Chairman, Trust Investment Committee ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN - FIFTY-EIGHT Sixth Program TUESDAY EVENING, January 28, at 8:30 o'clock ROBERT SHAW, Guest Conductor Haydn Symphony in G major, "Oxford," No. 92 I. Adagio; Allegro spiritoso II. Adagio III. Menuetto IV. Presto Hovhaness Mysterious Mountain, Op. 132 I. Andante II. Double Fugue: Moderato, Presto III. Andante con moto (First performance in Boston) INTERMISSION Schubert Symphony in B minor ("Unfinished") I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber I. Allegro II. "Turandot": Scherzo III. Andantino IV. March BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] chemiserie ready now for resorts The shape of '58 . a way of dressing that's pure undiluted fashion. See the chemise in its several versions ... in fabrics and colors with an affinity for Southern climes. Ready now on Stearns fashion floors. BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] SYMPHONY IN G MAJOR, "OXFORD," No. 92 By Josef Haydn Born in Rohrau, Lower Austria, March 3i(?), 1732; died in Vienna, May 31, 1809 This symphony, composed in 1788, was performed at Oxford, England, on July 7, 1791. (This may not have been the first performance.) Performances at the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been on November 19, 1886; February 9, 1900; January 20, 1905; February 18, 1910, and most recently on January 17, 1947, when Bruno Walter conducted. The orchestration consists of 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. TN the summer of 1791, following Haydn's first series of concerts in * London, the composer consented to go to Oxford and receive the degree of Mus. Doc. from the University. He may not have longed for this honor. Other musicians before him had slighted it. According to Hawkins' remark in his History of Music in 1766: "This degree is not much sought after nowadays." Hawkins says that Handel expostulated over the offer of a diploma at Oxford in 1733: "Vat de dyfil I trow my money away for dat de blockhead wish? I no vant." Handel's objection was the customary fee of one hundred guineas which went with the privilege.