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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON . 5 .
SIXTY-SIXrfH SEASON 1946-1947 Acadetny of Music, Brooklyn
Under the auspices of the BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES and the PHILHARMONIC SoCIETY or. llROOKLYN SEATING PUN JOHN I I WILl/AM I HARRY I PAUL i JAMES I I JACO~ LUCIEN JOHN JOSEF VINAL EU6fN[ BARWICK/ GEBHARDhfHAPIRO KEANEY .fl~}f~NO RA~s~~ • HANJOTJ[ COFFEY OROSZ SMITH ADAM 1 TROMBONES TUBA HUGH 1 HARaD 1 WALTfll 1 WILLEM OS8f)JRN[ COWDEN MEEK MACfXJNALO VALKCNifR McCONATHY GEORGfS MARCEL f?{)(j[R I RENE I HARRY FIRJr MAGER LAFOSSE VOISIN VOISIN HE/iFOI1TH A.l.ltlTI&NT" FRENCH HORNS trtA.Jr "'"r TRUMPETS BOAZ ANNE l ERNST IRAYMOND .ROSARIO PILLER Df6UKIIAID PANENKA ALLARJ) MAZZ£0 ~IJ!I:JT COHTAA &U!t:HJN BASSOONS ~"·· JOSEPH JEAN JOHN VICTOR LIJKAT.JI(Y DEVEI?GIE HOLMES POLATSCHf1 1'1/UT FIIIST OBOES PHILLiP GEORGE KAPLAN MADSEN
HARRY DICI PAUL I NICHOi.AI FE/XIliMKY KASSMNI DANIEL I JOSEPH I HAI?RY I 6[0/?G[ I ROLLAND I ALFRED I JEAN I Et16EN I ALBERT I LOlliS I HANS I SIECFKIEO EISLER Lfi80V/CI f)UB8S lAZOfJKY TAPLEY KRIPS LE!"P.ANC LEHN& BERNARD AKTIERES WERNER 6ERHAI?OT ASS/fTANT (l»'CLAT'-A!AS1M SERGE ~ JEAN, 6£01?6ES {jJ EINAR 1 VLADIMIR 1 muL 1 NORBeRT 1 GASTON RICHARD K{JfSSEV/TlKY CAIJHAPE FOIJREL HANSEN RESNIKOFF CllfKKASSKf LAUGA ELCUS BURGIN COHIJUCTOR trN:otT..wmr FIRST FIRST VIOLINS Acadetny of Music, Brooklyn SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1946- 1947 Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZK Y, 1\Iusic IJirector RICHARD 13uRGIN, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Fifth Concert FRIDAY EVENING, .1pril 1 1 with historical and descriptive notes bJ' JoHN N. BuRK TilE TRUSTEES OF TilE BOSTON SYl\lPIIONY ORCHESTRA, INc. IIENRY 13. CAno r President liENRY 13. SAWYER Vice-President RICIIARD C. pAINE Treasurer PHILIP R . ALLEN FRANCIS w. HATCH joHN NICHOLAS BROWN M. A. DE \VoLFE HowE AI VAN T. FULLER 1ACOB J. KAPLAN JEROME D. GREENE RoGER I. LEE N. PENROSE HALLOWELL RAYMOND s. WILKINS OuvER \VoLcorr GEORGE E. 1uno, Manager [ 1 ] HEAR THE Boston SyiUphony Orchestra SERGE KOU SSEVITZK Y Conductor broadcast at 8:30 P.M. every Tuesday evening Over an ABC ~ NETWORK Sponsored by INSURANCE BO~TOIV , MA HA CHUS!J TTS Academy of l\!Iusic, Brooklyn Boston Symphony Orchestra SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1946-1947 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director FIFTH CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL t 1 Program BRAHMS ...... Academic Festival Overture, op. 8o BRAHMS ...... Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56A INTERMISSION BRAHMS ...... Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e gra1ioso IV. Adagio; allegro non troppo, ma con brio B 1\.LDWIN PIANO VICTOR RECORDS [ J] ACADEMIC FESTIVAL OVERTURE, Op. tso By J OIIANNES BRAHMS Born at Hamburg, l\Iay 7• 1833; died at Vienna, April 3· 1897 The overture was composed in 188o; first performed January 4, 1l:!!h, at the University of Breslau. The orchestration: two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and contra-bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, bass drum. timpani, cymbals, t1 iangle and strings. RAHMs' two overtures, the "Akademisclze Fest-Ouvert1~re" and the B "Tragische Ouvertiire" were composed in one summer- in 1 88o at Bad Ischl. It was his first summer in this particular resort, and al though he was somewhat discouraged by an abundance of rainy weather, it charms drew him again in later years (188g-g6). "I must give high praise to Ischl," he wrote to Billroth in June, 188o, "and although I am threatened only with one thing- the fact that hal£ Vienna is here- I can be quiet here- and on the whole I do not dislike it." 't\Thich is to say that Ischl had already become the gather ing point of a constant round of cronies from Vienna. Brahms' friends of course would scrupulously respect the solitudes of the master's mornings - the creative hours spent, partly in country walks, partly in his study. Later in the day he would welcome the relaxation of companionship- of conversation to an accompaniment of black cigars and coffee, of mountaineering (Brahms was a sturdy walker), or of music-making together. When the University at Breslau conferred upon Brahms, in the pring of 187g, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the composer re sponded in kind, and made the institution the handsome present of an overture on student airs. Presents of this sort are not to be unduly hastened when artistic good faith and the heritage of the musical world are considered. Brahms composed and destroyed another "Academic" overture before this one, if Heuberger is not mistaken. The performance came the following January, when Brahms con- TRAINING IN ALL FIELDS OF MUSIC ORCHESTRA CHORUS OPERA POPULAR MUSIC ORGAN COMPOSITION SPECIAL STUDENTS NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 290 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON 15, MASS. ducted it at Breslau, while the Herr Rektor and member of the philosophical faculty sa t m erried ranks, presumably gowned, in the front rows. It goes without saying that both Brahms and his ovcrtun: were quite innocent of such "academic" formality. It is about a tavern table, the faculty forgotten, that music enters spontaneously into German college life. Although Brahms never attended a university he had tasted something of this life at Gottingen when, as a younger man, he visned with Joachim, who was tudying at the University. Brahms did not forget the melody that filled the KncipeJ inspired by good company and good beer. Student songs, with their Volhslied flavor, inevitably interested him. He found use for four of them. "Wir hatten gebauet ein stiittliches Haus" is first given out by the trumpets. "Der Landesvater" ("HortJ ich sing' das Lied der Lieder") is used rhyth mically, delightfully developed. The "Fuchslied" or Freshman's Song Here indeed is the ideal winter resort where gracious living reigns supreme and distinguished America comes to bask in Florid:t's sunshine . .. gaily ... luxuri- ously ... with every opportunity for re t ... sociability ... and the full enjoy- ment of all Southern sports. Or if Plorida is noL your mood - the Th e SHERATON PLAZA delightful SllFRATON BON AIR at Daytona Beach Florida Augusta, Georgia, America's Golfing Re ~on, oO.ers every facility for resc .1nd rd.n.. ;nion in .1 /CSl f ul Indian summer dim.ttc. • r c; 1 • ("Was lwmmt dort von der Hoh' ") is the choice of the unbuttoned Brahms, and leaves all educational solemnities behind. The air is in troduced by two bassoons. When Brahms wrote Kalbeck that he had compo cd ··a very polly potpourri on tuclcnts' songs a La Suppe," Kal beck inquired jokingly whether he had used the "Fox song." "Oh, yes," said Brahms complacently. Kalbeck, taken aback, protested that he could not imagine any such tune used in homage to the "leathery Herr Rektor," and Brahms answered: "That is wholly unnecessary." Brahmsian hor cplay docs not get quite out of hand, and the dignitie~ are saved beyond doubt when the full orchestra finally intones tht hearty college hymn, "Gaudeamus Igitur." [COJ>YRlC.HTE:D] VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY HAYDN, Op. s6a By JOHANNES BRAHMS Born at Hamburg on May 7• 1833; died at Vienna on April 3· 1897 These variations, composed in the year 1873, were first performed at a concert of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, Felix Dessoff conducting, November 2, 1873. The first performance in Boston is on record as having been given by Theo dore Thomas' orchestra, January 31, 1874. The first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra took place December 5, 1884. The orchestration includes two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and double-bassoon, four horns, two trumpets, timpani, triangle and strings. ROM the time that Schumann proclaimed Johannes Brahms m his F twenties as a new force in music, a torch-bearer of the symphonic tradition, friends and foes waited to see what sort of symphony this "musical Messiah" would dare to submit as a successor to Beethoven's mighty Ninth. The "Hamburg John the Baptist" realized what was ex pected of him, and after his early piano concerto, which no audience accepted, and his two unassuming serenades, he coolly took his time and let his forces gather and mature for some twenty years before yield ing to the supreme test by submitting his First Symphony. This hap pened in 1877. Three years earlier, he tried out his powers of orchestra tion on a form less formidable and exacting than the symphony- a form which he had finely mastered in his extreme youth as composer for the piano- the theme with variations. In this, the first purely [ 6 1 Tabby's $2,200 Meal They had JW>C rushed the milkman ro the hos pir.tl ... and Tabb~·, seeing char things had quieted down, went 01·er and rapidly lapped up the ''spilled" milk. It was an unexpected "free meal" for the car ... but ir was rhe !lHht expen sive meal she e1·er are. The check, S2,200 After all, when people are inJured . . and the cause is attributed co vou or any member of your famil1 . . rhe cosrs can run up co a nor-so-pret(l penn1 How wise ... and hozl' rconomical . .. it is co have an Employers' (~roup Famtly Comprehen!>ive Liabtllt\ Policy just for such an emergenc1 It costs only ten dollar!> a year. 1 er i r r;i l'eS you protection .tgainsr pracrtcall y any accident, ocher rhan auromobtle, caused bv the negltgt·nce of vou or .LI1\' ocher member of your r~mily I i vtng under your roof, '' hether that acctdent takes place inside or outside your horne or property. No ocher form o( protection gi1es so much 10 r so little money co hdp 1 ou en j THE EMPLOYERS' GROUP MAN as T he /Jtl an w ith thP Plan The Employers' Group SURETYSH I P • INSURANCE One Libert)' Square, Boston 7. i\fass. ( 7) orche::,\ral attempt of ht::, maturny, Brahms, as usual when put on hi::, mettle, wok great pains perfectly to realize his aim. His abilities a::, orchestral colorist, so finely differentiated in each o( the successive "Variations on a TlH:me U) Haydu," could not but be apparent even lO its hr::,t audiences. At the first perlormance in Vienna, in November, 1873, the recep tion was enthusia~tic, and the critics only expressed their impatience that a ·ymphon) wa::, not yet forthcoming from the vaunted "Bee thovener." The variation-. were again played on December 1 o in Munich, under Hermann Levi. They became inevitably useful in Brahms' round of concerts, and added appreciably to the reputation ol the !)till hesitant symphonist. I COPYRIGHTED) SYMPHONY IN C MINOR, NO. 1, Op. 68 By .JollA r-.t-. ~ BRAHM.-. Horn at Hambuq~. 1\la\ 'i· 1H33; d1ed at Vienna, April ~. 1!'S97 r·------The First Symphony of Brahms had its initial performance November 4• 1876, at Carlsruhe, Otto Dessoff conducting. The fir t performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra was December g, 1881. The symphony is scored for two II ute~. two oboe:., two clan nets, n"o IM~1>0UII:., contra-bassoon, four horns, two trumpets. three trombones, timpani and strings. The trombones are used only in the finale. HE known fact that Brahms made his first sketches for the sym T phony under the powerful impression of Beethoven's Ninth, which he had heard in Colog-ne for t h<" first time in 1854· may have led hie; contemporaries to preconceive comparisons between the two. Walter Niemann, not without justice, finds a kinship between the First Sym phony and Beethoven's Fifth through their common tonality of C minor, which, says Niemann, meant to Brahms "hard, pitiless struggle, da:monic, supernatural shapes, sinister defiance, steely energy, drama- (Continued on page 20) WADSWORTH PROVANDlE TEACHER OF SINGING SYMPHONY CHAMBERS 246 Hu TtNCTO~ AvF.NUt BosTON, MASSACIIUSErrs Accredited in the art of sinc:in!:! by Jean de Reszke. 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Music Di1·ector LEONARD BERNSTEIN ROBERT SHA \\' Guest Conductors -TWELVE CONCERTS- Sunday afternoon, .July 13 Extra Concert, Af usir- of BACH Sunday afternoon. .July 20 Extra Concert, A-1 usir- nf MOZA R I Thursday C\'ening. julv ?4 f Saturday C\'ening, Jul v 2G SERIES A 'iunday afternoon. July 27 Thursday evening, July 31 f 'iaturday evening, August 2 SERIES B Sunday afternoon, August 3 Tuesday evening. August :=; Extra Concert, to inclurle Beethoven's Ninth Symphon\ Thursday evening, Augu t 7 f Saturday evening, August 9 'iERIF.S C Sunday afternoon. A ugu~r I 0 [ It) J Music to be Played at the Berkshire Festival1947 At the two extra Sunday afternoon tvncerts, Dr. Koussevitzky will present music of Bach and Mozart performed by an orchestra of eighteenth-century proportions. Dr. Koussevitzky plans to include in Series A Brahms Second Symphony; Schubert-Seventh Symphony: Cop/and Third Symphony; Rachmaninoff-Third Symphony; Brrlim. -"Harold in Italy" Symphony (Viola soloist: lVilliam Prim rose); Hindemith-Violin Concerto (Soloist: Ruth Posselt) ; Barber- Overture "School for Scandal"; Honegger-Symphony for Strings. Series B will consist of a Beethoven Cycle, to include the nine Symphonies, together with other works, the Ninth to be performed a.t an extra concert on the following Tuesday evening, August 5· The programs for Series C will include a Symphony by Haydn,· Schumann-Second Symphony; Tchaikovsky-Fourth Symphony; Debussy-"The Sea"; Stravinsky-"Le Sacre du Printemps'' and Symphony of Psalms, Mozart- Requiem (with chorus and soloists), Martinu, Concerto Grosso. Special prices lor the rhree extra concert~ (Juh 13. July 20, August 5) are av The Berkshire Music Center SERGE KOUSSEVITZK\', Dirt•rtor AT TANGLEWOOD. 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THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS ARE ON RCA \liCTOR RECORDS ( II ) The Friendr of the 'Boston Symphony Orchestra L;st of Non-Resident /llembers for Season 1946- 1947 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra acknowledge with deep appreciation their gratitude to all who have enrolled as Friends of the Orchestra this Season and desire at this time to extend their thanks in par ticular to those members outside the Boston area whose names appear on the following pages: ~h. Herbert Abraham - New York Mrs. Henri L. Berger - Connecticut Mr. H. C. Achison - , ew York Mr. Louis K. Bet man - New York Mrs. William Ackerman- New York \1rs. Henry .J . Bet nheim - 7\'ew Yot k Mr. John G. Aldt ich - Rhode Island Miss Dorothy L. 13etts - New York Mr. Putnam C. Aldrich - Rhode Island Mr. Rene llickart - New York Mrs. Arthur M. ,\\len - Rhode Island Mrs. A. W. Bingham, Jr. - New York Mr. Harold L. Alling - New York Miss Mary Platt Birdseye- New York Mi s Cora G. Amsden - Connecticut Blackstone Valley Music Teachers' Mr. and Mrs. John A. Anderson - Society - Rhode Island Rhode Island Mr. Jacob Bleibtreu - New York Mrs. R. Edward Annin, Jr. Miss Mildred A. Blumenthal - Rhode Island Rhode Island Mr. and Mr . Howard L. Anthony- Mrs. Julius Blum - New York Rhode Island Mr. idney Blumenthal - New York Mr. Everard Appleton - Rhode Island Mrs. Emil I. Blun - New York Miss Laura U. Arentzen - New York Mrs. E. L. Bondy - New York Mis Mittie Arnold - Rhode Island Mr. Alfred C. Bowman - New York Dr. and ~Irs . I. Aron - New York Mr. Charles S. Brearley, Jr. - Illinois Mrs. George C. Arved on - Michigan Mrs. Selma M. Breitenbach -New York Mi s finnie August - New York Miss Harriet ~L Briggs - Rhode Island Miss Lilian Avila - Rhode Island Mrs. N. E. BrilJ - New York Miss Carol E. Brink - Minnesota Mrs. Sarah Backer - New York Mrs. Walter C. Bronson- Rhode Island \fiss Katherine F. Backus - Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Curtis 13. Brooks - Mr. J . Deming Bacon - Rhode Island Rhode Jc;land Mrs. Cornelia M. Bad..eland - New York Mrs. M. 1\f. Broom - '\Jew York Mrs. Haney A. Baker - Rhode Island Mr. A. Leonard Broughan - Oklahonut Mrs. John H. Baker - cw York Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown - Miss Grace Balent - Penns' h·ania Rhode Island Mrs. Edward L. Ballard - New York Miss Margaret 13rown - New York Mr. Frederick C. Balz- New York Mrs. Robert P. I\rown - Rhode Island Miss Mary fargaret H. Ban - New York Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Brown- New York Mrs. Myron K. Barrett - New York :\fi s Virginia F. Browne - Connecticut Miss Helen L. Bass - New York \lr. John D. Brun - Washington Mr. Edward J. Bauman - New York Mr. Herbert S. Brussel -New York Mr. Emil J. Baumann - New York :\1iss R. Fthel Bugbee - Rhode Island Mi s Clara S. Beach - New York \lr . Arthur f. Bullowa- New York Mi s G. C. Beach - New York Dr. and \frs. Alex 1\f. Burgess - \fr. Gerald F. Beal - New York Rhode I land \Irs. Howard \V. Beal - New York ~fiss Julia \. Butler -Connecticut Mr . Daniel Beckwith - Rhode I land Mrs. Robert Jenks Beede - Rhode Island Mrs. F. H. Cabot - New York Mr . Frank Begrisch - New York Mrs. amucl Hvde Cabot - Rhode Island Mrs. William R . Belknap - Kentud ~) Mr. John Hutchins Cady - Rhode Island Mr . Alberl ~f. Bell - New York Mr. Elliot S. Benedict - New York Mr. and Mrs. David Ely Cain - Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel W. Benjamin- Rhode Island Rhode 1 land Mr. George Calingaert - Michigan Miss Mildred Bent - New York Mrs. George A. Campbell - New Jersey Mr. and Mrs. Aaron W. Berg- New York \.fr. George H. Capron - Rhode Island Mrs. Emilie Berger - Rhode Island Mr . H. B. Care - Connecticut [ '") FRIEND~ Ul' IHE HUSIUN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (contmued) Mrs. Andrew G. Carey - New York Miss Fredrica Denison - Rhode Island Mrs. James N. Carpenter - New York Mr. John Deveny - California Mrs. Fred S. Carver- New York Mr. Frederick Dietrich - New York Mrs. W. R. Castle- Washington, D. C. The Dilettante - Rhode Island Mrs. E. Gerry Chadwick- New York Mrs. A. W. Dimick- Rhode Island Dr. and Mrs. Francis Chafee - !iss Abigail Camp Dimon - New York Rhode Island Mr. Raymond C. Dodd, Jr. - New Jersey Mrs. B. Duvall Chambers - South Carolina Mrs. Emma R. Doelling- New York Chaminade Club - Rhode Island Mr. Max Doft - New York Mme. Avis B. Charbonnel - Rhode Island Miss Esther Donovan - New York Chopin Club of Providence - Dr. George B. Dorff - New York Rhode Island Miss Rhea Doucette - New York Miss Louise Clancy - New York Mrs. Robert B. Dre ser - Rhode Island Mr. and Mrs. Roger T. Clapp Miss Ethel Dubois - New York Rhode Island Mr. W . H. Durham- California Mr. and Mrs. Frederic S. Clark, Jr.- Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Dutch - New York New Jersev Mrs. Prescott 0. Clarke - Rhode Island Mr. Ellsworth Everett Dwight - New York Miss Sydney Clarke - Rhode Island Mr. Edwin P. Dyer, Jr.,- Rhode Island Mr. Chalmers D. Clifton - New York Miss Eloise Close - New Yort.. Mrs. C. E. Eaton - New Jersey Mrs. Henry E. Cobb - New York .Mrs. Edward R. Eberle - Rhode Island Mr. William A. Coffin - New Jersey Mrs. Edna Eckstein - New York Miss Dinah Cohen - New York Mis Margaret G. Edgar - New York Mrs. Frank Cohen - New York Miss Edith W. Fdwards- Rhode Island Dr. Martin Cohen - New York ~fr. and Mrs. Gurney Edwards- Mrs. Alfred E. Cohn- New York Rhode I land Miss Janet D. Coleman - New York Miss Mary N. Edwards - North Carolina Mr. James C. Collins - Rhode Island Mr. and Mr . William H . Edwards- Miss Alice M. Comstock- Rhode Island Rhode Island Miss Abbie H. Condit- New York Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ehlermann -New Vorl Dr. A. Lambert Cone - New York Mr. Harold N. Ehrlich - Michigan Mr. Harold S. Cone- New York Miss Vera Elder - New York Mrs. G. Maurice Congdon -Rhode Island Mrs. Lewis A. Eldridge - New York Mr. William G. Congdon - Rhode Island Mrs. Frank Eliot - Washington, D. C. Mrs. Francis R. Cooley - Connecticut Dr. Edward S. Elliott - New York Miss M. Cowley - New York Mr. and Mrs. Louis Eliiott- New York Miss Kathryn Cox - Connecticut Mrs. J . Biddle Ellis - New Jersey Dr. and Mrs. Donald B. Cragin - Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Fmerson - Connecticut Rhode Island 1\fr. and 1rs. Gordon K. Creighton - Miss Ge1 truclc .J. Emer} - Rhode Island New York Mr. Howard M. Ernst- New York Mrs. F. S. Crofts- New York ~Irs. Edmund C. Evans - Pennsylvania Mrs. Gammell Cross - Rhode Island Mis Caroline S. Eveleth - Connecticut Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parsons Cross - Mrs. Walter G. Everett - Rhode I land Rhode Island In Memory of Albert L. Crowell - Mr. Howard L. Fales - Rhode Island Connecticut Mr. .Jacob Farber Rho \ft John l'cll sham ~cw Yot k M1. a nd Jrs. Geotge 11. Gllbbin \1t C..,Jti1111Ct l·oiCl 1 cw Yotk t ew Y01k \It's llckn l·o:-.tc·t cw Yotk Miss 1itiam ,tiffm Calif01nia t\1 iss \l;ut<' . I•oulkcs 1cw \ ot k l\ltss Rose Anne C:tosvcuot - Rhode ls!,111d \It .. tnd \Its. lfc\1\ ood l•o'\ '\c·w Yotk M 1. l\lollinH't Ctunauct - t ew Yot k '\lt. .tncl \lt s . .J. Dwigltl Ftan Mr. and Mr . J. C. Hubbard, Jr.- Mr. Paul R. Ladd - Rhode I land Pennsylvania Mr. and 1rs. J\fetkel Landis- Mr. and Mrs. B. \V. Huebsch -New York PennS) lvania Mr. Frederick G. L. Huetwell - Michigan J\lr. Jacob Landy - 1 ew York Miss Coucha Hughes - Rhode Island Mrs. J. ll. Lane ew York Mrs. II. Luis Hughes - Rhode Island Mrs. Jesse £. Langsclot f - New York Mrs. Lylle Hull - New York Miss Lucy Larchar - Rhode Island Mrs. B. J. Humphrey - New York l\1r. D. Webster Latham, Jr. - Rhode I land Mr . Karl Humphrey - Rhode Island l\Ir. Thomas Latimer - California Mrs. Doris Adams Hunn- Iowa Mr. Charles C. Lawrence - New York Mr. Carlos F. Hunt - Rhode Island Miss E. Gertrude Lawson - Rhode Island Mrs. John C. Hunt- 1ew York Mrs. Benjamin Lanus- New York Mi s Ruth Hunt - New York :'\fiss tella Lee - 1 ew York Mi s Priscilla II. Leonard - Rhode Island Mr. William Lepson - New York Mr. Hans A. Illing - California Mr. Ilany Levine - New York Miss Gertrude V. Ingersoll - New York 1rs. Austin T. Levy- Rhode Island Mrs. Arthur Ingraham - Rhode Island Mrs. Newman Levy - New York Mr. Harold L. lves- ew York Mr. and l\lrs. Richard Lewinsohn - New York frs. Leopold Jaches - New York Miss Aline Liebenthal - New York Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Jacob ·on - 1r . Joseph L. Lilienthal -New Yot k Rhode Island !\Irs. Josie J. Lipman -New York Mrs. George W. Jacoby - New York Mr. and lrs. Ro' al Liltle- Rhode Island Mr. Halsted James - New York Capt. and Mr·. George R. Livermore, Jr. - 1iss fargaret B. James -New York Georgia Mrs. idney Jarcho - New York Dr. Henry D. Lloyd - Rhode I land Miss Edith L. Jarvis- New York Mr. David ]. Loeb - Pennsylvania Mrs. Pierre Jay - New York. Mrs. Edwin Loewy - New York Mr. Theodore W. Jenks - Rhode Island Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Longcope - Maryland Mr. Charles Jockwig - New York Mr.]. E. Lopez - ew York Miss Dorothy E. Joline- New York Miss Helen D . Loring - Rhode Island Mrs. Morris JoseloCf - Connecticut Mrs. C. II. Low - New Yot k Mrs. tanlcy Judkins ~ ew York Mrs. B. R . Lowcnfels - New York Mr. \Villiam M . Judd - 1 ew Yot k Mr. J. M. Richardson Lyeth -New York Mr. Ludwig . Lyon -New York. 1r. Leo B. Kagan- New York Mr. Hugh F. facColl - Rhode Island Mr. Jack Kapp - New York 1r. Harry fack - New York Mr. Maxim Karolik - Rhode rsland Mr . Kenneth B. 1acLeocl - Rhode Island l\fr. William A. Kashbncl - 1 ew York frs. Herbert L. fahood - l\ew Jersey Mrs. B.S. Kaufman - ew Yot k Mr. Lewis T. fann, Jr. New York Mrs. Gerald L. Kaufman - N<'w York Mr. Ja> ]. Margulies - 1 ew York ft s. F. Kaulsen, Jr., - New York Mr. and Mrs. Leo A. Mat k.s Rhode Island Mrs. George A. Keeney- ew York Mr. and f r~. Frederick. W. ]\[ark.s, Jr.- frs. L. . Keller - cw York New York Mr. and Mrs. A. Livingston Kelley - Dr. Henry E . Marks- New York Rhode Island Mrs. /\I bet t E. farshall - Rhode Island Miss Florence B. Kelly - ew York Mr. J. r l,nt y l;ttshall - Rhode r. land Mrs. L. W . Kelly -North Carolina fiss l\fargarc t farshall - Rhode Island 1iss l\fary Kendel - New York Ir. ancl l\1ts. F\crett l\fartine - ew York fiss Jane Kerley - New York Miss Elaine Marzullo New York Mrs. Agnella F. Kerns - Illinois Mrs. Frank \ V. t\Lttteson - Rhode Tsland Mrs. Willard A. Kiggins- ew Jer·ey Mr. A. Wilfred f.t~ - New '\ ork. Mrs. Eugene A. Kingman - Rhode Island hs. Clt.ttles II. \Ln 'Jew Y [ I R 1 FIUENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Contmued) Mrs. F. W. Schacht - Illinois \1r. and ~Irs. Aaron \Crdlik - New York \1rs. F. R . Schepmoe· - New York :\Irs. amuel B. Swan - Rhode Island Mr. Jacob H . Scheuer - New York \lrs. Kathq n R . "ift l\cw York Mr. Henry G. Schiff - New York :\frs. Gerard Swope - New York Mr. Lawrence Scott - Rhode Island Miss Edith Scoville - New Yorl Mr. ]. Alden Talbot - New York Miss Grace Scoville - New York Mr. Paul T amarkin - r-.Jaryland Mrs. Wallace M. Scudder - New Jersey Miss Elsie Tafller - New York Miss l\fay Seeley - New York Dr. Mary C. T a)lor - California Mrs. Carl Seeman - New York Mr. Harry Tctelman - New York Mrs. Isaac W. Seeman -New York ~Ir . ]. C. Thompson - Illinois Mn. George Segal - New York Mrs. John H . Thompson - Connecticut Mrs. George W. Seligman - New York Miss Ruth F. Thomson - Rhode Island Mrs. Morris Senie - New York Mrs. R . C. Thomson - New York Miss Ellen D. Sharpe - Rhode Island Mrs. Charles F. Tillinghast - Rhode Island Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dexter harpe - ~rs . Paul Tishman - New York Rhode Island Miss Willoughby Todd - Washington, D. C. Mrs. Edgar \V. Shaw - Rhode Island Mr. S. H . Tolles, Jr. - Ohio Dr. William H . Shehadi -New York Mr. Joseph H. Towle - Penn ylvania Mrs. Mabel B. 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Solodar - New York Mrs. Frederic A. Wallace - Rhode Island Mrs. I. S. Solomon - New York Mr. Edwin J . Walter - New York Mr. Otis S. Southworth - California Mr. Allen Wardwell - New York Miss Frieda S. Spatz- New York Mr. Eugene \Varren - New York Mr. and Mrs. Girard Spencer - New York Mr. Lucius P. Wasserman - New York Miss Florence E. Stark - Washington, D.C. Mrs. George B. Waterhouse - Rhode Island Miss Sophie B. Steele - New York lr. Phillips R. W eatherbee - Rhode Island Mr. Porter Steele - New Jersey Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Webber - Mr. Julius Steiner - New York Rhode Island Miss Fredericka Steiner - New York. Miss Dorothy Weed - New York Mrs. Albert M. Steinert - New York Mr. Robert C. Weinberg - New York Miss Rose C. Stern - New York Mr. Louis W eisberg - New York Mrs. William Stanford Stevens - New York Mr. Mark Weisberg - Rhode Island Mrs. Samuel Stiefel - New York Mrs. H . K. W. \Velch - Connecticut Mr. Jacob C. Stone - New York Mr. and Mrs . .John H . Wells - Mrs. J. M. Strauss - New York Rhode Island Mrs. Charles H . Street - New York Dr. Sidney C. Wem er New York Mr. M. II. Striglitz - New York lr . L. R . Wheele r - New York Mrs. S. ]. Stroheim - New York The Mary C. Wheeler School - Dr. George T. trode - New York Rhode Island Miss Ethel Strohmeyer - New York Mrs. Gustave J. S. White - Rhode Island Mrs. James R . Strong- New Jersey Mrs. H . A. Whitmarsh Rhode Island Mrs. P. MacKay Sturge - New Jersey 1iss Helen L. Whiton - Rhode Island Mrs. Arthur P. Sumner - Rhode Island Mrs. Wyman Whittemore - Virginia Mrs. David Summey - New York Mrs. II. VanWyck. Wickes- New York. Mr. M. A. Sunderland - New York Mr. Morton Wild - New York \1rs. II. D. Sutcliff - California \1iss Emily Gunn Wilder New York [ 1 9 1 FRIENDS 01· lliF BO~TON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Concluded) [\tts. L. l\1. Wilder - New York Dr. Louis Wolf - New York l\1to,. Fdgar I. WiJJiams New York Mrs. Kenneth F. Wood - Rhode Island Its. I I u gh D . \'\Tilson cw Yot k Dr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Wright- ft<:. \Vilson G. Wing - Rhode Island New York liss Ellen \Vino,ot - Pennsylvania Mr. Lucien Wulsin - Ohio Mt. Harold Wisan - New York Mr. Victor S. Yarros - California Mr. Israel Witkowcr - Connecticut Mr. Ellis L. Yatman - Rhode Island I he ~ole anli earne~t purpose of the Society of Friends ol the lloston Sym phon) Un.he...,tra IS LO provide the best in orchestral music to the greatest pos~tble numlH:r, and all who care to join in furthering this obJeCt are invited to enroll as Members. Enrollments for the current season will be gratelully accepted up to Augu t 31, 1947, and may be made by check payable to Boston ~)mpnony Orchestra and torwarded to the Treasurer at Symphony Hall, Boston. There 1s no minimum enrollment fee. (Contin11ed from j;age 8) tic intensity of passion, darkly fantastic, grisly humor." He calls it "Brahms' Pathetic ymphony. ·· The dark and sinister side of the C minor Svmphony seems to have taken an unwarranted hold on the general consciousness when it was new. For a long while controversy about its essential character waxed hot after every performance. W. F. Apthorp bespoke one faction when he wrote in 1878 of the First Symphony that it "sounds for t!te most part morbid, strained and unnatural; most of it even ugly." Philip Hale, following this school of opinion, some years later indulged in a symbolic word picture, likening the symphony to a "dark forest" where "it seems that obscene, winged things listen and mock the lost." But Philip Hale perforce greatly modified his dislike of the music of Brahms as with the passage of years its oppressive aspects were somehow found no longer to exist. Lnstead of these not always helpful fantasies oi earlier writers or a technical analysis of o familiar a subject, let us turn to the characteris tic description by Lawrence Gilman, the musician who, when he touched upon the finer things in his art, could always be counted upon to irn pan his enthusiasm with apt imag-ery and quotation: The momentous opening of the Symphony (the beginning of an introduction of thirty-seven measures, Un j)nco sostenuto, 6-8) is one of the great exordiums of music - a majestic upward sweep of the trings against the phrase. in contrary motion for the wind, with the basses and timpani reiterating a somberly persistent C. The following Allegro is among the most powerful of Brahms' svmphonic move ments. In the deeply probing- slow movement we gel the Brahms who is perhaps most to he treasured: the musical poet of long vistas and g-rave meditations. How richly individual in feeling and expression is the whole of this AndantP sostenuto! No one but Brahms could have extracted the precise quality of emotion which issues from the [ 20] Academy of Music, Brooklyn SIXTY-SEVENTII SEASON, FIVE CONCERTS BY TilE Boston Sympho~y Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZK Y, !'.1usic Director On Five FRIDAY Evenings at 8:30 NOVEl\IBER ILJ. JANUARY 16 FEBRUARY 20 l\tiARCH 19 APRIL 16 AUSPICES The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences The Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn and a Brooklyn Committee Renewals of subscription for the 1917- 18 series by the Boston Symphony Orche.,tm may now be made. New subsniplions ·will be accepted in order of 1·eccipt of ajJpli calion. Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention. A seating plan and order blanh will be sent on aj7 plication. Telephone: STelling 3 67<>0 Address: Academy of Music, JO Lafayette .tl ueuuc, Brooklyn, N.Y. [ 21 ] simple and heartfelt theme for the strings, horns, and bassoon in the opening pages; and the lovel) complement for the oboe is inimitable -a melodic invention of such enamouring beauty that it has lured an unchallengeably sober commentator into conferring upon it the attribute of "sublimity." Though perhaps "sublimity"- a shy bird, even on Olympus- is to be found not here, but elsewhere in this symphony. The third movement (the Poco allegretto e grazioso which takes the place of the customary Scherzo) is beguiling in its own special loveli ness; but the chief glory of the symphony is the Finale. Here- if need be- is an appropriate resting-place for that diffi dent eagle among epithets, sublimity. Here there are space and air and light to tempt its wings. The wonderful C major song of the horn in the slow introduction of this movement (Pi1'l Andante, 4-4), heard through a vaporous tremolo of the muted strings above softly held trombone chords, persuaded William Foster Apthorp that the episode was suggested to Brahms by "the tones of the Alpine horn, as it awakens the echoes from mountain after mountain on some oi the high passes in the Bernese Oberland." This passage is interrupted by a foreshadowing of the majestic chorale-like phrase for the trom bones and bassoons which later, when it returns at the climax of the movement, takes the breath with its startling grandeur. And then comes the chief theme of the Allegro- that spacious and heartening melody which sweeps us onward to the culminating moment in the Finale: the apocalyptic vision of the chorale in the coda, which may recall to some the exalted prophecy of Jean Paul: "There will come a time when it shall be light; and when man shall awaken from • TilE BOSTON SYMPHONY CONCERT BULLETIN • TIIE BERKSiliRE FESTIVI\L PROGRAM • TilE BOSTON POPS PROGRAM The Boston Symphony Orcl1estra PUBLICATIONS offer to advertisers wide coverage of a special group of discriminating people. For both merchandising and in stitutional advertising they have pro\Ted over many years to be excellent media. Total Circulation More Than 500,000 For Information and Rates Call :: ~IRs. D,\:-.,\ So:\ms, .lrhwtisin- Jlanagcr Tel. COM. 1492, or write: S) mphony llall, Boston 15, Mass. [ 2J ] LIST OF WORKS Performed in the Brooklyn Series DURING THE SEASON 1946.. 1947 lh EJ'liO\E'\1 ...... S)lllphon; o. 7 in ,\ major Op. 92 II I February 1 J Cone o to lor P ianofortc !\ o. •1 m C m,tjor, 0 p. 58 ~oloi-.t· ]) \\II \[\ R \ lit s'> I :\ O\ em bcr 1 .)~ BFRuo;; ...... "llarolcl in Italy''; ~)mphon) in Four 1\tiovements, with Viola Solo, 0 jJ. II) Soloist' .JASCIL\ VIIS'il II Januar) 10 BR IIMS ...... Symphony No. 1 Ill C minor, Op. Gtl V 1\pril 11 Academic. Fcsti\al 0\ ctlure V April 1 1 'ictcnacle m .\ maj01, for \Vind lthtlumcnts, \'ioLts, 'Cellos, and Doublebas cs III Fcbrua1) 1 1 Va1.iation., on a Theme b) IIa)dll, Op. r,GA V April 1 1 CoPLAND ...... S) mphony 1 0. g I Novcmbc1 1;, Lt' "- \'. Fo~ .-...... "'I he Song of ongs," [or Soptano and 01chcstta Soloi-.t: E1 L,\1\1 u 1 J) ''I'> I\ .\Tanh 1 [ \I \R II ;\II ...... Cone c1 to Gt o~~o f01 Cha llll>er On hc~t 1a l'i.11ws: I l '' \S l•o-.s and B1 R'\ \Ril /1<.111 R \ II Januar) 1 o i\fozARl ...... Symphony inC major, ''Lin1," No. ~~ {) (K. f!!S) J rI Fcbruar) I 1 RAC:II\1\ JNOFF ...... S)mphom in \minor, o. 3· Of). •[ll IV i\f~uch l•l Scllt IH IU' ...... •. .... Spn ph<>ll) No. !) in n II at major I\' l\Ltrch 1 J SIR\t'i'i ...... fetamorphoscn," Stud} for !.?3 Solo St1 ing Instl ttnH.'lllS ll Januan 1 o "Till E11lcnspiC'g<'i\ \ferry Pt:tnks. afte1 th<' Old Ltshion<:d Roo11ish...... \l;tnn<·r in Rondo Form." Of). !!H . I o\emhct 1r, Tile co11n'l 1 of Fclntl.ll \ t r, was tondtH' !('(I hy I.t o~ \IW B1 Rl\'illl:\ I !.! :~ l his lofty dreams, and find his dreams still there, and that nothing has gone save his leep." Not until he was forty-three did Brahms present his First Symphony to the world. His friends had long looked to him expectantly to carry on this particular glorious German tradition. As early as 1854 Schumann, who had staked his strongest prophecies on Brahms' future, wrote to Joachim: "But where is Johannes? Is he flying high, or only under the flowers? Is he not yet ready to let drums and trumpets ound? He should always keep in mind the beginning of the Beethoven symphonies: he should try to make something like them. The begin ning is the main thing; if only one makes a beginning, then the end come of itself." Schumann, that shrewd observer, knew that the brief beginnings of Brahms were apt to germinate, to expand, to lead him to great ends. Also, that Beethoven, symphonically speaking, would be his point of departure. To write a symphony after Beethoven was "no laughing matter,' Brahms once wrote, and after sketching a first movement he admitted to Hermann Levi - "I shall never compose a symphony! You have no conception of how the likes of us feel when we hear the tramp of a giant like him behind us." To study Brahms is to know that this hesitancy was not prompted by any craven fear of the hostile pens which were surely lying in wait for such an event as a symphony from the newly vaunted apostle of classicism. Brahms approached the symphony (and the concerto too) slowly and soberly; no composer was ever more scrupulous in the com mitment of his musical thoughts to paper. He proceeded with elaborate examination of his technical equipment, with spiritual self-questioning, and with unbounded ambition. The result- after a period of fourteen years between the first sketch and the completed manuscript- was a score which, in proud and imposing independence, in advance upon all precedent, has absolutely no rival among the first-born symphonies, before or since. (COPYRIGHTED) BOUND VOLUMES of the ?Joston c:))tmphony fJrchestra CONCERT BULLETINS CONTAINING: Analytical and descriptive notes by Mr. JOHN N. BURK, on all works performed during the season. "r:.A" c.%usiral cducatiott ttl fJne Volume" "Cf3ostott's Remarkable 13ook of K11owledge" LAWRENCE GILMAN 111 the N. Y. Herald a!ld TributTe Price g6.oo per volume u1ddreJJ: SYMPHONY HALL • BOSTON, MASS. 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