Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 64,1944-1945

SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1944-1945 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historicat and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, InC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Jerome D. Greene . President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Henry B. Cabot . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Reginald C. Foster Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. JUDD, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [ 1037 ] ® @ @ @ ® YOUR WILL Is your will up-to-date? Does it take into account present-day problems? We suggest that you and your attorney talk with one of our Trust Officers about a Shawmut Estate Analysis . prepared without charge to you. TRUST DEPARTMENT The D^tional Shawmut Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Listen to John Barry with "Shawmut Frontline Headlines'' — WBZ- WBZA — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7 145 p. m. «5 SYMPHONIANA Record Concerts in Camps The Completion of Newman's "Wagner' Tovey's "Britannica" Articles Exhibition RECORD CONCERTS IN CAMPS The following extracts are taken from a letter received from a music critic of Boston now in the service and a patient in the Army Service Forces Regional Hospital at Camp B landing, Florida: "Next week I am supposed to begin a series of recorded music programs with commentary by yours truly. Can you guess where the records came from? Right! They are those Armed Services Recordings for which Dr. Koussevitzky and the Orchestra gave the benefit at Tanglewood several years ago. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I went into the Red Cross store room and found this red wooden chest with the label on the top, identify- ing the contents. "Today, in looking over those records, TRIANGLE I found the stock as a whole to be SILHOUETTE pretty small, especially since the pro- Shoulders soar into the grams are planned for several times a news, wide as they can week. At the same time, we need a rec- make them, thus accent- ord player which can be used by the ing the tiny waistline. men in the Red Cross recreation rooms Half belted grey mens- and which we can use to test the records w^ ar flannel reefer before we put them on the air. The sketched, or in black diag- Special Service Officer asked me if I onal velour. (< knew anyone to whom I could write 139.90 asking for records, and a player, if pos- Misses' Sizes sible. FOURTH FLOOR "You can imagine, with little but soap operas and hillbilly music on the radio in the daytime, that the boys here thirst for something that sounds more like home. The larger portion of the camp population is made up of Northerners. GIVE NOW—GIVE MORE And whatever their tastes, they take KEEP YOUR RED CROSS readily to 'classical' music. The recent AT HIS SIDE concert here by Jose Iturbi was very good proof of that. [ 1039 ] "You have no idea how much you miss music when you are away from it. The hospital radio offers very little. (Maybe I should explain that. There are loudspeakers in every ward and blankets corridor. Programs from outside sta- tions are piped throughout the hospital. And several times a day we present Pure wool by North Star, white, our own.) The men in charge of the radio certainly take little stock of rose dust, green, gold, or blue, other men's tastes. And during training we 72 X 90, $13.95 and $16.95. heard no music at all. "The few times I have heard good Star 42 Baby Blankets: North x music on the radio my spirit has been lifted enormously. I can't explain that; 60, baby blue, pink or white, but music is so much a part of me that $6.95. I need it as much as I need water." Wamsutta's, 48 x 66, baby blue, Anyone wishing further particulars may inquire at the Subscription Office. pink or white, $9.50. THE COMPLETION OF 'blanket Covers NEWMAN'S "WAGNER" (From "Musical America," January 10, 1945) Cotton crinkle crepe, printed or The fourth, and presumably last, vol- plain, single, $12.50. Double, ume of Mr. Newman's monumental "Life of Richard Wagner" has been $14.50. completed (he hoped to write the last line before Christmas) and it will be Satin Applique on Rayon Satin, ready for publication early this year. This, I think you will agree, is news blue or tea rose, single, $14.50. indeed. Double $16.50. The Life, which undoubtedly is the most significant and capacious biograph- Lace trimmed rayon crepe, tea ical achievement of our day in the field of music, has occupied Mr. New- rose, blue or white, single $19.50. man for the last 13 years and interest Double $24.50. in it has mounted as the successive volumes have appeared at intervals of about four years. The third volume left the composer in the year 1866 on the threshold, so to speak, of his inter- national success and the epochal Bay- reuth period. The mass of potential biographical material, from 1866 to the The Trousseau House of Boston end, is of such staggering proportions that many have doubted the feasibility 41B BDYLSTDN STREET of managing it in anything less than two WELLESLEY " HYANNIS " PALM. fKACH more volumes. However, from his let- [ 1040 ] For the or pleasing and enjoyable reproduction of your treasured recordings use a FIDELITONE MASTER FLOATING POINT NEEDLE . kind to records . thousands of plays . floating point construction filters record scratch . satisfaction assured. Available at leading record and music shops everywhere. Atrroctjvefjf^^ packaged in useful recoJt^ brush ^^. I PERMO, leicorporoteei 6415 Rdvenswood Ave./ Chkogo 26 ^^ ^.îîâ^v4^^î.-t«»i^^^^^î.-^^ [ 1041 ] ter, Mr. Newman seems to have made do with only one and thus has brought OF LONDON to an end (with a sigh, if not a bellow, m of relief) a tremendous and invaluable undertaking. Progress on the book was retarded by the war, according to the writer, and also by "a disaster to my eyes that nearly did for them" early last year. A good recovery seems to be in progress, but the noted critic, who is now 76, has had to take it slow with his eyes and says he is "conscious that I mustn't take too great liberties with them." Here are a few revealing sentences on life in a front-line country: "veddy, veddy British'' are the "You people in America can have no clothes hod of London sends idea of the strain on us during the war. you via Fredleys . naturally, I live in a village nearly 20 miles from it and so for they 're the same distinguished London — to the south of — in the German bombing area in the town-and country suits, old days. I didn't mind the bombs; one and blouses he creates topcoats, became so used to them as to be in- for London's you7ig court circle different to them in the end. What tells on us here is the dreadful monotony . hod's own choice tweeds of the long winter, in long nights of and woolens are tailored darkness all .round us, and with no one the suave, in New York into to talk to. It is this that has pulled feminine, long-lasting treasures me down: there was nothing to do but work, and I did more of that than was you used to bring back so good for my eyes or my general health." proudly from England . the collection {something you should see) is exclusive with Fredleys . TOVEY'S "BRITANNICA" ARTICLES 3$o /ôykYon 9^<eef:.. Donald Francis Tovey's way of mak- ing a point by an apt witticism is il- lustrated by the following "scattered sayings," culled by an English reviewer from the newly published "Musical Articles from the Encyclopedia Bri- « tannica" {Oxford University Press):— "In art, as in mathematics, accuracy lies in estimating the relevant degree unroll- of approximation rather than in ing interminable decimals." "Cadenzas are, to this day, a form of ." *n ii\eY..Jfo/iht)C0^^ musical appendicitis. [ 1042 ] Today's Art Gallery 176 Newbury Street Boston Modern Paintings of Value [ 1043 ] "An aesthetically correct account of Palestrina's tonality is much more easily achieved by a description in terms of Beethoven's key- system than by any at- tempt to refer it to the orthodox modal theory." *'. the now ubiquitous ventil horns, the most perfect of all continuo-players." "We may be perfectly sure that if the By the Fireside Greeks had produced a music equivalent to the art of Palestrina, Bach, or Bee- Winter blankets New England thoven, no difficulty of deciphering again, and many homes would have effectively prevented us tonight are warmed, cheered, from recovering as much of it as we colored with the graceful have recovered of Greek literature." flickerings of a ". glowing log fire. Such a . the ecclesiastical modes of pure little thing, but a part polyphony are given with their fondly- of the heritage we have imagined Greek names." not relinquished. "Many movements by Mozart are as Somewhere else tonight alike as peas. But, being alive, they are New England men sit not as alike as buttons." in foxholes, a few miles "We ought not to despise the drawing- behind battle lines, their room." hearts and memories ". fired by little things, too.

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