Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 87, 1967
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON //Z£ Up t CAMBRIDGE SERIES EIGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 EI' Exquisite B' Sound From the palaces of ancient Egypt to the concert halls of our modern cities, the wondrous music of the harp has compelled attention from all peoples and all countries. Through this passage of time many changes have been made in the original design. The early instruments shown in drawings on the tomb of Rameses II (1292-1225 B.C.) were richly decorated but lacked the fore-pillar. Later the "Kinner" developed by the Hebrews took the form as we know it today. The pedal harp was invented about 1720 by a Bavarian named Hochbrucker and through this ingenious device it be- came possible to play in eight major and five minor scales complete. Today the harp is an important and familiar instrument providing the "Exquisite Sound" and special effects so important to modern orchestration and arrange- ment. 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SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS "A 'greatest 'symphony orchestra does now exi: and it is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetti High Fidelil Red Seal recordings ELLIOTT CARTER: PIANO CONCERTO Jacob Lateiner, pi»nut World Premlire Recorded Live at Symphony Hill, Boston MICHAEL C0L6RASS: AS QUIET AS BOSTON SYMPHONY ERICH LEINSDORF taVioot JOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICH LEINSDORF Music Director HARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor [RST VIOLINS CELLOS BASSOONS jseph Silverstein Jules Eskin Sherman Walt Concertmaster Martin Hoherman Ernst Panenka lfred Krips Mischa Nieland Matthew Ruggiero eorge Zazofsky Karl Zeise olland Tapley Robert Ripley CONTRA BASSOON John Sant Ambrogio oger Shermont Richard Plaster fax Winder Luis Leguia Stephen Geber iarry Dickson HORNS ottfried Wilfinger Carol Procter Stagliano redy Ostrovsky Jerome Patterson James Charles Yancich eo Panasevich Ronald Feldman oah Bielski Harry Shapiro [erman Silberman BASSES Thomas Newell :anley Benson Paul Keaney Henry Portnoi leldon Rotenberg Ralph Pottle William Rhein lfred Schneider Joseph Hearne ilius Schulman TRUMPETS Bela Wurtzler erald Gelbloom Armando Ghitalla Leslie Martin aymond Sird Roger Voisin John Salkowski John Barwicki Andre Come iCOND VIOLINS Buell Neidlinger Gerard Goguen larence Knudson Robert Olson William Marshall TROMBONES [ichel Sasson William Gibson tmuel FLUTES Diamond Josef Orosz Doriot Anthony Dwyer mnard Moss Kauko Kahila /illiam Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis jyrton Pinto Phillip Kaplan TUBA jmnon Levy Chester Schmitz llaszlo Nagy PICCOLO ; ichael Vitale TIMPANI jictor Manusevitch Lois Schaefer loshiyuki Kikkawa* Everett Firth I ax Hobart OBOES »hn Korman PERCUSSION Ralph pristopher Kimber Gomberg Charles Smith | !>encer Larrison John Holmes Arthur Press Hugh Matheny Assistant Timpanist Thomas jlOLAS Gauger ENGLISH HORN larton Fine Laurence ieuben Green Thorstenberg HARPS Ugen Lehner Bernard Zighera i j:rome Lipson CLARINETS Olivia Luetcke jobert Karol Gino Cioffi jkio Akaboshi* Pasquale Cardillo j^rnard Kadinoff LIBRARIANS Peter Hadcock lincent Mauricci Victor Alpert E\) Clarinet ijirl Hedberg William Shisler »seph Pietropaolo j bbert Barnes BASS CLARINET STAGE MANAGER Ijzhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison ILLIAM MOYER Personnel Manager pembers of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra participating in one season exchange with Messrs George Humphrey and Ronald Knudsen \\ §)X(a(ianna^.nc, At the / Boston Symphony Concerts / i this year, ii these Pianists . 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THE FIRST & OLD COLONY The First National Bank of Boston and Old Colony Trust Company 10 HGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 rifth Program Tuesday evening March 19 at 8.30 :RICH LEINSDORF conductor MOZART Symphony no. 38 in D major K. 504 'The Prague* Adagio — allegro Andante Finale: presto ROKOFIEV Symphony no. 2 op. 40 (1924) Allegro ben articolato Theme and variations Theme: andante Variations: listesso tempo - allegro non troppo - allegro - larghetto - allegro con brio - allegro moderato Theme: andante molto NTERMISSION vlENDELSSOHN Capriccio brillante for piano and orchestra op. 22 GARY GRAFFMAN ,EES Piano concerto no. 2 Allegro enfatico Adagio, vago Allegro tempestoso GARY GRAFFMAN ary Graffman plays the Steinway piano IALDWIN PIANO ICA VICTOR RECORDS 11 Program Notes j WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony no. 38 in D major K. 504 The Prague* Program note by Peter Branscombe Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27 1756, and died in Vienna on Deceir ber 5 1791. He finished the Prague Symphony in 1786, and it was first performe at Prague on January 19 1787. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted b George Henschel, first performed the Symphony on January 27 1882. 'The 6th [December 1786] A symphony. — 2 violini, 2 viole, 2 flauti 2 oboe, 2 corni, 2 fagotti, 2 clarini, timpany e Basso.' In this way followed by the opening bars of its slow introduction in short score Mozart entered in his autograph List of all my works the symphom which has since become known as the 'Prague'. In Germany it i often referred to as the 'Symphony without minuet' — appropriate!' enough, but this title could equally well be applied to the 'Paris' am to many of Mozart's earlier symphonies which are more obvious! Italian overtures in their fast-slow-fast pattern of three movement? It is true that the 'Prague' is the only one of the six symphonies Mozart's Vienna years to lack a minuet, but considerations of tim are certainly not responsible for the three-movement form, and it i indeed highly questionable whether one is right to talk of a 'lack' a* all in so carefully : integrated and superb a work. The summer and autumn of 1786 was not a particularly settled o happy period for Mozart, yet between June and the end of the year h produced such masterpieces (this list is not complete) as the E fla piano quartet, the fourth horn concerto, the G major trio K. 496, th F major sonata for piano duet, the clarinet trio, the D major strim quartet K. 499, the B flat trio, the wonderful but often underestimate< C major piano concerto