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LAfayette 3-6800 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [1474] CONTENTS Program 1479 uhurrVJy- BROS. Notes Mai tinon (Prelude and Toccata) 1481 Blackwood (Symphony No. 1) . 1486 Entr'acte The Decline of Program Music (/. N. B.) 1498 Notes Brahms (Symphony No. 2) 1506 Symphoniana EXHIBITIONS The exhibitions shown in the Gallery through the past season were loaned by the following artists and associations: North Shore Arts Association (Octo- ber 2-17). DeCordova and Dana Museum of Lin- coln, Mass. (October 30-November 14). take Boston Society of Water Color long Painters (November 27-December spring 12), at Subscribers' Exhibition (December starting with 21-January 2). this new long- Exhibition of Photographs by Nicholas jacketed suit . Dean, John Brook, Paul Caponigro perfect exponent and Fred Stone (January 8-16). of spring's new Exhibition of Ceramics, Colored Prints and Scale Models (January breezy feeling 29-February 13). the great Contemporary Portraits, Vose Gal- sleeve, stand- lery (February 25-March 19). offish collar, and Tyringham Gallery (April 1-19). tailored chic • • which distinguish LIST OF ARTICLES H.B.'s latest PAGE collection. Three Great Musicians. 3 New Members 4 +wen+y new bbur North Shore Arts Association 7 (List) 67 [>475j PAGE Jorge Bolet 68 Joseph Silverstein 131 The Autumn Tour 132 3b*3ro«sseau3touse of33oslom Youth Concerts 132 Visiting Orchestras 132 Thomas Schippers 195 The Vienna Philharmonic 196 A Portrait of Henschel 196 Isaac Stern 259 Russian Visitors 259 Manon Gropius 260 The Guests of This Week 323 Samuel Mayes 324 New York Recital by Mrs. Dwyer 324 Eugene Ormandy 387 Strasbourg and Boston 451 Boston Society of Water Color Painters (List) 452 Ania Dorfmann 515 New Music Made Known 515 Richard Burgin . 579 A Tour of the Orient 580 Youth Concerts 580 Aaron Copland to Tour with this Orchestra 643 Subscribers' Exhibition (List) . 643 William Steinberg 707 Ruggiero Ricci 836 A Comparison 836 Transatlantic Broadcast 836 In the Gallery 899 Gregor Piatigorsky 900 "Attis" 930 Mahler's Second Symphony 963 An Anniversary (Richard Burgin) 1027 Portrait Exhibition (List) 1091 Margrit Weber . 1092 Anniversaries 1092 Gary Graffman 1155 Award for Kirchner. 1156 -^rd •jfredh **/f& Spring. 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BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [1479] scene-stealing small fur . rom a collection fresh this spring at M%»1 Boston Chestnut Hill [1480] PRELUDE AND TOCCATA, Op. 50 By Jean Martinon Born in Lyons, France, January 10, 1910 Sketched in 1959 and orchestrated in the present year, this work is dedicated "a Charles Munch, mon ami et mon maitre." The following orchestra is required: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and contra-bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, piano, triangle, cymbals and suspended cymbal, snare drum, bass drum, gong, rattle. The Prelude, maestoso, in full orchestral scoring, sets forth thematic material for the main part of the work, the Toccata, which follows without break (allegro maestoso). The prelude, in 4/4, reaches /// and subsides to introduce the Toccata which begins pp in a triple beat with the fragment of a theme which is to figure importantly throughout. 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(The program also included Handel's Concerto Grosso for Strings, Op. 6, No. 11, Schumann's First Symphony and Stravinsky's Ballet Suite, "L'Oiseau de feu.") Jean Martinon studied at the Conservatory in Lyons and later in the Conservatory of Paris. The violin was the instrument of his choice but composition his principal pursuit, Albert Roussel his principal "maitre." He has devoted himself to conducting in recent years, notably to the Concerts Lamoureux in Paris, where he has conducted other orchestras. He has traveled widely as guest conductor in Europe — England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Poland. His travels have extended as far as Japan, Australia and the Americas. Before the war, Martinon composed a Symphoniette (1935) and a Symphony in C major (1934-36). In the first years of the war he was a prisoner in Germany and in the Stalag composed a Chant des captijs, a choral work with narrator, based on Psalms 136 and 137 of the Vul- gate. 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