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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 93, 1973-1974 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON 1973-1974 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K. ALLEN SIDNEY STONEMAN JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood HARRY NEVILLE Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS tt wVid SPRING LINES Outline your approach to spring. In greater detail with our hand- somely tailored, single breasted, navy wool worsted coat. Subtly smart with yoked de- tail at front and back. Elegantly fluid with back panel. A refined spring line worth wearing. $150. Coats. Boston Chestnut Hill Northshore Shopping Center South Shore Plazagurlingt '1 .WTwi CONTENTS Program for April 16 1974 Program notes Haydn - Symphony No. 1 in D major by Philip Hale 11 Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht op. 4 by John N. Burk 15 Stravinsky - The Firebird (Complete Ballet Music) by Harry Neville 21 The Music Director 37 Announcements 45 BOSTON Seven Newbury Street Georges Noel / Recent Paintings Andre Derain / Works On Paper Cabot Cahners Room at Symphony Hall / Contemporary Tapestries CHESTNUT HILL MALL Neil Welliver/ Paintings and Graphics The Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery at Seven Newbury Street and at their location in the Mall at Chestnut Hill offers the largest collection of contemporary art in the area. Their consulting firm, Four Arts Services, is available for Corporate art proposals and commissions. Corporate Inquiries: Portia Harcus 262-4483 s-i</e o 1/r i* q o % % $> HARCUS KRAKOW ROSEN SONNABEND GALLERY Seven Newbury Street / Boston, Massachusetts 02116 ^?Mr*\ifflBBBH When we are conservative, it's because we have so much to be conservative about. Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Cuest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON Tuesday evening April 16 1974 at 8.30 SEIJI OZAWA conductor HAYDN Symphony No. 1 in D major Presto Andante Finale: Presto SCHOENBERG 'Verklarte Nacht' (Transfigured Night'), String Sextet op. 4, arranged for String Orchestra intermission STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Complete Ballet Music) Introduction Scene I: Kashchei's Enchanted Garden Appearance of the Firebird Pursued by Ivan Tsarevich Dance of the Firebird Ivan Tsarevich Captures the Firebird Supplication of the Firebird Appearance of Thirteen Enchanted Princesses The Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples (Scherzo) Sudden Appearance of Ivan Tsarevich The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance) Daybreak Ivan Tsarevich Penetrates the Palace of Kashchei Magic Carillon; Appearance of Kashchei's Guardian Monsters; Capture of Ivan Tsarevich Arrival of Kashchei the Immortal; His Dialogue with Ivan Tsarevich; Intercession of the Princesses Appearance of the Firebird Dance of Kashchei's Retinue under the Firebird's Spell Infernal Dance of all Kashchei's Subjects Lullaby (Firebird) Kashchei's Death Scene II: Disappearance of the Palace and Dissolution of Kashchei's Enchantments; Animation of the Petrified Warriors General Thanksgiving The concert will end at about 10.35 This evening's concert is being recorded by WGBH-TV for later telecast. Occasional scenes of the audience may be included. THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & RCA RECORDS VKtttitMBKM $2000 for braces but not one cent more for goodies. A 12-year-old's pocket money is not State Street Bank's normal concern. But she and her trust fund are. And we don't overlook the details. We have to be sure we give the right answers when requests for trust money are made. And we get requests for just about everything. From dentist bills to school bills. From new kitchens to new cars. Of 350 requests in a typical six months, we've had to say "no" to only nine. Because we don't give pat answers. In every case we respect not just the letter of the trust but its original intent. Which means putting ourselves in the shoes of the person who established it. And giving his beneficiaries the same answers he would have. If that means we have to disburse principal, we do it. Which may not fit your stereotype of a banker. Stern, conservative, remote. But neither would the trust officer we'd assign to your account. More than a trained professional, he or she is someone who becomes thoroughly involved with a family, and all its needs. And STATE STREET BANK works in a one-to-one relationship, almost as a member of the family. We do our homework. That's why our 12-year-old is dressed up for a "date." Braces _^ Personal Trust Division 225 101 and all. Her trust officer is taking her to lunch. And he's promised |T| wiSiySwMd1ubrid^fTtete a hot dog with all the trimmings. ^S^ Street Boston Financial Corporation . FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 1 in D Waterville Valley Program note by Philip Hale New Hampshire Haydn was born at Rohrau, Lower Austria, on March 31 or April 1 1732; he died in Vienna on May 31 1809. Windsor Hill RESORT CONDOMINIUMS Studios, 1, 2, and 3 Bedrooms from under $25,000 69 Jennings Peak Rd. Waterville Valley, N.H. Haydn. (603) 236-8388 (Waterville Office) Engraving by J. E. Mansfeld, 1 781 (617) 482-5080 (Boston Office) It was in 1759 that Haydn, recommended by Karl Joseph Edlen von Fiirnberg, the son of a physician ennobled by Charles VI, was appointed to the position of music director and chamber composer to Ferdinand Maximilian Franz, Count von Morzin. Fiirnberg had been in the habit When . of inviting musicians to his countryhouse at Weinzirl. He had heard of Haydn, then teaching, practising the piano and the violin in Vienna, • A mother is unable to care for having composed his first Mass and music for a comic opera 'Der neue children krumme Teufel.' (He had accompanied Porpora, the great singing teacher, to the baths of Mannersdorf, where he met Gluck, who advised • Serious illness disrupts family him to go to Italy.) In 1755, Haydn made a long visit at Weinzirl, where life he found some stringed instruments and a couple each of oboes and • An aging or ill person is horns, for which he wrote music for pieces he called divertimenti, convalescing nocturnes, or cassations; and it was here that he composed what is known as the 'Weinzirl Symphony' in B-flat, now printed among his •A person under psychiatric quartets as Op. 1, No. 5. He wrote at Weinzirl eighteen of these treatment needs temporary care divertimenti. in the home • Count Morzin, known as a 'conspicuous patron of art,' had several Parents need a vacation country places, built among them a castle Unter-Lukavec, about 1708, • Handicapped people need help for which Schor, a professor of geometry and architecture, had laid out a pleasure garden which the Bohemian sculptor Andreas Guitainer • Chronic illness strikes adorned with many statues. Diabacz, in his 'Kiinstler-Lexikon,' speaks of •A terminal patient needs the Count's 'celebrated orchestra' in Prague and adds that he had studied homecare composition with Franz Habermann (Count Morzin died in 1763 in his seventieth year). Call . Nothing is known about the condition of the orchestra at Lukavec during Haydn's stay. There were probably not more than from twelve Suburban Homemaking to sixteen members, to whom the Count's officers and retainers may and Maternity Agency, Inc. have been added. BROOKLINE 232-7650 FRAMINGHAM 879-1516 It was here in 1759 that Hadyn wrote his first symphony, for the 'Wein- zirl' symphony is really a quartet. In D major, it is written for string quartet, two oboes and two waldhorns. The music is concise, clear, melodically well invented. The wind instru- ments now and then reinforce the harmonies. Connecting passages are 11 /'i."' A Giulini Sampler with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 8and 9 Armstrong, Reynolds, Tear, Shirley-Quirk SB 3795 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D (1888) S 36047 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 S 36048 Berlioz Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17 The Orchestral Music SFO 36038 Stravinsky Petrouchka, Suite (1947) The Firebird, Suite (1919) SFO 36039 Brahms Symphony No. 4 in e, Op. 98 SFO 36040 with the Philharmonia Orchestra Boccherini Symphony in C Minor Overture in D Major Haydn Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise") S 35712 Debussy LaMer Trois Nocturnes S 35977 Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture S 35980 Verdi Four Sacred Pieces S 36125 Britten Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes" Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra I S 36215 I Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") S 60031* Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" Carnival Overture S 60045* Rossini Overtures S 60058* Brahms Symphony No. 3 "...he has Tragic Overture S 60101* Verdi . the Promethean Requiem Mass SB 3649 Verdi/ Rossini gift of fire.
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