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ERICH LEINSDORF, Director

Contemporary JMusic

Presented under the Auspices of the

Fromm zMusic Foundation

at TANGLEWOOD 1963 SEMINAR in Contemporary Music Seven sessions will be given on successive Friday afternoons (at 3:15) in the Chamber Music Hall. Four of these will precede the four Fromm Fellows' Concerts, and will consist of a re- hearsal and lecture by the Host of the following Monday Fromm Concert. July 12 AARON COPLAND July 19 GUNTHER SCHULLER

July 26 I Twentieth Century Piano Music PAUL JACOBS August 2 YANNIS XENAKIS j August 9 Twentieth Century Choral Music ALFRED NASH PATTERSON & LORNA COOKE de VARON August 16 I LUKAS FOSS August 23

Round Table Discussion of Contemporary Music Yannis Xenakis, Gunther Schuller and lukas foss

Composers 9 Forums There will be four Composers' Forums in the Chamber Music Hall:

Wednesday, July 24 at 4:00 ] Thursday, August 1 at 8:00 Wednesday, August 7 at 4:00 Thursday, August 15 at 8:00 FROMM FELLOWS' CONCERTS Theatre-Concert Hall Four Monday Evenings at 8:00 'Programs

JULY 15 AUGUST 5 AARON COPLAND, Host YANNIS XENAKIS, Host Varese Octandre (1924) Boulez ...Improvisations sur Mallarme, Copland Sextet (1937) No. 2 Chavez Soli (1933) Philippot ...Variations Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 Mdcbe .. ..Canzone II (1908) Brown, E ...Pentathis Stravinsky Ragtime for Eleven Instruments

Marie, E...... Polygraphie-Polyphonique (1918) J. Ballif,C ...Double Trio, 35, Nos. 2 and 3 Milhaud... L'Enlevement d'Europe — Op. Xenakis Achorripsis Opera minute (1927)

JULY 22 AUGUST 19 GUNTHER SCHULLER, Host LUKAS FOSS, Host Ives Chromatimelodtune

Paz .Dedalus, 1950 Schoenberg Herzgewacb.se Goehr.... Suite, Op. 11 Webern Trio Webern. String Trio Kagel Sonant Schuller Music for Violin, Piano and Percussion Babbitt Vision and Prayer

Reck No. 1, for Twelve Instruments Foss Echoi

The Fromm Fellowship Players are a group of young musicians whose special interest and skills have earned them the Fromm Music Founda- tion Fellowships for the study, teaching and performance of contemporary music at the Berkshire Music Center. The Fromm Fellows and students from other Berkshire Music Center divisions are heard in the Fromm Fellows' Concerts, the Seminar in Contemporary Music and the Composers' Forums. The 1963 members are: Violin Kenneth Goldsmith Bassoon David Carroll Violin Paul Zukofsky Percussion John Bergamo Viola Jesse Levine Harp Susan Goodman Cello Robert Martin Soprano Susan Belink Flute Elinor Preble Conductor Melvin Strauss Clarinet Edward Avedesian Timpani and) Ronald H. Dowd Oboe Philip Percussion Dennis C. Kain West J AARON COPLAND, Department Head LUKAS FOSS, Associate Head GUNTHER SCHULLER and YANNIS XENAKIS, Guest Teachers PAUL JACOBS, Fromm Instructor in Contemporary Music DAVID WALKER and STANLEY SILVERMAN, Administrative Assistants .

JMusic Fromm Foundation . Three Concerts of The . . dedicated to the furtherance of Chamber Music is contemporary Contemporary music. Wishing to bring the living flow f musical creation closer to the public, the 1 Foundation aims to return the initiative by the to the composer and to strengthen the most vital musical Juilliard String Quartet source of a healthy culture: composi- foster the realization of this tion. To aim, the Foundation commissions new works, in the Theatre-Concert Hall awards prizes for existing works, and sponsors the study < performance, publication, and recording of con- on temporary music. The Foundation is headed by Paul Fromm of Chicago, its founder and and Alexander Tuesday Evenings President, Schneider, its Asso- ciate Director. The Fromm Music Foundation 1 at 8:00 program at Tanglewood was begun in 1956.

These three concerts are presented by the Fromm The "Berkshire JMusic Center . . Music Foundation in the Berkshire Festival was established by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1940, the realization of a long held Chamber Music Series . The proceeds benefit the aim of Serge Koussevitzky, then the Orchestra's Tanglewood Revolving Scholarship Fund of the Music Director. It is devoted principally to the Berkshire Music Center. study of ensemble performance under a faculty whose nucleus is a group of twenty-two mem- bers of the Orchestra. The Composition De- July 16 partment faculty, headed by Aaron Copland, has included Milton Babbitt, Samuel Barber, Luciano Berio, Boris Blacher, Carlos Chavez, Berg Lyric Suite Luigi Dallapiccola, Irving Fine, Wolfgang Carter String Quartet No. 2 Former, Lukas Foss, Roberto Gerhard, Iain Hamilton, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Bartdk String Quartet No. 4 Jacques Ibert, Leon Kirchner, Nicolai Lopat- nikoff, Witold Lutoslawski, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud, Goffredo August 6 Petrassi, Gunther Schuller, Roger Sessions, Ernst Toch and Yannis Xenakis. Stravinsky Three pieces for Quartet The "Boston Symphony Orchestra . . Webern Five pieces for Quartet, Op. 5 since its establishment in 1881 has figured prom- Fine String Quartet inently in the introduction of new music. Its early conductors, Gericke, Muck, Monteux, Ravel String Quartet in F helped establish the music of Brahms, Strauss, m Debussy, and Stravinsky in the orchestral reper- ! toire. More recently under the direction of Serge August 13 Koussevitsky (1924-1949) and Charles Munch (1949-1962), and now Erich Leinsdorf, the its Schoenberg String Trio Orchestra has maintained and strengthened historic position through its commissions, Copland Two pieces for String Quartet awards, and performances and in the operation Shostakovitch String Quartet No. 7 of the Berkshire Center Composition Music ( Department. Ginistera String Quartet No. 2 BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORD PRINTED IN U.S.A.