Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 82, 1962
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V -J es ;...,- .--->-'-;.. s - __. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC c^ iSsX «^ EIGHTY-SECOND SEASON 1962-1963 1962-1963 9 The Women s Committee for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts in Brooklyn Mrs. Andrew L. Gomory, Chairman Mrs. Laurance E. Frost Mrs. James B. Donovan Mrs. Albert C. Magee * Vice-Chairman Vice- Chairman Vice-Chairman Mrs. John W. Faison, Jr. Mrs. James Vincent Keogh Mrs. John R. Bartels Treasurer Secretary Membership Chairman Mrs. Irving G. Idler Mrs. Robert F. Warren Box Chairman Subscription Chairman Mrs. Elias J. Audi Mrs. John T. Gallagher Miss Helen M. McWilliams Mrs. Bernard S. Barr Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin Mrs. Alfred L. Megill Mrs. H. Haughton Bell * Mrs. Elizabeth L. Giddings Mrs. Harold R. Merwarth Mrs. Milton S. Berman Mrs. R. Whitney Gosnell Mrs. Philip T. Morehouse Mrs. George M. Billings Mrs. D. Frank Guarini Miss Emma Jessie Ogg Mrs. John R. H. Blum Mrs. Warren L. Hafely Mrs. Harold L. Ostergren Mrs. Robert E. Blum Mrs. Arthur C. Hallan Mrs. William B. Parker Mrs. Lawrence J. Bolvig Mrs. J. Victor Herd Mrs. Raymond King Pendleton Mrs. Walter Bruchhausen Mrs. William B. Hewson Mrs. Edward T. Reilly Mrs. Otis Swan Carroll Mrs. James M. Hills Mrs. Allan G. Richtmyer Mrs. Francis T. Christy Mrs. John W. Hoffmann Mrs. Abraham M. Sands Mrs. Benjamin J. Conroy Mrs. David S. Hunter Mrs. Eliot H. Sharp Mrs. Donald M. Crawford Mrs. Raymond V. lngersoll Mrs. Donald G. C. Sinclair Mrs. Russell V. Cruikshank Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham Mrs. Ainsworth L. Smith Mrs. William T. Daily Mrs. Darwin R. James, III Mrs. Sidney L. Solomon Mrs. Frederick I. Daniels Mrs. John W. James, III Mrs. Harry H. Spencer Miss Ruth G. Davis Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr. Mrs. Monroe D. Stein Mrs. Berton J. Delmhorst Mrs. William F. Kerby Mrs. Hollis K. Thayer * Mrs. Carroll J. Dickson Mrs. John Bailey King Mrs. Gilbert H. Thirkield Mrs. Joseph J. Dreyer Mrs. Abbott A. Lippman Mrs. John F. Thompson, Jr. Mrs. Remick C. Eckardt Mrs. Everett J. Livesey Mrs. Theodore N. Trynin Mrs. Alfred H. Everson Mrs. J. Frederick Lohman, Jr. Mrs. Franklin B. Tuttle * Mrs. James F. Fairman Mrs. John J. Madden Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen Mrs. Frederic Feichtinger Mrs. Eugene R. Marzullo Mrs. Thomas K. Ware Mrs. Merrill N. Foote Mrs. Carleton D. Mason Dr. Virginia T. Weeks Mrs Edward M. Fuller Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Jr. Miss Elizabeth T. Wright Mrs. Richard S. Maynard • Former Chairmen SEASON BOX SUBSCRIBERS Box 1 St. Francis College Box 6 Packer Collegiate Institute Box 2 Brooklyn Friends School Box 7 The Guild of the Box 3 The Berkeley Institute Long Island College Hospital Box 4 Mrs. Darwin R. James, III Box 8 Packer Collegiate Institute Box 5 Rev. William Mowat Box 10 Misses Irene and Margaret Wester Miss Emma Jessie Ogg Mrs. William B. Parker The Women's Committee for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts in Brooklyn con- tinues its Box Subscription to provide seats for the Blind elsewhere in the Opera House. The Kiwanis Club of Brooklyn continues its Box Subscription to provide seats for Students elsewhere in the Opera House. EIGHTY-SECOND SEASON, 1962-1963 Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical ariii descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Abram Berkowitz John T. Noonan Theodore P. Ferris Mrs. James H. Perkins Francis W. Hatch Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson John L. Thorndike E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Raymond S. Wilkins Henry A. Laughlin Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 rsi Boston Symphony Orchestra (Eighty-second Season, 1962-1963) ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Cellos Bassoons Joseph Silverstein Samuel Mayes Sherman Walt Concert-master Alfred Zighera Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero George Zazofsky Mischa Nieland Contra Bassoon Rolland Tapley Karl Zeise Roger Shermont Richard Kapuscinski Richard Plaster Vladimir Resnikoff Bernard Parronchi Horns Harry Dickson Robert Ripley James Stagliano Gottfried Wilfinger Winifred Winograd Charles Yancich Einar Hansen John Sant Ambrogio Harry Shapiro Fredy Ostrovsky Louis Berger Harold Meek Minot Beale Peter Schenkman Paul Keaney Herman Silberman Osbourne McConathy Stanley Benson Basses Trumpets Leo Panasevich Georges Moleux Sheldon Rotenberg Henry Freeman Roger Voisin Armando Ghitalla Noah Bielski Irving Frankel Alfred Schneider Henry Portnoi Andre Come Henri Girard Gerard Goguen Clarence Knudson John Barwicki Pierre Mayer Trombones Leslie Martin William Gibson Manuel Zung Bela Wurtzler Samuel Diamond Joseph Hearne William Moyer William Marshall Kauko Kahila Leonard Moss Flutes Josef Orosz William Waterhouse Doriot Anthony Dwyer Tuba Michel Sasson James Pappoutsakis K. Vinal Smith Victor Manusevitch Phillip Kaplan Laszlo Nagy Timpani Pinto Ayrton Piccolo Everett Firth Julius Schulman George Madsen Harold Farberman Lloyd Stonestreet Raymond Sird Percussion Oboes Gerald Gelbloom Charles Smith Max Winder Ralph Gomberg Harold Thompson Jean de Vergie Arthur Press Violas John Holmes Harps Joseph de Pasquale Jean Cauhape English Horn Bernard Zighera Eugen Lehner Louis Speyer Olivia Luetcke Bernard Albert Piano George Humphrey Clarinets Bernard Zighera Jerome Lipson Gino Cioffi Robert Karol Manuel Valerio Library Reuben Green Pasquale Cardillo Victor Alpert Bernard Kadinoff E\) Clarinet William Shisler Vincent Mauricci Earl Hedberg Bass Clarinet Stage Manager Joseph Pietropaolo Rosario Mazzeo Alfred Robison [4] EIGHTY-SECOND SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO -SIXTY-THREE Third Program THURSDAY EVENING, January 10, at 8:30 o'clock Mendelssohn Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 21 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24, in C minor, K. 491 I. (Allegro) II. Larghetto III. (Allegretto) INTERMISSION Shostakovitch Symphony No. 10, in E minor, Op. 93 I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Allegretto IV. Andante; Allegro SOLOIST GABRIEL TACCHINO Mr. Tacchino plays the Steinway Piano BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [5] — Under the distinguished baton of Maestro Erich Leinsdorf, new musical director, the 1962 season promises to be one of the greatest in the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy this great orchestra in recent Red Seal recordings, Charles Munch conducting: a jewel- like Berlioz Borneo and Juliet, and two superb works by Milhaud Suite Provencale and La Creation du Monde. Both beautifully pack- aged Soria Series albums and both available in Living Stereo, Monaural and also on Tape. Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony record exclusively on RCA VICTOR fofifflThe most trusted name in sound [6] OVERTURE (Op. 21) TO "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" By Felix Mendelssohn Born in Hamburg, February 3, 1809; died in Leipzig, November 4, 1847 Mendelssohn composed his Overture to Shakespeare's play in 1826. It was first publicly performed at Stettin in February, 1827, under Karl Lowe, and published in 1835. It was first performed at the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra February 9, 1883, and last performed January 8, 1954. The Overture is dedicated to "His Royal Majesty, the Crown Prince of Prussia." The instrumentation requires 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, ophicleide (here replaced by the contra bassoon and tubas), timpani, cymbals, triangle and strings, often divided. TV >Tendelssohn, reading translations of Shakespeare by Schlegel and -*--" Tieck, composed this Overture as a concert number in his seven- teenth year, when he was living at 3 Leipziger Strasse, Berlin, a sub- urban house with ample gardens, a garden house for amateur theatri- cals included. Discernible in the Overture are the fairy chords of the introduction and scherzo-like character of the main theme, the refer- ences to the Bergomask Dance from the fifth act of the play, the imita- tion of the braying of Bottom, and a descending cello passage which is supposed to have been suggested to the composer by the buzzing of a fly as he worked in his summer garden. The Overture was originally written for piano duet. It was not until 1843, in tne height of Mendelssohn's fame, that he added to the Overture the incidental numbers intended for Shakespearean perform- ances at the Royal Theatre in Berlin. There is no more extraordinary instance of Mendelssohn's precocious artistry than the perfect fusion of his boyhood overture and its fuller treatment seventeen years later. When Friedrich Wilhelm IV took the throne of Prussia in 1840, his first step was to establish an Academy for an illustrious representation of the arts at his court. His choice of a musician for this department fell at once upon the celebrated and popular Mendelssohn, who had dedicated the overtures "Melusina," "Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Hebrides" to him as Crown Prince. Mendelssohn found Berlin far less responsive and congenial than Leipzig, and the circuitous ways of officialdom and court etiquette were onerous; but he composed what was required of him for the most part cheerfully enough. Incidental music for stage productions was no small part of these requirements, which included Sophocles' "Antigone" in 1841, and according to a royal command in the following year, Racine's "Athalie," Sophocles' "Oedipus at colonus," Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Mendelssohn worked industriously upon his commissions, of which "Antigone" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" were produced in the autumn of 1843. [copyrighted] [7] PIANO CONCERTO NO. 24, in C minor, K. 491 By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died in Vienna, December 5, 1791 This Concerto was composed in March, 1786. The orchestral portion consists of flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.