TANGLEWOOD MUljonamei ctmetucfo me XSo^tcn &ymfm<wm OvtneAtea RCA Victor recreates all the eloquence of his interpretations in these brilliant "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity recordings **Berlioz:The Damnation of Faust (complete)—Suzanne Danco, Soprano; David Poleri, Tenor; Martial Singher, Baritone **Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (complete)—Margaret Roggero, Contralto; Leslie Chabay, Tenor; Yi-Kwei Sze, Bass **Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, in B Flat, op. 83—Artur Rubinstein, Piano *Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, in A, op. 92 **Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, in F Minor. **Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 4, in C Minor—Alexander Brailowsky, Piano. **"New Orthophonic" High Fidelity. *High Fidelity. rcaVictor MRS! IN RECORDED MUSIC * ^** f ' ** iag , Tt*T!n ~Tii"ir~'"^^^ ; 1 £1 °i iwiBH sj^^JJM;^- * £ """ «•* ' iflB Hk- - BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Berkshire Festival, Season 1955 (EIGHTEENTH SEASON) TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS SIXTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1955, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Taixott M. Banks, Jr. Alvan T. Fuller C. D. Jackson Charles H. Stockton John Nicholas Brown Francis W. Hatch Michael T. Kelleher Edward A. Taft Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson Palfrey Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Trustees Emeritus Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lenges Bull George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde Chairmen and Board of Selectmen (Ex officio): Stockbridge, Stephen W. Cooney; Lenox, Ralph Henry Barnes; Lee, Warren A. Turner )»«<• THOMAS D. PERRY, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector, N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager J 955 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood Enjoy your own festival whenever you wish -on SYMPHONIANA RCA Victor Records THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY Let these Berkshirerkshire Festival guest artists be year-round guests in your record) library On September 30th next the Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin its seventy-fifth consecutive PIERRE MONTEUX...H(7/l77ie season. Special events are planned for the anniver- Boston Symph. Orch.: **mozart: Piano Concerto sary, including an extended tour beginning October Piano No. 12 in A, (K.414): 10 and reaching as far south as New Orleans. Fif- Concerto No. 18 in B Flat, teen composers of this and other nations have been ( K. 156), Lili Kraus, Pianist **USZT: Les Preludes; Scri- commissioned to write special works for the season's abin : Poeme d'Extase ' concerts. : .stkavinsky : Rile of Spring ...with The Sun Francisco Symph. Orrh.: RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF: ScllcllC- razade, op. 35; FRANCK : WHY A SEASON OF BEETHOVEN Symphony in D Minor ...with The RCA Victor Symph. Orch.: CHARLES MUNCH, addressing the students o) **CHAUSSON: Poem of Love the Berks/iire Music Center at its first assemblage and the Sea, Gladys Swarth- the out. Mezzo-soprano on July 3, defended his choice oj Beethoven as GREGOR PIATAGORSKY. 'Cello principal composer oj the Festival season: **strauss, n.: Don Quixote, Boston Symph. Orch., Please permit me to say a few words to those Munch, fond. of you who may perhaps be surprised and may even Double Concerto in Brahms; reproach us for devoting a large part of the Festival A Minor for 'Cello and Vio- lin, Nathan Milstein, Violin; concerts to the music of Beethoven — as a large Robin Hood Dell Symph. part of last year's was devoted to Berlioz. Orch., Reiner, cond. Sonata No. 2 **BACH, J. S.: The fact is that if this music, written a hundred in D; prokofieff; Sonata, fifty always seem so immediate Op. 119, Ralph Bei-kovvitz, years ago. does not Piano to the professionals, the musicians of our time, it ti.wtL: Trio in A Minor: has never ceased to fascinate the music lovers, the *MENDELSSOHN : Trio No. 1 ill D Minor, op. 49, Heifelz. Vi- general public, the men of our time. olin: Rubinstein. Piano tciiaikovskv: Trio in A Mi- What is the reason? Why does the public always nor, Heifetz, Violin; Rubin- come back to listen to the Eroica — or the Eighth stein, Piano Symphony? Simply because music lovers know ARTHUR FIEDLER ...and The that after having heard this music, they will not h Boston "Pops" Orch. *offenbacii: Gaite Pari- leave the hall without having gained something. Les sienne; Meyerbeer: They will not leave the hall without taking away Patineurs *STRAUSS, J.: "Mr. Strauss something enriching, something heart-warming. Comes to Boston"; 11 favor- This is not the time to analyses, to speak ite Strauss compositions make *Slaughter on Tenth Avenue of the structure, the incomparable architecture, the other Ballet Selections; and absolute simplicity and clarity of the organisms 14 modern ballet selections *The Family All Together; that Beethoven knew how to create. We can see in Ten family favorites his sketchbooks what pain and suffering they cost. *"A'ei0 Orthophonic' High Fidelity. I like to tell you about this music "High Fidelity. What should today is briefly this: The principal reason why we musicians must always listen to this music and why RCAViCTOR we must make it heard is that it is above all human. FIRST IN RECORDED MUSIC Every one can find in it what he needs and what he is searching for. And this is especially import- ant for you my young friends. Tanglewood BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL This music, which is not sensual, not abstract, previously published in Paris. Copies of this book not dramatic in the sense of Wagner, not romantic may be had at the Tanglewood Music Store. in the sense of Schumann, not sentimental, not Music Under the Moon, by John G. W. Marian n a, pathetic — is all of them at once. And that is the ust is at the Store. It is a I published on sale Music reason why we must always live with it. history of the Berkshire Festival from its beginnings It expresses everything that a human being can in 1934. Of the 150 pages, 48 consist of illustrations. feel: happiness and suffering. It is elevating and ennobling. And it will forever be as necessary to PUBLIC REHEARSAL us who love music as faith is necessary to those The Saturday morning rehearsal by the Boston who love Christ. It is Beethoven's message that Symphon) Orchestra (August 13, at 10 a.m. I will be gives to Schiller's words opened to the public, the receipts to benefit the Briider. iiber'm Sternenzelt Pension fund of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ein lieber I Muss Vater wohnen* I Admission One Dollar. a significance that resounds throughout the entire FESTIVAL BROADCASTS world. And 1 hope with all my heart that our Fes- There will be broadcasts of Berkshire Festival per- tival, under this guidance, will be a blessing that on the Radio Network each Monday. may unite us all — those who make music and those formances NBC 8:15 to 9:00 E. D. T. Transcribed broadcasts will who listen to it — in a noble and fervent com- munion. continue on Mondays through September 26. There will also be broadcasts through this same *( liiutlicrs, i>M'[ tin- - t ; t r t > fiimumcnl period by the educational, non-profit FM 11111*1 ii lnvin» Kaihci ilwill.) WGBH, station of which this orchestra is a member. WINTER BROADCASTS PR I EN DS OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER Concerts by the orchestra through the coming All lovers of music who are interested in the season will be broadcast over the NBC Network each Boston Symphony Orchestra's school at Tanglewood week at a day and hour to be announced. The are invited to the numerous performances — orches- Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts tral, operatic, chamber and choral, which are each week will be broadcast entire by WGBH. given through the season. These performances are open to all who become members by a voluntary COOLIDGE CONCERTS contribution. The summer chamber music concerts established at South Mountain in Pittsfield in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge began July 30. This SCULPTURE IN THE FORMAL GARDEN season the South Mountain Association will pre- Patrons of the concerts will avoid traffic conges- sent five concerts, on Saturday afternoons at 4:00. lion by lingering at their leisure after a concert. in co-operation with the Elizabeth Sprague Cool- Tlie formal garden, in which the sculpture of Peter idge Foundation in the Library of Congress and Abate has been placed, will be kept lighted for at the Fromm Music Foundation of Chicago. The least one hour alter each evening concert. artists are: July 30, the New Music String Quartet; August 6, the New York Woodwind Quin- EXHIBITIONS IN THE GLASSED RECEPTION tet with George Schick, piano; August 13, Alex- ROOM AT TANGLEWOOD: ander Schneider, violin, and George Schick, piano; Aug. 6-14: Sculpture and drawings by Miss FRAXC August 20, Leontyne Price, soprano, Alexander EPPIXC. Lenox. Massachusetts. Schneider, and an instrumental ensemble; August 27, the Budapest String Quartet. On Friday morn- EXHIBITION AT THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ing, July 29, at 10 o'clock, the New Music String Quartet will give a special "Young Audiences" Con- An exhibition of photographs of famous musi- cert for parents and children. A limited number of cians by George J. Kossuth is being shown at the tickets are available without charge on application Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. to Mrs. Willem Willeke, South Mountain Associa- The Berkshire Museum announces numerous tion, Pittsfield, Mass. exhibitions of interest through the Festival season, including in July the works of Ezra Winter, the The photograph reproduced on the title page was mural painter; water colors by Helmut Siber: "Paintings of the Weather"; prints by European taken by Minot Beale, violinist of this Orchestra.