Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 69, 1949-1950
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VeteraiivS Memorial Auditorium, Providence SIXTY-NINTH SEASON, 1949-1950 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Fourth Concert TUESDAY EVENING, April 4 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The trustees of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot , President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Charles D. Jackson Theodore P. Ferris Lewis Perry Alvan T. Fuller Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oi ivkr Wot.cott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers [»1 Tybi&juL ^vshA. JinDW — Theie is no substitute for the best. ... For that reason we have selected the finest, the leading names in pianos, radios, and organs. 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Presto; Assai meno presto; Tempo primo IV .Allegro con brio INTERMISSION Kavei Valses Nobles et Sentimentales \fod6r('' — Asse? lent — Mod(^rc — Assez anime -- Prcsque lent— Moins vif — Epilogue: Lent Ravei "Daphnis et Chlo^," Ballet Suite No. 2 BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Rehearsal Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are given each Monday (WJAR) , on the National Broadcasting Company Net work* 1-1:30 fe^Mli (}1 . The Boston Symphony Orchestra ANNOUNCES THE 1950 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL AT TANGLEWOOD (Lenox, Mass.) SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Eleazar de Carvalho, Guest Conductors THEATRE CONCERT HALL 6 Concerts by Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Saturday Eves. — Sunday Afts. — July 8, 9 — IS, 16 BACH — Brandenburg Concertos, Suites, Solo Concertos, Cantatas Saturday Eve. — Sunday Aft. — July 22, 23 MOZART — Symphonies, Serenades, Piano Concerto, Two PiaiK> Concerto MUSIC SHED Thursday and Saturday Eves., Sunday Afts. Series A —July 27, 29, 30 Beethoven — Symphony No. 5; Sibelius — Symphony No. 2; Bruckner — Symphony No. 7; Wagner — Siegfried Idyll, Tann- hauser Overture; Diamond — Timon of Athens; Shapero — Adagietto; Brahms — Symphony No. 2. Series B — August 3, 5, 6 Beethoven — Symphony No. 6; Strauss — "Death and Trans- figuration,'* "Till Eulenspiegel"; Haydn — Symphony No. 92; Copland — Quiet City; Nabokov -= La Vita Nuova; Prokofieff — Piano Concerto No. 2, Scythian Suite; Ravel = "Mother Goose*' Suite, Alborada, Piano Concerto; Berlioz — Romeo and Juliet (Excerpts) Series C — August 10, 12, 13 Bach — Mass in B Minor; Berlioz — Harold in Italy; Ibert — Escales; Villa-Lobos — Choros 10; Prokofieff — Symphony No. 6; Brahms — Symphony No. 1. (Soloists to be announced) THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER, Serge Koussevitzky, Director, v^rill be in session July 3-August 13, with numerous performances open to those who join its Society of Friends. For school catalogue, or program and ticket information, Address Festival Office, Symphony Hall, Boston 15, Mass. f 4l SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA (from the WATER MUSIC) By George Frideric Handel Bom at Halle, February 23, 1685; died in London, April 14, 1759 Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty* Handel's ^V^ater Music was probably composed and performed in parts in 1715 and 1717. The original autograph has been lost. A suite from the music was published by John Walsh in 1720, and another version, differently arranged, in 1740. The full suite of 20 movements was published in the Samuel Arnold edition (1785-1797), and appeared in the complete works as edited by Chrysander. Sir Hamilton Harty, arranging a suite of six movements in 1918, and then per- forming it at the Halle Concerts, has scored it for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings (published in 1922) . Suites from the Water Music, derived from Chrysander, have been per- formed by this Orchestra December 11, 1885, October 21, 1887, December 21, 1900, and March 18, 1927. Handel's time, parties on the Thames were a favorite recreation IN of Londoners in the summer season. R. A. Streatfeild has described the custom in his Life of Handel (1909) : "The River Thames was * Bom at Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, December 4, 1879 ; died February 19, 1941. Here at Daytona Beach, with 2 3 miles Daytona Beach of silvery sand, regal luxury awaits you at The Sheraton Plaza, directly • # every pleosure on the ocean . every resort pleasure, cabana colony, Olympic swimming under the sun! pool, sand sailing, inland waterway ~^'K and deep sea fishing, golf; and tennis. y' By reservation, please, through any Sheraton hotel, your travel agent, or direct. W. SCOTT PEIRSOL, Ge)i. Mgr. Sheraton Hotels in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Detroit, Providence, Newark, Buffalo, 28 Rochester, and other cities. SHERATON HOTELS [5] then, far more than now, one of the main highways of London. It was still Spenser's 'silver Thames,' and on a summer's day it must have presented a picture of life and gaiety very different from its present melancholy and deserted aspect. It was peopled by an immense fleet of boats devoted solely to passenger traffic, which were signalled by passing wayfarers from numerous piers between Blackfriars and Putney, just as one now signals a hansom or taxicab. Besides the humble boats that plied for hire, there were plenty of private barges fitted up with no little luxury and manned by liveried servants. The manners and customs of the boatmen were peculiar, and their wit- combats, carried on in the rich and expressive vernacular of Billings- gate, were already proverbial . George I liked the River. When the Court was at Whitehall water parties to Richmond or Hampton Court were of frequent occurrence, and as often as not the royal barge was accompanied by an attendant boat laden with musicians." Handel, serving as kapellmeister to Georg Ludwig, Elector of Han- over, obtained leave of absence to visit England in 1712. He not only overstayed his leave, but came under the open patronage of the reign- ing Queen Anne, between whom and Georg there was no love lost. Handel, while thus still bound to the House of Hanover, composed his Ode to Queen Anne^ and his Te Deum and Jubilate for the hated Peace of Utrecht. When the Queen died in 1714, Georg was crowned xelrod-ITlusic Established 1910 45 Snow Street—Providence 3, R. I. 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It was obviously a question of a propitious moment, and Handel had friends ready to do their tactful part when that moment should come.