Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 75, 1955-1956
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LA fayette 3-5700 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, CO mmonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1955-1956 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor 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 Talcott M. Banks, Jr. C. D. Jackson John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch Edward A. Taft Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector ) Assistant J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer N. S. 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The new orchestral Concerto by the Roman composer, Goffredo Petrassi, which was composed So very young and for the anniversary of this orchestra, will then have its first performance and flattering ... so Mr. Petrassi will fly from Italy to be has otherwise present. Mr. Munch amazingly practical . planned an appropriate program. Sal- vatore Rebecchini, Mayor of Rome, this all nylon teagown. will be received by Mayor Hynes as a visitor to Boston and will be honored Delft blue nylon velvet by our various cultural institutions. The "Salute to Rome" is sponsored by the above. Quilted nylon United States Information Agency, in Washington. skirt in white scat- A special exhibition of contemporary paintings, brought from Italy, is now tered with printed shown in the gallery. • • posies. It washes, ORCHESTRAL BEGINNINGS of course. A romance is connected with the for- mation and early fortunes of the Boston Sizes 10 to 20. Symphony Orchestra. Helen Henschel, the daughter of the late Sir George Henschel, tells the story in a book en- 39.95 titled "When Soft Voices Die" (Methu- en & Co., Ltd., London, 1949), also quoting her father about the orchestra's beginnings. Miss Henschel relates how her mother, an American girl, Lillian Bailey (who incidentally had made her dibut as soprano soloist with the Cecilia Society in Boston), went to London at the age of eighteen to continue her studies and there became the pupil of Georg Hen- schel, the young baritone. Two years later (in the Spring of 1881) she became his wife. Before their career of vocal recitals began, my father spent three winters in Boston as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I often imagine what a thrill, what a tremendous thrill, it must have been to a young musician to receive on his honeymoon a telegram offering him the delightful task of forming a brand- new Symphony Orchestra for Boston, and of conducting it! 416 Boylston St., Boston KE 6-6238 The telegram was from Henry Lee Higginson, one of those enviable people 54 Central St., Wellesley WE 5-3430 who are endowed with a real deep- rooted love of music, and equally with [3] so much of this world's riches as to make it easy to carry out so costly a project as the formation of a great or- chestra. He had heard my father conduct Chandler s a concert of the old-established Har- vard Musical Society [Association] in Tremont and West Streets, Boston 1881, and had been much impressed with the young conductor. A mere honeymoon ought to be ex- citement enough, it seems to me, with- out the added one of being offered such a wonderful job. "All details were settled after my re- turn to Boston," writes my father. "I engaged the members of the orchestra, selecting them, at Mr. Higginson's very wise suggestion, as nearly as possible from those of the old Harvard Society and among other local players. "During my visit to Germany I had bought a very extensive orchestral li- brary, taking great pleasure and pride in personally indexing and cataloguing the nearly three hundred works I had acquired. Rehearsals began in October, and on the 22nd of that month the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra, as, with Mr. Higginson's assent I had christened it, was started on its path." The early days of the orchestra were not by any means peaceful. The press, for some reason, were almost unanimous in trying to kill the new venture, and in the light of subsequent events and their consequent change of attitude, their animadversions now make strange reading. Fortunately, they seem to have had no effect on public opinion. "For," writes my father, "when early in September the sale of tickets for the first season began, both Mr. Higginson and I were greatly astonished and grati- fied at the demand for them. As early as six o'clock on the morning of their Vuiuodo sale, people began getting into line at the doors of the old Music Hall, one paper even asserting this to have taken place in the afternoon of the previous day. The Transcript, Boston's premier ormance evening paper, asked in bewilderment: 'Where does all the audience come from? Where have all these Symphony- . night after night, goers been during the last ten years, that they have hidden themselves so in the starlit gowns completely from public view?' This was encouraging. I was by that time rehears- from ing industriously and enthusiastically with the orchestra. "Being absolutely my own master as regards the orchestra and its work, I CHANDLER'S FOURTH FLOOR tried several experiments in the way of the placing of the orchestra; dividing, FOR WOMEN for instance, the strings into equal halves on my right and left, with the {Continued on page 3.5) [4] star of the season . the brilliant black two-part costume $89.93 Designed to go out early and stay out late — the costume with a sculptured jacket, polished with jet beading, for afternoon elegance. Underneath, a sleek, slim sheath that shines all evening. In rich, glowing black silk barathea. 10 to 16. filene's french shops, seventh floor. [5] E9H Mr. Steppington Sizes Up His Assets Mr. Steppington feels hap- more free time to devote to his pily proud as he watches those family. lines on the closet door spring You're invited to write for upwards. 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He now has Chairman,TrustInvestmentCommittee Allied wilhTuE First National Bank, of Boston [6] 1 SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE AND FIFTY-SIX 'Third Program TUESDAY EVENING, November 29, at 8:30 o'clock Brahms Tragic Overture, Op. 8 Mozart .Sinfonia Concertante, for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon, K. 297b Oboe: Ralph Gomberg Horn: James Stagliano Clarinet: Gino Cioffi Bassoon: Sherman Walt I.