Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 81, 1961-1962, Subscription
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON / ^ EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON 1961-1962 STRADIVARI . created for all time a perfect marriage of precision and beauty for both the eye and the ear. He had the unique genius to combine a thorough knowledge of the acoustical values of wood with a fine artist's sense of the good and the beautiful. Unexcelled by anything before or after, his violins have such purity of tone, they are said to speak with the voice of a lovely soul within. In business, as in the arts, experience and ability are invaluable. We suggest you take advantage of our extensive insurance background by letting us review your needs either business or personal and counsel you to an intelligent program. We respectfully invite your inquiry. CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton — Robert G. Jennings 147 MILK STREET BOSTON 9, MASSACHUSETTS LIBERTY 2-1250 Associated With OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON, 1961-1962 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1961, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb C. D. Jackson Charles H. Stockton E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Henry A. Laughlin Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen 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 [67] What everyone likes about Boston . The Hatch Memorial Shell What you will like about Shawmut's trust department. You will like the warmth, respect and understanding a Shawmut trust officer brings to your personal trust problems based on research and experience, . plus the sound judgment, that helps you reach proper financial decisions. j| Let him demonstrate to you and your attorney how Shawmut can serve you. The V\[ational Shawmut Bank of TSoston Insurance Corporation Complete Banking and Trust Services • Member Federal Deposit 68] CONTENTS Program (for this week) . 73 <Fht3teitss«au3Cotist ofMoslem. Program (October 13-14) • • 123 Notes Copland ("Quiet City") . 75 Beethoven (Concerto for Piano 78 Entr'actes My Life and Music (Artur SchnabeJ) . 88 Composers in Russia (Aaron Copland) . 100 Notes Brahms (Symphony in C minor, No. 1) .... 109 EXHIBITION The paintings now on view in the Gallery are loaned by the New Hamp- shire Art Association. Charles E. Buck- ley, Director of the Currier Gallery of Art at Manchester, New Hampshire, offers the following information: The organizing of artists from all over New Hampshire into an association that is continually reviewing and revising its standards and policies gives emphasis to their role in the cultural life of the state. Also, through the Association, artists are brought into a closer relationship with each other than would be possible if no central organization existed. The Asso- ciation's exhibitions give rise to valuable discussion and criticism and serve to focus the attention of the public on the trends and developments taking place among artists in our section of New England. The present exhibition includes most of the work seen in the last Currier On ^4 J4i9k fjote Gallery annual and also a few additions At the' beginning of your social which the Committee in charge of this season — a jewel-toned teagown traveling exhibition felt would give a of soft-textured wool jersey with better representation of art in New accents of flattering Hampshire. silk satin. Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire. Sizes 10-20. $55.00 MICHELE BOEGNER 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. Boston, Mass. Wellesley, Mass. Michele Boegner will be the first of KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 three French pianists who are to make [69] long taken their American debuts with this Orches- Aaron Copland, who has retreat for com- tra in the course of the season. Mile. advantage of this ideal the fol- Boegner, born in Lyon in 1941, was a posers. After the presentation Presi- child prodigy and studied with Mme. lowing telegram, received from Marguerite Long and Mile. Rose Lejour dent Kennedy, was read by Carl Carmer, Association: before she made her first public appear- ex-president of the will ance with the Conservatoire Orchestra "I am delighted to learn that you for distinguished of Paris. The career of the young pianist receive today a medal from the has so far been confined to France, service in the field of music where she has given notable concerts Edward MacDowell Association. Your and won various awards. creative mind and imagination have been a significant force in the cultural life of this nation and of the world's com- munity. It is most heartening that the AN AWARD FOR COPLAND ceremony is taking place at the Mac- At a gathering of the MacDowell Dowell Colony which has provided for Colony in Peterborough, New Hamp- you and so many other American artists shire on August 19 last, the Edward such a fine environment in which to pur- MacDowell medal was awarded to sue your work." 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Adagio; allegro non troppo, ma con brio SOLOIST MICHELE BOEGNER Miss Boegner uses the Steinway Piano These concerts will end about 4:05 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:20 o'clock on Saturday Evening. BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [73] perfectionistfashions, furnishings, finishing touches L-yf £*o t [74] OUIET CITY," for Trumpet, English Horn and String Orchestra By Aaron Copland Born in Brooklyn, New York, November 14, 1900 Composed as an orchestral piece in the autumn of 1940, "Quiet City" had its first performance by the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conductor, at Town Hall, New York, January 28, 1941. It was performed at these conceits April 18 and December 26, 1941; March 9, 1945, March 22, 1946, and April 6-7, 1951. 4CTN the Spring of 1939," writes Mr. Copland, "I was asked by my * friend Harold Clurman, Director of the Group Theatre, to supply the incidental musical score for a new play by Irwin Shaw, author of 'Bury the Dead/ 'The Gentle People/ and other dramas. His new opus was entitled 'Quiet City/ and was a realistic fantasy concerning the night-thoughts of many different kinds of people in a great city. It called for music evocative of the nostalgia and inner distress of a society profoundly aware of its own insecurity. The author's mouthpiece was a young trumpet player called David Mellnikoff, whose trumpet play- ing helped to arouse the conscience of his fellow-players and of the C6 <ytfjcua£ UhdocoTtiA QjukuZI uou a£ C^/u£tuut vcumcz CJuoicA vewcaty ==ibi#=_ Sunday Services 10 :45 a.m. and 7 :30 p.m. -~^^fiw^k Sunday School (also nursery) 10:45 a.m. ^toAWednesday Testimony Meetings 7 :30 p.m. i V (ff\ ' iA 7^ 9^o^mC/uMwA THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON — Falmouth and Norway Streets (Symphony Station) [75] audience. The play was given two 'try-out' performances in New York on successive Sunday evenings in April of 1939, and then withdrawn for revisions. "Several friends urged me to make use of some of the thematic material used in my score as the basis for an orchestral piece. This is what I did in the summer of 1940, as soon as my duties at the Berkshire Music Center were finished. I borrowed the name, the trumpet, and some themes from the original play. The addition of English horn and string orchestra (I was limited to clarinet, saxophone, and piano, plus the trumpet of course, in the stage version), and the form of the piece as a whole, was the result of work in a barn-studio two miles down the road from Tanglewood.