BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON SEVENTY-NINTH SEASON 1959-1960 Sanders Theatre, Cambridge [Harvard University] Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seventy-ninth Season, 1959-1960) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Cellos Bassoons Richard Burgin Samuel Mayes Sherman Walt Concert-master Alfred Zighera Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Jacobus Langendoen Theodore Brewster George Zazofsky Mischa Nieland Rolland Tapley Karl Zeise Contra Bassoon Joseph Silverstein Martin Hoherman Richard Plaster Vladimir Resnikoff Bernard Parronchi Harry Dickson Richard Kapuscinski Horns Gottfried Wilfinger Robert Ripley James Stagliano Einar Hansen Winifred Winograd Charles Yancich Joseph Leibovici Louis Berger Harry Shapiro Emil Kornsand John Sant Ambrogio Harold Meek Roger Shermont Paul Keaney Minot Beale Osbourne McConathy Herman Silberman Basses Georges Moleux Stanley Benson Trumpets Leo Panasevich Henry Freeman Roger Voisin Sheldon Rotenberg Irving Frankel Armando Ghitalla Fredy Ostrovsky Henry Portnoi Andre Come Noah Bielski Henri Girard Gerard Goguen John Barvvicki Clarence Knudson Leslie Martin Pierre Mayer Trombones Ortiz Walton Manuel Zung William Gibson Samuel Diamond William Flutes Moyer William Marshall Kauko Kahila Doriot Anthony Dwyer Leonard Moss Josef Orosz William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis Alfred Schneider Phillip Kaplan Tuba Victor Manusevitch K. Vinal Smith Laszlo Nagy Piccolo Ayrton Pinto George Madsen Timpani Michel Sasson Everett Firth Lloyd Stonestreet Oboes Harold Farberman Saverio Messina Ralph Gomberg Percussion Melvin Bryant Jean de Vergie Smith John Holmes Charles Violas Harold Thompson de Pasquale Arthur Press Joseph English Horn Jean Cauhape Eugen Lehner Louis Speyer Harps Albert Bernard Bernard Zighera Clarinets George Humphrey Olivia Luetcke Jerome Lipson Gino Cioffi Robert Karol Manuel Valerio Piano Reuben Green Pasquale Cardillo Bernard Zighera Bernard Kadinoff E\) Clarinet Vincent Mauricci Library John Fiasca Bass Clarinet Victor Alpert Earl Hedberg Rosario Mazzeo William Shisler SEVENTY-NINTH SEASON, 1959-1960 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN 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 Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Alien M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Norman Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [1] ~kUvkak/ his dedication and interpretive powers are movingly revealed in finest living stereo on rcaVictor records exclusively $ living ste«o>E THE NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN Other recent albums by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in Living Stereo and regular L.P.: Berlioz: Harold in Italy; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") l«] SEVENTY-NINTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE - SIXTY Fourth Program TUESDAY EVENING, February 2, at 8:30 o'clock Schubert ^Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto Mahler Adagio from the Tenth Symphony (Posthumous) Mendelssohn Scherzo in G minor from the String Octet, Op. 20 (arranged for orchestra by the composer) INTERMISSION Sibelius Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, in D minor, Op. 47 I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio di molto III. Allegro ma non tan to SOLOIST RUGGIERO RICCI BALDWIN PIANO # RCA VICTOR RECORDS [Si SYMPHONY IN B MINOR, "UNFINISHED" By Franz Schubert Born in Lichtenthal, near Vienna, January 31, 1797; died in Vienna, November 19, 1828 This Symphony, sometimes listed as No. 8,* was composed in 1822 (it was begun October 30), and first performed thirty-seven years after the composer's death. It was conducted by Herbeck at a concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, December 17, 1865. The orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings. "That incomparable song of sorrow which we wrong every time we call it 'Unfinished.'"—Alfred Einstein. npHE bare facts of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony are soon told. * It was on April 10, 1823, some months after he had composed the two movements, that his friend Johann Baptist Jenger put up his name for honorary membership of the Styrian Music Society at Graz on the grounds that "although still young, he has already proved by his compositions that he will some day rank high as a composer." * This on the basis that it was the last to be found although it was composed before the great C major Symphony. The posthumous C major has been variously numbered 7, 8, 9, or 10 by those who have variously accepted or rejected the so-called "Gastein Symphony," which has been believed by some to be a lost symphony, and the fragmentary sections for a symphony in E (1821), which Felix Weingartner filled out into a full score. Fortunately the "Unfinished" Symphony, easily identified by its name and key, can be left numberless. PROGRAM BULLETINS FOR OUR RADIO LISTENERS The increasing size of our radio audience has prompted a plan whereby anyone interested may receive the program bulletin each week on the basis of a magazine subscription. The programs will be sent by first class mail each Thursday preceding the Friday and Saturday concerts. The subscription for the balance of the season 1959- 1960 is $3.00. Address the Program Office, Symphony Hall. [4] BROADCASTS by the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Winter Season, 1959-1960 The Saturday evening concerts of the Winter Season will be broadcast live on the following stations: WGBH-FM 89.7 mc Boston •WCRB-AM 1330 kc Boston *WCRB-FM 102.5 mc Boston ••WXHR-FM 96.9 mc Boston **WTAG-FM 96.1 mc Worcester ••WNHC-FM 99.1 mc New Haven **WQXR-AM 1560 kc New York **WQXR-FM 96.3 mc New York ••WFIL-FM 102.1 mc Philadelphia **WFMZ-FM 100.7 mc Allentown, Pa. **WFLY-FM 92.3 mc Troy, N. Y. ••WITH-FM 104.3 mc Baltimore ••WNBF-FM 98.1 mc Binghamton, N. Y. **WGR-FM 96.9 mc Buffalo, N. Y. **WRRA-FM 103.7 mc Ithaca, N. Y. **WJTN-FM 93.3 mc Jamestown, N. Y. **WHDL-FM 95.7 mc Olean, N. Y. ••WROC-FM 97.9 mc Rochester, N. Y. ••WSYR-FM 94.5 mc Syracuse, N. Y. ••WRUN-FM 105.7 mc Utica, N. Y. ••WSNJ-FM 98.9 mc Bridgeton, N. J. Friday afternoon concerts of the Winter Season will be broadcast live on the following stations: WGBH-FM 89.7 mc Boston WXHR-FM 96.9 mc Boston WAMC-FM 90.7 mc Albany The Concerts of the Friday-Saturday series will be broadcast by transcription at 8 P.M. on the Monday evening following the performances on the following stations: *WGBH-FM 89.7 mc Boston •WBCN-FM 104.1 mc Boston WXCN-FM 101.5 mc Providence WHCN-FM 105.9 mc Hartford WMTW-FM 94.9 mc Mount Washington, N. H. WAMC-FM 90.7 mc Albany The Concerts of the Tuesday Sanders Theatre series will be broadcast by the following stations: WGBH-FM 89.7 mc Boston WGBH-TV Channel 2 Boston WAMC-FM 90.7 mc Albany WENH-TV Channel 11 Durham, N. H. The Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening concerts at Symphony Hall will be broadcast live on Station WXHR- FM, 96.9 mc, Boston. *- Stereophonic Broadcast ••-Affiliates of WQXR, New York [5] Schubert gratefully accepted his election to the Styrian Music Society with the following communication: May it be the reward for my devotion to the art of music that I shall one day be fully worthy of this signal honor. In order that I may also express in musical terms my lively sense of gratitude, I shall take the liberty, at the earliest opportunity, of presenting your honorable Society with one of my symphonies in full score. Alfred Einstein in his invaluable book, Schubert, a Musical Portrait, has deduced that Schubert presented the already composed symphony to Anselm Hiittenbrenner, the director of the Society, in gratitude on receiving from him the diploma of membership, rather than to the Society itself. Mr. Einstein further believed "it is also quite unthink- able that Schubert with all his tact and discretion would ever have presented the Society with an unfinished fragment." From then on, as records indicate, Schubert neither spoke nor thought about it again. Anselm who, like his brother Joseph, had done much to promote a recognition of Schubert, and had attempted (unsuccessfully) to produce his friend's latest opera Alfonso and Estrella at Graz in this year, seems to have done nothing at all about the Symphony. It lay stuffed away and unregarded among his papers for many years, whence it might well have been lost and never known to the world. In 1865, in his old age, and thirty-seven years after Schubert's death, he delivered it to Johann Herbeck for performance by the "Friends of Music Society" in Vienna. The world, discovering some forty-three years post facto a "master- piece," which, for all its qualities, is but half a symphony, has indulged in much conjecture. Did Schubert break off after the second movement on account of sudden failure of inspiration, or because he was careless of the work (which he certainly seems to have been) and did not realize the degree of lyric rapture which he had captured in those two move- ments? Or perhaps it was because he realized after a listless attempt at a scherzo that what he had written was no typical symphonic opening movement and contrasting slow movement, calling for the relief of a In this relatively democratic age, almost anyone can have # an account — checking, trust or savings — with Cambridge Trust Company.