BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON 1951-1952 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seventy-first Season, 1951-1952) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, i4550ciate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Violas Bassoons Richard Biirgin, Joseph de Pasquale Raymond AUard Concert -master Jean Cauhap6 Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Georges Fourel Theodore Brewster Gaston Elcus Eugen Lehner Rolland Tapley Albert Bernard Contra-Bassoon Norbert Lauga George Humphrey Boaz Piller George Zazofsky Jerome Lipson Louis Arti^res Paul Cherkassky Horns Harry Dubbs Robert Karol Reuben Green James Stagliano Vladimir Resnikoff Harry Shapiro Joseph Leibovici Bernard KadinofI Harold Meek Einar Hansen Vincent Mauricci Paul Keaney Harry Dickson Walter Macdonald V^IOLONCELLOS Erail Kornsand Osbourne McConathy Samuel Mayes Carlos Pinfield Alfred Zighera Paul Fedorovsky Trumpets Minot Beale Jacobus Langendoen Mischa Nieland Roger Voisin Herman Silberman Marcel Lafosse Hippolyte Droeghmans Roger Schermanski Armando Ghitalla Karl Zeise Stanley Benson Gottfried Wilfinger Josef Zimbler Bernard Parronchi Trombones Enrico Fabrizio Raichman Clarence Knudson Jacob Leon Marjollet Lucien Hansotte Pierre Mayer John Coffey Manuel Zung Flutes Josef Orosz Samuel Diamond Georges Laurent Victor Manusevitch Pappoutsakis James Tuba James Nagy Phillip Kaplan Leon Gorodetzky Vinal Smith Raphael Del Sordo Piccolo Melvin Bryant George Madsen Harps Lloyd Stonestrect Bernard Zighera Saverio Messina Oboes Olivia Luetcke Sheldon Rotenbexg Ralph Gomberg Devergie Leo Panasevich Jean Timpani William Waterhouse John Holmes Roman Szulc English Horn Charles Smith Basses Louis Speyer Georges Moleuit Percussion Willis Page Clarinets Max Polster Ludwig Juht Gino Cioffi Simon Stemburg Irving Frankel Manuel Valerio Harold FarbermaB Henry Greenberg Pasquale Cardillo Henry Portnoi E\) Clarinet Henry Freeman Librarians Henri Girard Bass Clarinet Leslie Rogers John Barwicki Rosario Mazzeo Leonard BurkaC Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON, 1951-1952 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Fifth Concert TUESDAY EVENING, April 1 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. 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Sole Steinway Representative in Rhode Island, Eastern Conn., and Fall River Territory 256 WEYBOSSET ST. PROVIDENCE [«1 . Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence Three hundred and Fifteenth Concert in Providence Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director FIFTH PROGRAM TUESDAY EVENING, April i, at 8:30 o'clock HoNEGGER Symphony No. 5 I. Grave II. Allegretto III. Allegfro marcato RoussEL "Bacchus et Ariane," Ballet, Second Suite, Op. 43 INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor. Op. 98 I. Allegro non troppo II. Andante moderato III. Allegro giocoso IV. Allegro energico e passionate The Friday and Saturday concerts will be broadcast each week on Station WGBH (FM) BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS . [s] SYMPHONY NO. 5 By Arthur Honegger Born in Le Havre, March 10, 1892 This Symphony was completed last December in Paris (indications on the manu- script score show the dates of completion of the sketch and the orchestration of each movement. First movement: September 5, October 28; Second movement: October 1, November 23; Third movement: November 10, December 3.) The orchestra includes three flutes, two oboes, and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani and strings. The Symphony was written for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and is dedicated to the memory of Natalia Koussevitzky. Arthur Honegger wrote his First Symphony for the 50th anniversary ^ of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and it was performed at these concerts February 13, 1931. His Second Symphony for Strings had its first American performance by this Orchestra December 27, 1946. The Third Symphony (Symphonie Liturgique) was performed here November 21, 1947, and the Fourth Symphony (Deliciae Basiliensis) April 1, 1949. 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Grave Trumpets atJt ^n \ \i\m}'--%\}'\i fe ^mTrombones V it't 4*1 isifz^i 1kA fcfci^E^ ^ to E=5 r-^ Tuba FT^ «-' ¥-^ r^r^i^ ^D t^ .?.-j The music soon subsides and a second subject is heard from the clarinets and then the English horn: Ba&s Clarinet. ^^fm The initial fortissimo subject returns and is then treated pianissimo by the divided strings with ornamental figures in the woodwinds, picked up by the strings. The movement ends pianissimo. The second movement (allegretto 3-8) has a scherzo character with two interpolations suggestive of a slow movement. It opens with a duet in light staccato between the clarinet and the first violins: For Better Luggage ^\mD/i% To suit the taste LUGGAGE \ of the most discriminating D And Leather Goods From a carefully chosen selection VISIT D. ^ c^oundi do., Xtl 52 Washington Street 180 Wayland Ave. PROVIDENCE, R. I. WAYLAND SQUARE ROSE ROBIIVSON House of Famous Labels Suits Gowns Coats Blouses 290 WESTMINSTER STREET PROVIDENCE, R. I. [5l It progresses cumulatively as the theme is given to the single and the combined woodwinds, with occasional muted brass. There is a climax and a short adagio section in common time which is eloquent in a theme for the cellos and ends in a crescendo with predominant brass. There is a more agitated recurrence of the allegretto subject. The adagio returns briefly before the end. The finale (4-4) opens with repeated staccato notes from the brass, at once taken up by the strings which carry- a swift string figure in a persistent forte until the very close. The perpetual motion generates rhythmically inoisive episodes in a symphony of tragic import through- out. Under the title "Symphonie No. 5" the composer has written in a cryptic parenthesis: " (di tre re)." The answer may be found at the end of each movement, where the last note is a drum tap on D, pianissimo. 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The required orchestra consists of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contra-bassoon, four horns, four trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, celesta, two harps, cymbals, tambourine, bass drum, triangle, military drum and strings. The score is dedicated to Helene Tony-Jourdan. THE following directions are printed in the score: Introduction [Andante). Awakening of Ariane — She looks around her sur- prised — She rises, runs about looking for Tihesee and his companions rnodlarn WniVv^ra QJ-CG5bO_r\ NEW \\mm 3S tfiOLtlVV^^ ^mk proviiclgincg. young folks apparel and accessories infants — boys and girls to fourteen layettes — gifts — toys ^^dv^WAVo)H- 7 SO. ANGELL STREET (at Wayland Square) PROVIDENCE [71 — She realizes that she has been abandoned — She climbs with diffi- culty to the top of a rock — She is about to throw herself into the stream — She falls in the arms of Bacchus, who has appeared from behind a boulder — Bacchus resumes with the awakened Ariane the dance of her dreaming — Bacchus dances alone (Allegro