Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 77, 1957-1958, Subscription
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SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1957 - 1958 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1958, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Vice-President Jacob J. Kaplan Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Alvan T. Fuller 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. Allen M. A. DeWolff Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. 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LAfayette 3-6800 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [1410] : SYMPHONIANA Berlioz Manuscripts The Visit of Nadia Boulanger THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON BERLIOZ MANUSCRIPTS Two letters of Berlioz referring to his Requiem have been kindly loaned by Mrs. Henry C. Fenderson from her rare collection and are on view in the gallery. They are here translated To Monsieur le Baron Taylor 54 Rue de Bondy, Paris My dear Monsieur Taylor: Would you be kind enough to under- take two or three small matters : Please send a reserved ticket to M. July Le- comte, editor of L'Independance Beige, Rue de Terese No. 12 ; to M. Fiorentino, Rue di Miromesnil No. 41 at Janin; to the music papers, and especially to the people connected with the Ministry of the Interior (Mme. Persigny). If it were possible to obtain above all an audition of my Te Deum for friends or a relative of the Ministry at one of the Imperial ceremonies where my Requiem is being rehearsed, it would perhaps facilitate matters. I have secured another rehear- sal for the chorus for tomorrow, Mon- ^%J^^ day, at 9 o'clock. It is indispensable; the singers are very far from knowing personal their parts. I was much pained and tormented yesterday. After all, it is too accent bad that this work which was so ad- Monograms add an individual three times provin- mirably performed touch to this spring lingerie — of must be always more or cially (at Lille) nylon georgette, sprinkled with less torn to shreds in Paris. apple blossoms — its embroidered Don't forget to send reserved tickets edging scalloped and touched with above. to the or Turquoise an nylon net. Pink I believe it would be well to send White. Sizes 32-38. Gown invitation to Meyerbeer, Hotel de Paris, on Slip $16.95. Petticoat rue Richelieu; he has asked me about $22.50. $10.95. Prices the hour of rehearsal. If you could also $12.95. Pantie send one to Mr. Gathy, rue de La include monogramming. to Bruyere No. 18, it would be helpful 6 6238 of the BOSTON KE us. He is the correspondent 416 BOYLSTON ST., other Gazette of Augsburg and several German newspapers. [1411] A thousand pardons for breaking your head with these details. Yours devotedly and sincerely, H. Berlioz. Sunday Evening. • • To Monsieur Theophile Gautier 14 Rue Navarin, Paris My dear Theophile: Gallois has told me that he has rec- ommended to you our Fetes musicales du cirque; I should like to do the same. Break out into a half-column in your paper on Monday: on the magnificence of these solemnities, on the hall, the lighting, the heating, the hangings, the carpets, the shrubbery, the 350 musi- cians, the second act of Orpheus (the "Elysian Fields"), and the Tartare, the movements from my Requiem, my new overture, La Tour de Nice; in a word a cavalry charge, the costumes of the ladies who are visible up to their knees, etc., etc. A thousand greetings! \ I shall see you here on the 19th— if // in print . you wish to come to the general rehear- sal, do let me know. H. Berlioz. they're true collector's December 4. items, our "first edition" prints ... in dresses, blouses, costumes, hats, accessories . with spicy colors and marvelous fabrics which give an entirely naw feeling to spring fashions . and if you're a "collector" you won't miss them for any- thing! THE VISIT OF NADIA BOULANGER The coming visit of Mile. Nadia Boulanger to the United States, which will include a concert in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, on Wednesday eve- (Continued on page 1483) [1412] Ben Zuckerman's newest coats sing out Spring, 1958, in clear, vibrant colors . in the dramatic, straight line Sacque de Paris shape that leaves your waistline free . coats that are totally new, totally reflective of a new way of dressing. Sketched: A straight line of clear, fresh white in Italian crochet tweed. New interest, two high-placed pockets $210 The French Shops Spring Coat Collection from Filene's French Shops—seventh floor [1413] INANCIAL JUDGMENT WITH THE HUMAN TOUCH Wise planning can mean tax savings Recently a young businessman came to Old Colony to dis- cuss the effect of taxes on a living trust which he had estab- lished. Old Colony suggested he use part of the principal to set up a trust for his children, thereby lowering his own income tax, and reducing the inheritance tax his children would have to pay. Helping you to get all the tax savings to which you are entitled is always a pleasant task for Old Colony's officers. You and your lawyer are invited to talk with them. The financial wisdom — and human understanding — that you find at Old Colony can help vou in all phases of your estate planning. You're invited to write for the free booklet, "Wills and Trusts." Augustin H. Parker, Jr. President WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST T. Jefferson Coolidge Old Colony Chairman, Trust Committee Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. Trust Company Chairman, Trust Investment Committee ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [H14] SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN -FIFTY-EIGHT Twenty-third Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, April i8, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, April 19, at 8:30 o'clock RICHARD BURGIN, Conductor Gluck Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Blackwood Symphony No. 1 I. Andante maestoso; Non troppo allegro, ma con spirito II. Andante comodo III. Scherzo: Allegretto grotesco — Molto rigoroso il tempo IV. Andante sostenuto (first performance) INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino IV. Allegro con spirito These concerts will end about 3:55 o'clock on Friday afternoon; 10:10 o'clock on Saturday evening. [i4'5] sunset colors The hot reds, fiery oranges . the yellow, green and blue of a sunset sky . these are the colors that glow on the fashion horizon for Spring and Summer. Here and now at Stearns ... in accessories to color your wardrobe with new excitement, new variety. BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [1416] OVERTURE TO "IPHIG£NIE EN AULIDE" By Christoph Willibald Gluck Born July 2, 1714, at Weidenwang; died November 25, 1787, at Vienna Gluck composed this "Tragedie opera" in the year 1769. The libretto was furnished by the Bailli du Roullet, who based it upon the Iphigenie of Jean Racine. The first performance of Iphigenie en Aulide took place at the Opera in Paris, April 19, 1774. The Overture, with the ending by Richard Wagner, was last performed at the Friday and Saturday concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, October 18-19, 1940. IT7HEN Charles Burney visited Vienna in the year 1769, he called * * upon the famous Gluck and was received in friendly fashion. "He was so good-humored," wrote Dr. Burney, "as to perform almost his whole opera Alceste, many admirable things in a still later opera of his called Paride ed Elena, and in a French opera, from Racine's Iphigenie, which he had just composed. His last, though he had not as yet committed a note of it to paper, was so well digested in his head, and his retention is so wonderful, that he sang it nearly from the beginning to the end, with as much readiness as if he had a fair score *before him."* * "The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces." S. S. 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