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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1963-1964 ancjlewoo BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF *p Music Director 1 7 L^ ( ( Berkshire \ Festival 1963 "THE ARISTOCRAT Of ORCHESTRAS" THRILL TO THE is captured to perfection! These exciting "DYNAGROOVE" records are BOSTON SYMPHONY the product of RCA Victor's newly developed system of recording which ON DYNAGROOVE provides a spectacular improvement in sound quality. You'll enjoy their brilliance and clarity , realistic presence, RECORDS BY virtual elimination of inner-groove distortion , full-bodied tone —even RCA VICTOR when you listen at low level! 8Y»HC«0p¥t •t&'H BVHAEBOBVE ^^ Mahler/SymphonjrKo. 1 D-ello Joio/Fantasy and Variations Orch. Boston Symphony Ravel/Concerto in Erich Leinsdorf Boston Symphony Qrcfa, /Leinsdorf /h 'AMifwrdwvjffflfJ/Mi The Aristoc^af of Orchestral Lorin Hollander LEINSDORF/Mahler "Sym- LEINSDORF/ HOLLANDER phony No. 1." A stunning /Ravel "Concerto in G'7 performance! 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ALL ALBUMS AVAILABLE IN LIVING STEREO, MONO HI-FI, AND ON TAPE RCA SEAL RECORDS RCA VICTOR iThe most trusted name in sound Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard BURGIN, Associate Conductor Berkshire Festival, Season ig6^ TWENTY-SIXTH SEASON MUSIC SHED AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS FIFTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1963 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Trustees of The BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. President Vice-President Treasurer Henry B. Cabot Talcott M. Banks Richard C Paine Abram Berkowitz E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Sidney R. Rabb Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch John T. Noonan John L. Thorndike Harold D. Hodgkinson Mrs. James H. Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins C. D. Jackson Trustees Emeritus Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight George E. Mole Lenges Bull George W. Edman Whitney S. Stoddard Robert T. Careless Lawrence K. Miller Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, Robert Williams Lenox, William T. McCormack Lee, William O'Brien Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk, Assistant Manager James J. Brosnahan, Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager .11 — 3 — HOW MUCH DOES A CADILLAC COST? Take a guess — and then check it with your authorized Cadillac dealer. Odds are you 11 have guessed too high —for a Cadillac can he remarkably modest in cost. And this is one year you ought to he sure — for the 1963 "car of cars" is simply too beautiful and too fine to miss because of a misunderstanding about price. Better pay your authorized Cadillac dealer a visit soon — and learn firsthand why more motorists than ever have moved up to the Cadillac car this year. What are you doing tomorrow? VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED CADILLAC DEALER BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday Evening, August 2, at 8:00 ERICH LEINSDORF, Conductor SCHUBERT t Overture to "Rosamunde" PROKOFIEV t Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 (In one movement) Soloist: MALCOLM FRAGER Intermission MAHLER # Symphony in D major, No. 1 I. Langsam. Schleppend wie ein Naturlaut II. Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell hi. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen IV. Stiirmisch bewegt Mr. Frager plays the Steinway Piano 1 t First performance at the Festival concerts BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS — 5 — , I Program Notes THREE CONDUCTORS The three conductors of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who are now living will each participate in leading the concerts of this week. Pierre Monteux was the Orchestra's conductor in the seasons 1919-1924. He has since been the conductor of the San Francisco Orchestra and the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and is at present the Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted many concerts at Tangle- wood. Charles Munch was the Music Director of Boston's Orchestra from 1949 until the close of the Berkshire Festival last summer. Since then he has con- ducted as guest in many parts of the world. Erich Leinsdorf became the Music Director of this Orchestra last autumn and is now in his first season at Tanglewood where he is also active as Director of the Berkshire Music Center. TIRED OF THE CITY GRIND? i LOCATE IN THE BERKSHIRES WHERE YOU CAN MIX BUSINESS WITH \ PLEASURE-PROFITABLY Wouldn't it be nice to be at your office 1 minutes after leaving your home? No subway hordes to buck. And year-round outdoor fun only minutes away. Anyway you look at it, you'll live better, feel better by locating your busi- ness here in the Berkshires permanently. We have skilled labor, industrial plant sites and shell buildings, educational facilities, accessibility to major markets and financiers eager to help solve your problem. Why not get full details now at the address below? Your inquiry will be handled confidentially and promptly. Berkshire 44iILs Conference, INCORPORATED 100 NORTH STREET. PITTSFIELD. MASS. • PHONE HI 3-9186. AREA CODE 413 — 6 Friday Evening, August 2 OVERTURE TO "ROSAMUNDE" By Franz Schubert Born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, January 31, 1797; died in Vienna, November 19, 1828 Rosamunde, Furstin von Cypern, a romantic drama by Wilhelmine von Chezy with incidental music by Schubert, was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, December 21, 1823, and once repeated, but Schubert never wrote an overture for this short-lived piece. The overture which now bears the name Rosamunde and was so pub- lished, was composed for his Opera Die Zauberharfe. The musical numbers in Rosamunde consisted of three entr'actes, two ballets, a "Shepherd's Melody" for winds, a soprano air and three choruses. The playwright alone can be blamed for the fact that the piece barely survived a second presentation and quickly passed into oblivion, for the musical num- bers which were as charming as the text was preposterous were favorably received and the reviews were on the whole enthusiastic, although one critic took the young composer to task for his "unfortunate bizarrerie ." Since the tribulations of Rosamunde, Princess turned Shepherdess, had no connection whatever with this Overture, and since most of the text is lost anyway, there would be no point in pursuing the subject here. It was Madame von Chezy who had written the libretto for Weber's CARNEGIE HALL 1 EASTMAN THEAJES ER .m THE SUMW ( nter inthe>N' concerts. MOS< a„d FaU-^-'P^;^ concerts concerts^' .„ NORTH at dassica. ranks EVER\J™ chosen is un.versalally*y theglHNWrV*Piano EMY IRAVINIA PA I EWISOHN KIN LEY AUKj KIEL Al PALAIS HOLLr fv Olf D I B C At L M. STEINERT & SONS 162 boylston st. boston - Worcester, Springfield — Euryanthe, a text which became the subject of public ridicule "A librettist," wrote Sir George Grove, "whose lot seems to have been to drag down the musicians connected with her." The composer may surely be forgiven for salvaging his two overtures from the ruins of the unsuccessful stage pieces to which they belonged. Schubert's manuscript of the Rosamunde music was not published, and dropped out of knowledge and recollection for many years. It was discovered intact in 1868 in a forgotten Vienna cupboard by George Grove and Arthur Sullivan, a triumphant moment in the careers of the two English musicians. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1, IN D-FLAT MAJOR, Op. 10 By Serge Prokofiev Born in Sontsovka, Russia, April 23, 1891; died near Moscow, March 5, 1953 The score of Prokofiev's Concerto is dated 1911. It was first performed at Moscow in the following year, the composer playing the piano part. Prokofiev wrote his First Concerto in one movement, opening and closing in D-flat major, but in the course of the work traversing many epi- sodes and keys. An andante section and an allegro scherzando which follows it gives a passing sense of the three movement form, but this is illusory, for the scherzando develops earlier matter. The conclusion restates the introduc- tion in amplified form. The composer sanctioned the definition of this Con- certo by the program annotator of the Pasdeloup concerts in Paris as essen- tially an allegro movement in sonata form. After the introductory tutti (allegro brioso), in which the pianoforte joins, the soloist exposes material BENJAMIN BRITTEN LENOX NATIONAL WAR BANK REQUIEM General Banking Service VOCAL SCORE 12.50 Travellers Cheques STUDY SCORE 10.00 Safe Deposit Boxes BOOSEY and HAWKES ROUTE 20 HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE 5 Miles West of Pittsfield 10 furnished buildings open, crafts demonstrations, herb garden in preparation, famous round stone barn DAILY 9:30 TO 5:00 ADULTS $1 CHILDREN 50< 8 — which in essence is nothing more than the ascending scale of C major (poco piu mosso), and the descending scale of the orginal key (tempo primo). The introductory matter is repeated after the exposition (Beethoven provided a precedent in his Sonata Pathetique) . The andante assai is a fresh episode, intervening between the exposition and its development. This slow portion is a more rounded and long-breathed melody, opened by the strings, taken up by the solo clarinet, then by the piano unaccompanied, and in turn by the ensemble.
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