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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1957-1958 TANGLEWOOD **LONO PLAY (LM-1953) S3. 98 * * LONG PLAY (lM-2097) $3.98 • LONG PLAY (lM-1900) $3.98 DEBUSSY THE BLESSED DAMOZEL BERLIOZ SUMMER NIGHTS VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES BOSTON SYMPHONY / MUNCH BOSTON SYMPH. MUNCH Orchestra/Charles Munch **LONG PLAY (lM-1959) $3.98 **LONG PLAY (LM-1893) $3.98 **LONG PLAY (LM-2015) $3.98 BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 • TRAGIC OVERTURE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH BOSTON SYMPHONY \ CHARLES MUNCH ORCHESTRA munch in person on rca Victor records To Charles Munch, conducting is not a profession but a THE sacred calling. And this dedication, combined with the WORLD'S magnificence of the Boston Symphony, brings you some GREATEST of the greatest performances of our time. You feel and ARTISTS hear this devotion whether he conducts Brahms, Berlioz ARE ON or Beethoven . whether the performance is in Tangle- wood, Symphony Hall or on RCA Victor Records! rcaVictor Nationally Advertised Prices—Optional **A "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity recording BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Berkshire Festival Season 1957 (TWENTIETH SEASON) TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS •»• SIXTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1957 By Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. Francis W. Hatch E. Morton Jennings Charles H. Stockton Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson Michael T. Kelleher Edward A. Taft Alvan T. Fuller C. D. Jackson Palfrey Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Trustees Emeritus Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lenges Bull George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard Robert T.Capeless Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, William F. Lawless Lenox, David H. Mackey Lee, Michael J. Sullivan Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector, N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD >+#+#+##»+»++#++»»»»+»#»++<»#++###+»+»###+»*—#+ ^Manhattan Symphoniana SCHOOL OF MUSIC John Brownlee, Director Courses offered in all major fields Friends of the Berkshire Music Center leading to the Lovers of music who are interested in the Boston BACHELOR and MASTER OF Symphony Orchestra's school at Tanglewood are cordially invited to join the Friends of the Berk- MUSIC DEGREES shire Music Center through a voluntary contribu- tion. All gifts to the Berkshire Music Center will be matched by the Rockefeller Foundation, thereby Distinguished faculty includes: doubling each contribution. Friends may attend Raphael Bronstein various performances given by the school. A full listing may be obtained at the Friend's office. John Brownlee VlTTORIO GlANNINI Herta Glaz Tanglewood on Parade Robert Goldsand will take place on Thursday, August 8. Marcel Grandjany Bernard Greenhouse Open Rehearsal William Lincer The Saturday morning rehearsal by the Boston Howard Murphy Symphony Orchestra through the remaining week Jonel Perlea of the season (August 10, at 10 a.m.) will be opened to the public, the receipts to benefit the Hugh Ross Pension Fund of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I Alexander Schneider (Admission One Dollar.) Dora Zaslavsky Exhibition in the Glassed Reception OPERA WORKSHOP Room at Tanglewood open to Special and Degree Students Exhibition to be shown in the Glassed Reception Room at Tanglewood will be as follows: August 5: Prints by Picasso, lent by Robert Appleton of For information regarding entrance Albany. Scholarships, to: and write This exhibition is arranged by the Berkshire REGISTRAR Museum in Pittsfield. Manhattan School of Music 238 East 105th St., New York 29 Red Cross Attendance First aid coverage at Tanglewood is provided by of the The school is a member of the Middle volunteers of the Berkshire County Chapter American Red Cross. States Association of Colleges and Sec- ondary Schools and the National Asso- ciation of Schools of Music. Festival Broadcasts The Festival concerts will be tape recorded by *»#»**»#+##++####+»#++++#+++#»##++#++#++###++#J Station WGBH-FM, Boston, to be broadcast during nP 1957 BERKSHIRE F E S T I V A L . T A N G L E W O OD the Festival and through the winter season to follow. Tapes of the Berkshire Festival concerts throughout the season made by WGBH are sent to the Voice of America for distribution to broadcasting stations in Athens, London, Madrid, Paris, Sarawak (East In- dies), Tokyo, and Ciudad Trujillo (Dominican Republic). South American Tour The Zimbler Sinfonietta, shortly after the close of the Berkshire Festival season, will make an exten- is to be sive tour of South America and Central America, fvLfVI proud the Caribbean and Mexico. the Airline preferred by ^^^^*^^*%*N*^^^ After the Concert THE BOSTON The Formal Gardens behind the Main House are a pride of Tanglewood. These Gardens are illumi- SYMPHONY nated for an hour after each evening concert for the benefit of those who wish to avoid traffic con- ORCHESTRA gestion by delaying their departure. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was privileged •» to be chosen by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its transatlantic trip to Europe last summer. KLM looks forward to welcoming patrons of the Boston Symphony on board "Flying Dutchmen" serving all six continents. KLM service features The above sculpture of horses in motion, executed in polished redwood hy Homer superb Continental Gunn of Richmond, has been perma- cuisine and traditional nently acquired for Tanglewood and is Dutch hospitality. on view at the main gate. WORLD'S FIRST AIRLINE Program DVotes Twenty-second Program Overture, "Leonore" No. 3, Op. 72 Ludwig van Beethoven Born in Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died in Vienna, March 26, 1827 The third "Leonore" Overture was composed in the year 1806 for the second production of "Fidelio" in Vienna. The Overture to "Leonore" No. 3 retains all of the essentials of its predecessor, Leonore No. 2. There is the introduction, grave and songful, based upon the air of Florestan : 'In des Lebens Friihlings- tagen," in which the prisoner sings sorrowfully of the darkness to which he is condemned, and dreams hopefully of the fair world outside. The main body 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD of the Overture, which begins with the same theme BERKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE (allegro) in both cases, rises from a whispering pianissimo to a full proclamation. The section of STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. working out, or dramatic struggle, attains its climax under the direction of with the trumpet call. It is taken directly from the William Miles and Eleanor Wilson opera where the signal heard off stage, and repeated as if closer, makes known the approach of the gov- ernor Week of whereby the unjustly imprisoned Florestan will be saved from death. There follows a full June 24 CAROL STONE in "JANUS" reprise, a reversion to the dictates of symphonic July 1 "BUS STOP" structure which Beethoven had omitted in his sec- July 8 PAULA TRUEMAN in "CHARM" ond overture. Now he evidently felt the need of a July 15 MARY WICKES in "THE GREAT SEBASTIANS" full symphonic rounding out, delaying the entrance of the coda of July 22 WM. ROERICK-TOM COLEY jubilation which dramatic sequence in "TIME LIMIT!" would demand to follow closely the trumpet fan- SKEDGE MILLER in fare. Wagner always theatre-minded, reproached July 29 "ANDROCLES AND THE LION" Beethoven for this reprise. But the subject had Aug. 5 "THE POTTING SHED" developed in Beethoven's imagination to a new and Aug. 12 "KING OF HEARTS" electrifying potency. The fanfare, simplified and PAUL HARTMAN in more effectively introduced than in the previous Aug. 19 "OH, MEN! OH, WOMEN!" version, is now softly answered by the joyful theme Aug. 26 DEIRDRE OWENS in "THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE" of Florestan and Leonore, used at this point in the opera. The composer, with that ability to sustain Nightly except Sun. at 8:45 $2.10 and -$3.00, a mood which is beyond analysis, keeps the feeling $1.30, tax included. Mats. Weds, and Sat. at 2:30 of suspense, of mounting joy, allows -$2.10 and $1.30, tax included. which the listener no "let-down" before the triumphant climax For reservations write or telephone of the coda. The air of Florestan is worked in at the Box Office, Stockbridge 460 end of the reprise, but in tempo as the music moves without interruption to its greatly expanded and now overwhelming coda. The overture in this, its ultimate form, shows in general a symphonic "tightening" and an added forcefulness. The in- troduction eliminates a few measures as compared ETS PAR with the "No. 2," the development many measures, 4D/ in which O 0^ S £ music of the greatest beauty is discarded. Beethoven, having thus shortened his development, evens the total length by adding the reprise and enlarging the coda. Symphonie Liturgique Arthur Honegger Born in Le Havre, March 10, 1892; died in Paris, November 27, 1955 The Symphonie Liturgique, the third in order by Arthur Famous for Honegger, was composed in 1945-1946 by commission of the Communaute de Travail, Pro Helvetia. It was first Fine Food and Grog OPEN EVERY DAY Gourmet's Buffet Every Tuesday Night Recommended by A.A.A., Gourmet C5f Duncan Hines ANGEL TRADITIONALLY AT THE END OF A PERFECT DAY RECORDS ON ROUTE 44 Ask for the Between Canaan and Norfolk, Connecticut complete Angel catalogue at your favorite record shop or write: Telephone Taylor 4-7495 38 West 48th Street, New York 36. Twenty-first ^Program THEATRE-CONCERT HALL Wednesday Evening, August 7, at 8:30 ZIMBLER SINFONIETTA Boyce Symphony No. 1 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Vivace Tansman Triptych I. Allegro risoluto II. Andante III.
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