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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 74, 1954-1955, Subscription SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1954-1955 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1954, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. C. D. Jackson John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch Edward A. Taft Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector Assistant Brosnahan, j J. J. Assistant Treasurer S. N. 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For an appointment, at your convenience, please write or call the Personal Trust Department of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston, Massachusetts. No obligation, of course. Send for the Shawmut Bank's informative new booklet, "The Living Trust". It tells the whole story. Yours without charge. The National Shawmut Bank of Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [338] SYMPHONIANA Exhibition Soloists in Verdi's Requiem EXHIBITION THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON The annual exhibition of paintings by Subscribers and Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is now on view in the Gallery and will be seen through December 25. • • A facsimile of Verdi's manuscript sketches for his Requiem has been kindly loaned by Guido Cantelli and is on view in the Gallery. The facsimile was made in 1951 (the fiftieth anniver- sary of the composer's death) by G. Ricordi & Co., in collaboration with the Museo Teatrale of La Scala in Milan, and the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, the home for aged musicians founded by Verdi. Certain written-in cues show it to have been a working score for a church service, perhaps for the first per- formance. The movements are on four different kinds of music paper, indicating that the Requiem was composed at separated intervals. The reproduced manuscript might offer some answer to the problem of the chronology of the opening Re- quiem and Dies Irae. These two open- ing movements use the same thematic material as the final Libera me which, thus appearing as a sort of reprise of the earlier movements, was actually written long before the "Manzoni" Re- quiem (it was intended as a part of the projected Requiem for Rossini, com- posed six years before). Dr. Joseph Braunstein, Music Librarian of the New York Public Library, writes that no clue to this apparent composition of the reprise before the expository treat- ment can be found without examination of the watermarks, which the facsimile does not show. festive faille The facsimile contains a developed tone-on-tone faille fugue of fifty-six measures (omitted in the published score), in the Liber printed in shimmering shades scriptus. of blue ... so wonderful to • • wear with its full-length Photographs of members of the Bos- zipper. Sizes 1 ton Symphony Orchestra are now having to 20 their last showing in the cases. These were made by the late Harry Dubbs, a 2995 fellow member. Acknowledgment is due to Mrs. Dubbs and to Mrs. Harry 416 Boylston St., Boston Swachman, an amateur photographer 54 Central St., Wellesley who helped to prepare and arrange the photographs. [339] : : :: ) SOLOISTS IN VERDI'S REQUIEM the title role in the first performance of The Medium by Gian-Carlo Menotti. perform- The soloists in the present Eugene Conley ances of Verdi's Requiem will be as Eugene Conley was born in Lynn, follows: Massachusetts and had his early experi- Herva Nelli ence in and around Boston. He has ap- peared with various opera companies Herva Nelli was born in Florence, in the United States and has sung widely Italy and came to this country as a in Europe. At La Scala he has taken child. Her career has been mostly in leading tenor parts in / Puritani and opera. She has sung many times with Vespri Siciliani. He sang the part of Arturo Toscanini and her performance I the Rake at the Metropolitan Opera Desdemona in Otello is especially of Stravinsky's The Rake's remembered and preserved on records. production of Progress. Miss Nelli returned to Italy to make her debut at La Scala in Milan three Nicola Moscona Greece, Nicola seasons ago. Born in Athens, Moscona first came to the United States Glaramae Turner in 1937 and has since made this country Metropolitan Born in Eureka, California, Miss his own. He made his Turner has likewise devoted herself Opera debut that year as Ramfis in each sea- principally to opera. She had her first Aida. Since then he has sung professional experience with the San son with that company, appeared many Francisco Opera. Her debut at the times with our orchestras and returned Metropolitan Opera Company was in to Europe for summer engagements at the part of Amneris in Aida. She sang La Scala and elsewhere. GUIDO CANTELLI ... his striking and intelligent interpretations of the world's great orchestral classics are yours t< enjoy on RCA Victor and "His Master's Voice" recordings. Brahms Symphony No. 1, in C Minor, Op. 68 Hindemith Matthais The Painter Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, in E Minor, Op. 64 Tchaikovsky: "Pathetique" Symphony Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet ( Overture-Fantasia *a High Fidelity Recording "His Master's Voice" in S. A. by Radio Corporation of America Made U. j from Masters Recorded by The Gramophone Co., Lt 1 rca Victor FIRST IN RECORDED MUSIC imuuaiioicr BRIGGS & BRIGGS, INC. 1270 Mass. Ave., Harvard Sq., Cambridge, Mass. KIrkland 7-2087 [340] With this one superb Larry Aldrich dress, the door opens on a whole new era of fashion . here is the very first, and very handsome, illustration of the new shape which begins next spring. You who wear it will find your- self at once looking taller and slimmer . your bustline higher, rounder, younger . your waist- line natural, easy and unpinched . your hips smooth and straight. 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He now has Chairman, Trust Investment Committee Allied withTuE First National Bank of Boston [342] SEVENTY-FOURTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR AND FIFTY-FIVE Eighth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, December 17, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, December 18, at 8:00 o'clock GUIDO CANTELLI, Guest Conductor Verdi .... Requiem Mass, for Four Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra (In Memory of Alessandro Manzoni) I. Requiem and Kyrie II. Dies Irae Dies irae Tuba mirum Mors stupebit Liber scrip tus Quid sum miser Rex tremendae Recordare Ingemisco Confutatis Lacrymosa III. Domine Jesu IV. Sanctus V. Agnus Dei VI. Lux aeterna VII. Libera me (First performance at these concerts) THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS, Lorna Cooke de Varon, Conductor Herva Nelli, Soprano Claramae Turner, Contralto Eugene Conley, Tenor Nicola Moscona, Bass This program will end about 3:45 o'clock on Friday Afternoon, 9:30 o'clock on Saturday Evening. 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