Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 60,1940-1941
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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTIETH SEASON, 1940-1941 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I94O, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, lflC. The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President ERNEST B. Dane Treasurer Henry B. Cabot M. A. De Wolfe Howe Ernest B. Dane Roger I. Lee Reginald C. Foster Richard C. Paine Alvan T. Fuller Henry B. Sawyer Jerome D. Greene Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. JUDD, Manager C. W. SPALDING, Assistant Manager [337] The Price!riceiess Gift M US1C ! 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He has exhibited in gal- leries from North Conway, N.H., and Bar Harbor to Philadelphia. At the present time he is on the faculties of the Boston School of Occupational Therapy and the "Rectory School" in Pomfret, Conn. His four water colors, shown for the first time, were painted Alaska sealskin in Europe during the summer of 1939. Born in Italy, Jon Corbino has spent Conspicuous success in most of his life in New York City. Yet a year of stellar Ameri- he is best known for his ability to draw can design, U. S. Gov- horses and cattle with authority and ernment Alaska sealskin figures are skill. His human and animal is a suave fur of rich usually muscular and vigorous. He re- quality and glowing high- ceived most of his technical training at lights. Our collection, the Art Students League. Although he which includes Matara had his first-man shown when he was brown and black, ranges eighteen, it was not until his winning from $375 to $450. Fur of a prize in Chicago several years ago Salon, sixth floor. and two years' backing by the Guggen- heim Foundation that painting opened Stearns up for him prospects of a life career. Elinor Goodridge is a native of Boston, [339] where she studied at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; she has also been a pupil of Umberto Romano and Prescott Jones. She has had several one-man shows and has been included in numerous shows. J. B. Irving (Jeannette Bowman Irving) was born in Rockport, Mass., and studied with the late Frederick J. Mulhaupt. A member of various art II associations, she is represented in per- manent collections in New York and private collections elsewhere. Eliot O'Hara was born in Waltham. He was a pupil of Russell T. Hyde and Charles Hopkinson. A winner of nu- merous awards, he is represented in the Sheffield (England) Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hispanic Mu- CHRISTMAS seum (New York City), the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, the John Herron MISS GIVINGS Art Institute of Indianapolis and other galleries. He is the author of several books on the technique of painting. Now — our heart is full Galen J. Perrett was born in Chicago, where his father, a sea-captain from of Christmas, and the Somersetshire, England, was in charge of a fleet of lumber barges on the Great shop is teeming with pre- Lakes. Here Mr. Perrett studied at the sentable lovelies for all Art Institute, and then worked for some time at mural paintings under Albert womankind. Herter. After a period at the Art Stu- dents League in New York, he studied As is our custom in in Paris, Munich, and the art colony of December we extend our Laren in Holland. He now paints his marines at Land's End at Rockport. He welcome to the Grenfell has exhibited at the Paris Salon, the St. Louis Exposition, Chicago Institute, Workers and to the Blind National Academy, and other represen- Division. tative exhibits, and has had one-man shows in Boston and New York and on All of us will greatly ap tour. Katherine Wilkins has always lived preciate your patronage. near Boston and has studied with sev- eral Boston artists, among them Karl Zerbe and Sam Thai. She now has classes for adults and children in her Temple Place, Boston home. Stanley Woodward, a native of Maiden, Mass., was a pupil of the Eric Pape School of Art, and a student at the School of the Boston Museum of [34°3 .. Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts. A winner of many notable awards, he is represented in the University of Michigan, Bowdoin It Was Just College, St. Mark's School, the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco, and HI Years Ago.*. the Wellesley Public Library. * • • In 1829 to be exact that a brave new enterprise, later to In a special exhibit room off the west be known as Lewandos French Dyeing and corridor of the first balcony can be seen Cleansing Company, was founded this week an exhibit of paintings by In Watertown, on the banks of the Willy Pogany illustrating the Kalevala Charles River. legends. Andrew Jackson had just re- • • • placed John Quincy Adams as President of the United States . WESTERN PROGRAMMES there was great excitement over The Boston Symphony Orchestra will the arrival of the first locomotive to be used in America, from Eng- appear in a Western city each day land . and rumor had it that of the coming week from Monday a new western outpost was to be through Sunday. Stravinsky's "Capric- laid out as a town . Chicago. cio," with Mr. Sanroma as soloist, will At first Lewandos specialized in be included in the programmes for Dyeing . for most garments in Rochester, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. those days were very soiled and The Fifth Symphony of Shostakovitch colors were inferior. To get them clean required drastic . will be played at Ann Arbor, Pitts- measures colors often disappeared . dye- burgh and Toledo; the Second Sym- ing was used to restore color after phony of Brahms at Rochester, Buffalo, cleansing. Cleveland and Pittsburgh; the Fourth Lewandos became Dyeing Head- Symphony of Beethoven at Ann Arbor, quarters of the United States and and the Symphony of Haydn, No. 88, has retained that title even until at Rochester, Toledo, Cleveland and today. For no retail concern in the Pittsburgh. Other numbers to be played nation does more dyeing or better dyeing than Lewandos. Probably are the "Classical Symphony" of Pro- 111 years of continuous dyeing kofieff; Beethoven's Overture to experience is the reason. "Leonore" No. 3; Debussy's "Noc- turnes," and the Overture "The School for Scandal" by Samuel Barber. ANNIVERSARY SUPPLEMENT IN BOSTON HERALD The sixty years of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra will be described in a special section in Rotogravure which is to appear in the Boston Herald on Sun- Lewanaos day, December 15. Cleansers -:- Launderers The past and present of the Orchestra Dyers -:- Fur Storage will be treated pictorially and described by Lawrence Dame. Mr. Dame is a spe- For Service-At-Tt'our -Door cial writer of the Herald and is well Telephone: MIDlesex known by his recent book "New England 8500 Comes Back." [34i 1 Old Colony Trust Company 17 COURT STREET, BOSTON Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Investment and Management of Property Income Collection Tax Accounting Do you realize the small cost of having us shoulder these burdens for you? Conferences with our officers entail no obligation. AGENT * TRUSTEE * GUARDIAN * EXECUTOR zAllied with The First National Bank ^Boston [342] SIXTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY AND FORTY-ONE Eighth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, December 6, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, December 7, at 8:15 o'clock In HONOR OF JEAN SIBELIUS (Born December 8, 1865) Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 I. Allegro molto moderato II. Allegro moderato III. Poco vivace IV. Allegro molto Symphony No.