Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1963-1964
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Theatre - Concert Hall Tanglewood SIX CONCERTS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Tuesday Evenings at 8:00 July 14 HARVARD GLEE CLUB RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY ELLIOT FORBES, Conductor BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director £2. BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL 1964 I BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS I THE DEFENSE OF CORINTH Elliott C. Carter When Philip, King of Macedon, enterprised the siege and ruin of Corinth, the Corinthians, having received certain intelligence by their spies, that he, with numerous army in battle-array was coming against them, were all of them, not without cause, most terribly afraid; and therefore were not neglective of their duty in doing their best endeavors to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his hostile approach and defend their own city. Some from the fields brought into the fortified places their movables, cattle, corn, wine, fruit, victuals, and other necessary provisions. Others did fortify and rampire their walls, set up little fortresses, bastions, squared ravelins, digged trenches, cleansed countermines, fenced themselves with gabions, contrived platforms, emptied casemates, erected the cavaliers, morticed barbacans, plaistered the courtines, fastened the herses and cataracts, placed their sentries, and doubled their patrol. Everyone did watch and ward, and not one was exempted from carrying the basket. Some polished corselets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mailcoats, brigandines, haubergeons, brassars and cuissars, greves, jacks, targets, shields. They sharpened and prepared spears, staves, scimitars, partisans, chip- ping knives, javelins, javelots, zagages, dags, daggers, poignards, bayonets, darts, dartlets, rapiers, arrowheads, skenes, sables, maces, backswords, battleaxes, quarter- staves, cutlasses, clubs. Every man exercised his weapon, every man scoured off the rust from his natural hanger; nor was there a woman amongst them, though never so reserved or old, who made not her harness to be well furbished; as you know the Corinthian women of old were reputed very courageous combatants. Diogenes seeing them all so warm at work, and himself not employed by the magistrates in any business whatsoever, he did very seriously, for many days together, without speaking one word, consider and contemplate the countenances of his fellow citizens. Then on a sudden, as if he had been roused up and inspired by a martial spirit, he girded his cloak scarfwise about his left arm, tucked up his sleeves to the elbow, trussed himself like a clown gathering apples, and, giving to one of his old acquaint- ance his wallet, books, and opistographs, away went he out of town towards a little hill or promotory of Corinth called Craneum; there, on the strand, a pretty level place, did he roll his jolly tub, which served him for an house to shelter him from the injuries of the weather: there, I say, in a great vehemency of spirit, did he turn it, veer it, wheel it, whirl it, frisk it, jumble it, shuffle it, huddle it, tumble it, hurry it, justle it, jolt it, overthrow it, beat it, thwack it, bump it, knock it, thrust it, push it, batter it, shock it, shake it, throw itt toss it, jerk it, upside down, topsy-turvy, arseversy, tread it, trample it, stamp it, top it, ting it, ring it, tingle it, towl it, sound it, shut it, unbung it, stop it, close it, unstopple it; he hurled it, slid it down the hill, and precipitated it from the very height of the Craneum, reaved it, transfigured it, bespattered it, gar- nished it, furnished itf bored it, bewrayed it, parched it, bedashed it, adorned it, stag- gered it, transformed itf heaved it, waxed it, transposed it, fastened it, carried it, hacked it; then from the foot of the top (like another Sisyphus with his stone) bore it up again and every way so banged it and belaboured it that it was ten thousand to one he had not struck the bottom of it out. Which when one of his friends had seen, and asked him why he did so toil his body, perplex his spirit, and torment his tub, the philosopher's answer was . —Rabelais THIRD CONCERT OF THE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society ELLIOT FORBES, Conductor Magnificat Heinrich Schuetz (1585-1672) ("Meine Seele erhebt den, erren") Die mit Traenen saen Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630) Motet No. 5, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) "Komm, Jesu, Komm II Gloria Josquin des Prez (1450-1521) from "Missa Mater Patris et Filia" Litanies a la Vierge Noire Francis Poulenc (Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour) Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) III Five Songs, Op. 101 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Nachtwache (No. 1) (Night Watch) Nachtwache (No. 2) Letztes Gluck (Last Happiness) Verlorene Jugend (Lost Youth) In Herbst (In Autumn) INTERMISSION IV Tumbling Hair Peter Mennin (1923- ) Bought Locks Peter Mennin Radcliffe Choral Society V The Defense of Corinth Elliott Carter (1908- ) Harvard Glee Club VI Reincarnations Samuel Barber (1910- ) 1. Mary Hynes 2. Anthony O Daly 3. The Coolin ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! REINCARNATIONS Samuel Barber Poems by James Stephen (after the Irish of Raftery) Mary Hynes (1936) She is the sky Of the sun She is the dart Of love She is the love Of my heart She is a rune She is above The women Of the race of Eve As the sun Is above the moon Lovely and airy The view from the hill That looks down on Ballylea! But no good sight is good, until By great good luck You see the Blossom of Branches Walking towards you, Airily. Anthony O Daly (1940) Since your limbs were laid out, The stars do not shine The fish leap not out In the waves On our meadows the dew Does not fall in the morn, For O Daly is dead! Not a flow'r can be born ! Not a word can be said Not a tree have a leaf! Anthony ! After you There is nothing to do There is nothing but grief The Coolin (1940) Come with me, under my coat, And we will drink our fill Of the milk of the white goat, Or wine if it be thy will. And we will talk, until Talk is a trouble too, Out on the side of the hill, And nothing is left to do, But an eye to look into an eye; And a hand in a hand to slip; And a sigh to answer a sigh; And a lip to find out a lip What if the night be black ! And the air on the mountain chill Where the goat lies down in her track, And all but the fern is still Stay with me, under my coat ! And we will drink our fill Of the milk of the white goat, Out on the side of the hill The Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society under the direction of Elliot Forbes are now completing a tour of North America. Ninety singers will have given on July 19th, concerts in many centers, including Festivals at Ravinia Park in Chicago, Calgary in Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. CONCERTS TO FOLLOW: July 21 Claudio Arrau, Piano July 28 Beaux Arts Trio of New York August 4 Jorge Bolet, Piano August 11 Lenox String Quartet August 18 Phyllis Curtin, Soprano.