• ' - -- . ! - - • - - SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, CO mmonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1956-1957 CONCERT BULLETIN of the I Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1957, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Vice-President Jacob J. Kaplan Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Michael T. Kelleher Alvan T. Fuller Palfrey Perkins Francis W. Hatch Charles H. Stockton Harold D. Hodgkinson Edward A. Taft C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Assistant. Assistant Treasurer G. W. Rector J. J. Brosnahan, N. S. 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The National Shawmut Bank of Boston Ms Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [890] . 1 - " SYMPHONIANA Berkshire Festival Announcement Walton's Cello Concerto in London BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON ANNOUNCEMENT The plans for the Berkshire Festival bridal beauties . of 1957 as announced by Charles Munch nylon crepe will have three new points of interest. angel Dr. Munch will base his programs on the ensemble, the < music of one great composer in each of \ gently moulded the six week ends—Bach, Mozart, Tchai- kovsky, Berlioz, Brahms and Beethoven; bodice richly em- he has invited Isaac Stern to perform broidered and set ' with him the three great classics . with fine lace. among violin concertos, those by Tchai- kovsky, Brahms and Beethoven ; he will 55.00 include contemporary as well as past standard works in the programs of each week. The twentieth season of the Berkshire from a collection of trousseaux treasures Festival at Tanglewood will consist of for spring brides. six weeks of concerts between July 3rd and August 11th, with performances each Friday and Saturday evening and each Sunday afternoon. The first two week ends, devoted entirely to the music of Bach and Mozart respectively, will be given by a reduced orchestra in the Theatre-Concert Hall (with the excep- tion of a concert in each week to be given in the Music Shed). The concerts by the full orchestra in the Shed (July 19-August 11) will have two guest conductors, each leading two con- certs—Pierre Monteux and Carl Schu- richt. Mr. Schuricht, who will conduct on August 4 and August 10, is known to American music lovers through his recordings and his tour in this country earlier in the season as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which visited Boston. Mr. Schuricht has con- ducted the chief orchestras in nearly every European country and in many of the foremost festivals of Europe. Mr. Monteux, who will conduct on July 20 416 B0YLST0N ST., BOSTON • KE 6-6238 and July 28, spans a generation in the 54 CENTRAL ST., WELLESLEY • WE 5-3430 musical life of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, extending back to his engage- [891] ment as its conductor in 1919, an association renewed by his frequent appearances as guest in recent years. His cooperation with Charles Munch in conducting concerts of the transconti- nental tour and two European tours has been outstanding. Mr. Monteux makes his sixth visit to Tanglewood in the coming summer. Mr. Stern, who will be making his fourth visit to Tanglewood, appeared most recently with this Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival in August, 1956, when he played the Beethoven Concerto with Charles Munch to a capacity audi- ence. During the last few years Mr. Stern has travelled extensively, playing in Russia before this Orchestra. He will be the soloist at the twenty-first pair of concerts in Symphony Hall this season, on April 5 and 6. During his all-Bach concerts (July 5, 6, 7), Dr. Munch will perform the six Brandenburg concertos, several suites and Part II of the St. Matthew Passion with chorus and soloists, the latter to be presented on Sunday afternoon, July 7, in the Music Shed, with the choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe. The Mozart concerts (July 12, 13, 14) will include the great last three symphonies in E-flat, G minor, and C major, "Jupiter" (to be presented Saturday night in the Music Shed), smaller works and concertos to be performed by the principals of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a work for chorus and orchestra conducted Spring's most noteworthy by Hugh Ross. The Shed concerts which new slim and easy line follow will give Festival audiences, in . Monte Sano's luxurious English addition to the three violin concertos mentioned above, an opportunity to hear purl cloth coat a representative selection from the com- . one of poser to which each week is dedicated. a striking The music of Tchaikovsky to be con- collection of ducted Charles fashions at by Munch and Pierre Hurwitch Monteux on July 19, 20, 21, will include at least two of the symphonies, the Bros. Serenade for Strings and shorter works. Dr. Munch and Mr. Monteux will again share the conducting of the concerts of the second Shed series (July 26, 27, 28) (Continued on page 923) [892] " - filene's i As welcome as Springtime, the new, romantic and lovely cape silhouette. Here, over your basic slender dress, a tiny, softly curved capelet . to be worn when the occasion or your mood calls for the feminine, covered-up look. Under it, your empire dress with its gently scooped neckline — perfect for twilight hours. 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Coburn, Jr. Trust Company Chairman, Trust Investment Committee one federal street, boston Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [894] SEVENTY-SIXTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX AND FIFTY-SEVBN Seventeenth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, March i at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, March 2, at 8:30 o'clock EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor William Schuman 'Credendum' I. Declaration (Moderato con fuoco) II. Chorale (Lento) III. Finale (Presto) (First performance at these concerts) Hindemith. Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" ("Matthias the Painter") Angelic Concert Entombment Temptation of St. Anthony INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino IV. Allegro con spirito These concerts will end about 4:00 o'clock on Friday afternoon; 10:15 o'clock on Saturday evening. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [895] . pebbled patent leather, a new texture, a new elegance in shoes. 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He first came to the United States in 1921, played in the orchestra of the Capitol Theatre in New York (in the days of silent films), became conductor of that orchestra, and after several engage- ments as guest conductor became the regular conductor of the Minne- apolis Orchestra, remaining from 1931 to 1936.