Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 87, 1967-1968
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BOSTON =335: SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON ^»^" EIGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 I Exquisite E Sound From the palaces of ancient Egypt to the concert halls of our modern cities, the wondrous music of the harp has compelled attention from all peoples and all countries. Through this passage of time many changes have been made | \ in original the design. The I early instruments shown in drawings on the tomb of! Rameses II (1292-1225 B.C.) were richly decorated but lacked the fore-pillar. Later i the "Kinner" developed by thej Hebrews took the form as we I know it today. The pedal harp was invented about 1720 by a Bavarian named Hochbrucker and through this ingenious device it be» i came possible to play in eight major and five minor scales complete. Today the harp is an important and familiar i instrument providing the ' 'Exquisite! Sound" and special effects so important to modern orchestration and arrange- ment. 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YMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1219 "A greatest' symphony orchestra does now ex and it is headquartered in Boston, Massachuset High Fidel Red Seal recordings ELLIOTT CARTER: PIANO CONCERTO Jacob Lateiner, pianist World Premiere Recorded Live at Symphony Hill, Boston MICHAEL COLGRASS: AS QUIET AS BOSTON SYMPHONY ERICH LEINSDORF PROKOFIEFF BOSTON SYMPHONY ERICH LEINSDORF MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3 BOSTON (SYMPHONY LEINSDORF <&©fo**/M*u SHIRLEY VERRETT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS, LORNA COOKE DE VARON, Conductor BOSTON BOYCHOIR, JOHN OLIVER, D«cror w— « '"'wm SYMPHONY No. I MOWN OVERTURE BOSTON SYMPHONY §| [MM] BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director CHARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor FIRST VIOLINS CELLOS BASSOONS Joseph Silverstein Jules Eskin Sherman Walt Concertmaster Martin Hoherman Ernst Panenka Mischa Nieland Alfred Krips Matthew Ruggiero George Zazofsky Karl Zeise Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley CONTRA BASSOON Sant Ambrogio Roger Shermont John Richard Plaster Max Winder Luis Leguia Harry Dickson Stephen Geber HORNS Carol Procter Gottfried Wilflnger Jerome Patterson James Stagliano Fredy Ostrovsky Charles Yancich Leo Panasevich Ronald Feldman Harry Shapiro Noah Bielski Herman Silberman Thomas Newell BASSES Paul Keaney Stanley Benson Henry Portnoi Rotenberg Ralph Pottle Sheldon William Rhein Alfred Schneider Joseph Hearne Schulman TRUMPETS Julius Bela Wurtzler Gerald Gelbloom Armando Ghitalla Leslie Martin Raymond Sird Roger Voisin John Salkowski John Barwicki Andre Come SECOND VIOLINS Buell Neidlinger Gerard Goguen Clarence Knudson Robert Olson William Marshall TROMBONES Michel Sasson FLUTES William Gibson Samuel Diamond Josef Orosz Leonard MOss Doriot Anthony Dwyer Kauko Kahila William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis Ayrton Pinto Phillip Kaplan TUBA Amnon Levy Chester Schmitz Laszlo Nagy PICCOLO Michael Vitale TIMPANI Victor Manusevitch Lois Schaefer Toshiyuki Kikkawa* Everett Firth Max Hobart OBOES John Korman PERCUSSION Ralph Gomberg Christopher Kimber Charles Smith Spencer Larrison John Holmes Arthur Press Hugh Matheny Assistant Timpanist Thomas Gauger VIOLAS ENGLISH HORN Burton Fine Laurence Thorstenberg Reuben Green HARPS Eugen Lehner Bernard Zighera Lipson CLARINETS Jerome Olivia Luetcke Robert Karol Gino Cioffi Akio Akaboshi* Pasquale Cardillo LIBRARIANS Bernard Kadinoff Peter Hadcock Vincent Mauricci Victor Alpert E\) Clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes BASS CLARINET STAGE MANAGER Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison WILLIAM MOYER Personnel Manager *members of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra participating in George Humphrey and Ronald Knudsen i a one season exchange with Messrs At the / <fliecfrotfsseatulCouseof33e5loit Boston Symphony Concerts / this year, these Pianists . 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Burk Lees - Piano concerto no. 2 1252 by Andrew Raeburn and the composer 30,000 hours of music 1260 by Andrew Raeburn The soloist 1270 1225 She comes to New York from Produced by the Vincent Italy, opens a small restau- Club for the benefit of the rant, and makes a go of it for Vincent Memorial Hospital. 50 years. At New England Life Hall. The story travels through 8:30 curtain on April 2, 3, the speak-easy gaity of the 4, 5, and 6. 2:30 matinee on '20's, the gangsterism of the Saturday, April 6. Depression, and the togeth- For tickets call 267-8092. erness of World War II. Or drop by New England 50 years of songs and Life Hall. The First and Old dances. And then Gabriella Colony hope you won't miss runs into trouble. Gabriella. THE FIRST & OLD COLONY The First National Bank of Boston and Old Colony Trust Company EIGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 Twentieth Program Friday afternoon March 15 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening March 16 at 8.30 ERICH LEINSDORF conductor MOZART Symphony no. 38 in D major K. 504 'The Prague' Adagio — allegro Andante Finale: presto PROKOFIEV Symphony no. 2 op. 40 (1924) Allegro ben articolato Theme and variations Theme: andante Variations: listesso tempo — allegro non troppo — allegro — larghetto — allegro con brio — allegro moderato Theme: andante molto First performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra INTERMISSION MENDELSSOHN Capriccio brillante for piano and orchestra op. 22 GARY GRAFFMAN LEES Piano concerto no. 2 Allegro enfatico Adagio, vago Allegro tempestoso GARY GRAFFMAN World premiere The concert will end at about 4.05 on Friday and at about 10.35 on Saturday Gary Graffman plays the Steinway piano BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS 1227 Program Notes j WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony no. 38 in D major K. 504 'The Prague' Program note by Peter Branscombe Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27 1756, and died in Vienna on Decem- ber 5 1791. He finished the Prague Symphony in 1786, and it was first performed at Prague on January 19 1787. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by George Henschel, first performed the Symphony on January 27 1882. The most recent performances in this series were conducted by Erich Leinsdorf on October 2 and 3 1964. 'The 6th [December 1786] A symphony. — 2 violini, 2 viole, 2 flauti, 2 oboe, 2 corni, 2 fagotti, 2 clarini, timpany e Basso.' In this way, followed by the opening bars of its slow introduction in short score, Mozart entered in his autograph List of all my works the symphony which has since become known as the 'Prague'. In Germany it is often referred to as the 'Symphony without minuet' — appropriately enough, but this title could equally well be applied to the 'Paris' and to many of Mozart's earlier symphonies which are more obviously Italian overtures in their fast-slow-fast pattern of three movements. It is true that the 'Prague' is the only one of the six symphonies of Mozart's Vienna years to lack a minuet, but considerations of time are certainly not responsible for the three-movement form, and it is indeed highly questionable whether one is right to talk of a 'lack' at all in so carefully-integrated and superb a work. The summer and autumn of 1786 was not a particularly settled or happy period for Mozart, yet between June and the end of the year he produced such masterpieces (this list is not complete) as the E flat piano quartet, the fourth horn concerto, the G major trio K.