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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 60,1940-1941 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, IflC. 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 Manage* [865] * ...aives you superbsuoerl command of the world's finest music! T""HIS luxurious phonograph-radio combination plays entire symphonies, operas and complete albums of recorded music automatically— the only fully automatic phonograph with the exclusive Capehart record-changer. We invite you to hear it. CHAS. W. HOMEYER CO., Inc 498 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON [ 866] SYMPHONIANA New Buildings at Tanglewood Exhibit NEW BUILDINGS AT TANGLEWOOD Tanglewood, as the summer estate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the ideal setting of the Berkshire Music Center, is to benefit by two new audi- toriums which have been donated by friends of the School for its special uses. They will consist of a combined theater and concert hall, replacing the temporary theater stage unit of last summer, and a smaller hall suitable for the performance of chamber music. The theater will seat 1100 and will be used for school concert and operatic per- formances. It will be located on the site of the tent where the Berkshire Symphony Festival was held before the present Shed was built. The chamber music auditorium will be in the grove between the main house and Hawthorne Street, about 100 yards from the site of "The Little Red House" in which Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote during his summers at Tanglewood. Both auditoriums will be enclosed, but so constructed that they can be made semi- open at will. Both will be close to the formal gardens and the smaller hall will have a terraced platform overlook- hand-woven ing the gardens. These new buildings have been designed by Eliel Saarinen, Suits and coats of virgin wool the the Finnish architect, designer of tweed, hand-woven by the recently opened Kleinhans Music Hall Old Bennington Weavers in Buffalo. The construction has been of Bennington, Vermont. contracted by the firm of Graves and Exclusive with us in Boston. Hemmes of Great Barrington and will begin at once. It is expected that both Suit in women's sizes sketched. buildings, together with four small Sixth floor. $40 studio buildings, will be completed in time for the second session of the Berk- shire Music Center which, with Serge Stearns Koussevitzky as Director, will extend from July 7 to August 17. [867] EXHIBIT In both the First Balcony Galleries there is now an exhibition by the Massa- chusetts WPA Art Project of the work of a group of six Cape Cod painters: Charles Darby, Charles Heinz, Charles Kaeselau, Dorothy Loeb, Bruce McKain and Vernon Smith. The members of this group, varying I widely as they do in style and tech- nique, have nevertheless been brought together here as a group for the first time, for it is felt that, first, they stem from a common cultural background, and, second, they have been working in a common locale of marked individual- ity not only in its natural physical char- acteristics but also in the character and manner of living of its people. CHARLES DARBY was born 1908 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied at the Corcoran Gallery Art School, Washing- ton, D.C. ; the Webster Summer Art School, Provincetown, Mass.; and under Alexis Manny of Washington. His paint- ings have been exhibited in Washington, Boston, Provincetown and New York. Examples of his work are included in the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Wash- ington, and many other private collec- tions. CHARLES HEINZ was born 1885 at Shelbyville, 111. He studied for two years at Washington University, St. Louis, and continued his studies in art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and finally the Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown. He has studied under SO SIGNIFICANT such artists as Richard E. Miller, Charles Hawthorne and Birge Harrison. The National Academy of Design, New A fashion so important that V York; the Corcoran Art Gallery, Wash- we have a suit just like it. ington; the Academy of Fine Arts, Forstmann's "Picatyne" bound Philadelphia; the Art Institute of Chi- cago; the Salmagundi Club of New with silk bengaline. Navy or York have all included him in their an- black. Coat or Suit 59.90. nual exhibitions. His work is repre- sented in many private collections. CHARLES KAESELAU was born 1889 in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied for four years at the Chicago Art In- stitute and later under Jacquin Sorolla and Charles Hawthorne in Province- town. He has exhibited at the Corcoran Is /^ j Gallery, Washington; the National [868] Academy, New York; the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Art Museum, the Worcester Museum, the Whitney Mu- seum, New York, and the National Gal- Do you know that lery of Canada. Among the private col- lections which include his paintings are While most home cleansing fluids are the Phillips Memorial Gallery, Wash- inflammable, the danger of fire or explosion is not due to proximity ington; Adolf Lewisohn, and Henry to flame, necessarily. Most trouble Morgenthau, Jr. starts when you rub woolens or silks, causing a tiny spark of static electricity ! DOROTHY LOEB was born 1887 in Sternberg, Germany, of American Our expert spotters have catalogued parents. She began her studies at the some 2,000 common stains that get on remove Art Institute of Chicago. In Europe she garments—know how to them safely, surely. (The spots that studied in Paris under Henri Martin and they cannot get out are often set Heinrich Knirr in Munich and later by home-removal experiments !) under Leger Ozenfant and Marcoussis at Academie Moderne, Paris. Miss Loeb It isn't the weight of a blanket has had one-man shows in Washington, that makes for warmth — it's the Chicago, Milwaukee, New York and air-spaces between the fibres. (That's the reason we card every Sur- Boston and was included in the blanket that is Lewandos Cleansed Independents shows while working in — not only to make them fluffier, Paris. Her mural for the Falmouth but to make them warmer.) Community Center won her a medal * * * from the New England Architectural Some men throw away their felt League. She has done a great deal of hats when they are soiled — in fact 1 hat out of every 7 sold in certain teaching children in schools and work cities isn't NEW at all — it's settlement houses, most notable of merely reclaimed ! (Thousands of which are the two years she spent teach- smart men have learned that Lewandos actually makes old hats Hull House. ing at the Jane Addams look "like new" again — inexpen- sively, too.) * * * BRUCE McKAIN was born 1900 Lewandos cleanses gloves for in Freetown, Ind. He studied first at people in every state in the union. the John Herron Art School and then Why? Primarily because we restore under Henry Hensche, E. W. Dickinson the color of gloves that is often washed in cleansing and Charles Hawthorne at the Cape away (because it's mostly a surface color, sprayed Cod School of Art. He has exhibited at on). We are leather cleaning head- the National Academy, New York; the quarters. * * * Springfield Art Museum, and recently at the New York World's Fair. Various Many people send us their old table linens that are yellow with of private collections include examples age — to be tinted a delicate orchid, his work. salad green or daffodil shade. The results are very pleasing. VERNON SMITH was born 1894 in Cortland, N.Y. He studied for sev- eral years at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. He has had a one-man show at Goodman Walker in New York and has exhibited in the Museums of Modern Art of both Boston and New York. The private collections You Can Rely on of Gertrude Townsend, George Gersh- win, Goodman Walker and many others including the Springfield Museum pos- sess examples of his painting. He has taught at several schools around the LewanaosJ. Cape and is the organizer and Director - Cleansers : - Launderers of the Parish Art Center at Orleans which is creating such increasingly favor- Dyers -:- Fur Storage able comment. Smith is the Vernon For Service-At-Your-Door Supervisor of the Massachusetts WPA Art Project for the southeastern part of Telephone : WATertown 8500 the state, which includes all the Cape Cod painters in this show. [869] 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 ^Allied witkTHE First National Bank ^/"Boston ts7o] SIXTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY AND FORTY-ONE Nineteenth Programme FRIDAY AFTERNOON, March 21, a* 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, March 22, at 8:15 o'clock RICHARD BURGIN, Conducting Bach Prelude and Fugue in C major (No. 17) (Transcribed for Wind Orchestra by Serge Koussevitzky) (First performances) Chausson Symphony in B-flat major, Op. 20 I. Lent; Allegro vivo II.
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