Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1954-1956
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TANGLEWOOD — . This "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Album won't be released until September BUT YOU MAY OWN IT NOW! Berlioz THE DAMNATION OF FAUST You may enjoy treasured "encores" of this masterful interpretation without waiting! A limited number of advance copies of this new album are available to Festival patrons only at the Tanglewood Music Shop on the Festival grounds. INVITE MR. MUNCH AND MR. MONTEUX INTO YOUR HOMES! Hear them conduct these *Romeo and Juliet tSymphonle Fantastique other Berlioz Cycle highlights Complete. Boston Symp. Orch. San Francisco Orchestra con- as often as you choose . conducted by Charles Munch. ducted by Pierre Monteux. Hear the RCA Victor Collector's re-issue of "Harold in Italy' Primrose, Viola; Boston Symp. Orch., Koussevitsky, cond. Other Munch Recordings Other Monteux Recordings * Richard Strauss: Don Quixote *Chausson: Poem of Love and with Piatigorsky, Cellist; Bur- the Sea with Gladys Swarthout, gin, Violinist; de Pasquale, Mezzo Soprano Violist. * Mozart: Concerto No. 12, in A, * Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 K. 414. Concerto No. 18, in B- with Artur Rubinstein, Pianist Flat, K. 456, with Lili Kraus, t Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Pianist Haydn: "London" Symphony * Liszt: Les Preludes t Munch conducts French Music Scriabin: Poeme d'Extase t Schubert: Symphony No. 2 t Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring t Schumann: "Spring" Symph. Rimsky-Korsakoff: * Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Scheherazade, Op. 35 in D Nathan Milstein, Violinist + Franck: Symphony in D Minor * A "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Recording \ A High Fidelity Recording rca V^7011 FIRST IN RECORDED MUSIC 4 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director ^Berkshire Festival Season ig; TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS 6 Concerts of Chamber Music in the Theatre-Concert Hall 6 Concerts by Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Theatre-Concert Hall 12 Concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Music Shed SECOND WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I954, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. X Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Philip R. Allen Theodore P. Ferris N. Penrose HallowelV M. A. De Wolfe Howe Palfrey Perkins John Nicholas Brown Alvan T. Fuller Francis W. Hatch Michael T. Kelleher Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Fences Bull George W. Fdman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard J esse F. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde George E. Judd, Manager Assistant Managers: T. D. Perry, Jr., N. S. Shirk. » 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood ^umpltoniunu ENJOY • The Berlioz Season The Berlioz performances at the Festival sum up MUSIC... a widespread recognition of the genius of this com- poser remembered in many places through the sesqui- IN centennial season. Mr. Munch conducted Romeo and COMFORT Juliet in New York and Washington during the season past and the Damnation of Faust in Boston. Imagine yourself entering a cool, A Berlioz Society recently formed has focused public tastefully decorated studio on a hot attention on these activities. This orchestra's re- cording of the first of these works has won a Grand summer day . relaxing in a comfortable Prix du Disque of 1954. recording of the easychair and listening to fine music A Damnation of Faust made just after the perform- via quality high fidelity instruments ance is available at Tanglewood before its release in . pure fantasy you say . but, September. The current (July) issue of High at lE^T^^H Fantasy Becomes Reality/ Fidelity Magazine features the recordings of this Nowhere will you find a demonstration composer. locale to compare with ASCO's much-discussed sound studios. Here In Memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the world of High Fidelity is opened to Berkshire County has long been richly provided your . eyes and ears . and you will enjoy with chamber music through the beneficence of the recorded music as you never have before. late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The chamber con- You're always certs which she gave at Tanglewood alone or welcome at ASCO . even Library of if just to browse around and talk to any through the Coolidge Foundation of the are continued in the Wednesday evening of the professional ASCO sound men, Congress chamber series now part of the Festival ; the pro- specialists in the field of High Fidelity. ceeds of these concerts will be devoted to the Tangle- Make sure you hear and see the ASCO wood Revolving Scholarship Fund. Miniature-compactly designed to make The summer chamber music concerts established your summer listening —wherever it at South Mountain in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth may be- High Fidelity listening. Sprague Coolidge will begin July 10. This season If you would like complete six concerts will be given on Saturday afternoons at information on the ASCO Miniature 4:00, under the joint sponsorship of the Elizabeth line, write to ASCO, Dept. C Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Library of Congress and the Fromm Music Foundation of Chicago, in cooperation with the South Mountain Association. Programs include a Beethoven Sonata Series by Alexander Schneider, violin, and Artur Balsam, piano, July 10, 24 and August 7; Leontyne Price, soprano, and Samuel Barber, piano, July 17; John Barrows, horn, Alexander Schneider and Artur Balsam, July 31 ; Juilliard String Quartet, August 14. A limited number of tickets are available without charge on written application to Mrs. Willem Willeke, Musical Director, South Moun- tain Association, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum An exhibition of the Willson Collection of por- traits of composers (engravings, etchings and litho- graphs) is being shown at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield throughout the Festival season. Fifth Program WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, at 8:30 ALBENERI TRIO Erich Itor Kahn, Piano Giorgio Ciompi, Violin Benar Heifetz, Cello Brahms Trio in B major, Op. 8 I. Allegro con brio II. Allegro molto III. Adagio IV. Allegro Martinu Trio in D minor I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Allegro .INTERMISSION Beethove N Trio in B flat major, Op. 97 ("Archduke") I. Allegro moderato II. Scherzo: Allegro III. Andante cantabile, ma pero con moto IV. Allegro moderato BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS : 6 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood in The Berkshire Museum announces exhibitions of chef d' or i lustre" which is shortly to be published special interest for July: paintings by Lawrence R. Paris. The book is a study of a conductor's prob- McCoy and "Massachusetts' Crafts of Today." lems and privileges as viewed through the experience For July and August there is an exhibition of rooms of his career in Europe and America. from the 16th Century to the present, reproduced NBC Broadcasts The Little in miniature by Andrew Zenorini. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will be heard will show foreign films, each Wednesday Cinema throughout the nation beginning next October when through Saturday. the first part of each Saturday evening concert will The glassed reception room next to the Main be broadcast from Symphony Hall over the NBC Gate at Tanglewood will have six picture exhibi- network. tions through the Festival weeks arranged by Stuart Broadcasts of Festival Programs Henry, Curator of the Berkshire Museum. Sculp- WGBH, the FM educational station at Sym- ture by Homer Gunn is in the formal garden. phony Hall, Boston, of which the Boston Symphony Friends of the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra is a member, will make tapes of the 18 the Festival for broadcast All lovers of music who are interested in the Bos- orchestral concerts of begins. will ton Symphony Orchestra's school at Tanglewood weekly until the winter season Tapes of concerts, lectures forums of the are invited to the numerous performances — orches- also be made and Berkshire Music Center and these will be broadcast tral, operatic, chamber and choral, which will be the fall and winter season. given through the season. These performances are during open to all who become members by a voluntary A New Scholarship contribution'. A full listing will be found on page A fund is being set up to provide an annual "Con- 31. ducting Scholarship" in memory of Serge Kousse- Tanglewood on Parade vitzky. If you would like to have a part in this, please send your contribution to Paul K. Fodder, New and special features are planned for the Trust Officer, Agricultural National Bank, Pitts- annual Tanglewood on Parade to be given at field, Massachusetts. Tanglewood on Friday, August 13. The details will be announced shortly. To New Yorkers A special round trip rate and service from New Charles Munch as Author York City to Tanglewood and return for each Sun- Charles Munch has written a book Jc sins day concert is offered by the New Haven Railroad. HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE FEATURES IN JULY As the headlines of this advertisement nique and art of recording and repro- claim, our July issue features a very ducing music have made every living wonderful article on the emergence of room a potential recital hall. Berlioz . It is in this field that HIGH FIDELITY There's another "emergence" going Magazine has been so active for the on around you right now. It's some- past three years. Our purpose, in pub- thing unique and exciting, and you lishing the Magazine, is to help our are a part of it. readers toward greater enjoyment of What's happening is this ... in these music, year round. To that end, for mid-century years, Americans have instance, our July issue includes the really, fully, for the first time, dis- Berlioz article; the usual 32 pages of THE EMERGENCE OF HECTOR BERLIOZ covered music. Part of the evidence is authoritative record reviews; the reg- now about you, in the unprecedented ular tested-in-the-home reports on the crowds who have turned out this sum- newest high fidelity equipment .