Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 69, 1949-1950
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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HI SIXTY-NINTH SEASON 1949- 1950 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, Jr. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE, Jr. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON. Jr. HERBERT SEARS TUCKERMAN OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description "A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen It Must Be Earned." Boston, Mass. Los Angeles, California 108 Water Street 3275 Wilshire Blvd. Telephone Lafayette 3-5700 Dunkirk 8-3316 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SIXTY-NINTH SEASON, 1949-1950 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Ai len M. A. 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The Optional Shawmut Bank 40 Water Street, Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Capital and Surplus $30,000,000 r< Outstanding Strength" for 114 Years SYMPHONIANA Soloists for the Berkshire Festival Prize Picture Chandlanaier s Tremont and West Streets SOLOISTS FOR THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL The soloists are now announced for the Berkshire Festival next summer. At the Bach-Mozart concerts in the Theatre-Concert Hall, during the first three Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, Gregor Piatigorsky will per- form a Bach Suite for Cello unaccom- panied (July 9), Ruth Posselt will ap- pear in Bach's E Major Violin Concerto (July 16), Lukas Foss will be heard in a Piano Concerto of Mozart (July 22) and Luboshutz and Nemenoff will ap- pear in Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos (July 23). Nine concerts will be given by the full Orchestra in the Music Shed on three Thursday evenings, three Satur- day evenings and three Sunday after- noons. At the second concert of Series A, Bruckner's Seventh Symphony will be paired with Debussy's Two Nocturnes and "La Mer." To the program of Sun- day afternoon, July 30, which Leonard Bernstein will conduct, "The Song of Songs" by Lukas Foss will be added, Ellabelle Davis taking the soprano part. At the concert of Saturday evening, August 5, the distinguished Cuban pianist, Jorge Bolet, will appear with the Orchestra in Prokofieff's Second Piano Concerto. This program will also Veil-softened include the first performance of Nabokov's "La Vita Nuova" with Frances Yeend, soprano, and David crisp sailors Lloyd, tenor, as soloists, and will end with Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini." On Sunday afternoon, August 6, Leonard Bernstein, while conduct- sailor ing, will play the solo part in Ravel's Spring . and a Piano Concerto. with your suit or short The viola soloist in Berlioz' "Harold . and a in Italy" to be conducted by Eleazar coatl Spring de Carvalho on Saturday evening, sailor, crisp and young, August 12, will be Joseph de Pasquale. delicately, romanti- Further singers to appear in Bach's yet B Minor Mass and cantatas will be cally veiled. Chandler's Adele Addison, soprano, and Eunice shows many versions at Alberts, contralto. The Festival chorus, drawn from the students of the Berk- this moment. shire Music Center, will ioin the Or- chestra in Choros No. 10 of Villa-Lobos (August 12) and Bach's Mass (August MILLINERY SALON 10). Hugh Ross will prepare five of Bach's cantatas and will conduct Nos. SECOND FLOOR 161 and 80. Dr. Koussevitzky will con- duct Nos. 83, 12 and 50. rsi , PRIZE PICTURE Early in the present season, Gilbert Friedberg, photographer for the Boston Globe, concealed himself among the players at a Boston Symphony rehearsal, and by the instantaneous method of stroblight obtained a number of imposed action pictures of Charles Munch as he was drilling the orchestra in Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" Suite. The picture reproduced above has just been awarded First Prize in the Per- sonality Class in a contest held by the Boston Press Photographers' Association. o help conserve your estate . may we send you this each month? Written in easy-to-read, non-technical style, this trust bulletin will help you keep abreast of new laws which may affect your estate... aid your understanding of estate matters . and offer suggestions, for discussion with your attorney, to increase the net amount which your heirs will ; :-: : * : receive. 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Romanze: Ziemlich langsam III. Scherzo: Lebhaft IV. Langsam; lebhaft (Played without pause) INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 I. Allegro non troppo II. Andante moderato III. Allegro giocoso IV. Allegro energico e passionato BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Rehearsal Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are given on the National Broadcasting Company Network (Station WBZ Sundays 1:30—2:00 p.m.) [71 Reminiscent of covered wagon days is this wonderful printed cotton from California. At $25 it is typical of our superb sum- mer collection starting at 14.95. Fourth floor. R. H.STEARNS CO. [«] OVERTURE TO THE OPERA "OBERON" By Carl Maria von Weber Born in Eutin, Oldenburg, in Germany, November 18,* 1786; died in London, June 5, 1826 The Opera "Oberon," or "The Elf King's Oath," completed April 9, 1826, had its first production at Covent Garden, London, on April 12, the composer conduct- ing, Weber composed it by order of Charles Kemble, Manager of the Covent Garden. The text, by James Robinson Planche, was an English translation of C. M. Wieland's "Oberon." Planche was helped by the earlier translation of W. Sotheby. "Oberon" was first heard in Germany in Leipzig, December 23 of the same year. The first performance in America has been stated as given at the Park Theatre, New York, October 9, 1828. Philip Hale, remarking that "Oberon" has undergone many re- visions on account of its bulk of spoken text, doubts whether this performance was "exactly as Weber wrote it" and names the "first veritable performance" as one given at the Academy of Music in New York by the Parepa-Rosa English opera company, March 29, 1870. The first performance in Boston was in Music Hall by this same company, May 23, 1870. The opera was revived at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, December 28, 1918, when Artur Bodanzky conducted; Rosa Ponselle sang Rezia; Giovanni Martinelli, Sir Huon. * The date of Weber's birth is universally given as December 18, 1786. Nicolas Slonimsky, who has profitably devoted his time to the checking and correction of wrong dates handed down from one compiler of dictionaries to another, offers this information : "Music dic- tionaries, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and other reference works all give the wrong date of Weber's birth, December 18, 1786. I have obtained a copy of Weber's registry of baptism from Eutin, Germany, which states that Carl Maria Friedrick Ernst von Weber (his full name) was baptized on November 20, 1786. He was probably born on November 18, which was the day on which he celebrated his birthday in later life. At any rate, the discovery of his baptismal registry disposes of the December 18 date which for some reason has been accepted even by Weber's German biographers." 'Key-note fo Che sufjero lailleur 0/ custom del ailed coals and suits, that travel iviln assurance io all ike corners 0} your lije . (^.tventy K Heivoury [9] The most recent performance of the Overture at the Friday and Saturday con- certs of this orchestra was on February 28, 1947. The Overture is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, and strings.