TANGLEWOOD •*LONG PLAY (lM-1953) $3.98 NG PI A> (l M I **LONG PLAY (lM-190o) $3.99 Romeo.-? mm- rcaVictor Lr^^ Juliet Beethoven 5th Symphony Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony COM PLOT DEBUSSY THE BLESSED DAMOZEL BERLIOZ SUMMER NIGHTS VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES BOSTON SYMPHONY / MUNCH BOSTON SYMPH. MUNCH **LONG PLAY (LM-1959) $3.96 **LONG PLAY (lM-1893) $3.98 BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 • TRAGIC OVERTURE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH BOSTON SYMPHONY CHARLES MUNCH ORCHESTRA munch in person on rca Victor records To Charles Munch, conducting is not a profession but a THE sacred calling. And this dedication, combined with the WORLD'S magnificence of the Boston Symphony, brings you some GREATEST of the greatest performances of our time. You feel and ARTISTS hear this devotion whether he conducts Brahms, Berlioz ARE ON or Beethoven . whether the performance is in Tangle- wood, Symphony Hall or on RCA Victor Records! rcaVictor Nationally Advertised Prices—Optional **A "New Ortlioplionic" High Fidelity recording '<fi BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Berkshire Festival Season 1957 (TWENTIETH SEASON) TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS THIRD WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1957 By Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. Francis W. Hatch E. Morton Jennings Charles H. Stockton Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson Michael T. Kelleher Edward A. Taft Alvan T. Fuller C. D. Jackson Palfrey Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Trustees Emeritus Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lenges Bull George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard Robert T. Capeless Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, William F. Lawless Lenox, David H. Mackey Lee, Michael J. Sullivan Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. W. Rector, N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manag >.r 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD »+++*»»»»»+»»#+»»#+#»+»*»»+»»»++»*»»»#»#»—»* Symphoniana JManhattan Address by SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHARLES MUNCH AT THE OPENING EXERCISES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER John Brownlee, Director Tanglewood, June 30, 1957 I am happy to receive you here today for the opening of the fifteenth Courses offered in all major fields Berkshire Music Center's season. leading to the If you look at our Festival programs for this sum- BACHELOR and OF MASTER mer, you will see the formula is a little different. MUSIC DEGREES Each week is dedicated to one of the great masters of the past — with a contemporary work on each program in the Shed. Distinguished faculty includes: The first week is devoted to Tchaikovsky, with three works of Stravinsky played in his Raphael Bronstein honor of seventy-fifth anniversary. The second week is de- John Brownlee voted to Berlioz and Hindemith, the third to Brahms VlTTORIO GlANNINI with Barber, Piston, and Egk, and the fourth to Beethoven and works of Honegger, Blacher and Herta Glaz Copland. Robert Goldsand No doubt there is a certain interest in seeing Marcel Grandjany what country, what school, what style these works belong to. But I have always found that this sort Bernard Greenhouse of preoccupation had no great importance. No William Lincer great work that has found an important place in the history of art has done so because of its style Howard Murphy alone, or because it belongs to such and such a Jonel Perlea nation, or such and such a school. Hugh Ross The great sage of Weimar, the greatest world citizen Wolfgang von Goethe, said in one of his Alexander Schneider aphorisms: "There is no patriotic art and no Dora Zaslavsky patriotic science. Both belong to the whole world like everything high and good, and both can pro- gress only by a general free exchange among all OPERA WORKSHOP contemporaries — looking back later at what is left and known of the past." These exchanges in open to Special and Degree Students the world of art are now so well developed that American orchestras go everywhere and European orchestras come here. It surely signifies great For information regarding entrance progress in the relations of peoples and in the de- and Scholarships, write to: velopment of good will and mutual respect. REGISTRAR It is the duty of every artist-musician to work Manhattan School of Music for this ideal. We had a wonderful experience ol this kind last year. Immediately after the end of 238 East 105th St., New York 29 last year's Festival, the Boston Symphony Orchestra went to Europe and played in twelve countries from Ireland to the Soviet Union. Everywhere we found The school is a member of the Middle great and burning curiosity to know American States Association of Colleges and Sec- music and musicians. In Moscow, we played an ondary Schools and the National Asso- extra concert because the Russian public wanted ciation of Schools of Music. to hear all the American music we had with us. The experience that I have just had during my visit to Czechoslovakia has strongly confirmed my sentiments about the relations between countries. 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD ^yrw^ww^'vw of I found there so great an interest in the music the entire world and at the same time so gre;ii a desire to hear as much contemporary music as possible that I was very impressed. And 1 think of the reproach aimed at us because the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays so much new music on its programs. Is not this our duty? Is it not our duty to defend the present, and in doing so to prepare the future? It is obvious that for the orchestra and me — and for the public — it would be easier to play and lv Lfl/l is proud to be to re-play the Pictures at an Exhibition than to prepare a symphony of David Diamond. What the Airline preferred by we could be reproached for is that the work we offer is not to be taken seriously or is badly made. THE BOSTON But even this is difficult to know. When the Seventh Symphony of Beethoven was played for hostility. SYMPHONY the first time, the public manifested its We know that after the first performance of Car- ORCHESTRA men, Bizet wanted to commit suicide, and that at the first performance of Le Sacre du Printemps KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was privileged the police had to intervene. Nothing is more diffi- to be chosen by the Boston Symphony cult than to pass definitive judgment on the epoch in which we live. It is History, the future that Orchestra for its transatlantic trip takes care of this. It is always the future that to Europe last summer. knows what music was of value and of importance KLM looks forward to welcoming to the generation that created it. patrons of the Boston Symphony If I were asked this question, I should say simply on board "Flying Dutchmen" that good music is the music that has its roots in serving all six continents. the heart. It makes its way from there, passing through knowledge and intelligence, to the hand KLM service features that writes on music paper. And from there, it superb Continental must find its way to the soul of the listener. Bad cuisine and traditional music has roots nowhere and arrives nowhere. Dutch hospitality. We are here to work together. I hope that you WORLD'S fIRST AIRLINE will learn many things, and that you will be happy. Excellent teachers are here to help you. In truth, there is only one pedagogy and that is Work. There is only one teacher, and that is Life. And our life must be joy, and care, work and sufferance, love and great faith. Performances by the Berkshire Music Center Many of the thousands of music lovers who attend the Berkshire Festival Concerts may not realize the extent and importance of the school of music at Tanglewood. Many on the other hand are inter- ested in this unusual project and have signified their sympathy with its aims by contributing and so be- coming Friends of the Berkshire Music Center. In i urn, they are invited to participate in its activities by attending the performances by each department through the Tanglewood season. The Music Center, maintained by the Boston S\ m phony Orchestra and now in its 14th season, has 1957 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL TANGLEWOOD about 400 students each summer from nearly every BERKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE state in the Union, from Canada and numerous for- eign lands. Among them are young musicians STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. of high skill — instrumentalists, conductors, singers, under the direction of and composers. Many are on the threshold of dis- William Miles and Eleanor Wilson tinguished careers and are benefiting by invaluable experience in group performance. Their perform- Week of ances in this way effect a two-fold benefit — experi- ence for themselves and music of high June 24 CAROL STONE in "JANUS" order for their listeners. The listeners last summer numbered July 1 "BUS STOP" a total audience of approximately July 8 PAULA TRUEMAN in "CHARM" 40,000 and a con- sequent total contribution of July 15 MARY WICKES in $51,792. By the terms "THE GREAT SEBASTIANS" of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, $36,792 of this July 22 WM. ROERICK-TOM COLEY sum was matched in equal amount. It is this sort in "TIME LIMIT!" of support which makes possible the continuation SKEDGE MILLER in of a venture unique in ks kind.