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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON 1973-1974 FRIDAY-SATURDAY 14 THURSDAY A 4 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K. ALLEN SIDNEY STONEMAN JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood HARRY NEVILLE Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS The Tanner plaid to note Tune in to a long, lovely play of soft Qiana®nylon knit composed by Tanner of North Carolina. A flat- teringly simple, shirt style dress with buttoned front, narrow belt done in multi- tones. A lovely look for home or resort, now or later. Sizes 10-16, $84. Misses Dresses. Boston Chestnut Hill Northshore Shopping Center South Shore Plaza Burlington Mall Wellesley CONTENTS Program for January 31, February 1 and 2 1974 735 Future programs Friday-Saturday series 775 Thursday A series 777 Program notes Monteverdi - Vespro della Beata Vergine by Lawrence Morton 737 The Man and the Artist by H. F. Redlich 761 The Conductor 767 The Soloists 767 PHILIPS TIPPETT: THE KNOT GARDEN Minton, Gomez, Herincx, Barstow, Tear, Carey, Hemsley; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 6700.063 TIPPETT: SYMPHONY NO. 3 Harper ; London Symphony Orchestra 6500.662 TIPPETT: THE,MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE Remedios, Carlyle, Herincx, Harwood; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 6703.027 BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST Gedda, Bastin, Veasey; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 6703.042 BERLIOZ: LESTROYENS Vickers, Veasey, Lindholm, Glossop; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera COLIN DAVIS House, Covent Garden 6709.002 11 BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE "The Composer 's Choice London Symphony Orchestra 835.188 PHILIPS A product of Phonogram Inc. 733 Are you still walking the dogs in your portfolio?? Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON Thursday evening January 31 1974 at 8.30 Friday afternoon February 1 1974 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening February 2 1974 at 8.30 MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS conductor CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE SUSAN DAVENNY WYNER soprano MARY STREBING soprano JOHN ALER tenor ALEXANDER STEVENSON tenor TIMOTHY NOLEN baritone GREGORY REINHART bass NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS Lorna Cooke de Varon conductor BOSTON BOY CHOIR Theodore Marier director I. Domine ad adjuvandum II. Dixit Dominus III. Duo Seraphim IV. Laetatus sum V. Pulchra es VI. Laudate, pueri VII. Ave maris Stella VIII. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria intermission IX. Nisi Dominus X. Audi, coelum XI. Lauda, Jerusalem XII. Nigra sum XIII. Magnificat first complete Boston performance The concert on Friday will end about 4.20; the concerts on Thursday and Saturday about 10.50 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & RCA RECORDS 735 __ $2000 for braces but not one cent more for goodies. A 12-year-old's pocket money is not State Street Bank's normal concern. But she and her trust fund are. And we don't overlook the details. We have to be sure we give the right answers when requests for trust money are made. And we get requests for just about everything. From dentist bills to school bills. From new kitchens to new cars. Of 350 requests in a typical six months, we've had to say "no" to only nine. Because we don't give pat answers. In every case we respect not just the letter of the trust but its original intent. Which means putting ourselves in the shoes of the person who established it. And giving his beneficiaries the same answers he would have. If that means we have to disburse principal, we do it. Which may not fit your stereotype of a banker. Stern, conservative, remote. But neither would the trust officer we'd assign to your account. More than a trained professional, he or she is someone who becomes thoroughly involved with a family, and all its needs. And STATE STREET BANK works in a one-to-one relationship, almost as a member of the family. We do our homework. That's why our 12-year-old is dressed up for a "date." Braces ^^ Personal Trust Division 11 and all. Her trust officer is taking her to lunch. And he's promised #T| ^wS^^^JbffiySstete" a hot dog with all the trimmings. X^l^ Street Boston Financial Corporation . CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine WaterviUe Valley Program note by Lawrence Morion Monteverdi was born in Cremona in May 1567; he died in Venice on November New Hampshire 29 1643. Lawrence Morton's program note, which appears here in slightly edited form, first appeared in connection with a Columbia recording of the Vespers (CM2S- 763) by the Gregg Smith Singers, Texas Boys Choir of Fort Worth and the Columbia Baroque Ensemble, with Robert Craft conducting. It is reprinted here by kind permission of Columbia Masterworks. Windsor Hill RESORT CONDOMINIUMS Studios, 1, 2, and 3 Bedrooms from under $25,000 69 Jennings Peak Rd. WaterviUe Valley, N.H. (603) 236-8388 (WaterviUe Office) (617) 482-5080 (Boston Office) When . In the Catholic liturgy, Vespers is the seventh of the Daily Hours and • A mother is unable to care for the only one whose rite lends itself to musical composition. That rite children requires (1) some introductory salutations and responses, (2) the singing • Serious illness disrupts family of five psalms with their antiphons (an antiphon being a brief text from life Scripture or other source, sung before and after a psalm), (3) a hymn, • and (4) the Magnificat with its antiphon. An aging or ill person is convalescing What is known as Monteverdi's Vespers contains all of the required pieces except the antiphons which, anyway, need not be composed •A person under psychiatric treatment needs care since they are Gregorian melodies already fixed in the ritual. But also temporary in the home included here are five compositions having no place in Catholic rites and therefore composed for nonliturgical use. The Vespers is therefore • Parents need a vacation not a single work in many movements but a collection. From it, a musi- • Handicapped people need help cal service for Vespers can be extracted, leaving only the antiphons to be supplied. The edition of Mr Denis Stevens is an eloquent plea for this •Chronic illness strikes kind of performance. •A terminal patient needs On the other hand, there is no good reason for not performing all the homecare music in the collection, excluding only the Mass and the alternative (and simplified; Magnificat that were included in the publication of 1610. Call... Such a performance can be charged with being nonliturgical, but not many musicians would be deeply distressed by that criticism. This per- Suburban Homemaking formance presents the Vespers not as a religious observance with music and Maternity Agency, Inc. that happened to be composed by a great master, but rather as an artistic BR00KLINE 232-7650 masterpiece inspired by profound religious feelings. For present pur- FRAMINGHAM 879-1516 poses, certain liberties have been taken. First, the order of the individual pieces is not the order in which they occur in the original publication, but an order which has been deemed feasible for concert performance. Obviously, one must begin with Domine ad adjuvandum and end with the Magnificat. It seems just as obvious to schedule the Sonata sopra 2530 252 WINTER DREAMS Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 Boston Symphony Orchestra BOSTON Michael Tilson Thomas SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2530 358 SMETANA MOZART: SYMPHONY NO. 41, "Jopttor" CLAUDE DEBUSSY SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 8, "Unflnislnd" jlmages- Prelude a «L'apresmidi d'un faune»j Ma Vlast BOSTON SYMPHONY /EUGEN JOCHUM Ms Fatherland Boston Symphony Orchestra RAFAEL KUBEUK 2707 054 (2 LP's) 2530145 Deutsche Grammophon Records, MusiCassettes and 8-Track Stereo Cartridges are distributed in the USA by Polydor Incorporated; in Canada by Polydor Ltd. Sancta Maria at mid-point, just preceding the intermission. Within these clearly marked points, the other pieces have been ordered according to their individual characters and the 'sense' of concert-hall performance. THE PLACE TO BUY also to omit In this nonliturgical performance, it has seemed reasonable EVERYTHING the antiphons, which have less musical than ritual significance, and no function at all in the concert hall or on a recording. from what's in style to what's traditional Such mild liberties still leave many problems to be dealt with. The exist- ing practical editions of the Vespers make it clear that any serious effort toward solving performance musician is entitled to make his own * * * problems, but also that he would be sadly mistaken if he thought his solutions were correct, final and authoritative. The present 'version' of the Vespers does not pretend to be more than one of the many that OPEN THURSDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 8:30 are possible.

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