Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1965-1966
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MGLEWOOD FIRST WEEK July 2, 3, 4, 1965 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Mozart The Boston Symphony "Jupiter" Symphony "*' Eine Kleine Nachtmusik under Leinsdorf Boston Symphony Orchestr The first Mozart recorded by Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Erich Leinsdorf was Mozart's last symphony, that dramatic and intricate work aptly called the "Jupiter'' Symphony. Leinsdorfs choice of "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" as a foil for this work was sheer inspiration, The re- sulting album illuminates the comment that Leinsdorf's Mozart "is like spring grass" Recorded in brilliant Dynagmove sound, this RCA Victor Red Seal album is a valuable addition to any collection. RCA Victor® ®The most trusted name in sound -~ WaSy Boston Symph ony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Berkshire Festival, Season 1965 TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON MUSIC SHED AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS FIRST WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1965 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Trustees of The BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. President Vice-President Treasurer Henry B. Cabot Talcott M. Banks Richard C. Paine Abeam Berkowitz Andrew Heiskell Edward G. Murray Theodore P. Febbis Habold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Robebt H. Gardener E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Francis W. Hatch Henry A. Laughlin Sidney R. Rabb John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins Trustees Emeritus Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Beau Lawrence K. Miller Jesse L. Thomason Lenges Bull George E. Mole Robert K. Wheeleb Geobge W. Edman Whitney S. Stoddabd H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, Robebt Minkler Lenox, John Pignatelli Lee, William O'Brien Thomas D. Pebby, Jb., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager 1 : SOLOISTS There are four new MALCOLM FRAGER, born in St. Louis, was an honor graduate of Colum- bia University in New York. He studied there with Carl Friedberg, and later at the American Conservatory at Fontaine- Automatic Turntables. bleau and the Marlboro Music School. Since his debut recital in New York in One of them, 1952, he has toured extensively and won several prizes, notably in the Edgar M. the LAB 80... Levintritt International Competition in 1959. He has appeared at the Berkshire is the first Festival concerts in 1963 and 1964. Automatic CLAUDE FRANK, born in Niirnberg, Germany in 1925, has made the United Transcription States his home and lived here since 1941. A student at the Berkshire Music Turntable. Center in 1947, he was for a time active in choral conducting but, having studied with Artur Schnabel and taught in Ru- dolf Serkin's school at Marlboro, he has devoted his career to the piano. He has appeared with the Boston Symphony Or- chestra in Boston and at Tanglewood, and with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in the season past. JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN, the Concert- master, and Burton Fine, Jules Eskin, Ralph Gomberg and Sherman Walt, who are to be heard at the concert of July 4, are the leaders of their sections in the Orchestra. On Sunday, July 4 at 4:30, a plaque dedicated to Henry Hadley is to be un- veiled in the Music Shed. Dr. Hadley was the first conductor of the summer concerts in the Berkshires, when in 1934 he led members of the New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra. The Berkshire Fes- tival with the Boston Symphony Orches- tra under Serge Koussevitzky followed in 1936. The inscription on the plaque is as follows In honor of HENRY HADLEY Composer-Conductor who conceived and conducted the FIRST BERKSHIRE SYMPHONIC FESTIVAL August 23, 25, 26, 1934 Erected by the National Association for American Composers and Conductors 1965 2 — ranHni BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday Evening, July 2, at 8:00 ERICH LEINSDORF, Conductor MOZART Symphony No. 33, in B-flat major, K. 319 I. Allegro assai II. Andante moderato III. Menuetto IV. Finale: Allegro assai t Piano Concerto No. 9 in C major, K. 415 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro Soloist: MALCOLM FRAGER Intermission Symphony No. 38, in D major, "Prague," K. 504 I. Adagio; Allegro II. Andante III. Finale: Presto Mr. FRAGER plays the Steinway Piano t First performance at the Festival concerts BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS — 3 — Chamber music concerts will be given in the Theatre on each Tuesday through the season beginning next week. A Festival of Contemporary American Music to be held in cooperation with the Fromm Music Foundation will in- Berkshire clude a "retrospective" concert of the music of Aaron Copland who has led the Composition Department of the @atFactohy Berkshire Music Center from its first season twenty-five years ago. Top brand fashions The performance of Wagner's Lohen- at 20-40% discount! grin at the three concerts of the final week of the Berkshire Festival (August They're nor closeoufs, and they're not seconds. 20, 21, 22) is planned by Erich Leinsdorf . They are those same famous brands you as an event of particular interest. Mr. all know so well and you'll pay 20 to 40% less than the national advertised price! Don't Leinsdorf has stated : "Due to the length believe us though .... check the national ads of the work—the shortest of the three on our bulletin boards and you'll see the $$$ is nearly full acts uncut as long as a you save. symphony program—I felt that the best way would be to put each act on one concert. I believe that this will be the first time the complete work is per- formed in the Western Hemisphere. I know of no instance, outside of Bay- reuth, that the work has been performed entirely uncut, even in European cities. From an artistic point of view I feel that the Lohengrin weekend is a true festival idea, something which one could not schedule during the more rigid aspects of a winter season but which lends itself ideally to the more relaxed and experi- mental atmosphere of a summer festival." The performance will be recorded at Symphony Hall by RCA Victor in the week following. Tickets for the three "Lohengrin" concerts may still be obtained at the season rate. £&> OAK ST.OFF LINCOLN 3HDDDD PITTSFIELD, MASS. — 4 — Program Notes Friday Evening, July 2 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died in Vienna, December 5, 1791 SYMPHONY IN B-FLAT MAJOR, No. 33, K. 319 In the new year of 1779, Mozart returned from his job-questing travels in Mannheim, Paris and Munich to Salzburg, and remained there for just two years. They were his last in his native town and the last under the employ of his Archbishop. When he visited Munich again in January, 1781, for the production of his new Opera Idomeneo, he had left Salzburg behind. He went on to Vienna and made this his permanent home.* Those two years in Salzburg therefore were a turning point in his life. They were reluctant years, for he would rather have gone almost anywhere else if he had had the choice. He was ready for greater achievement, but was delayed in the fulfillment. Exciting orchestral possibilities had been revealed to him in Munich and Paris, possibilities he could not realize in provincial Salzburg. He needed a larger artistic horizon. His disgust with the Salzburg * Mozart wrote the Minuet at a later date for a performance in Vienna. V At the Berkshire VAN CLIBURN Festival this season MALCOLM FRAGER these Artists CLAUDE FRANK playONlY EUGENE ISTOMIN RUDOLF SERKIN VITYA VRONSKY THE STMWAY and VICTOR BABIN IN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW STEINWAY PIANOS ARE SOLD ONLY BY M. STEINERT & SONS 162 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON . ALSO WORCESTER, SPRINGFIELD — 5 — Kapelle did not stop him from composing much in these two years, including the Symphony here performed and the Symphony in C major (K. 338), writ- ten a year later. Other works still singled out for performance and relished were the Symphonie Concertante for Violin and Viola, the Concerto for Two Pianos, the "Post-horn" Serenade (the last but not least of his entertainment music written for Salzburg) . There was the music for the chapel in the line of duty, and of course ldomeneo. This Symphony, like its successor in C major, shows that he had learned much about orchestral possibilities in Mannheim; it also shows that he knew the limitations of the home Kapelle and composed with those limitations in mind. This Symphony and the Symphony in C major, composed in 1780, are scored for the Salzburg forces and were the last in Salzburg. He would write only five more (not counting the "Haffner" Symphony which was derived from a Serenade), and these are in his fullest symphonic maturity: one for Linz, one for Prague, and the great final three, these last not by any commis- sions from half-hearted Vienna, but for his personal satisfaction. The Symphony in B-flat, K. 319, takes on a light and merry course in the buffo style with an elegance of grace notes, the full orchestra sparkling through the first and last movements. Only in the andante does the composer rely mostly on his strings, giving the first violins the constant burden of melody and retreating into quieter sentiment. The first movement introduces the four- Marlboro Music Festival RUDOLF SERJCIN • Artistic Director MARLBORO, VERMONT Festival Orchestra -Chamber Music ON WEEKENDS: JULY 2 - AUGUST 15 SATURDAYS AT 8:30 PM — SUNDAYS AT 3:00 PM FRIDAYS, JULY 2 AND AUGUST 13 AT 8:30 PM OPENING WEEKEND— JULY 2, 3, 4 PABLO CASALS conducting the Marlboro Festival Orchestra Programs include BACH'S FOUR SUITES FOR ORCHESTRA SOLD OUT Ticket Information from : Marlboro Festival, Box T, Marlboro, Vt.