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. Burr COPYRIGHT, 195O, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Charles D. Jackson Theodore P. Ferris Lewis Perry Alvan T. Fuller Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers [841] ^^^i"... -nS to erv/n,y going ourPrro PCrty ghat's AT L °W coST J! to happen ,iiiim,i "••Hit Property?! Your &.. 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The Festival concerts will ex- tend through six weekends (July 8- August 13, 1950) at Tanglewood, the Eighth Season of the Berkshire Music Center occupying the same weeks. Charles Munch will spend the coming summer in Europe and will not conduct the Festival concerts in 1950. Serge Koussevitzky, who is the Director of the Berkshire Music Center, will con- duct twelve of the fifteen Festival concerts, and three will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein and Eleazar de Carvalho, who are members of the School faculty. Six concerts will be given by a re- duced orchestra in the Theatre-Concert Hall at Tanglewood on Saturday Eve- nings and Sunday Afternoons, July 8- 9, 15-16, 22-23. The first four programs will commemorate the bicentennial of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programs include the six Branden- burg concertos, the four suites, the Con- certo No. 8 and the Violin Concerto in Veil-softened E major. Hugh Ross will prepare a Festival chorus in the Cantatas Nos. 12, crisp sailors 50, 80, 83, and 161. Two Mozart pro- grams will include: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," the Haffner Serenade, Wind Octet, a piano concerto, the Spring . and a sailor concerto for two pianos, and the Sym- with your suit or short phonies Nos. 33, 34, and Jupiter. coat! Spring . and a The concerts in the Music Shed will be given on three Thursday Evenings, sailor, crisp and young, Saturday Evenings and Sunday After- yet delicately, romanti- noons from July 27 to August 13. The Mass in B minor by Bach is to be per- cally veiled. Chandler's formed in two parts on the final Thurs- shows many versions at day (August 10). New works will in- clude Nabokov's La Vita Nuova, Guar- this moment. nieri's Second Symphony, Prokofieff's Sixth Symphony (which will be new to the concerts of this Orchestra) and MILLINERY SALON Diamond's Titnon of Athens (first per- formance). SECOND FLOOR [843] THE ST. LOUIS ORCHESTRA ductor-pupil" of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center and a As the Orchestra of St. Louis, giving brilliant soloist with the Boston Sym- a concert here on Sunday, March 5, is phony Orchestra at Tanglewood. He added to those from near and far who will play Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on have visited Symphony Hall during re- a Theme of Paganini. The program will cent seasons, the Boston Symphony Or- also include the Overture and Allegro of chestra extends a special welcome. Couperin, as orchestrated by Milhaud, There is a kinship of age, for if the Rosenthal's "Magic Manhattan" to be orchestra maintained by the St. Louis heard for the first time in Boston, Choral Society in 1880 be counted as Schonberg's Verklarte Nacht and the its true beginnings, it is a year older Suite from Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. than Mr. Higginson's Orchestra. There are further ties — Max Zach, the con- ductor from 1907 until his death in 1921, played first viola in the Boston Symphony Orchestra during the twenty PICTURES IN PICTURES years previous, during which time he was a member of the Adamowski Quar- The exhibition now on view in the collection tet and a favored conductor at the Pops. Gallery is part of a larger Vladimir Golschmann, who has been organized by Mr. Charles C. Cunning- the conductor in St. Louis since 1931, ham, Director of the Wadsworth Athe- led the concerts of the Boston Sym- naeum in Hartford, Connecticut, and first phony Orchestra as guest in 1944. Sey- shown there. A description of the collec- will published in the next pro- mour Lipkin, who is to be the soloist tion be and who, incidentally, was a Curtis gram book. graduate and the winner of the Rach- A catalog of the paintings is on sale at maninoff Fund Award, has been a "con- the Box Office. 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Ziemlich langsam; lebhaft II. Romanze: Ziemlich langsam. III. Scherzo: Lebhaft IV. Langsam; lebhaft (Played without pause) Mozart Concerto in C major for Pianoforte and Orchestra (Koechel No. 467) I. Allegro maestoso II. Andante III. Allegro vivace assai INTERMISSION d'Indy Introduction to "Fervaal" d'Indy Symphony for Orchestra and Pianoforte on a French Mountain Song, Op. 25 I. Assez lent; Moderement anime II. Assez modere, mais sans lenteur III. Anime SOLOIST ROBERT CASADESUS Mr. Casadesus uses the Steinway Piano rj BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS This program will end about 4:20 o'clock on Friday Afternoon, 10:20 on Saturday Evening. [847] CHECKS . THE FASHION-LOOK OF THE SPRING SEASON Here's the 1950 silhouette in suits . easy jacket, stem-slim skirt. Have it in navy-and-white or black- and-white checks ... in black or navy wool gabar- dine. Sixth floor. $50. R. H. STEARNS CO. [848] SYMPHONY IN D MINOR, No. 4, Op. 120 By Robert Schumann Born at Zwickau, June 8, 1810; died at Endenich, July 29, 1856 Composed in 1841, at Leipzig, this symphony was first performed at a Gewand- haus concert on December 6 of the same year. Schumann made a new orchestration in December, 1851, at Diisseldorf, and the revision was performed there on March 3, 1853, at the Spring Festival of the lower Rhine. It was published in December, 1853, as his Fourth Symphony. The orchestration includes two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings. The most recent performances in the Friday-Saturday Series of the Boston Symphony concerts were on April 2-3, 1948. Schumann wrote this symphony a few months after the completion of his First Symphony in B-flat. The D minor Symphony was numbered four only because he revised it ten years later and did not publish it until 1853, after his three others had been written and published (the Second in 1846, the Third in 1850). This symphony, then, was the second in order of composition. It belongs to a year notable in Schumann's development. He and Clara were married in the autumn of 1840, and this event seems to have stirred in him a new [849] and significant creative impulse: 1840 became a year of songs in sudden and rich profusion, while in 1841 he sensed for the first time in full degree the mastery of symphonic forms.