Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 84,1964-1965
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHE STRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON 1964-1965 TAK E NOTE The precursor of the oboe goes back to antiquity — it was found in Sumeria (2800 bc) and was the Jewish halil, the Greek aulos, and the Roman tibia • After the renaissance, instruments of this type were found in complete families ranging from the soprano to the bass. The higher or smaller instruments were named by the French "haulx-bois" or "hault- bois" which was transcribed by the Italians into oboe which name is now used in English, German and Italian to distinguish the smallest instrument • In a symphony orchestra, it usually gives the pitch to the other instruments • Is it time for you to take note of your insurance needs? • We welcome the opportunity to analyze your present program and offer our professional service to provide you with intelligent, complete protection. We respectfully^ invite your inquiry / . , ... / Associated with CHARLES H. CO. WATKINS & /qbrioN, RUSSELL & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Garleton / 147 milk street boston 9, Massachusetts / Insurance of Every Description 542-1250 / a EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1964-1965 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1965, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [1347] Mozart ^l } The Boston Symphony "Jupiter" Symphony ll ' AVl"" Eine Kleine Nachtmusik under Leinsdorf Boston Symphony Orchestra 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. Leinsdorf's 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 Dynagroove sound, this RCA Victor Red Seal album is a valuable addition to any collection. RCA Victor @)The most trusted name in sound [1348 CONTENTS Program (for this week) . 1353 @TCaRanrca/mc. Program (April 9-- 10) .... 1403 31k cJroMSScaiul tlouse oslon Program (April 16-17) . 1405 of33 Notes Weber (Overture to "Oberon") 1355 Schoenberg (Concerto for Violin and Orchestra) . 1362 «,< Strauss (The Awakening of Helen from "Die Agyptische Helena") . 1365 Entr'acte Salome via Oscar Wilde (J.N.B.) 1391 Notes Strauss (Excerpts from "Salome") 1370 WATERCOLORS The exhibition now in the Gallery is loaned by the Gallery of Tyringham, Massachusetts. COMING CONCERTS For the pair of concerts following the final trip to New York and other cities, Mr. Leinsdorf has invited Aaron Cop- land to conduct. He will complete his program with his own Music for a Great City, his latest orchestral score. The pianist Sidney Foster will be heard in the Third Concerto by Bartok, one of the composer's last works. It is a posthumous score, having been com- pleted from an almost finished manu- script after his death. Sidney Foster, who is making his first appearance with this Orchestra, was born in Florence, South Carolina, and lived also in Miami. He showed precocious talent at the age of ten and was enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music. There he studied with its Director at the time, Josef Hoffman, who also had been a prodigy. Sidney Foster won the Leven- ^At (Ore atk of ^prina tritt Award in 1940, and has since figured prominently in New York concerts. Last pastel flowers afield on autumn he made an extended tour of Soft the Soviet Union. He is at present on drifts of sheer chiffon. Petite, the music faculty of the University of Indiana. Small, Medium. $65.00 Bruckner's Eighth Symphony will be 416 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET the principal work on the final program BOSTON 02116 WELLESLEY of the season, April 16 and 17. It will KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 be introduced by the Prelude to Wag- ner's Lohengrin. [1349] LEONTYNE PRICE Leontyne Price, who will appear as soloist at the concerts of this week, has fonrad been associated with this Orchestra be- fore the recent years of her operatic career. She was a member of the Opera /Thandler Department of the Berkshire Music Center in 1951, and returned in 1953 to sing at Tanglewood in the second act of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, having toured Europe in that opera. Since then she has sung with this Orchestra in Boston in Barber's Prayers of Kierke- gaard (1954), and in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (1958). Since she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in A'ida in 1961, she has sung with that Company in // Trovatore, The Girl of the Golden West, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, To sea, Turan- dot, Cost fan Tutte and Ernani. She had made her debut with the Vienna Staats- oper in 1958, and has otherwise sung widely in opera in Europe and America. PENSION FUND CONCERT Artur Rubinstein will be soloist at a concert for the benefit of the Orches- tra's Pension Fund on April 4. (See page 1404) ORGAN RECITAL The last of the Symphony Hall organ concerts will be given on Sunday, March 28 at six o'clock. John Ferris will be the soloist and will be assisted by Roger Voisin, Trumpet; William Gibson, Trombone ; and Everett Firth, Per- cussion. Music by Buxtehude, Bach, Messiaen, Franck and Hibbard will be played. THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL The 1965 Berkshire Festival at Tan- glewood will again consist of eight weeks of concerts (July 2 -August 22). This will be Mr. Leinsdorf's third sea- son as Director. The Berkshire Music Center, the Orchestra's summer center for the advanced study of music, will have its twenty-fifth season. Mr. Leinsdorf will devote the first A swish of soft textured wool, A-line two weeks to chamber orchestra con- certs with members of the Orchestra. with stitched detail. Mint, pepped Beethoven's major compositions for solo eggnog beige. 7-13. $45 instruments and orchestra will be per- formed at this summer's Festival, and Junior Coats — Fourth Floor musical observances of significant anni- BOSTON versaries of Berg, Hindemith, Ravel, and Sibelius will take place. A complete h35°] — . concert version of Wagner's "Lohengrin" will be given on the final weekend, each of the three acts performed at one of the concerts (August 20, 21, 22). On the topic of Beethoven at Tangle- wood, Mr. Leinsdorf said: "One of our central themes will be the performances of all of Beethoven's con- certi and the two Romances for violin and orchestra, the Choral Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, and the Rondo in B-flat major, thus making a cycle of Beethoven's complete works for solo instrument and orchestra. Knowing that this composer is a rock of all sym- phonic and concerto repertoire, yet re- alizing at the same time that there have been a great number of Beethoven series in our cosmopolitan cities within recent times, I felt—for better or for worse that we should not make this idea a con- centrated festival within a festival but rather spread it over the entire Tangle- wood season. We will thus be able to present these works performed by out- standing soloists in stylistic contrast to works by composers of completely dif- ferent musical schools." A distinguished number of artists have been invited by Erich Leinsdorf to participate at the Berkshire Festival this summer. On July 18 Isaac Stern will play in Beethoven's Romance in F for Violin and Orchestra and Dvorak's Violin Concerto. Eugene Istomin will perform the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 on July 17. Leonard Rose will join his colleagues, mentioned above, in the fourth week in Beethoven's Triple Concerto. On July 23 Mr. Rose will play in the Dvorak Cello Concerto, and on the following evening Mr. Stern will be heard in Beethoven's Romance in G for Violin and Orchestra and Sibelius' Vio- Could believe it! lin Concerto. On August 1 he will play GAD! you in Beethoven's Violin Concerto. So this is what I get with Rudolf Serkin will appear on August 8 in Beethoven's Choral Fantasia and those little stamps they the Fourth Piano Concerto. Van Cli- burn will be heard on August 14 in gave me. On top of real quality Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, com- at truly low prices . pleting the cycle of concerti by this composer. CHANGE OF HOUR AT FINAL FRIDAY CONCERT Stop Shop Please note that the concert on April SUPER MARKETS 16 (Good Friday) will begin at 3:30 instead of the usual hour. S^> [ >35 : For a world of banking — see your friends at The First and Old Colony. For a world of fun, see "Hello World." 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