Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 73, 1953-1954, Subscription
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s if ' ffMgjsrfA 1 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 7 • e w >^\ &— virf SEVENTY-THIRD SEASON *953- I 954 Sunday Afternoon Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAH We blueprint the basic structure for the insur- ance of our clients and build their protection on a sound foundation. Only by a complete survey of needs, followed by intelligent counsel, can a proper insurance program be constructed. We shall be glad to act as your insurance architects* Please call us at any time. OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LAfayette 3-5700 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, CO ramonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-THIRD SEASON, 1953-1954 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. 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The National Shawmut Bank of Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [*] SYMPHONIANA FULL BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL THI TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON PROGRAMS The programs for the enlarged Berk- shire Festival of July and August, 1954, have been announced. In the course of the Shed concerts, Charles Munch will honor the 150th anniversary season of the birth of Berlioz by conducting this composer's principal works in their com- plete form. Guest conductors in the Shed concerts will be Pierre Monteux, conducting two concerts ; Jean Morel, and Richard Burgin, each conducting one. Mr. Munch will open the Shed series on Saturday, July 10, with Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. On Sunday afternoon, July 11, Pierre Monteux will present a Beethoven pro- gram including the Overture to Leonore No. 3, the Piano Concerto No. 5 {"Em- peror") with Claudio Arrau as soloist, and the Fifth Symphony. 2nd week (Shed, July 17, 18) : Satur- day eve. (Pierre Monteux) — Franck program: Le Chasseur Maudit, Les Eolides, Les Djinns (piano soloist, Vera Franceschi), Symphony in D minor; Sunday aft. (Charles Munch) — De- ^) bussy, Iberia; Copland, Piano Concerto experienced (soloist, Leo Smit) ; Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony. traveler 3rd week (Shed, July 24, 25) : Satur- Light, easily packed pure silk day eve. (Jean Morel) — Weber, Over- surah robe in a fresh pink or ture, Der Freischiitz ; Prokofieff, Sixth blue polka dot print. Note Symphony; Strauss, Don Juan; Elgar, "Enigma" Variations. Sunday afternoon the interesting new back (Charles Munch) — Berlioz, Beatrice yoke treatment and the and Harold in and Benedict Overture smooth fitting notch collar. Italy (viola soloist, William Primrose) ; Sizes 10 to 20. Ernst Toch, Symphony No. 2. 39.95 4th week (Shed, July 31, Aug. 1) : (Charles Munch) Ber- Saturday eve. — 416 Boylston St., Boston lioz, Romeo and Juliet with Festival 54 Central St., Wellesley Chorus and soloists; Sunday aft. (Rich- ard Burgin) — Prokofieff, Chout, Dvorak, [31 ; . Violin Concerto (soloist, Ruth Posselt) Sibelius, Symphony No. 2. Stk week (Shed, Aug. 7, 8) : Saturday Double your eve. (Charles Munch) — Berlioz pro- gram: Benvenuto Cellini Overture, record listening The Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans, Summer Nights for soprano and orchestra with Eleanor Steber as soloist, pleasure. and the Te Deum. Sunday aft. (Charles Munch) — Gluck, Alceste Overture; Beethoven, Violin Concerto (soloist, Zino Francescatti) ; Brahms, Symphony No. 2. 6th week (Shed, Aug. 14, 15) : Satur- day eve. (Charles Munch) — Wagner, A Faust Overture; Piston Fourth Sym- phony; Ravel, Piano Concerto (solo- ist, Nicole Henriot) ; Saint-Saens, Or- gan Symphony; Sunday aft. (Charles Munch) — Berlioz, Requiem with Fes- tival Chorus and four auxiliary orches- tras. Bach -Mozart Series On the six Friday evenings preceding each Shed concert, except in the final week when it will be given on Thursday, the concerts will be given in the inti- mate Theatre-Concert Hall by an or- $139.95 chestra of chamber proportions. The first with the new two weeks (July 9 and 16) Charles Munch will conduct music of Bach, in- RCAVlCTOR cluding in the first the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 2, 6, 5, and in the second, the Cantata No. 93 and Suites HIGH FIDELITY Nos. 1 and 4. On July 23, he will con- " Vict rolci duct a Handel-Haydn program. On July "Phonograph 30 Mr. Munch will conduct Roussel's and RCA Victor The Spider's Feast, the Ibert Flute Con- certo with Doriot Anthony as soloist, High Fidelity Records Mozart's Serenade for 8 Winds in C New High Fidelity "Victrola" phono- minor, K. 388, and the same composer's graphs Paris Symphony, K. 297. 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