BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE HI SIXTY-NINTH SEASON 1949-1950 Academy of Music, Brooklyn Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Soenceb and the Philharmonic Soqety of Brooklyn 1949—1950 BROOKLYN COMMITTEE FOR The Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts Ml. Adrian Van Sinderen Mrs. H. Haughton Bell Chairman Executive Chairman Mrs. Edward C. Blum Mrs. William H. Good Mrs. Henry J. Davenport Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Mrs. William G. James Mrs. Carroll J. Dickson Mrs. Irving G. Idler Chairman Membership Vice-Chairman Chairman Boxes Dr. Joseph Dana Allen Mrs. James H. Griffin Mr. Charles Pratt Mrs. Charles L. Babcock, Jr. Mrs. Arthur C. Hallan Mrs. Stewart M. Pratt Mrs. John R. Bartels Mrs. William P. Hamilton Mrs. Benjamin Prince Hon. William R. Bayes Mr. and Mrs. Valentine K, Raymond Miss Dorothy Betts Mrs. Walter Hammitt Miss Agnes Ritchie Mrs. George M. Billings Mr. Frank R. Hancock Mrs. Charles E. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hills Mrs. Frederick H. Rohlfs Mrs. Robert E. Blum Mr. William T. Hunter Mrs. Donald Ross Mrs. Bruce Bromley Mrs. Raymond V. IngersoU Mrs. Irving J. Sands Mrs. Irving L. Cabot Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham Mrs. F. R. Schepmoes Mrs. Otis Swan Carroll Mrs. Robert F. Ives Mrs. Robert W, Shearman Mrs. Oliver G. Carter Mrs. Charles Jaffa Mrs. Frank E. Simmons Mrs. Francis T. Christy Mr. Halsted James Mrs. Donald G. C. Sinclair Mrs. Russell V. Cruikshank Mrs. Miles Kastendieck Mrs. Ainsworth L. Smith Mrs. Sidney W. Davidson Mrs. Warner King Miss Arietta H. Smith Mrs. Berton J. Delmhorst Mrs. Maxwell Lester Mrs. Harry H. Spencer Mrs. Mary C. Draper Mrs. Edith Lincoln Mrs. E. A. Sunde Mrs. Eugene S. Duffield Mrs. Frederick D. MacKay Mrs. Hollis K. Thayer Mrs. Remick C. Eckardt Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Jr. Mr. Carl H. ToUefsen Mrs. Merrill N. Foote Miss Helen McWilliams Mrs. Walter Truslow Mrs. Lewis W. Francis Mrs. Leonard P. Moore Mrs. Adrian Van Smderen Mrs. Clarence Waterman Mr. and Miss Emma Jessie Ogg Mrs. Morris W. Watkins Mrs. George H. Gartlan Mrs. Dean C. Osborne Mrs. Walter F. Watton Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin Mrs. William M. Parke Mrs. Walter F. Wells Mr. Andrew L. Gomory Mrs. William B. Parker Mrs. George N. Whittlesey Mrs, Percy R. Gray Mrs. Frank H. Parsons Mrs. Maude B. Wood Mrs. William B. Greenman Mrs. Charles E. Perkins Miss Elizabeth Wright Academy of Music, Brooklyn SIXTY-NINTH SEASON, 1949-1950 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Fourth Concert FRIDAY EVENING, February 17 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The trustees of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President . Vice-President Jacob J. Kaplan 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 [i] The Boston Symphony Orchestra ANNOUNCES THE 1950 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL AT TANGLEWOOD (Lenox, Mass.) SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Eleazar de Carvalho, Guest Conductors THEATER-CONCERT HALL 6 Concerts by Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Sat. Eves. — Sun. Afts. — July 8, 9 — 15, 16 BACH — Brandenburg Concertos, Suites, Solo Concertos, Cantatas Sat. Eve. — Sun. Aft. — July 22, 23 MOZART — Symphonies, Serenades, Piano Concerto, Two Piano Concerto MUSIC SHED Thurs. and Sat. Eves., Sun. Afts. Series A—]u\y 27, 29, 30 Beethoven — Symphony No. 3; Sibelius — Symphony No. 2; Bruckner — Symphony No. 7; Wagner — Siegfried Idyll, Tann- hauser Overture; Diamond — Timon of Athens; Mendelssohn — "Italian Symphony"; Brahms — Symphony No. 2. Series B — Aug. 3, 5, 6 Beethoven — Symphony No. 6; Strauss — "Death and Trans- figuration," "Till Eulenspiegel"; Haydn — Symphony No. 92; Copland — Quiet City; Nabokov — La Vita Nuova; Prokofieff — Piano Concerto No. 2, Scythian Suite; Santoro — Symphony No. 3; Ibert — Escales; Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherezade. Series C — Aug. 10, 12, 13 Bach — Mass in B Minor; Ravel — "Mother Goose" Suite, Alborada, Piano Concerto; Berlioz — P..omeo and Juliet (Ex- — — cerpts) ; Prokofieff Symphony No. 6; Brahms Symphony No. 1. (soloists to be announced) THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER, Serge Koussevitzky, Director, will be in session July 3-August 13, with numerous performances open to those who join its Society of Friends. For school catalogue, or program and ticket information. Address Festival Office, Symphony Hall, Boston 15, Mass. L2j Academy of Music, Brooklyn Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor FOURTH CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, February 17, at 8:30 o'clock Program Barber Overture, "The School for Scandal" Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D minor, "Reformation," Op. 107 I. Andante; Allegro con fuoco II. Allegro vivace III. Andante; Chorale: '"Ein feste Burg'; Allegro vivace; Allegro maestoso INTERMISSION Stravinsky "Jeu de Cartes" (Card Game, Ballet in Three Deals) Debussy "La Mer," Trois Esquisses Symphoniques I. De I'aube a midi sur la mer II. Jeux de vagues III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [3] — How good are you at faces? Here's the situation: man can. That is why embezzlement There's an opening in your organiza- losses to businessmen exceed $400,000,000 every year. naturally tion for a new man. 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The Man with the Plan, your local Unfortunately you can't. No business- Employers' Group Agent. The Insurance Man Serves America The Employers' Group ^^^^i^^^^^^w^ (^^^p^^^t^a^^ue^ no MILK STREET, BOSTON 7, MASS. THE EMPLOYERS' UrABILITY ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. AMERICAN EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE CO. THE EMPLOYERS' FIRE INSURANCE CO. [4] , OVERTURE, 'THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL," Op. 5 By Samuel Barber Born at ^Vest Chester, Pa., March 9, 1910 Mr. Barber composed his Overture in 1932. It was performed at the summer series of concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Robin Hood Dell, August 30, 1933. The Overture was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, November 15, 1940, and repeated October 16, 1942. The orchestration is as follows: two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, bass drum and cymbals, bells, triangle, harp, celesta, and strings. THE piece is a concert overture intended, not as an introduction to a dramatic performance, but as an approximation in music of the spirit of Sheridan's comedy. The pattern is classical. The music begins allegro molto vivace wdth a flourish and a bright leaping theme for the full orchestra over a swift figure in the violins. The strings take the theme in 9-8 over pulsating chords in the winds. The energy spreads itself in a ^ climax and the second theme, properly lyrical, is sung by the oboe and then the violins. There is develop- ment of the earlier material in the original brilliant vein and a return of the second theme, now brought in by the English horn and taken up by the strings. The overture closes in a sparkling tempo primo. Music figured early in Samuel Barber's life. It is told that he had piano lessons at the age of six and at seven made his first attempt at composition. He entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia when he was thirteen, and there he studied piano with Isabelle Vengerova and singing with Emilio de Gogorza. But his main interest was composition, which he studied with Rosario Scalero. There have been performances of his music by orchestras in the United States, in London, in Rome, in Salzburg, in Moscow, and other European cities. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed, besides his Overture "The School for Scandal," his "Essay for Orches- tra" No. 1, Violin Concerto, "Commando March," Second Symphony (dedicated to the Army Air Forces) , Violoncello Concerto, and "Knoxville, Summer, 1915," for Soprano and Orchestra. His Adagio for Strings was conducted numerous times by Arturo Toscanini and taken by him to South America. Mr. Barber has also written a Symphony in One Movement, which he has revised, a second "Essay," "Music for a Scene from Shelley," and his "Capricorn Concerto" for Flute, Oboe, Trumpet, and Strings. His chamber music includes a Serenade for String Quartet, "Dover Beach" (for baritone voice and string quartet) a Violoncello Sonata and a String Quartet in G minor. For chorus he has written "The Virgin Martyrs" (for women's voices), "Reincarna- tion," and "A Stop Watch and an Ordnance Map" (for men's voices and kettle drums) . He has also written a number of songs. [5] He served in the United States Army as Corporal in the Army Air Corps.