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Now you may PIHUW Jerome F. Murphy, President purchase a Steinway at terms to suit your individual convenience! 162 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON Branches in Worcester, Springfield, Wellesley Hills Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director ^Berkshire Festival, Season ig^i TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS zJfrCusic Shed Charles Munch conducting Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1951, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Philip R. Allen Theodore P. Ferris N. Penrose Hallowell M. A. De Wolfe Howe Lewis Perry John|_ Nicholas Brown Alvan T. Fuller Francis W. Hatch Charles D. Jackson Edward A. Taft Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller James T. Owens Whitney S. Stoddard Henry W. Dwight F. Anthony Hanlon George E. Mole Lester Roberts Robert K. Wheeler George E. Judd, Manager Assistant Managers: T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk Seventy-first season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Charles Munch, Music Director On October J>, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will begin its seventy- first season, and the third under the leadership of Charles Munch. The season will consist of four series of concerts in Symphony Hall, Boston: twenty-four pairs of Friday afternoon and Saturday evening concerts, nine Tuesday evenings and six Sunday afternoons; series in Sanders Theatre, Cam- bridge; Carnegie Hall, New York, Academy of Music, Brooklyn Veterans' Memorial Auditorium, Providence, and concerts in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Hartford, New Haven (2), Washington (3), Newark, New London, Philadelphia, and New Brunswick. The Orchestra will make its annual tour of midwestern cities in the third week of the season, returning to the Berkshire area to give a concert in Troy on October 17, playing in Springfield on the previous evening. Concerts will follow on successive nights in Syracuse, Buffalo, Detroit, Ann Arbor (2), and Toledo. Tanglewood, 1952 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Charles Munch, Music Director THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Fifteenth Season Charles Munch, Conductor THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER 'Tenth Anniversary Season To receive later announcements, leave your name and address at the ticket office, or write to George E. Judd, manager, Symphony Hall, Boston. * ^ Thirteenth 'Program THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, AT 8:15 Leonard Bernstein, conducting Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 For Orchestra, Chorus, and Four Solo Voices (Performed in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky) Kyrie: Assai sostenuto: Mit Andacht; Andante assai ben marcato; Tempo primo Gloria: Allegro vivace; Larghetto; Allegro intermission Credo: Allegro ma non troppo; Adagio; Andante; Allegro; Grave SHORT PAUSE Sanctus: Adagio: Mit Andacht; Allegro pesante; Presto; Preludium: Sostenuto ma non troppo; Andante molto cantabile {Violin solo, Richard Burgin) Agnus Dei: Adagio; Allegretto vivace; Allegro vivace; Tempo primo FESTIVAL CHORUS Hugh Ross, Conductor SOLOISTS Adele Addison, Soprano David Lloyd, Tenor Eunice Alberts, Contralto James Pease, Bass Organ, E. Power Biggs {The audience is requested not to applaud) BALDWIN PIANO NBC BROADCASTS RCA VICTOR RECORDS 1 Berkshire Festival TANGLEWOOD I 95 Charles Munch Charles Munch was born in Strasbourg, September tune in SUNDAYS 26, 1 891. His father, Ernest, was leader of the St. Guil- laume choir in the Strasbourg Cathedral, and the first teacher (in violin) of Charles. Charles' uncle Eugene rivalled his brother Ernest in producing the cantatas and passions of Bach in the Cathedral at Mulhouse. %J* 5* SI JtiLIi Albert Schweitzer was a pupil of Eugene and organist for both brothers in their numerous Bach performances. again presents the Charles Munch studied violin with Lucien Capet in Paris, Carl Flesch in Berlin, and became concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. In 1929, he settled in Paris, conducted the concerts of the Straram Orchestra (1930—31), founded theOrchestre 1 Concerts Symphonique de Paris in the same season, conducted fmmer the Lamoureux Concerts as well, and in succeeding seasons began the round of guest engagements which have since made him a world traveler. It was in 1937 that he succeeded Philippe Gaubert as conductor of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the position he held through the war period. In 1946 he made his first visit These world-famed conductors: to the United States, conducting this and other or- Alfred chestras. He was engaged in the spring of 1948 to succeed Serge WALLENSTEIN Koussevitzky as regular conductor of the Boston Sym- Sigmund ROMBERG phony Orchestra beginning with the season of 1949-50. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1948, he crossed the At- Arthur FIEDLER lantic for an extended tour with the Orchestre National de la Radio Diffusion Francaise, the French national Percy FAITH broadcasting orchestra, of which he was the conductor. Maurice Mr. Munch was conducting concerts in France and 1 ABRAVANEL Italy when, on the news of Serge Koussevitzky 's death Victor he returned to lead the Festival concerts of his Orches- ALESSANDRO tra through the season, making his first visit to Tanglewood. Anlal DORATI Milton na KATIMS Vladimir (Program DVotes BAKALEINIKOFF Fritz Thirteenth Program *— Hans SCHWIEGER LEONARD BERNSTEIN, born in Lawrence, Massachu- \ Arthur Bennett setts, August 25, 1918, attended Harvard College and the LIPKIN Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At the first two I sessions of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, he was accepted by Serge Koussevitzky in his conducting class. Harold LEVEY Mr. Bernstein has been on the faculty since 1946. and an outstanding group of In the season 1943-44, he was assistant conductor of the distinguished soloists New York Philharmonic Symphony Society. From 1945- 1948 he was director of the New York City Symphony. He has conducted orchestras abroad as guest during the last six summers. After having been granted a season's leave of absence he has returned to take Dr. Koussevitzky's con- ducting classes, and to conduct the memorial concert. He has written a symphony, Jeremiah, a symphony with P.M., EDT piano solo, based on W. H. Auden's Age of Anxiety, and I 8«30 :i the ballets Fancy Free and Facsimile, the Broadway d NBC NETWORK Musical On the Town, and incidental music for the re- cent production of Peter Pan. Music in the smaller forms includes a Clarinet Sonata, the song cycles Five Kid Songs; I hate music, and La Bonne Cuisine. A A A -*--*--*--*-* I «av. A A-A^ i§ Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major— Ensemble with Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G Major—("Oxford"), The Cleveland The Prades Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals, Conductor, ® Record ML Orchestra, George Szell, Conductor, ® Record ML 4268, 78 rpm 4345. Set MM-880. Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn— Op. 56a, The Philadel- Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition — Philharmonic- phia Orch., Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 2066, 78 rpm Symphony Orch. of N. Y., cond. by Artur Rodzinski, ® Record ML 4033, Set MX-322. 78 rpm Set MM-641. Brahms: Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major—Rudolf Serkin, piano, Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major— (K. 543), The Cleveland with the Philadelphia Orch., Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record Orchestra, George Szell, Conductor, ® Record ML 4109, 78 rpm ML 4014, 78 rpm Set MM-584. Set MM-801. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major—Artur Rodzinski cond. the Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole —The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Philharmonic-Symphony Orch. of N. Y., ® Record ML 4068, 78 rpm Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 4306, 78 rpm Set MX-342. Set MM-725. Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major—The Philadelphia Orch., Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor—The Philadelphia Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 4088, 78 rpm Set MM-642. Orchestra,' Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 4328, 78 rpm Set MM-950. Dvorak: Symphony No. 4 in G Major —Bruno Walter cond. the Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor— Charles Munch cond. Philharmonic-Symphony Orch. of N. Y., ©Record ML 4119, 78 rpm the Philharmonic-Symphony Orch. of N. Y., ® Record ML 4120, 78 Set MM-770. rpm Set MM-747. Franck: Symphony in D Minor—The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D Minor—The Cleveland Orchestra, Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 4024, 78 rpm Set MM-608. George Szell, Conductor, ® Record ML 2040, 78 rpm Set MM-821. Handel: Water Music—Suite—The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major—Artur Rodzinski cond. Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 2054, 78 rpm Set MX-279. The Cleveland Orchestra, ® Record ML 4043, 78 rpm Set MM-514. Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major—The Philadelphia Orchestra, R. Strauss: Don Juan—Fritz Reiner cond. the Pittsburgh Symphony Eugene Ormandy, Conductor, ® Record ML 4109, 78 rpm Set MM-803 Orchestra, ® Record ML 2079, 78 rpm Set MX-190. Haydn: Symphony No.