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Schedule Thursday, January 16, at 8:00 Saturday. January 25, at 2:30 of Events , Mezzo-soprano ORCHESTRA Charlotte Bergen, Conductor Friday, January 17, at 8:00 Saturday, January 4, at 8:00 Charles Treger, THREE GUITARS NEW YORK JAZZ REPERTORY COMPANY All Beethoven program Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel Saturday, January 18, at 8:00 Saturday. January 25, at 8:00 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KEN BOOTHE, Friday, January 10, at 8:00 , Conductor Jamaican singer PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Soloists: Janet Baker, Sunday, January 26, at 3:00 Michel Debost, Flute Works by Mozart, (Das von der Works by Haydn, Mozart, Janacek, Dvorak Erde) BARBARA COOK Monday, January 27, at 8:00 Sunday, January 19, at 3:00,8:00 Saturday, January 11, at 8:00 MASKED DANCE OF BENGAL: CHHAU ARTHUR MacKENZIE, AN EVENING WITH JOHN LUCIEN Works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Tuesday, January 28, at 8:00 Special Guests: Stanley Turrentine, George James Scott, Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, Samuel DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Benson Barber Aldo Ceccato, Conductor CORO NACIONAL DOMENICANO Soloists: Janice Yoes, Elsie Inselman, Henry Sunday. January 12, at 3:00 Grossman, Ara Berberian AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Monday, January 20, at 8:00 Janos Sebestyen, Organ Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Conductor , Piano Wayne State University Symphonic Choir Fourth of Beethoven and Bruckner Tuesday, January 21, at 8:00 Works by Janacek (Slavonic Mass) and Dvorak JAMES DICK, Piano (International Festival of Visiting Orchestras) Monday, January 13, at 8:00 Works by Vivaldi-Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Wednesday, January 29, at 8:00 AMALIA RODRIGUES, Portuguese Singer Arno Babajanian, Scriabin, Ginastera DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Aldo Ceccato, Conductor Tuesday, January 14, at 8:00 Wednesday, January 22, at 8:00 ALBERT SCHWEITZER CENTENNIAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Lorin Hollander, Piano Works by Bach, Strauss, Shostakovich CONCERT , Conductor (International Festival of Visiting Orchestras) American Symphony Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Richard Westenburg, Conductor Works by (First N.Y. perform- Thursday, January 30, at 8:00 Virgil Fox, Organ; Eugene Istomin, Piano ance of Variations). Mozart, Bartok. Haydn , Violin

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RAMAYANA By JANAKI PATRIK

In recent years American audi- beginning of the Christian era—con- and brother Lakshman. ences have had many chances to be- tinue to serve as a major source of come familiar with a great Indian inspiration to eastern artists? Why One day Sita sees an enthralling epic, the Ramayana. Kathakali class- does the common man in India and golden deer, and she asks Rama to

ical dance dramas from Kerala, other eastern countries still love catch it for her. He follows the deer Bharata Natyam classical dances characters from the Ramayana with deep into the forest, and when the deer from Madras, court dances from deep personal devotion? And why calls out for Lakshman in Rama's Bali, Indian classical singing and the does the Ramayana fascinate a voice, Lakshman also joins the chase. Indonesian shadow puppet theatre growing number of westerners? Left alone, Sita gives food to a are but a few of the eastern art Outlining the major characters and wandering holy man, who then turns forms which have presented epi- action of the epic will begin to into the ten-headed demon Ravana sodes from the Ramayana to Ameri- answer these questions. and carries Sita away to his kingdom can audiences. We have even heard On the eve of his coronation, on Lanka (Ceylon). Meanwhile, the the Indonesian Ketjak—Ramayana Rama, prince of the small north- golden deer assumes its real demon monkey chant—used as background eastern kingdom Ayodhya, is depri- form, Rama and Lakshman realize music in part or the Italian film ved of his kingdom by the machina- that they have been deceived by evil, maker Fellini's V ricon. tions of his stepmother and con- and they return to their forest Why does the ana—most of demned to fourteen years of exile in hermitage to find Sita gone. Rama which appears t work of a the forest. He departs with two and Lakshman travel far south, 4 single poet living prior to the faithful companions, his wife Sita enlisting the aid of a monkey king, his Carnegie Hall Saturday Evening, January 18, 1975, at 8:00 1974-1975 SEASON V—/ NEW YORK

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Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The drinking song of earth's sorrow)

Der Einsame im Herbst (The lonely one in autumn)

Von der Jugend (Of youth)

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Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 /by Five of the six movements in Das Lied von der 1 Tenor solo Erde are settings of individual poems. For his DAS TRINKLIED VOM JAMMER DER finale Mahler combined two under an omnibus ERDE subtitle of his own devising, with an intervening Born: January 27, 1756, Salzburg; died: orchestral interlude. The original sources are as The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow December 5, 1791, follows: Nos. 1,3,4 and 5 are from poems by

Li-Tai-Po (702-763); No. 2 is from a poem by See how it gleams, with golden enticement, The date on the manuscript of this Tschang-Tsi (c. 800); No. 6a is from a poem by But drink not yet, I'll sing you my song! composition is not legible, but the Mozart Mong-Kao-Yen (eighth century); No. 6b is from I sing of sorrow, but laughter authorities agree in placing this symphony in a poem by Wang-Wei. The subtitle invites Within your heart must give answer. the year 1774, grouped with three others. comment for another, quite unrelated reason. Mozart was eighteen and at Salzburg. He was Note that Mahler, mindful of Beethoven and When such sorrow comes, concertmaster at the court of the Archbishop before him, pointedly Bruckner eschewed any Dry is the soul, its gardens are withered, Hieronymous von Colloredo, who in 1771 had numerical designation for this music. To be Fading and dead the pleasure of our song. succeeded Sigismund. The fact that Mozart's sure, did he subsequently compose a Symphony Life is only twilight, so is death. new employer was haughtily unresponsive and No. 9, which he was wont to speak of paid him a miserable wage did not prevent him mischievously, perhaps sardonically, as his Host, I salute you. from composing orchestral, church, and 'Tenth' —and chronologically it was. The Your cellar hides a treasure of gold in its in abundance. terrible irony is that Mahler did not live to hear veins, Writing symphonies for princes, young either of his 'Ninths'; he was six months in his But I have a treasure of my own. Mozart often seemed to make fun of ceremony. grave when the premiere of Das Lied von der To strike the lute and to drink the winecup. This one has none at all. It is still a favorite, and Erde was given in on November 20, These are the things that best consort naturally so, for it is the most direct and 1911, . together. personal symphonic expression of the lad of A brief overview of Mahler's programmatic A brimming cup of wine, when hearts beat eighteen, written with the true simplicity and layout may be helpful. It should not be faint, disregard for show which was natural to him. It untoward to say first that the title is not meant Is better than all the kingdoms of the earth. is really a string symphony lightly colored by to be taken literally. It is not the earth that Life is only twilight, so is death. and horns, moderate in tempi. There is sings in this music. The work is not about not a single proclamation. It begins with a quiet nature at all. Rather, it attempts to sum up The blue of heaven is unchanging. string figure which builds with a series of (there seems to be no less grandiloquent way of And unchanging the earth rolls onward sequences to a comfortable forte and proceeds saying this) an artist's philosophy of human And blossoms in spring. in like vein. The development is close and existence. To this end the texts are carefully But thou, O man, how long livest thou? flowing. The Andante is a delicate song by the ordered. No. 1 is frankly epicurean; earth will Why, not one hundred years canst thou take muted strings; the Minuet is built on a rhythmic endure, not man. No. 2 is retrospective; the old pleasure figure, which ends the movement with poet despairs of finding love again, and longs In all the rotten fruit of life's long vanity. unexpected suddenness in the winds. This is a for rest. No. 3 reflects the merriment of youth in symphony of abrupt endings, making concise the watery mirror of a pond. No. 4 tells of lovers See there! over there! witty points and having no use for reiterated wandering through an enchanted landscape. In the moonlight, in the churchyard, cadences. The Allegro con spirito moves in a No. 5 returns to pessimism; life is a dream, so let Gibbers a ghost with evil in its shape. light, rapid 6/8 beat, with staccato punctuation us sleep the sleep of drunkeness. No. 6 finds the It is a monkey! Hear him. to an amusingly sudden end. Mozart leads us to poet perceiving the world in a deep sleep, How his howling sounds strident expect a long, dominant-tonic peroration but yearning to find his friend so that he may bid In our life's sweet scented morning. breaks off and gives us an upsweeping scale and him farewell, resolving to seek happiness away So raise your cups, the time has come, two short chords. from home no more, and resignedly awaiting his companions, end. Empty your golden cups to the heel!

The unfoldment of Das Lied von der Erde is Life is only twilight, so is death. Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the so 'right' that one shrinks from dissecting this exquisite musical organism merely to have its Earth] /by 2. Contralto solo internal perfection attested. The prevailing

tonality, for those who care, is ; thus the DER EISAME IM HERBST Born: July 7, Kalist; died: 1860, May listener is not unprepared for the nakedness of The Lonely One in Autumn 18, 1911, Vienna at that point where the final bars join with infinity. A distinctive motto of three notes Grey autumn mists are drifting off the sea Mahler derived (and did not hesitate to adapt) — A-G-E, descending—may be discerned in all And, touched with frost, the grass stands his texts for Das Lied von der Erde from Hans six movements, though it is frequently elusive stiff and brittle

Bethge's The Chinese flute, a German (so that, for example, an inversion of it appears As if some artist hand had scattered powder, translation of Chinese poems dating back at the outset of no. 3). Dusting on every leaf the finest jade.

something over a millennium. In the Bethge Of course it is no accident that the textual

version they are already suffused with world- glances backward to youth, beauty, and spring The scent of summer flowers is forgotten,

weariness, but Mahler added still more evoke an earlier Mahler stylistically. As usual A chilly wind blows crackling stalks together. emphasis on the joys of withdrawal from the with this master builder the last movement is Soon will the leaves of fading lotus-blossoms temporal plane—sometimes even repeating the broadest, synthesizing all that has gone Display upon the pond their golden span. sentiments he had expressed in his very earliest before. In the opening measures of the finale

writings. Paul Stefan puts it succinctly: "A yet another metamorphosis of the motto I, too, feel weary. See my flick'ring light

splendid, delicate, yet earth-born perfume of summons the blackest depths of grief. At the Burns low and lower, it is time to go to sleep.

melancholy rises from these pages. It is as end, ad astra per ardua, the same music is I come to you, truest house of quiet, though one had entered into a kingdom of scaling heavenly heights. How it gets there can O give me sleep, for I have need of rest. hopelessness, whose benumbing atmosphere be described, as a voyeur might have described one cannot escape. Mahler was so impressed by Venus de Milo. Fortunately, the language of the My tears flow on in lonely desolation. the book that he chose seven of these poems and cosmos comprises more than words. The autumn seems in my heart to be eternal. translated them in his language. He not only O love's warm sunshine, have you gone clothed them with :usic; he also remodeled for ever

Bethge's words, as h 11 and needed them." program note copyright 1969 by James Lyons And will my burning tears be never dried? 3. Tenor solo See, the sunshine weaves a web around them, The birds with open eye roost in the branches. VON DER JUGEND Mirrors all their laughing grace in water. The world now sleeps. And the fairest of those lovely maidens The air is cool within the pine-wood's shadow Of Youth Sends a parting glance of longing love Here will I stand and tarry for my friend. I wait (For her proud demeanour is all pretending). In the sparkle of her lustrous glances. In the water, on a little island In the darkness of her flushing cheeks, The birds with open eye roost in the branches. All of green and egg-shell china, That stabbing pain of love's awakening The world now sleeps. Stands a dainty summer-house. vibrates still. The air is cool within the pine-wood's shadow

Here will I stand and tarry for my friend. Like the tiger's back a-curving I wait for him to bid the last farewell. Springs the arch of jade to cross it. how I long, my friend, once more to see thee, To this summer-house of dreamland. To share the heavenly beauty of this evening. 5. Tenor solo In the parlour friends are sitting, DER TRUNKENE IM FRUHLING Where art thou? I have been long alone. Clad in silk, and drinking, chatting, 1 wander up and down and make my music Writing endless little verses. The Drunken One in Springtime O'er pathways that are paved with tender grasses. How their silken sleeves are slipping. Since life is nothing but a dream O Beauty, O life of endless loving. How their silken caps sit perching Why toil and sweat away? Wild delirious world. On those jolly heads a-wagging! I drink until my belly's full And laugh the livelong day! In the tiny, tiny pattern's Quiet, quiet pool of water ORCHESTRAL INTERLUDE And when there's no more room inside, See the world reflected lies I've drunk so hard and deep, In mirror marvelous. I roll along to home and bed He lighted down and proffered him the cup, And sleep a lovely sleep! All those friends are topsy-turvy The parting cup. In that world of egg-shell china, He asked him whither he was faring What's that I hear that wakes me? Hark! In that dainty summer-house. And questioned why, why it must needs be so. A bird sings in the blue.

I'll ask him if the spring has come. Like a sickle moon the bridge is. He spoke, and his voice was veiled: (My dream, has it come true?) Upside down its arches; while the friends my friend, while I was in this world In silk and satin, drink and chatter. My lot was hard. The twitters answer 'Yes, it's here!' Where do I go? I go, I wander in the The spring is here as fresh as anything! mountains, I look and look and listen hard, 1 seek but rest, rest for my lonely heart. The birds all laugh and sing. I journey to my homeland, to my haven. 4. Contralto solo

I fill myself another glass VON DER SCHONHEIT I shall no longer seek the far horizon. And drink with deep content, My heart is still and waits for its deliverance. Of Beauty And sing until the moon lights up The lovely earth, all, everywhere, The darkling firmament. Revives in spring and blooms anew, See the maidens picking flowers. All, everywhere and ever, ever. Picking When I'm too tired to sing my songs lotus flowers by the grassy rivef Shines the blue horizon, banks. I'll sleep, forgetting pain, Ever. ..ever... In the bushes and leaves they hide For what's the silly spring to me? themselves. Let me get drunk again! Gathering flowers, English translation by Gather flowers in their laps Copyright © 1942 () And calling one to the other in teasing fun. Ltd. 6. Contralto solo Seethe sunshine weaves a web around them, Reprinted by permission of the publisher Mirrors all their laughing grace in water. DER ABSCHIED Theodore Presser Company, sole representative Sunshine mirrors all their slender beauty, USA, Canada, Mexico Mirrors their sweet eyes in water. Farewell And the winds of spring with soft caresses The sun is setting out beyond the mountains Waft on high their flowing silken sleeves, And evening peace comes down in every valley Program Notes by JOHN N. BURK Bear the magic of their pleasing odour And shadows lengthen, bringing cool relief. © 1975 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. through the air. see, like some tall ship of silver sails. O, see, a company of lovely lads Comes riding along the bank on prancing The moon upon her course, through horses. heaven's blue sea.

Shining far off like the sun at noonday; 1 feel the stirring of some soft southwind See, through the leafy lanes of silvery willows Behind the darkling pine-wood.

Trots that gallant young company! The stream sings as it wanders through the twilight, The horse of one of them delighted As evening waxes the flowers grow pale. The next concert by the Boston Symphony Wheels and neighs, curvetting round; The earth breathes gently, full of peace Orchestra will take place on Saturday, March Over all the flowers trample heavy hoofbeats, and sleep, 15, 1975 at 8:00, when Seiji Ozawa will conduct

As they bruise in sudden storm All our longings sleep at last. Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie for Piano, The tender hidden blossoms. Mankind, grown weary, turns homeward, Ondes Martenot and Orchestra. Guest soloist

How their manes toss in tangled riot, That in sleep, forgotten joy and youth it will be Yvonne Loriod, piano, and Jeanne Breathing fire from steaming nostrils. may recapture. Loriod, ondes Martenot. ABOUT THE ARTISTS

COLIN DAVIS, Principal Guest Conductor the Israel Philharmonic, the Philadelphia appearance with the Boston Symphony was in of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is Musical Orchestra, The Montreal Symphony, The October of 1972 when she sang in performances Director of the Royal House, Covent Toronto Symphony, the Los Angeles Philhar- of Berlioz' Nuits d'ete. Garden. His conducting career began in 1949, monic and the . At the and his early experience was with the Kalmar Metropolitan Opera he has conducted perfor- Chamber Orchestra, the Chelsea Opera Group, mances of Peter Grimes, Wozzeck, and Pelleas the Festival Ballet and the Ballet Russe. In 1957 et Melisande. Colin Davis records exclusively for he became assistant conductor of the BBC Phonogram. RICHARD CASSILLY, who last appeared Scottish Orchestra. Two years later he was with the Boston Symphony in a performance of called at short notice to take the place of Otto Verdi's Otello, began his musical training at the

Klemperer, who became ill, in a concert Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. He then performance of Don Giovanni. He was shortly JANET BAKER was born in York and moved to New York and spent a season in the afterwards appointed Musical Director of the trained in London. She came to prominence a Opera Department of the Berkshire Music

Sadler's Wells Opera, made his debut with the little more than a decade ago when she made Center at Tanglewood. After making his CBC Symphony in Canada, and appeared for her first tour of France, Sweden and the professional debut with the Pittsburgh Sym- the first time in the United States as guest U.S.S.R. with 's English phony, he joined the original Broadway conductor with the Minneapolis Symphony. He Opera Group. She sang in the United States for production of The Saint oj Bleeker Street. This directed the Philharmonic in the German the first time in 1966, and has been a regular led to his engagement by the New York City premiere of Britten's War , and in the visitor to this country in the years since, in Opera, where he sang for eleven consecutive 1962-1963 season led the London Symphony in recital and orchestral appearances. During the years. Meanwhile, he was engaged to sing with a tour of Europe, Japan and Australia. 1971-1972 season she sang a recital of duets the major opera companies, symphony orches- In 1967 Colin Davis took up his appointment with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, accompanied by tras and music festivals in North America. as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony , at Carnegie Hall. Janet During the last few years Richard Cassily has Orchestra, which he relinquished at the end of Baker has received an honorary doctorate of sung regularly in opera houses in Europe, the 1970-1971 season to take up his duties at music from the University of Birmingham in including the Deutsche Oper of West Berlin, the . He now divides his time in and was designated a Commander of , the Opera of the Royal England among Covent Garden, the London the Order of the British Empire by Queen Theatre in Geneva, and House

Symphony Orchestra where he was recently Elizabeth II in 1970. Her repertoire ranges at Covent Garden. In this country he has sung appointed Principal Guest Conductor, and from the baroque to the contemporary, and her with the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco guest appearances with the B.B.C. Among the many recordings are on the Angel, Argo, Opera, the and the world's leading orchestras he has conducted are L'Oiseau-Lyre and Everest labels. Her first .

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the holy man who is ten-headed Ravana. TCHERNOV Examples of magic and miracle abound in the Ramayana. But they do not estrange the common man. Rama ART and other characters in the tale share emotions—and even weaknesses and GALLERIES fallibility —familiar to every human. After all, the whole odyssey in the latter part of the epic occurs because ^MMJ^MMMJIMM pure Sita wants that golden deer and

wise Rama runs after it! LEFT OF CARNEGIE HALL The Ramayana lives for Hindus today not only in art, literature, dance OPEN and drama, but also in the greatest MONDAY - SATURDAY festival of the year—Divali, the festival 10 AM TO 7 PM of lights. It commemorates the SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS welcome which the people of Ayodhya 1 PM TO 6 PM gave their rightful king and his followers, by lighting the entire city with endless of tiny candles. 140 WEST 57th STREET numbers Divali is as important to the Hindu as NEW YORK CITY 10019 Christmas is to the Christian. It 212 765-3660 has become the occasion for general rejoicing and sharing with friends. MAJOR CREDIT We will have yet another chance to CARDS HONORED see dance episodes from the Rama- yana when The Carnegie Hall Corpor- Cuca Romley "Place Furstenmberg" CUSTOM FRAMING AVAILABLE ation and The Performing Arts Program of the Asia Society present "Chhau, Masked Dance of Bengal" on January 27, at 8:00p.m. Origin- ating as folk dance among Bengal farmers, Chhau dance constantly reminds us of its humble origins when characters jump into the air and land on their knees. Rama among the farmers was certainly far from the concert stage and academic class- room! Yet when this remote dance was discovered very recently, its breadth of subject matter and intricacy of

technique were so great that it was acknowledged as a classical dance form. Fertile source of art, sublimation of human emotion, origin of the greatest Hindu festival—the Ramayana lives on far beyond the rich details of its story line.

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