I'M lj Ij V J 5 { B OSTON SYM ONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY 'f' HENRY LEE HIGGINSON SUNDAY AFTERNOON \tyf£^ SERIES • e ~~~^lJ ~!&^ $Ss^ l< <*£#\&f EIGHTIETH SEASON 1960-1961 BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANB SOMERVILLB We blueprint the basic structure for the insurance of our clients and build their protection on a sound foundation. Only by a complete survey of needs, followed by intelligent counsel, can a proper insur- ance program be constructed. Without obligation on your part, we would be happy to act as your insurance architects. Please call us at any time. CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. When You Think of Insurance . Think of u$! 141 Milk Street Boston 6, Massachusetts HU bbard 2-6200 EIGHTIETH SEASON, 1960-1961 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb C. D. Jackson Charles H. Stockton E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Henry A. Laughlin Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Shirk Norman James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [3] . Boston's Pops are known throughout the world as a yardstick for excellence . fine music performed by a team of superb musicians. What you will like about Shawmut's trust department In Shawmut's Trust Department you find men who combine financial acumen and experience with a warm human understanding of the many difficult personal problems involved in trust work. They are able to call upon Shawmut's complete Investment Research Depart- ment as well as upon individual experts in every area of property management. We would welcome an opportunity to sit down with you and your attorney for an informal discussion of how Shawmut might be of service to you. The Situational Shawmut Bank •/»«*» Complete Banking and Trust Services Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [4] CONTENTS Sntaftanticdiic. <Fft<?rci«sstau3totist of33o$te* Program . Q Notes Tchaikovsky ("Romeo and Juliet") Liszt (Piano Concerto No. 2) (Piano Concerto No. 1) . 16 Entr'acte Liszt the Benefactor (/. N. B.) . 26 Notes (Siegfried Idyll) . Wagner • 49 HEINTZELMAN EXHIBITION The exhibition of etchings by Arthur W. Heitzelman is now on view in the Gallery. Forty-four etchings are shown, in part loaned by the Boston Public Library. A whole section is devoted to religious subjects showing the life of Christ and in particular the Crucifixion. Also included are portraits of Arturo Toscanini and Charles Munch, three likenesses of Beethoven and a number of studies of performing musicians. There are three portraits of Ben Gurion, and various individual portraits. THE SOLOIST Byron Janis is a native of Pittsburgh. He began his study of the piano as a child, and at the age of nine gave a pub- lic concert. He went to New York City and received his education at the Chatham Square Music School where he Easy Traveler studied with Adele Marcus. He ap- Our negligee of rayon challis is light- peared on programs of the National weight, washable—and prettily printed with Broadcasting Company, notably in their carnations. White with Yellow, Pink with Sunday series under the direction of Shocking, Blue with Amethyst. Frank Black. He has appeared as soloist Sizes 10-20 $12.95 with orchestras in numerous cities. He Short Peignoir (not shown) $12.95 made a tour of South America in the Bedjacket (not shown) $ 7.95 summer of 1948, followed by a full 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. season of concerts in his own country. Boston 16, Wellesley He played Rachmaninoff's Second Con- KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 certo in C minor, at these concerts Octo- [5] ber 14-15, 1949, Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto, in D minor, December 27-28, 1957. COMING EVENTS Faure's Requiem scheduled for next week was last performed at these con* certs on March 9, 1956, when the Har- vard and Radcliffe choruses assisted. When this Orchestra makes its last tour of the season in the following week, the two concertos by Liszt will be presented at the concert in New York on April 5. Hurwitch Bros, starts its Spring with Byron Janis soloist. At the Saturday an accomplished, well-rounded col- concert (April 8), Dr. Munch will intro- duce to New York the new Gloria by lection of costumes . expressive, Francis Poulenc, which had its first per important dresses tastefully created formance at the Boston concerts in January. The Chorus Pro Musica to match or contrast varied length Adele Addison will again appear wi jackets, ranging from waist-hover- the Orchestra. These two concerts will ing to outstandingly shaped full- be the 699th and 700th by this Orchestra in New York and will complete its 75th length coats. season in that city. Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Detailing is subtle, and print con- which Richard Burgin will conduct in trast to the solid is often used in the Boston in the week following, was last performed at these concerts on April 14- dress, blouse or the coat lining. 15, 1950. Berlioz's "Romeo and Juliet" will be performed on April 21-22, when Wools in sheerest form, solid Italian the New England Conservatory Chorus silks, silk prints sometimes vibrant will assist with Rosalind Elias, mezzo* and sometimes muted create the soprano, Cesare Valetti, tenor, and Giorgio Tozzi, bass, as soloists. fabric picture. • • Step into Spring and the best LISZT IN OUR PIANISTIC PAST Liszt's two concertos have had many fashion circles with the impeccable performances during the earliers years travel-anywhere costume look from of this Orchestra. The names of the soloists make a roster of the famous Hurwitch's. pianists of the past. The first performance of the Concerto in E-flat by the Boston Symphony Or- chestra was on October 16, 1885, when the soloist was Adele Margulies. Soloists iViusi¥cJ) in Boston since then have been (in order BROS, of appearance) Julia Rive-King, Adele Aus Der Ohe, Mark Hambourg, George W. Proctor, Vladimir de Pachmann -Ha/ e n new bur (Pension Fund Concert), Rudolph Ganz, -V 7 Moritz Rosenthal, Olga Samaroff (San (Continued on page 24) [6] Uv/Hj! Once dubbed "an ill wind that nobody blows good" by Danny Kaye, the oboe is a descendant of the ancient aulos, the highly developed two-reed instrument used to ac- company the Greek drama. During the Dark Ages it regressed to the cruder form of the shawm, a keyless woodwind with a strident tone; after the Renaissance, it was gradually refined into the French hautbois ("high wood"), or oboe, a boxwood or ivory woodwind whose delicate, expressive tone made it a favorite of Baroque and Rococo composers. After a fall from favor during the Classic period, it returned to prominence among the Romantics. In 1880, the archetypes of the modern oboe, made of ebony and rosewood and equipped with a complex key mechanism, were constructed in Paris. Today, the oboe literature is voluminous and growing, and the instrument's place is finally secure. FFICES: We have eight. No fewer than three offices of the New England Mer- chants, at Dock Square, South Station, and in Brighton, offer walk-up and drive-in banking service 10 hours a day, from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. And all of our offices are equipped to render a full range of banking services. You always get personal service from our family and company bankers at any New England Merchants office. NEW ENGLAND MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK Trust Department: 135 Devonshire St., Boston MEMBER F.D.I.C. 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Old Colony Trust Company ONE FEDERAL STREET BOSTON 6, MASSACHUSETTS Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [8] EIGHTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-SIXTY-ONE Fifth Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, March 26, at 3:00 o'clock Tchaikovsky * "Romeo and Juliet," Overture-Fantasia Liszt Piano Concerto in A major, No. 2 INTERMISSION Wagner Siegfried Idyll Liszt Piano Concerto in E-flat major, No. 1 soloist BYRON JANIS Mr. Janis uses the Steinway Piano BALDWIN PIANO # RCA VICTOR RECORDS [9] Boston • Chestnut Hill STEARNS forecasts a DAVIDOW \^ Spring [10] "ROMEO AND JULIET," Overture-Fantasia (after Shakespeare) By Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky Born in Votkinsk in the government of Viatka, Russia, May 7, 1840; died in St. Petersburg, November 6, 1893 Tchaikovsky completed his Overture-Fantasia in the year 1869. The piece was first performed on March 16, 1870, at a concert of the Musical Society in Moscow.