SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTIETH SEASON, 1950-1951 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 195O, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IflC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President 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 [209] @ Only you can • decide @ Whether your property is large or small, it rep- ® resents the security for your family's future. Its ulti- mate disposition is a matter of vital concern to those % you love. To assist you in considering that future, the Shaw- : mut Bank has a booklet: "Should I Make a Will? It outlines facts that everyone with property should know, and explains the many services provided by this Bank as Executor and Trustee. telephone Call at any of our 2(J convenient offices, write or for our booklet: "Should I Make a WHIP ® The D^ational ® Shawmut Bank "«§* 40 Water Street, Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation !lf Capital and Surplus $30,000,000 fr 99 & Outstanding Strength for 1J4 Years [210] SYMPHONIANA Exhibition Children's Concerts The Albert Schweitzer Festival Organ Recitals On Behalf of Chamber Music Prades Festival Broadcasts EXHIBITION The color prints now on exhibition in the Gallery are the work of Eliot Porter of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who specializes in the photography of birds and other wildlife. CHILDREN'S CONCERTS Concerts for young people, surely es- sential to any musical community, are announced to be given in Sanders Theatre at Harvard University under the auspices of the Shady Hill School of Cambridge. The concerts will be given on four Saturday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00 (December 2, January 27, March 10, April 28). Two of the con- certs will be performed by the Zimbler Sinfonietta and will include Prokofieff's "Peter and the Wolf." Richard Burgin will conduct and Rudolph Elie will be the commentator. At the last concert, Boris Goldovsky will direct Benjamin Britten's "Let's Make an Opera," com- posed for school performance in which the audience participates. Mrs. William H. Prosser, 58a Washington Avenue, 80 YEARS . Cambridge 40, as Chairman of the Com- mittee, has announced this as a non- of continuous satisfaction profit enterprise. The tickets for the with Lamson-Hubbard series are $4.80 and $7.20, tax included. furs has kept fashion- and quality-wise New THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER Englanders returning, FESTIVAL whether for Muskrat or The present Festival in honor of Mink. Albert Schweitzer and for the benefit Mink Coat sketched of his hospital in Africa will have its contributions from Symphony Hall. The $3500 plus tax culminating "event" will be a concert in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, No- vember 29 at 8:30, with the Zimbler V Sinfonietta and the Berkshire Woodwind J Ensemble under the direction of Louis [211] : Speyer. The program will include Bach's windows, and some of the finest and Third Brandenburg Concerto and Con- seldom heard music. This had really certo for Two Violins (Soloists, Ruth begun in 1918 as the Berkshire Chamber Posselt and Richard Burgin), the Sextet Music Festival, but the Coolidge by Poulenc, Concerto da Camera by Foundation which came in 1925 estab- Honegger and a group of songs by lished it as a Department of the Library Elmer Dickey, tenor. Tickets are in of Congress, where it now flourishes charge of Mrs. Speyer, Louis 61 Vernon The string quartet is now being per- Street, Brookline. manently transferred, both in perform- ance and in new compositions of cham- ber music both by Americans and by ORGAN RECITALS Europeans this time permanently from Europe to America. It has found its way The remaining two recitals of the from an abandoned country meeting- series of three on the new Symphony house in the Berkshire Hills to The Hall organ by E. Power Biggs will take Library of Congress and to the Coolidge place on Monday evenings, November Auditorium. 20, and December 4. On November 20 This whole story is so rich in human Mr. Biggs will repeat the Bach program material and reaches so far into con- which Felix Mendelssohn performed in temporary history that it will demand Leipzig in 1840 for the purpose of a full-scale biography at some time raising funds for a Bach monument which Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's The "St. Anne" Fugue, the chorale admirers and appreciators hope will be prelude, "Deck Thyself, O Soul, With a long while off. The last day of the Gladness," the Toccata in F major, three-day Festival in The Library of Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Prelude Congress, October 30, will be the 86th and Fugue in C minor. In addition to birthday of the foundress. This mere this, members of the Boston Symphony hint of the immense help she has been Orchestra will play movements from to more than the art of music alone, the cantatas. The third program will is also a reminder to individuals in in- consist of Vivaldi's Concerto in D minor, stitutions. It shows how great things William Selby's "Lesson," the Piece come from small beginnings, and in Heroi'que by Franck, the Second Sonata Mrs. Coolidge's own words, "how of Paul Hindemith, the Toccata and precedence may be given to quality over Fugue in D minor of Bach, Three Noels quantity." a choral prelude by Daquin, by Brahms The list of people whose major life- and Variations on a Noel by Dupre. work began after the age of fifty or later is becoming formidable. Ef- forts as important as this one generally ON BEHALF OF CHAMBER do take as long as that, and often longer. MUSIC What is important is that the life-pur- pose be great. The eighty-sixth birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge on Octo- ber 30th last was remembered by more PRADES FESTIVAL BROADCASTS than one writer, who reviewed her per- sistent, generous and notably success- The Bach Festival at Prades last ful efforts on behalf of chamber music summer, under the direction of Pablo and its performance. An editorial in the Casals, has been recorded by Columbia Boston Globe on October 28 is here Records, Inc. and will have an advance quoted: broadcast from station WXHR (99.9 About twenty-five years ago the Bos- FM) on ten successive evenings, No- ton and New York reviewers began vember 15-25 from 10 to 11 P.M. C. W. writing with an unwonted warmth about Durgin, music critic of the Boston Globe, an annual series of string quartet con- who was present at the Festival, will certs in an old country church on a comment at these broadcasts. mountain side south of Pittsfield, noth- ing but a famous quartet, a distin- G\3 guished audience in the ancient pews, the grandeur of Nature seen from the [212] OOtfbn The fall fashion story as interpreted by the world's best designers is eloquently illustrated in Filene's French Shops' panorama of the most distinguished names in fashion. Casual clothes fresh and versatile . town suits crisp and understated . coats, dresses, furs, gowns for elegance before and after five . and, of course, accessories to dramatize or add the final fillip. [213] Nothing is permanent except change — Heraclitus A Great University builds a New Home From modest beginnings in and your lawyer are invited 1839, Boston University has to consult with Old Colony grown into one of the nation's Trust Company about the great educational centers, advantages of Old Colony's with over 30,000 students. services as Executor and Boston University's new Trustee. A copy of "Wills buildings illustrate how rapid- and Trusts" will be sent to ly the face of Boston has you upon request. changed. Sweeping changes have taken place, too, in the problems of an individual who wants to make proper provision for his family. To WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST meet them, an up-to-date will is essential. If you have Colony no will, or if it has not been Old recently reviewed, you should Trust Company see your lawyer at once. ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON To help you deal with T. Jefferson Coolidge changing social and economic Chairman^ Trust Committee conditions and tax laws, you Robert Cutler, President Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [214] SEVENTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY AND FIFTY-ONE Cjfifth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, November 10, at 2:30 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, November 11, at 8:30 o'clock Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata Pian e Forte (Edited by Fritz Stein) (From "Sacrae Symphoniae," Venice, 1597) Schonberg Chamber Symphony, Op. 9B (Version for Full Orchestra) Mozart Violin Concerto in D major (No. 7), K. 271A I. Allegro maestoso II. Andante III. Allegro (Rondo) (First performance at these concerts) INTERMISSION Schumann Symphony No. 1, in B-flat major, Op. 38 I. Andante un poco maestoso; allegro molto vivace II. Larghetto III. Scherzo: Molto vivace; Trio: Molto piu vivace; Trio II IV. Allegro animato e grazioso SOLOIST YEHUDI MENUHIN BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS This program will end about 4:25 o'clock on Friday Afternoon, 10:25 on Saturday Evening. [215] Glamour after Dark From our fourth floor collection of loveli- ness . done with great fashion distinction — we show you just one jewel designed to flatter misses.