ewoo BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director „i^ 'fi Sis ( Berkshire Festival \ 1 1963 "THE ARISTOCRAT OF ORCHESTRAS" THRILL TO THE is captured to perfection! These exciting "DYNAGROOVE" records are BOSTON SYMPHONY the product of RCA Victor's newly developed system of recording which ON DYNAGROOVE provides a spectacular improvement in sound quality. You'll enjoy their brilliance and clarity , realistic presence, RECORDS BY virtual elimination of inner-groove distortion , full-bodied tone — even RCA VICTOR when you listen at low level! fmm-.;^i;m-' . 9WMCT0p OVWAERDOyE XiVk ^^ Mahler/Symphony No. 1 Boston Symphony Orch. Dello Joio /Fantasy and Variations Eavel/Concerto in G Erich Leinsdorf Boston Symphony Oreh. /Leinsdorf Cms ^-irfiHjtiHMt'affymfii/mi The Ari*»u>cfa< of Orchestras Lorin Hollander LEINSDORF/Mahler "Sym- LEINSDORF / HOLLANDER phony No. 1." A stunning /Ravel "Concerto in G'7 performance! Hear every Dello Joio "Fantasy." 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ALL ALBUMS AVAILABLE IN LIVING STEREO, MONO HI-FI, AND ON TAPE RCA SEAL RECORDS RCA VICTOR^ ~ ^H. nrflTkAThe mostmMct InirtArltrusted namaname in soundeminH Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor Berkshire Festival, Season 196^ TWENTY-SIXTH SEASON MUSIC SHED AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS FOURTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1963 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Trustees of The BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. President Vice-President Treasurer Henry B. Cabot Talcott M. Banks Richard C Paine Abram Berkowitz E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Sidney R. Rabb Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Charles H. Stockton , ; Francis W. Hatch John T. Noonan John L. Thorndike Harold D. Hodgkinson Mrs. James H. Perkins Raymond S. Wilkins C. D. Jackson Trustees Emeritus Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Tangleivood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. 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VISIT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED CADILLAC DEALER BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday Evening, July 26, at 8:00 ERICH LEINSDORR Conductor ' ! beethoveN Overture to "Leonore" No. 3, Op. 72 BRAHMS Symphony No. 3, in F major, Op. 90 i. Allegro con brio II. Andante in. Poco allegretto ( IV. Allegro Inter m i s s i o n BARTOK # Concerto for Orchestra I. Andante non troppo; allegro vivace II. Giuoco delle coppie: Allegro scherzando III. Elegy: Andante non troppo \ <i IV. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto V. Finale: Presto BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS 5 — p Program Notes OVERTURE TO "LEONORE" NO. 3, Op. 72 By Ludwig van Beethoven Born in Bonn, December 16(?), 1770; died in Vienna, March 26, 1827 The third "Leonore" Overture was composed in the year 1806 for the second production of "Fidelio" in Vienna. Within a few weeks of his death, Beethoven extracted from his confu- sion of papers the manuscript score of his opera Fidelio and presented it to Schindler with the words: "Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs, the one that brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me." The composer spoke truly. Through about ten years of his life, from 1803 or 1804, when he made the first sketches, until 1814 when he made the second complete revision for Vienna, he struggled intermittently with his only opera, worked out its every detail with intensive application. They were the years of the mightiest products of his genius. Between the Fidelio sketches are the workings out of the Fourth through the Eighth symphonies, the Coriolanus Overture and Egmont music, the Fourth and Fifth piano con- certos, the Violin Concerto, the Razoumovsky Quartets. Into no one of these CARNEGIE HALL EASTMAN THEAJJE SUMN»E R .. THE nter •,ntheW» , concerts. ,,p M.DS< and fW«-* t£Jzz concerts ssicaUoncert-;> artistsofan NORTI :t c.a concerts, uy „m festival ranks EVEHT* te un-ver ally tne.Piano EMY RAVIN I A PAriH LEWISOHN h KINLEY AUYj KIEL A PALAIS H O L LYIV OU D I B O W M. STEINERT & SONS 162 boylston st. boston • Worcester, Springfield — 6 — did he put more effort and painstaking care than he expended upon each portion of the opera, constructing it scene by scene in the order of the score, rilling entire books with sketches. He was struggling first of all, of course, with his own inexperience of the theatre, the necessity of curbing his sym- phonic instincts and meeting the demands of that dramatic narrative which singers and "action" require. The Overture to "Leonore" No. 3 retains all of the essentials of its predecessor, Leonore No. 2. There is the introduction, grave and songful, based upon the air of Florestan: "In des Lebens Friihlingstagen," in which the prisoner sings sorrowfully of the darkness to which he is condemned, and dreams hopefully of the fair world outside. The main body of the Overture, which begins with the same theme (allegro) in both cases, rises from a whispering pianissimo to a full proclamation. The section of working out, or dramatic struggle, attains its climax with the trumpet call (taken directly from the opera, where the signal heard off stage, and repeated, as if closer, makes known the approach of the Governor, whereby the unjustly imprisoned Florestan will be saved from death). There follows a full reprise. CHAMBER & ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS Chamber Operas • Festival C0U4&UI r MUSIC SHED • STOECKEL ESTATE NORFOLK, CONNECTICUT Cun&wiS Performing Artists: Ward Davenny, vw Broadus Erie, Aldo Parisot, David Schwartz, Keith Wilson, Robert Bloom, Mason Jones, Paul Ulanow- sky. Conductors: Gustav Meier, Keith Wilson. What a wonderful sur-> prise. Charming Country! Friday, July • 26 8:30 p.m. Curtains for every room, Soloist, Davenny - Conductor, Meier in your house right here Haydn String Quartet in G Minor in the Berkshires! Choose Howard Boatwright .. Qt., clar. & strings from such Colonial fab- Schumann Piano Concerto rics as BLEACHED and muslin Stravinsky Suite No. 2 UNBLEACHED with a variety of trims and fringes including cal- Friday, August 2 • 8:30 p.m. ico ruffles. Also gingham, floral prints and others. Soloists, Erie and Parisot Dust ruffles, pillow shams Conductor , Wilson and canopy covers too. Beethoven Archduke Trio Please come in and see Brahms ... Double Concerto us. The Curtain Shed on Pine St is open Mon-Sat 10-4 PM. Brochure on re-, Final Friday Concert August 9, 8:30 p.m. quest. J Festival: August 16, at 8:30; •; August 17 at 2:30 and 8:30 Tickets $2, $3. Available at Box Office YALE SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ART Inquiries: HAROLD KENDRICK Norfolk • Telephone Kl 2-5719 SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN F MAJOR, Op. 90 By Johannes Brahms Born in Hamburg, May 7, 1833; died in Vienna, April 3, 1897 The world which had waited so many years for Brahms' First Symphony was again aroused to a high state of expectancy when six years elapsed after the Second before a Third was announced as written and ready for perform- ance. It was in the summer of 1883, at Wiesbaden, that Brahms (just turned fifty) completed the symphony which had occupied him for a large part of the previous year. Brahms, attending the rehearsals for the first performance, in Vienna, expressed himself to Biilow as anxious for its success, and when after the performance it was proclaimed in print as by far his best work, he was angry, fearing that the public would be led to expect too much of it, and would be disappointed. He need not have worried. Those who, while respecting the first two symphonies, had felt at liberty to weigh and argue them, were now completely convinced that a great symphonist dwelt among them; they were only eager to hear any new score, to probe the beauties which they knew would be there. If the early success of the Third Symphony was in some part a succes d'estime, the music must also have made its way by its own sober virtues. Certainly Brahms never wrote a more unspectacular, personal symphony. In PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC CHARLES KENT, Director BACHELOR OF MUSIC • MASTER OF MUSIC ARTIST DIPLOMA • DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS Major Study in all Instruments .