Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1963-1964
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fe 1 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS A GALA EVENING i OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER ERICH LEINSDORF, Director I Wednesdayj August 19, 1964 For the Benefit of The Berkshire Music Center BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS A GALA EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD By the Berkshire Music Center PROGRAMS 4:00 WIND MUSIC BY MEMBERS OF THE INSTRUMENTAL DEPARTMENT PORCH OF THE MAIN HOUSE ROUSSEL Fanfare For a Sacred Heathen (For four horns, four trumpets, three trombones and timpani) FLORENT SCHMITT Fanfare from "Anthony and Cleopatra," Op. 69 (For four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and percussion) GIOVANNI GABRIELI Canzone II (1597) (For two brass choirs) BOZZA Sonatine I. Allegro vivo II. Andante ma non troppo III. Allegro vivo IV. Largo; Allegro (For two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba) HAYDN Feldpartie in B flat major (For oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns) I. Allegro II. Andante (chorale St. Antoni) III. Menuetto IV. Allegretto DESPORTES Italian Suite for Quartet of Flutes Firenze {La Viorentina) Venezia (Picciont) Napoli (Fescatorini) MOZART Serenade in C minor for Winds, K. 388 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto in canone IV. Allegro 5:00 STRING AND VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC 6:30 SUPPER CONCERT BY THE TANGLEWOOD CHOIR THEATRE-CONCERT HALL PORCH OF THE MAIN HOUSE Department of Vocal Music: Ralph Berkowitz, Head; Lorna BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 Cooke de Varon, Associate Head I. Allegro PURCELL Scene of the Drunken Poet (from "The Fairy Queen") II. Romanze: Poco adagio Sopranos: Christina Harvey, III. Allegretto molto, moderato e comodo June Le Bell IV. Allegro Baritone: Samuel Cosby Conducted by: DAVID QUATTRONE Violin: Virginia Halfmann Viola: Charles Ketcham Violin: Lois Sabo Cello : Freddie Slatkin MENDELSSOHN Part Songs 1. Abscbied von Wald Conducted by: DAVID FELTON BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 Sopranos: Grace Di Battista, Kate Hurney 2. Jaglied Contraltos : Roberta Long, Vivian Wood Conducted by: JERRY ANN GALLOWAY Tenors: Charles Kovach, James Wilhelm KRENEK Basses : Ronald Gerbrands, Francis Hester Pater Noster and First Prayer (from "Five Prayers") Pianists : Cheryl Stern and Geoffrey Hellman Conducted by: DAVID JOHNSON PISTON Carnival Song 1. Speak, Oh Maiden, all too lovely 2. The high tide breaks upon the rocks Conducted by: THOMAS A. SOKOL 3. Oh, the women ... 4. Lovely, as the evening's sunset 5. The hop-vine, green and winding 6. A pretty little bird 7. How pleasant was it in the past 8. When GIBBONS Silver your eyes so kindly gaze 9. On the banks of the Danube, there stands a house The Swan 10. Oh, how gently does the stream 11. No, life is impossible with such people Conducted by: AMY KAISER 12. Locksmith, come and make your locks 13. Little bird speeds through the air 14. See, how clear the water is 15. Nightingale, how pure her song 16. A dark, MARENZIO When Spring Returns deep pit is love 17. Do not, my beloved 18. A trembling stirs the bushes Conducted by: CARLOTTA WILSEN VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Three Shakespeare Songs 5:00 MUSIC BY TANGLEWOOD COMPOSERS 1. Full fathom five CHAMBER MUSIC HALL 2. The cloud-capped towers Department of Composition: Aaron Copland, Head; Gunther Schuller, Acting Head 3. Over hill, over dale Conducted by: JAMES CUNNINGHAM DAVID STOCK Serenade BERNSTEIN Choruses from "The Lark" I. Grazioso II. Adagio molto French choruses: Spring Song Latin choruses: Benedictus III. Adagio molto Court Song Requiem Conductor: LAWRENCE NEWLAND Soldier's Song Gloria Soprano: Phyllis Brynjulson WILLIAM ALBRIGHT Salvos Countertenor: John Thomas Conductor: MELVIN STRAUSS Conducted by: LORNA COOKE DE VARON DONALD WILSON Doubles TANGLEWOOD CHOIR—1964 FRED LERDAHL Variations SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Conductor: EDOUARDO MATA Baum, Barbara Andreen, Corrine Jones, Earl Collins, J. Barclay Brynjulson, Phyllis Bedford, Judith Mason, Glenn Cook, Jeff Galloway, Jerry Ann Block, Betty Mehlman, Alan Coren, Daniel THE FROMM FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS Harvey, Christina Earle, Margaret Neal, John Cosby, Samuel GUNTHER SCHULLER—Supervisor Janis, Marcia Jacobs, Nora Newell, Robert D'Angelo, Paul MELVIN Kaiser, Amy Jones, Diana Pelton, David Darrow, Peter STRAUSS—Conductor MICHEL PLASSON—Conductor Kember, Marjorie Jones, Janice Quattrone, David Feinstein, Carl EDUARDO MATA—Conductor LAWRENCE NEWLAND—Conductor Kingett, Joanne Koch, Charlotte Steward, Kenton Frisbie, Robert Le Bell, June Lake, Lydia Thomas, John Gockley, Richard Elinor Preble—Flute Peter Chapman—Trumpet Peter Rosenfeld—Cello Wilsen, Carlotta McAllister, Susan Todkill, James Jackson, Isaiah Sophie Sollberger —Flute — John Nelson Trumpet Lew Norton—Contrabass Zaring, Linda Mihoven, Elizabeth Wilhelm, James Johnson, David Ira Deutsch—Oboe Ronald Borror—Trombone David del Tredici—Piano Phillips, Carol Spitz, Michael Edward Avedisian—Clarinet Paul Zukofsky—Violin Frances Cohen—Harp Ripley, Janice Swap, Walter Stouffer, Carolyn David Carroll—Bassoon Laraine Shapiro—Violin John Bergamo—Percussion Morris, Carl Davis Richard Dolph—Horn Lynn Subotnick—Viola Dennis Kain—Percussion Accompanists: Stephen MUSIC SHED 8:00 Concert by the combined THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA Mrs. Koussevitzky has told the students here, "I remember when the and Center was but a vision—a creative ideal of Serge Koussevitzky which he FESTIVAL CHORUS conceived at the eve of the First World War and which he was destined to bring to life in the United States of America during the first year of Erich Leinsdorf, Conducting:— World War II. The plan he envisioned called for the dimensions and TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4, in F minor, Op. 36 resources of a vast country, free and vigorous, eager and youthful in I. Andante sostenuto; Moderato con anima spirit. in movimento di valse The great Boston Symphony Orchestra with a noble tradition gave II. Andantino in modo di canzona body to the spirit." Erich Leinsdorf, in his address to the students at the IN. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato; Allegro Opening Exercises of the Berkshire Music Center in 1964, said that it "is Allegro con fuoco IV. Finale: organized and will be run with one principal aim: to build a bridge INTERMISSION between school and professional life. Crossing this bridge during the PRIZES—1964 AWARD OF next eight weeks, you will have ample opportunity to ask questions, to get answers, and more significantly you may recognize the value of Leopold Stokowski, Conducting:— — — BACH Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor being well-informed not only in music, but in the full spectrum of our (Arranged by Leopold Stokowski) civilization and its relations to the arts." Erich Leinsdorf, Conducting:— the Beautiful STRAUSS Waltzes, "By Blue Danube" The problem of financing such an undertaking has always been a In the original version with male chorus thorny one, inasmuch as it is done by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chorus prepared by James Cunningham) which is already dependent on contributions for its continuation, and WAGNER Entrance of the Guests Into the Wartburg, from Tannhauser, Act II because students of music are seldom persons of means. Scholarships at With augmented chorus Berkshire Center take the form of grants tuition (Chorus prepared by Lorna Cooke de Varon) the Music towards from the Tanglewood Revolving Scholarship Fund, which has been established ORCHESTRA OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER by gifts from RCA Victor, the Rockefeller Foundation and others. But the continued sources of financial aid to the Tanglewood musician are Department of Instrumental Music: Richard Burgin, Head; Joseph Silverstein, William Kroll, Associate Heads not sufficient to meet the costs of training him here. VIOLIN Frank Reilly OBOE TRUMPET In order to carry on the work of the Center, additional scholarship aid Darwyn Apple Diane Williams Douglas Bairstow Peter Chapman Susan is needed; information on details of a partial or full scholarship is Barbara Benary Winterbottom Barry Fader Richard Giangiulio Paul Biss Joseph Young Jeffrey Gold Noble Morrell available at the Berkshire Music Center office. Judith Cannon Robert Stewart Nelson CELLO John Harry /. Kraut, Administrator Mary Critelli David George Stephen Custer TROMBONE Alan Janet Frank Gerstel CLARINET Lawrence Benz Virginia Halfmann George Harpham Thomas Jones Ronald Borror COMMITTEE FOR THE GALA EVENING Barbara Heinen Charlotta Klein Lawrence McDonald Roger Janssen Lucille Hymowitz David Levine Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky, Chairman Donald Ransom Alan Pierce Logan Jonathan Miller Jane Winfield Swarr Honorary Committee: Mrs. Henry B. Cabot, Mrs. Erich Leinsdorf, Julian Meyer Louis Richmond Mrs. Endicott Peabody Monique Morin Freddie Slatkin TUBA Hideo Yashiro Thompson Hanks Claudia Rantucci BASSOON Jr. Mrs. John L. B. Brooke Mrs. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Lois Sabo BASS Elizabeth TIMPANI Mrs. Bruce Crane Mrs. John H. Rice Laraine Shapiro Bishop AND Marylou Speaker Thomas Brennand Theodore Grimes PERCUSSION Mme. Anna de Leuchtenberg Mrs. j. c. rosenfeld Richard Jacqueline Zuelzer Richard Cohen Vrotney Arnold Huberman Mrs. Joseph dePasquale Mrs. Bruce Sanborn Frank Thomas Woodhams Diliberto Jan Williams Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnson Mrs. John L. Senior Michael Fader Nathan Portnoi William Kroll Mrs. Louis Speyer VIOLA Lew Norton David Searcy Mrs. Darrel Barnes FRENCH HORN Mrs. John G. W. Mahanna Mrs. Edgar B. Stern Nancy Blacklock FLUTE Virginia Benz HARP Mrs. Lawrence K. Miller Mrs. Albert Sterner Donald Clauser Paul Fried Charles Bogue Sydney Virginia Payne Mrs. Mac Morgan Mrs. WlLLEM WlLLEKE Kenneth Harrison Elaine Lewis William Lane Charles Ketcham Kyril Magg Ralph Lockwood PIANO Mariel Lewy David Shostac John Ohanian Elizabeth Wright.