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The BALTIMORE MASSIMO FRECCIA • Music Director and Conductor The BALTIMORE 1 S L<-'- — /■ ■ SYMPHONY £a , “ "a ORCHESTRA 1| M’T' December IO, 1955 THE LYRIC December 14, 1955 THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, INC. OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Eugene S. Williams, President Nelson T. Offutt Mrs. H. Morris Whitehurst Victor Frenkil Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Mrs. H. Nelson Busick Mr. Thomas S. Nichols Mrs. Charles Wood Collier Senator George L. Radcliffe Mrs. Henry R. Granger Mrs. Henry A. Rosenberg Mr. Jerold C. Hoffberger Mr. Herbert A. Wagner, Jr. Mr. Martin B. Kohn Mr. Francis S. Whitman, Jr. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. Oscar Apple Mr. Francis Ramo Cusumano Dr. Lubov Keefer Miss Rosa Ponselle Mr. Joseph Bernstein Dr. James A. Dash Mr. Sidney Lansburgh Mr. John D. Schapiro Mr. Jacob Blaustein Mr. Ernest R. Fink Mr. Robert H. Levi Mrs. Daniel E. Shehan Mr. H. Warren Buckler, Jr. Mr. Earl F. Forman Mr. Albert Lion Mr. Paul P. Swett, Jr. Mrs. H. Guy Campbell Mrs. Martin W. Garrett Mr. William L. Marbury Jr. Mrs. Paul M. Taylor Mr. Harper R. Clark Dr. Earle T. Hawkins Dr. Frank C. Marino Mr. Richard H. Turk, Sr. Mr. Raymond S. Clark Dr. Kenneth Hjelmervik Mrs. John E. Motz Mrs. Howard Van Natta Mr. George Clarke Mr. J. Edward Johnston, Jr. Mrs. Harold H. Nesbitt Mr. R. Gerard Willse, Jr. Mrs. Harry R. Christopher Mrs. Sol Kann Mrs. W. Maclean Patterson Ex-Officio Hon. Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr. Mayor of Baltimore Mr. Leon Abramson Dr. R. Walter Graham President City Council Comptroller Mr. George G. Shriver Mr. James C. Anderson Mr. Gerald S. Wise Representing the Department of Recreation and Parks ADVISORY COMMITTEE Mr. Robert 0. Bonnell Mr. Howard W. Jackson Mr. Phillip B. Perlman Mrs. Charles S. Garland Mrs. Richard N. Jackson Mrs. John L. Whitehurst Mr. Alan P. Hoblitzell Mr. Francis S. Whitman THE BOARD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS James C. Anderson, President S. Lawrence Hammerman, Vice President R. Brooke Maxwell, Director Mrs. William J. Rysanek, Sr. James H. Gorges Rev. Wilbur H. Waters George G. Shriver Gerald S. Wise Earl F. Forman, Superintendent of Bureau of Music BOX HOLDERS—WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY SERIES—1955-56 Dr. & Mrs. Charles R. Austrian Mayor & Mrs. Thos. Mr. Fred Huber Mrs. Winthrop Phelps Mr. Leo C. Badart D’Alesandro, Jr. Mrs. Josephine Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Clarence M. Plitt Mrs. Leo H. Badart Miss Jennie T. DeLuca Mrs. Garnet Hulings Mr. & Mrs. E. Wilbur Plitt Miss Elizabeth Baer Mrs. Francis X. Dippel Mr. & Mrs. Albert D. Hutzler Miss Rosa Ponselle Baltimore Music Club Mr. & Mrs. Alexander E. Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Irr Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas G. Mr. F. John Barclay Duncan Dr. Lubov B. Keefer Penniman, III "The Bachelor Box” Mr. Edward K. Dunn Mrs. H. Irvine Keyser, II Mrs. Thomas M. Ramseur Edward M. Hanrahan, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Ecker Mrs. W. Irvine Keyser Mrs. McElroy Ray William T. Harper, Jr. Dr. Bernard A. Eskow Mr. & Mrs. Trafford P. Klots Mr. W. C. Reynolds Everett E. Jackson IV Mr. Julio Esteban Mr. Otto H. Korican Mrs. Stanley Rosoff J. Harlan Williams, Jr. Mrs. Massimo Freccia Mr. Leonard Lazoff Mr. James W. Rouse Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Berney Mr. & Mrs. Charles S. Garland Mr. & Mrs. Ernest D. Lessner Mrs. Lewis Rumford, II Mr. Fred M. Boyce, Jr. Rear Adm. & Mrs. Robert B. Mr. F. Jordan McCarthy Dr. Bernard Smith Bureau of Music Dept, of Goldman Miss Charlotte Main Mrs. Lurman Stewart Recreation and Parks Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Marburg Mr. & Mrs. Z. M. Sykes Dr. <fc Mrs. Nelson Carey Mrs. Dorothy S. Granger Mr. & Mrs. F. Grainger Mrs. Jack Symington Mr. Raymond S. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Marbury Mrs. Robert E. Lee Taylor Mrs. William F. Cochran, Jr. Griswold III Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Merrick Mr. C. N. Triplett, III Dr. & Mrs. J. A. Campbell Mrs. W. J. Bryan Harper Mr. C. E. Miller Mr. Robert A. Wallace Colston Mr. & Mrs. Alan P. Hoblitzell Mr. & Mrs. Clarence W. Miles Mr. Frances S. Whitman, Jr. Mr. Robert Copenhaver Mr. & Mrs. D. Luke Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Allen W. Morton Mrs. Wm. Whitrid^e Mr. & Mrs. John A. Corasaniti Mrs. Walter Hopkins National Stone Fabricator Mr. Eugene S. Williams Dr. & Mrs. John E. Howard Mrs. Rai Parr Mr. John D. Wright 123 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra MASSIMO FRECCIA, Conductor 1955-1956 SEASON FOURTH SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT DECEMBER 10, 1955—8:30 P.M. Sponsored by the Bureau of Music, Department of Recreation and Parks This program sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of Doctors Hospital VIENNESE NIGHT OVERTURE to POET AND PEASANT - Suppé SYMPHONY No 8, in B Minor ("Unfinished") - Schubert I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto INTERMISSION EMPEROR WALTZ, Op. 437 ......................................................J. Strauss, Jr. OVERTURE to DIE FLEDERMAUS, Op. 56 - - - - J. Strauss,Jr. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING POLKA, Op. 324 - - - J. Strauss,Jr. GOLD AND SILVER WALTZ, Op. 79 -.....................................................Lehar SKATER'S WALTZ - -................................................................Waldteufel TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS, Op. 325 - - - J. Strauss,Jr. THE STEINWAY IS THE OFFICIAL PIANO OF THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROBERT E. MacINTYRE, Manager NOTICE: For your own safety, LOOK for your nearest EXIT. In case of emergency WALK, do not RUN, to that EXIT. By order of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore 125 PROGRAM NOTES By GEORGE KENT BELLOWS Overture to Poet and Peasant ----- Franz von Suppe (Born in Spalato, Dalmatia, April 18, 1819; died in Vienna, May 21, 1895} SUPPfi conducted several theatre orchestras in Vienna during the years that light opera was at its height. Many have considered him the Vien­ nese counterpart of the French composer, Offenbach. Supp€ wrote a great quantity of stage works, and his light-operas were the typical Viennese Waltz-Opera of the day, a combination of Viennese Waltz and French Opera Buffe. Symphony No. 8 in B Minor ("Unfinished") - - - Franz Schubert (Born in Vienna, January 31, 1797; died in Vienna, November 19, 1828} The Symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, and strings. The first performance was in Vienna, December 17, 1865, Johann Herbeck con­ ducting from the manuscript. IN THE little Austrian town of Graz, the Styrian Musical Society re­ ceived a letter in the fall of 1823 from a newly-elected member: “Worthy Musical Society! I thank you most heartily for the certificate of honorary America’s Oldest and Most Distinguished Piano . MANUFACTURERS OF THE FINEST GRANDS AND CONSOLES . Famous for its Brilliance and Range of Tone . Responsive Ease of Action ... Its True Craftsmanship and Beauty! . Exclusively at THE HECHT CO. Howard and Franklin Streets Official Piano of the Handel and Haydn Society MUIberry 5-4444 for more than 100 Years! 127 membership which you so kindly have sent me, and which, because of long absence from Vienna, I only received a few days ago. May my ardor for music be so successful that some day I shall be completely worthy of this distinction. That I may also express my lively thanks in tones, I will take the liberty to send to your society as soon as possible one of my symphonies in score. With exceptional regard for the worthy member­ ship of the society, your most thankful and obedient servant, Franz Schubert” Later in the year, Schubert sent to his close friend in Graz, Anslem Huttenbrenner (a real champion of his music), two completed move­ ments of a symphony and a few measures of a third movement, uncom­ pleted. For some reason the music was never delivered, but put in a drawer where it remained hidden for over thirty years, so Schubert was never driven to finish this work. Thirty-two years after Schubert’s death,. Johann Herbeck, the Viennese conductor, had a letter from Anslem Huttenbrenner’s brother, Joseph, urging him to perform a work by his brother, and saying that he had discovered some Schubert manuscripts, and had found a treasure in the B minor Symphony. Herbeck did not get to Graz until 1865, where he visited the Hutten­ brenner brothers, ostensibly to get one of Anselm’s compositions for a Vienna concert, but in reality to bring back the Schubert score. His trip THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF DOCTORS HOSPITAL OFFICERS Miss Lottie Friedler__________________ _______ ___ ___ President Mrs. Rose Gutman ___________________ .................... Vice President Mrs. Ruth Glasner ...................... ................ ______________ Secretary Mrs. Benjamin Buckner ..................... ........ ______ ______ Treasurer Mrs. Gladys L. Rowe.................................... ______ __ ______Historian Miss Jeannette R. Siegel............................ ................. Parliamentarian DIRECTORS Mrs. Rose Friedler Mrs. Mildred Gaertner Mrs. Bessie Friedman Mrs. Hilda Highstein Mrs. Edith Lichtenstein The purpose of the Doctors Hospital Auxiliary is to promote and to advance the welfare of the Doctors Hospital. This is accomplished by interpretation of the hospital to the public, through service to the hospital and its patients. 129 was successful, and on December 17, of the same year, Vienna heard a concert conducted by Herbeck, which opened with an Overture by Hut- tenbrenner, followed by the Schubert Symphony in B minor, from manu­ script and — unfinished. JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. (Born in Vienna, October 25, 1825; died there on June 3, 1899) Emperor Waltz, Opus 437 Overture to Die Fledermaus, Opus 56 Thunder and Lightning Polka, Opus 324 Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods THE STRAUSS FAMILY, all brilliant composers, wrote music which set Vienna (and the whole world) dancing for all of the nineteenth century. The scources of the waltz go back to the round dances of the Middle Ages, and later to the song-dance, the carmagnole, of the French Revolu­ tion (1792). The waltz became the dance of the people in France, when the older aristocratic dances were in disfavor.
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