SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1944-1945 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Corductor with histoncat and descriptive notes by John N. Burk r COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Jerome D. Greene . President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Henry B. Cabot . Treasurer Phiup R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Reginald C. Foster Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [ 1229 ] ^^^^^^^^^^mmm^^m^^mm^mm^^mmm^^mmi ® @ ® ® ESTATE ANALYSIS How have wartime changes affected ® your estate plans? We welcome op- portunities to cooperate with you and your attorney to determine whether changes are necessary or desirable. We invite you to use, without charge, our Shawmut Estate Analysis plan. TRUST DEPARTMENT T/ie V^tional Shawmut Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Listen to John Barry with "Shawmut Frontline Headlines" — WBZ- WBZA — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:45 p. m. SYMPHONIANA Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Boston Garden Army and Navy Letters Exhibition BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY IN BOSTON GARDEN If i Beethoven's choral symphony, which has figured importantly in Boston's musical history, will have its largest Boston audience when a special per- formance is given in the Boston Garden on Sunday afternoon, April 8, for the benefit of the American Red Cross. The concert is sponsored by the Retail Trade Board of Boston. Placed upon a specially built platform in the center of the Gar- den will be the numerous and distin- guished performing forces: the Boston Sympliony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, the combined choruses of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and four star soloists from the Metropolitan Opera Company: Eleanor Steber, soprano, Kirsten Thorborg, con- tralto, Kurt Baum, tenor, and Norman Cordon, bass. The Symphony was first performed in TRIANGLE Vienna, May 7, 1824. The first American SILHOUETTE perform.ance of the Ninth Symphony Shoulders soar into the was by the Philharmonic Society of New news, wide as they can York in 1846. The first Boston perform- make them, thus accent- ance was by the Germania Society in ing the tiny waistline. 1853. Boston has always revered the Half belted grey mens- Ninth Symphony. George Henschel, first wear flannel reefer conductor of the Boston Symphony Or- sketched, or in black diag- chestra, ended each of his first three onal velour. seasons with it. There have been many 139.90 subsequent performances. Dr. Koussevit- Misses' Sizes zky chose this music to bring to a close FOURTH FLOOR the Beethoven Festival in 1927, the cen- tennial year of the composer's death. His orchestra has performed it many times in special Pension Fund concerts, and the combined Harvard and Radcliffe choruses have sung this music more GIVE NOW—GIVE MORE than any other with orchestra. No past KEEP YOUR RED CROSS occasion has equalled this one in the AT HIS SIDE distinction of the performers and the size of the audience. [ 1231 ] — The following letters, both dated March 7, have been received: From the Navy— blankets "Somewhere in the Philippines" 7 March, 1945 My dear Dr. Koussevitzky : Pure wool by North Star, white, I have attended the Boston Orchestra's rose dust, green, gold, or blue, season in Symphony Hall and in Cam- bridge; I have been thrilled when I 72 X 90, $13.95 and $16.95. first heard Dorothy Maynor sing at Tanglewood; with hundreds of others I Baby Blankets: North Star 42 x was inspired by your music at the Naval 60, baby blue, pink or white, Training Station, Newport; I have driven to the Metropolitan Theatre, $6.95. Providence and to Carnegie Hall to hear such music again. Wamsutta's, 48 x 66, baby blue, Many a Saturday night has been made pink or white, $9.50. memorable by a Boston Symphony radio concert. I have found it worthwhile to confine myself in my record collection almost exclusively to Boston recordings, 'blanket Covers even when releases were all too few. It was the Boston Orchestra more than any other factor which brought to me Cotton crinkle crepe, printed or an appreciation of music where profes- plain, single, $12.50. Double, sors and schools had not succeeded. I owe to you and to your orchestra very $14.50. much indeed. Tonight there were no comfortable Satin Applique on Satin, Rayon chairs, no fine acoustics, nothing of the blue or tea rose, single, $14.50. magnetism of a personal appearance, not even the aid which a fine amplifying Double $16.50. instrument can give. A poker game, numerous incidental conversations, the Lace trimmed rayon crepe, tea noise of native children on one side and of some huge mechanical contrivance rose, blue or white, single $19.50. on the other, the rumble of jeeps on Double $24.50. our corduroy roads, the enervating heat, and the sifting of dust through all, could scarcely lessen my absorption in the en- joyment of perfect music. Here, by means of a cheap Aussie radio, here in this dirty tent, was a shining hour, a concert by the Boston Symphony. More than ten thousand The Trousseau House of Boston miles from Boston, after more than fif- 41B BDYLSTDN STREET teen months from home, after duty in New Guinea and the Philippines, here WELLESUEY " HYANNIS - PALM. BEACH was something beautifully familiar. [ 1232 ] Lopez-Rey Second showing in U. S.; first in Boston of this internationally famous artist. "Not only a skillful craftsman, but an artist who has blended his study in schools not usually coupled together: the Spanish, Mexican and Dutch." ^r/ Digest April 2-21 Today's Art Gallery 176 Newbury Street [ 1233 ] Whatever music may mean to us in Massachusetts or Rhode Island or New IZOB OF LONDON York, here in the tropics it is a breath of peace, a hope of home, an hour's furlough from heat and dirt. It is a quiet remembrance of the past, an as- piration for the future, an embrace of serenity. Many things have been altered since we left the States. Much that we cared for will be changed and gone. The Bos- ton Symphony is one of those things which, when I return home, I hope to find unchanged and, God willing, which I hope to enjoy for countless years to come. " "veddy, veddy British are the Very sincerely yours, clothes hod of London sends Arthur B. Logan Lieutenant USNR. you via Fredleys . naturally, StaflF, Commander Seventh Fleet for they 're the same distinguished c/o Fleet Post Office town-and country suits, San Francisco, California topcoats, and blouses he creates for London 's young court circle From the Army— . hod's own choice tweeds 7 March, Belgium and woolens are tailored Boston Symphony Association in Mew York into the suave, Boston, Mass. feminine, long-lasting treasures Dear Sirs: Three winters have elapsed since my you used to bring hack so last attendance at Symphony Hall. When proudly from England . the I was at Harvard I took the Friday collection {something you should afternoons or Saturday evenings for see) is exclusive with Fredleys . granted. After more than 2^2 years of overseas, I realize how much I have missed. From friends still in or around Bos- ton I have learned of the wonderful programmes still being presented. I'm extremely glad the standard has not been affected in the slightest by our position in the war. I do hope that the enclosed contribu- tion can be of some help in ensuring that the Boston Orchestra will continue to uphold its supreme position in Ameri- can music. And I'm hoping that I'll be on hand for at least part of the season 1945/1946. Thank you, in ml]ii\ey,.,fib/\hnce^o Capt. Howard Mendel [ 1234 ] Re-Broadcast to the Armed Forces Overseas Every Saturday over 189 Blue Netv/ork Stations— THE SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, CONDUCTOR Sponsored for the Second Season by Allis-Chalmers MANUFACTURING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Producers of the World's Largest Line of Major Industrial Equipment—Over 1600 Products for American Industry TUNE IN WHDH— 8:30 P. M., E. W. T. C 1235 1 — EXHIBITION An exhibition of photographs from the Maynard Workshop of Waban may be seen in the First Balcony Gallery. Included in the collection are prints of many well-known New England historic sites, a number of characteristic stair- cases, and some of the few remaining THEY SAY covered bridges of New England. While living in Philadelphia, Karl BLOOD Maynard became interested in photog- raphy through helping his sister, then an art student, develop and print, copy WILL TELL and enlarge her photographs. Having always had an interest in American his- tory, he began to visit with his camera the historic sites in and about Phila- Show you've delphia, and the old houses there, the owners of which, seeing him at work, often invited him in without introduc- got what it takes tion to make pictures of the interiors as well. In Boston he soon built up a col- lection of prints, which he supplied in and let them take it. the form of postcards for visitors to such show places as the John Adams House, the House of Seven Gables, the Alcott House and the Longfellow THE RED CROSS House. Prints and postcards were made also for schools and colleges in many parts of the country. In the past two years the Maynard Workshop has sent groups of forty or fifty photographs of historic houses, taverns, churches and bridges as loan exhibitions to museums, libraries and schools.