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SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SIXTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1947-1948 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1948, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Alvan T. Fuller Roger I. Lee Jerome D. Greene Lewis Perry N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager 1281 [ ] © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © Only © © © © © © you can © © © © © © decide © © © © © © © © © © © Whether your property is large or small, it rep- © © resents the security for your family's future. 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Does the new hemline formed next Tuesday, or to convey its make footwear important? full significance, we shall quote two first hand descriptions of the composer in the 2. What's the "new look" throes of writing it. The first story is in shoes? told by Schindler. 3. What colors are being In August, 1819, Schindler, accom- featured in accessories? panied by the musician Johann Horsalka of Vienna, visited the musician in his 4. Big or little handbags? summer home. 5. Where can I find all "It was four o'clock in the afternoon. these exciting fashions? As soon as we entered we learned that in the morning both servants had gone CHECK YOUR ANSWERS away, and that there had been a quarrel 1. This one is easy. Yes, after midnight which had disturbed all yes, yes! the neighbors, because as a consequence 2. Either "slim, graceful, of a long vigil both had gone to sleep ladylike" or more specif- and the food which had been prepared ically "both ankle strap or had become unpalatable. In the living- classic opera pump silhou- room behind a locked door, we heard ette" is right. the master singing parts of the fugue in the Credo — singing, howling, stamp- 3. Navy is Queen in shoes ing. After we had been listening a long and bags, with green, cocoa time to this almost awful scene, and and red high style were about to go away, the door opened suave black always correct. and Beethoven stood before us with Contrast or blend them with distorted features, calculated to excite your ensembles. fear. He looked as if he had been in 4. Every size and shape im- mortal combat with the whole host of aginable . attractively contrapuntists, his everlasting enemies." priced from $10 to $20 at The two friends found that he had Thayer McNeils. eaten nothing since the day before when, raging at the servants, he had driven 5. Subtle, aren't we? Were them from the house. sure, tho, our new creations It will be interesting to give another will score 100% with you in contemporary picture of Beethoven at style, quality, and lasting about this time, probably in the later satisfaction. Wont you drop stages of the Mass. It was related to in? Thayer by Professor Hofel, who re- and membered an incident when he was din- BOSTON WELLESLEY ing in a tavern near Salzburg. A police [ 1283 ] officer approached the commissioner who was of the party, and said: " 'Mr. Commissioner, we have ar- The Trousseau House of Boston rested somebody who will give us no peace. He keeps on yelling that he is Beethoven; but he's a ragamuffin, has no hat, an old coat, etc. — nothing by which he can be identified.' The Com- missioner ordered that the man be kept under arrest until morning, 'then we will examine him and learn who he is.' Next morning the company was very anxious to know how the affair turned out, and the Commissioner said that about 11 o'clock at night he had been waked by a policeman with the informa- tion that the prisoner would give them no peace and had demanded that Her- zog, Musical Director in Wiener Neu- stadt, be called to identify him. So the Commissioner got up, dressed, went out and waked up Herzog, and in the middle of the night went with him to the watch- house. Herzog, as soon as he cast eyes on the man exclaimed, 'That is Bee- thoven!' He took him home with him, gave him his best room, etc. Next day came the burgomaster, making all man- ner of apologies. As it proved, Bee- thoven had got up early in the morning, and, slipping on a miserable old coat, without a hat, had gone out to walk a little. He got upon the towpath of the canal and kept on and on; seems to have lost his direction, for, with nothing to eat, he had continued on until he brought up at the canal-basin blossom time at the Ungerthor. Here, not knowing First flowers of spring bloom where he was, he was seen looking in profusely against Daffodil Yel- at the windows of the houses, and as low, Heavenly Blue or Snow- he looked so like a beggar the people had called constable arrested drop White. Practical as it is a who pretty, rayon material launders him. Upon his arrest the composer said, like a hankie. Robe in sizes 'I am Beethoven.' 'Of course, why not?' 12 to 20. (Warum nicht gar?) said the policeman. 'You're a tramp: Beethoven doesn't look 17-50 so.' (Ein Lump sind Sie; so sieht der Beethoven net aus.) Herzog gave him MAKANNA, INC. some decent clothes and the burgomaster sent him back to Baden, where he was 416 Boylston Street, Boston then living, in the magisterial state- Hyannis • Wellesley coach." [1*84] PEABODY AWARD FOR BROADCASTS The George Foster Peabody Radio Awards, announced last week, singled out the Boston Symphony Orchestra as presented on the air by the American Broadcasting Company for the "out- standing entertainment in music." These awards, which are looked upon as the "Oscars" in the broadcast industry, were presented at a luncheon held in the Hotel Roosevelt in New York on April 15, with the New York Radio Execu- tives Club as host. The presentations were made by Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly and chairman of wtaerd the Peabody Advisory Board, and John E. Drewry, dean of the University of Georgia Henry W. Grady School of of Journalism. The musical citation was as follows: dprina "If music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, let's have more music in this troubled year. See our oriaht "Twenty-two years ago Dr. Serge Koussevitzky first led the Boston Sym- flower hats . lihe phony Orchestra on the airways ; since then millions of Americans in cities, small towns, and in lonely farmhouses an earlu sprina have listened enrapt to the music at his command. Today the nation takes pride . our u in his incomparable record. For the bouquet fluff genius and devotion which brought these musicians together; for the hearing $2 flower-fresh mouses given to unknown composers ; for the springtime delight of the Pops and Es- . for winter tui3 A^/2 ^k tonic a planade concerts ; for the vision which V *¥ N ^r ^ ' created the Berkshire Festival, and for the sheer beauty of its every performance goes this Peabody Award for 'outstand- " ing entertainment in music' ^ iW i lI I Ifl^ip breath - of - spnna CHALIAPIN Mi prints . ana all the A memorial concert, honoring the tenth anniversary of the death of Feodor other sianS of sprina Chaliapin, was given in Hunter College, New York City, on Wednesday, April at Zrreaieus . 14. As chairman of the event, Serge Koussevitzky spoke as follows'. We are here tonight to honor the memory of a great creative artist and singer of all time, whom the world lost a decade ago. Feodor Chaliapin was one of those geniuses, by God's grace, who are born once in a century. Every atom of his being was creative and combined to produce this extraordinary phenome- non. Art was his element — life was his stage. He created incessantly: a word, a look, a movement, — became part of a creative act. [1285] So rich and abundant was his nature, so vast and manifold his genius, — that it escaped the accepted rules and norms. The noted Russian historian Klutchev- sky said that in Feodor Chaliapin was the making of a great historian. Seroff, the painter, said that in him was the making of a great painter. I, for one, who watched him at opera rehearsals in the Imperial Bolshoy Theatre of Moscow, can say that Chaliapin was 1 7S born to be a great conductor. His unique ill creative achievement as singer and actor made history from the first. His appear- ance on the opera stage brought a bril- WjMm liance, a perfection, a life and a radiance 'figj% "?%.