SEVENTY- NINTH SEASON, 1959-1960 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1959, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. 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CONTENTS Program (for this week) . 455 Program (December 11-12) . 5°9 Program (December 24-26) . 5 11 Notes Q/lfuruJiMfjws. Schubert (Symphony in B minor) 457 Mahler (Adagio and Allegretto moderato ("Purgatorio") from the Tenth Symphony) . 478 Entr'actes Mahler and Boston 487 Krenek and Mahler's Tenth . 489 Music's Lesser Partner (J.N.B.) 492 Notes Locffler ("A Pagan Poem") . 498 Symphoniana STRASBOURG AND BOSTON The musical linking of cities geo- graphically so far apart as Strasbourg and Boston is pointed by the perform- ance of Loeffler's "A Pagan Poem" at this week's concerts which will be trans- mitted by tape through the Voice of America to Strasbourg. Charles Martin Loeffler was born in Alsace and lived the greater part of his life in or near Boston. There are later associations. nocturnal On December 8, 1949, Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote from Lambarene to costume Charles Munch in Boston: "How curious is destiny! Who could have foreseen handsome new when I used to take you out for a walk along the River 111 near the Garnison way of evening Church [Strasbourg], you a small boy, dressing . that one day you would be helping me, working for me in the United States? ittle brocade Who could have told us that a day sees would come when we should both be costume known in America?" you through Charles Munch wrote in introducing the book, Music in the Life of Albert cocktails, dinner Albert Schweitzer: "The name of and theatre Schweitzer is linked with my childhood. It brings back recollections of wonderful with perfect evenings when I heard him passionately aplomb . • discussing with my father every little detail in a score by Bach after they had our collection worked together performing it. At that time Albert Schweitzer played the organ priced from for concerts my father conducted at the 69.95 to 245.00 Church of St. William in Strasbourg. He had studied previously with my uncle, Eugene Munch." -H/ve n-hy new burb Charles Munch has brought something 7 of Alsatian musical tradition to Boston, nor is he forgotten in his native city. [451] The concert given by the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra at the Palais des Fetes in Strasbourg on May 17, 1952, is still remembered there as well as Dr. Munch's subsequent visits when he has conducted. THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON EXHIBITION Pictures by members of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters are now on view in the Gallery. BILL, CARROLL Church in Mexico, Spanish Profile COBB, RUTH Fruitfulness COLEMAN, LORING Back Yards, Cockade Alley DEMETROPOULOS, CHARLES Fishing Boats, T Wharf, Downtown Los Angeles HARE, JOHN Midwinter, Late October HICKEN, PHILIP Nantucket Unitarian, Landfall No. 4 JEWELL, W. M. Morning Light, Casco Bay, Morning Light on Notre Dame KUPFERMAN, LAWRENCE In the Heart of Summer, A Morning in Spring MacNUTT, GLENN Summertime, Gas Light MAHONEY, CHARLES A. 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T It was on April 10, 1823, some months after he had composed the * This on the basis that it was the last to be found although it was composed before the great C major Symphony. The posthumous C major has been variously numbered 7, 8, 9, or 10 by those who have variously accepted or rejected the so-called "Gastein Symphony," which has been believed by some to be a lost symphony, and the fragmentary sections for a symphony in E (1821) , which Felix Weingartner filled out into a full score. Fortunately the "Unfinished" Symphony, easily identified by its name and key, can be left numberless. A conductor and 103 musicians interpret a delicate passage with expert finesse. But quietly, so that each note can speak for itself. Here at Rockland-Atlas, every officer in our Trust Department is a specialist in his particular field, be it investments, admin- istration, or operations. 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