Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 71, 1951-1952, Trip
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-y' t£3 4 ^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 7 x"^t. fe \9 '«/ '"^ ,\' """» y^TP?^ .^^•1 :^^)^^ H SEVENTY- FIRST SEASON 1951-1952 Academy of Music, Brooklyn Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn 1951--1952 BROOKLYN COMMITTEE FOR The Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts Mr. Adrian Van Sinderen Mrs. H. Haughton Bell Honorary Chairman Chairman Mrs. Edward C. Blum Mrs. William H. Good Mrs. Henry J. Davenport Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Mrs. William G. James Mrs. Carroll J. Dickson Mrs. Irving G. Idler Chairman Membership Vice-Chairman Chairman Boxes Mrs. Thomas K. Ware Chairman Junior Committee Dr. Joseph Dana Allen Mrs. William B. Greenman Mrs. Charles E. Perkins Mrs. Elias J. Audi Mrs. James H. GrifiBn Mr. Charles Pratt Mrs. Charles L. Babcock, Jr. Mrs. Arthur C. Hallan Mrs. Stewart M. Pratt Mrs. John R. Bartels Mrs. J. Morton Halstead Mrs. Benjamin Prince Hon. William R. Bayes Mrs. William P. Hamilton Mrs. Valentine K. Raymond Miss Elsa Behr Mr. and Miss Agnes Ritchie Mrs. Walter Hammitt Mrs. George M, Billings Mrs. Frederick H. Rohlfs Mr. Frank R. Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ross Mrs. Robert E. Blum Mrs. James M. Hills Mrs. Irving J. Sands Mrs. Irving L. Cabot Mrs. Raymond V. Ingersoll Mrs. F. R. Schepmoes Mrs. Otis Swan Carroll Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham Mrs. Frank E. Simmons Mrs. Oliver G. Carter Mrs. Robert F. Ives Mrs. Donald G. C. Sinclair Mrs. Francis T. Christy Mrs. Charles Jaffa Mrs. Ainsworth L. Smith Mrs. Russell V. Cruikshank Mrs. Miles Kastendieck Miss Arietta H. Smith Mrs. Sidney W. Davidson Mrs. Warner King Mrs. Harry H. Spencer Mrs. Berton R. Latson, J. Delmhorst Mrs. Almet Jr. Mrs. Lauson Stone Mrs. Edith Lincoln Mrs. Mary C. Draper Mrs. E. A. Sunde Mrs. Eugene R. MarzuUo Mrs. Remick C. Eckardt Mrs. Hollis K. Thayer Mrs. Carleton D. Mason Mrs. Merrill N. Foote Mr. Carl H. ToUefsen Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Jr. Mrs. Lewis W. Francis Mrs. Franklin B. Tuttle Mrs. Richard Maynard Mrs. Edward M. Fuller Miss Helen McWilliams Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen Mr. and • Mrs. Leonard P. Moore Mrs. Carl T. Washburn Mrs. George H. Gartlan Mrs. Alfred E. Mudge Mrs. Walter F. Watton Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin Miss Emma Jessie Ogg Mrs. Walter F. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Gomory Mrs. William M. Parke Mrs. George N. Whittlesey Mrs. R. Whitney Gosnell Mrs. William B. Parker Mrs. Maude B. Wood Mrs. Percy R. Gray Mrs. Frank H. Parsons Miss Elizabeth Wright Academy of Music, Brooklyn SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON, 1951-1952 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Second Concert FRIDAY EVENING, December 7 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Charles D. Jackson Theodore P. Ferris Lewis Perry Alvan T. Fuller Edward A. Taft N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. Shirk, Assistant Managers [>] Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seventy-first Season, 1951-1952) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Violas Bassoons Richard Burgin, Joseph de Pasquale Raymond Allard Concert-master Jean Cauhap6 Ernst Panenka Theodore lirewster Alfred Krips Georges Fourel Gaston Elcus Eugen Lehner Rolland Tapley Albert Bernard Contra-Bassoon Norbert Lauga George Humphrey Boaz Piller George Zazofsky Jerome Lipson Paul Cherkassky Louis Arti^res Horns Robert Karol Harry Dubbs James Stagliano Vladimir Resnikoff Reuben Green Harry Shapiro Joseph Leibovici Bernard Kadinoff Harold Meek Mauricci Einar Hansen Vincent Paul Keaney Harry Dickson Walter Macdonald Violoncellos Osbourne McConarhv Emil Kornsand Samuel Mayes Carlos Pinfield Alfred Zighera Paul Fedorovsky Jacobus Langendoen Trumpets Minot Beale Mischa Nieland Roger Voisin Herman Silberman Hippolyte Droeghmaiu Marcel Lafosse Roger Schermanski Karl Zeise Armando Ghitalla Stanley Benson Rene Voisin Josef Zimbler Gottfried Wilfinger Bernard Parronchi Enrico Fabrizio Trombones Clarence Knudson Leon Marjollet Jacob Raichman Pierre Mayer Lucien Hansotte Manuel Zung Flutes John Coffey Samuel Diamond Georges Laurent Josef Orosz Victor Manusevitch James Pappoutsakis James Nagy Phillip Kaplan Tuba Gorodetzky Leon Vinal Smith Raphael Del Sordo Piccolo Madsen Melvin Bryant George Harps Lloyd Stonestreet Bernard Zighera Saverio Messina Oboes Olivia Luetcke Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Gomberg Leo Panasevich Jean Devergie William Waterhouse John Holmes Timpani Roman Szulc English Horn Basses Charles Smith Louis Speyer Georges Moleux Percussion Willis Page Clarinets Ludwig Juht Max Polster Gino Cioffi Irving Frankel Simon Sternburg Manuel Valerio Harold Farberman Henry Greenberg Pasquale Cardillo Henry Portnoi E\) Clarinet Henry Freeman Librarians Henri Girard Bass Clarinet Leslie Rogers John Barwicki Rosario Mazzeo Leonard Rurkat Academy of Music, Brooklyn Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director SECOND CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, December 7, at 8:30 o'clock Program PIERRE MONTEUX Conducting Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (Orchestrated by Ottorino Respighi) Beethoven Symphony No. 6, in F major. Op. 68, "Pastoral" I. Awakening of serene impressions on arriving in the country: Allegro ma non troppo II. Scene by the brookside; Andante molto moto III. Jolly gathering of country folk: Allegro; in tempo d'allegro; Thunder- storm; Tempest: Allegro IV. Shepherd's Song: Gladsome and thankful feelings after the storm: Allegretto INTERMISSION Stravinsky. "Le Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rite of Spring") Pictures of Pagan Russia I. The Adoration of the Earth Introduction — Harbingers of Spring — Dance of the Adolescents — Abduction — Spring Rounds — Games of the Rival Towns —The Procession of the Wise Men — The Adoration of the Earth (The Wise Man) — Dance of the Earth. II. The Sacrifice Introduction — Mysterious Circles of the Adolescents — Glorifica- tion of the Chosen One — Evocation of the Ancestors — The Sacrifi- cial Dance of the Chosen One. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [S] PIERRE MONTEUX |IERRE MoNTEux was bom in Paris, April 4, 1875. He began his p career as violist at the Opera Comique and the Concerts Colonne. From 1912 he conducted Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, introducing such music as Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, and Ros- signol; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Debussy's Jeux. He toured the United States with the Ballet Russe in 1916-17. He conducted at the Paris Opera and his own Concerts Monteux in Paris. He became conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1917-18 and was the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-1924. In the ten years following he was a regular conductor of the Amsterdam Kon- zertgebouw and the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. He became con- ductor of the San Francisco Orchestra in 1935, ^ position from which he has announced his retirement at the end of the present season. Mr. Monteux visited Boston with the San Francisco Orchestra April 13, 1947, and returned to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra January 26-27-28, 1951. PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE IN C MINOR By JoHANN Sebastian Bach Born in Eisenach on March 21, 1685; died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750 Transcribed for Orchestra by Ottorino Respighi Born in Bologna on July 9, 1879; died in Rome, April 18, 1936 The actual year of Bach's composition is not known. Respighi made his or- chestration in 1930. Respighi has used the following instruments in his transcription: three flutes and piccolo, three oboes and English horn, three clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons and double bassoon, six horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, organ pedal, and strings. IT IS supposed that Bach wrote his Passacaglia as an organ piece in the latter part of the Weimar period (1708-17). The piece existed earlier in a form for two-manual clavicembalo with pedals. The first half of his eight-bar theme Bach derived from a trio en passacaille by the seventeenth-century French composer and organist, Andre Raison. There are twenty variations. In the double fugue which follows, Bach uses the first half of his Passacaglia theme for one of his subjects. An orchestral transcription of this Passacaglia by Heinrich Esser was at one time often performed, and was included upon programs [4] of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, January 28, 1887, and April 26, 1895. There have also been transcriptions by Le®pold Stokowski and by Frederick Stock. Philip Spitta praised Esser's transcription for "its very skilful imitation of organ effects." Respighi had no such aim in mind, for he conceived the Passacaglia in purely orchestral terms — an "interpretazione orchestrate/' he called it. For the first statement of the bass theme, which Bach gave to the pedals alone, Respighi likewise has used the organ pedals reinforced by the deeper-voiced instruments. The first twelve variations unfold an increasing sonority. In the thirteenth and fourteenth, Bach's orna- mentation plainly suggests the harpsichord, and this suggestion the Italian transcriber has put to good use. The final variations call forth the full strength of the orchestra as the climax is reached. The first fifty measures of the fugue itself are sparingly scored, with no brass instruments except the horn. Again, at the climax of the fugue, Respighi makes use of his combined forces with tremendous effect. [copyrighted] SYMPHONY NO. 6, IN F MAJOR, "PASTORAL," Op, 68 By LuDwiG VAN Beethoven Born at Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 The "Pastoral" Symphony, completed in 1808, had its first performance at the Theater-an-der-Wien, in Vienna, December 22, 1808, the concert consisting entirely of unplayed music of Beethoven, including the C minor Symphony, the Fourth Piano Concerto, and the Choral Fantasia. The Symphony is scored for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, two trombones, timpani, and strings.