Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 88, 1968-1969
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•""*! m f ^W' SYMPH FOUNDED HENRY LEE THURSDAY A EIGHTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1968-1969 Exquisite Sound From the palaces of ancient Egypt to the concert halls of our modern cities, the wondrous music of the harp has compelled attention from all peoples and all countries. Through this passage of time many changes have been made in the original design. The early instruments shown in drawings on the tomb of Rameses II (1292-1225 B.C.) were richly decorated but lacked the fore-pillar. Later the "Kinner" developed by the Hebrews took the form as we know it today. The pedal harp was invented about 1720 by a Bavarian named Hochbrucker and through this ingenious device it be- came possible to play in eight major and five minor scales complete. Today the harp is an important and familiar instrument providing the "Exquisite Sound" and special effects so important to modern orchestration and arrange- ment. The certainty of change makes necessary a continuous review of your insurance protection. We welcome the opportunity of providing this service for your business or personal needs. We respectfully invite your inquiry CHARLES H. WATKINS 8b CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton 147 Milk Street Boston, Massachusetts Telephone 542-1250 PAIGE OBRION RUSSELL Insurance Since 1876 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director CHARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor EIGHTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1968-1969 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC TALCOTT M. BANKS President HAROLD D. HODGKINSON PHILIP K. ALLEN Vice-President E. MORTON JENNINGS JR ROBERT H. GARDINER Vice-President EDWARD M. KENNEDY JOHN L. THORNDIKE Treasurer HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ABRAM BERKOWITZ EDWARD G. MURRAY ABRAM T. COLLIER JOHN T. NOONAN THEODORE P. FERRIS MRS JAMES H. PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH SIDNEY R. RABB ANDREW HEISKELL RAYMOND S. WILKINS TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT LEWIS PERRY PALFREY PERKINS EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR Manager JAMES J. BROSNAHAN HARRY J. KRAUT Associate Manager, Associate Manager, Business Affairs Public Affairs MARY H. SMITH MARVIN SCHOFER Concert Manager Press and Public Information program copyright © 1969 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS A SELECTION OF RECORDINGS BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA under the direction of ERICH LEINSDORF DVORAK Symphony no. 6; Slavonic dances no. 2 and 8 3017 HAYDN Symphony no. 93; Symphony no. 96 'The Miracle' 3030 MENDELSSOHN Incidental music to A midsummer night's dream 2673 (Peardon, Metropolitan Opera Chorus) MOZART Symphony no. 41 'The Jupiter'; Eine kleine Nachtmusik 2694 Requiem Mass (for President John F. Kennedy) (2 records) 7030 RAVEL Piano concerto in G (Hollander) with 2667 DELLO JOIO Fantasy and variations STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben 2641 Salome excerpts; Egyptian Helen excerpts (Price) 2849 STRAVINSKY Firebird suite with 2725 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 'Le coq d'or' suite TCHAIKOVSKY Piano concerto no. 1 (Rubinstein) 2681 Piano concerto no. 1 (Dichter) 2954 Violin concerto (Perlman) with 3014 DVORAK Romance (Perlman) VERDI Requiem (Nilsson, Chookasian, Bergonzi, Flagello, Chorus pro Musica) (2 records) 7040 Stereo records are prefixed LSC; mono LM THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR QUCBZ/D BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director CHARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor EIGHTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1968-1969 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. ABRAM T. COLLIER Chairman ALLEN G. BARRY Vice-Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Secretary MRS FRANK ALLEN MRS ALBERT GOODHUE OLIVER F. AMES MRS JOHN L GRANDIN JR LEO L. BERANEK STEPHEN W. GRANT GARDNER L BROWN FRANCIS W. HATCH JR MRS LOUIS W. CABOT MRS C. D. JACKSON MRS NORMAN CAHNERS HOWARD JOHNSON ERWIN D. CANHAM SEAVEY JOYCE RICHARD P. CHAPMAN LAWRENCE K. MILLER JOHN L COOPER LOUVILLE NILES ROBERT CUTLER HERBERT W. PRATT BYRON K. ELLIOTT NATHAN M. PUSEY MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK PAUL REARDON CARLTON P. FULLER JOHN HOYT STOOKEY SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ^.Ww the beautiful American in her suit for Spring ' Impeccable good looks in this imported tweed of wool/viscose meld. Designed by Tailorbrooke. 1 Blue or rose. Misses sizes. $100. From our new collection. Coats and Suits. i' :. JWHWwwMM i mp wmMWMi^mMumxfimKm iiiim.vrm wmm*tm*umu..&mwm>immia BOSTON: At the start of The Freedom Trail, 140 Tremont Street, 482-0260. CHESTNUT HILL: 232-8100. NORTHSHORE: 532-1660. SOUTH SHORE PLAZA: 848-0300. BURLINGTON MALL: 272-5010. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director CHARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor first violins cellos bassoons Joseph Silverstein Jules Eskin Sherman Walt concertmaster Martin Hoherman Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Mischa Nieland Matthew Ruggiero George Zazofskyt Karl Zeise Tapley Rolland Robert Ripley contra bassoon Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Richard Plaster Max Winder Stephen Geber Harry Dickson Carol Procter borns Gottfried Wilfinger Jerome Patterson James Stagliano Fredy Ostrovsky Ronald Feldman Charles Yancich Leo Panasevich William Stokking Harry Shapiro Noah Bielski Herman Silberman Thomas Newell basses Paul Keaney Stanley Benson Henry Portnoi Ralph Pottle Eiichi Tanaka* William Rhein Alfred Schneider Joseph Hearne trumpets Julius Schulman Bela Wurtzler Armando Ghitalla Gerald Gelbloom Leslie Martin Roger Voisin Raymond Sird John Salkowski Andre Come second violins John Barwicki Gerard Goguen Clarence Knudson Buell Neidlinger William Marshall Robert Olson trombones Michel Sasson William Gibson Knudsen flutes Ronald Josef Orosz Leonard Moss Doriot Anthony Dwyer Kauko Kahila William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis Ayrton Pinto Phillip Kaplan tuba Amnon Levy Chester Schmitz Laszlo Nagy piccolo Michael Vitale timpani Lois Schaefer Victor Manusevitch Everett Firth Max Hobart oboes percussion John Korman Ralph Gomberg Christopher Kimber Charles Smith Spencer Larrison John Holmes Arthur Press Hugh Matheny assistant timpanist violas Thomas Gauger Burton Fine english born Frank Epstein Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg Eugen Lehner harps George Humphrey Bernard Zighera clarinets Jerome Lipson Olivia Luetcke Gino Cioffi Robert Karol Bernard Pasquale Cardillo Kadinoff librarians Peter Hadcock Vincent Mauricci Victor Alpert £b clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo manager Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer for 'member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony + George Zazofsky is on leave of absence 1968-1969 season. 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Should you find that you are unable to attend one of the concerts for which you have tickets, the Trustees hope that you will allow others, who cannot obtain tickets for this subscription series, to have the opportunity to hear the Orchestra. You can do this by telephoning Symphony Hall (266-1492), and giving your name and ticket location to the switchboard operator. Your ticket then becomes available for resale, and the income gained is used to reduce the Orchestra's deficit. Sub- scribers who release their tickets for resale will receive a copy of the program of the concert they miss, and written acknowledgment of their gift for their tax records. Those who wish to request tickets for a specific concert should tele- phone Symphony Hall and ask for 'Reservations'. Requests will be attended to in the order in which they are received, and, since the Management has learned by experience how many returned tickets to expect, no reservation will be confirmed unless the caller can be assured of a seat. Tickets ordered in this way may be bought and collected from the box office on the day of the concert two hours before the start of the program. Tickets not claimed half an hour before concert time will be released. Last season the ticket resale and reservation plan helped reduce the Orchestra's deficit by more than $21,900. 11 Those new book reviews in The Boston Globe speak volumes. The man responsible is The Globe's Arts Editor, Herbert Kenny, who has over 200 of the most knowledgeable reviewers around Boston on call. There's more to it. Maybe that's how come everybody's reading The Globe these days. 12 . Steinberg's Choice: the new records/by Michael Steinberg, music critic of The Boston Globe The symphony: alive andwell. The symphony is an art form impressive. It is recorded by the whose premature obituary has B.B.C. Symphony under Antal appeared rather too often. Dorati (Seraphim) and the disk Strong and communicative sym- is filled out with dances from phonies have been written in Gerhard's "Don Quixote" ballet, the 20th century, and interesting an engaging extension of the records have recently come out DeFalla world.