Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 70, 1950-1951
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEVENTIETH SEASON I 95°- I 95 I Sunday Afternoon Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN. Jr. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE, Jr. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, Jr. HERBERT SEARS TUCKERMAN OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description "A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen — It Must Be Earned." 108 Water Street Los Angeles, California Boston, Mass. 3275 Wilshire Blvd. Telephone Lafayette 3-5700 Dunkirk 8-3316 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTIETH SEASON, 1950-1951 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor 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. 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The Chorus Pro Musica, Alfred Nash The expenses of the Chorus are de- Patterson, director, which is appearing frayed from concert earnings and from for the first time with the Boston Sym- voluntary contributions of its sponsors, phony Orchestra in the concerts of this each of whom receives tickets for two week, was organized in 1945 by its reserved seats for each concert. The present conductor as the Polyphonic Chorus has a regular winter season of Choir and adopted its present name in four concerts. 1949. The chorus is a voluntary, self- A Christmas concert will be given in sustaining, non-profit organization, dedi- early January, with the Monteverdi cated to the concert performance of Magnificat, the Schutz Christmas Story, major choral works, with an emphasis and the Bach Cantata No. 50. Subse- on those good works which are seldom quent concerts will feature the Dupre presented to the public. In accordance "De Profundis" (or, alternately, the with this policy, the Chorus has pre- Stravinsky Mass with the Palestrina sented, among others, the following "Missa Papae Marcelli"), Haydn's "The significant works Seasons," and a full concert of contem- Copland — "In the Beginning" ; Ben- porary Boston composers. jamin Britten — "A Ceremony of The Chorus rehearses every Thurs- Carols" and "Festival Te Deum"; day night at the Phillips Brooks House Kodaly — "Missa Brevis"; Stravinsky in Cambridge, and is always interested — Mass (Boston Premiere with mem- in adding new voices. All information bers of the Boston Symphony Orches- and inquiries should be directed to its tra) ; Mozart — C minor Mass and C manager, Frank N. Patterson, 25 Brim- major Mass, and works of Buxtehude, mer Street, Boston 8, Massachusetts. OPEN REHEARSAL - DECEMRER 14 The second of the series of Boston Symphony rehearsals to which the public will be admitted will take place on Thursday evening, December 14, from 7:30 to 10 o'clock. This rehearsal will be under the direction of Charles Munch. The remaining open rehearsals will be given on Wednesday evening, January 24, Pierre Monteux conducting, and Thursday evenings, March 1 and April 26, Charles Munch conducting. Admission to single rehearsals, $2; to the remaining four re- hearsals, $7 (tickets at Box Office). [4] . your mood . feminine, romantic as a waltz in sculptured dresses of silken, whispering fabrics by Adele Simpson . from our French Shops collections Nothing is permanent except change — Heraclitus Toward New Victories over Disease and Death The new Research Building tection of New England's planned for the Massachusetts largest trust institution. 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Jefferson Coolidge as Trustee, will give your wife Chairman, Trust Committee and children the skilled pro- Robert Cutler, President Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTIETH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY AND FIFTY-ONE Second Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, December 3, at 3:00 o'clock SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY (Music Director Emeritus) Conducting Sibelius "Pohjola's Daughter," Symphonic Fantasia, Op. 49 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 82 I. j Tempo molto moderato II. I Allegro moderato, ma poco a poco stretto III. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto IV. Allegro molto INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal are given on the National Broadcasting Company Network (Station WBZ) Sundays from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. [7] *^*W / ^ c^Tonzs-nzaksxi FIND STEARNS SEVENTH FLOOR A NEVER-ENDING DELIGHT We show here, "Mariposa" 5-piece place setting at 14.75, in treasured Franciscan fine china. It is only one of the myriad domestic and imported china patterns we're proud to show you. Our seventh floor Silver Galleries and Gift Rooms are also especially interesting at gift-seeking time ... do stop in. R. H. STEARNS CO BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL 8| "POHJOLA'S DAUGHTER," SYMPHONIC FANTASIA, Op. 49 By Jean Sibelius Born at Tavastehus, Finland, December 8, 18G5 Composed and published in 1906, Pohjola's Daughter was first performed under the composer's direction in St. Petersburg at a Siloti concert in December of the same year. Sibelius first conducted the work in Finland at a concert of the Helsingfors Orchestra, September 25, 1907. The first performance in this country was on June 4, 1914, at a concert of the Litchfield County Choral Union in Norfolk, Connecticut, the composer, on a visit to America, conducting this and others of his tone poems. The piece was first played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra January 12, 1917, under the direction of Karl Muck. The orchestration includes: two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contra-bassoon, four horns, two trumpets, two cornets, three trombones and tuba, harp, timpani and strings. "tjohjola's Daughter" was one of Sibelius' later settings of epi- A sodes from the "Kalevala," the mythological folk epic of Fin- land which was for long the bible and main resource of Sibelius, seeking poetical subjects for his descriptive music. The "Kalevala" furnished him abundantly with its exploits of gods and men, closely interwoven in the telling with images of nature, and destinies con- /4 'Ztiyt, TUte... o*t yowi 'pall a jresn, casual jeeling- a new nonchalance in ine mosi elegani ensembles . ike ouisianaing Jeaiure of our jail wearables, composed especially for you ... (^tcenly ^rleivbury [9] trolled by sorcery. The two characters concerned in this symphonic fantasia are the daughter of "Pohjola" (pronounced as if "Pohyola"), which was the name for the North Country, identified with Lapland, and Vainamoinen, one of the four heroes of the "Kalevala." "Pohjola's Daughter" is drawn from the eighth Runo, or canto, of the "Kalevala," which is called "Vainamoinen's Wound." Vainamoinen is a son of the Wind and the Virgin of the Air.