Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 88, 1968-1969
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BOSTON OTl fH F ^TR A FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON Am *t EIGHTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1968-1969 Exquisite Sound From the palaces of ancient Egypt to the concert halls of our modern m cities, the wondrous J 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. 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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 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wednesday April 30 at 11.45 am is now the date and time sched- uled for the annual meeting of the Friends at Symphony Hall. This season's meeting will be more elaborate than those of previous years. Since it takes place during the Pops season, Friends will sit at the Pops tables and will hear Arthur Fiedler rehearsing the Pops Orchestra. After about a half an hour of rehearsal, Talcott M. Banks, Presi- dent of the Board of Trustees, will speak. Cocktails will then be served in the foyer, followed by a box luncheon with coffee at the tables in the Hall. Friends will be asked to sit in groups of four, so that members of the Orchestra may join them for lunch at the tables. For those who stay after the formal part of the meeting is over, a charge of $3 per person will be made to cover the cost of cocktails and luncheon. Any member of the Friends who has not yet received an invitation is asked to call Mrs Whitty at Symphony Hall (266-1348). 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 W. JOHNSON ERWIN D. CANHAM SEAVEY JOYCE RICHARD P. CHAPMAN LAWRENCE K. MILLER JOHN L. COOPER LOUVILLE NILES ROBERT CUTLER HERBERT W. 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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 Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley contra bassoon Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Richard Plaster Max Winder Stephen Geber Harry Dickson Carol Procter horns Gottfried Wilfinger Jerome Patterson James Stagliano Fredy Ostrovsky Ronald Feldman Charles Yancich Leo Panasevich William Stokking Harry Shapiro Noah Bielski Thomas Newell Herman Silberman 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 Ronald Knudsen flutes 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 John Korman percussion Ralph Gomberg Christopher Kimber Charles Smith Spencer Larrison John Holmes Arthur Press Hugh Matheny assistant timpanist violas Thomas Gauger Burton Fine english horn 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 Eb clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony + George Zazofsky is on leave of absence for Orchestra participating in a one season ex- the remainder of the 1968-1969 season. change with Sheldon Rotenberg. The status crocodile basks on a new polo dress by LACOSTE Oxford Shop Fifth floor CONTENTS Program for April 18 and 19 1969 1495 Program notes Schoenberg — A survivor from Warsaw op. 46 1504 by Nicolas Slonimsky Beethoven — Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 1509 by John N. Burk The soloists and choruses 1526 A message from Erich Leinsdorf 1530 A message from the President of the Trustees 1531 The Orchestra's recent tour 1532 Special television programs 1533 List of Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1534 Summary of the season 1968-1969 1556 Program Editor ANDREW RAEBURN 1493 &y? m smi f£3 "Can't anyone in this tribe tell me what Xerox closed at?" An investor and his worries. They follow him to the office. They follow him home at night. They spoil his safaris. They say to him, "Wherever you go, we go." Which is why it makes sense, if you're an investor, to turn some of your worries over to Old Colony. Or even give us the whole job. Just tell us what part of the job you want us to do, and we'll do it. (We aren't too proud, for instance, to take over the mechanical chores and leave the rest to you.) At Old Colony we have the largest full-time staff of investment experts of any bank in New England. So before you schedule your next safari, give us a ring, won't you? THE FIRST & OLD COLONY The First National Bank of Boston and Old Colony Trust Company EIGHTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1968-1969 TWENTY-FOURTH PROGRAM Friday afternoon April 18 1969 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening April 19 1969 at 8.30 ERICH LEINSDORF conductor SCHOENBERG A survivor from Warsaw op. 46 SHERRILL MILNES narrator NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS Lorna Cooke deVaron conductor first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra intermission BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 2. Molto vivace - presto 3. Adagio molto e cantabile 4. Presto - allegro Allegro assai Presto Baritone recitative Quartet and chorus: allegro assai Tenor solo and chorus: allegro assai vivace, alia marcia Chorus: andante maestoso Adagio ma non troppo, ma divoto Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato Quartet and chorus: allegro ma non tanto Chorus: prestissimo JANE MARSH soprano JOSEPHINE VEASEY contralto PLACIDO DOMINGO tenor SHERRILL MILNES bass CHORUS PRO MUSICA Alfred Nash Patterson conductor NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS Lorna Cooke deVaron conductor The text of A survivor from Warsaw is printed on page 1507; the text and trans- lation of Schiller's Ode to joy on pages 1524 and 1525. Friday's concert will end at about 3.50; Saturday's at about 10.20 BALDWIN PIANO RCA RECORDS 1495 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. Steinberg's Choice: the new records by Michael Steinberg, music critic of The Boston Globe Berlioz, Davis, Romeo &Juliet Berlioz's dramatic symphony, whose performances tend to in- Romeo et Juliette, almost unknown flate what is already questionable in this century and this country about it. One performance that until Toscanini restored it to the does not is Otto Klemperer's with living repertory less than 30 years the New Philharmonia (Angel).