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BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT Tuesday August 3 1971 at 8.30 pm TANGLEWOOD In his hometown of Boston, ARTHUR Symphony as a violinist under Karl Muck. with the Esplanade concerts and the sale FIEDLER is an institution. His unique per- His ambition to conduct led him to form, of his two millionth album. The total sales sonality, his flair, his style and his indi- nine years later, the Boston Sinfonietta, a of albums, singles and pre-recorded tapes vidual approach to music have made him chamber orchestra composed of Boston made for RCA and Polydor are today not as familiar and beloved a feature of Symphony members. At the same time he far off 50 million. Boston life as Symphony Hall. Born on continued as a member of the Boston Arthur Fiedler has also found time during December 17 1894, Arthur Fiedler in- Symphony, playing the violin, viola, pi- his busy career to teach at Boston Uni- herited a rich family background of ano, celesta, organ and even percussion versity, to conduct Boston's Cecilia Soci- European musical culture. His father, instruments. In 1929, after long planning ety Chorus, the University Glee Club of Austrian-born Emanuel Fiedler, was a and financial struggle, Mr Fiedler launched Providence, Rhode Island, and the Mac- first violinist with the Boston Symphony,' the first of the free outdoor Esplanade Dowell Club Orchestra of Boston. He has and his mother was a 'good amateur Concerts on the east bank of the Charles conducted a long list of major American musician' who gave young Arthur his River. The final stamp of approval was orchestras including the Boston Sym- first piano lessons. When he showed placed on his Esplanade project in July phony. His conducting career has taken progress in his practice sessions, his 1954 when Governor Christian Herter of him to all corners of North America, as mother rewarded him with a trip to Massachusetts celebrated the twenty-fifth well as Europe, Africa, Asia, South Amer- B. F. Keith's vaudeville theatre — which anniversary of the concerts by dedicating ica and Australia. During the tour to may account for his reputation not only a new 'Arthur Fiedler Bridge' over the Europe of the Boston Symphony and the as a popular conductor but as a show- highway bordering the area. Boston Pops Orchestras earlier this year man par excellence. Mr Fiedler conducted concerts in England In 1930 Mr Fiedler was appointed the and Germany. Arthur Fiedler was a pupil at the Prince eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Grammar School and the Boston Latin concerts, a feature of Boston's musical Mr Fiedler celebrated his seventy-fifth School until his father retired after twenty- life since 1885. Under his direction Pops birthday two winters ago by conducting five years in the Boston Symphony and has become familiar to music-lovers a Gala Concert with the Boston Sym- the family returned to their native Austria. throughout the world. One of the means phony. Governor Francis Sargent cele- In Vienna and later in Berlin, Arthur by which the names of Fiedler and the brated the occasion by proclaiming it worked in the publishing business before Boston Pops have become household 'Arthur Fiedler Day' throughout the Com- entering the Royal Academy in Berlin as words is through recordings: the Boston monwealth. Not only in Massachusetts, a student of violin, piano and conducting. Pops has made more records than any but throughout the United States and the At the outbreak of World War One Arthur other orchestra. In the summer of 1958 world, Arthur Fiedler speaks through the Fiedler returned to Boston, and in 1915, RCA honored him with a plaque com- universal language of music, and the in- at the age of twenty, joined the Boston memorating both his thirtieth anniversary imitable appeal of the Boston Pops. EARL WILD, who has appeared on many Washington. He was the first artist to give occasions with Arthur Fiedler and the a piano recital on television, and took Boston Pops, was born in Pittsburgh. He part in the first American performance of studied piano with a pupil of Xaver Shostakovich's Piano trio in E minor. Last Scharwenka and, as a teenager, was the December he gave the world premiere youngest artist ever to perform with the of Marvin David Levy's First Piano con- NBC Symphony, with whom he later certo, written especially for him, with the played Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue, con- Chicago Symphony conducted by Georg ducted by Toscanini. He has performed Solti. His recordings for RCA, Vanguard include the with many orchestras in Europe and and Readers Digest Records four concertos of Rachmaninov and music America, including those in Boston, Chi- by virtually every Romantic composer. cago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phil- adelphia, London, Carlo, Monte Paris His Easter oratorio Revelations was com- (Pasdeloup), Montreal, Vancouver, Trieste missioned by the American Broadcasting and New York. In 1968 he made his debut Company and presented in 1962 and with the Boston Symphony, playing the 1964 on that network, conducted by Mr Piano concerto no. 1 of Scharwenka Wild. He has also composed ballet, under Erich Leinsdorf's direction; a re- orchestral and incidental music for tele- cording has since been released by RCA. ; vision. He appeared with the Boston Sym- Earl Wild gave the world premiere in phony three weeks ago here at Tangle- Paris of Paul Creston's Piano concerto, wood in a performance of Chopin's F and later the American premiere in minor Concerto. ; TANGLEWOOD 1971 SEIJI OZAWA, GUNTHER SCHULLER Art/sf/c Directors LEONARD BERNSTEIN Advisor Tuesday August 3 1971 at 8.30 pm BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT MUSIC BY TCHAIKOVSKY *Polonaise, from 'Eugen Onegin' Piano concerto no. 1 in B flat minor op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso Andante semplice Allegro con fuoco EARL WILD Intermission *Suite from the ballet 'Swan Lake' Opening Scene - Valse - Swan Dance - Pas de deux - Czardas MAX HOBART violin ANN HOBSON iiarp *1812, Ouverture solennelle Earl Wild plays the Baldwin piano THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCtUSIVELY FOR POLYDOR BALDWIN PIANO POLYDOR AND *RCA RECORDS THE BOSTON SYMPHONY PENSION INSTITUTION The Boston Symphony Pension Institution, established in 1903, is the oldest among American symphony orchestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid annually over 400,000 dollars to nearly one hundred pensioners and their widows. Institution in- come is derived from Pension Fund concerts, open rehearsals in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, radio broadcasts, as well as mem- bers' dues, matching contributions from the Boston Symphony Or- chestra Incorporated, and invested funds. ARTHURREDLER FORGOTTEN BO^ON POPS OROIESTOA nQFAh/jQ This is what you bought a stereo fon ENCORE. This album by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops is really a greatest hits album. It's filled with the sounds of today's great films, ecstatic waltzes, stirring marches and fiery classics that are pure magic. FABULOUS BROADWAY. Is just that. Fabulous and Broadway. There are the crystal revelations of HAIR, the sophisticated mus- ings of COMPANY, the Spanish rhythms of MAN OF LA MAN- CHA and the swaying melodies of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. FORGOTTEN DREAMS. Here is perhaps the most memorable collection of melodies ever recorded. To those familiar "standards" Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops brings new life, to those more recent pop classics, they give an authoritative stature that belies their age. Three new albums by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra* The orchestra that can play anything* polvclor Polydor Records, Cassettes, and 8-Track Cartridges are distributed in the USA by Polydor Incorporated; in Canada by Polydor Canada Ltd. ' W ' -^K?^a^i^»'^^;v^/-^-^. TMGLEWOOD 1971 Addenda and Corrigenda Week 1 page The dates of STAIIITZ are 1T^5-1801, not 1717-1757. Delete final 'Allegro' in the listing of movements of Sonata in D hy Stamitz. page 11 Delete 'WAYNE RAPIER' and 'JOSEPH SILVERSTEIW violin obbligato ' from the listing of artists taking part in the Magnificat. page 15 Insert 'ROBERT SHIESLEY baritone ' in the listing of artists taking part in Music from 'Vespro della Be at a Vergine' Week 2 page 9 Insert 'MUSIC BY FRANZ LISZT' below the name of Earl Wild. In the program, listing delete 'Grande fantaisie de bravoure sur la Clochette d-e Paganini ' ; insert in its place 'La campanella (from iltudes d' execution transcendante d'apres Paganini)'. page 13 Insert 'Adagio non troppo' in the listing of movements of the Serenade no. 2 by Brahms between 'Scherzo: vivace' and 'Quasi menuetto'. Week 3 page 26 In the note about 'Variations on a theme by Haydn' ' ' by Brahms, delete Littauer (line 11 ) and 'Littau' (line 12). Insert in their place ' Zittauer ' and Zittau', < . ' Week k page 15 In the listing of artists taking part in the Missa solemn is delete 'ARLENE SAUNDERS' and 'FLORiilNCE KOPLEFF' ; insert in their place 'PHYLLIS CURTIN' and 'MUREEN FORRESTER'. (Also see insert.) page 23 Under title 'SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY ' delete 'June 5 1951' ; insert in its place 'June k 1951' PR0GRA1-/I FOR BOSTON POPS CONCERT - August 3 Insert at foot of program page: 'The canons used in the performance of the "Overture l8l2" were provided and manned by members of the staff of Eastover 'There will be fireworks over Lake Mahkeenac after the concert , .

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