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Jennings 147 MILK STREET BOSTON 9, MASSACHUSETTS LIBERTY 2-1250 Associated With OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. EIGHTY -FIRST SEASON, 1961-1962 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson John L. Thorndike E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Raymond S. Wilkins Henry A. Laughlin Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Palfrey Perkins Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [3] What everyone likes about Boston . The Hatch Memorial Shell What you will like about Shawmut's trust department. You will like the warmth, respect and understanding a Shawmut trust officer brings to your personal trust problems . plus the sound judgment, based on research and experience, that helps you reach proper financial decisions. m. Let him demonstrate to you and your attorney how Shawmut can serve you. The Rational Shawmut Bank of ^Boston Complete Banking and Trust Services • Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Ul 1 CONTENTS Program 9 Notes 1 Debussy ("Printemps") . 22 Piston (Symphony No. 6) . January Entr'acte White Sale The New Edition of Beethoven's Letters (/. N. B.) . -34 Now in Progress! Notes Beethoven (Violin Concerto in D major) 4^ Fabulous Savings EXHIBITION on An exhibition of paintings assembled WAMSUTTA SHEETS by Roger Curtis is on view in the Gal- Supercale White The paintings include portraits and lery. Colored New England landscapes. The artists Blossomtoned are members of the Guild of Boston Candy-Stripes Artists, the New England Artists' and Group, and Portrait Artists of New England. Debucales, Too!! BOSTON SYMPHONY PORTRAITS Photographic portraits of each member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra have Annual Sale been made by Milton Feinberg of Boris and Milton, and may be seen in the cases of n the Gallery each week. The exhibit MARTEX TOWELS this week consists of the cello section. Luxor, Patrician Sovereign Styles ERICA MORINI and Erica Morini, born in Vienna of an Italian father and a Viennese mother, studied with Otakar Sevcik at the Vien- na Conservatory and as a prodigy of January Savings twelve played in Leipzig under the di- rection of Arthur Nikisch. She had on acquired a European reputation when WAMSUTTA TOWELS she made her American debut in 1921. BLANKET COVERS After two seasons she returned to Eu- rope for seven years. She appeared as and many other items! soloist with the Boston Symphony Or- chestra at the Berkshire Festival, Au- gust 4, 1946, when she played with Gregor Piatigorsky in Brahms' Double Details Concerto, and at the Friday and Satur- Our Circular Has Ail The day concerts on October 18-19, 1946, 416 Boylston Si. 54 Central St. when she played in Tchaikovsky's Con- Boston 16 Wellesley certo. Miss Morini now makes her KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 home in New York and has become an American citizen. [5] THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER School for Music in Berlin had dis- MEDAL covered the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and were studying it with great After the concert on Friday afternoon, enthusiasm. Eugene and Ernest Munch January 12, an Albert Schweitzer Medal shared this appreciation of and was presented to Charles Munch. This Bach medal was made by Joseph Coletti, carried it into their work at Mulhouse and Strasbourg. under the commission of Mrs. Julian W. "Ernest Munch, brother to Eugene Rogers, Chairman of the Friends of Al- and father to Dr. Charles Munch, was bert Schweitzer. (The Albert Schweitzer Organ-Master at St. William's, and Medal is also to be presented to Pablo Conductor of a Bach Choir. To Albert Casals in Puerto Rico next week, on the Schweitzer's great advantage, Ernest occasion of Senor Casals' 85th birthday.) his teacher. many The reverse bears an inscription from Munch became Over years, in the give and take of discussion, Schweitzer: "Whosoever is spared per- sonal pain must help in diminishing the practice, and execution, the music of pain of others." Bach matured in their hands. The following statement was made for "In the evolution of Western European this occasion by the Reverend Edwin Music there is a moment of greatness Prince Booth, Professor of Historical here in the closing days of Anglo-Franco- Theology at Boston University: Germanic culture. The world owes a of gratitude to the Alsatian fam- "It is right and fitting for the names word of Albert Schweitzer and Charles Munch ilies of Munch and Schweitzer as their to be joined in our appreciation. They contributions enrich Europe and lengthen are brothers-in-law, and they are kin from Alsace to Lambarene and to also in the world of music. In the mid- Boston." nineteenth century leaders of the High now showing . our exciting collection of resort Clothes — from heachwear to Cocktail dresses . if you re going places U/V(yU- come first to ww&4 Bros. r r [6] ;RUMPET: Sometime before 1100, the Saracens of Sicily carried their Oriental trumpet to the Italian mainland. Out of this "beachhead" came the Busine, a long, straight cylinder as tall as a man. Like its Eastern ancestor, the European trumpet soon became the prerogative of kings, knights, and nobles because of its imperious tone. 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Old Colony Trust Company Listen to the CBS World News Roundup on WEEI each weekday at 8 a.m. Watch The Robert Herridge Theatre on Channel 2, Mondays at 10 p.m. [8:] EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE- SIXTY-TWO Third Program MONDAY EVENING, January 15, at 8:30 o'clock Debussy "Printemps," Suite symphonique I. Tres modere II. Modere Piston Symphony No. 6 I. Fluendo espressivo II. Leggerissimo vivace III. Adagio sereno IV. Allegro energico INTERMISSION Beethoven *Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Larghetto III. Rondo SOLOIST ERICA MORINI BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [9] to Gfljk* for the gay for the bright for the new for where the sun is shining Boston • Chestnut Hil 'PRINTEMPS/' SUITE SYMPHONIQUE By Claude Debussy Born in St. Germain (Seine-et-Oise), France, August 22, 1862; died in Paris, March 25, 1918 Debussy's Printemps, composed in 1887 as a work for orchestra, piano and chorus, appeared in transcription for chorus with piano (four hands) in 1904.