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We respectfully invite your inquiry H. WATKINS CO. CHARLES & 0BRI0N, RUSSELL Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton 147 MILK STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Insurance of Every De: Telephone 542-1250 EIGHTY-SIXTH SEASON, , 9 66-, 9 6 7 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Charles Wilson, Assistant Conductor The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President John L. Thorndike Treasurer Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris Edward G. Murray Robert H. Gardiner John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch V Mrs. James H. Perkins Andrew Heiskell Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott IDI Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Sanford R. Sistare Harry J. Kraut Press and Publicity Assistant to the Manager Andrew Raeburn Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [3] '.A AGON The Boston Symphony ' • > SCHULUR 7 STUDIES on THEMES of PAUL KLEE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ ERICH LEINSDORF under Leinsdorf Leinsdorf expresses with great power the vivid c Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klei a the same album, Stravinsky's ballet music fror%\ Forthe majorsinging roles in Menotti's dramatic i The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi. Leinsdorf uMM* Lili selected George London, and Chookasian, o the Chicago Daily Tribune has written, "Her voice Boston symphony enich Uinsooef / luminous tonal sheath that makes listening lux menoTXi Also hear Chookasian in this same album, in sor the death of the Bishop of BRirtOISI Schbnberg's Gurre-Lieder. In Dynagroove soun rca Victor <§) The most trusted name in sound &^»jj)r [4] CONTENTS Program . Notes 3he sfro«sssau3&use oj'Jioslon Dvorak (Overture, "Othello") 11 Schubert (Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished") H Entr'actes An American Destiny (By Elliott Carter) . 35 Prologue from "Essays Before a Sonata" (By Charles E. Ives) . 47 Notes Ives (Symphony No. 4) 20 Copyright 1966 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. SUBSCRIBERS' EXHIBITION The annual exhibition of paintings by subscribers, Friends and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will take place from December 13 through Jan- uary 3. Paintings should be delivered to Sym- phony Hall on Thursday, December 8 and Friday, December 9. Application [[ blanks may be obtained at the Friends' / Office, or in the evenings at the Box j Office. Applications must be submitted before Friday, December 9. THE CONDUCTOR Gunther Schuller was born in New Vork City in 1925. His professional Credit ^Arpproack ^Jo ^J-all music career began at the age of sixteen Perfectly simple but for the touch when he joined the French horn section of gold braid — our green hostess of the Ballet Theatre Orchestra. A year later coat of rayon and dacron. Sizes he was appointed first chair horn 8 - 20. $45.00 Player with the Cincinnati Symphony. 486 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET At the age of nineteen, he became a BOSTON 02116 WELLESLEY member of the Metropolitan Opera Or- KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 chestra, where he remained for the next [5] fifteen years, the last nine of them play- ing solo horn. In 1959 Mr. Schuller resigned from the Metropolitan Orchestra so that he could devote more time to composing. Mr. Schuller's works have been com- missioned by such organizations as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Donaueschingen Festival of Contempo- rary Music, and the Ford Foundation. Under commission of the Hamburg State Opera he composed a jazz-oriented opera, The Visitation, which received its world premiere in Hamburg on Oc- tober 12. The performance was a great savings success, and next June the Hamburg company will present its production of that The Visitation in New York. Other recent commissions include Gala Music, written for the 75th anniversary of the are Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Sa- cred Cantata, composed for the Ameri- can Guild of Organists. Among his music numerous awards was the Darius Mil* haud award for the best film score of 1964, which he won for his music for to the Polish film Yesterday in Fact. Many of his works have been recorded, your including Seven Studies on Themes oj Paul Klee with this Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Leinsdorf. ears! Mr. Schuller has recently been ap- pointed the ninth President of the New England Conservatory, where his duties will commence at the beginning of the 1967-68 academic year. He is currently associate professor of music at Yah University, and is also chairman of th< Composition Department of the Berk shire Music Center at Tanglewood, '< position he has held since 1963. •Q?s [6] BOSTON Pension Fund Concert SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sunday, December 11, 1966 Ericm Lemhwu at 8:30 o'clock BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Conducting Dvorak Cello Concerto Stephen Kates, soloist Copland A Lincoln Portrait Senator Edward M. Kennedy, narrator 1 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 MlSHA DlCHTER, soloist For this season's Pension Fund concert on Sunday, December 11, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Erich Leinsdorf take particular pleasure in presenting for the first time with orchestra in Boston two of the Third Tchaikovsky Music Competition winners. Misha Dichter and Stephen Kates each received second prizes in this important music competition and performed with the Orchestra at Tanglewood last summer. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has accepted the Orchestra's invitation to narrate Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait which he did in his first appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra last August at the Berkshire Music Center's Gala Evening benefit concert in Tanglewood. Subscribers to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's regular concerts are offered the first opportunity to purchase tickets for the December 11 Pension Fund program. Tickets are now available at the Symphony Hall Box Office. Public sale will begin on November 21. TICKETS Floor: $10, $8, $7, $6, $5 First Balcony: $10, $8, $6, $5 Second Balcony: $4 Symphony Hall CO 6-1492 [7] Learn investment analysis in your spare time? That's one way of doing it . providing you have enough spare time. An easier way of making sure that your investments get the continuing full-time professional attention they deserve is to get yourself a good brain trust. Like Old Colony. We can give your portfolio just the exact degree of service you require. Anything from custodianship and advice right up to complete management — selection of securities, purchases, sales, collections, tax reports . the works. If your holdings are substantial it might pay you to sit down with us and exchange some thoughts. THE FIRST & OLD COLONY The First National Bank of Boston and Old Colony Trust Company _J [8] EIGHTY-SIXTH SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX-SIXTY-SEVEN Fourth Program TUESDAY EVENING, November 29, at 8:30 o'clock GUNTHER SCHULLER, Guest Conductor Dvorak Overture, "Othello," Op. 93 Schubert Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto INTERMISSION Ives Symphony No. 4 I. Prelude: Maestoso II. Allegretto III. Fugue: Andante moderato IV. Very slowly — Largo maestoso Piano solo: Yuji Takahashi (First performance in this series) NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS John Oliver, Acting Conductor BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [9] entertaining thought . add cheer to your festivities with the handsome practicality of an imported punch bowl set in hand-blown Austrian crystal. BOSTON: At the start of The Freedom Trail, 140 Tremont Street, 482-0260 CHESTNUT HILL 232-8100. SOUTH SHORE PLAZA: 848-0300 [io] OVERTURE, "OTHELLO," Op. 93 By Antonin Dvorak Born in Miihlhausen, Bohemia, September 8, 1841; died in Prague, May 1, 1904 The work is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, harp and strings. During the latter part of his life, Dvorak became increasingly interested in program music. This sometimes resulted in over- tures, and finally, in the five symphonic poems which were his last contributions to symphonic literature. During the years 1891-1892, Dvorak was occupied with three overtures, which he meant to call "Nature," "Life," and "Love." He planned the composition as a connected cycle, and it was in this form that the three overtures were first performed, with Dvorak conducting at the last concert before his departure for America on April 28, 1892. Eventually the three over- tures were separated and given separate opus numbers.