Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 80, 1960-1961, Subscription
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'''.. FOUNDED IN 1881 BY y?,-> HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 24 ^^ ysngg!^ ^ m ^ ~y BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE We blueprint the basic structure for the insurance of our clients and build their protection on a sound foundation. Only by a complete survey of needs, followed by intelligent counsel, can a proper insur- ance program be constructed. Without obligation on your part, we would be happy to act as your insurance architects. Please call us at any time. CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. When You Think of Insurance . Think of us! 141 Milk Street Boston 6, Massachusetts HU bbard 2-6200 EIGHTIETH SEASON, 1960-1961 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1961, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 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Notes cFta 3fQ*is$tau3ijou$t of33©jI$* Mozart (Adagio and Fugue for Strings) 1484 Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante) 1496 Entr'acte Homer Sometimes Nods (Desmond Shawe-Taylor) . 1510 Notes Ravel (Suite for Orchestra) . 1518 Debussy (The Sea) 1522 AWARD FOR POULENC'S "GLORIA" The Music Critics Circle Award for the best new choral work to be heard in New York since the beginning of 1960 was announced last week for the Gloria by Francis Poulenc. The Gloria, which had its first performance in Boston by our Orchestra on January 21, was like- wise introduced to New York by Dr. Munch on April 8. The other prizes were to Lukas Foss for his orchestral work "Time Cycle" and to Elliott Carter for his Second String Quartet. EXHIBITIONS The exhibitions shown in the Gallery through the past season were loaned by the following artists and associations Photographs of the Far Eastern Tour, by George Humphrey (October 7- 15) . Photographs of the Far Eastern Tour by Jun Miki and Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Octo- A Breath of Spring! ber 20-November 8) With its nosegays of violets — our Paintings by the Copley Society of hostess gown of printed cotton, im- Boston (November 11-26) ported from France and drip-dry! White with Lavendar or Pink print. Paintings by the Boston Society of Sizes 10 - 18. $39.95 Water Color Painters (December 8- 31) 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. Paintings by the Subscribers, Friends, Boston 16 Wellesley 5-3430 and Members of Boston Symphony KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar Orchestra (January 11-24) ['477] . Portraits, assembled by the Vose Gal- lery (January 27-February 11) $£&& Wood carvings by Vernon B. Smith and Paintings from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Febru- ary 23-March 4) Etchings by Arthur W. Heintzelman (March 17-April 1) Paintings from the Gallery of Tyring- ham, Massachusetts (April 14-22) July fashion news is in the making LIST OF ARTICLES at Hurwitch's. For versa- our most PAGE tile designers have been hard at Friends Meeting 5 work on our summer collections. Music Since Last April 5 69 And the results are in! New Members Musical Plans 70 A breezy group of the new summer For the Younger Generation 70 play dresses with coolest possible New Trustees 133 coverage (already receiving en- Richter in America 133 thusiastic plaudits from summer- Music in Prospect 184 Talcott M. Banks 197 attuned customers) . artful swim New Honors for Joseph Silverstein 197 suits that do wonderful things for Dimitri Mitropoulos 261 your sun absorption (and your fig- What the Left Hand Can Do ... 262 ure), many of them with beach A Transatlantic Broadcast 326 Paderewski Award 340 coats . match-mated shirts and New York Anniversary 389 skirts in wonderful, vibrant-colored Radio Broadcasts 390 denims and cottons . sweater Reports from the Overseas dresses, of course, because they're Broadcast 454 fashion staples for seashore, town Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe . 517 Award 518 and country living. Concerts on the Symphony Hall You know how New England's Organ 645 The New Organ Series 709 fickle spring suddenly turns to sum- Pablo Casals on Station mer ... so don't wait another day WGBH-TV 837 . come see our summer collec- Master Classes by Lotte Lehmann 1030 tions right away! The Choral Pioneer. 1029 Liszt Anniversary 1158 Sir Thomas Beecham 1157 Liszt in Our Pianistic Past 1222 Doc Davison's Chorus 1285 CLhlViVJ> The New Monday Series 1286 BROS. The Berkshire Festival 1349 Award for Poulenc's "Gloria" .... 1477 +wen+y new bur / [1478] wmmR G=^ -^ !Xv^V><V_/JLjvJ! Probably the happy result of one of those grandiose expansions of single instruments into large "families", the piccolo is a miniature Mute. The name itself means "small", and the arrangement of keys is very similar to that of an ordinary flute. But the piccolo is an octave higher than a flute in C and reaches almost to the upper limit of recognizable pitch, though the highest notes (4th octave above middle C) are too piercing to be often used. While the piccolo first became popular in the military bands of the late 18th century, it was quickly accepted in the symphony. 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Andantino con variazioni Oboe: RALPH GOMBERG Bassoon: SHERMAN WALT Clarinet: GINO CIOFFI Horn: JAMES STAGLIANO INTERMISSION Ravel "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Suite I. Prelude II. Forlane III. Menuet IV. Rigaudon Debussy *La Mer (The Sea), Three Symphonic Sketches I. De l'aube a raidi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) II. Jeux de vagues (The Play of the Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea) These concerts will end at about 4: 10 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:25 o'clock on Saturday Evening. BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [ 1481 ] >.""A p/.'.v^y HEAD TURNING HATS FROM [•*8«] h t*< The announcement was made last Friday by the Trustees of this Orchestra that Charles Munch has decided to resign as Music Director at the end of the 1961-62 season. It was an- nounced at the same time that his successor in the autumn of 1962 will be Erich Leinsdorf. Dr. Munch, who on his resignation will be seventy, will have completed his thirteenth season as this Orchesrta's conductor. Under his leadership the Boston Symphony Orchestra has greatly expanded its activities at home and abroad.