BOSTON • r . SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY /'I HENRY LEE HIGGINSON TUESDAY EVENING 4 ' % mm !l SERIES 5*a ?^°£D* '^<\ -#": <3< .4) \S? EIGHTY-THIRD SEASON 1963-1964 TAKE NOTE The precursor of the oboe goes back to antiquity — it was found in Sumeria (2800 bc) and was the Jewish halil, the Greek aulos, and the Roman tibia • After the renaissance, instruments of this type were found in complete families ranging from the soprano to the bass. The higher or smaller instruments were named by the French "haulx-bois" or "hault- bois" which was transcribed by the Italians into oboe which name is now used in English, German and Italian to distinguish the smallest instrument • In a symphony orchestra, it usually gives the pitch to the other instruments • Is it time for you to take note of your insurance needs? • We welcome the opportunity to analyze your present program and offer our professional service to provide you with intelligent, complete protection. invite i . We respectfully* your inquiry , , .,, / Associated with CHARLES H. WATKINS CO. & /qbrioN, RUSSELL 8c CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton / 147 milk street boston 9, Massachusetts/ Insurance of Every Description 542-1250 EIGHTY-THIRD SEASON, 1963-1964 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor 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 Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb C. D. Jackson Charles H. Stockton E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk Rosario Mazzeo James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Orchestra Personnel Manager Business Administrator Assistant Administrators Sarah M. Hempel Harry J. Kraut SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [3] m m ^Jhe Boston Symphony under Erich dEeinsdorf's direction Nineteen years ago, the Boston Symphony premiered ProkofiefFs Fifth Symphony in America. Recently, their new recording of the work became the first in a new series of Prokofieff recordings on RCA Victor Red Seal records. The second is a superlative performance of the seldom heard Concerto for Cello and Orchestra with Samuel Mayes, soloist. This exciting new album also features a superlative and moving performance of Gabriel Faure's Elegie for Cello and Orchestra. i II H t it ERICH LPNSDQRf S<- RCA VICTOR The most trusted name in sound -^ [4l 1 CONTENTS Program 9 @T(aRarmcdtK. Leopold Stokowski Speaks His 31iccIro-usscau3 fans? oj'Ji oslon Views (by Jay S. Harrison) . 1 Notes Gabrieli (Canzon Quarti Toni a 15) 20 Vivaldi (Concerto in D minor for Strings) 29 Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante) . 36 Hovhaness (Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Orchestra) 47 Rorem (Eagles) 51 Stravinsky (Suite from the Ballet "Petrouchka") ... 54 EXHIBITION Paintings assembled by Roger W. Curtis of the New England Artists' Group are now on view in the Gallery. The following artists are represented: Gunnar Bjareby, Ann Appleton Clark, Otis Cook, Roger W. Curtis, R. H. Ives Gammell, Ken Gore, Aldro T. Hibbard, Robert Douglas Hunter, Arnold Knauth, J. Thurston Marshall, Marguerite Pear- son, Arthur Safford, Marian Williams Steele, Paul Strisik. THE CONDUCTOR Leopold Stokowski, who is conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time, was born in London April 18, 1882. The country of his father's birth was Poland. He attended Queens Col- lege, Oxford, and the Royal College of Music in London, taking additional studies in Paris, Munich, and Berlin. He ^outnward d5ounci first came to America in 1905, and was organist at St. Bartholomew's in New Our lightweight "Traveller" packs York for three years. In 1909 he became beautifully, takes to warmer climes. the conductor of the Cincinnati Sym- Rayon surah, colorfully printed in phony Orchestra, resigning in 1912 to Pink or Aqua. Small, Medium, Large become the conductor of the Philadel- $22.95 phia Orchestra. He made his first world- 416 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET wide fame as he built this organization BOSTON 16 WELLESLEY KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 to great eminence. In 1938 he resigned [5] : as Music Director, but continued to con- duct several concerts each season until 1941. From 1940 to 1942 he assembled and conducted the All-American Youth Orchestra. In 1942-43, he was Associate Conductor with Toscanini of the NBC Symphony. In 1945 he became Music Director of the Hollywood Bowl, and held a similar position in 1949-50 with the New York Philharmonic, together with Mitropoulos. It was in 1955 that he became the conductor of the Houston Symphony. In 1953 he organized the Contemporary Music Society in New York, and in 1962 created the American Symphony Orchestra which he still con- JLabel ducts. Leopold Stokowski has shown through- assures t/oit out his career great enterprise in bring- ing important new works to first per- the finest in formance in this country. These include Mahler's Eighth Symphony; Berg's fashion "Wozzeck"; Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" "Les Noces," "Oedipus Rex"; Schoenberg's "Verkl'drte Nacht" "Gurrelieder," " Kammersymphonies "Pierrot Lunaire" violin and piano con- certos; Prokofiev's "Le Pas d'Acier" and "Alexander Nevsky." He was the first to conduct the orchestral music of Shostakovitch in the Americas, and has brought forward a number of American composers. • • "SYMPHONY WEEK" Distinctive Governor Endicott Peabody of Massa- Clothes chusetts and Mayor John Collins of and Boston have each issued proclamations Accessories designating March 2-12 as "Symphony Thus the Commonwealth of for (he well dressed woman Week." Massachusetts and the City of Boston will join in a special tribute to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in recogni- tion of its unique contributions to the City and the Commonwealth. The peri- 121B BOYLSTON STREET . CHESTNUT HILL od will end with the Friends' Meeting STREET . BOSTON 125 NEWBURY on Thursday, March 12. [6] mil puki : Willi! X IJ-PV *-*H fcs ';! iip^S* fj I m sophisticated navy . in a three-piece costume of fine French wool that speaks with authority in every softly-defined line. The gently shaped jacket opens upon a white pique overblouse with ring collar. Filene's French Shops, seventh floor Boston only. $200 wmi mm- cSf HOW COULD to The first performance of Mussorgsky's. Boris Godunov wasn't exactly what you'd call a smash. Mussorgsky's close friend, Rimsky-Korsakow, however, thought the opera a masterpiece marred only by amateurish technique. So, fifteen years after Mussorgsky died, friend Nikolai took the score off the shelf and reworked it. In his hands, advanced musical ideas became mellow cliches. Today, most music critics agree that Mussorgsky's score — not Rimsky- Korsakow's revision — is the one of greater power and originality. The moral of the story, comrades, is simply this: close friends — no matter how well meaning — usually aren't equipped to manage your affairs. When you make out your will, be sure to name an executor who will carry out your Old Colony Trust Company wishes to the letter. Old Colony has a reputation, you'll find, for being just this kind of executor. Ask your lawyer. And then perhaps the two of you would like to come down to Number One Federal Street and talk things over with us. [81 1 EIGHTY-THIRD SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE -SIXTY-FOUR Ninth Program TUESDAY EVENING, March 10, at 8:30 o'clock LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI, Guest Conductor Gabrieli Canzon Quarti Toni a 15 (First performance in this series) Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 3, No. 1 I. Maestoso II. Largo III. Allegro Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, in E-flat, K. 297b I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Andantino con variazioni Oboe: RALPH GOMBERG Bassoon: SHERMAN WALT Clarinet: GINO CIOFFI Horn: JAMES STAGLIANO INTERMISSION Hovhaness. Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Orchestra, Op. 128 (First performance in this series) Rorem . Eagles (After Walt Whitman) (First performance in this series) Stravinsky Suite from the Ballet "Petrouchka" Russian Dance — Chez Petrouchka — Grand Carnival — Nurses' Dance — The Bear and the Peasant Playing a Hand Organ — The Merchant and the Gypsies — The Dance of the Coachman and Grooms — The Masqueraders Piano Solo: BERNARD ZIGHERA BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [9], mm/mmmmmm&mmmmMMm Service and subtle help are the watchwords of our 1 fourth floor Bridal Salon. I Do let Lucile Craig Reed ow delight- NOP* ) sliow y°u ^ ful planning can (I [10] LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI SPEAKS HIS VIEWS By Jay S. Harrison (New York Herald Tribune, October 14, 1956) No one is quite sure how a symbol becomes a symbol, but once it is established in the popular imagination Jove himself can do nothing to dislodge it. Thus, the Statue of Liberty represents America precisely as the Eiffel Tower inevitably conjures up Paris. And music, too, has a symbol of its own. It is of a conductor, his tapered fingers raised skyward, his white, tousled hair and strong profile framed in a crown of light. That man is Leopold Stokowski and any picture of him evokes the spirit of music just as surely as a photograph of Babe Ruth brings to mind baseball in all its throbbing excitement. Symbols as a rule, however, are either inanimate or of an era passed. Leopold Stokowski is neither. For fifty years he has stood at the peak of his profession, and there is no perceptible diminishing of his activity. Tonight, for example, he is to lead the Symphony of the Air at Carnegie Hall in a concert of contemporary works.