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Kraut Press and Publicity Assistant to the Manager Andrew Raeburn Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [835] . The Boston Symphony tf^ki | >pJ?^ptony E ne ein N«tomdk _ f//7(/er Leinsdorf l : Boston fSymphonyt Orchestra 77>e complexities of Mozart's"Jupiter" Sym- , . , , f .. Erich Lemsdort phony impose severe demands on both conductor and orchestra. Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony respond with a virtuoso performance marked by discipline and ^b -* polish. Recorded with it, the delightful "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." Equally impressive, in the Romantic idiom, is their recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with DP A Ulr*t/\n Artur Rubinstein. Enjoy these fine perform- HwA ¥ lULUl ances on RCA Victor Red Seal albums. ©The most trusted name in sound [ 83G CONTENTS Program (for this week) • 841 | . Program (January 20-2 1) . 891 ©ltct(tanria5ltic. Program (February 3-4) • 893 cThecfrotfss«du3Couseof33*sloK Notes Haydn (Symphony in B-flat major) . • 843 ANNUAL Martinu (Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani) • 874 JANUARY Entr'acte Kappellmeister Haydn and his Prince (J.N. B.) • 850 Notes Franck (Symphony in D minor) 880 Copyright 1967 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. to EXHIBITION % Vi The exhibition of paintings now on view in the Gallery is loaned by the Shore Galleries. Off GUEST CONDUCTOR RAFAEL KUBELIK was born in 1914 in Bychory, Czechoslovakia, near Lingerie Prague. His father was the celebrated violinist Jan Kubelik. As a boy he studied this instrument with his father, Teagowns, Negligees and from 1928 to 1934, composition, violin, piano and conducting at the Prague Conservatory. He was appointed Fine Linens conductor and musical director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague in 1936, and retained these positions until 1948. From 1939 to 1941 he was Children's Clothes also Music Director of the Opera House in Brno. in Wellesley only Mr. Kubelik was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1953, and Conductor of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, from 1955 to 1958. For many years he has appeared regularly, not only at the chief European Music Festivals, but as guest conductor of the Berlin Philhar- ALL SALES FINAL monic Orchestra, the Vienna Philhar- monic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the London Philharmonic, Royal the 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. London Philharmonia, the Paris Orches- tre National, the Israel Philharmonic, Boston 02116 Wellesley and other major orchestras. Since 1960 KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 he has also directed an international conductors' course in connection with the Lucerne Music Festival. In June, [837] 1961, he conducted the premiere of Schoenberg's "Jacobsleiter" in Vienna, with the Cologne "Westdeutsche Rund- funk Orchestra." Since 1961, Mr. Kubelik has been Music Director of Munich's principal orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orches- tra, and with this orchestra made an extensive European tour to Vienna, Zurich, Geneva, Paris, and various Ger- man and Dutch cities. As a composer himself, Mr. Kubelik has written several operas and a variety of instrumental works. In August, 1962, during the International Music Festival at Lucerne he conducted the first per- formance of his "Requiem," a work for orchestra, chorus and baritone solo, dedicated to the memory of his late wife. During recent seasons Mr. Kubelik has conducted as guest the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Los savings Angeles. In the 1965-66 season he was invited to conduct the Philadelphia Or- chestra, and this year, in addition to his appearances here, he has conducted that in Chicago and Toronto. are CHARLES WILSON The piano soloist in the Martinu Concerto at today's concert is Charles Wilson, the newly appointed Assistant music Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Wilson has come to Boston from New York City, where for six years he was a conductor and on the to musical staff of the New York City Opera Company, performing fourteen different operas and operettas, including Don Giovanni, Boris Godonov, The your Merry Widow and Street Scene. In the fall of 1966 he conducted the New York City Opera Company's production of Menotti's The Consul both at Lincoln Center and in the Midwest. ears! Mr. Wilson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music in 1960 from the Mannes College of Music where he studied organ with Dr. Hugh Giles, and with Carl Bamberger, his only conduct- ing teacher. For two years Mr. Wilson served on the Mannes faculty as Direc- tor of the Mannes Chorus, and during the 1961-1963 seasons was chorus mas- ter for the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company. Mr. Wilson will conduct the opening concert of the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood this summer and will make his debut as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra early in the 1967-1968 season. 838 I Rafael Kubelik One of the World's Foremost Orchestral Colorists— exclusively on DGG Records conducting the Berlin Philharmonic: JANACEK: SLAVONIC MASS DVORAK: SYMPHONY No. 8 Evelyn Lear, Hilde Roessel-Majdan, (Formerly No. 4) 39 181; Ernst Haefliger, Franz Crass Stereo 139 181 18 954; Stereo 138 954 SCHUMANN: 4 SYMPHONIES GRIEG & SCHUMANN: PIANO Nos. 1, "Spring" & 4. 18 860; CONCERTOS Geza Anda, pianist Stereo 138 860: No. 2 & Genoveva Stereo 138 888 Overture 18 955; Stereo 138 955: SCHOENBERG: GURRE-LIEDER Inge Borkh, Hertha Toepper, No. 3, "Rhenish" & Manfred Kieth Engen, others 18 984-5; Overture Stereo 138 908 WAGNER: SIEGFRIED IDYLL Stereo 138 984-5 conducting at La Scala: plus "Tristan" Prelude and VERDI: RIGOLETTO Liebestod; Overtures to "Lohengrin" Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renata and "Meistersinger" 19 228; Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, others. 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