Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 85, 1965-1966
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We respectfully invite your inquiry Associated with CHARLES H. WATKINS 8c CO. 8c Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton OBRION, RUSSELL CO. 147 MILK STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Insurance of Every Description Telephone 542-1250 EIGHTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1965-1966 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1966, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President John L. Thorndike Treasurer Abram Berkowitz E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Robert H. Gardiner Edward G. Murray Francis W. Hatch John T. Noonan Andrew Heiskell Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Richard C. Paine Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager Sanford R. Sistare Andrew Raeburn Press and Publicity Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [1027] The Boston Symphony MAM EU/ SYMPHONY No. 5 IiKR<VV\'<'^t:'CK(fet f,-t»t5,VPhyl) 1s Curtin, Soprano under Leinsdorf BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KRK.H UF " It is a revelation" said HiFijStereo Review of the Leinsdorf, Boston Symphony recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. In this remarkable performance the emotions, tensions and, perhaps most of all, the superb structure of the work come through with brilliant clarity. Coupled with it in a 2-record album are excerpts from Wozzeck with Phyllis Curtin as Berg's non-heroine, Marie. Another symphonic masterpiece, Brahms' First Symphony, exhibits the Bostonians' famed "glorious mellow roar" in a Dynagmove recording which, Jike the Mahler, cannot fail to enrich any collection of fine music. RCA Victor ^The most trusted name in sound izgr 1028] CONTENTS Program (for this week) i°33 @T(_aRarmcdnc. Program (February 25-26) . 1083 cflic cfroaisscau3&us? oj^oslon Program (March 1 1-12) 1085 Notes Haydn (Grand March for the Royal Society of Musicians) 1035 Debussy ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun") 1036 Hindemith (Symphony, . 1 "Mathis der Maler") 1044 Entr'acte Hindemith - His Art and his Views (By Jay S. Harrison) 1054 Notes Brahms (Violin Concerto) . 1068 EXHIBITION The exhibition currently on view in the Gallery was assembled by Roger W. Curtis, and consists of paintings by members of the New England Artists' Group. THE SOLOIST Years after Paganini's death, the father of Zino Francescatti studied violin with Sivori, then the only surviving Paga- nini pupil. The father, leaving Italy and becoming a naturalized Frenchman, played for years as cellist at the Mar- seilles Opera, and in that city Zino was born August 9, 1905. He learned to play the violin from his father as a small child and gave his first recital at the age of five. By these circumstances, Zino Francescatti can trace an unbroken thread of tradition handed down from the Genoese phenomenon. Francescatti's mother was a violinist. His wife, nee Yolande Potel de la Briere, is also a violinist, though no longer professionally active. Frances- catti toured Europe extensively before he first came to the United States in 1939. He appeared with this Orchestra October 1944, in Paganini's 27, First t / luted Striped Concerto; on March 31, 1950, in Bach's Concerto in A minor and Saint-Saens' Pour a freshet of Spring color down Concerto No. 3; on April 23, 1954, in this robe of Surah Silk. Zipper clos- Beethoven's Violin Concerto; on April ing. Gold, Turquoise, Raspberry on 13, 1956, in Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 White. Sizes 8-16. in G minor and, with Samuel Mayes, in $50.00 Brahms' Concerto for Violin and Violon- 416 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET BOSTON 02116 cello; on November 1, 1957, in Tchai- WELLESLEY KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 kovsky's Concerto. [1029] — SCHUMANN'S SCENES FROM GOETHE'S "FAUST" During the many months of prepara- tion for the forthcoming performances of Faust a considerable number of people have become acquainted with the score soloists, chorus masters, their assistants and pianists, our librarians, and some guests invited to rehearsals. Virtually all of these people have asked the same question : How can one explain the total neglect of such a glorious work? The answer is amazingly simple. Goethe's Faust from the opening "Zueignung" to the concluding "Chorus Mysticus" contains 12,111 verses. Of these Robert Schumann used 657 in his composition. The first part of Faust, from which Schumann took the first three of his "scenes" is still somewhat J^MM*& familiar; but the second part is a vast, virtually unknown poem. The length and complexity of this work require "advance study" in order to fully ap- preciate it. In an earlier bulletin we suggested two books which might be helpful : Goethe: A Biography by Friedlander, published by World Publishing Company; and Goethe's "Faust" by Stuart Atkins, pub- lished by Harvard University Press. We would like to add to these the transla- tion of "Faust" by G. M. Priest, pub- lished by Knopf, New York. This trans- lation has a valuable introduction and Stop Shop outline of the Two Parts of "Faust." For those who have at least a fair read- Bradlees ing ability in German, we recommend POODS the bilingual edition with a translation by Walter Kaufmann, even though this omits certain portions of Part Two. This book is obtainable in paper-back form, GKe^ o^fe/ ay^ published by Doubleday Company, Inc. Goethe once wrote : "There are three kinds of readers, those who enjoy with- out any judgment, those who sit in judg- ment without any enjoyment and, be- tween these, a minority which judges mmi-pricinq while it enjoys and enjoys while it judges." Doubtless Goethe liked the last kind of reader and wrote "Faust" for him. Some preliminary research on the part of our subscribers will doubtless increase their enjoyment. [1030] . PROGRAM FOR BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S WINTERFEST CONCERT R&D MEN The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the program for its February GRAVITATE TO 22nd concert in the War Memorial Audi- torium as part of the Winterfest events. BOH. The concert will take place at 8 :00 p.m. Mr. Leinsdorf has invited the 19-year- Some potent centripetal force seems old pianist Eugene Indjic to be soloist for the evening, in a performance of the to draw scientists, technicians, and Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. It will engineers to Book Clearing House in be Mr. Indjic's first appearance with the growing numbers. Actually, it's no Boston Symphony Orchestra, although secret: they simply come to our ex- he has appeared several times in the ceedingly well-stocked Text & Techni- Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall and with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur cal Book department (on the second Fiedler, Conductor. floor) for fast and certain fulfillment The program will open with Wagner's of their technical-book needs. And, Overture to "Die Meistersinger," fol- being interested in the arts as well, lowed by "Prelude to The Afternoon of they often pause to browse at our a Faun" by Debussy. The next work will long book and record counters down- be "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" by Richard Strauss. After an intermis- stairs. Why? sion Mr. Indjic will join Mr. Leinsdorf 1 Hundreds of new books and the Orchestra in the Brahms Con- certo. 2. Hundreds of book bargains Eugene Indjic, who was born in 3. 1 1,000 paperback titles Yugoslavia, distinguished himself as a pianist several years ago, when at the 4. The aforesaid technical books ages of 12 and 13 he won the New 5. 10,000 record titles England Merriweather Post Auditions, judged by Arthur Fiedler, Harry Ellis 6. Literary reviews and quarterlies Dickson, and the late Cyrus Durgin. 7. Our left-bank sidewalk carts Last season, taking a leave from his of books schooling at Phillips Andover Academy, he gave a series of concerts in Denmark, That's right. Seven kinds Holland and Italy. He is now a fresh- of food for thought at man at Harvard. His early studies were with Alexander Borovsky in Waban. This concert in the 6000-seat audito- rium in the Prudential Center will pro- BOOK vide an opportunity to hear the Boston CLEARING Symphony Orchestra for many residents and visitors who cannot otherwise attend HOUSE its regular concerts.