SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1944-1945 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1944, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, InC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Jerome D. Greene . ^ President Henry B. Sawyer . Vice-President Henry B. Cabot . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Reginald C. Foster Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine N. Penrose Hallowell Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [117] ^^^^m^^mmmmmmmmmm^s^mm^m^mmm^^m^^^ ® @ ® @ @ @ ® ® ESTATE ANALYSIS How have wartime changes affected your estate plans? We welcome op- portunities to cooperate with you and your attorney to determine whether changes are necessary or desirable. We invite you to use, without charge, our Shawmut Estate Analysis plan. TRUST DEPARTMENT The ^N^tional @ @ Shawmut Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Listen to John Barry with ''Shawmut Frontline Headlines" — WBZ- WBZA — Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:45 p. m. SYMPHONIANA "My People to My Heart" Paganini and his Interpreter Exhibition Opening Programme, Youth Concerts "MY PEOPLE TO MY HEART" In a time of ordeal we set ourselves a mark. One point or another must per- haps be yielded, but so long as we hold to the mark which we ourselves have set we are unbeaten, in fact not even budged. Stalingrad was such a mark in this war, as great a moral victory for the Rus- sians as it was a military. Marks like these may be publicly proclaimed or they may be personally felt. In either case, not to have yielded them is a constant renewal of inner strength. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is such a bastion. In these five years of ordeal by battle its pre-eminence in- stead of having been impaired has been enhanced: a threatened disaster has be- come a brilliant victory, "the flag is still there." Not a jot has been abated in the distinction of its programs, in the splendor of its tone, in the virtuos- ity of its individual players, or in the grandeur of its performances. For every inch it was forced to yield of the Berk- shire Symphonic Festivals at Tangle- LIGHTING wood (which, in any case, a way was found this past summer to resume by YOUR WAY the artistically effective Mozart Festi- val in the smaller hall), it regained the O mouldering sequins and ground by prodigally generous concerts sumptuous beading of the for the armed forces, both in their same anthracite black or own camps and in Symphony Hall itself, logwood brown of the as well as by the huge at attendance rayon crepe. A boat- the Esplanade Concerts in Boston dur- necked overblouse and the ing July and August, which, though free sleekest of skirts, impor- to the people, paid for themselves this tantly designed .. 124.00 summer, mainly by voluntary contribu- tions in small sums. "I, who have stood IN MISSES' SIZES in the streets," says Major Barbara, "and taken my people to my heart, and talked of the holiest and greatest things ." with them. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has done just that, and its openness of heart is returned by the people. [119] On the last page of a Boston news- paper within the past week appeared an odd portent. It was an advertisement printed in color and filled quite a large space. The reader is placed in the posi- tion of looking over the right shoulder of a man in evening dress who flourishes a stick in his left hand. Beyond him in concentric semicircles are men with violins clutched between chin and col- larbone and more men with violon- cellos gripped between their knees. In front of the conductor on his desk one sees the open pages of a full orchestral score, its black dots strewn thickly on a dozen staves, and the orchestra is playing full blast. Guess what esoteric, what highbrow product this picture was advertising? Ale and beer. There would be no point in telling people that your product is as good as a symphony concert unless the orches- tral symphony had already been ac- cepted in this country as a great popu- lar art. It also happens that the or- chestral symphony is the highest artistic achievement of modern times, as the cathedral was in the Middle Ages. His- A FORMAL torically-minded listeners at Symphony PYJAMA — Hall are often visited by the analogy of Athenian audiences in the Theatre of Dionysos toward the close of the HANDSOME and Fifth Century, B. C, the darkest period COMFORTABLE of the Second Peloponnesian War, hold- ing nevertheless firm to their cultural mark by a first performance (posthu- The jacket of black caracul mous) of the "Oedipus Coloneus" of cloth and rayon crepe is Sophocles in the year 402—when the tunic length over the straight black night of Hellas was illumined by the mellow glory of the Attic stage, by slim black aralac trousers. the singer of sweet Colonus and its child. Turquoise, red, or green, Russians in our lifetimes have earned a great name for holding to their mark. ^izes 12 to 18. $45 In its sixty-fourth year the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra is led by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, and in the twenty-first year of his conductorship, which is the fifth of a world war, he, too, holds this The Trousseau House of Boston mighty instrument to its highest mark. 41B BDYLSTDN STREET UNCLE DUDLEY. WELLESLEY • HYANNI5 " PALM. BEACH Editorial from the Boston Globe, October 6, 1944 [ "20 ] PAGANINI AND HIS INTERPRETER IM )f(t\les\e^.„'?<o/>JLen(t^0 The music of Paganini, a rare ap- 1 parition at the Boston Symphony con- certs, will be heard next week when Zino Francescatti makes his first ap- pearance with this orchestra. The sketch of Paganini here repro- duced was made in London by Sir Edwin Landseer. Although it seems clever and apt, verging on caricature, tf)oy^e ihah ^v'aff showing the violinist's characteristic stance with one knee thrust forward, the sketch has been criticized by Weiss, 1^ » m ^ » taste is important . this is no time for short-lived fads. It is a time for beautiful feminine clothes. A time when Fredleys' clothes come into their own, for in them you find the well- bred simplicity that endures . quality is important . in clothes as in everything else, quality is farsighted economy. And quality is a basic attribute of everything you buy at Fredleys', no matter how much or how little you spend . value is important . good clothes have always proved a good investmient. They pay dividends at every wearing. At Fredleys' you get not only full value, but plus value . that extra S^Ubed by Sir Bdnin l^r.dseer from memory after a something inherent in Fredleys' clothes Ljondon concert. one of Paganini's early biographers: "It gives the idea of a man whose personal appearance is entirely neglected and whose hair is left in the most di- shevelled condition. Paganini was proud of his appearance; and although he was so thin that his clothes hung upon him as on a scare-crow, his hair was alwayi carefully combed and brushed and, I may add, put into paper every night. "He was not what would be called a tall man ; for, as I have seen him stand side by side with my father, I can .', \ declare that he was under five feet . .3^0, "PoylXn ^Vei ten inches in height. He was, as I have [m] ! said, exceedingly thin, and his arms and hands unnaturally long. His bony fingers seemed to stretch from one end of the violin fingerboard to the other without an effort; and it has been asserted that without such a length of finger he never could have played the passages he is known to have executed. He wore his hair (of which he was very proud) in long ringlets over his shoulders. Its color was a rich brown (not black, as some have stated) ; and although he looked many years older than his age (forty-seven) he was proud that he had not a gray hair on his head." AND COMPANY, INC. EXHIBITION Jewelers To The Discriminating The "War Art" picture exhibition, recently shown in connection with the Herald Book Fair, is still on view in the foyer. The Associated American The Kennard name on fine jewelry Artists, Inc., of New York, in con- junction with the United States Navy associates itself with four genera- and the Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, 111., has furnished oils and tions (as long as any living New water colors having to do largely with the submarine side of the war. These will recall). The integ- Englander originals are the latest work of Thomas Benton, whose canvases last year at- rity of that name is part of the tracted so much attention, and of intrinsic value of every current Georges Schreiber, and have never be- fore been exhibited. transaction. Why not profit by it Through arrangements with Richard Edes Harrison, the cartographer, four just by crossing the It is yours of his unusual colored maps are shown. The in conjunction with the threshold, and a warm invitation WACS, Coast Guard, have furnished six original is hereby extended. oil paintings. From the United States Navy Department at Washington are fifty original water color paintings, exe- cuted in every theater of war by combat artists. Also, by courtesy of Life Maga- Certified Gemologist zine there are twenty-five original water colors by David Fredenthal.