s? mil BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY L. HIGGINSON SIXTY-FIRST SEASON 1941-1942 IF] it [Monday and Tuesday] Boston Symphony Orchestra [Sixty-first Season, 1941-1942] SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Personnel Violins BURGIN, R. ELCUS, G. LAUGA, N. KRIPS, A. RESNIKOFF, V. Concert-master tapley, r. KASSMAN, N. CHERKASSKY, P. LEIBOVIO, J. THEODOROWICZ, J. HANSEN, E. DICKSON, H. FEDOROVSKY, P. ZAZOFSKY, G. EISLER, D. PINFIELD, C. BEALE, M. SAUVLET, H. KNUDSON, C ZUNG, M. LEVEEN, P. GORODETZKY, L. MAYER, P. DIAMOND, S. DEL SORDO, R. FIEDLER, B. BRYANT, M. STONESTREET, L. messina, s. DUBBS, H. MURRAY, J. ERKELENS, H. seiniger, s. HILLYER, R. Violas LEFRANC, J. FOUREL, G. VAN WYNBERGEN, C. GROVER, H. CAUHAPE, J. ARTIE RES, L. BERNARD, A. WERNER, H. LEHNER, E. KORNSAND, E. GERHARDT, S. HUMPHREY, G, Violoncellos 1. E. BEDETTI, J. LANGENDOEN, J. droeghmans, h. stockbridge, c FABRIZIO, ZIGHERA, A. CHARDON, Y. zimbler, j. zeise, k. MARJOLLET, L. Basses MOLEUX, G. JUHT, L. GREENBERG, H. GIRARD, H. BARWICKI, J. DUFRESNE, G. FRANKEL, I. PAGE, W. PROSE, P. Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons LAURENT, G. GILLET, F. polatschek, v. ALLARD, R. PAPPOUTSAKIS, J. DEVERGIE, J. valerio, m. PANENKA, E. KAPLAN, P. LUKATSKY, J cardillo, p. LAUS, A. Piccolo English Horn Bass Clarinet Contra-Bassoon MADSEN, G. SPEYER, L. MAZZEO, R. PILLER, B. Horns Horns Trumpets Trombones VALKEN1ER, W. singer, j. MAGER, g. RAICHMAN, J. MACDONALD, W. LANNOYE, M. LAFOSSE, M. HANSOTTE, L. SINGER, J. SHAPIRO, H. VOISIN, R. L. COFFEY, J. KEANEY, P. GEBHARDT, W. VOISIN, R. SMITH, V. Tuba Harps Timpani Percussion ADAM, E. ZIGHERA, B. SZULC, R. STERNBURG, S. CAUGHEY, E. polster, m. WHITE, L. ARC3ERI, E. Librarian rogers, l. j. SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 SIXTY-FIRST SEASON, 1941-1942 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The OFFICERS and TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Ernest B. Dane* ...... President Henry B. Sawyer ..... Vice-President Ernest B. Dane . • . • Treasurer Henry B. Cabot N. Penrose Hallowell Ernest B. Dane M. A. De Wolfe Howe Reginald C. Foster Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer Bentley W. Warren fc Died April 5, 1942. G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [1] A service of particular value at this time TODAY many individuals seek ways to ar- range their personal affairs so that they will have more time to devote to their business, the service of their community or their country. 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Allegro II. Larghetto III. Gavotta: non troppo allegro IV. Finale: molto vivace Shostakovich Symphony No. 6, Op. 53 I. Largo II. Allegro III. Presto INTERMISSION Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso IV. Adagio; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio In the First Balcony Gallery there is an exhibit of water colors by John Aiken. In the small gallery off the west corridor of the First Balcony is to be seen a collection of finger paintings lent by Miss Josephine Durrell. [3 J JORD4M MARSH COMPANY FOR MEW W> AN AUTHENTIC, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR ARMY AND NAVAL The problem of leading modern mechanized fighting men, and yet retaining the poise of an old- time Staff Officer, is neatly solved by the expert styling and tailoring of our uniforms. They, and the accessories for sale on our Street Floor, will pass the inspection of a martinet and at the same time afford the utmost in ease and comfort. UNIFORMS — THIRD FLOOR STORE FOR MEN [4] "CLASSICAL" SYMPHONY, Op. 25 By Serge Prokofieff Born at Sontsovka, Russia, April 23, 1891 The iirst performance of the "Symphonie Classique" was in Petrograd, April 21, 1918, the composer conducting. Prokofieff arrived in New York in September, and in December the Russian Symphony Orchestra in New York played this symphony for the first time in America. It was introduced at the Boston Symphony concerts January 26, 1927. The work is dedicated to Boris Assafieff, a writer on musical sub- jects whose pen name is "Igor Gleboff." The symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. Written in 1916-17, considerably before "neo-classicism" set in, this symphony in miniature surely cannot be looked upon as a pledge to past ways. It might rather be considered a momentary dalliance with the eighteenth-century formula. It would probably be as mistaken to look for reverence in the "Symphonie Classique" as to look for irreverence in it. Let us say that the composer had a single and passing impulse to weave his own bright threads into an old pattern. Prokofieff gives himself precisely the orchestra of Mozart or Haydn; he is punctilious in his formal procedure. He is also concise — so much Darford North Shore You'll find your perfect suit hat among our Dar- ford exclusives from $6.95 to $12.95. They're fa- mous for their quality and appearance after taking hard wear. R. H. STEARNS CO. [53 so that the four movements occupy no more than thirteen minutes — about half the usual duration of the symphonies which he took as model. D major is the prevailing key. The first movement, with clipped phrases, staccato and to the point, sets forth its themes, its develop- ment, its recapitulation and coda, all complete. The Larghetto is in simple rondo form, beginning and ending with a charming pizzicato in the strings, pianissimo, a mere accompanying figure which never- theless lingers in the memory. The theme and its development has a suggestion of eighteenth-century ornamentation, but is in less serious vein. Prokofieff departs from the letter rather than the spirit of his models in choosing a gavotte instead of the rigidly customary minuet. The Finale gives, naturally, a far greater freedom to his fancy, al- though he sets himself a first theme upon the common chord which his forbears might have found quite in order and to their own pur- poses. The working out, recapitulation, and coda are virtuously ob- served. The episodic byplay turns up a sauce of "modern" wit which the periwigged masters could scarcely have approved. [COPYRIGHTED] BACK BAY'S NEWEST STORE w Established 1830 BICELOW KENNARD New Uptown Store - 384 Boylston Street Downtown Store Ten West Street Bet-ween Arlington and Berkeley [6] 'An opportunity for a summer of living and working in music.' The Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces the third term, July 5 - August 16, 1942 of the Berkshire Music Center SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Director at Tanglewood, Home of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts At present, more than ever before, music fills a special need in the life of America. The Berkshire Music Center offers special opportunities to all for the practice and contempla- tion of music in its noblest aspects. The Center has five departments. The following are for advanced students preparing for professional careers: I. Con- ducting, orchestral and choral, II. Orchestral playing and chamber music, III. Composition, IV. Opera. The fifth and largest, the Department of Music and Culture, designed for amateurs, music students, teachers, college students — all who wish to refresh mind and personality by the experience of the best in music — offers a variety of activities: (i) a chorus which will sing various choral works and prepare Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bach's Magnificat in D for performance under Dr. Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Symphonic Festival; (2) orchestral playing in a less advanced symphony orchestra; (3) chamber music groups; (4) a course in Twentieth Century Music; (5) a course in Gregorian Chant and Polyphonic Music 600-1600. All students are privileged to attend lectures by Archibald T. Davison, Olin Downes, Howard Hanson, Lucien Price, Deems Taylor, and the nine Festival concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Faculty will include Serge Koussevitzky, thirty mem- bers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Richard Burgin, Stanley Chappie, Aaron Copland, Olin Downes, Boris Gold- ovsky, Herbert Graf, Ifor Jones, Gregor Piatigorsky, Richard Rychtarik, Hugh Ross, R. Mills Silby, and Igor Stravinsky. For catalog and application blanks address Margaret Grant, Executive Secretary, Symphony Hall, Boston. [7] SYMPHONY NO. 6, Op. 53 By Dmitri Shostakovitch Born September 25, 1906, at St. Petersburg The Sixth Symphony of Shostakovitch had its first performance at a festival in Moscow, December 3, 1939. It was introduced to this country at a concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski conducting, November 29, 1940. This was announced as the "First Performance outside Russia." The symphony was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, March 20, 1942.