SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 1492 FIFTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1938-1939 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor Richard Burgin, Assistant Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1939, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ItlC. 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 M. A. De Wolfe Howe Ernest B. Dane Roger I. Lee Alvan T. Fuller Richard C. Paine Jerome D. Greene Henry B. Sawyer N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Bentley W. Warren G. E. Judd, Manager C. W. Spalding, Assistant Manager [769] Complete FIDUCIARY SERVICE for INDIVIDUALS The fiduciary services of Old Colony Trust Company available to individuals are many and varied. We cite some of the fiduciary capacities in which we act. 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The Concerto had its first perform- ance at the concerts of the Chicago Cocktail Time at Symphony Orchestra on November 18, The Copley-Plaza 1937. Mr. Balokovic was then soloist, as likewise in subsequent performances of A few steps from the the orchestras of Cleveland and Los Angeles. John Alden Carpenter is remembered Mewuf-Qa- (lotutd at these concerts by numerous perform- ances of his music in the past, includ- is Copley-Plaza's beautiful, ing his Symphony, Piano Concertino, spacious Restaurant — the "Adventures in a Perambulator," his suite from "The Birthday of the In- focal center of social Boston fanta," his "Skyscrapers," his "Song of Faith," "Patterns" and "Danza." To climax a perfect day Zlatko Balokovic was born in Croatia (Yugoslavia). At sixteen he left the Supper Dancing in Conservatory at Zagreb to enter the the gorgeous Meisterschule in Vienna, under Sevcik, graduating with honors in two years. He has made innumerable appearances in the cities of Europe and America. from 9 until 1 a. m. THE PROJECT FOR AN ACADEMY You will thoroughly enjoy While directing their immediate at- tention to a programme for 1939, that the entrancing music of Nye promises fully as much as in other Mayhew and His Orchestra years, the objective at "Tanglewood" re- of Sophisticated Melodies mains — a musical center for the year 1940. At the dedicatory exercises for the shed last summer, Bentley W. Warren, speaking for the trustees of the Or- THE chestra, made this announcement: "We all hope the annual Berkshire Symphonic Festival may be supple- BOSTON mented by a school or academy holding annual sessions preceding the concerts Arthur L. Race, Managing Director themselves, and devoted to the cultiva- tion of the highest standards in the [771.3 work of orchestral conductors, chorus leaders and instrumental players. 'Tan- glewood' is the ideal location for such a center. "This fortunate combination of cir- cumstances will provide an excellent be- ginning for the realization of Dr. Kous- sevitzky's programme. Indeed, the great- est need will be for scholarships. No one can doubt that from some source the necessary funds will be forthcom- ing, and it is expected that the detailed arrangements for the school will be completed so that its first session may precede the Berkshire Festival of 1940." The trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and trustees of the Berkshire Symphonic Festival are giving serious thought to the development of the physical plant at "Tanglewood" in an- ticipation of the next momentous step in expansion, scheduled for 1940. NEW ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHS Representative photographs from camera clubs in several of the New England States are now on view in the Exhibition Foyer. Twelve clubs, in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, have contributed ex- amples of their best work. 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