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LA fayette 3-5700 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, CO mmonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1955-1956 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. C. D. Jackson John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch Edward A. Taft Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer G. W. Rector ) Assistant J. J. Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager N. S. 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Sizes 10 to Shed concerts will take place on Friday 11 nd Saturday evenings and Sunday after- noons from July 20 through August 12. 9.95 I he "Bach-Mozart" concerts by a cham- ber orchestra of Boston Symphony play- ers in the Theatre will precede these on the two previous week-ends, July 6 through 15. Artists to appear in the series of six dumber music programs on Wednesday evenings (July 4 through August 8) will include the Kroll String Quartet, The Beaux Arts Trio, Rudolph Serkin, piano, and Zino Francescatti, violin, Margaret ll.irshaw in a group of lieder, the Brass Ensemble of the orchestra, and the Bos- ton Symphony Woodwind Quartet. Subscriptions are now being filled at the subscription office for these series as well as for the Shed series of each week. The concerts in the Music Shed will be as follows. SERIES A Friday Evening, July 20 BERLIOZ Overture, "The Roman Carni- val" Debussy "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" RAVEL Rapsodie Espagnole 416 Boylston St., Boston KE 6-6238 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2, in D major Conductor: Charles Munch y/ 54 Central St., Wellesley WE 5-3430 Saturday Evening, July 21 Wagner "A Faust Overture" ' Waldweben" from Siegfried [3] Prelude and "Love-Death" from Tris- tan and Isolde • Die Walkiire, Act I Soloists: C^ hand I er s M UtGARBT Harshaw, Soprano Albert Tremont and West Streets, Boston DaCosta, Tenor James Pease, Bass Conductor: Charlfs Munch Sunday Afternoon, July 22 ROSSINI Overture to "L'ltaliana in Al- geri" BarTOI (Concerto for Orchestra Scm hi i< i Symphony No. 7, in C major Conductor: Pn kki Mumii \ S/ RIBS B I riday /vetting, July 27 ii Bb i i n in Overture, "Leonore" No. 2 Pi ik\^-i CoaeeitO for Orchestra No. 5 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, in F minor Conductor : (!n\iuis MUNCH Saturday Evening, July 28 Hansom Blefy in Memory of Serge kmissc\ it/k\ Scm m\nn Piano Concerto in A minor Soloist : Rl DOLf Si SKIN Honbggeb Symphony No. 5 I)i in BS1 I l Mer" Conductor: Cii\kiis Minch Sunday Afternoon, July 29 HANDEL Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6. 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Coburn, Jr. Old Colony's service can help Chairman, Trust Investment Committee Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTY.FIFTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRF.n FIFTY-FIVE AND FIFTY-SIX Sixth Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, April 22, at 3:00 o'clock MOZARI Symphony in D major, "Haffner," No. 35 (K. 385) I. Allegro con spirito II. Andante III. Menuetto IV. Finale: Presto Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet," Overture-Fantasia INTERMISSION Martinu Fantaisies Symphoniques (Symphony No. 6) I. Lento; Allegro; Lento II. Allegro III. Lento; Allegro Falla Three Dances from the Ballet "El Sombrero de Tres Picos" Performances by the orchestra are broadcast each week on Monday evenings from 8:15 to 9:00 P.M. on the NBC Network (Station WBZ, Sundays from 1:05 to 1:50 P.M.) The Friday afternoon concerts at 2:15 and Saturday evening concerts at 8:30 are broadcast direct by station WGBH-FM. For the program of the extra concert on April 29, see page 48. 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No doubt there were 1 'imaiiu In st performance at the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was inu.iiv io, 1885. There were later performances in 1909, 1916, 1923, 1926, 1933, 1939. 1941, 1945, 1949 and November 25, 1949 (Leonard Bernstein).