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SIXTY-SIXrfH SEASON 1946-1947 Acadetny of Music, Brooklyn Under the auspices of the BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES and the PHILHARMONIC SoCIETY or. llROOKLYN SEATING PUN JOHN I I WILl/AM I HARRY I PAUL i JAMES I I JACO~ LUCIEN JOHN JOSEF VINAL EU6fN[ BARWICK/ GEBHARDhfHAPIRO KEANEY .fl~}f~NO RA~s~~ • HANJOTJ[ COFFEY OROSZ SMITH ADAM 1 TROMBONES TUBA HUGH 1 HARaD 1 WALTfll 1 WILLEM OS8f)JRN[ COWDEN MEEK MACfXJNALO VALKCNifR McCONATHY GEORGfS MARCEL f?{)(j[R I RENE I HARRY FIRJr MAGER LAFOSSE VOISIN VOISIN HE/iFOI1TH A.l.ltlTI&NT" FRENCH HORNS trtA.Jr "'"r TRUMPETS BOAZ ANNE l ERNST IRAYMOND .ROSARIO PILLER Df6UKIIAID PANENKA ALLARJ) MAZZ£0 ~IJ!I:JT COHTAA &U!t:HJN BASSOONS ~"·· JOSEPH JEAN JOHN VICTOR LIJKAT.JI(Y DEVEI?GIE HOLMES POLATSCHf1 1'1/UT FIIIST OBOES PHILLiP GEORGE KAPLAN MADSEN HARRY DICI<J()V PAUL I NICHOi.AI FE/XIliMKY KASSMNI DANIEL I JOSEPH I HAI?RY I 6[0/?G[ I ROLLAND I ALFRED I JEAN I Et16EN I ALBERT I LOlliS I HANS I SIECFKIEO EISLER Lfi80V/CI f)UB8S lAZOfJKY TAPLEY KRIPS LE!"P.ANC LEHN& BERNARD AKTIERES WERNER 6ERHAI?OT ASS/fTANT (l»'CLAT'-A!AS1M SERGE ~ JEAN, 6£01?6ES {jJ EINAR 1 VLADIMIR 1 muL 1 NORBeRT 1 GASTON RICHARD K{JfSSEV/TlKY CAIJHAPE FOIJREL HANSEN RESNIKOFF CllfKKASSKf LAUGA ELCUS BURGIN COHIJUCTOR trN:otT..wmr FIRST FIRST VIOLINS Acadetny of Music, Brooklyn SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1946- 1947 Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZK Y, 1\Iusic IJirector RICHARD 13uRGIN, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Fifth Concert FRIDAY EVENING, .1pril 1 1 with historical and descriptive notes bJ' JoHN N. BuRK TilE TRUSTEES OF TilE BOSTON SYl\lPIIONY ORCHESTRA, INc. IIENRY 13. CAno r President liENRY 13. SAWYER Vice-President RICIIARD C. pAINE Treasurer PHILIP R . ALLEN FRANCIS w. HATCH joHN NICHOLAS BROWN M. A. DE \VoLFE HowE AI VAN T. FULLER 1ACOB J. KAPLAN JEROME D. GREENE RoGER I. LEE N. PENROSE HALLOWELL RAYMOND s. WILKINS OuvER \VoLcorr GEORGE E. 1uno, Manager [ 1 ] HEAR THE Boston SyiUphony Orchestra SERGE KOU SSEVITZK Y Conductor broadcast at 8:30 P.M. every Tuesday evening Over an ABC ~ NETWORK Sponsored by INSURANCE BO~TOIV , MA HA CHUS!J TTS Academy of l\!Iusic, Brooklyn Boston Symphony Orchestra SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1946-1947 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director FIFTH CONCERT FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL t 1 Program BRAHMS ............. ..... .. Academic Festival Overture, op. 8o BRAHMS .............. Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56A INTERMISSION BRAHMS ...................... Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68 I. Un poco sostenuto II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e gra1ioso IV. Adagio; allegro non troppo, ma con brio B 1\.LDWIN PIANO VICTOR RECORDS [ J] ACADEMIC FESTIVAL OVERTURE, Op. tso By J OIIANNES BRAHMS Born at Hamburg, l\Iay 7• 1833; died at Vienna, April 3· 1897 The overture was composed in 188o; first performed January 4, 1l:!!h, at the University of Breslau. The orchestration: two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and contra-bassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, bass drum. timpani, cymbals, t1 iangle and strings. RAHMs' two overtures, the "Akademisclze Fest-Ouvert1~re" and the B "Tragische Ouvertiire" were composed in one summer- in 1 88o at Bad Ischl. It was his first summer in this particular resort, and al­ though he was somewhat discouraged by an abundance of rainy weather, it charms drew him again in later years (188g-g6). "I must give high praise to Ischl," he wrote to Billroth in June, 188o, "and although I am threatened only with one thing- the fact that hal£ Vienna is here- I can be quiet here- and on the whole I do not dislike it." 't\Thich is to say that Ischl had already become the gather­ ing point of a constant round of cronies from Vienna. Brahms' friends of course would scrupulously respect the solitudes of the master's mornings - the creative hours spent, partly in country walks, partly in his study. Later in the day he would welcome the relaxation of companionship- of conversation to an accompaniment of black cigars and coffee, of mountaineering (Brahms was a sturdy walker), or of music-making together. When the University at Breslau conferred upon Brahms, in the pring of 187g, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the composer re­ sponded in kind, and made the institution the handsome present of an overture on student airs. Presents of this sort are not to be unduly hastened when artistic good faith and the heritage of the musical world are considered. Brahms composed and destroyed another "Academic" overture before this one, if Heuberger is not mistaken. The performance came the following January, when Brahms con- TRAINING IN ALL FIELDS OF MUSIC ORCHESTRA CHORUS OPERA POPULAR MUSIC ORGAN COMPOSITION SPECIAL STUDENTS NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 290 HUNTINGTON AVENUE BOSTON 15, MASS. ducted it at Breslau, while the Herr Rektor and member of the philosophical faculty sa t m erried ranks, presumably gowned, in the front rows. It goes without saying that both Brahms and his ovcrtun: were quite innocent of such "academic" formality. It is about a tavern table, the faculty forgotten, that music enters spontaneously into German college life. Although Brahms never attended a university he had tasted something of this life at Gottingen when, as a younger man, he visned with Joachim, who was tudying at the University. Brahms did not forget the melody that filled the KncipeJ inspired by good company and good beer. Student songs, with their Volhslied flavor, inevitably interested him. He found use for four of them. "Wir hatten gebauet ein stiittliches Haus" is first given out by the trumpets. "Der Landesvater" ("HortJ ich sing' das Lied der Lieder") is used rhyth­ mically, delightfully developed. The "Fuchslied" or Freshman's Song Here indeed is the ideal winter resort where gracious living reigns supreme and distinguished America comes to bask in Florid:t's sunshine . .. gaily ... luxuri- ously ... with every opportunity for re t ... sociability ... and the full enjoy- ment of all Southern sports. Or if Plorida is noL your mood - the Th e SHERATON PLAZA delightful SllFRATON BON AIR at Daytona Beach Florida Augusta, Georgia, America's Golfing Re­ ~on, oO.ers every facility for resc .1nd rd.n.. ;nion in .1 /CSl f ul Indian summer dim.ttc. • r c; 1 • ("Was lwmmt dort von der Hoh' ") is the choice of the unbuttoned Brahms, and leaves all educational solemnities behind. The air is in­ troduced by two bassoons. When Brahms wrote Kalbeck that he had compo cd ··a very polly potpourri on tuclcnts' songs a La Suppe," Kal­ beck inquired jokingly whether he had used the "Fox song." "Oh, yes," said Brahms complacently. Kalbeck, taken aback, protested that he could not imagine any such tune used in homage to the "leathery Herr Rektor," and Brahms answered: "That is wholly unnecessary." Brahmsian hor cplay docs not get quite out of hand, and the dignitie~ are saved beyond doubt when the full orchestra finally intones tht hearty college hymn, "Gaudeamus Igitur." [COJ>YRlC.HTE:D] VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY HAYDN, Op. s6a By JOHANNES BRAHMS Born at Hamburg on May 7• 1833; died at Vienna on April 3· 1897 These variations, composed in the year 1873, were first performed at a concert of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, Felix Dessoff conducting, November 2, 1873. The first performance in Boston is on record as having been given by Theo­ dore Thomas' orchestra, January 31, 1874. The first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra took place December 5, 1884. The orchestration includes two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and double-bassoon, four horns, two trumpets, timpani, triangle and strings. ROM the time that Schumann proclaimed Johannes Brahms m his F twenties as a new force in music, a torch-bearer of the symphonic tradition, friends and foes waited to see what sort of symphony this "musical Messiah" would dare to submit as a successor to Beethoven's mighty Ninth. The "Hamburg John the Baptist" realized what was ex­ pected of him, and after his early piano concerto, which no audience accepted, and his two unassuming serenades, he coolly took his time and let his forces gather and mature for some twenty years before yield­ ing to the supreme test by submitting his First Symphony. This hap­ pened in 1877. Three years earlier, he tried out his powers of orchestra­ tion on a form less formidable and exacting than the symphony- a form which he had finely mastered in his extreme youth as composer for the piano- the theme with variations. In this, the first purely [ 6 1 Tabby's $2,200 Meal They had JW>C rushed the milkman ro the hos pir.tl ... and Tabb~·, seeing char things had quieted down, went 01·er and rapidly lapped up the ''spilled" milk. It was an unexpected "free meal" for the car ... but ir was rhe !lHht expen­ sive meal she e1·er are. 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