\ / y) r BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON % TUESDAY EVENING "CAMBRIDGE" SERIES f « ^2Z£* mil -~%J '/ Uflii'li J~<2>r~ ^if/ :x to 4\\v& • u v x^ I > > I'm ,,J h '7>>'/'v'-^S;j#i /^^^^^i#AV /*/* ^ r \j '^. ~- ( \^r. EIGHTY-SIXTH SEASON 1966-1967 Mozart The Boston Symphony "Jupiter" Symphony Leinsdorf Eine Kleine Nachtmusik under Boston Symphony Orchestra The complexities of Mozart's"Jupiter" Sym- Erich Leinsdorf phony impose severe demands on both conductor and orchestra. Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony respond with a virtuoso performance marked by discipline and polish. Recorded with it, the delightful "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." Equally impressive, in the Romantic idiom, is their recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Artur Rubinstein. Enjoy these fine perform- RCA Victor ances on RCA Victor Red Seal albums. The most trusted name in sound EIGHTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1966-1967 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Charles Wilson, Assistant Conductor The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President John L. Thorndike Treasurer Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris Edward G. Murray Robert H. Gardiner John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Mrs. James H. Perkins Andrew Heiskell Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Sanford R. Sistare Harry J. Kraut Press and Publicity Assistant to the Manager Andrew Raeburn Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [3] Learn investment analysis in your spare time? 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Allegro, ma non troppo INTERMISSION Beethoven Symphony No. 7, in A major, Op. 92 I. Poco sostenuto; Vivace II. Allegretto III. Presto; Assai meno presto; Tempo primo IV. Allegro con brio BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [5] OVERTURE TO "CORIOLAN," Up. 62 (after Collin) By Lunwic van Beethoven died in Vienna, March 26, .827 Bom in Bonn, December .60), .770; subject of "Coriolanus in the year .807. Beethoven composed his overture on the L°bkow"z '" at subscription concerts of Prmce It was probably first performed was published in .808, w.th a dedication Vienna, in March, .807. The Overture von Collin. to Court Secretary Heinrich J. oboes, 2 of Beethoven's overtures: 2 flutes, 2 The orchestration is the usual one timpani and strings. clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, ambitious to try his hand at another A fter Fidelia, Beethoven was subjects, among them a setting A opera, and entertained several Collin-, for which Heinrich Joseph von o£ Shakespeare's Macbeth and popularity in Vienna at the time, a dramatist o£ high standing his libretto. Beethoven noted in wrote for him the first part of a immediately into the chorus ot sketchbook- "Overture Macbeth falls progress beyond the middle of the witches." But the libretto did not according to Collin's biographer, second act, and was abandoned, become too gloomy." In short, no Laban, "because it threatened to But his association with opera emerged from Beethoven in .807. for performance with the Collin resulted in an overture intended been first performed in spoken tragedy Conolan. The play had arranged from Mozart s Idomeneo), ,802 (then with entr'acte music which was largely attributable and had enjoyed a considerable vogue part. The popularity of Conolan to the acting of Lange in the title Beethoven wrote his overture had definitely dropped, however, when the play was billed only once on the subject. Thayer points out that and .809. The single performance in Vienna between the years .805 not this performance Thayer does was on April 24, .807, and even at Beethoven seems, then, to have believe that the Overture was played. of it rather than by any set attached himself to the subject for sheer love as a concert overture; commission. 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The point is of little consequence for the reason that both Shakespeare and Collin based their characters directly upon the delineation of Plutarch. Beethoven himself could well have been familiar with all three versions. His library contained a much-thumbed copy of Plu- tarch's Lives, and a set of Shakespeare in the translation of Eschenburg, with many passages underlined. The tale of Coriolanus, as related by Plutarch, is in itself exciting dramatic material (details of which have been questioned by histo- rians) . Coriolanus, according to Plutarch, was a patrician general of the Romans, a warrior of the utmost bravery and recklessness who, single- handed, had led Rome to victory against the neighboring Volscians. Rome was at this time torn by bitter controversy between the patricians and the plebeians who declared themselves starved and oppressed be-:f: yond endurance. Coriolanus, impulsive and overbearing, had scorned and openly insulted the populace in terms which roused the general anger, and when the military hero was proposed as consul, the senate was swayed by the popular clamor, and voted his permanent exile from Rome in the year 491 b.c. Swept by feelings of bitterness and desire for revenge, he took refuge with the Volscians, the traditional enemies of the Romans, and made compact with them to lead a campaign against his own people. The fall of Rome seemed imminent, and emissaries were sent from the capital to the Volscian encampment in city outside the walls. Coriolanus met every entreaty with absolute re-| |e jection. In desperation, a delegation of women went out from the city,, led by his mother and his wife. They went to his tent and beseeched( him on their knees to spare his own people. 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