^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN I88I BY HENRY LEE HIG SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1958-1959 Academy of Music, Brooklyn Under the auspices of the BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SQENCBS and the PHILHARMONIC SoaBTY OF BROOKLYN »958-59 THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE FOR The Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts IN BROOKLYN Mrs. Albert C. Magee, Chairman Mrs. Edward C. Blum Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Jr. Mrs. H. Haughton Bell Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Vice-chairman Mrs. Donald Edgar Swift, Secretary Mrs. John F. Thompson, Jr., Treasurer Mrs. Irving G. Idler Mrs. William T. Daily Chairman of Boxes Chairman of Membership Honorary Chairman, Mrs. Carroll J. Dickson Mrs. Alexander Aldrich Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin Miss Emma Jessie Ogg Mrs. Elias J. Audi Mrs. Silas M. R. Giddings Mrs. Harold Ostergren Mrs. Charles L. Babcock, Jr. Mrs. Andrew L. Goraory Mrs. William M. Parke Mrs. C. Rankin Barnes Mrs. R. Whitney Gosnell Mrs. William B. Parker Mrs. Bernard S. Ban- Mrs. Morgan Grossman Mrs. Frank H. Parsons Mrs. John R. Bartels Mrs. Warren L. Hafely Mrs. Raymond King Pendleton Mrs. George M. Billings Mrs. Arthur C. Hallan Mrs. Franklyn H. Peper Mrs. John R. H. Blum Mrs. Frederick H. Rohlfs Mrs. J. Victor Herd Mrs. Robert E. Blum Mrs. William B. Hewson Mrs. Donald Ross Mrs. Lawrence Sands J. Bolvig Mrs. James M. Hills Mrs. Abraham M. Mrs. Otis Swan Carroll Mrs. Irving Sands Mrs. David S. Hunter J. Mrs. Francis T. Christy Mrs. Raymond V. IngersoU Mrs. Martin Segal Miss Edith U. Conard Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham Mrs. Eliot H. Sharp Mrs. Benjamin G. C. Sinclair J. Conroy Mrs. Darwin R. James, III Mrs. Donald Mrs. Donald M. Crawford Mrs. Ainsworth L. Smith Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr. Mrs. Russell V. Solomon Cruikshank Mrs. Miles M. Rastendieck Mrs. Sidney L. Mrs. Frederick I. Harry Spencer Daniels Mrs. James Vincent Keogh Mrs. H. Miss Ruth G. Davis Mrs. Jeanne Toomey Tcrranova Mrs. John Bailey King Mrs. Berton Delmhorst Mrs. Hollis K. Thayer J. Mrs. Abbott Lippmann Mrs. Anthony Di Giovanna Mrs. Gilbert H. Thirkield Mrs. Everett J. Livesey Mrs. James B. Donovan ,, x^j.fTi- T Mrs. Theodore N. Trynin J. Frederick Lohman, Jr. Mrs. ** ,, ^ ,,. « r^ ./, Mrs. Remick C. Eckardt Mrs. Frankhn B. Tuttle Mrs. John Madden, Mrs. Alfred H..Everson J. Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen Mrs. Eugene R. Marzullo Mrs. James F. Fairman Mrs. Robert F. Warren Mrs. John W. Faison Mrs. Carleton D. Mason Mrs. Harold E. Weeks Mrs. Merrill N. Foote Mrs. Richard S. Maynard Mrs. Frederick Weisbrod Mrs. Lewis W. Francis Miss Helen M. McWilliams Mrs. Travis H. Whitney Mrs. Laurance E. Frost Mrs. Alfred L. Megill Miss Elizabeth T. Wright S E VE N T Y - E I G H T H SEASON, 1958-1959 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN 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. 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Tune to WQXR, 1560 AM, 96.3 FM, the radio station of The New York Times. i«) SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY-NINE Program FRIDAY EVENING, March 13, at ^:<^o o'clock Berlioz "Royal Hunt and Storm," Descriptive Symphony from "The Trojans" Block *"Schelomo" (Solomon), Hebrew Rhapsody for 'Cello and Orchestra INTERMISSION Brahms *Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso, quasi andantino IV. Allegro con spirito SOLOIST SAMUEL MAYES BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS Isl "Chasse Royale et Orage" ("Royal Hunt and Tempest"), Symphonie Descriptive, from Part II of "Les Troyens" By Hector Berlioz Born in C6te-Saint-Andr6 (Is^re) on December ii, 1803; died in Paris on March 9, 1869 Les Troyens was composed between 1856 and 1858. Berlioz divided it into two parts. La Prise de Troie and Les Troyens a Carthage. The "Royal Hunt and Storm" is an instrumental interlude in the second part. Les Troyens a Carthage, consisting of five acts with a prologue, was first performed at the Theatre Lyrique, November 4, 1863. The first opera. The Capture of Troy, was never heard by its composer. Felix Mottl conducted the full opera Les Troyens on two successive evenings, December 6 and 7, 1890, at Carlsruhe. La Prise de Troie was performed in Paris at the Op^ra, November 15, 1899. Les Troyens as a whole had its first performance in English at Glasgow, March 18 and 19, 1935. A revival at Convent Garden, London, in June, 1957, brought the whole opera into an evening's performance, encompassed (with a few cuts) in five hours. Sir John Gielgud directed the production and Rafael Kubelik conducted. The first stage performance in the United States was given by the New England Opera Theatre, under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, March 27, 1955 (considerably reduced in length). The "Descriptive Symphony" was performed at the concerts of this Orchestra by Henri Rabaud, February 28, 1919, by Sir Thomas Beecham, January 20, 1928, by Charles Munch, October 3-4, 1952. The operatic production calls for stage action and a mixed chorus. The orches- tration is as follows: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum and strings. T) ERLioz intended his "Royal Hunt and Storm" to depict the moment -^ in the opera when Aeneas and Dido are driven by a storm which Venus has contrived into a cave where their love is consummated. Virgil covers it with singular brevity in the following lines of the Aeneid, Book IV: IfifHy Your* grandfather turned up safe and sound, back where he'd first seen that fascinat- ing engine. No spanking from his re- Aiffray, HTKat I>a.y lieved mother. For 95 years, children have been getting happily lost here, He was five years old, and he had seen among the red engines and other fas- a red engine here on a visit to Schwarz cinators we sell, at competitive prices. with His mother. Suddenly she missed Come in and get lost, and love it. him. After quite a boy-hunt, your Send for free Catalogue 65 3 S C HWAR Z Famous Toy Store M^l ^ ^^^^ St., Boston 16, Mass., Telephom: CtaflNmraaltli 6-5101 ^Si'\ Nnr Yoft • Anlaora, Pi. [4] ; ; PLANS FOR THE BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Charles Munch announces his program tured in all the works, and soloists for plans for the Berkshire Festival by this the Mozart "Requiem" and Beethoven's Orchestra at Tanglewood next summer. Ninth Symphony will include Adele The concerts will begin on Wednesday, Addison, soprano, Florence Kopleff, con- July 1, and close Sunday, August 9. tralto, Blake Stern, tenor and Donald Charles Munch will conduct fourteen Gramm, bass. John McCollum will be of the eighteen Festival concerts and tenor soloist in the Berlioz "Requiem." Pierre Monteux, the Orchestra's 84-year- Dr. Munch will also present Bach's old "conductor emeritus" will conduct Cantata No. 50, "Nun ist das Heil," on four concerts, one on each of the last July 3rd and Beethoven's Choral Fan- four weekends. tasy on August 7th. Rudolf Serkin, pianist, and Isaac Stem, Other Festival features include per- violinist, will each appear at three Fes- formances of Mozart's Piano Concerto tival concerts during the 1959 season. in G major, K. 453 and d'Indy's "Sym- Each has made special arrangements to phony on a French Mountain Air" by appear with the Boston Symphony Or- the French pianist, Nicole Henriot- chestra and will perform classics of the Schweitzer, and the Concerto for Violin concerto literature. Mr. Serkin will be and Oboe in C minor by Bach, per- heard in Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 formed with the Orchestra by Ruth in D minor. Op. 15; Mendelssohn's Posselt, violin, and Ralph Gomberg, Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Op. oboe. Bethany Beardslee, soprano, will 25; and two works by Beethoven—the be soloist in Bach's Cantata No. 51, Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orches- "Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen," and tra, and the Fourth Piano Concerto in the concert of Saturday evening, July 4, G major, Op. 58. Isaac Stern will be will be devoted to performances of soloist in the Violin Concertos of Tchai- Piano Concertos by Bach for one, two, kovsky, Brahms and Mendelssohn. three and four pianos. The concerts of the first two weeks The Berkshire Festival dates follow of the Festival, in the Theatre-Concert the pattern of previous years with six Hall by members of the Boston Sym- weekends of concerts on Friday and phony Orchestra, will be devoted to Saturday evenings at 8:30 and Sunday music of Bach (July 3-4-5) and Mozart afternoons at 2:30. The first two week- (July 10-11-12), and will be conducted ends of concerts by a smaller orchestra by Charles Munch.