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EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON, 1961-1962 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 Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Abram Berkowitz John T. Noonan Theodore P. Ferris Mrs. James H. Perkins Francis W. Hatch Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson John L. Thorndike E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Raymond S. Wilkins Henry A. Laughlin Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Palfrey Perkins Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 3] What everyone likes about Boston . The Hatch Memorial Shell What you will like about Shawmut's trust department. You will like the warmth, respect and understanding a Shawmut trust officer brings to your personal trust problems . plus the sound judgment, based on research and experience, that helps you reach proper financial decisions. Let him demonstrate to you and your attorney how Shawmut can serve you. The Rational Shawmut Bank of Boston Complete Banking and Trust Services • Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [4] CONTENTS Program 9 ®T(a<iatmaflric. Notes 3b«3roifsstauSCoust of33oito* Webern (Six Pieces for Orchestra) 11 Albeniz (Suite from "Iberia") . 32 Entr'actes How Anton Webern Died (/• N. B.) 24 The Complete Webern (Shawe-Taylor) 42 Notes Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 4) 48 WATERCOLORS The exhibition in the Gallery is loaned by the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters. ELEAZAR DE CARVALHO Eleazar de Carvalho was born in Iguatu in the State of Ceara, Brazil. He spent his childhood on the farm of his parents, who were of Dutch extraction on his father's side and pure Indian on his mother's. In 1925 he was sent to the town of Fortaleza for his first schooling, and there prepared to be an apprentice travelling, ff seaman. He joined the National Navy Corps in Rio de Janeiro, where he served until his discharge in 1936. We have many things During these years of preparation and service the young man managed to attend to make your trip two schools of music and to complete a — six years' course of study in composition more pleasant under Paulo Silva. To his theoretical lightweight, packable knowlege he added practical experience by playing in the Naval and Marine silk or nylon robes, Bands and in the orchestras of casinos, cabarets and circuses. He played the carefree drip-dry double bass and, joining the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal, the opera house lingerie, three- of Rio de Janeiro, played the tuba. He piece travel sets — meanwhile attended the University of Brazil. a host of things to He assisted Eugen Szenkar, the direc- tor of the then new Orquestra Sinfonica help you on your way. Brasileira, and when in 1941 the oppor- tunity came to him to conduct a concert 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. on short notice, the results made him decide to devote himself exclusively to Boston 16 Wellesley conducting. He has since conducted this KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 Brazilian Orchestra. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of many he has conducted as guest in [5] — America and Europe. He has long been Foundation Award for his Second Sym- a member of the conducting faculty of phony. Mr. Hamilton has previously the Berkshire Music Center at Tangle- taught in the United States, at Duke wood. University. Mr. Lutoslawski has not previously visited in this country. The Fromm Music Foundation will THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER continue its support, begun in 1956, by again sponsoring the Fromm Fellows Charles Munch as Director of the Berk- and concerts of contemporary chamber invited Witold shire Music Center has music. Poland and Lutoslawski to come from Charles Munch has granted Aaron Iain Hamilton to come from England Copland, his Chairman of Faculty, a this to be guest teachers in summer sabbatical leave for the 1962 session and the Composition Department at the Richard Burgin has been appointed Act- Berkshire Music Center. Their eight- ing Chairman of Faculty. Eleazar de teaching-visit at Tanglewood has week Carvalho will again head the school's possible through grant been made a from Orchestral Conducting Division. the Ford Foundation's International Af- Twenty-three members of the Boston fairs Program. Symphony Orchestra—including, for the Mr. Lutoslawski, who was born in first time, Joseph Silverstein—will assist Warsaw in 1913, studied at the Warsaw Richard Burgin and William Kroll in the Conservatory with Maliszewski. Mr. orchestral playing and chamber music Hamilton born in Glasgow in 1922 — classes. Hugh Ross will again be in began his musical studies in 1947. is He charge of the Department of Choral a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Professor Peter Gram Swing Music. has also been He awarded the of Swarthmore College will head the Royal Philharmonic Society's Prize and, Department of Listening and Analysis. in 1951, he received the Koussevitzky 6> uJCv ticnc %&ur v*ci*ia Aw(Hints TWCNT"/ NEWBURy -L\_/_L/11M I Spade -shaped and played with a bow of enormous length, the 9th-century vielle orfiedel is the first known bowed instrument to appear in Europe. 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Worthy of Old Colony your Trust Trust Company ONE FEDERAL STREET BOSTON 6, MASSACHUSETTS Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [8] EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE -SIXTY-TWO Ninth Program TUESDAY EVENING, March 20, at 8:30 o'clock ELEAZAR DE CARVALHO, Guest Conductor Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 I. Langsam (Slowly) II. Bewegt (With motion) III. Massig (Moderately) IV. Sehr massig (Very moderately) V. Sehr langsam (Very slowly) VI. Langsam (Slowly) Albeniz "Iberia," Suite (Orchestrated by E. Fernandez Arbos) Evocacion El Puerto El Corpus in Sevilla Triana INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky *Symphony No. 4, in F minor, Op. 36 I. Andante sostenuto II. Andantino in modo di canzona III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato; Allegro IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS 9] Boston • Chestnut Hill [10] SIX PIECES FOR ORCHESTRA, Op. 6 By Anton Webern Born in Vienna, December 3, 1883; died in Mittersill, Austria, September 15, 1945 Webern's Six Pieces (Sechs Stiicke) for Orchestra were composed in 1909, and first performed in Vienna on March 31, 1913. A revision of the score made in 1928 (and here performed) calls for a lightening of the brass section: 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and contra bassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones and tuba, timpani, harp, celesta, glockenspiel, cymbals, triangle, side drum, bass drum, tam-tam, and bells of indefinite pitch.