f SIXTH WEEK August 6, 7, 8, 1965 Bartok/ Concerto for Orchestra The Boston Symphony Boston Symphony Orchestra Erich Leinsdorf under Leinsdorf For his recording debut as conductor of the Boston Symphony, Leinsdorf chose Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra" The resulting album was an enormous success, fie later turned to Prokofieff, and Dynagroove recordings such as that of the Fifth Symphony have since shown why the N. Y. Herald Tribune's critic wrote: "Leinsdorf is now in the midst of performing all the Prokofieff orchestral liter- ature... he is quite clearly just the man for the job'.' Listen to Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony exclusively on RCA Red Seal. PROKOFIEFF: SYMPHONY No. 5 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF RCA Victor (@)The most trusted name in sound "TBI Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor Berkshire Festival, Season 1965 TWENTY-EIGHTH SEASON MUSIC SHED AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS SIXTH WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1965 by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Trustees of The BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. President Vice-President Treasurer Henry B. Cabot Talcott M. Banks Richard C Paine Abkam Berkowitz Andrew Heiskell Edward G. Murray Theodore P. Ferris Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Robert H. Gardiner E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Francis W. Hatch Henry A. Laughlin Sidney R. Rabb John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins Trustees Emeritus Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Tanglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Lawrence K. Miller Jesse L. Thomason Lenges Bull George E. Mole Robert K. Wheeler George W. Edman Whitney S. Stoddard H. George Wilde Chairmen of the Boards of Selectmen (Ex Officio): Stockbridge, Robert Minkler Lenox, John Pignatelli Lee, William O'Brien Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager HBH^^HH There are four new Automatic Turntables. One of them, the LAB 80. .. is the first Automatic Transcription Turntable. tUe njlTTOO supported by the PIPES, DRUMS & DANCERS of the SCOTS GUARDS and ROYAL SCOTS GREYS TWO MILITARY BANDS of The ROYAL MARINES The COMMANDO MOTORCYCLE DISPLAY SQUAD SEE JAMES BOND'S 007 ASTON MARTIN CAR JN ACTION IN MOCK BATTLE WITH COMMANDO MOTORCYCLISTS. BOSTON GARDEN ARENA MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON U.S. AND CANADIAN TOUR, WRITE COLUMBIA FESTIVALS, INC., CJ2 165 W. 57th ST., NEW YORK CITY 10019 2 — BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday Evening, August 6, at 8:00 JEAN MARTINON, Conductor WEBER Overture to "Der Freischiitz" # SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, in B-flat major, Op. 38 I. Andante un poco maestoso; Allegro molto vivace II. Larghetto III. Scherzo: Molto vivace; Trio: Molto piu vivace; Trio II IV. Allegro animato e grazioso Intermission \ RAVEL "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Suite I. Prelude II. Forlane IIL Menuet IV. Rigaudon DEBUSSY *"La Mer" (The Sea) , Three Symphonic Sketches I. De l'aube a midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) II. Jeux de vagues (The Play of the Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea) BALDWIN PIANO : RCA VICTOR RECORDS — 3 — : RUDOLF SERKIN 20, 21, 22) is planned by Erich Leinsdorf an event of particular interest. Mr. Rudolf Serkin was born in 1903 in as Leinsdorf has stated Eger, Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), of an artistic point of view I feel that Russian parents. At four he snowed From the Lohengrin weekend is a true festival possibilities of becoming a child prodi- idea, something which one could not gy, but was taken to Vienna to study during the more rigid aspects with Richard Robert. At the age of schedule of a winter season but which lends itself twelve, he made his debut as soloist ideally to the more relaxed and experi- under the auspices of the Gesellschaft mental atmosphere of a summer festival." der Musikjreunde. For three years, from Tickets for the three t( Lohengrin' f the age of fourteen, he studied composi- concerts may still be obtained at the tion with Arnold Schonberg. He then season rate. began his active career as a concert pianist, giving solo recitals throughout Europe, and likewise touring with Adolf LEAVING TANGLEWOOD Busch in sonatas for violin and piano. Following each Boston Symphony Or- It with Adolf Busch (his destined was chestra concert Route 183 (West Street) father-in-law) that he made his first is one way (2 lanes) eastbound to Lenox appearance in America in 1935 at the beginning at the Tanglewood East Festival in Washington, D. C. Coolidge Drive. Patrons leaving the parking lots In and many times since, he has 1938, by the Main Drive or West Drive may played with the Boston Symphony Or- turn right or left. Turning left from in Boston and at Tanglewood. chestra the Main or West Drives enables the Serkin lives in Philadelphia Mr. now motorist to reach Route 41, the Massa- and teaches at the Curtis Institute of chusetts Turnpike, New York Thruway, Music. school His summer music and or points south. Traffic leaving the festival at Marlboro, Vermont, is his South and Box Parking areas may pro- dearest project. ceed in either direction on Hawthorne Street. 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As early as 1810, Weber was attracted by an old folk tale in a collection called "Gespensterbuch" ("Ghost Book"). The story was called "Der Freischutz," it was related by August Apel, and concerned charmed bullets molded in the hour before midnight, when the molder was in peril of being claimed by the Devil. Weber long planned an opera on this material, in a day when hair-raising fantasy was much sought on the stage. In 1817, Fried- rich Kind took it in hand for him and quickly worked it into a libretto. The projected opera was first to be called "The Trial Shot" ("Der Probeschutz" ), changed to "The Hunter's Bride" ("Die Jdgersbraut"). It is believed that the last moment restoration of "Der Freischutz," the original title of the tale, was made at the suggestion of Count Bruhl, the Intendant of the Berlin Opera. Unlike the other titles, this one is virtually untranslatable. V At the Berkshire VAN CLIBURN Festival this season MALCOLM FRAGER these Artists CLAUDE FRANK EUGENE play ONLY ISTOMIN r RUDOLF SERKIN VITYA VRONSKY THE STMWAY and VICTOR BABIN IN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIREr NEW STEINWAY PIANOS ARE SOLD ONLY BY M. STEINERT & SONS ' 162 BOYLSTON I STREET, BOSTON • ALSO WORCESTER, SPRINGFIELD — 5 — . — . ; :; Composed and performed late in his career, "Der Freischutz" was Weber's first outstanding operatic success. Anticipation of this major attempt by the popular composer ran high in Berlin. Demonstrations at the perform- ance were excited and prolonged. "Der Freischutz," in effect a Singspiel with spoken German dialogue in treatment of a popular German folk legend, was soon taken to heart by German audiences. Detailed descriptions of the first performance of trDer Freischutz" are found in the biographies of Weber by his son, Baron Max Maria von Weber, and by Sir Julius Benedict, who was present as the young English pupil of the composer. Weber's remark in his diary is well known: "This evening Der Freischutz was given ... in the Schauspielhaus with incredible enthusiasm. Overture and Bridesmaids' Song encored; out of seventeen numbers, fourteen loudly applauded. All went excellently well. He was called before the curtain . verses and wreaths came flying soli deo gloria." Ernest Newman (in his Stories of the Great Operas) praises the overture as "one of the world's masterpieces in its genre," and one of the first instances where the overture is for the most part comprised of numbers from the opera itself. Only the horn quartet at the opening is not later to be heard on the stage. "Weber was not only a born musical dramatist but a very original and skilful orchestral colorist; and the overture to r Der Freischutz' has a depth and brilliance and variety of tone to which there was nothing to compare in any previous operatic overture." MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL RUDOLF SERKIN, Artistic Director, presents Music from Marlboro A series of three concerts in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Montreal and other Eastern cities.