lltA dk Asm . Jj >k'-3M ^1 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 'A EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON 1964-1965 TAKE NOTE The precursor of the oboe goes back to antiquity — it was found in Sumeria (2800 bc) and was the Jewish halil, the Greek aulos, and the Roman tibia • After the renaissance, instruments of this type were found in complete families ranging from the soprano to the bass. The higher or smaller instruments were named by the French "haulx-bois" or "hault- bois" which was transcribed by the Italians into oboe which name is now used in English, German and Italian to distinguish the smallest instrument • In a symphony orchestra, it usually gives the pitch to the other instruments • Is it time for you to take note of your insurance needs? • We welcome the opportunity to analyze your present program and offer our professional service to provide you with intelligent, complete protection. We respectfully invite your inquiry Associated with CHARLES H. CO. WATKINS & OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton 147 MILK STREET BOSTON 9, MASSACHUSETTS, Insurance of Every Description 542-1250 EIGHTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1964-1965 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1965, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Abram Berkowitz Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John L. Thorndike Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager S. Norman Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON [899] ^he Boston Symphony under Erich JEeinsdorf's direction Nineteen years ago, the Boston Symphony premiered ProkofiefFs Fifth Symphony in America. Recently, their new recording of the work became the first in a new series of Prokofieff recordings on RCA Victor Red Seal records. The second is a superlative performance of the seldom heard Concerto for Cello and Orchestra with Samuel Mayes, soloist. This exciting new album also features a superlative and moving performance of Gabriel Faure's Elegie for Cello and Orchestra. - : Pwkofitf Symphony-Concmo ' ' PRO OFIEFF SYMPHONY No 5 for C > ,' stra Hwtnn "5frmph<mv OfciafiU-i'Fi rk !.»tn<jhr( BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RCA VICTOR ...,s,® The most trusted name in sound [9«o] CONTENTS Program (for this week) . 9°5 Program (February 5-6) . 955 Program (February 12-13) 957 31ic cfroitsscaiuJCouse op3osfon Notes Bach (Sinfonia from Cantata No. 174) . 9°7 NOW IN PROGRESS! Bach (Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra) . 908 IS THE TIME Stravinsky ("Agon" Ballet) 924 NOW Entr'actes TO SAVE AT OUR Bach's Years of Chamber Music at Cothen (/. N.B.) . 9H Some Operas That Never Got January Written (/. N. B.) . 934 Notes White Sale! Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 4) . 947 White Sale Savings EXHIBITION The paintings now on view in the on Gallery have been assembled by Roger W. Curtis of the New England Artists' WAMSUTTA SHEETS Group. Supercale White THE SOLOISTS Blossom-Toned Colored Joseph Silverstein is joined in the and performance of Bach's Two-Violin Con- certo by his partner in the Orchestra, Paisley and Danube the Assistant Concertmaster, Alfred Embroidered Sheets Krips. Mr. Krips has been a member and Towels! of this Orchestra since 1934. He was a violin pupil of Willy Hess who, as it MARTEX TOWELS happens, had been Concertmaster of this Reductions Orchestra in the years 1904-1907. At At January the Opera House in Berlin, which was Luxor, Patrician, and the city of his birth, Mr. Krips played Sovereign Styles under the conductorship of Blech, Walter, Furtwangler, Kleiber, Richard Special Mark-Downs Strauss and Klemperer. of COMING PROGRAMS Blanket Covers, Blankets The work by Alban Berg announced and many other items! for next week's program is a setting of three poems by Charles Baudelaire. Please see our circular for details! This music was first set to the German translation of Baudelaire's text by Stef- 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. an George under the title "Der Wein," Boston 16, Wellesley and was so sung at these concerts by CEdar 5-3430 Patricia Neway in 1952, under the direc- KEnmore 6-6238 tion of Leonard Bernstein. Baudelaire wrote five songs in praise of wine as a ( [9 » ] power for inspiration. The three set by Berg are L'Ame du Vin, Le Vin des Amants, and Le Vin du Solitaire. Phyl- onrad lis Curtin is remembered by her recent appearances with this Orchestra in ex- cerpts from Berg's Wozzeck. The fol- handler lowing Tuesday will mark the eightieth anniyersary of the birth of Alban Berg (February 9, 1885-December 24, 1935). In the following two weeks, Charles Munch will return to the Orchestra as guest, likewise conducting the concerts of a third week in New York and other cities. His program for February 12-13 will consist of Berlioz' Benvenuto Cel- lini Overture, Debussy's Iberia, Rous- sel's Symphony No. 4, and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. His program for February 19-20 will be Mozart's Divertimento in D major, K. 136, Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, Honegger's Symphony No. 4, and Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole. Grant Johannessen will be the soloist on the program of March 5-6, playing in Brahms' Piano Concerto in B-flat. Walter Piston's newly completed Eighth Symphony, composed for this Orchestra, black magic... will then be introduced by Mr. Leins- dorf. the illusion Leopold Stokowski will return as swim suit guest conductor on March 12-13, with the following program : Bach's Passa- caglia and Fugue in C minor, Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, and Shostako- vich's Symphony No. 5. Mr. Leinsdorf will introduce to these concerts on March 19 and 20 Schonberg's m Violin Concerto with Joseph Silverstein as soloist, and Prokofiev's Alexander M Nevsky, music from the historical film made by Eisenstein, and calling for full W ^%;. orchestra with chorus and alto solo. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will participate. Slices of Banlon jersey temptingly The pianist Sidney Foster will make spiced with peek-a-boo stretch his first appearance with this Orchestra nylon lace, by Catalina. $20 on April 9-10, in Bartok's Third Piano Concerto. Aaron Copland's Music for Swim Shop — Fifth Floor a Great City will also be played. BOSTON • BELMONT Bruckner's Eighth Symphony will be PEABODY • FRAMINGHAM the closing number of the season's last concerts in this series on April 16-17. [902] RECITAL PROGRAMS George Faxon will present the third Really darlings ... I know concert of the series on the Symphony it's low, low priced Hall organ on Sunday, February 14 at 6:00 p.m. His program will consist of for what is obviously the early music by Dunstable, Clerambault, highest quality ... and even Pachelbel and Sebastian Bach. There those, er . Value will also be music by Liszt, Durufle and Top Stamps Manari. Roger Voisin and his son Peter with it all . but, Voisin will play trumpet parts in num- what do I do with it? bers by Purcell and Nancy Faxon. The second concert of the series by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players will be given in Sanders Theatre on Sunday evening, February 7. Aaron Cop- land's Vitebsk, a piano trio, and Fine's Fantasia for String Trio will be per- formed; also Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, K. 452, and Brahms' Quartet for Piano and Strings in C minor. 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