its ' r BOSTON \ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY •f HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 4tf!%\ \ilPM- SANDERSSANDERb THEATRE oA^'H // *¥ iVfi Hl/lPM'/ (Harvard University) V^#\kA%T^^~ '"«.«•» te ! &' * r^ / /^ v. I \- v .^?:~.. EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON 1961-1962 Qharles <Jttunch Qonducts the Boston Symphony entire Champion of Ravel, Charles Munch reveals a full flowering of the "Daphnis and Chloe" score. A sumptuous work with a wealth of sensuous beauty. Organ, Dr. Munch also presents the charming, urbane "Concerto in G Minor for de Strings and Timpani" by Poulenc; and the witty Stravinsky ballet, "Jeu Cartes." In Living Stereo and Monaural Hi-Fi. RCA VICTOR THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN SOUND 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 S. 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 LSi Boston Symphony Orchestra (Eighty-first Season, 1961-1962) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Cellos Bassoons Richard Burgin Samuel Mayes Sherman Walt Concert-master Alfred Zighera Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Jacobus Langendoen Matthew Ruggiero George Zazofsky Mischa Nieland Rolland Tapley Karl Zeise Contra Bassoon Joseph Silverstein Martin Hoherman Richard Plaster Vladimir Resnikoff Bernard Parronchi Harry Dickson Richard Kapuscinski Horns Gottfried Wilfinger Robert Ripley James Stagliano Einar Hansen Winifred Winograd Charles Yancich Roger Shermont Louis Berger Harry Shapiro Minot Beale John Sant Ambrogio Harold Meek Herman Silberman Paul Keaney Joseph Leibovici Basses Osbourne McConathy Stanley Benson Georges Moleux Leo Panasevich Henry Freeman Trumpets Sheldon Rotenberg Irving Frankel Roger Voisin Fredy Ostrovsky Henry Portnoi Armando Ghitalla Noah Bielski Henri Girard Andre Come John Barwicki Gerard Goguen Clarence Knudson Pierre Mayer Leslie Martin Ortiz Walton Trombones Manuel Zung William Samuel Diamond Gibson William Moyer William Marshall Flutes Kauko Kahila Leonard Moss Doriot Anthony Dwyer Josef Orosz William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis Alfred Schneider Phillip Kaplan Tuba Victor Manusevitch K. Vinal Smith Laszlo Nagy Piccolo Ayrton Pinto George Madsen Timpani Michel Sasson Everett Firth Lloyd Stonestreet Harold Farberman Julius Schulman Oboes Raymond Sird Ralph Gomberg Percussion Gerald Gelbloom Jean de Vergie Charles Smith John Holmes Harold Thompson Violas Arthur Press Joseph de Pasquale English Horn Jean Cauhape Louis Speyer Harps Eugen Lehner Bernard Zighera Albert Bernard Clarinets Olivia Luetcke George Humphrey Jerome Lipson Gino Cioffi Manuel Valerio Piano Robert Karol Reuben Green Pasquale Cardillo Bernard Zighera E\) Clarinet Bernard Kadinoff Vincent Mauricci Library Bass Clarinet Earl Hedberg Victor Alpert Joseph Pietropaolo Rosario Mazzeo William Shisler [4] EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE -SIXTY-TWO Fourth Program TUESDAY EVENING, February 27, at 8:30 o'clock Handel Suite for Orchestra, from "The Water Music" (Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty) I. Allegro II. Air III. Bourree IV. Hornpipe V. Andante espressivo VI. Allegro deciso Schubert Symphony No. 5, in B-flat I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Minuetto; Allegro molto IV. Allegro vivace INTERMISSION Dvorak *Concerto for Cello, in B minor, Op. 104 I. Allegro II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Finale: Allegro moderato SOLOIST ANDRE NAVARRA BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [5] SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA (from the WATER MUSIC) By George Frideric Handel Born in Halle, February 23, 1685; died in London, April 14, 1759 Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty* Handel's Water Music was probably composed and performed in parts in 1715 and 1717. The original autograph has been lost. A suite from the music was published by John Walsh in 1720, and another version, differently arranged, in 1740. The full suite of 20 movements was published in the Samuel Arnold edition (1785-1797), and appeared in the complete works as edited by Chrysander. A suite from the Chrysander edition was performed on a swan boat in the Public Garden, Richard Burgin conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an event of the Boston Arts Festival on June 20, 1958, and again on June 21, 1959. Sir Hamilton Harty, arranging a suite of six movements in 1918, and then perform- ing it at the Halle Concerts, has scored it for 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings (published in 1922). tn Handel's time, parties on the Thames were a favorite recreation of -*- Londoners in the summer season. R. A. Streatfeild has described the custom in his Life of Handel (1909): "The River Thames was then, far more than now, one of the main highways of London. It was still Spenser's 'silver Thames,' and on a summer's day it must have presented a picture of life and gaiety very different from its present melancholy and deserted aspect. It was peopled by an immense fleet of boats devoted solely to passenger traffic, which were signalled by passing wayfarers from numerous piers between Blackfriars and Putney, just as one now signals a hansom or taxicab. Besides the humble boats that plied for hire, there were plenty of private barges fitted up with no little luxury and manned by liveried servants. The manners and customs of the boatmen were peculiar, and their witcombats, carried on in the rich and expressive vernacular of Billingsgate, were already proverbial . * Born at Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, December 4, 1879 ; died February 19, 1941. LES TUIfCRIES 370 Commonwealth Ave. PARIAN BOSTON (Corner of Mass. Ave.) :'; Going to Paris LUNCH ' : / Lunch.? 11:30 to 2:30 ; for DINNER You are if you're going 6:00 to 9:00 j f SATURDAY to Les Tuileries, Bos- 6:00 to 9:30 <* ton's famous corner of SUNDAY Paris. 5:30 to 9:30 Find light-hearted ele- Private Party gance of Paris with true Room Available At BEAICIUMP Trench cuisine, amid Call CO 6-0423 99 Mt. Vernon St. life-like Parisian murals: [6] George I liked the River. When the Court was at Whitehall water parties to Richmond or Hampton Court were of frequent occurrence, and as often as not the royal barge was accompanied by an attendant boat laden with musicians."* Handel, serving as Kapellmeister to Georg Ludwig, Elector of Han- over, obtained leave of absence to visit England in 1712. He not only overstayed his leave, but came under the open patronage of the reigning Queen Anne, between whom and Georg there was no love lost. Handel, while thus still bound to the House of Hanover, composed his Ode to Queen Anne, and his Te Deum and Jubilate for the hated Peace of Utrecht. When the Queen died in 1714, Georg was crowned George I of England and Handel's position became suddenly precarious. He was pointedly ignored by the new monarch and so deprived of his principal opportunities for social recognition and consequent income. But the continuing ostracism of the illustrious Handel would have been like- wise a true deprivation to George himself, for he had brought with him from Germany a passion for music which was more enduring than his dislike of a dead queen. It was obviously a question of a propitious moment, and Handel had friends ready to do their tactful part when that moment should come. There are three legends circumstantially related at the time, each claiming the achievement of this act of grace. The Water Music is connected with two of them. One of Handel's true friends was Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer for the violin, two years younger than himself. Geminiani, so the story goes, was asked to play one of his sonatas at Court, and replying, admitted a rubato in his style so incorrigible that no one * Samuel Pepys, in his diary of an earlier date, tells how transportation by water was then common practice. He wrote (August 23, 1662) : "So we fairly walked it to White Hall, and through my Lord's lodgings we got into White Hall garden, and so to the Bowling-greene, and up to the top of the new Banqueting House there, over the Thames, which was a most pleasant place as any I could have got ; and all the show consisted chiefly in the number of boats and barges ; and two pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily ; and they tell me the Queen is Sir Richard Ford's daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy, with 1000 barges and boats I know, for we could see no water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at White Hall Bridge, and the great guns on the other side went off." BRIGGS & BRIGGS, INC. presents on RCA VICTOR RECORDS BERLIOZ - Overtures MENDELSSOHN - Scotch Symphony CHARLES MUNCH with the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ALL BOSTON SYMPHONY RECORDINGS available at BRIGGS & BRIGGS, INC. 1270 MASS. AVE. HARVARD SQUARE Opp. Widener Library KI 7-2007 [7] could be trusted to accompany him and not be thrown off but Handel himself. Handel was accordingly asked, and accordingly reinstated. But Handel had other colleagues equally ready to claim the credit for the good deed of his restoration. One was the Baron von Kielman- segg, Royal Master of the Horse to King George, and his wife who was the natural daughter of the King's father by the Countess von Platen.* According to Mainwaring, Handel's first biographer, in 1760, the year after his death, Kielmansegg took advantage of a projected water party by the King and his retinue on the Thames from Whitehall to Limehouse on August 22, 1715.