^iSI Li BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON I fcg X lawnt ^v^ H MP m SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON *9S7- I 9S 8 Tuesday Evening Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN. JR. ARTHUR J. ANDER80N ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLEB ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT 8. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE It takes only seconds for accidents to occur that damage or destroy property. It takes only a few minutes to develop a complete insurance program that will give you proper coverages in adequate amounts. It might be well for you to spend a little time with us helping to see that in the event of a loss you will find yourself protected with insurance. WHAT TIME to ask for help? Any time! Now! CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LA farette 3-5700 SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1957-1958 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 Vice-President Jacob J. Kaplan Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Alvan T. Fuller John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolff Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. 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LAfayette 3-6800 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [»] : SYMPHONIANA Berlioz Manuscripts The Visit of Nadia Boulanger THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON BERLIOZ MANUSCRIPTS Two letters of Berlioz referring to his Requiem have been kindly loaned by Mrs. Henry C. Fenderson from her rare collection and are on view in the gallery. They are here translated To Monsieur le Baron Taylor 54 Rue de Bondy, Paris My dear Monsieur Taylor: Would you be kind enough to under- take two or three small matters : Please send a reserved ticket to M. July Le- comte, editor of L'Independance Beige, Rue de Terese No. 12 ; to M. Fiorentino, Rue di Miromesnil No. 41 at Janin; to the music papers, and especially to the people connected with the Ministry of the Interior (Mme. Persigny). If it were possible to obtain above all an audition of my Te Deum for friends or a relative of the Ministry at one of the Imperial ceremonies where my Requiem, is being rehearsed, it would perhaps facilitate matters. I have secured another rehear- sal for the chorus for tomorrow, Mon- day, at 9 o'clock. It is indispensable; the singers are very far from knowing personal their parts. I was much pained and tormented yesterday. After all, it is too accent this which was so ad- bad that work Monograms add an individual mirably performed three times provin- touch to this spring lingerie — of cially (at Lille) must be always more or nylon georgette, sprinkled with less torn to shreds in Paris. apple blossoms — its embroidered Don't forget to send reserved tickets edging scalloped and touched with to the above. nylon net. Pink or Turquoise I believe it would be well to send an Sizes 32 - 38. invitation to Meyerbeer, Hotel de Paris, on White. Gown rue Richelieu; he has asked me about $22.50. Slip $16.95. Petticoat the hour of rehearsal. If you could also $12.95. Pantie $10.95. Prices send one to Mr. Gathy, rue de La include monogramming. Bruyere No. 18, it would be helpful to us. He is the correspondent of the 416 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON KE 6 6238 Gazette of Augsburg and several other German newspapers. [3] A thousand pardons for breaking your head with these details. Yours devotedly and sincerely, H. Berlioz. Sunday Evening. • • To Monsieur Theophile Gautier 14 Rue Navarin, Paris My dear Theophile: Gallois has told me that he has rec- ommended to you our Fetes tnusicales du cirque; I should like to do the same. Break out into a half-column in your paper on Monday: on the magnificence of these solemnities, on the hall, the lighting, the heating, the hangings, the carpets, the shrubbery, the 350 musi- cians, the second act of Orpheus (the "Elysian Fields"), and the Tartare, the movements from my Requiem, my new overture, La Tour de Nice; in a word a cavalry charge, the costumes of the ladies who are visible up to their knees, etc., etc. A thousand greetings! I shall see you here on the 19th— if print . tt tn you wish to come to the general rehear- sal, do let me know. H. Berlioz. they're true collector's December 4. items, our "first edition" Crints ... in dresses, louses, costumes, hats, accessories . with spicy colors and marvelous fabrics which give an entirely new feeling to spring fashions . and if you're a "collector" you won't miss them for any- thing! THE VISIT OF NADIA BOULANGER The coming visit of Mile. Nadia &&M Boulanger to the United States, which will include a concert in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, on Wednesday eve- (Continued on page J5) [4] Ben Zuckermans newest coats sing out Spring, 1958, in clear, vibrant colors . in the dramatic, straight line Sacque de Paris shape that leaves your waistline free . coats that are totally new, totally reflective of a new way of dressing. Sketched: A straight line of clear, fresh white in Italian crochet tweed. 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Allegro con spirito BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN -FIFTY-EIGHT Ninth ^Program TUESDAY EVENING, April 22, at 8:30 o'clock Bach Suite No. 1, in C major Grave; Allegro Courante Gavottes I and II Forlane Minuets, I and II Bourrees I and II Passepieds I and II Debussy "Jeux," Poeme danse" 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 BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] sunset colors The hot reds, fiery oranges . the yellow, green and blue of a sunset sky . these are the colors that glow on the fashion horizon for Spring and Summer. Here and now at Stearns ... in accessories to color your wardrobe with new excitement, new variety. BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] OVERTURE (SUITE) NO. 1 in C major for Orchestra By Johann Sebastian Bach Born at Eisenach, March 21, 1685; died in Leipzig, July 27, 1750 This "Overture" calls for 2 oboes, bassoon, first and second violins, violas and basso continuo. Bach's "overtures," as he called them, of which there are four, have generally been attributed to the five-year period (1717-23) in which he was Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt- Cothen. Albert Schweitzer conjectures that they may belong to the subsequent Leipzig years, for Bach included them in the performances of the Telemann Musical Society, which he conducted from the years 1729 to 1736.