1 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON % i c fa •"«/ A IUIWIm — H ft « SEVENTY-FOURTH SEASON 1954-1955 Carnegie Hall, New York Boston Symphony Orchestra (Seventy-fourth Season, 1954-1955) CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director RICHARD BURGIN, Associate Conductor PERSONNEL Violins Violas Bassoons Richard Burgin, Joseph de Pasquale Sherman Walt Concert-master Jean Cauhap6 Ernst Panenka Alfred Krips Eugen Lehner Theodore Brewster George Zazofsky Albert Bernard Rolland Tapley George Humphrey Contra-Bassoon Norbert Lauga Jerome Lipson Richard Plaster Vladimir Resnikoff Robert Karol Harry Dickson Louis Artieres Horns Gottfried Wilfinger Reuben Green James Stagliano Einar Hansen Bernard Kadinoff Charles Yancich Joseph Leibovici Vincent Mauricci Harry Shapiro Emil Kornsand John Fiasca Harold Meek Roger Shermont Paul Keaney Violoncellos Osbourne McConathy Paul Fedorovsky Samuel Mayes Walter Macdonald Carlos P infield Alfred Zighera Minot Beale Langendoen Trumpets Herman Silberman Jacobus Mischa Nieland Roger Voisin Stanley Benson Marcel Lafosse Karl Zeise Leo Panasevich Armando Ghitalla Josef Zimbler Sheldon Rotenberg Gerard Goguen Parronchi Fredy Ostrovsky Bernard Leon Marjollet Trombones Martin Hoherman Clarence Knudson Raichman Louis Berger Jacob Pierre Mayer William Moyer Manuel Zung Kahila Flutes Kauko Samuel Diamond Josef Orosz Doriot Anthony Dwyer Victor Manusevitch James Nagy James Pappoutsakis Phillip Kaplan Tuba Melvin Bryant K. Vinal Smith Raphael Del Sordo Piccolo Lloyd Stonestreet George Madsen Harps Saverio Messina Oboes Bernard Zighera William Waterhouse Ralph Gomberg Olivia Luetcke William Marshall Jean Devergie Leonard Moss John Holmes Timpani Jesse Ceci English Horn Roman Szulc Basses Everett Firth Louis Speyer Georges Moleux Willis Page Clarinets Percussion Charles Smith Ludwig Juht Gino Cioffi Irving Frankel Manuel Valerio Harold Farberman Henry Freeman Pasquale Cardillo Harold Thompson Henry Portnoi E\) Clarinet Gaston Dufresne Librarians Henri Girard Bass Clarinet Leslie Rogers John Barwicki Rosario Mazzeo Victor Alpert, Ass't Carnegie Hall, New York Sixty-ninth Season in New York SEVENTY-FOURTH SEASON, 1954-1955 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the First Concert WEDNESDAY EVENING, November 17 * A^STD THE First Matinee - SATURDAY AFTERNOON, November 20 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. C. D. Jackson John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch Edward A. Taft Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. ) W. Rector Assistant J. J. Brosnahan, Assistant Treasurer N. S. Shirk ] Managers Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager [1] Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS, Winter Season 1 954-55 OCTOBER 18 Cambridge (III) 8-9 Boston (Fri.-Sat. I) 21-22 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XII) 12 Boston (Tues. A) 25 Boston (Tuesday E) 15-16 Boston (Fri.-Sat. II) 28-29 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XIII) 18 Columbus 30 Boston (Sunday c) l 9 Detroit 20 Ann Arbor FEBRUAI East Lansing 21 1 Providence (III) 22 Kalamazoo 2 Boston (Rehearsal IV) 23 Northampton 4-5 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XIV) 29-3° Boston (Fri.-Sat. Ill) 8 Philadelphia NOVEMBER 9 New York (Wed. IV) 2 Boston (Tues. B) 10 New Brunswick 5-6 Boston (Fri.-Sat. IV) (New Jersey) a) 7 Boston (Sunday 11 Brooklyn (IV) 9 Providence (I) 12 New York (Sat. IV) 11 Boston (Rehearsal I) *5 Boston (Tuesday F) 12-13 Boston (Fri.-Sat. V) 18-19 Boston (Fri-Sat. XV) 16 New Haven (I) 26 Boston (Sunday d) 17 New York (Wed. I) 22 Cambridge (IV) 18 Washington (I) 25-26 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVI) »9 Brooklyn (I) I) . 20 New York (Sat. MARCK[ Boston (Tues. C) 23 1 Providence (IV) (Fri.-Sat. VI) \ / 26-27 Boston Boston (Rehearsal V) Cambridge 3 30 (!) 4-5 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVII) DECEMBER 8 New Haven (II) Boston (Fri.-Sat. VII) 3-4 9 New York (Wed. V) 7 Newark 10 Washington (IV) 8 New York (Wed. II) 11 Brooklyn (V) 9 Washington (II) 12 New York (Sat. V) 10 Brooklyn (II) 1 5 Boston (Tuesday G) 11 New York (Sat. II) 18-19 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XVIII) .14 Providence (II) 20 Boston (Sunday e) 16 Boston (Rehearsal II) 22 Cambridge (V) 17-18 Boston (Fri.-Sat. VIII) 25-26 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XIX) (Sunday b) 19 Boston 2 9 Providence (V) 21 Boston (Tuesday D) 24-25 Boston (Fri.-Sat, IX) APRIL 28 Cambridge (II) 1-2 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XX) 3i- 7-9 Boston (Thurs. -Sat. JANUARY XXI) 1 Boston (Fri.-Sat. X) 12 Boston (Tuesday H) 5 Boston (Rehearsal III) H Boston (Rehearsal VI) 7-8 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XI) 15-16 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXII) 10 Hartford 19 Cambridge (VI) 11 New London 22-23 Boston (Fri.-Sat. 12 New York (Wed. Ill) XXIII) 13 Washington (HI) 24 Boston (Sunday f) 14 Brooklyn (HI) 26 Boston (Tuesday I) 15 New York (Sat. Ill) 29-30 Boston (Fri.-Sat. XXIV) [2] Carnegie Hall, New York Sixty-ninth Season in New York Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director FIRST EVENING CONCERT WEDNESDAY, November 17 Program Mozart Symphony in D major, "Prague", No. 38 (K. 504) I. Adagio; Allegro II. Andante III. Finale: presto Honegger Symphony No. 5 I. Grave II. Allegretto III. Allegro marcato INTERMISSION Peragallo Violin Concerto I. Sostenuto e vigoroso; Allegro II. Andante, molto moderato III. Allegro moderato (quasi scherzando) (First performance in New York) Dukas "LApprenti Sorrier" (The Apprentice Sorcerer) Scherzo, after a Ballad by Goethe SOLOIST JOSEPH FUCHS Concerts by this orchestra in Boston will be broadcast on Saturdays 8:30-9:30 E.S.T. on the NBC Network. The music of these programs is available at the Music Library, 58th Street Branch, the New York Public Library. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [31 . Well pay you or the hospital . to substantially reduce the cost of your room and board . and certain other hospital expenses. This will help to diminish the drain on your pocketbook while you're getting well — provided you've got Employers' Group Hospital insurance. Get in touch with your Employers' Group agent, today. The EMPLOYERS' GROUP Insurance Companies THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORP. LTD. 110 MILK ST. AMERICAN EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE CO. THE EMPLOYERS' FIRE INSURANCE CO. BOSTON 7, MASS. for Fire, Casualty and Marine Insurance or Fidelity and Surety Bonds, see your local Employers' Group Agent, The Man With The Plan [4] SYMPHONY IN D MAJOR (K. No. 504) By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born at Salzburg, January 27, 1756; died at Vienna, December 5, 1791 This symphony had its first performance at Prague, January 19, 1787. It is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings. The trumpets and drums are not used in the slow movement. The "Prague" Symphony was first performed at these concerts January 27, 1882. The last symphony which Mozart composed before his famous final three of 1788 (the E-flat, G minor, and "Jupiter" symphonies) was the Symphony in D major, called the "Prague" Symphony, which had its first performance in that city early in 1787. Mozart probably did not compose it especially for Prague, but when he went there from Vienna on a sudden invitation, the new score was ready in his port- folio for the first of two performances in the Bohemian capital. "Prague is indeed a very beautiful and agreeable place," wrote Mozart on his arrival there. And he had good cause to be gratified with the more than friendly reception which he found awaiting him. Figaro, produced there in the previous season, had been an immense success, and its tunes were sung and whistled on all sides. A bid was to come for another opera, and Don Giovanni was to be written and produced there within a year, and to cause another furore of enthusi- asm. The composer of Figaro, as might be expected, was applauded loud and long at the two concerts of his visit in 1787, and after the D major symphony at the first of them, he could not appease the audience until he had improvised upon the piano for half an hour. At length a voice shouted the word "Figaro!" and Mozart, interrupt- ing the phrase he had begun to play, captured all hearts by improvis- ing variations from the air "Non piii andrai." Writing on January 15 to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin, Mozart related how a round of entertainment mostly connected with music- making was awaiting him. On the evening of his arrival, he went with Count Canal to the "Breitfeld Ball, where the flower of the Prague beauties assemble. You ought to have been there, my dear friend; I think I see you running, or rather limping, after all those pretty creatures, married and single. I neither danced nor flirted with any of them — the former because I was too tired, and the latter from my natural bashfulness. I saw, however, with the greatest pleasure, all these people flying about with such delight to the music of my Figaro, transformed into quadrilles and waltzes; for here nothing is talked of but Figaro, nothing played but Figaro, nothing whistled or sung but Figaro, no opera so crowded as Figaro, nothing but Figaro — very flattering to me, certainly." [5] Franz Niemtschek, a Bohemian who wrote a biography of Mozart in 1798, said of the concert of January 19: "The symphonies which he chose for this occasion are true masterpieces of instrumental com- position, full of surprising transitions. They have a swift and fiery bearing, so that they at once tune the soul to the expectation of some- thing superior.