***J#& ^3 w§ r BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON X 'tillll -^ 'Unniiiiu i^t H SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1 957- I 958 Sunday Afternoon Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. 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 fayette 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 Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Michael T. Kelleher Alvan T. Fuller Palfrey Perkins Francis W. Hatch Charles H. Stockton Harold D. Hodgkinson Edward A. Taft C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry 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 [1] The LIVING TR T The Living Trust is a Trust which you establish during your lifetime ... as part of your overall estate plan . and for the purpose of obtaining experienced management for a specified portion of your property ... as a protection to you and your family during the years ahead. May we discuss the benefits of a Living Trust with you and your attorney? Write or call THE PERSONAL TRUST DEPARTMENT The "National Shawmut of Boston Tel. LAfayette 3-6800 Member F. D. I. C M SYMPHONIANA Exhibition Claudio Arrau Coming Events Subscribers' Exhibition THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON A Musical Coming-of-Age EXHIBITION AS YOU WISH Teagown in vel- Pictures by members of the Boston vet; negligee in » I' of Water Color Painters are Society jersey—you will in the Gallery. now on view adore it either The membership of this Society, now way. The jersey its 73rd year, has included such in is washable or- eminent painters as John Singer Sar- lon and wool; gent, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prender- the velvet is gast, Winslow Homer, and many others crush resistant. whose work is considered equally quali- Leaves of Lurex fied although it is not quite as well thread adorn known. the front with Society is to The purpose of the its zipper clos- "maintain the highest possible standard ing. Sizes 12-42. in water color painting," as the pictures Sapphire Blue, showing will attest. The members now Forest Green, paintings for inspection for offer their Dubonnet Red those more familiar with a sister art for or Black velvet. what enjoyment they may provide. $65.00 Raspberry Red or Teal Blue CLAUDIO ARRAU jersey. Claudio Arrau was born in Chilian, $45.00 Chile, February 6, 1904. Beginning his musical studies there, he was sent by his government to Europe to complete them. In Berlin he was the pupil of Martin Kraus. After tours of Europe and South America he came to this country, where he appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on February 4, 1924, playing Chopin's Concerto in F minor. In the season 1940-1941 he toured the United States after an absence of fourteen years. He appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, in 1942, and again in 1953, and at Berk- shire Festival concerts, 1946, 1948, 1951, and 1954. On March 25-26, 1955, he played in Beethoven's Third Concerto, in C minor. COMING EVENTS Pierre Fournier, the cello soloist at next week's pair of concerts, appeared with this Orchestra in 1951 (Lalo's 416 Boylston St., Boston Concerto) and 1954 (Dvorak's Con- 54 Central St., Wellesley certo). Following this, the eighth pair of concerts, the Orchestra will make its 13] second visit of the season to New York with concerts in Washington and Brook- lyn. The new Third Symphony by Roger Sessions, commissioned for the 75th Anniversary of this Orchestra and to have its first performances next week, will be introduced to New York on Wednesday evening, December 11, and to Washington on the following evening. It will likewise be performed in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, at the concert of December 17. At the ninth pair of concerts (in the week before Christmas, December 20- 21), Dr. Munch will repeat Honegger's Christmas Cantata which he introduced to Boston in December 1954. The new orchestration by Stravinsky of Bach's Chorale Prelude Vom Himmel Hoch will have its first hearing in Boston. The New England Conservatory Chorus prepared by Lorna Cooke de Varon will join the Orchestra in these two works, Marguerite Willauer and Marvin Hayes singing the soprano and baritone parts. Sherman Walt, the Orchestra's first bassoon, will play in Mozart's Concerto for this instrument. At the pair of concerts on December 27-28, Byron Janis will be the soloist in Rachmanin- off's Third Piano Concerto. Choral works for the remainder of the season will be Bach's Passion Ac- cording to St. John to be performed in of ideas! Holy Week (April 3 and 5), the Chorus Pro Musica participating. Berlioz' Re- quiem, with the New England Conserva- tory Chorus, will end the season on we've an idea that half the April 25 and 26. The Spring Pension Fund concert will fun of the holidays comes in consist of Bach's Mass in B minor to be performed with the Harvard and matching what you wear to Radcliffe Choruses, G. Wallace Wood- worth, conductor, on Sunday, March 9. the excitement of the occa- The Mass will be performed complete in two parts in the late afternoon and sion ... no wonder so many evening. women cherish the idea that Hurwitch and holidays are SUBSCRIBERS' EXHIBITION synonymous. The annual exhibition of paintings by subscribers to the Boston and Cam- bridge concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and by members and Friends of the Orchestra, will take place Janu- ary 3-11. Paintings should be delivered to Symphony Hall on Monday or Tues- f'« day, December 30 or 31. Application blanks may be had at the Friends' n Office. ^twenty mwhary (Continued on page 43) 14 — dramatic signature silhouette of a new fashion era now . and from this time on, there's a completely refreshing and young way to dress. The new, new look is wide at the top of your figure, straight and free at the waist- line, highlights the hipline, tapers at the shorter hemline. This wonderful expression of the hew chemise dress one of many variations of this new free line. Beige, black or tangerine. $69.95 Filene's French Shops—seventh floor [5] FINANCIAL JUDGMENT WITH THE HUMAN TOUCH Ringing bells . "In memory of a friend" Trust officers at Old Colony are dealing constantly in human, personal situations. One officer, for instance, handles a trust which maintains a carillon in a New England village and engages a noted carillonneur for annual recitals. He also finds homes for widows, plays "Santa Claus" and "Dutch Uncle," and financial and personal adviser in working out the problems of beneficiaries and heirs. To them he is a trusted family friend. Old Colony would be glad to discuss your estate plans with you and your lawyer at any time. As a first step, write for the 24-page booklet, "Wills and Trusts." Augustin H. Parker, Jr. President WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST T. Jefferson Coolidge Old Colony Chairman, Trust Committee Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. Trust Company Chairman, Trust Investment Committee ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN -FIFTY-EIGHT Second Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, December i, at 3:00 o'clock Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica," Op. 55 I. Allegro con brio II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace IV. Finale: Allegro molto INTERMISSIQN Beethoven .... Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 5, in E-flat major, Op. 73 I. Allegro II. Adagio un poco mosso III. Rondo: Allegro ma non tanto SOLOIST CLAUDIO ARRAU Mr. Arrau uses the Baldwin Piano BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] theatre costume or dinner suit ... a new way of dressing for little evenings. The fabric: sumptuous, often of silk. The color: candle-lit white to brown, or vibrant jewel-tones. The fashion news: now at Stearns Boston and Chestnut Hill. [8J . SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN E-FLAT, "EROICA," Op. 55 By Ludwig van Beethoven Born in Bonn, December 16 (?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 Composed in the years 1802-1804, the Third Symphony was first performed at a private concert in the house of Prince von Lobkowitz in Vienna, December, 1804, the composer conducting. The first public performance was at the Theater an der Wien, April 7, 1805. The parts were published in 1806, and dedicated to Prince von Lobkowitz. The score was published in 1820. The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.