SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6- 149s SEVENTY-THIRD SEASON, 1953-1954 CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1954, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IflC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Lewis Perry N. Penrose Hallowell Edward A. Taft Francis W. Hatch Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott George E. Judd, Manager T. D. Perry, Jr. N. S. 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Mr. Munch will open the Shed series on Saturday, July 10, with Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. On Sunday afternoon, July 11, Pierre Monteux will present a Beethoven pro- gram including the Overture to Leonore No. 3, the Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Em- peror") with Claudio Arrau as soloist, and the Fifth Symphony. 2nd week (Shed, July 17, 18) : Satur- day eve. (Pierre Monteux) — Franck program: Le Chasseur Maudit, Les Eolides, Les Djinns (piano soloist, Vera Franceschi), Symphony in D minor; Sunday aft. (Charles Munch) — De- bussy, Iberia; Copland, Piano Concerto (soloist, Leo Smit) ; Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony. 3rd week (Shed, July 24, 25) : Satur- experienced day eve. (Jean Morel) — Weber, Over- ture, Der Freischiitz ; Prokofieff, Sixth traveler Symphony; Strauss, Don Juan; Elgar, Light, easily packed pure silk "Enigma" Variations. Sunday afternoon surah robe in a fresh pink or (Charles Munch) — Berlioz, Beatrice and Benedict Overture and Harold in blue polka dot print. Note Italy (viola soloist, William Primrose) ; the interesting new back Ernst Toch, Symphony No. 2. yoke treatment and the 4th week (Shed, July 31, Aug. 1) smooth fitting notch collar. Saturday eve. (Charles Munch) — Ber- Sizes 10 to 20. lioz, Romeo and Juliet with Festival Chorus and soloists; Sunday aft. (Rich- 39.95 ard Burgin) — Prokofieff, Chout, Dvorak, 416 Boylston St., Boston Violin Concerto (soloist, Ruth Posselt) ; 54 Central St., Wellesley Sibelius, Symphony No. 2. Sth week (Shed, Aug. 7, 8) : Saturday _ 10 [ 59] . eve. (Charles Munch) — Berlioz pro- gram: Benvenuto Cellini Overture, The Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans, Summer Nights for soprano and Double your orchestra with Eleanor Steber as soloist, and the Te Deum. Sunday aft. (Charles record listening Munch) — Gluck, Alceste Overture; Beethoven, Violin Concerto (soloist, pleasure. Zino Francescatti) ; Brahms, Symphony No. 2. 6th week (Shed, Aug. 14, 15) : Satur- day eve. (Charles Munch) — Wagner, A Faust Overture; Piston Fourth Sym- phony; Ravel, Piano Concerto (solo- ist, Nicole Henriot) ; Saint-Saens, Or- gan Symphony; Sunday aft. (Charles Munch) — Berlioz, Requiem with Fes- tival Chorus and four auxiliary orches- tras. Bach -Mozart Series On the six Friday evenings preceding each Shed concert, except in the final week when it will be given on Thursday, the concerts will be given in the inti- mate Theatre-Concert Hall by an or- chestra of chamber proportions. The first two weeks (July 9 and 16) Charles Munch will conduct music of Bach, in- HHMKHH cluding in the first the Brandenburg hhk&hHI Concertos Nos. 1, and in the 3, 2, 6, 5, "^ Model 3HES5 second, the Cantata No. 93 and Suites W $139.95 Nos. 1 and 4. 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