TANGLEWOOD — nr V-Vmm This "New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Album won't be released until September BUT YOU MAY OWN IT NOW! Berlioz THE DAMNATION OF FAUST You may enjoy treasured "encores" of this masterful interpretation without waiting! A limited number of advance copies of this new album are available to Festival patrons only at the Tanglewood Music Shop on the Festival grounds. INVITE MR. MUNCH AND MR. MONTEUX INTO YOUR HOMES Hear them conduct these *Romeo and Juliet tSymphonie Fantasticrue other Berlioz Cycle highlights Complete. Boston Symp. Orch. San Francisco Orchestra con- as often as you choose . conducted by Charles Munch. ducted by Pierre Monteux. Hear the RCA Victor Collector's re-issue of "Harold in Italy' Primrose, Viola; Boston Symp. Orch., Koussevitsky, cond. Other Munch Recordings Other Monteux Recordings * Richard Strauss; Don Quixote *Chausson: Poem of Love and with Piatigorsky, Cellist; Bur- the Sea with Gladys Swarthout, gin, Violinist; de Pasquale, Mezzo Soprano Violist. * Mozart: Concerto No. 12, in A, * Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 K. 414. Concerto No. 18, in B- with Artur Rubinstein, Pianist Flat, K. 456, with Lili Kraus, t Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Pianist Haydn: "London" Symphony * Liszt: Les Prelude? t Munch conducts French Music Scriabin: Poeme d'Extase t Schubert: Symphony No. 2 t Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring t Schumann: "Spring" Symph. Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade, 35 * Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op. in D Nathan Milstein, Violinist tFranck: Symphony in D Minor * A *"New Orthophonic" High Fidelity Recording f A High Fidelity Recording rca Victor FIRST IN RECORDED MUSIC L*2fll ^^I^Wf "^ •KP"" up P " m0*&c' i^r P^|M^%. ^ 6^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director ^Berkshire Festival, Season 1954 TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS 6 Concerts of Chamber Music in the Theatre-Concert Hall 6 Concerts by Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Theatre-Concert Hall 12 Concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Music Shed FIRST WEEK Concert Bulletin, with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, I954, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. X 7 rustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Henry B. Cabot, President Jacob J. Kaplan, Vice-President Richard C. Paine, Treasurer Philip R. Allen Theodore P. Ferris N. Penrose Hallowell M. A. De Wolfe Howe Palfrey Perkins John Nicholas Brown Alvan T. Fuller Francis W. Hatch Michael T. Kelleher Lewis Perry } oward A. Taft Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott 7 anglewood Advisory Committee Alan J. Blau Henry W. Dwight I'. Anthony Hanlon (;eorge E. Mole Fences Bull George W. Edman Lawrence K. Miller Whitney S. Stoddard Jesse L. Thomason Robert K. Wheeler H. George Wilde X (jeorge E. Judd, Manager Assistant Managers: T. D. Perry, Jr., N. S. Shirk 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood S^umphonlcinu ENJOY The Berlioz Season The Berlioz performances at the Festival sum up MUSIC. • a widespread recognition of the genius of this com- poser remembered in many places through the sesqui- centennial season. Mr. Munch conducted Romeo and IN COMFORT Juliet in New York and Washington during the season past and the Damnation of Faust in Boston. Imagine yourself entering a cool, A Berlioz Society recently formed has focused public attention on these activities. This orchestra's re- tastefully decorated studio on a hot cording of the first of these works has won a Grand summer day . relaxing in a comfortable Prix du Disque of 1954. A recording of the easychair and listening to fine music Damnation of Faust made just after the perform- via quality high fidelity instruments ance is available at Tanglewood before its release in . pure fantasy you say . but, September. The current (July) issue of High at |E^^T*J Fantasy Becomes Reality! Fidelity Magazine features the recordings of this composer. Nowhere will you find a demonstration locale to compare with ASCO's In Memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge much-discussed sound studios. Here Berkshire County has long been richly provided the world of High Fidelity is opened to with chamber music through the beneficence of the your eyes and ears . and you will enjoy late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The chamber con- recorded music as you never have before. certs which she gave at Tanglewood alone or You're always at . welcome ASCO even | through the Coolidge Foundation of the Library of if just to browse around and talk to any Congress are continued in the Wednesday evening of the professional ASCO sound men, chamber series now part of the Festival; the pro- specialists in the field of High Fidelity. ceeds of these concerts will be devoted to the Tangle- wood Revolving Scholarship Fund. Make sure you hear and see the ASCO Miniature— compactly designed to make The summer chamber music concerts established your summer listening —wherever it at South Mountain in 1918 by Mrs. Elizabeth may be— High Fidelity listening. Sprague Coolidge will begin July 10. This season If you would like complete six concerts will be given on Saturday afternoons at information on the ASCO Miniature 4:00, under the joint sponsorship of the* Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Libran of line, write to ASCO, Dept. C. Congress and the Fromm Music Foundation of Chicago, in cooperation with the South Mountain Association. Programs include a Beethoven Sonata Series by Alexander Schneider, violin, and Artur Balsam, piano, July 10, 24 and August 7; Leontyne Price, soprano, and Samuel Barber, piano, July 17; John Barrows, horn, Alexander Schneider and Artur Balsam, July 31 ; Juilliard String Quartet, Augusr 1 4. A limited number of tickets are available without charge on written application to Mrs. Willem Willeke. Musical Director, South Moun- tain Association, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Exhibition at the Berkshire Museum An exhibition of the Willson Collection of por- traits of composers (engravings, etchings and litho- graphs) is being shown at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield throughout the Festival season. Continued on page 21 Mk. First Program WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, at 8:30 CLAUDIO ARRAU, Piano and THE BEL ARTE TRIO Ruth Posselt, Violin Joseph de Pasquale, Viola Martin Hoherman, Cello Beethoven String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1 I. Adagio; Allegro con brio II. Adagio, ma non tanto e cantabile III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. Presto Beethoven Piano Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78 Adagio cantabile; Allegro ma non troppo Allegro vivace Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat major, Op. no Moderato cantabile molto espressivo; Allegro molto Adagio ma non troppo: Arioso dolente; Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo; L'Istesso tempo di arioso; L'Istesso tempo di fuga INTERMISSION Beethoven Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata") Allegro assai j Andante con moto ( Allegro ma non troppo Mr. Arrau uses the Baldwin Piano B A I. D WIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS 6 1954 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL Tanglewood In 1929 he settled in Paris, conducted the con- certs of the Straram Orchestra (1932), founded the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris in the same season, conducted the Lamoureux Concerts as well, and in succeeding seasons began the round of guest engagements which since made him a world traveler. It was in 1937 that he succeeded Philippe Gaubert as conductor of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the position he held through the war period. In 1946 he made his first visit to the United States, con- ducting this and other orchestras. He was engaged in the spring of 1948 to succeed Serge Koussevitzky as regular conductor of the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra beginning with the season Charles Munch of 1949-50. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1948, he »•» crossed the Atlantic for an extended tour with the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, the French national broadcasting orchestra, of which Charles Munch was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, he was the conductor. September 26, 1891. His father, Ernest, was leader of the St. Guillaume choir in the Strasbourg Cathe- The winter seasons of the Boston Symphony- dral, and the first teacher (in violin) of Charles. Orchestra, its tours of Europe in May, 1952 and Charles' uncle Eugene rivalled his brother Ernest in our West in the spring of 1953, together with the producing the cantatas and passions of Bach in the Berkshire Festivals and his directorship of the Cathedral at Mulhouse. Albert Schweitzer was a Berkshire Music Center have come to demand most pupil of Eugene and organist for both brothers in of his time and energies. Nevertheless, he conducted their numerous Bach performances. Charles Munch in Paris, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg last month, and studied violin with Lucien Capet in Paris, Karl will take part in the Edinburgh Festival following Flesch in Berlin, and played in the Gewandhaus the present Tanglewood season. Orchestra in Leipzig, under Furtwangler. HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE FEATURES IN JULY As the headlines of this advertisement nique and art of recording and repro- claim, our July issue features a very ducing music have made every living wonderful article on the emergence of room a potential recital hall. Berlioz . It is in this field that HIGH FIDELITY There's another "emergence" going Magazine has been so active for the on around you right now. It's some- past three years. Our purpose, in pub- thing unique and exciting, and you lishing the Magazine, is to help our are a part of it. readers toward greater enjoyment of What's happening is this ... in these music, year round. To that end, fo r mid-century years, Americans have instance, our July issue includes the really, fully, for the first time, dis- Berlioz article; the usual 32 pages of THE EMERGENCE OF HECTOR BERLIOZ covered music. 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