&M^ ,r\ v : '«. v 4 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON M >titi A* jiiiititi rTTZT?/' — ^v ^ SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1958-1959 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 A Signal for a Safe Landing Lack of proper guidance may mean a difference between a safe or a crash landing. Lack of insur- ance coverage may mean the difference between solvency or bankruptcy. Insurance counsel from this Agency gives proper guidance to financial safety when losses occur. A signal from you and we are at your service! 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-EIGHTH SEASON, 1958-1959 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 Henry A. Laughlin Theodore P. Ferris 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. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft 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 CAN YOU DESCRIBE A LIFE INSURANCE TRUST? If you are unaware of the many advantages of a Life Insurance Trust, it may be that a talk with a Shawmut Trust Officer would show you precisely how this type of protection would best suit your insurance needs. For example, your life insurance can very easily be arranged to provide life-long support for your widow plus a substantial inheritance for your children. In Shawmut' s Personal Trust Department we would be glad to discuss your complete insurance program . with you, your life insurance counsellor and your attorney, or simply write for a copy of our brochure "A Modern Life Insurance Program." Naturally, there would be no obligation. Write or call The Personal Trust Department The Rational Shawmut Bank Tel. LAfayette 3-6800 rn Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [2] SYMPHONIANA l Exhibition Antal Dorati "Uprooted" THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON EXHIBITION Pictures by members of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters are now in the Gallery. I on view The membership of this Society, now its year, included such emi- | in 74th has ! nent painters as John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Winslow Homer, and many others whose work is considered equally qualified al- though it is not quite as well known. The purpose of the Society is to "maintain the highest possible standard in water color painting," as the pictures , now showing will attest. The members ' offer their paintings for inspection by those more familiar with a sister art for what enjoyment they may provide. ANTAL DORATI (Born in Budapest, April 9, 1906) The article on Antal Dorati in the new Grove's "Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (signed "E. D. P.") is here quoted in full: "He studied at the Budapest Academy of Music with Rodaly, Bartok and Weiner, and in 1924, at the age of eight- een, he made his debut as conductor at the Budapest Royal Opera. He became To Grace a Fireside Fritz Busch's assistant at the Dresden State Opera in 1928 and was musical Take soft, luxurious — and wash- director of the Municipal Opera at Mini- able — vocama in the deep shades ster from 1929 to 1932. During this period he was offered guest engagements of fall: Pumpkin, Antique Gold, at the opera-houses of Frankfurt and Autumn Green, Powder Blue and other German cities. For five seasons, beginning with 1935, he conducted the Royal. Monte Carlo Russian Ballet at Covent Sizes 10-20, $45.00. Garden in London and on tour in Eu- rope, Australia and New York. He made his American debut as a symphonic 416 B0YLST0N ST., BOSTON 16 • KE 6-6238 conductor at Washington in 1937 and 54 CENTRAL ST., WELLESLEY • CE 5-3430 became permanently resident in the U.S.A. in 1941. There he was musical [3] . — director of the Monte Carlo Ballet until 1945 and the New Opera Company in New York in 1941, and also guest con- ,&cCP$ ductor of several prominent orchestras. In 1945 he became the conductor of the revived Dallas (Texas) Symphony Or- chestra, and this he soon made one of the country's major orchestras. In 1949 he succeeded Dimitri Mitropoulous as conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. "As an orchestral conductor Dorati has also made guest appearances in Eu- rope in the 1930s and the years following We might entitle this "Acces- the second world war, in Australia (1939 sories after the Fact" . the and 1940) and in Peru (1945). A talented fact being that a costume with- and versatile conductor, he is distin- out thoughtful accessorizing is guished for his interest in modern music. like a picture without a frame. His ballet arrangements include the One of the satisfying things frequently performed "Graduation Ball," and he has also composed orchestral and about shopping HB is that you may accessorize on the spot with other instrumental music and songs." hats, gloves, bags, jewels. Remember, a half hat is better "UPROOTED" than no hat . flattering far Under this title, Desmond Shawe- beyond its measure. Our fabu- Taylor has written an interesting review of Mrs. Fassett's book on Bartok ("The lous collection of chic little half Naked Face of Genius"), together with hats will chapeaux you beauti- a penetrating commentary on the com- fully for every costume and poser s plight in America. He writes in occasion. part (in the "New Statesman," October 4,1958): Come gaze into our crystal ... Of all the European musicians who jewelry that is. Sparkling clear were uprooted by the political convul- and in costume-keyed colors . sions of the Thirties and Forties, Bartok fresh new touch at wrist, ears, was the most firmly rooted in his native throat. land, the least cosmopolitan, the least assimilable, the most obstinateley un- We're hand-in-glove with fash- American. Mr. Halsey Stevens, in his ion, and we'll go to any length valuable monograph on the composer, (wrist to 16-button) to make sure quotes a letter which he wrote on the you are too . with some 40 eve of his exile: "The farewell is hard, colors to choose from. infinitely hard. Properly speaking, the journey is. a leap from uncertainty to safe unbearableness." He recognised his incompatibility with his adopted land —above all, with the resolute optimism of America: "My intended letter [he writes to another correspondent] was to be a very long and un-American letter twenty newbury complaints and complaints (here one (Continued on page 32) [4] This season s signature is in the cut of your first fall suit—the jacket shapely high on your figure, free at your waistline . illustrating the new collections from the great designers of the world now in our French Shops. 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As a first step, write for the 24-page booklet, "Wills and Trusts." WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST Old Colony Trust Company , ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [6] Mh M m SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT - FIFTY-NINE Second Program SUNDAY AFTERNOON, November 23, at 3:00 o'clock ANTAL DORATI, Guest Conductor Beethoven Overture to "Egmont," Op. 84 Bartok Concerto for Orchestra I. Andante non troppo; allegro vivace II. Allegro scherzando III. Elegy: Andante non troppo IV. Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto V. Finale: Presto INTERMISSION Dvorak Symphony No. 4, in G major, Op. 88 I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Allegro ma non troppo BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] HtUdft vara Berry Red . gayest holiday garnish ever! • BOSTON CHESTNUT I IILL [8] fivlraE OVERTURE TO GOETHE'S "EGMONT," Op. 84 By Ludwig van Beethoven Born at Bonn, December i6(?), 1770; died at Vienna, March 26, 1827 Composed in 1810, the Overture (together with the incidental music) was first performed at a production of Goethe's play by Hard in the Hofburg Theater in Vienna, May 24, 1810. The orchestration of the Overture requires 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.