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 Copyright, 1958, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Alvan T. Fuller 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 S. Norman Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [961] The LIVING TRUST 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 TS[ational Shawmut Bank of 'Boston Tel. LAfayette 3-6800 Member F. D. I. C. [962] SYMPHONIANA Great American Paintings Thomas Schippers Dr. Munch 's Impressions of Israel 9Xe JfwsseauJ/ouse ofJBos/o/t GREAT AMERICAN PAINTINGS Through the generosity of the Fogg Art Museum, a rare and choice collec- tion of American paintings is now on view in the Gallery. More than half of them are by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. A list will be published in these columns next week. *VX^L * <&> THOMAS SCHIPPERS Thomas Schippers who is conducting the Orchestra for the first time in Boston, is now twenty-eight and is a native of Michigan. He has conducted many opera performances in New York SEASONAL WONDER City with the Lemonade Opera Com- pany and later with the New York City Opera. He has conducted the principal operas by Menotti—most recently the Soft and Gentle, production of the Saint of Bleecker Street. He conducted the performance The Winds of Spring of The Tales of Hoffmann by the Metro- politan Opera Company in Boston last spring. Have Not Yet Subdued The Chill of Winter; DR. MUNCH'S IMPRESSIONS OF ISRAEL But, For a Heady Reminder Charles Munch addressed a special gathering in Symphony Hall, Thursday, Of What Is In Store, February 6, as follows: You Need Only View One afternoon two or three weeks ago I was sitting in a beautiful garden just outside Tel Aviv enjoying the warm Our New Collections sun of the Mediterranean winter when I received a message from Mr. Cabot of asking if I would say a few words to you here this afternoon. I accepted immedi- ately, because I know the great curiosity Lingerie, Negligees, that Americans and Israelis have about each other—about the life, the society, And Teagowns. and the art of the two countries—and because I found there again the same deep emotions and impressions that I had there ten years before. I first visited Israel in 1946, when (With apologies to all poets) Bronislaw Huberman invited me to conduct the Orchestra soon after Tos- canini's inaugural concerts, and I re- turned there in 1947. In 1948 I was [963] invited again and of course accepted. But this was a time of war in Israel. The country was surrounded by enemies. The only ships and planes approaching Israel brought clandestine immigrants escaping from unfriendly lands. I had a Paris-Athens ticket and further instructions would be waiting for me in Athens, I was told. My bags were packed and I was ready to go, but I was persuaded not to leave on so uncertain a voyage. The next year, as you know, I came to Boston, and although I was often invited to return there, it was only ten years later, in 1958, that I was able to do so. What remarkable things had happened in Tel Aviv since I was last there! My small hotel by the sea has almost disappeared into the shade of a magnifi- cent new one. The desert that was a few hundred yards away is now streets of beautiful apartments, or newly covered with green. Outside the city there is a forest of orange trees, grape- fruit, olives! The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra no longer repeats each concert seven times in a movie theater but has we 9re putting a beautiful new hall. ^ I conducted seven concerts during my stay in Israel, with two programs—five it in print . in the new "Mann Auditorium" in Tel Aviv, one in Haifa, and one in Jeru- salem. I was asked to play something they're true collector's by an American composer and offered Medea's Meditation and Dance of Ven- items, our "first edition" geance by Samuel Barber, which you prints ... in dresses, heard here in Symphony Hall last year. blouses, costumes, hats, I was also asked to do the Three Nocturnes of Debussy and this was a accessories . with spicy beautiful experience. As you know, one colors and marvelous movement, "Sirens," requires a chorus fabrics which give an of women's voices and is extremely dif- entirely new feeling to ficult. But the chorus was one of the best that I have ever had. They were spring fashions . and if an amateur group of twenty-four young you're a "collector" you women who worked in town or in Kib- won't miss them for any- butzim. They made the long trips by thing! bus to Haifa and to Jerusalem for the concerts there, and returned late at night to their homes, worked again all the next day, and came back to sing the following evening. They were blonde, or red-haired or brunette. Their eyes were blue or brown. They spoke English or French or German or nothing but Hebrew. What sirens they were! How beautiful they looked and how beauti- fully they sang! And, most touching of all, the night of our farewell concert in &*&%. Tel Aviv, they brought me a basket of twenty-four perfect yellow roses, each (Continued on page 1003) I 964 le sacque de Paris . the dramatic new dress shape for spring, eased and straight, passing by your waist to hip-low pockets and shorter hemline. 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Augustin H. Parker, Jr. President WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST T. Jefferson Coolidge Chairman Trust Committee Old Colony , Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. Trust Company Chairman, Trust Investment Committee ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [966] SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN - FIFTY-EIGHT Sixteenth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, February 21, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, February 22, at 8:30 o'clock THOMAS SCHIPPERS, Guest Conductor Cherubini Symphony in D major I. Largo; Allegro II. Larghetto cantabile III. Minuetto: Allegro non tanto IV. Finale: Allegro (First performance at these concerts) Stravinsky Suite from the Ballet, "L'Oiseau de Feu" Introduction: Kastchei's Enchanted Garden and Dance of the Fire Bird The Princesses play with Golden Apples Dance of the Princesses Infernal Dance of all the Subjects of Kastchei Berceuse Finale INTERMISSION Sibelius Symphony No. 2, in D major, Op. 43 I. Allegretto II. Tempo andante ma rubato III. Vivacissimo; Lento e suave IV. Finale: Allegro moderato These concerts will end about 4:15 o'clock on Friday afternoon; 10:30 o'clock on Saturday evening. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [967] g plans ose to the heart on at Stearns. you're going to be a bride, visit our fourth floor Wedding Embassy, soon. [968] SYMPHONY IN D MAJOR By Luigi Cherubini Born in Florence, September 14, 1760; died in Paris, March 15, 1842 Cherubini composed this Symphony in 1815 for the London Philharmonic Society, by which it was performed under his direction on May 1 of that year. Long disre- garded, it was revived by Arturo Toscanini in Paris in November, 1935, and intro- duced to this country by Toscanini at a concert of the New York Philharmonic- Symphony Society January 23, 1936. The Symphony is scored for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, in pairs, timpani and strings. Cherubini, who felt called upon to write a symphony only once in his life, obliged the London Philharmonic Society in his fifty-fifth year. He had visited London as a young man of twenty-four in 1784, when he provided four operas in the Italian style for the King's Theatre, lingering until 1786 and serving for one year as "Composer to Majesty." From there he had gone to Paris, where he was to live for his remaining fifty-six years, becoming as French as the numerous operas which he wrote and which made him famous.