0$^ Festival of Contemporary American Music August 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1967 Sponsored by the Berkshire Music Center In Cooperation with the i Fromm Music Foundation X)S Hear the sound of the 20th century on RCAVICTOR Red Seal STRAVINSKY BARTOK: Violin Concerto No. 2 Music of Irving Fine rca Victor AGON hvnachoovi STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto Boston symphony £ SCHULLER Joseph Silverstein conducted by 7 STUDIES on THEMES of PAUL KLEE Boston Symphony Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf Erich Leinsdorf BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ERICH LEINSDORI and the composer Symphony 1962 / Toccata concertante serious Song for string orchestra rcaVictor a (@)The most trusted name in sound ^*t*^ BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER ERICH LEINSDORF, Director Joseph Silverstein, Chairman of the Faculty Aaron Copland, Chairman of the Faculty Emeritus Louis Speyer, Assistant Director Claude Frank, Acting Chairman of the Tanglewood Institute Harry J. Kraut, Administrator James Whitaker, Chief Coordinator Viola C. Aliferis, Assistant Administrator <r*sw<rd Festival of Contemporary American Music presented in cooperation with The Fromm Music Foundation Paul Fromm, President Fellowship Program Contemporary Music Activities Gunther Schuller, Head Stanley Silverman, Assistant Elliot Carter, Ross Lee Finney, Donald Martino, George Perle, Roger Sessions, Seymour Shifrin, Guest Teachers Paul Zukofsky, Fromm Teaching Fellow The Berkshire Music Center is maintained for advanced study in music sponsored by the boston symphony orchestra Erich Leinsdorf, Music Director Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS 7 LDS PERSPECTIVES NEWOF MUSIC PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC Participants in this year's Festival are invited to subscribe to the American journal devoted to im- portant issues of contemporary music and the problems of the composer. Published for the Fromm Music Foundation by Princeton University Press. Editors: Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone Advisory Board: Aaron Copland, Ernst Krenek, Darius Milhaud, Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Igor Stravinsky. Semi-annual. $5.00 a year. $12.50 three years. For- eign Postage is 25 cents additional per year. Single or back issues are $3.00. Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey Erich Leinsdorf Paul Fromm GUNTHER SCHULLER The Berkshire Music Center In 1940, the Berkshire Music Center was established at Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in fulfillment of the dream of Serge Koussevitzky, its Music Director, to provide an environment in which young musicians could continue their professional training and add to their artistic experience through the guidance of eminent musicians. The Center was developed under his leadership until his death in 1951, when he was succeeded by Charles Munch. Erich Leinsdorf has been Director of the Center since 1963 and Joseph Silverstein, Concertmaster of the Orchestra, is Chairman of the Faculty. The Fromm Music Foundation The Fromm Music Foundation is dedicated to the furtherance of contemporary music. Wishing to bring the living flow of musical creation closer to the public, the Foundation aims to return the initiative to the composer and to strengthen the most Vital source of a healthy musical culture: composition. To foster the realization of this aim, the Founda- tion commissions new works, awards prizes for existing works, and spon- sors the study, performance, publication and recording of contemporary music. The Foundation is headed by Paul Fromm of Chicago, its founder and President. The Fromm Music Foundation program at Tanglewood was begun in 1957. Composers at Tanglewood The Contemporary Music Activities Program of the Berkshire Music Center offers instruction, on an advanced level, for a limited number of especially talented composers. The course is directed toward the com- poser whose previous studies and experience have prepared him for work in more advanced forms. A series of seminars and individual instruction in composition have been offered during the 1967 session, and composi- tions of the students have been performed at various Berkshire Music Center concerts. Joseph Silverstein is Chairman of the Faculty. Gunther Schuller, President of the New England Conservatory of Music, is the supervisor of contemporary music performance and head of composition seminars. He is assisted by Stanley Silverman and Paul Zukofsky. Mr. Schuller has replaced Aaron Copland, who retired in 1965 after twenty- five years as head of Contemporary Music Activities at the Center. 7 - 3 - LDS MCDEDN The World of Charles Ives: Three Foss: Time Cycle—Adele Addison Places in New England—Eugene (soprano); Lukas Foss (piano); Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra; Howard D. Coif (cello), Richard Du- Washington's Birthday—Leonard fallo (clarinet), Charles Delancey Bernstein, New York Philharmonic; (vibes), Columbia Symphony Or- Robert Browning Overture- chestra, Leonard Bernstein, con- Leopold Stokowski, American Sym- ductor. MS 6280*/ML 5680 phony Orchestra. W. W. Naumberg Foundation MS 7015*/ML 6415/MQ 919f American Composition Awards Ives: Music for Chorus—Gregg First Recording. Arthur Berger: Smith Singers, Texas Boys' Choir, Chamber Music for Thirteen Play- Ithaca College Concert Choir, ers; Three Pieces for Two Pianos/ Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Richard Donovan: Music for Six; Gregg Smith, conductor. Five Elizabethan Lyrics for Soprano MS 6921*/ ML 6321 4— and String Quartet. Columbia Ives: Symphony No. Leopold Chamber Ensemble, Gunther Stokowski, American Symphony Schuller, conductor; Gilbert Kalish Orchestra. MS 6775*/ML 6175/MQ 766f and Paul Jacobs (pianos); Adele Leonard Bernstein Conducts Addison (soprano), Galimir String Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3; The Quartet. MS 6959*/ ML 6359 Unanswered Question; Decoration Columbia-Princeton Electronic Day; Central Park in the Dark—New Music Center: Works by ** Milton York Philharmonic. Babbitt, ** Mario Davidovsky, MS 6843*/ ML 6243/ MQ 797t Bulent Arel, Halim El-Dabh, Vladimir Ives: Symphony No. 2; The Fourth Ussachevsky, Otto Luening. of July— Leonard Bernstein, New MS 6566*/ ML 5966 York Philharmonic. Lee Finney: Piano Quintet— MS 6889*/ML 6289/MQ 857| **Ross Beveridge Webster (piano), The Bernstein Conducts Copland: Sym- Stanley Quartet, ms 6142*/ML5477 phony No. 3—New York Philhar- ** monic. MS 6954*/ML6354 Kenneth Gaburo: Line Studies/ Goddard Lieberson: String Quartet Copland: Twelve Poems of Emily (Galimir Quartet); and works by Dickinson—Adele Addison (sopra- Romeo Cascarino and Alvin Etler. no), Aaron Copland (piano); Three MS 6421*/ ML 5821 Choruses— Mildred Miller (mezzo- ** Roger Sessions: Second String soprano), Robert Half (baritone), The New Music Quartet. Aaron Quartet— Copland conducting the New ML 5105 England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke de Varon, director. For a complete listing of modern 32 11 0018*/32 11 0017 and contemporary music on A CBS Records Release. Columbia Records, please write: Leonard Bernstein Conducts Music Consumer Services, Room 941, of Our Time: Works by Ligeti, Columbia Records, Feldman, Austin—New York Phil- 51 West 52 Street, harmonic. MS6733*/ML6133 New York, New York 10019 ^Composers whose works are being performed this summer. THE SOUND Cr GENIUS CN < < H HI I V RECORDS "COLUMBIA," REG. PRINTED IN U.S.A. & ftp] MARCAS Stereo fTape 4 - THE KOUSSEVITZKY MUSIC FOUNDATION Throughout the existence of the Berkshire Music Center, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation has been a sponsor of composers and contemporary music at Tanglewood. Founded in 1942 by Serge Koussevitzky, then Music Direc- tor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in memory of his late wife Natalie, the Foundation celebrates its 25th anni- versary this year. Its early activities included the annual commissioning of new works and providing aid to the stu- MRS. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY dents at the Center. In 1950 the Foundation established a PRESIDENT permanent endowment in the Library of Congress, Wash- ington, D. C, with the purpose of continuing the annual program of commissions. In addition, the Foundation has granted scholarships and composition prizes at the Center, as well as sponsored many concerts of new music both here and abroad. In 1965, the Foundation published A Tanglewood Dream, a collection of photographs and memora- bilia which trace the history of the Berkshire Music Center from the time of its estab- lishment in 1940 to its present activities. In connection with its 25th Anniversary, the Foundation, with the cooperation of the National Federation of Music Clubs, has built the Koussevitzky Studio for composers on the grounds of Seranak, the Kous- sevitzky estate near Tanglewood. The Berkshire Music Center and the Fromm Music Foundation are honored to open the celebration of the Koussevitzky Music Founda- tion's 25th anniversary by performing during the Festival of Contemporary American Music some of the many works commissioned by the Foundation. These are Leonard Bernstein's Serenade, George Crumb's Madrigals, Salvatore Martirano's Octet, and Edgard Varese' Nocturnal. In addition, on July 26 the Berkshire Music Center Orches- tra conducted by Koussevitzky Fellow Lawrence Foster gave a performance of Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky, President of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, spoke at the Opening Exercises of the 1967 session of the Berkshire Music Center. The following excerpts are from that address: "The month of June, 1967 marks the 25th birthday of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and I am bringing you our greetings ... I recall that Aaron Copland, when speaking of my husband's unusual