BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HI SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON 1946-1947 Carnegie Hall, New York ; VICTOR RED SEAL RECORDS Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director Bach, C. P. E Concerto for Orchestra in D major Bach, J. S Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 and 8 ; Missa Solemnis Berlioz Symphony, "Harold in Italy" (Primrose) Three Pieces, "Damnation of Faust", Overture, "The Roman Carnival" Brahms Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 Violin Concerto (Heifetz) Copland "El Sal6n Mexico," "Appalachian Spring" Debussy "La Mer," Sarabande Faure "Pelleas et Melisande," Suite Foote Suite for Strings Grieg "The Last Spring" Handel Larghetto (Concerto No. 12), Air from "Semele" (Dorothy Maynor) Harris Symphony No. 3 Haydn Symphonies Nos. 94 ("Surprise") ; 102 (B-flat) Liadov "The Enchanted Lake" Liszt Mephisto Waltz Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 ("Italian") Moussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition" Prelude to "Khovanstchina" Mozart Symphonies in A major (201) ; C major (338), Air of Pamina, from "The Magic Flute" (Dorothy Maynor) Prokofieff Classical Symphony ; Violin Concerto No. 2 (Heifetz) ; "Lieutenant Kije," Suite ; "Love for Three Oranges," Scherzo and March ; "Peter and the Wolf" Rachmaninoff "Isle of the Dead" ; "Vocalise" Ravel "Daphnis and Chloe," Suite No. 2 (new recording) Rimsky-Korsakov "The Battle of Kerjenetz" ; Dubinushka Schubert "Unfinished" Symphony (new recording) ; "Rosa- munde," Ballet Music Schumann Symphony No. 1 ("Spring") Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 ; "Pohjola's Daughter" "Tapiola" ; "Maiden with Roses" Strauss, J .... Waltzes : "Voices of Spring," "Vienna Blood" Strauss, R "Also Sprach Zarathustra" "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" Stravinsky Capriccio (Sanroma) ; Song of the Volga Bargemen (arrangement) Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 : Waltz (from String Serenade) ; Overture "Romeo and Juliet" Thompson "The Testament of Freedom" Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor - 1947 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL (AT TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASS.) THE Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director LEONARD BERNSTEIN ROBERT SHAW Guest Conductors TWELVE CONCERTS Sunday afternoon, July 13 Extra Concert, Music of BACH Sunday afternoon, July 20 Extra Concert, Music of MOZART Thursday evening, July 24 ) Saturday evening, July 26 I SERIES A Sunday afternoon, July 27 ) Thursday evening, July 31 ) Saturday evening, August 2 > SERIES B Sunday afternoon, 3 August ) Tuesday evening, August 5 Extra Concert, to include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Thursday evening, August 7 Saturday evening, August 9 SERIES C J- Sunday afternoon, August 10 . Music to be Played at the Berkshire Festival 1947 At the two extra Sunday afternoon concerts, Dr. Koussevitzky will present music of Bach and Mozart performed by an orchestra of eighteenth-century proportions. Dr. Koussevitzky plans to include in Series A Brahms— Second Symphony; Schubert—Seventh Symphony; Copland— Third Symphony; Rachmaninoff—-Third Symphony; Berlioz —"Harold in Italy" Symphony (Viola soloist: William Prim- rose) ; Hindemith—Violin Concerto (Soloist: Ruth Posselt) ; Barber—Overture "School for Scandal"; Ravel—"Pavane" and "La Valse"; and Martinu—Concerto Grosso. Series B will consist of a Beethoven Cycle, to be concluded with an extra concert on the following Tuesday evening, August 5, at which the Ninth Symphony will be performed. The programs for Series C will include a Symphony by Haydn; Mendelssohn—"Italian" Symphony; Schumann—Sec- ond Symphony; Tchaikovsky—Fourth Symphony; Debussy— "The Sea"; Stravinsky— "Le Sacre du Printemps"; and Mozart —Requiem (with chorus and soloists) Special prices for the three extra concerts (July 13, July 20, August 5) are available to subscribers to any of the three Series. Applications for Series tickets now being received. Detailed ticket information sent on request. The Berkshire Music Center SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Director AT TANGLEWOOD, JUNE 30 -AUGUST 10 Catalogue sent on request Address all inquiries to G. E. Judd, Manager, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston 15, Mass. BALDWIN PIANO VICTOR RECORDS Carnegie Hall, New York Sixty-first Season in New York SIXTY-SIXTH SEASON, 1946-1947 Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor Concert Bulletin of the Third Concert WEDNESDAY EVENING, February 12 AND THE Third Matinee SATURDAY AFTERNOON, February 15 with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Henry B. Sawyer Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Philip R. Allen M. A. De Wolfe Howe John Nicholas Brown Jacob J. Kaplan Alvan T. Fuller Roger I. Lee Jerome D. Greene Bentley W. Warren N. Penrose Hallowell Raymond S. Wilkins Francis W. Hatch Oliver Wolcott George E. 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Carnegie Hall Sixty-first Season in New York Boston Symphony Orchestra SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Music Director THIRD EVENING CONCERT WEDNESDAY, February 12 Program LEONARD BERNSTEIN Conducting Schubert Symphony in C major, No. 7 I. Andante; Allegro ma non troppo II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo IV. Finale INTERMISSION Stravinsky "Le Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rite of Spring") Pictures of Pagan Russia I. The Adoration of the Earth Introduction — Harbingers of Spring — Dance of the Adolescents — Abduction — Spring Rounds — Games of the Rival Towns — The Procession of the Wise Men — The Adoration of the Earth (The Wise Man) — Dance of the Earth II. The Sacrifice Introduction — Mysterious Circles of the Adolescents — Glorifica- tion of the Chosen One — Evocation of the Ancestors — The Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One BALDWIN PIANO VICTOR RECORDS The music of these programmes is available at the Music Library, 58th Street Branch, The New York Public Library. The concerts will be broadcast each Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 E. S. T., under the sponsorship of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. (WJZ) [si LEONARD BERNSTEIN (born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, August 25, 1918) attended the Boston Latin School and then Harvard College, graduating in 1939. He was at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for two years, where he studied conducting with Fritz Reiner, orchestration with Randall Thompson, and piano with Isabella Vengerova. At the first two sessions of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, he studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky. He returned as his assistant in conducting in the third year of the School, 1942, and joined the faculty in the same capacity for 1946. In the season 1943-44, he was assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society. He has appeared with many orches- tras as guest conductor, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra January 28, 1944 (when he conducted his "Jeremiah" Symphony), November 22, 1944, and March 22, 1946. In 1945 he became director of the New York City Symphony. He conducted as guest in Prague and London last summer. His ballets "Fancy Free" and "Facsimile" have been produced by the Ballet Theatre. He wrote the music for "On the Town," first performed in Boston December 13, 1944, and a success on Broadway. SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR, NO. 7 By Franz Schubert Born at Lichtenthal, Vienna, January 31, 1797; died at Vienna, November 19, 1828 Schubert wrote this posthumous symphony in 1828. What was probably its first performance was given at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, March 21, 1839, Felix Men- delssohn conducting. The first performance in America was by the Philharmonic Society in New York, January 11, 1851. The first performance in Boston was on October 6, 1852, with a small orchestra led by Mr. Suck. The Symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings. January 31 last marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Franz Schubert. It was a hundred six years ago that this symphony was resurrected and performed in Leipzig, at which time eleven years had passed since the composition of the symphony and the death of its composer. Schubert turned out six symphonies in his earlier composing years, from the time that, as a pupil of sixteen at the Konvikt (the school of the Imperial Choir at Vienna) he filled sheets with ready music for the small school orchestra in which he was a violinist. In 1816 he wrote his Fourth ("Tragic") Symphony and his Fifth (without trumpets and drums); in 1818, reaching his twenty-first year he pro- [4] ! The Man Who Lives in the Clouds Is this man you ? 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