• BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHE STRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY d. HENRY LEE HIGGINSON ^ Xhi m 24 ,© m X JiilllllHWIIll i>r f) $— \W SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON BAYARD TUCKERMAN, J*. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE. J«. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, Jw. HERBERT SEARS TUCKFRMA* OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description "A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen — It Must Be Earned." 108 Water Street Los Angeles, California Boston, Mass. 3275 Wilshire Blvd. Telephone Lafayette 3-5700 Dunkirk 8-3316 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON HUNTINGTON AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUES Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON, 1951-1952 t CONCERT BULLETIN of the Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, IflC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. 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A. De Wolfe Howe) 779 Privileges of FM (Ira A. Hirsch- mann) 827 The European Itinerary 875 Prospects for the Orchestra (Henry B. Cabot) 923 Words of Welcome (Lucien Price) 971 Tanglewood Programs (Theatre- Concert Hall) 1019 The European Programs • • EXHIBITIONS OF THE SEASON (Season 1951-1952) Page Oct. 5-Nov. 4. Portraits of Musi- cians from the Willson Collec- tion lent by the Childs Gallery. 3 Nov. 9-Dec. 2. The Boston Print- makers annual exhibition 247 the golden touch Dec. 14-Jan. 12. Third annual Sym- Crisp cotton phony Subscribers' Exhibition 391, 535 gold imprinted Jan. 22-Feb. 2. Lithographs by and accented with tiny red and John Copley, lent by the Wiggin green flowers. Collection of the Boston Public Completely Library 583 washable. Feb. &-March 8. Boston Society of Independent Artists travelling ex- Sizes 10 to 20. hibition 731 19.95 March 18-30. New Hampshire Art Association annual exhibition . 875 416 Boylston St., Boston April 4—26. Paintings by members 54 Central St., of New England Chapter, Artists' Wellesley Equity 1067 . [ "3i ] TANGLEWOOD PROGRAMS (Theatre-Concert Hall) I. Saturday Evening, July 5 Bach (C. P. E.): Symphony No. 5, in B minor Bach: Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Bach: Concerto for Two Violins — (Richard Burgin, Ruth Posselt) Bach: Suite No. 3, in D major II. Sunday Afternoon, July 6 Rameau: Suite from "Dardanus" Couperin: Concert dans le gout theatral Purcell: Fantasia in A, for Strings Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 3, No. 11 Lalande: "De Profundis," for Chorus and Orchestra III. Saturday Evening, July 12 Handel: Concerto Grosso in A minor for Strings, Op. 6, No. 4 Dittersdorf : Symphony in C major Strauss: Metamorphoses, Study for 23 Solo String Instruments Milhaud: "La Creation du Monde" NATURAL IV. 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BOSTON• CHESTNUT HILL ["&} OVERTURE, "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL," Op. 5 By Samuel Barber Born at West Chester, Pa., March 9, 1910 Mr. Barber composed his Overture in 1932. It was performed at the summer series of concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Robin Hood Dell, August 30, 1933. The Overture was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, November 15, 1940, repeated October 16, 1942, and February 10, 1950. The orchestration is as follows: two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, bass drum and cymbals, bells, triangle, harp, celesta and strings. THE piece is a concert overture intended, not as an introduction to a dramatic performance, but as an approximation in music of the spirit of Sheridan's comedy. The pattern is classical. The music begins allegro molto vivace with a flourish and a bright leaping theme for the full orchestra over a swift figure in the violins. The strings take the theme in 9-8 over pulsating chords in the winds. The energy spreads itself in a ff climax and the second theme, properly lyrical, is sung by the oboe and then the violins. There is develop- ment of the earlier material in the original brilliant vein and a return of the second theme, now brought in by the English horn and taken up by the strings. The overture closes in a sparkling tempo primo. H 1 C i»37l , Music figured early in Samuel Barber's life. It is told that he had piano lessons at the age of six and at seven made his first attempt at composition.