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We respectfully invite your inquiry Associated with CHARLES H. WATKINS 8c CO. 8c Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton OBRION, RUSSELL CO. 147 MILK STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Insurance of Every Description Telephone 542-1250 EIGHTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1965-1966 CONCERT BULLETIN OF THE Boston Symphony Orchestra ERICH LEINSDORF, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1966, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot • President Talcott M. Banks • Vice-President John L. Thorndike • Treasurer Abram Berkowitz E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Robert H. Gardiner Edward G. Murray Francis W. Hatch John T. Noonan Andrew Heiskell Mrs. James H. Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Sidney R. Rabb Raymond S. Wilkins TRUSTEES EMERITUS Richard C. Paine Palfrey Perkins Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Oliver Wolcott Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Rosario Mazzeo Harry J. Kraut Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant to the Manager Sanford R. Sistare Andrew Raeburn Press and Publicity Assistant to the Music Director SYMPHONY HALL • BOSTON [899] The Boston Symphony BEETHOVEN hcaVhior •EROICA ' SYMPHONY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCH under Leinsdorf ERICH LEINSDORF "There is a daring quality in Beethoven that should never be lost" says Leinsdorf with particular reference to the great Third Symphony ...the " Eroica". There is also a daring, prophetic quality in Mahler's First Symphony, though in a very different idiom. Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony give each of these works performances characterized by profound understanding and sonic beauty. Hear them in Dynagmove sound on RCA Victor Red Seal albums. CONTENTS Program (for this week) . • 9°5 1 . Program (February 1-12) • 955 cfhc cfrowsscau3Couse op3ojstoii Program (February 18-19) • • 957 Notes Vivaldi (Concerto Grosso in B minor) • 907 Prokofiev (Symphony No. 3) . 916 Entr'actes 10 Antonio Vivaldi (/. N.B.) • 9 The Independent Spirit of Prokofiev (J.N. B.) . • 928 Notes Beethoven (Piano Concerto No. 4) • 94o THE SOLOIST Malcolm Frager, born in St. Louis in 1935, was a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University in New York. He studied there with Carl Friedberg, and later at the American Conserva- tory at Fontainebleau and the Marlboro Music School. Since his debut recital in New York in 1952 he has toured extensively; in the Soviet Union, South America, Europe and Iceland, as well as in this country. He has won several prizes, notably the Edgar M. Levintritt Award in the United States in 1959, and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Inter- national Music Competition in Brussels in 1960. He has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Berkshire Festival concerts in 1963, 1964 and 1965. THE FOUR SOLO VIOLINS IN THE VIVALDI CONCERTO GROSSO It is often noted that the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra is composed of many ill luted players of solo caliber. When Mr. Stripes Leinsdorf needed four solo violins for Pour a freshet of Spring color down the Vivaldi Concerto Grosso he com- this robe of Surah Silk. Zipper clos- plimented his players by drawing names ing. Gold, Turquoise, Raspberry on by lot from the two violin sections. White. Sizes 8-16. $50.00 Gerald Gelbloom was born in Toron- 416 BOYLSTON STREET 54 CENTRAL STREET BOSTON 02116 WELLESLEY to and received his musical training at KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 the Juilliard School. He was concert- [901 master of the Hartford Symphony and has also played with the Symphony of the Air and the Casals Festival Orches- tra. He has taught at the Hartford School of Music, the Hartt College of Music and Wesleyan University, and is currently on the faculty of the Longy School of Music. Mr. Gelbloom joined this Orchestra in 1961. Michel Sasson, a member of the Or- chestra since 1959, was born in Alexan- dria, Egypt, of French parentage. He graduated in 1958 from the Paris Con- servatoire with a First Prize, awarded by a unanimous jury which included Henryk Szeryng. He has played with chamber orchestras in Paris and Lon- don, and with the Radio Eireann Orches- tra in Dublin. He took graduate study at the New England Conservatory in 1958-59, serving as Concertmaster of the Conservatory Orchestra. Alfred Schneider, a native of St. Louis, joined this Orchestra in 1955. He trained at the Eastman School of Music with Jacques Gordon and Andre de Ribaupierre, and received the Roches- ter Prize Scholarship. He played one season with the Rochester Civic and Philharmonic Orchestras, four seasons with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and was also a member of a professional string quartet in each city. He is now a member of the Gabrielli Trio of this city and teaches at the Boston Stop Shop Conservatory. Julius Schulman, a native of Brook- Bradlees lyn, began playing with this Orchestra FOODS in 1960. During his musical training at the Curtis Institute and New York Uni- versity his principal teachers were Ef- Cb^ibv ram Zimbalist and Jacques Malkin. His Uruk ojfyJz early professional experience included seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Stokowski's All American Youth Or- chestra, and the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. He has been Con- certmaster of the WOR Mutual Net- mim-pricma work Orchestra, the New Orleans Sym- phony and the Little Orchestra Society of New York, and has been active as a recitalist. [902 . 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THE FIRST & OLD COLONY The First National Bank of Boston and Old Colony Trust Company [904] EIGHTY-FIFTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE -SIXTY-SIX Fifteenth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, February 4, at 2:00 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, February 5, at 8:30 o'clock Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in B minor, for Four Violins and String Orchestra, Op.