(HMMMHI SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, Commonwealth 6-1492 SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON, 1955-1956 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, 1956, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, I.TIC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. Paine . Treasurer Talcott M. Banks, Jr. C. D. Jackson John Nicholas Brown Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Palfrey Perkins Alvan T. Fuller Charles H. Stockton Francis W. Hatch Edward A. Taft Harold D. Hodgkinson Raymond S. Wilkins Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager G. ) Assistant Assistant W. Rector J. J. Brosnahan, Treasurer N. S. 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The editorial predicts that the bill- board "will probably cause some motor- ists to lose control of their cars, because of the unique nature of the subject." "Good music is enjoyed by many Americans, it attracts a substantial, but not overwhelming, audience in our times. Good music is not the service- able, commercial noise spun usually by the breed known as disc jockeys. Neither is good music constantly as- sailing our violated ears via radio or television stations. "Therefore, any agency which helps promote or sustain what avenues of good music remain in our high-pressured modern times, is deserving of the com- mendation of the vanishing Americans who still cling desperately to a few cul- tural standards. "It is essential that the maturity of breath of spring . zephyr life, as exemplified in one sense by the light nylon tricot gown symohony orchestra, must be recognized and lent an occasional ear amidst the de- flocked with frosty white plorable amount of din-music being ped- blossoms edged with pink dled daily over the air, and store counters. or green . the gown Most firms who employ the high-priced trimmed with nylon val art of the outdoor billboard use the repetitious phrase and the over-charged lace. Sizes small, medium, objective in order to persuade users of large. the other fellow's product to switch to theirs. Dedham's Boston Envelope long, 22.95 Company is spending this money with ballerina, 18.95 the subtle suggestion that all of us switch to culture and good music by saluting one of nation's the most re- 416 Boylston St., Boston spected purveyors of this rare product, 54 Central St., Wellesley the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 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Look for lady-like prints, Oriental spice, long moulded lines. Ready now on our fourth and sixth floors, Boston. Also, Chestnut Hill. BOSTON CHESTNUT HILL [836] PIERRE MONTEUX Pierre Monteux was born in Paris, April 4, 1875. He began his career as violist at the Opera Comique and the Concerts Colonne. From 1912 he conducted DiaghilefFs Ballet Russe, introducing such music as Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, and Le Ros- signol; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Debussy's Jeux. He toured the United States with the Ballet Russe in 1916-17. He conducted at the Paris Opera and his own Concerts Monteux in Paris. He became conductor at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1917-18 and was the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919-1924. In the ten years following he was a regular conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. He became conductor of the San Francisco Orchestra in 1935, a position from which he has now retired. Mr. Monteux returned to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra January, 1951, and has conducted each season since, in Boston, and at Tanglewood. He shared with Mr. Munch the concerts of the European tour in May, 1952, and the transcontinental tour in May, 1953. He conducts as guest of the Metropolitan Opera Company. what's the hurry . .. going south? <^£ we're getting ready for our winter holiday . going to Hurwflljk Brothers to pick out an outfit £rornl^ieir smart collection of resort fashions and/accesttdes.