*l'\ fr^j BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 24 G> X will MIIHIi H tf SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1957-1958 BAYARD TUCEERMAN. JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT 8. TUCEERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE It takes only seconds for accidents to occur that damage or destroy property. It takes only a few minutes to develop a complete insurance program that will give you proper coverages in adequate amounts. It might be well for you to spend a little time with us helping to see that in the event of a loss you will find yourself protected with insurance. WHAT TIME to ask for help? Any time! Now! CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mast. LA fayette 3-5700 SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON, 1957-1958 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1958, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Jacob J. Kaplan Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Talcott M. Banks Michael T. Kelleher Theodore P. Ferris Henry A. Laughlin Alvan T. Fuller John T. Noonan Francis W. Hatch Palfrey Perkins Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson Raymond S. Wilkins E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager Norman S. Shirk James J. Brosnahan Assistant Manager Business Administrator Leonard Burkat Rosario Mazzeo Music Administrator Personnel Manager SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON 15 [1505] CAN YOU DESCRIBE A LIFE INSURANCE TRUST? ® If you are unaware of the many advantages of a Life Insurance Trust, it may be that a talk with a Shawmut Trust Officer would show you precisely how this type of protection would best suit your insurance needs. For example, your life insurance can very easily be arranged to provide life-long support for your widow plus a substantial inheritance for your children. In Shawmut' s Personal Trust Department we would be glad to discuss your complete insurance program . with you, your life insurance counsellor and your attorney, or simply write for a copy of our brochure "A Modern Life Insurance Program." Naturally, there would be no obligation. Write or call The Personal Trust Department The V^Qztional Shawmut Bank Tel. LAfayette 3-6800 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [1506] SYMPHONIANA Exhibitions List of Articles Mrs. M. Graeme Haughton THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON The Pops Berkshire Festival Programs EXHIBITIONS The exhibitions shown in the Gallery during the season past were as follows: Paintings loaned by the North Shore Arts Association (October 4-12). Italian Prints loaned by the Boston Public Library (October 25-November 9). Paintings by members of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters (No- vember 19-December 10). Photographs taken on the South Ameri- can tour of the Zimbler Sinfonietta (December 20-28). Subscribers' Exhibition (January 3- 11). Paintings from the deCordova and Dana Museum of Lincoln (January 24- vy*-^ February 8). American paintings loaned by the Fogg Art Museum (February 21-March 15). Paintings loaned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (March 28- April 19). personal LIST OF ARTICLES PAGE accent Munch Honored in Lebanon 3 Monograms add an individual Our Saturday Concerts Broadcast touch to this spring lingerie — of in New York 4 sprinkled with New Auditorium 4 nylon georgette, In Memory of Sibelius 4 apple blossoms — its embroidered The South American Tour 4 edging scalloped and touched with The Independence of Sibelius ... 67 nylon net. Pink or Turquoise North Shore Arts Association ... 68 on White. Sizes 32 - 38. Gown A Gift 107 $22.50. Slip $16.95. Petticoat Vaughan Williams' Newest $12.95. Pantie $10.95. Prices Symphony 131 include monogramming. Symphony Broadcasts Extended . 132 Dr. Munch in Lebanon 171 416 B0YLST0N ST., BOSTON • KE 6 6238 Saint-Saens and the French Classical Spirit 195 [ 1507 ] . Italian Prints 235 Stravinsky in a Composition Class (by Maurice Perrin from "The Score," 1957) 259 Charles Munch Answers a Letter 323 A History of Recording by This Orchestra 324 A Musical Coming-of-Age (Editorial in the Boston Globe, November 21, 1957) 427 Our Symphony Broadcasts 452 The Commissioned Works 491 A Message from Moscow 579 Charles Munch to Conduct in Israel 683 Subscribers Exhibition 707 Dr. Munch in Israel 772 Reports from Israel 835 New Trustees 900 Honor for Leo Smit 939 Dr. Munch's Impressions of Israel 963 Great American Paintings 1027 Berkshire Festival we 9re putting Announcement 1067, 1155 j\ Bach at His Greatest 1091 The Berkshire Music Center at it in print . Tanglewood 1131 "Rudy" Elie 1155 they're true collector's Radio News 1195 items, our "first edition" Institute of Contemporary Art . 1219 Crints ... in dresses, The Statues in Symphony Hall . 1347 louses, costumes, hats, List of Casts in Symphony Hall . 1387 accessories . with spicy Berlioz Manuscripts 1411 colors and marvelous Visit of Nadia Boulanger 1412 fabrics which give an Berkshire Festival Program 1547 entirely new feeling to spring fashions ... and if you're a "collector" you MRS. M. GRAEME HAUGHTON won't miss them for any- The death of Mrs. Haughton on Satur- thing! day, April 19, at the age of 93, recalls her long association with this Orchestra as one of its closest friends for many years. She was a niece of Henry L. Higginson. ~Q© (Continued on page 1547) [1508] Ben Zuckerman's newest coats sing out Spring, 1958, in clear, vibrant colors . in the dramatic, straight line Sacque de Paris shape that leaves your waistline free . coats that are totally new, totally reflective of a new way of dressing. Sketched: A straight line of clear, fresh white in Italian crochet tweed. New interest, two high-placed pockets $210 The French Shops Spring Coat Collection from $89.95 \ Filene's French Shops—seventh floor \ [1509] FINANCIAL. JUDGMENT WITH THE HUMAN TOUCH Finding a missing heir An inheritance was waiting for a woman whose family hadn't heard from her for more than 25 years. The money was left by her father, who stated in his will that the money should be divided among the other heirs if the daughter could not be found. Old Colony, as Executor, used every possible means to find her, including advertising in newspapers across the country. The woman was found and given her legacy. Just another example of how Old Colony, as Executor, carries out the wishes of the maker of a will. Old Colony would be glad to discuss your estate plans with you and your lawyer at any time. As a first step, write for the 24-page booklet, "Wills and Trusts." Augustin H. Parker, Jr. President WORTHY OF YOUR TRUST T. Jefferson Coolidge Old Colony Chairman, Trust Committee Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. Trust Company Chairman, Trust Investment Committee ONE FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [1510] SEVENTY-SEVENTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN -FIFTY-EIGHT Twenty-fourth "Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, April 25, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, April 26, at 8:30 o'clock RICHARD BURGIN, Conductor Haydn Symphony in B-flat, No. 102 I. Largo; Allegro vivace II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegro; Trio IV. Finale: Presto Stravinsky Divertimento, "Le Baiser de la F£e," Allegorical Ballet I. Sinfonia II. Danses Suisses III. Scherzo IV. Pas de deux Adagio — Variation — Coda INTERMISSION Beethoven Symphony No. 5, in C minor, Op. 67 I. Allegro con brio II. Andante con moto III. (Allegro; Trio IV. ^Allegro These concerts will end about 3:55 o'clock on Friday afternoon; 10:10 o'clock on Saturday evening. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS [15U] sunset colors The hot reds, fiery oranges . the yellow, green and blue of a sunset sky . these are the colors that glow on the fashion horizon for Spring and Summer. Here and now at Stearns ... in accessories to color your wardrobe with new excitement, new variety. BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [W*] SYMPHONY IN B-FLAT MAJOR, NO. 102 (No. 9 of the London Series) By Joseph Haydn Born at Rohrau, Lower Austria, March 31, 1732; died at Vienna, May 31, 1809 This was the only symphony on the first program of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on October 22, 1881. This program was repeated on the Orchestra's Fiftieth Anniversary, October 10, 1930, when Sir George Henschel returned to repeat his original program. The most recent performance at these concerts was on September 30, 1955. The symphony is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings. ^t^his symphony is one of the six which Haydn composed for his * second visit to London in 1794 and 1795 — he composed twelve in all for performance by the orchestra of Salomon in the British capital. The symphony was written, according to C. F. Pohl, Haydn's biog- rapher, in 1795, and must accordingly have been performed in that year. Haydn was required by the terms of his agreement with Salomon to write a new work for each of the weekly concerts in the subscription series which that impresario arranged, and the composer was as good as his word. He stipulated (hearing, perhaps, that the British public f S. S. 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