ft'i T\) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON •C^* X ^%J IHIIMK >?5777?<2. H SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON ^c BAYARD TUCKERMAN, Jr. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT J. DUNKLE, Jn. ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, Jr. HERBERT SEARS TUCKERMAN 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 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, J 95 1, BY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, hlC. The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot . President Jacob J. Kaplan . Vice-President Richard C. 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They are Charles van Wynbergen, viola, who joined the Orchestra in 1910, Sieg- fried Gerhardt, viola (1919), Henri Erkelens, violin (1920), John Murray, violin (1920), Elford Caughey, harp (1925). FRIDAY AND SATURDAY CONCERTS ON WGBH (FM) The Boston Symphony Orchestra is proud to be a participant in a new, non- commercial educational FM radio sta- tion, which will be operated with the advice and cooperation of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council. The station, installed in Sym- phony Hall, is equipped to broadcast complete symphony concerts, together with daily programs of academic in- terest. Station WGBH will give its inaugural broadcast this Saturday, October 6, when the first evening concert of the season will be on the air, entire. Full- Like Joseph's Coat of many length Friday afternoon and Saturday colors, a puckered rayon taffeta evening performances in Symphony Hall, teagown scintillating in jewel through the season, will be broadcast tones of green, fuchsia and direct from the stage. Other music in blue. Velvet belt. Sizes 12 to 20. live performance is planned, and pro- grams presented each day 3:00 P.M. to 35.00 10:30 P.M. (Fridays at 2:15 for Sym- phony concerts only) by the six colleges 416 Boylston St., Boston and universities of Greater Boston which are members of the Council 54 Central St., Wellesley Boston College, Boston University, [31 Harvard, M.I.T., Northeastern and Tufts, in association with the Lowell I Institute. Station WGBH. which derives its call FAMOUS FOR FINE FURS AND letters from Great Z?lue H'\\\ in Milton, FASHIONS FOR 81 YEARS will operate from the Harvard Ob- servatory there. The 92-foot tower and antenna, which rise 724 feet above sea level, will bring programs to listeners within a 67-mile radius of Boston. With a power of 20,000 watts, WGBH will operate at 89.7 megacycles in the FM band, on Channel 209. Extends to the FM listeners of Greater Boston who are already blessed with daily programs exclusively of the best music from Sta- tion WXHR, music in generous quan- tities from the non-commercial WBUR, and the nightly "Evening Concert" from Boston WCOP (with a "Preview" of the sym- phony program on Thursdays) may now add to their abundance live Boston Symphony Symphony concerts. In no other city of the United States (except possibly New York) are there comparable musical op- Orchestra portunities. With excellent FM sets purchasable at a low price and FM included in some television sets, it is to be expected that many thousands of music lovers will be quick to take ad- vantage of this new and unprecedented our sincerest wish development. Parker Wheatley, Director of the for a Lowell Institute Cooperative Broad- casting Council, has been named Gen- eral Manager of WGBH, which will Successful Season operate from studios newly constructed in Symphony Hall. A microwave link on the roof will relay all programs to the transmitter on Great Blue Hill. The broadcasts are rich, not only in immediate promise, but in future possi- bilities. Regular program features will include lecture courses, forums and panel discussions, a daily children's news broadcasts with Store Hours program, and faculty commentary. There will be P. M. 9:30 A. M. to 5:30 further educational features (by tran- scription) from other colleges and uni- Wednesday versities throughout the country, and special programs from such international A. M. to 9:00 P. M. 10:30 services as the British Broadcasting Corporation, Radiodiffusion Franchise and the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion. 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SEVENTY-FIRST SEASON NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE AND FIFTY-TW Cjfirst Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 5, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, October 6, at 8:30 o'clock In memory of SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY July 26, 1874 — June 4, 1951 H Mozart Masonic Funeral Music (K. 477) Strauss "Death and Transfiguration," Tone Poem, Op. 24 intermission Tchaikovsky .... Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathetique," Op. 74 I. Adagio; Allegro non troppo II. Allegro con grazia III. Allegro molto vivace IV. Finale: Adagio lamentoso BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS The Friday and Saturday concerts will be broadcast each week on Station WGBH (FM) This program will end about 4:00 o'clock on Friday Afternoon, 10: 15 on Saturday Evening. [7] ST I JULN S h^ dramatizes the timelessness, the flattery of the fitted wool coat. R. H. STEARNS CO. Boston • Chestnut Hill [8] KOUSSEVITZKY (Editorial in the Boston Globe, June 6, 1951.) What this community owes to him is immeasurable. But exactly the same can be said of the greater community of America and Europe which he served with his music-making through his long life- time from early youth up until nearly the end of his 77th year, for that would have been his age on the 26th of July. Such is the common debt of mortality, but what we have to consider is our debt to his immortality. For it was in that greater world that he chiefly lived. His career, however briefly recited, is fabulous; his rise from obscurity to fame as a virtuoso performer on the double bass, his early adventures as conductor of an orchestra on a steamboat cruising the Volga and bringing music to the people — his life-long passion.