BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON SEASON BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON, JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE A square knot — fast becoming the most famous in America as the standard for use in Red Cross First Aid bandaging. It holds fast, but can readily be adjusted. Your insurance protection should be similarly secure, yet conform to current conditions and values. It will pay you to tie up with an agency such as ours, one capable of giving you complete insurance services. We shall consider it a privilege to serve you OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mast. LAfayette 3-5700 SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON Telephone, CO mmonwealth 6- 149* 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, Zf»C. 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 Wolgott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen M. A. DeWolfe Howe N. Penrose Hallowell Lewis Perry Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager ) Assistant G. W. Rector Assistant J. J. Brosnahan, Treasurer N. S. Shirk \ Managers Rosario Mazzeo, Personnel Manager [ 1301 ] THE LIVING TRUST How It Benefits You, Your Family, Your Estate Unsettled conditions . new inventions . political changes . interest rates and taxes, today make the complicated field of in- vestments more and more a province for specialists. 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The National Shawmut Bank of Boston Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [1302] SYMPHONIANA Season 1955-1956 Exhibitions List of Articles Message A THE TROUSSEAU HOUSE OF BOSTON EXHIBITIONS The exhibitions shown in the Gallery gossamer as a mid- during the season past were as follows: Paintings by Paul Barruel and Andrew summer night's dream, Wyeth (September 30-November 5) this misty double nylon "Seventy-five years of Painting in Bos- ton" (November 11-November 26) negligee in blue or Contemporary Italian Paintings (Gal- pink flocked with tiny leria dell' Obelisco, Rome) (Decem- ber 2-December 23) blossoms. Sizes 10 to Subscribers' Exhibition (December 30- January 7) "Portraits in Print" (Print Department 9.95 of the Boston Public Library) (Janu- ary 20-February 4) Drawings by Robert Nash (January 20) Exhibition from the DeCordova Muse- um (February 16-March 3) Color Drawings of Stained Glass Win- dows (March 8-March 17) Boston Society of Water Color Painters (March 28-April 8) Berkshire Artists (April 10-April 29) LIST OF ARTICLES Page Features of the 75th Anniversary Season 3 The Tour 55 This Week's Program on Long- playing Records (Martin Bookspan) 56 Gustav Mahler and his First Symphony (Bruno Walter) 107 Fidelio in Beethoven's Vienna 159 Reminiscence 189 Seventy-five Years of Painting in Boston 215 Salute to Rome 271 Orchestral Beginnings (Helen Henschel) 271 A Letter from Arthur Honegger 327 Network Stations 383 A British View of Arthur Fiedler 415 Honegger and the "Six" 415 416 Boylston St., Boston KE 6-6238 Ernest Ansermet 439 -"" L *• \ \ \V\ III W I. ^r' "Seamless Tapestry of Music" 440 ? 54 Central St., Wellesley WE 5-3430 Whistler's "Nocturnes" and Debussy's 495 A "Communication" from Ansermet 551 Subscribers' Exhibition 1955 551 The European Tour 607 »3<>3 Page Portraits in Prints 663 Debussy vs. Orthodoxy 664 Mozart on the Violin (Heifetz) 719 Mr. Munch's Concert in Paris 775 C^handlanaier s How to be Efficient with Fewer Tremont and West Streets, Boston Violins 776 "If This Be Long Hair" (Dedham Transcript) 831 Exhibition (DeCordova Museum) 832 Berkshire Festival Plans 887 Martinu Honored 888 "When Critics Disagree" (Neville Cardus) 888 Exhibition (Joseph G. Reynolds) 943 Berkshire Music Center Announces Summer Plans 944 Grand Prix for "The Damnation of Faust" 975 Martinu (Milos Safranek) 999 A Program to Evoke Memories 1111 Boston Society of Water Color Painters 1111 Some Berkshire Painters 1167 A MESSAGE Henry B. Cabot, as President of the Board of Trustees, addressed the Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the annual meeting on April 18, as follows:— Ladies and Gentlemen—Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra These annual meetings of the Friends are to my mind not only very pleasant but also very important. First, they constitute a visual demonstration of the large company of people who believe that this Orchestra is important to our community and who not only contribute their dollars, but come in person to hear about its affairs. Second, this meeting gives the Trustees an opportunity of reporting to you and to the public through you on the financial situation and other matters of interest. I am, there- fore, delighted at the large attendance here today. We are now approaching the end of laniddimo . the 75th Boston season and you know as well as I that this Orchestra has never been better. I think I can report softly let the music that the morale of the players and the fall upon the eye. whole organization has never been higher. You may be proud of this from a score of equal triumphs at Orchestra and that you are one of its Friends, but your pride is as nothing to that of the ladies and gentlemen who CHANDLER'S MISSES' DRESSES sit behind me. Be careful you make no SECOND FLOOR disparaging remarks about the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their presence. Continued on page 1355) [1304] outrageously alluring late-day look . this new fluid line in imported lace . * $125 A brilliant new mood for late-day dressing. The romance of lace . the new fluid line of the sheath . the new modesty of the covered neckline bared in back. 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Parker, Jr. your will, and the many advan- President tages of appointing Old Colony Arthur L. Coburn, Jr. Chairman TrustInvestmentCommittee as Executor and Trustee, are } Allied with The First National Bank of Boston [1306] SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE AND FIFTY-SIX Twenty-fourth Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, April 27, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, April 28, at 8:30 o'clock Daniels A Psalm of Praise, for Mixed Chorus, Three Trumpets, Percussion and Strings (Composed for the y^th Anniversary of Radcliffe College; first performance at these concerts) Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, with final chorus on Schiller's Ode to Joy, Op. 125 I. Allegro, ma non troppo, un poco maestoso II. Molto vivace: Presto III. Adagio molto e cantabile IV. Presto; Allegro Allegro assai Presto Baritone Recitative Quartet and Chorus: Allegro assai Tenor Solo and Chorus: Allegro assai vivace, alia marcia Chorus: Andante maestoso Adagio, ma non troppo, ma divoto Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato Quartet and Chorus: Allegro ma non tanto Chorus: Prestissimo Chorus of the HARVARD GLEE CLUB and RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY (G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor) Soloists Adele Addison, Soprano David Lloyd, Tenor Eunice Alberts, Contralto Mac Morgan, Bass These concerts will end about 3:35 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 9:50 o'clock on Saturday Evening. For the program of the extra concert on April 29, see page 1 347. BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS ['307] MJta* the new deep-set hat . focal point of your costume, an indispensable of Spring fashion '56. So many versions, so many heady colors from which to pick your fancy. 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