BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 21 ; '^y .aim &n • WM^^^^ Id***" ^^^. \\ \v>^\ X v<fM EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON 1961-1962 STRADIVARI . created for all time a perfect marriage of precision and beauty for both the eye and the ear. He had the unique genius to combine a thorough knowledge of the acoustical values of wood with a fine artist's sense of the good and the beautiful. Unexcelled by anything before or after, his violins have such purity of tone, they are said to speak with the voice of a lovely soul within. In business, as in the arts, experience and ability are invaluable. We suggest you take advantage of our extensive insurance background by letting us review your needs either business or personal and counsel you to an intelligent program. We respectfully invite your inquiry. CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton — Robert G. Jennings 147 MILK STREET BOSTON 9, MASSACHUSETTS LIBERTY 2-1250 Associated With OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON, 1961-1962 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical an td descriptive notes by John N. Burk Copyright, 1962, by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc The TRUSTEES of the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Inc. Henry B. Cabot President Talcott M. Banks Vice-President Richard C. Paine Treasurer Abram Berkowitz John T. Noonan Theodore P. Ferris Mrs. James H. Perkins Francis W. Hatch Sidney R. Rabb Harold D. Hodgkinson Charles H. Stockton C. D. Jackson John L. Thorndike E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Raymond S. Wilkins Henry A. Laughlin Oliver Wolcott TRUSTEES EMERITUS Philip R. Allen Lewis Perry Edward A. Taft Palfrey Perkins 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 [1283] What everyone likes about Boston . The Hatch Memorial Shell What you will like about Shawmut's trust department. You will like the warmth, respect and understanding a Shawmut trust officer brings to your personal trust problems . plus the sound judgment, based on research and experience, that helps you reach proper financial decisions. Let him demonstrate to you and your attorney how Shawmut can serve you. The U\[ational Shawmut Bank of Boston Complete Banking and Trust Services • Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1284 6 CONTENTS Program (for this week) . 1289 9T(a9.atma$xK. Program (April 13-14) . 1339 Program (April 19-21) . .1341 Notes Berlioz (Fantastic Symphony) 1292 Entr'acte Ravel and "Les Apaches" (J- N. B.) 1310 Notes Debussy (The Sea) .... 1327 Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe) . 1332 EXHIBITION The exhibition of paintings which opens this week has been loaned by the Gallery of Tyringham, Massachusetts. • FRIENDS OLD AND NEW A COUNCIL OF FRIENDS of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been formed to assist the Trustees in increas- ing the number of Friends of the Or- chestra and to help in disseminating knowledge of the Orchestra's cultural contributions to the Greater Boston ^JraveClina if community. The Council of Friends will sponsor a series of coffee hours to which old We have many things "Friends" and subscribers will be in- to make your trip vited. In this way the Council will more pleasant — convey to the public the needs of the Orchestra and the ways of meeting its lightweight, packable ever increasing problems. silk or nylon robes, Members of the Council will be in- vited to a rehearsal and luncheon at carefree drip-dry Symphony Hall on the morning of lingerie, three- Wednesday, April 18. Mile. Boulanger piece travel sets — and Charles Munch will be conducting. JOIN NOW as a Friend of the a host of things to Boston Symphony Orchestra and help help you on your way. insure the quality of performance that Boston has always been privileged to 4l6Boylston St. 54 Central St. enjoy. Mrs. Louis W. Cabot and Boston 1 Wellesley Mrs. Norman Cahners KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 Co-chairmen for the Council of Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra [1285] REMAINING CONCERTS 1925 and 1938. On her first visit, she presented her sister's choral At the twenty-third pair of concerts, work, "Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat." which will be given on April 19 and 21 For many years (Mile. Boulanger will (in Holy Week), the honored Guest celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday next Conductor will be Mile. Nadia Bou- Septem- ber 16), she has held a langer, who will present choral settings prominent place in the musical world as the teacher of three psalms by her sister Lili Bou- and adviser of young talent, notably langer, the New England Conservatory at the American Conservatory at Chorus assisting. They are Psalms 130: Fontaine- bleau and the Ecole Normale de Mu- "Out of the depths have I cried unto sique in Paris. Her pupils in thee"; 129: "Many a time have they past years have included a number of Americans: afflicted me from my youth"; and 24: Aaron Copland, Virgil Thompson, Roger "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness Sessions, Roy Harris, thereof." Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, David Diamond, Lili Boulanger, ten years younger than Alexei Haieff, Douglas Moore, Irving Fine her sister, showed extraordinary musical and others. talent from early childhood, and al- At the closing pair of concerts of though she died in 1918 at the age of the season (April 27-28), Charles twenty-four, she had then composed a Munch will conduct for the last time in considerable amount of music of great Boston as the promise. Music Director of this Orchestra. The program will consist of Beethoven's In the first part of the twenty-third Ninth Symphony, to be preceded program Dr. Munch will present Mo- by Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon." zart's Masonic Funeral Music and Men- The Chorus Pro Musica will delssohn's Fifth Symphony ("Reforma- join forces with the Orchestra together with tion"). the follow- ing soloists: Adele Addison, Florence Nadia Boulanger is revisiting this Kopleff, John McCollum and Donald country after a long absence, having Gramm. conducted this Orchestra as Guest in 6> ucJu, Ucnc ^X^— [I'll TweNTy Neweufcy [1286] &s^ ;Xv^v_^vJJ-JvJ • Probably the happy result of one of those grandiose expansions of single instruments into large "families", the piccolo is a miniature flute. The name itself means "small", and the arrangement of keys is very similar to that of an ordinary flute. But the piccolo is an octave higher than a flute in C and reaches almost to the upper limit of recognizable pitch, though the highest notes (4th octave above middle C) are too piercing to be often used. While the piccolo first became popular in the military bands of the late 18th century, it was quickly accepted in the symphony. Gluck and Beethoven used its hard, bright tone to accentuate "storm" music; Wagner and a great many modern composers have also put its birdlike brilliance to good use. ERSONAL BANKER s the man you talk to at the New England Merchants National Bank. Our bank is small enough to know you as a friend, large enough to offer a full range of personal and commercial services. The officer who serves you understands your needs — and he's experienced and ready to help you on the spot. NEW ENGLAND MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK 28 State Street, Boston MEMBER F.D.I.C. [1287 ] 1? aHold Tour Hats rehearsal for "Hold ^i xr f rinh is now in 1962. « etting mus^a. show for V OU H^ presenta- from this original T always,[ the proceedsproceeus As support„ nDDOrt D f Vincent considerably in the tion help plans suggest you make Memorial Hospital. We now to attend. A Friday and w' dnesday, Thursday Say through April 7 at 8 .30. SS5 evenings, April 3 April 7 at 2.JU. Matinee on Saturday, Hall New England Mutual Life TICKETS: Now on sale at Box Office P.M 9:30 A.M. 5:30 Monday through Friday, Phone: CO 6-1740 Old Colony salutes the great work done by the Vincent Club for such a worthwhile pur- pose. We wish its members every success with this year's program. Old Colony Trust Company ONE FEDERAL STREET BOSTON 6, MASSACHUSETTS Allied with The First National Bank of Boston »~!«iSi;5:«i!«JJ0S tMiMM&MSk [1288] EIGHTY-FIRST SEASON • NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE-SIXTY-TWO Twenty-first Program FRIDAY AFTERNOON, March 30, at 2:15 o'clock SATURDAY EVENING, March 31, at 8:30 o'clock Berlioz *Fantastic Symphony, Op. 14a I. Reveries, Passions Largo; Allegro agitato e appassionato assai II. A Ball Waltz: Allegro non troppo III. Scene in the Meadows Adagio IV. March to the Scaffold Allegretto non troppo V. Dream of the Witches' Sabbath Larghetto; Allegro INTERMISSION Debussy # La Mer (The Sea), Three Symphonic Sketches I. De l'aube a midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) II. Jeux de vagues (The Play of the Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea) Ravel *"Daphnis et Chloe," Ballet, Suite No. 2 Lever du jour — Pantomime — Danse generate These concerts will end about 4:15 o'clock on Friday Afternoon; 10:30 o'clock on Saturday Evening. BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [1289] BOSTON YOU'RE SO MUCH PRETTIER WHEN YOU WEAR A HAT [1290] FANTASTIC SYMPHONY (SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE), Op. 14A By Hector Berlioz Born in la Cote-Saint-Andre (Isere), December 11, 1803; died in Paris, March 8, 1869 Berlioz's title, "Episode in the Life of an Artist," Op.