Ansermet to Conduct B.S.O. Next Tuesday

Ernest Ansermet will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its second local concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 11, in Sanders Theatre. Ansermet is substituting for Music Director Charles Munch who is ill.

The B.S.O., now in its 71st year, will present a program including Variation on a Theme by Haydn, by Brahms. Symphony in A major, No. 4, "Italian," by Mendelssohn, and selections by Faure and Debussy.

This is one of a series of concerts the Boston Symphony Orchestra gives at Harvard annually. Under the terms of its founding, the Boston Symphony Orchestra was required to give this series.