Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 89, 1969-1970
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PERRY JR Manager JAMES J. BROSNAHAN HARRY J. KRAUT Associate Manager, Associate Manager, Business Affairs Public Affairs MARY H. SMITH MARVIN SCHOFER Concert Manager Press and Public Information program copyright © 1970 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 8& » " the coolest thing next to a Summer popsicle Our sliver of a dress. In crunchy rayon. Cut like a cardigan. To wear over a bronzed body. In triple -flavors. Misses' sizes, $30. From our Summer Sportswear Collection. '- — m«« M»riijn > gfflaayif^.v><ii<»«»T.i»«n i ww gwffwmw**"' """' **"'"' BOSTON: At the start of The Freedom Trail, HO Tremont Street, 482-0260. CHESTNUT HILL • NORTHSHORE •SOUTH SHORE PLAZA • BURLINGTON M *>' BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Assistant Conductor EIGHTY-NINTH SEASON 1969-1970 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ABRAM T. COLLIER Chairman ALLEN G. 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Allen chair Ernst Panenka Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero Alfred Krips Mischa Nieland Max Hobart Karl Zeise contra bassoon Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley Richard Plaster Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Max Winder Stephen Geber horns Harry Dickson Hidenobu Tsuchida* James Stagliano Gottfried Wilfinger Jerome Patterson Charles Yancich Fredy Ostrovsky Ronald Feldman Harry Shapiro Leo Panasevich William Stokking Thomas Newell Noah Bielski Paul Keaney Herman Silberman basses Ralph Pottle Stanley Benson Henry Portnoi Sheldon Rotenberg William Rhein trumpets Alfred Schneider Joseph Hearne Julius Schulman Armando Ghitalla Bela Wurtzler Gerald Gelbloom Roger Voisin Leslie Martin Andre Come Raymond Sird John Salkowski Gerard Goguen second violins John Barwicki Clarence Knudson Buell Neidlinger trombones William Robert Olson Marshall William Gibson Michel Sasson Josef Orosz Ronald Knudsen flutes Kauko Kahila Leonard Moss Doriot Anthony Dwyer William Waterhouse Walter Piston chair tuba Ayrton Pinto James Pappoutsakis Chester Schmitz Amnon Levy Phillip Kaplan Laszlo Nagy timpani Michael Vitale piccolo Victor Manusevitch Everett Firth Lois Schaefer John Korman Christopher Kimber percussion oboes Spencer Larrison Charles Smith Ralph Ikuko Mizuno Gomberg Arthur Press John Holmes assistant timpanist violas Hugh Matheny Thomas Gauger Burton Fine Frank Epstein Charles S. Dana chair english horn Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg harps Eugene Lehner Bernard Zighera George Humphrey clarinets Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Robert Karol Gino Cioffi librarians Bernard Kadinoff Pasquale Cardillo Vincent Mauricci Peter Hadcock Victor Alpert Earl Hedberg fb clarinet William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer "member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra participating in a one season exchange with Carol Procter. To the prosperous, overworked man who'd like to get off the night shift. If we could talk more of you men into giving up part of your night-time investment work and getting to sleep earlier, we think we'd be doing a service to you and your families. And to your companies. You might think about giving us some of the mechanical chores: keeping books, collecting dividends, clipping cou- pons, keeping tax records. 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BACH Cantata no. 140 'Wachetauf, ruft uns die Stimme' Chorus Recitative (tenor) Aria (soprano and bass with violin solo) Chorale (tenor) Recitative (bass) Aria (soprano and bass with oboe solo) Chorale (tutti) BETHANY BEARDSLEE soprano ROBERT GARTSIDE tenor VERN SHINALL bass JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN violin RALPH GOMBERG oboe JULES ESKIN cello continuo MATTHEW RUGGIERO bassoon continuo JOHN ADAMS harpsichord continuo BERJ ZAMKOCHIAN organ continuo HARVARD GLEE CLUB and RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY Elliot Forbes conductor first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston intermission MAHLER Symphony no. 9 in D Andante comodo Im Tempo eines gemachlichen Landlers: etwas