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THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIA LUKAS FOSS, Music Director
Twenty-seventh Season 1980/1981 LUKAS FOSS Conductor
JESSYE NORMAN Soprano
Schubert/Webern Deutsche Tanze (D. 820)
Berg Seven Early Songs 1. Nacht 2. Schilflied 3. Die Nachtigall 4. Traumgekront 5. Im Zimmer 6. Liebesode 7. Sommertage Jessye Norman, soprano
(Intermission} Mahler Symphony No.4 in G major For Orchestra and Solo Soprano 1. Bedachtig, nicht eilen; Recht gemachlich (Haupttempo) 2. In gemachlicher Bewegung: Ohne Hast 3. Ruhevol: (poco adagio) 4. Sehr behaglich J essye Norman, soprano
The Baldwin is the official piano of the Brooklyn Philharmonia
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TEXT SOMMERTAGE (SUMMERDAYS} English version by Eric Smith Paul Hohenberg SEVEN EARLY SONGS ( 1907) Now days of summer ride through the world, heralds of blue eternity; ALBAN BERG on gentler winds hours flee. NACHT (NIGHT) By night the Lord gently weaves Carl Hauptmann starry posies with his blessed hand, hangs them over his magic land. T':"ilight floats .above the valley's night, My heart, in these d.ays summer's bringing M•sts are hangmg, there's a whisp'ring brook. what can you say w1th all your singing Now the cov'ring veil is lifted quite: of what you deeply, deeply feel? Come and look! 0 Look! For beauty all your words doth steal. See the magic land before our gaze: and comes in silence with the view Tall as dreams the silver mountains stand, of eventide and filleth you. Crossed by silent silver paths shining From a secret land. Noble, pure the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadows black And high of a beech; a wisp of white smoke creeps to the dark' ning sky Where the valley is the darkest hued Countless little lights shine silently 0 my soul! Drink of Solitude! Come and see' 0 see'
SCHILFLIED (SONG AMONGST THE REEDS} Nikolaus Lenau Through green secret paths I wander to the reedy pool's quiet brink, in the evening there to ponder, sweet girl, there of thee to think. Soon the sun's rays will be dying, TEXT rustling reeds speak secretly. ever moaning, ever sighing, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn telling me to weep for thee. And it seems the breezes blowing We enjoy the heavenly pleasures in the air your voice retain, that's why we shun the earthly. and the water, scarcely flowing, brings your No worldly turmoil does one hear in Heaven' song to me agam All live m softest peace. We lead an angel's life' DIE NACHTIGALL (THE NIGHTINGALE} Are nevertheless very merry along with it! EOUCA TIONAL Theodor Storm We dance and leap, The nightingale, whtch smgs to thee We JUmp and smg CENTER l TO Saint Peter in Heaven looks on! Through the mght dtscloses, TEST PREPARATION In gardens tts sweet melody, heard echoing from tree to tree, Orchestral Refrain SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 That bears a thousand roses. John lets out the little lamb, Visit Any Center She used to be a wtld young maid. 'rhe butcher Herod watts for it! Now she in meditation We lead a patient, And See For Yourself Walks m the sun and scorns the shade innocent, patient. Why We Make The Difference Nor of the wmd and ram afraid: a lovely little Iamb to death! Call Days, Eves & Weekends Is it pam or exultation? Saint Luke slaughters the ox without any reflection or care, MANHATTAN .. 212-977-8200 wine costs not a penny. TRAUMGEKRONT (A CROWN OF DREAMS} 131 W. 56 St NY 10019 (betw 6&7 Ave) in the heavenly cellar, Rainer Maria Rilke the angels, they bake the bread. BROOKLYN ... 212-336-5300 The whtte chrysanthemums did bloom as never I almost feared their brilliant light. Orchestral refrain GARDEN CITY 516·248·1134 And then, and then you carne, my soul Good vegetables of every kind, HUNTINGTON 516-549-1780 to gather deep m the night. they grow m the heavenly garden! I was afraid and you came softly to me, WESTCHESTER . 914-948-7801 Good asparagus, string beans As I'd just hoped in dreaming that you might and anythmg else we may want! ALBANY .. .. . 518-439-8146 You carne, and softly like an old, old story Whole dishes full are waiting for us! we heard the night BINGHAMTON . 607-723-8966 Good apples, good pears, and good grapes! BUFFALO . . . . 716-688-4012 IM ZIMMER (INDOORS} the gardeners, they allow it all to us! Johannes Schlaf 1f you want roebuck, if you want hare! ROCHESTER .. 716-275-9320 m the open streets An autumn night. The evening looks in they run right this way! SYRACUSE . . . 315-451-2970 with its dying light. E. BRUNSWICK . 201 -846-2662 A fire gaily burns, crackles and brightly Should a fast-day perhaps come along glows by turns. all the fishes right away have swum to us with joyl HACKENSACK . 201-488-4778 So! My head upon your knee: that's There runs St. Peter already with net and bait NEW HAVEN . . 203· 789-1169 .happiness! When my eyes your lovely face caress, into the heavenly fishpond. HARTFORD . . . 203-568-7927 Saint Martha must be the cook! how silently the minutes flee. PHILADELPHIA . 215-546-3317 Orchestral refrain ALLENTOWN .. .. 215-435·2171 LIEBESODE (LOVER'S ODE} There is really no music on earth, Otto Erich Hartleben that can be compared to ours. BOSTON ...... 617-482-7420 Eleven thousand maidens Embraced by love we blissfully fell asleep venture to dance! For Information About A breeze of summer stood by the garden door Even St. Ursula laughs! Other Centers In More Than waiting to bear our peaceful breathing out to 85 MaJor U.S. Cities & Abroad the night that was bathed in moonlight. Cecilia and all her kin Outside N.Y. State And from the garden carne to us timidly the are excellent court musicians! rose's fragrance, blessing our bed of love The angels' voices and bringing wonderful sweet dreaming, enliven our senses! CALL TOLL FREE dreaming in rapture, and fiiJed with longing. So that everyone awakens for joy. 800-223-1782 DOCK JUHGU l\JlSOA)' (VD..c; 2 iOoscUSSIOO I 800 Jan 27 f~b 2• M« 2• Nx 21 S3500 3 800 F~b 17 f~b 3 Mbl 31 Nx 28 S3500
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LUKAS FOSS, Music Director At the age of 18, Lukas Foss was widely in the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Born in Augusta, Georgia, Miss Norman known as a musical "wunderkind", and was and for two years was Director of the New studied with Carolyn Grant at Howard Univer already a graduate of the Curtis Institute of York Philharmonic's summer festival concerts sity in Washington, D.C .. with Alice Duschak Music, where he studied conducting with Fritz at Lincoln Center. Beginning in the 1981/82 at Peabody Conservatory 10 Balttmore, Reiner. Shortly thereafter, he was taken under season he will be Music Director of the Maryland, and with Pierre Bernac and the wing of Serge Koussevitzky, with whom he Milwaukee Symphony while continuing his Elizabeth Mannion at the University of worked at the Berkshire Music Center at commitment to the Brooklyn Philharmonia, Michigan in Ann Arbor Tanglewood. Foss also studied at the Yale which he has brought into national pro Her first prize at the Bavarian Radio corpora School of Music in its heyday under Paul minence over the past ten years. tion International Music Competition in Hindemith, and at 23 was the youngest com Lukas Foss is one of the country's leading Munich, Germany resulted in recital and or· poser to be awarded a Guggenheim composers, and has received numerous com chestral concerts throughout Germany and Fellowship. missions, awards and honors for his music, later in other European countries. Her operatic A " renaissance" musician, Foss is equally at which has been played throughout the U.S. debut was in the role of Elisabeth in Tann· home as composer, conductor, teacher, and and Europe by world-renowned artists and hauser at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, in concert pianist. He has continually been at the ensembles. Recent premieres were given by December 1969. At the Hollywood Bowl in forefront of contemporary music, yet the. broad the Cleveland Orchestra (Quintets (or Or· summer 1972 (with James Levine conducting), range of programs he conducts offers a fresh chestra), and Yehudi Menuhin, who performed she sang A1da in a concert performance In the view of music from the Renaissance, Classical, Round a Common Centre with the Cantilena same summer, she appeared with Colin Davis and Romantic periods up through the most Chamber Players at the 1980 Olympic Games and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at avant-garde expressions of many of his col in Lake Placid. Throughout his career he has Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts in an all· leagues. He was Music Advisor and Conductor also won wide acclaim as a concert pianist, and Wagner concert. of the Jerusalem Symphony in Israel for five is best known in this field for his performances In addition to her many subsequent concerts years, and has guest conducted the Berlin and recordings of Leonard Bernstein's The Age with Messrs. Levine and Davis. Miss Norman Philharmonic, the Leningrad Symphony, the of Anxiety and Hindemith's The Four Temper has appeared with Muti, Abbado, Kempe, Tokyo Philharmonic and the Santa Cecilia Or aments, which he premiered. Recently, he has Leinsdorf, Boulez, Mehta, Sawallisch, chestra in Rome, among others. In the U.S., he been piano soloist with the Brooklyn Philhar Fruhbeck de Burgos, Kubelik. Giulini, Ozawa has conducted almost all the major orchestras, monia, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln and Barenboim, among others. She has been including the Chicago Symphony, New York Center, and the Dorian Quintet. heard in opera at Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Philharmonic , Boston Symph ony and Teatro Communale, Florence Royal Opera Cleveland Orchestra. As Music Director of the House (Covent Garden). London: and at La Buffalo Philharmonic from 1963- 1970, he Scala, Milan. Her Festival concerts included made the city a focus of national attention and London's South Bank Summer Music, Maggio a mecca for composers and performers. Prior Musicale, Schwetzingen, Meadowbrook, to this, he had the honor of being named suc Blossom, Mostly Mozart (New York), Ravinia, cessor to Arnold Schoenberg as Professor of Jessye Norman Wolf Trap, Lucerne, Helsinki, Menton Composition at U.C.L.A., a post he held for ten In less than ten years Jessye Norman has Flanders, Salzburg, Spoleto, Berlin, Edinburgh years. Foss has been Music Director of the Ojai become an internationally acclaimed star, per Bath, Aix·en·Provence Vienna and the Israel Festival in California, has directed twelve forming with the most renowned conductors Festival. marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and orchestras and giving recitals in major Miss Norman has recorded extensively for with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was active cities throughout the world. Philips, Angel, EM! and Columbia. SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE BEST BUYS AT BAM SAVE 30 TO 50% ON OUR SENSATIONAL SERIES DANCE~~ THEATER~~
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Composer/perfo rmer j oel C hadabe is it (through devices such as the terminal known for his performances w ith small, por keyboard, joysticks, and proximity-sensitive ~'IVJ»'I• table, interactive computer systems in concerts antennas). thereby determing further the cJ?L1fnu rnnt and gallery installations and in workshops at ~ourse of the composition. In short, my music k which aspects of the tedlnology are explained 1s composed in two stages: first by the creation EXPLORE WITH US He established the Electronic Music Studio at of_ the process, and second, by my interaction THE SECRETS O F the State University of New York at Albany in w1th that process during performance " CHINESE COOKING 1966, and has since then been its director, Scenes From Stevens is based on the follow maintaining an atmosphere of experimentation ing few verses of Wallace Steven's much-loved If you haven't been to Su-Su's and development through the interaction of poem " 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird:" composers,· video artists, engineers, and pro you're missing some of New I York's unusual Gourmet grammers. Chadabe has provided a description Among twenty snowy mountains, of the techniques employed in his computer The only moving thing Chinese Cuisine music. Was the eye of the blackbird. Featuring complete dmners at "The hardware I use, designed and manufac reailst1c pnces! tured by New England Digital Corporation, is a VI desktop general-purpose computer and digital Icicles filled the long window PRESENTED BY FOUR synthesizer, a computer especially designed to With barbaric glass. STAR CHEF KING make music. Computer and synthesizer func The shadow of the blackbird tion together something like a performer and Crossed it, to and fro. instruments, where the computer 'tells' the The mood Open 7 Days for Luncheon, synthesizer what instrument to be, what notes Traced in the shadow Cocktails and Dinner to play, and how to play them. An indecipherable cause. (Sundays, dinner only) "One advantage of the system is its im v mediate feedback to a composer: the music be I do not know wh1ch to prefer, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ing composed is heard as it is being composed. The beauty of inflections BY BOB LAPE But despite the novel techniques involved, it Or the beauty of innuendos, OF CHANNEL 7 does not necessarily change the way a com The blackbird whistling EYEWITNESS NEWS poser thinks or works. Both normality and Or just after adventure are possible. The composer may choose to function normally as composer and TWO HOUR According to the composer, the verses were at FREE PARKING use the computer/synthesizer in a normal way tractive because they express diverse imagery as a perfo rmer(s). Or the situation of im linked by a common theme, which in musical mediate feedback may encourage learning and terms translates into sound and structure Major Credit Cards experimentation to the point that the com Chadabe also found particular significance in Tel: 522-4531 puter/synthesizer system becomes an ideal the phrase "an indecipherable cause" because vehicle for exploring the very extens1ve land it · seemed to reflect the types of processes I 60 Henry Street at Cranberry scape of new possibilities for sounds and prefer in my music where sound follows unex Historic Brooklyn Heights musical processes. pected sound in a lyric flow." The phrase also ' My own approach is towards exploration, suggested a structural idea for the piece: " the particularly in the area of musical processes presence of an invisible melody for which the that involve performer interaction. I create a sounds are accompaniment. The melody 'composer' in the computer and use the com causes the accompaniment but is itself not puter as composer/performer/instrument(s) By heard, except as it emerges towards the end as that I mean that I devise programmed sets of 'the blackbird whistling .. .' ." rules, according to which the details of a com Born in 1938 in New York City, Joel Chadabe position are determined by the computer If I was graduated from the University of North an not pleased with the composition that Carolina at Chapel Hill and from Yale Univer results from the rules, I continue to revise the sity. He studied with Elliott Carter at Yale and '. ~... program until it produces what I do want. afterwards in Europe, where many of his However, even within this critical framework works have been heard. Among fellowships A.t -fF', ., ' ~ the rules are designed to produce details which and prizes he has received are those from the t!W • ..v ranns ~... 1 are unpredictable in a way typical of 1/f type Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for randomness. Thus the system becomes a kind the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He BACHELORS AND Old ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES DAY, EVENING Hungary AND "An authentic Hungarian restaurant right SATURDAY CLASSES here in Brooklyn" Beef Goulash, Chicken Paprika, Stuffed Cabbage, Palacsinta and other traditional dishes "Live Piano Music Nightly" ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE Flowers, plants and fruit ts 180 REMSEN STREET PRE-THEATRE AND for all occasions BROOKLYN, NEW YORK AFTER THEATRE DINNER 11210 142 Montague St., Bklyn. Hghts. (212) 768-6770 25th Street & 625-1649 768-0800 5th Avenue (212) 522-2300 THE PROGRAM Conrad Cummings, the youngest composer we hear excerpts this evening, has been com ". . . Whatver the mathematical formulae represented on tonight's program, has had the posed with the assistance of Mark Liberman of yield up, (Xenakisl never allowed them the last good fortune to pursue his interest in computer Bell Laboratories, and with the support of the word: at least 15 percent of the eventual struc music at what is considered the best-equipped Rockefeller Foundation. It utilizes the com ture has been determined by the specific per center for musical experimentation, Boulez's puter as composer and performer. However, as sonal decisions of the composer, and in his Institute for Research and Coordination of Wuorinen explains in the following note, his more recent works that proportion has tended Acoustics and Music, in Paris. At IRCAM Cum principal interest has been in using the com to increase. mings worked with computer vocal synthesis, puter to generate compositional material. " For this reason, it's really no more than a and composed his Beast Songs, in which " Music is said to manifest certain properties side issue that in many of his works . . . human voices and electronic voices are heard akin to a kind of randomness known technical Xenakis has made use of a computer in plotting together in dramatic contrast. The system used ly as 1/f (one over fj . Many aspects of nature do actual musical events. The really creative to synthesize vocal sounds was invented by so as well. This seems to be the basis of the stages, for him, are the initial one of setting the Xavier Rodet, and its musical potential first long-felt intimacy between music and nature, general terms of a work's abstract structure, identified and developed by Gerald Bennett. and one of the reasons music seems so pro and the final one of selecting the actual notes (Similar work in computer vocal-synthesis is found to us. from among the various choices offered by also taking place in the U.S.j Cummings writes: " The work Mark Liberman and I have been calculation, computation, or whatever other At the heart of the method is a computer carrying on uses computers to apply 1/f pro scientific means. We should remember, which accepts instructions for vowel sounds, babalistic processes to the creation of music. anyway, that none of these procedures vibrato, the way of moving from note to note, This is not really a stochastic process in the represents an attempt to 'apply' to one human and other factors, all of which combine to fo rm sense that some composers have employed; activity methods derived from another, alien a description of a particular singer's voice. rather, it takes a 'natural' input of notes, one. Xenakis sees all activity, whether human These descriptions are in turn combined with generated through 1/f agencies, and shapes this or nonhuman, as subject to the same laws. mdications of pitch, loudness, and duration to input according to musical rules. The result is "The majority of Xenakis' titles are Greek. produce a sung musical phrase. As in all comp· then digitally synthesized. The computer's But for N'Shima, which was composed in1975 uter sound synthesis, the program produces main role, however, is not in the production of and first performed in Jerusalem the following the sound in the form of a dense stream of sound, but in the composition of the work." year, he chose a Hebrew word: it's roughly numbers. ln order to hear the sound, the Wuorinen was born in New York in 1938, equivalent to the French souffle, and it means stream is converted to an electrical signal and studied piano before attending Columbia 'breath' or 'exultation'. The performing which can drive a loud-speaker or be recorded University, where he worked in composition medium here consists of 2 horns, 2 tenor trom on tape. with Otto Luening. Soon after graduation from bones, 2 mezzo-sopranos and cello. The two 'When I first began working with the Columbia he became a faculty member, and singers are instructed to produce a throaty, method, I asked myself 'Why try to make a reamained there until 1971 when he joined the peasant sound. Their verbal text is fragmen computer sing?' I learned quickly that the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. He tary. more lifelike the synthesized voice, the more has had a distinguished career not only as com· " The original commission proposed a powerfully one feels its slightly abstracted, poser and teacher, but also as pianist, conduc Hebrew parable about an emperor's daughter cool quality, and that a real singer in duet with tor of new music, and Artistic Director of the and a king's son who have family problems a disembodied computer synthesized voice can Group for Contemporary Music since its incep· like those of Romeo and Juliet. But Xenakis create a powerful dramatic and musical ten tion in the 1960's. Wuorinen is a much per decided to use isolated syllables from it purely SIOn formed and honored composer. Among his as phonemes. In one way, the music that 'The texts of Beast Songs are by the San citations are the N.Y. Philharmonic Young results is abstract; it mirrors in this case the Francisco poet Michael McClure. They com Composers Award, which he won at age 16, principles of Brownian movement-the zigzag, bine natural English with an invented language the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, and the irregular movement of minute particles of solid of growls and roars that McClure calls 'Beast Pulitzer Prize, which he received for his Time's matter suspended in a fluid. But the vocal Language. At the time my songs were compos Encomium, an electronic work produced on the quality specified in N'Shima, together with the ed the computer program could only produce Mark II Synthesizer. Recent performances of often violent attacks in both voices and in vowel sounds. These vowel sounds suggested his work have included the premiere of his struments, produce a pungently expressive, to me the animalistic sounds of McClure's in Two-Part Symphony by the American Com hieratic effect." vented language. The passionate quality of his posers Orchestra, and the New York premiere Born in 1922 in Romania of Greek parents, texts led me to attempt to write an intense and of his Second String Quartet, in last season's Xenakis studied composition with Hermann highly expresive vocal setting for the live Meet the Moderns series. Scherchen, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius singer. This intensity is in direct contrast to the Iannls Xenakis is known throughout the Milhaud, in France and Switzerland. During cool. other-worldly compute r synthesized musical world for his contribution to the World War ll he was a Greek Resistance voices, which are able to execute passages of musical language of the 20th century. A fighter and was condemned to death, and from extreme rhythmic complexity and to span im mathematician, architect, and civil engineer as 1947 was a politial refugee in France. Since possibly large tessituras." well as a composer, he has been at the 1965 he has been a French citizen. For 12 years Cummings was born in San Francisco, in forefront of experimentation with computer he was an architectural collaborator with Le 1948, and studied at the San Francisco Conser music, which has been a natural outgrowth of Corbusier, participating in the design of many vatory of Music, Yale University, SUNY Stony his interest in mathematics and music. In projects such as the Convent of Tourette, the Brook, and Columbia University. His works Xenakis' case the computer's function has stadium in Bagdad, and the Chandigarh have been performed by leading ensembles in been to develop his work with mathematics Assembly. He has been an innovator of this country and abroad, and his Composition and statistics, which have been used to for stochastic music and symbolic music through (or OrchestTa was a winner of the 1977 In mulate the structure and details of his com introduction of probability calculus and set dianapolis Symphony Competition, and positions. The computer is not used in sound theory into instrumental, electrtoacoustic, and premiered by the Symphony in 1978. In addi production. It is helpful to keep Xenakis' state computerized musical compositions, and has tion to his work at IRCAM, he has worked in ment on an early work in mind in understan composed 70 works in all media applying these electronic music at the Columbia Princeton ding his compositional processes: "The com procedures. His music has been performed and Electronic Music Center, at Brooklyn College, position ...existed in me before the recorded worldwide, and his design works, and at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where mathematical study, which has simply permit combining sonic, sculptural and light composi he is now Assistant Professor of Music. ted a clearer, more precise formulation." One tion, have been installed at the Montreal might also add that Xenakis' architectural World's Fair, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Charles Wuorinen is one of this country's genius is a primary ingredient in his music, and the Acropolis of Mycenae in Greece. Among most prolific ct>mposers, and has produced an one of the reasons for its great success. The the prestigious positions he has held has been important body of work in the electronic and following excerpts from Bernard Jacobson's that of founder and director of the Center computer medium as well as in the conven BBC script provide a good background on d'Etudes de Mathematique et Automaticque tional forms. His work in progress, from which N'Shima: Musicales in Paris. notes by Helen Sive Paxton • MUSIC AND DANCE SHIRLEY CAESAR LORETTA ABBOTI ESTHER MARROW First Lady of Gospel & AL PERRYMAN Guest Artist AND DANCERS wnH THE INSTITUTIONAL RADIO CHOIR AND THE RUDY STEVENSON BAND Q DECEMBER 26 & 27 at 8PM TICKET PRICES:$15.•$10.•$5. DECEMBER 28 at 2 & 7PM • TOP PRICED SINGLE TICKET ON TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BAM BOX OFFICE, SALE FOR $10.EACH UNTIL DEC. 1. BROADWAY 'S EDISON THEATRE AND T'K'T'S (100 • TOP PRICED TICKET ON GROUP WILLIAM ST .) OR CALL CHARGIT (212) 944-9300 . SALE (20 OR MORE) FOR $8. EACH. 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Mrs Dav1d S1ve Mr & Mrs Vmcent A F1namore Frankhn Soc•ety Federal Savmgs Nathamel Stem C.reall'r ~ew York Savmgs Bank Mr &. Mrs Larry Fnedman Lloyd Stowe· Berns Green Pomt Sa'1ngs Bank Dr &. Mr> Abraham Gilner jesse Tulchm Manan E Hahn Mend RESTAURANT/CATERERS/BAKERS BREAKFAST • LUNCHEON • DINNER AFTER THEATRE SNACKS • SUNDAY BRUNCH & DINNER OPEN DAILY and SUNDAY from 6 :30AM to 1:30AM; FRI to 3 AM; SAT to 4 AM Custom Party Catering for Every Occasion FREE DELI VERIES In 5 Borougha 6 nearby Long leland • ALL BAKING DONE ON PREMISES CALL 852-5257 Flatbush Ave . Ext at DeKalb Ave ., Bklyn/MeMaeA ONLY BAM BAM BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Patrons 1980-1981 The Brooklyn Academy is owned by the City of New York and administered by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and the Depart ment of Cultural Affai rs of the City of New York. In addition, the Board of Trustees wishes to thank the following foundations, corporations, and individuals who, through their leadership and support, help make these programs possible. Individuals and Foundations------ Leade rs hip Producers ' International Paper Co. Foundation S25,000 a nd a bove S500·S999 Jerome A Landa11 Howard L. Lew1s ' Morgan Guaranty Trust Company Drama League of New York Achehs Foundation Dr & Mrs Edmond Lipton ' P(izer Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Philip Jessup Bodman Foundation Mr & Mrs Joshua Logan Schlumberger Ltd Booth Ferns Foundation Rlchardson Pratt. Jr Harold L. Schiff Dr Esther Lopato Louis Calder Foundation Mr & Mrs. Anthony Manheim S5,000 to S9,999 Robert Sterhng Clark Foundation Dan Seymour Tom Massotti American Express Foundation Educational Foundation of America The Zeitz Foundation Myron Mayer ' Bankers Trust Company Ford Foundation Associate P roducers Neil A McCarroll Chase Manhattan Bank Charles Hayden Foundation S2SO·S499 Mr & Mrs Rlchard Menschel Chemical Bank The Alex Hillman Family Foundation Robert Davenport Barbara Metzger 'Citibank J .M Kaplan Fund Inc. Alfred J Law Mr & Mrs Michael M1chaelson International Business Machmes Corp Andrew W Mellon Foundation Mr & Mrs Jack Litwack Dr TatSUJI Namba Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. National Endowment for the Arts Donald E. Moore Mr & Mrs. Larry Nathanson Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. The New York Communoty Trust Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn Mr & Mrs Joan P Noonan New York Times Company Foundation New York State Council on the Arts Mr & Mrs. Melvin Reisler Kenneth J Oberman Rockefeller Foundation Steven H Scheuer Stanley & Dutne Person S2,500 to $4,999 Shubert Foundation Mr & Mrs. Norman N Segal Arthur Pinchuck Mr & Mrs Arne Vennema Capital Cities Foundation Mr & Mrs. Norman Sher Harriet P Pitt Daily News Foundation David Teiger A M Rabmowitz Grace Foundation Mr & Mrs. Arthur J Radin Metropolitan Life Foundation Sponsors Raphael & Marcus P C. Pacesetters S100·S249 James Q. R1ordan SI,OOO to S2,499 s 10 ,000·$24,999 Mr & Mrs C. Murray Adams Byron Rose Charles Ulnck & Josephme Bay Foundation American Chai Trust American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Ed1th Samuels Avon Products Foundation Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Elame Anderson Dr & Mrs Hershel Samuels Bank of New York Charles E Culpeper Foundation Mr & Mrs Robert S. Anderson Paul F Sanders Bowery Savings Bank Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Roger Backer Dr & Mrs Henry A Schaeffer ' Columbia P1ctures lndustnes Inc Herman Goldman Foundation William & Julia Beadenkopf Mr & Mrs . Jerome Schlapik Conoco Inc. Fred C. Koch Trust for Chanty John Beaton Mr & Mrs Irwin Schneiderman Dime Savings Bank of N Y Henry & Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Mr & Mrs Walter E. Beer Jr Cra1g & Susan Schoon East New York Savings Bank Helena Rubinstein Foundation Mr & Mrs. M R Berman May Sha.ndolow Freeport Mmerals Co. Simarka Run Fc.~ndation Mr & Mrs H Gerard Bissmger II Mr & Mrs John Sharnock Greenpoint Savings Bank Or Robert C. Blank Mr & Mrs Harry D Silverstein Independence Savings Bank Dr & Mrs Martin Bod1an Elizabeth Jessup Smith Ben efacto rs Irving One Wall St Foundation Mr John Botega Mr & Mrs Robert K Smith International Creative Management S2,500·S9,999 Cynthia Brown Mr & Mrs Henry J Stanton International Telephone & Telegraph Co Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Mr & Mrs John Castaldi Stash Records Johnson and HJggins Charles M Diker Mr & Mrs Ira Cohen Roland Stebbins. Jr Lincoln Savings Bank Friends of BAM Arthur W Cohen Mr & Mrs Herb Steiner Macy' s New York Gramercy Park Foundation Janette S. Cooke Albert Stern McGraw·Hill Foundation Hochschild Fund Inc. Ann Cooper Mr & Mrs Donald B Straus Newsweek I Stanley Knegel Mr & Mrs BenJamin Crane William D Swan. Jr New York Telephone Co. Jack Lawrence Joan K Davidson Mr & Mrs. Edward Taubman RCA Phyll1s Holbrook Lichtenstem Judith Daykin Utopia Lodge Number 400, Readers Digest Foundation Mr & Mrs Everett Ortner Roger Deitz Knights of Pythias Salomon Brothers Foundation Prospect Hill Foundation Isaac & Joyce Oruker Vesna Cosmetics Sperry and Hutchmson Drs Stanley & Eleanor Wallace Rlchmond Foundation Mr & Mrs Jerome Dubroff Time In c. Martha Watts Anthony Scotto/lnternational Albert H Eaton ' Twentleth·Century Fox Productions Assemblyman Murray Weinstein Longshoremen· s Association Rlchard Engqu1st Western Electric Fund Gail Erikson Mr & Mrs. Howard Weiss Williamsburgh Savmgs Bank Seth Sprague Educational & Chantablc Dr & Mrs Walter We1tzner Foundation Sergio Escuadra June Esserman Warren W Williams SIOO to S999 The Scherman Foundation Rlchard Yancey Uns Brothers Foundation Mr & Mrs John C. Evans Atlantic Bank Rlchard B Fisher American Airlines Mr & Mrs Darko V Frank American Savings Bank Exec utive Producers Mr & Mrs. Victor Friedman The Corporate Fund Amstar Corporation s 1,000·$2,499 Seaton Gales Anchor Savmgs Bank Mr & Mrs. John Gallagher for BAM Barclay·s Bank International Ltd. The Doll FoundatiOn Margaret Gold Brooklyn Savings Bank Mallory Factor Lawrence Goodstein Corporations marked by an Capezio Foundation Leonard Garment Mr & Mrs. Bert Gottfried asterisk (• ) have made special Culbro Corporation Nancy L. Huggm Chuck Greene contributions to the Corporate Cullen and Dykman Richard W Hulbert Joan Greenfield Emigrant Savings Bank Ms. Joan Bieder & Mr Wilham Josephson Herman Greitzer Fund for the BAM Theater Equitable Federal Savmgs Ham1sh Maxwell Scott M Hand Company. Gilmour Foundation Alice Holbrook Platt M r & M rs Norrnan Henlun I.AT.S.E Mr. & Mrs. Barnard Hughes Leadership Hon. Fred Rlchmond S25,000 and above Institutional Investor Rockmeadow Foundation Mark R Hurwich Juniors Restaurant George Rubm Charles N Johnson ' Consolidated Edison Company of N Y King's Plaza Shoppmg Center The Starr Foundation Mary E. Jollon Exxon Corporation Lillian Vernon Corp. William Tobey D. Kal!aian & Son, Inc. ' Mobil Corporation Metropolitan Savings Bank Michael Tuch Foundation lrvmg H Kanarek ' Philip Morris Incorporated New York Dock Railway John T Underwood FoundatiOn Frank Kazero1d Republic National Bank Vinmont Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey C Keil Pacesetters J. Henry Schroder Banlung Corp. Mr & Mrs Samuel Klein Harold Weitz s 10,000 to S24,999 United Mutual Savings Bank Duane Wilder G. Knoll Abraham and Straus Umted States Filter Corp. Robert W Wilson Foundat1on Claire W. Labme ' Brooklyn Union Gas Company James W. Lamberton Patron Desk Call Victoria Hill at 12 12} 636·4139 The Brooklyn Academy of Music is a Charter Member of the League of Historic American Theatres. BAM BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Board of Directors lion Edward I Koch Hon Howard Golden Seth Faison. and Paul Lepercq Honorary Chaormen 1 BROOKLYN l~onard Garment Chaorman Anthony Scotto Vice Chairman llarve)' Lichtenstein President and Chtd Executive Harry W Albright jr Henry Bong. jr Netl 0 Chnsman Warren B Coburn Charles Doker jeffrey K Endervclt Mallory Factor Harold L Fisher Alan B Gilman HAS IT ALL! Mrs Elisabeth Gotbaum. Mrs. Rota Hollman Sidney Kantor I Stanley Kriegel Eugene Luntcy llamosh Maxwell Lasker M Meyer Mrs Evelyn Ortner john R Pnce jr Richard M Rosan Mrs CALL US FOR Lou Ro~cn . William Ruder William Tobey Arne Vcnnema Franklin R Weossberg. Curtis A Wood FREE ASSISTANCE Sanford j Zimmerman john E. Zuccolti I Henry Geld7.ahler Howard Lewis. Members ex-officio I james Konkel President Fnends of BAM WE 'LL HELP YOU LOCATE IT NEW YORK YELLOW PAGES INC Officers Harvey L~ehten~tl'tn Prc"dcnt and Chod Executove citypHOone® Judoth E Daykon Cxet.:utavc VICe Presadent and General Manager Rochard Bal1ano \'ace Prc.,adent and Treasurer Phohp S Jc»up Voce Pn·sodcnt for Plannong and Development 675-0900 .\1ochcal !lou><· \'1cc Pn..·,adcnt for Markeung and Promot1on Call After tO AM Weekdays Administ rative Office taff Ruth Goldblatt As\lstanl to the Prc.,dcnl Sally .'11vrgan As\lstant to the General Manager Susan Spoegel Sa \1a77t'l Judy Kreuzer DIRECTORY Hnance Sus.art Kar"::<.hner Busane~\ Managt"r John Howland Alcountant Dir~ctory of Fecllitlu end ~rvices Pearl l.osht Payroll Quma Fon~eca Admanastrauvr Ac;.s•stant Box Offic~ : .'11onday 10 00 1 6 00 Tuesday through Satur Paul Charlt•s A'""""' Buokkt>rpcr day 10 nO tc 'I 00 Sunday Performance tomes only Marketing and Promotion Lost and round Telephone 636·4150 Restroom Opera Marht•tmx H ous~ Womrn and Men Mezz.anme level and 5th noor Maureen Walsh Marketing Dorector Handocapped Orchestra level Pla yhouse: Women Orchestra Nancy Ro~~ell Assootant to the Voce Presodcnt level Men Mezunone level Handocapped Orchestra level !>usan Levy Group Sale~ Manager ~percq S pace: Women and Men Theater level and 5th noor Keuh McKay Sarah Wormer Murton Silverfone Dean Amhau~ Davod Koncaode Karen Sulhvan Public Telephones Maon lobby St fehx Entrance for onfor matoo n about doscount group rates on lockets call 636 4126 to Prf'\<; find out about advertlsong on BAM theater programs call Rama Corhen Semor Press RepresentauveiTheater 636 4186 Ellen Lampert Pre-s~ Reprt"sentatavel Musac and Dance jom Ragland Pubhcatoons Editor/Staff Wruer The taking o f photographs or the use of recording devic~s Otana Rob1nc,on Press Assistant In this theatu Is strictly forbidden Art Departmtnl Brooklyn Academy f Musoc 30 Lafayette Ave Brooklyn "y 11217 ,2121636·4100 Steve Menge> Graphoc Artist Ken Stec Typographer Randy uoger GraphiC ArtiSI Planning Vactona A H1ll AsSistant to the:" Vact· Presadent Davad Buht·r D1rector l>f Corporate.: Relations Jacques 8runsw1ck [)t.'velopm~nt Admmastrator jack L Hockethorr Dorrttor of Mrm~rshop En1d H1ghtowrr Execut1ve Secretary f?I Karen Brooks Hopkons Devt•lopment Offocer , france~a Pnmus D~reuor of Specaal ProJects E Community Rele tlon o/Edu ce tion i! Mokko Shepard Dorector Mahmoudah All Ass1stant to the Oarector E Hessoe McCollum Program Coordonator Education Sarah Walder Sales Coordonator Education li Annette Abaod Offote Manager fi Rae Lesser Gladys Songletary Wonston Anderson Rudy Stevenson M usoc Consultant h Product ion A Malcolm J Waters Production Manager N Y ***O a oly News Wolham Mont>.er Loghtlng Consultant to BAM B Sal Rasa Assostant Production Manager L1sa Baumgarten Product1on As.s1stant \A Marton Green Crew Choef II Robert Snoeconsko Wardrobe Supervosor i5 "aaman Gnffon John fuller Howard Larson Patrick McDonald Bernard Golmarton Leonardo Raphael Donald Roordan Cy Somoly Jr Ernest Southerland ir The drinks, the food, the T h eater M anager u. atmosphere, the conviVI john J Moller Theater Manager Leonard Natman AssiStant Theater Manager al tty They're all good Lauren Scott Alan Tongret reasons for spendtng an Buildin g Management evenmg at CHARLIE'S Stan Mongon Buoldong Manager Norman MacArthur Assostant Buoldong Manager where Flatbush Avenue Ronald Spoegel Parkong Facohtles Manager Leonard Abbruscato. frank Abbruscato. Yahue Cooper l..autrro Cu rato . Nocholas Curato. Danny Doer Ray Oorso meets Park Slope. Donald Farr Angel Guadeloupe Steve l..anut Bernard Lawrence James Lt'tllen Gregory Lombardo Glona Somon Thomas Sturges Sadoe Vonson james Voctor Robert Wells johnny Wolham 350 Flatbush Avenue Box orne~ Saheed Baksh Box Offoce Treasurer at Etghth Avenue Mo chael Glassman joseph Nekola UL 7-4585 Food On T h e Go Steve Askonazy Manager Gregg Dawson. Lou Todd Brooklyn every race. is knishes in every religion Boro Park, chit living together lins in Bed-Stuy, in a vibrant and ravioli in Benson relevant community. hurst, pita on Atlantic To serve all these Avenue, smorgasbord in people, there's Kings Plaza. Bay Ridge, arroz con polio in A major enclosed shopping Williamsburg and more. America center featuring Macy's. Alexan is the vast melting pot. But nowhere der's and 146 other shops and services. in America is there the ethnic representation So all the people of Brooklyn can find just we have in Brooklyn. People of every nationa lity. about all their shopping needs under one roof. Flatbush Avenue & Avenue U • Belt Parkway Exll llN Free mdoor parkmg m our mult1·level garage SHOPPING HOURS MON SAT . 10 AM 9 30 PM SUNDAY. NOON 5 PM In Concert For Over 100 Years For a completely entertatn1ng expenence. from Mozart to modern dance. 1t's the Brooklyn Academy of Mus1c For a complete shopp1ng expenence. from the f1nest fash1ons to the most complete home furn1sh1ngs, 1t's Abraham and Straus Together. 1t's a century-long love affa1r w1th Brooklyn Celebrating the commun1ty w1th serv1ces too numerous to ment1on Brtng1ng out and servtng the best of Brooklyn Abraham and Straus and B A.M - dest1ned to make beautiful mus1c together for years to come