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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1976, Tanglewood TANGLEWOOD august 14-18, 1976 ^s? ^?i f;-*WS^ V * * Festival of k-i «..** Contemporary Sponsored by the BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER in cooperation with the FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION AT HARVARD. Music ^-v^^ yes. ^. s 565 ^a^^ PUBLISHERS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC "^§^^ SINCE 1800 Adams Amram Babbitt Badings Baird Barati Bassett Bauer Beck Becker Berberian Berger Binkerd Cage Cardew Chapman Chihara Chou Cowell Crumb Curtis Dahl Dan van Delden Donovan Earls Ehret El-Dabh Engel Evett Feldman Finney Fiser Fisher Flanagan Fukushima Glanville -Hicks Globokar Griffes Hampton Hannay Harrison Helm Helps Hiller Hoffman Hovhaness Huggler Hutcheson Ichiyanagi Imbrie Irino Ives Johnson Jones Kagel Kay Kelemen Kolb Kolman Korn Krul Ligeti Lockwood London Loudova Luening Lybbert Macero Mamlok Mayuzumi McPhee Mechem Mellnaes Mitchell Monnikendam Moran Nystedt Osborne Overton Palmer Parris Peeters Penderecki Pinkham Pisk Porter Raxach Read Reck Reynolds Rhodes Riegger D. Riley Rorem Ross Schwantner Serebrier Shifrin Siegmeister Sinzheimer Smith Stevens Stout S. Stravinsky Surinach Sydeman Takahashi Takemitsu Tcherepnin Titcomb Townsend Trimble Ung Ussachevsky Verrall Villa-Lobos Walcha Wangenheim Whittenberg Willan Wilson Wishart Wolff Wolpe Woollen Wuorinen Young Yuasa Zador C.F. PETERS CORPORATION 373 Park Avenue South New York, N.Y. 10016 A complimentary copy of our Contemporary Music Catalogue can be obtained through the Tanglewood Music Store or directly from us upon request. This interesting and educational survey lists 1500 contemporary compositions and features 45 biographies and handwritten statements on music. Tang I ewooc THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER GUNTHER SCHULLER, Artistic Director JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN, Chairman of the Faculty AARON COPLAND, Chairman of the Faculty Emeritus JOHN OLIVER, Head of Vocal Music Activities GILBERT KALISH, Head of Keyboard Activities DENNIS HELMRICH, Head Vocal Coach DANIEL R. GUSTIN, Administrator RICHARD ORTNER, Assistant Administrator HARRY SHAPIRO, Orchestra Manager JAMES WHITAKER, Chief Coordinator CAROL WOODWORTH, Secretary to the Faculty ELIZABETH BURNETT, Librarian FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC presented in cooperation with THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION AT HARVARD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ACTIVITIES GUNTHER SCHULLER, Director THEODORE ANTONIOU, Assistant Director BETSY JOLAS GEORGE CRUMB MILTON BABBITT YEHUDI WYNER Guest Teachers THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER is maintained for advanced study in music. Sponsored by the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA, Music Director THOMAS D. PERRY, JR., Executive Director THOMAS W. MORRIS, Manager FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER the furtherance of contemporary music and commissioning new works, as well as sponsor- In 1940, the Berkshire Music Center was ing the study, performance, publication and established at Tanglewood by the Boston recording of new music. The Foundation also Symphony Orchestra in fulfillment of the sponsors the yearly Festival of Contemporary dream of Serge Koussevitzky, its Music Direc- Music at Tanglewood. tor, to provide an environment in which young musicians could continue their professional In 1972, the Fromm Music Foundation training and add to their artistic experience became the Fromm Music Foundation at through the guidance of eminent musicians. Harvard University. On the premise that a The Center was developed under foundation must be able to exist indepen- Koussevitzky's leadership until his death in dently of any one individual, the programs of 1951 , when he was succeeded by Charles the Foundation are presently directed by a Munch. Erich Leinsdorf became the next committee of three: the Chairman of the Music Director in 1963, to be succeeded in Harvard Music Department, at the present 1970 by a tripartite directorship comprising time Luise Vosgerchian, Gunther Schuller and two Artistic Directors, Seiji Ozawa and Paul Fromm. Gunther Schuller, and Leonard Bernstein as Adviser. Seiji Ozawa became Music Director In addition, the Foundation recently of the Boston Symphony in 1973, and now he announced a policy of renewed support for and Gunther Schuller share responsibilities performances of already commissioned or for the artistic direction of the Music Center. existing contemporary works, as well as a new commissioning program which actively solicits Since the founding of the Center, one of the the collaboration of performers and perform- principal sponsors of composers and contem- ing groups. porary music at Tanglewood has been the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, established Perhaps no foundation has used its resources in 1942 by Serge Koussevitzky, then Music to such optimum effect in the service of con- Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, temporary music as the Fromm Foundation. in memory of his wife Natalie. Its commissioning project alone - having pro- duced some ninety works in its first twenty THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION AT years - is indicative of the importance of the HARVARD Foundation's role in American and world music. Tanglewood is proud to continue its The Fromm Music Foundation is dedicated to association with this unique foundation. TANGLEWOOD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT "Its purposes are manifold. It provides a TANGLEWOOD forum for new ideas and directions in music, and as such has become one of the most The Contemporary Music Program at the important annual events in the vital process of Berkshire Music Center comprises two kinds maintaining a lively contact between the com- of activity: the study and performance of con- poser and the performer, and in turn, their temporary music, and instruction in composi- publics. Performance exists in effect only as tion for a limited number of composers whose the result of the composer's creative efforts. It previous studies and experiences have pre- therefore becomes the obligation of every per- pared them for work on an advanced level. forming musician to keep the life-stream of The program is headed by Gunther Schuller, music - composition - flowing and alive. The President of the New England Conservatory of young men and women who come to Music. Student composers not only receive Tanglewood as Fellowship students, perform- instruction from Mr. Schuller and Betsy Jolas, ing in addition to 19th century music a wide but also participate in a series of seminars variety of contemporary music, are meeting conducted by Ms. Jolas, Yehudi Wyner, this challenge as a part of their professional George Crumb, Milton Babbitt, and Theodore commitment to music in all its diversity. Antoniou. Compositions by the student com- posers are performed at various Berkshire Music Foundation and the Music Center concerts, and prepared, as are "The Fromm Berkshire Music Center provide a stimulus to the concerts of the Festival of Contemporary these activities by annually commissioning a Music, under the supervision of Mr. Schuller and Mr. Antoniou. number of works by young composers who have established themselves in their field. "The Festival does not claim to be compre- hensive or all-permissive, but has presented THE FESTIVAL over the years a wide sampling of contempo- rary music from all countries and in all styles "The Festival of Contemporary Music was ini- and concepts, ranging from young 'unknowns' tiated in 1963. The generous support of the to the well-established 20th century masters." Fromm Music Foundation has made possible this week-long encounter with contemporary music - an institution at Tanglewood, a festi- val within a Festival. Gunther Schuller New from Acoustic Research Seiji Ozawa chose the AR-10n for listening at home Seiji Ozawa is Music Director of both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. He listens to music 'live' almost every day. At home he continues his listening with AR-10n speakers. We believe that a high fidelity speaker system could receive no greater compliment. Acoustic Research 1 American Drive Norwood Massachusetts 02062 Telephone 617 769 4200 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSI< Saturday, August 14, 2:30 p.m. Theatre - Concert Hall Tanglewood FELLOWS OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER DAVID STOCK Dreamwinds (1975) first performance AHMED ESSYAD Sultanes (1975] for electronic tape first American performance BETSY JOLAS Quatourll (1964) Elizabeth Parcells, sopranc intermission DENNIS RILEY Concertino *(1976) I quarter note = 72 II quarter note = 72 III quarter note = 6C first performance Daniel Nazareth, conductor william Mckinley Paintings no. 2 (1975) Winter Spring Summer Autumn Epilogue Michael Pratt, conductoi Commissioned by the Berkshire Music Center in cooperation with the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard. Baldwin Piano TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC ON NONESUCH Elliott Carter Spectrum: New American Music, Volume IV Double Concerto for Harpsichord & Piano Works by Wolpe, Rochberg, Jones with Two Chamber Orchestras Bryn-Julson, soprano; DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; (a Fromm Foundation commission) The Contemporary Chamber Ens, Weisberg cond. Jacobs, harpsichord; Kalish, piano H-71302 The Contemporary Chamber Ens, Weisberg cond. Spectrum: New American Music, Volume V Duo for Violin & Piano Works by Babbitt, Anderson, Wernick Zukofsky, violin; Kalish, piano DeGaetani, H-71314 mezzo-soprano; Gilbert, cantor; The Contemporary Chamber Ens, Weisberg cond. H-71303 Donald Martino Notrurno Charles Wuorinen (1974 Pulitzer Prize for Music) String Trio/Bearbeitungen iiber das Charles Wiiorinen Glogauer Liederbuch/Grand Bamboula Speculum Speculi Members of Speculum Musicae; Speculum Musicae The Light Fantastic Players, Shulman cond. Shulman,
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