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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 105, 1985-1986 Boston Symphony Orchestra SEIJI OZAWA, Music Director ORCI SEIJI OZ/ 1985-86 Out of the wood comes the perfect smoothness of the world's first barrel-blended 12 year-old ?ORTE Canadian whisky. ' >v. ^^^tf*^* "" : -- wl^Bg^" ; : Mrtrfljr.' i i" iT Barrel-Blending is the final process of blending selected whiskies as they are poured into oak barrels to marry prior to bottling. Imported in bottle by Hiram Walker Importers Inc., Detroit Ml © 1985. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director One Hundred and Fifth Season, 1985-86 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President J.P. Barger, Vice-Chairman Mrs. John M. Bradley, Vice-Chairman George H. Kidder, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Treasurer Mrs. George L. Sargent, Vice-Chairman Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps Mrs. August R. Meyer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick E. James Morton Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Mrs. John L. Grandin David G. Mugar George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Frances W Hatch, Jr. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Roderick M. MacDougall Richard A. Smith Mrs. Michael H. Davis John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John T. Noonan Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Irving W. Rabb Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray Paul C. Reardon Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson Sidney Stoneman Mrs. Harris Fahnestock John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W Morris, General Manager Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Manager Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager ^F Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Theodore A. Vlahos, Director of Business Affairs Arlene Germain, Financial Analyst Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Charles Gilroy, Chief Accountant Richard Ortner, Administrator of Vera Gold, Assistant Director of Promotion Tanglewood Music Center Patricia Halligan, Personnel Administrator Robert A. Pihlcrantz, Properties Manager Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Charles Rawson, Manager of Box Office John M. Keenum, Director of Eric Sanders, Director of Corporate Foundation Support Development Nancy Knutsen, Production Manager Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Anita R. Kurland, Administrator of of Development Youth Activities Diane Greer Smart, Director of Volunteers Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Nancy E. Tanen, Media/Special Projects Program Annotator Administrator Programs copyright ®1985 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Christian Steiner SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE 1985-86 SEASON! BOSTON SYMPHONY Chamber AT JORDAN tt .THE HIGHEST INTERNATIONAL LEVEL OF CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYING... THE BOSTON GLOBE THREE SUNDAYAFTERNOONS AT 3PM GILBERT KALISH, PIANIST SUNDAY with SANFORD SYLVAN, baritone Copland Sextet for clarinet, piano, and strings NOVEMBER 10 Mahler 'Songs of a Wayfarer' \\ II 1985 (arranged for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg) Riegger Concerto for piano and wind quintet, Op. 53 Brahms Trio in C for piano, violin, and cello, Op. 87 SUNDAY Haydn Trio in G for flute, cello, and piano, Hob. XV:25 JANUARY 12 LoefflerTwo Rhapsodies for oboe, viola, and piano Lieberson 'Accordance,' for eight players 1986 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K.516 SUNDAY Mendelssohn Concert Piece in Ffor clarinet, bassoon, and piano, Op. 113 APRIL 6 Copland Quartet for piano and strings 1986 Boulez 'Derive,' for six players Schubert Quintet in A for piano and strings, D.667, 'Trout' NEW SUBSCRIBER FORM: There are still good seats available for the 1985/86 season. 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For BSO Friends and subscribers will receive further information on how your company or priority ticket information including dates professional partnership can join this pro- and prices for the 1985 Christmas Pops and gram, contact Eric Sanders or Sue Tomlin in New Year's Eve Gala concerts by mid- the BSO Corporate Development Office, (617) November. 266-1492. Art Exhibits in the Cabot-Cahners Room Planned Giving Seminars The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased announce that, for the twelfth season, various once again to offer a series of Planned Giving Boston-area galleries, museums, schools, and Seminars conducted by John Brown, noted non-profit artists' organizations will exhibit authority in the area of deferred gifts. Semi- their work in the Cabot-Cahners Room on the nars for the 1985-86 season will be held prior first-balcony level of Symphony Hall. On dis- to the BSO concerts on 25 October, 1 Novem- play through 28 October are works from the ber, 12 December, 23 January, 4 February, Pucker Safrai Gallery. Other organizations to 18 March, 11 April, and 18 April. For further be represented during the coming months are information please contact Joyce M. Serwitz, the Harris Brown Gallery (28 October- Assistant Director of Development, at 25 November), Boston Society of Architects 266-1492, ext. 132. (25 November-16 December), and Childs Gallery (16 December-13 January). Attention, Subscription Sharers! If you share a subscription, you may not be With Thanks receiving BSO news and information. 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Ronald Knudsen will Brahms Double Concerto with Max Hobart complete the program with the Mendelssohn and the North Shore Philharmonic on Sunday, Reformation Symphony and the Schumann 3 November at 7:30 p.m. at the Salem High Piano Concerto featuring soloist Russell School Auditorium. The program also includes Sherman. Subscriptions for the orchestra's Rossini's overture to Semiramide, Grieg's four-concert season are still available at $30; Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, and the world pre- single tickets are $8. For further information, miere, commissioned by the North Shore Phil- call 965-2555. harmonic, of Dennis Leclaire's Salem: 1692. Ronald Feldman conducts the Mystic Valley For ticket information, call 1-631-6513. Orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 36 The contemporary music ensemble Collage (Linz), Elgar's E minor Serenade for strings, begins its 1985-86 season with music of Ste- and the Berg Violin Concerto with BSO phen Albert, Christopher Rouse, Robert Selig, violinist Joel Smirnoff as soloist on Saturday, and Edward Cohen on Monday, 4 November at 16 November at 8 p.m. at Cary Hall in Lex- 8 p.m. at the Longy School of Music, 1 Pollen ington and on Sunday, 17 November at 8 p.m. Street in Cambridge. For complete program at Dwight Auditorium at Framingham State and ticket information, call 437-0231. College. Tickets are $6 and $4 in Lexington, Ronald Knudsen leads the Newton Sym- $8 and $5 in Framingham. The Mystic Valley phony Orchestra in the first concert of its 20th Orchestra offers several series of subscription Anniversary Season on Sunday, 10 November concerts in Cambridge, Lexington, and Fram- at 8 p.m. at Aquinas Junior College in New- ingham. For further information, call ton. The opening piece will be led by former 924-4939 after 12 noon. THE CANTATA SINGERS 1985/1986 Subscription Series David Hoose, Music Director JEPHTHA An oratorio by George Frideric Handel Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre at Harvard University CANTATAS & MOTETS OF J.S. BACH AND ANTON WEBERN Wednesday, March 5, 8:00 p.m. Sanders Theatre at Harvard University SCENES FROM GOETHE'S "FAUST" by Robert Schumann with the Harvard University Choir, John Ferris, Music Director Saturday, May 3, 8:00 p.m.
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