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detroit symphony orchestra Antol Dod · music director sixty-fifth season' 1978179 march 25 hill auditorium, ann arbor 1 he Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. ( Founded 1914) ANTAL DORA TI, mUSIC director OFFICERS 1978 - 79 ' John B. Ford, chairman 'Robert B. Semple, president ' Rinehart S. Bright, vice president ' Richard L. Terrell, vice president 'Pierre V. Heftier, vice president ·Mrs. R. Jamison Williams, vice president 'Ralph T. McElvenny, vice president 'Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema, vice president ' Paul S. Mirabito, vice president ' Thomas H. Jeffs II, treasurer ' Dean E. Richardson, vice president William C. Rands III, assistant treasurer ' Alan E. Schwartz. vice president ' Peter P. Thurber. secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1978 - 79 LOUIS G. Allen John C. Griffin Edith Quintana Andrew W. Barr Karl Haas Mrs. Jerome H. Rem ick, Jr. H. Glenn Bixby Mrs. Hugh Harness 'Dean E. Richardson 'Rinehart S. Bright Martin Hayden J. Marshall Robbins J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. ' Pierre V. Heftier I rving Rose Mrs. C. Henry Buhl Hon. Erma Henderson ' Alan E. Schwartz Eugene A. Cafiero Lee Hi lls Arthur R. Seder, Jr. Philip Caldwell Hudson Holland, Jr. ' Robert B. Semple Peter A. Cartwright Dorothy Byrd Holloway Nate S. Shapero E. Paul Ca sey ' Thomas H. Jeffs II Mrs. Allan Shelden Ferdinand Cinelli Mrs. Henry C. Johnson Mrs. Florence Sisman Walker L. Cisler Ernest A. Jones Mrs. Howard F. Smith, Jr. Mrs. Avern Cohn Maxwell Jospey Bert L. Smokier Mrs. Abraham Cooper Robert Kanzler Gari M. Stroh, Jr. Michael Counen John Karmazin. Jr. Joe H. Stroud Rodkey Craighead Robert P. Lambrecht Robert M. Surdam Alexander M. Cunningham Kenneth B. Lange ' Peter P. Thurber Frederic DeHaven Mrs. Pau l J. Lay Mrs. Richard Torley Anthony DeLorenzo Wa lton Lewis Mrs. S. Pinkney Tuck Robert Dewar Thomas V. Lo Cicero Mrs. Richard W. Tucker Frank W. Donovan Wilber H. Mack Mrs. Joseph A. Vance, Jr. David K. Easlick 'Ralph T. McElvenny Mrs. Francis L. Van Dusen Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Dr. Marjorie Peebles Meyers Mrs. Richard Van Dusen Mrs. Robert Fife Hon. William G. Milliken Richard Vining Mrs. Charles T. Fisher III ' Paul S. Mirabito Harold G. Warner Max M. Fisher Ken Morris David D. Williams 'Gordon T. Ford Rev. J. Stanley Murphy, C.S.B. Mrs. Delford G. Williams Mrs. Henry Ford II ' Wa Iter T. Murphy Hon. G. Mennen Williams 'John B. Ford Mrs. H. Wayne Nelson 'Mrs. R. Jamison Williams Edward P. Frohlich Miles M. O'Brien Richard E. Williams David L. Gamble Donald D. O' Dowd Mrs. Isadore Winkelman Ha ns Gehrke Peters Oppermann 'Mrs. R. Alexander Wri gley Mrs. Robert A. Gerisch W. Calvin Patterson · Mrs. Theodore O. Yntema William E. Giles Raymond T. Perring Hon. Coleman A. Young A. R. Glancy III Ralph L. Polk Donald S. Young William T. Gossett John Prepolec Mrs. John E. Young, Jr. 'Executive Committee Marshall W. Turkin, executive director 1 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLINS OBOES Gordon Staples Dona ld Baker Concertmaster Ronald Od mark Bogos Mortchikian 'Robert Sorton Associate Concertmaster Treva Womble Joseph Goldman Gordon Peterson ENGLISH HORN Assistant Concertmasters Treva Womble Misha Rachlevsky CLARINETS Jack Boesen Paul Schaller Franklyn D'Antonio Douglas Cornelsen Derek Francis "Brian Schweickhard t Alan Gerstel Oliver Green Nicholas Zonas LeAnn Toth BASS CLARI NET Beatriz Budinszky 01 iver Green Malvern Kaufman Richard Margitza E-FLAT CLARIN ET Linda Snedden Smith Brian Schweickhardt Paul Phillips ANTAL DORATI BASSOON S Elias Friedenzohn Music Director Santo Urso Robert Williams Phillip Austin SECOND VIOLINS WER ' ER TORKANOWSKY ' Paul Ganson Lyell Lindsey Edouard Kesner G lIest COllductor alld ' Felix Resnick Associate to the CONTRABASS OO N Alvin Score Mllsic Director Lyell Lindsey Lillian Fenstermacher James Waring FREN CH HOR NS Margaret Tundo P AU L FR EEMAN Eugene Wade Walter Maddox C olldllctor-irl-R esidell ce " Corbin Wagner Roy Bengtsson Charles Weaver Thomas Downs Edward Sauve Robert Murphy KE ETH JEAN Willard Darling Larry Bartlett Keith Vernon Joseph Striplin Assistant COlldllc/or T RUMPETS Bruce Smith Dona ld Green Gabriel Szitas MARTI N FISCHER-DI E_ KAU Gordon Smith VIOLAS CO/u/llctor F elfolT' 'Alvin Belknap Nathan Gordon John Carroll 'David Ireland TRO MBONES Philip Porbe Raymond Turner BASSES Eugenia Staszewski Joseph Skrzynsld Robert Gladstone LeRoy Fenstermacher 'Nathaniel Gurin " Raymond Benner Ha rt Hollman Elmer Janes Wa lter Evich Stephen Molina Anton Patti Maxim Janowsky TUBA Gary Schnerer Linton Bodwin Wesley Jacobs Stephen Edwards Catherine Compton TI MPANI Albert Steger Salvatore Rabbio Donald Pennington VIOLO NCELLOS 'Robert Pangborn Italo Babini David C_ Thomas Orcheslra fellow James C. Gordon Choir PERCUSSION 'Thaddeus Markiewicz Ro bert Pangborn HAR PS Edward Korkigian ' Norman Fickett t Elyze Ilku Mario DiFiore Raymond Makowsld t Carole Crosby David Levine Sam Tundo John Thurman Ba rba ra Fickett FLUTES KEYBOARD Marcy Chanteaux Ervin Monroe Muriel Kilby Sha ul Ben-Meir Debra Fayroian LIBRARIAN "Robert Patrick Timothy Butler Albert Steger Clement Barone William Graham Elmer Janes, assistant "Assistant Principal PICCOLO PERSONN EL MANAGER t Co-principal Clement Barone Oliver Green 2 HILL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR detroit symphony Antal Dorati Music Director Sunday afternoon, March 25 at 2:30 Antal Dorati~ conductor ILSE VON ALPENHEIM, piano STRAUSS Don Juan, Opus 20 TRAUSS Burlesk e for Piano and Orchestra, D minor ILSE VO ALPE HElM INTERMISSIO STRAUSS Tod und VerkHirung, Opus 24 STR AUSS Till Eulenspiegel's lustige Slreiche, Opus 28 The Steinway is the official piano of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Broadcasts of concerts from the current DSO sea on are heard weekly over th e facilities of WDET-FM in Detroit and the other Public Radio tations throughout Michigan . Concerts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra are made possible in part with the support of th e State of Michigan through a grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts. This afternoon's concert marks the DSO's 60th appearance in Hill Auditorium. 3 THE CONDUCTOR ANTAL DORATI, the ninth Music Director in th e Detroit Symphony Orchestra's history, has had a long and distinguished career as an orchestra conductor. He has appeared with virtually every major orchestra throughout the world. Maestro Dorati was born in Budapes t, Hungary, in 1906 and entered that city's Academy of Music at the age of 14. Trained as a composer, celli t, pianist and conductor, he graduated at 18, the youngest in the hi story of the Academy. He was immed iately named coach and, oon after, conductor of the Royal Opera Hou e in Budapest. Maes tro Dorati joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its leading conductor in 1934, and his Detroit Symphony Orchestra debut came during Ball et Russe appearances in Detroit in 1936. During the next several years, he made extensi"e tours of Austra li a and th e United States. In 1945 Maes tro Dorati wa named Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and four years later he ass umed the same po ition with the Min neapoli s Symphony. He left that orche tra in 1960 to pursue his career as ague t conductor and to make recordings. In 1966 he became Principal Conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic and in 1970 was named Music Director of the ational Symphony Orchestra in Washington ; in 1977 he became the Nation al's Principal Guest Conductor. He became Chief Conductor of the Royal Ph ilharmonic Orchestra in London in 1975, and was named Laureate Conductor of the RPO last Jul y. One of the world's most recorded conductors, Dorati has more than 500 recordings to his credit. In March of 1979 he received th e 22nd award of his illustrious recording career - the Grand Prix du Disq ue - for his most recent Haydn opera on the Philips-Mercury label, Il mondo della [un a. His recording of Tchaikovsky's J 812 Overture with th e DSO has been setting sales records ever since it was released last December. His many awards include honors bes towed upon him by the govern ments of France, Austria and Sweden. 4 PROGRAM NOTES by Robert Holmes Dean, College of Fine ArtS, Weslern Michigan University "DON JUAN," TONE POEM AFTER NIKOLAUS LENAU, OPUS 20 RICHARD STRAUSS Born Munich, 1864; died Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 1949 Strauss composed D on Juan during the years 1887-88 at Munich • The first performance took place on 11 ovember 1889 in the Weimar Opera House, the composer conducting the Grand Ducal Orchestra • Lt was published in 1890 with a dedication "to my dear friend Ludwig ThuiJle."l • The work is based on a poem written by Nikolaus Lenau, written in 1844.2 The fir st performance in tbe United States was given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, AIthur, Nikiscb conducting, on 31 October 189l. First performance in this series : 19 November 1920; Ossip Gabrilowitsch conducted • Last performance in this series: 13 November 1971; Hans Schmidt Isserstedt conducted • The DSO has performed Don Juan .over 80 times since 1920, under such conductors as Bruno Walter (1952), Thomas Schippers (1963), Andre Previn (1970 at Meadow Brook) - and the composer himself, at a special concert in Orchestra Hall on 7 November 1921 , at whicb Strauss also conducted Tod IIl1d Verkliimng and Till Eillell spiegel. The scor.e calls for 3 fiutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and english horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and tuba, timpani, cymbals, triangle, bell s, harp, and strings • Performance time is about 17 minutes. Ernes t Newman considers th e ultimate literary origin of the Don Juan story to be El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra (The Mocker of Seville and the Stone Guest, written in 1630 and printed in 1634), by the Spanish monk Gabriel Tellez, who used the pen name Tirso de Molina.