Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1984
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m~ p. - . i j- fjffii V .*& - "lli s -» «*: W . mr jrr~r *hi W **VtitH°** "Bk . Less than a mile from Tanglewood . White Pines offers all of the carefree convenience of condominium living in truly luxurious contemporary in- White teriors. The White Pines buildings, four-season swimming pool, Har-Tru tennis courts and private beach on Stockbridge Bowl are all set in the Pines magnificence of a traditional French Provincial country estate. $180,000 country estate and up. Our model is open seven days a week. condominiums at Stockbridge P. O. Box 949 Dept. T Hawthorne St. Stockbridge MA 01262 (413)637-1140 or Reinholt Realty. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Third Season, 1983-84 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Michael H. Davis Thomas D. Perry, Jr. David B. Arnold, Jr. Archie C. Epps III William J. Poorvu J.R Barger Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners E. James Morton Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. David G. Mugar William A. Selke Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Abram T. Collier, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray John L. Thorndike John T. Noonan Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W. Morris -General Manager William Bemell- Artistic Administrator Daniel R. Gustin-;4ss/sta«f Manager B.J. Kiintzman- Director of Planning Anne H. Parsons -Orchestra Manager Caroline Smedvig-D/rarfor of Promotion Josiah Stevenson- Director of Development Theodore A. Vlahos-D/rarfor of Business Affairs Arlene Germain-F/mmda/ Analyst Anita R. Kurland- Administrator of Charles Gihoy-Chief Accountant Youth Activities Vera Gold -Promotion Coordinator Richard Ortner- Administrator of Patricia Halligan- Person nel Berkshire Music Center 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 James F. Kiley- Operations Joyce M. Serwitz- Assistant Director of Manager, Tanglewood Development Nancy Knutsen- Production Assistant Katherine Whitty -Coordinator of Boston Council Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Publications Editorial Coordinator Print Production Coordinator Programs copyright ®1984 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Peter Schaaf THEBSO ANNOUNCES AN PROGRAM r ^Company' Christmas I^HnHH,..fcn-thep(easuitofj^urcompar^ DECEMBER 17, 1984 Give your company an early Christmas present by treating your management, employees, customers, vendors, and friends to a special evening at Pops in a unique holiday program. This program will be available to only 130 businesses and professional organizations at $2, 000 per company and will include a total of 16 table and balcony seats, complete with holiday drinks and a gourmet picnic supper. A special program book will also be produced for this event. For information on "A Company Christmas at Pops": Call James F. Cleary Managing Director, Blyth Eastman Paine Webber Inc. (423-8331); Chet Krentzman, President, Advanced Management Associates (332-3141); Malcolm Sherman, President, Zayre Stores (620-5000); or Eric Sanders, BSO Director of Corporate Development (266-1492). Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. William J. Poorvu, Chairman William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey C. Krentzman Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Secretary John Q. Adams Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Mrs. Thomas Spurr Morse Mrs. Weston W. Adams Haskell R. Gordon Mrs. Robert B. Newman Martin Allen Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Richard E. Hartwell Vincent M. O'Reilly Bruce A. Beal Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Richard D. Hill John A. Perkins Mrs. Edward J. Bertozzi, Jr. Ms. Susan M. Hilles David R. Pokross Peter A. Brooke Mrs. Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Mrs. Curtis Prout William M. Bulger Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Ms. Eleanor Radin Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Peter C. Read Julian Cohen Richard L. Kaye Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. David Rockefeller, Jr. Arthur P. Contas John Kittredge Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. A. Werk Cook Mrs. Carl Koch Mrs. William C. Rousseau Phyllis Curtin Robert K.Kraft Mark L. Seikowitz Victoria L. Danberg Mrs. E. Anthony Kutten Malcolm L. Sherman A.V. dArbeloff John P. LaWare Donald B. Sinclair D.V. dArbeloff Mrs. James F. Lawrence Richard A. Smith William S. Edgerly Laurence Lesser Ralph Z. Sorenson Mrs. Alexander Ellis, Jr. Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Peter J. Sprague Frank L. Farwell Mrs. Harry L. Marks Ray Stata John A. Fibiger C. Charles Marran Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Kenneth G. Fisher Mrs. August R. Meyer Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Gerhard M. Freche J. William Middendorf II MarkTishler,Jr. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Paul M. Montrone Ms. Luise Vosgerchian Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Mrs. Hanae Mori Roger D. Wellington Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Richard P. Morse John J. Wilson Avram Goldberg J. Nicholas T. Zervas Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm David W Bernstein Carlton P. Fuller Leonard Kaplan YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU• •• Take home a taste of Tanglewood this summer by visiting the Glass House, Tanglewood's gift shop located by the Main Gate. From Tanglewood t-shirts to the Boston Symphony's centennial poster by American artist Robert Rauschenberg to the newest addition to the BSO family, Tanglewoodie the Raccoon, the Glass House offers a distinctive selection of gifts and souvenirs. The Glass House is open one hour before concerts, during intermissions and one hour after concerts, and weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MasterCharge and Visa credit cards are accepted. ii "*».*>' TANGLEWOOD family estate, with its buildings and 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to The Berkshire Festival Koussevitzky and the orchestra. The In August 1934, a group of music- offer was gratefully accepted, and on loving summer residents of the 5 August 1937 the festival's largest crowd Berkshires organized a series of three so far assembled under a tent for the outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be first Tanglewood concert, an all- given by members of the New York Beethoven program. Philharmonic under the direction of At the all-Wagner concert which Henry Hadley. The venture was so opened the 1937 festival's second successful that the promoters incorpo- weekend, rain and thunder twice inter- rated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival rupted the performance of the Rienzi * and repeated the experiment during the Overture and necessitated the omission next summer. altogether of the Siegfried "Forest The Festival Committee then invited Murmurs," music too delicate to be Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston heard through the downpour. At the Symphony Orchestra to take part in the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson following year's concerts. The orchestra's Smith, one of the festival's founders, Trustees accepted, and on 13 August made a fundraising appeal for the build- 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first ing of a permanent structure. The appeal concerts in the Berkshires (at Holm- was broadened by means of a printed wood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later circular handed out at the two remain- the Center at Foxhollow). The series ing concerts, and within a short time again consisted of three concerts and enough money had been raised to begin was given under a large tent, drawing a active planning for a "music pavilion." total of nearly 15,000 people. Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tap- elaborate design that went far beyond pan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan the immediate needs of the festival and, AUGURS A 1939 banner advertising that summer's Boston Symphony Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood * •T-' • IS . Kfl :. I KB — more important, went well beyond the begun operations the preceding year budget of $100,000. His second, were finished, and the festival had so simplified plans were still too expensive, expanded its activities and its reputation and he finally wrote that if the Trustees for excellence that it attracted nearly insisted on remaining within their 100,000 visitors. budget, they would have "just a shed," Today Tanglewood annually draws which "any builder could accomplish more than 300,000 visitors; in addition without the aid of an architect." The to the twenty-four regular concerts of Trustees then turned to a Stockbridge the Boston Symphony, there are weekly engineer, Joseph Franz, to make further chamber music concerts, "Prelude" simplifications in Saarinen's plans in concerts and open rehearsals, the an- order to lower the cost. The building nual Festival of Contemporary Music, that he erected remains, with modifica- and almost daily concerts by the gifted tions, to this day; it is still called simply young musicians of the Berkshire Music "the Shed." The Shed was inaugurated Center. The Boston Pops performs each for the first concert of the 1938 festival. summer as well. The season offers not It has echoed with the music of the only a vast quantity of music but also a Boston Symphony Orchestra every vast range of musical forms and styles, summer since, except for the war years all of it presented with a regard for artis- 1942-45, and has become almost a place tic excellence that makes the festival of pilgrimage to millions of concert- unique.