Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1986
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Davis John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Irving W. Rabb Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman Edward M. Kennedy Sidney Stoneman AbramT. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John L. Thorndike John T. Noonan Officers of the Corporation Thomas W Morris, Vice-President, Special Projects and Planning John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Theodore A. Vlahos, Assistant Treasurer Jay B. Wailes, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Mary Glenn Goldman, Assistant Clerk Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Daniel R. Gustin, Acting General Manager Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Theodore A. Vlahos, Director of Business Affairs Helen P. Bridge, Director of Volunteers Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Vera Gold, Assistant Director of Promotion Richard Ortner, Administrator of Patricia Halligan, Personnel Administrator Tanglewood Music Center Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Nancy E. Phillips, Media and John M. Keenum, Director of Production Manager, Boston Foundation Support Symphony Orchestra James F. Kiley, Operations Manager, Charles Rawson, Manager of Tanglewood Box Office Nancy Knutsen, Assistant Manager, Eric Sanders, Director of Corporate Boston Pops Development Anita R. Kurland, Administrator of Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Youth Activities of Development Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Susan E. Tomlin, Director of Program Annotator Annual Giving Programs copyright '1986 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover design by Wondriska Associates Inc. JOIN THE BSO FOR A SEASON OF GREAT MUSIC AT SYMPHONY HALL AND CARNEGIE HALL. Subscribe now to the 1986-87 season! Join Music Director Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall for a 23-week season of magnificent music. In addition, Ozawa and the BSO will present their traditional three-concert series at Carnegie Hall, featuring appearances by Mstislav Rostropovich and Krystian Zimerman. Free brochures with complete program information for the BSO's Boston and New York seasons are available at the Tanglewood Main Gate, or call Symphony Hall, (617) 266-1492. Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Harvey Chet Krentzman, Chairman Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Carl Koch Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Ray Stata Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Vice-Chairman Secretary John Q. Adams Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Mrs. Weston W. Adams Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Vincent M. O'Reilly Martin Allen Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. David Bakalar Jordan L. Golding John A. Perkins Bruce A. Beal Joseph M. Henson Peter C. Read Peter A. Brooke Arnold Hiatt Robert E. Remis Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Susan M. Hilles David Rockefeller, Jr. James F. Cleary Glen H. Hiner John Ex Rodgers John F. Cogan, Jr. Mrs. Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Nat Cole Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Mrs. William C. Rousseau William H. Congleton Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Mrs. William H. Ryan Arthur P. Contas Richard L. Kaye Gene Shalit Mrs. A. Werk Cook Robert D. King Mark L. Selkowitz Phyllis Curtin John Kittredge Malcolm L. Sherman A.V. d'Arbeloff Robert K. Kraft W Davies Sohier, Jr. Mrs. Michael H. Davis John P. LaWare Ralph Z. Sorenson Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Harriett Eckstein Laurence Lesser William F. Thompson Mrs. Alexander Ellis R. Willis Leith, Jr. Luise Vosgerchian Katherine Fanning Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. An Wang John A. Fibiger Mrs. Harry L. Marks Roger D. Wellington Kenneth G. Fisher Hanae Mori Mrs. Thomas H.P. Whitney Gerhard M. Freche Richard P. Morse Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Mrs. Thomas S. Morse Brunetta Wolfman Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Robert B. Newman Nicholas T. Zervas Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Hazen H. Ayer Leonard Kaplan David R. Pokross Paul Fromm Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Mrs. Michael H. Davis President Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mrs. Carl Koch Executive Vice-President Treasurer Mrs. Harry F. Sweitzer, Jr. Mrs. Gilman W Conant Secretary Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett, Development Services Mrs. BelaT. Kalman, Youth Activities Ms. Phyllis Dohanian, Fundraising Projects Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt, Regions Mrs. Craig W Fisher, Tanglewood Mrs. August R. Meyer, Membership Mrs. Mark Selkowitz, Tanglewood Ms. Ellen M. Massey, Public Relations Chairmen of Regions Mrs. Thomas M. Berger Ms. Prudence A. Law Mrs. F.L. 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And be- The Conifer Group cause it has access to the Like You, We're Unique. TANGLEWOOD 5 August 1937 the festival's largest crowd so far assembled under a tent for the The Tanglewood Festival first Tanglewood concert, an all- In August 1934, a group of music- Beethoven program. loving summer residents of the At the all-Wagner concert which Berkshires organized a series of three opened the 1937 festival's second outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be weekend, rain and thunder twice inter- given by members of the New York rupted the performance of the Rienzi Philharmonic under the direction of Overture and necessitated the omission Henry Hadley. The venture was so altogether of the Siegfried "Forest successful that the promoters incorpo- Murmurs," music too delicate to be rated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival heard through the downpour. At the and repeated the experiment during the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson next summer. Smith, one of the festival's founders, The Festival Committee then invited made a fundraising appeal for the build- Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston ing of a permanent structure. The appeal Symphony Orchestra to take part in the was broadened by means of a printed following year's concerts. The orchestra's circular handed out at the two remain- Trustees accepted, and on 13 August ing concerts, and within a short time 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first enough money had been raised to begin concerts in the Berkshires (at Holm- active planning for a "music pavilion." wood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect the Center at Foxhollow). The series selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an again consisted of three concerts and elaborate design that went far beyond was given under a large tent, drawing a the immediate needs of the festival and, total of nearly 15,000 people. more important, went well beyond the In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham budget of $100,000. His second, Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tap- simplified plans were still too expensive, pan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan and he finally wrote that if the Trustees family estate, with its buildings and 210 insisted on remaining within their acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to budget, they would have "just a shed," Koussevitzky and the orchestra.