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Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.

J. P. Barger, Chairman Nicholas T. Zervas, President

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Trustees Emeriti

Vernon R. Alden AbramT. Collier Mrs. George I. Kaplan Mrs. George Lee Sargent

Philip K. Allen Nelson J. Darling, Jr. George H. Kidder Sidney Stoneman

David B. Arnold, Jr. Archie C. Epps Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Allen G. Barry Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Irving W. Rabb John L. Thorndike Leo L. Beranek Mrs. John L. Grandin

Other Officers of the Corporation

John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Michael G. McDonough, Assistant Treasurer

Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.

Thelma E. Goldberg, Chairman Robert P. O'Block, Vice-Chairman Jordan L. Golding, Secretary

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Galligan, Jr. Lawrence Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Luise Vosgerchian Mrs. Haskell R. C. Charles Marran Mrs. William C. Mrs. Donald B. Wilson

Gordon Hanae Mori Rousseau Mrs. John J. Wilson Mrs. Richard D. Hill

Business Leadership Association Board of Directors Harvey Chet Krentzman, Chairman Emeritus Wlliam F Connell, President James F. Cleary, Chairman Wlliam L. Boyan, Vice-President

Nader F Darehshori Wlliam F Meagher Patrick J. Purcell Ray Stata

Francis A. Doyle Robert J. Murray Wlliam D. Roddy Stephen J. Sweeney John P. Hamill Robert P. O'Block Malcolm L. Sherman Wlliam C. Van Faasen

Emeriti Leo L. Beranek • Nelson J. Darling Ex-Officio J. P. Barger • Nicholas T. Zervas

Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Carol Scheifele-Holmes, President Patricia L. Tambone, Treasurer Eva Zervos, Executive Vice-President Hannah C. Campbell, Secretary

Mce-Presidents Krista K. Baldini, Fundraising Joseph K. Handler, Patricia A. Newton, Public Relations Pamela N. Czekanski, Fundraising Tanglewood Association Seth Nichols, Resources Development Elizabeth B. Eaton, Nominating Patricia Henneberry, Debra A. Sulser, Adult Education Tanglewood Association Linda W Fenton, Development Christine J. Watson, Youth Activities Una H. Fleischmann, Membership Phyllis S. Hubbard, Hall Services

Remembering Arthur Fiedler

To mark the centennial of the birth of Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894-July 10, 1979), the Boston Symphony Archives has mounted a display of memorabilia in the Cohen Wing lobby exhibit cases. Using photographs, letters, programs, and other historical documents, the exhibit explores the career of Arthur Fiedler, focusing on his remarkable forty-nine-year tenure as Conductor of the Boston Pops (1930-79). A permanent display of Arthur Fiedler memorabilia, as well as his personal library of musical scores, can be viewed in the Arthur Fiedler Reading Room located on the second floor of Boston University's Mugar Library, 771 Commonwealth Avenue. Administration Kenneth Haas, Managing Director Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Managing Director and Manager of Tanglewood

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Dennis Alves, Program Coordinator, Boston Pops • Cynthia Curme, Executive Assistant to the Tanglewood Manager* Faith Hunter, Executive Assistant to the Managing Director • Karen Leopardi, Artist Assistant/ Secretary to the Music Director • Vincenzo Natale, Chauffeur/ Valet • James O'Connor, Administrative Assistant,

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Nancy Cohen, Auditions Coordinator/Administrative Assistant, Orchestra Personnel • Diane A. Read, Executive Assistant to the Orchestra Manager • Christopher W. Ruigomez, Acting Chorus Manager

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Mary J. Broussard, Clerk • Cary Eyges, Clerk • Lawrence Fraher, Clerk • Kathleen Kennedy, Assistant Manager ofBox Office • Roland Pridham, Clerk

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Daniel P. Breen, Director ofBoston Symphony Annual Fund Madelyne Cuddeback, Director of Corporate Sponsorships Deborah Elfers, Director of Corporate Development John C. Marksbury, Director ofFoundation and Government Support Joyce M. Serwitz, Associate Director of Development/Director ofMajor Gifts

Julie Beck, Assistant Director, Corporate Development • Hilary B. Cohen, Assistant Director, Boston Symphony Annual Fund • Susanna Concha, Administrative Secretary, Corporate Development • Sally Dale,

Administrative Secretary, Major Gifts • Sarah Fitzgerald, Assistant Data Coordinator • Deborah Hersey, Coordinator ofDevelopment Information Systems • Katharine W Kaplan, Assistant Director, Major Gifts • Shelley Kooris, Researcher* Pauline McCance, Executive Assistant to the Director ofDevelopment & Overseer Liaison • Julie Anne Phaneuf, Administrative Secretary, Boston Symphony Annual Fund • Jeffrey D. Phillips, Assistant Researcher • Floyd Richardson, Data Production Assistant • Brian Van Sickle, Administrative Secretary, Tanglewood Development

Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES/ARCHIVES

Richard Ortner, Administrator of the Tanglewood Music Center Myran Parker-Brass, Coordinator of Youth Activities

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FUNCTIONS OFFICE

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

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8 SEIJI OZAWA

Seiji Ozawa is now in his twenty-second season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Ozawa became the BSO's thirteenth music director in 1973, after a year as music adviser; his tenure with the Boston Symphony is the longest of ft. any music director currently active with an American orchestra. In his more than two decades as music director, Mr. Ozawa has maintained the orchestra's distinguished reputation both at «l ^^ home and abroad, with concerts at Symphony Hall and Tangle- wood, on tours to Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and South America, and across the United States. He has upheld the BSO's commitment to new music through the commissioning of includingwa series of centennial commissions marking the orchestra's hundredth new works, birthday in 1981, and a series of works celebrating the fiftieth anniversary in 1990 of the Tanglewood Music Center, the orchestra's summer training program for young musicians. In addition, he has recorded more than 130 works with the orchestra, representing more than fifty different composers, on ten labels.

In addition to his work with the Boston Symphony, Mr. Ozawa appears regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Or- chestra National de France, the Philharmonia of London, and the Vienna Philharmonic. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in December 1992, appears regularly at La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper, and has also conducted opera at the Paris Opera, Salzburg, and Covent Garden. In September 1992 he founded the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan, in memory of his teacher Hideo Saito, a central figure in the cultivation of Western music and musical technique in Japan, and a co-founder of the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. In addition to his many Boston Symphony recordings, Mr. Ozawa has recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestre National, the Orchestre de Paris, the Philharmonia of London, the Saito Kinen Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and the Vienna Philharmonic, among others.

Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, Seiji Ozawa studied music from an early age and later graduated with first prizes in composition and conducting from Tokyo's Toho School of Music, where he was a student of Hideo Saito. In 1959 he won first prize at the Interna- tional Competition of Orchestra Conductors held in Besancon, France. Charles Munch, then music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, subsequently invited him to attend the Tanglewood Music Center, where he won the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor in 1960. While a student of Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1961-62 season. He made his first professional concert appearance in North America in January 1962, with the San Francisco Symphony. He was music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Ravinia Festival for five summers beginning in 1964, music director of the Toronto Symphony from 1965 to 1969, and music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 1970 to 1976, followed by a year as that orchestra's music adviser. He conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time in 1964, at Tanglewood, and made his first Symphony Hall appearance with the orchestra in January 1968. In 1970 he became an artistic director of Tanglewood.

Mr. Ozawa recently became the first recipient of Japan's Inouye Sho ("Inouye Award"). Created to recognize lifetime achievement in the arts, the award is named after this century's preeminent Japanese novelist, Yasushi Inouye. In September 1994 Mr. Ozawa received his second Emmy award, for Individual Achievement in Cultural Programming, for "Dvorak in Prague: A Celebration," with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He won his first Emmy for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's PBS television series "Evening at Symphony." Mr. Ozawa holds honorary doctor of music degrees from the University of Massachusetts, the New England Conservatory of Music, and Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. First Violins Violas Malcolm Lowe §James Dunham (1/24-2/21) Concertmaster Guest Principal Charles Munch chair, Charles S. Dana chair, fullyfunded in perpetuity endowed in perpetuity in 1970 Tamara Smirnova-Sajfar Burton Fine Associate Concertmaster Acting Assistant Principal Helen Horner Mclntyre chair, Anne Stoneman chair, endowed in perpetuity in 1976 fullyfunded in perpetuity Victor Romanul Ronald Wilkison Assistant Concertmaster Lois and Harlan Anderson chair Robert L. Beal, and Robert Barnes Enid L. and Bruce A. Beal chair, Joseph Pietropaolo endowed in perpetuity in 1980 Music Directorship endowed by Michael Zaretsky Laura Park John Moors Cabot Assistant Concertmaster Marc Jeanneret BOSTON SYMPHONY Edward and Bertha C. Rose chair + Mark Ludwig Bo Youp Hwang * Rachel Fagerburg John and Dorothy Wilson chair, ORCHESTRA * Edward Gazouleas fullyfunded in perpetuity 1994-95 Lucia Lin Kazuko Matsusaka Forrest Foster Collier chair Leo Panasevich Cellos Carolyn and George Rowland chair Jules Eskin Gottfried Wilfinger Principal Dorothy and David B. Arnold, Jr., Q. Philip R. Allen chair, chair, fullyfunded in perpetuity endowed in perpetuity in 1969 X Alfred Schneider Martha Babcock Muriel C. Kasdon and Assistant Principal Marjorie C. Paley chair Vernon and Marion Alden chair, Raymond Sird endowed in perpetuity in 1977 Ruth and Carl Shapiro chair, Sato Knudsen fullyfunded in perpetuity Esther S. and Joseph M. Shapiro chair Ikuko Mizuno Joel Moerschel Amnon Levy Sandra and David Bakalar chair Theodore W. and Evelyn Berenson Robert Ripley Family chair Richard C. and Ellen E. Paine chair, *Harvey Seigel fullyfunded in perpetuity * Nancy Bracken Luis Leguia *Aza Raykhtsaum Robert Bradford Newman chair * Bonnie Bewick Carol Procter Lillian and Nathan R. Miller chair *James Cooke Ronald Feldman *Catherine French Charles and JoAnne Dickinson chair Jerome Patterson Second Violins Jonathan Miller Marylou Speaker Churchill Owen Young

Principal John F. Cogan, Jr. , and Fahnestock chair Mary Cornille chair Vyacheslav Uritsky Assistant Principal Basses Charlotte and Irving W. Rabb chair, endowed in perpetuity in 1977 Edwin Barker Ronald Knudsen Principal Edgar and Shirley Grossman chair Harold D. Hodgkinson chair, endowed in perpetuity in 1974 Joseph McGauley Lawrence \&blfe Leonard Moss Assistant Principal *Jerome Rosen Maria Nistazos Stata chair, Ronan Lefkowitz fullyfunded in perpetuity Sheila Fiekowsky Joseph Hearne Leith Family chair, Shames Jennie fullyfunded in perpetuity Valeria Vilker Kuchment John Salkowski Tatiana Dimitriades Joseph and Jan Brett Hearne Si-Jing Huang chair Robert Olson James Orleans Todd Seeber *Participating in a system of rotated John Stovall seating Dennis Roy %0n sabbatical leave §Substitute player

10 Flutes Bassoons Tuba Richard Svoboda Chester Schmitz Principal Principal Margaret and William C. chair Walter Piston chair, Edward A. Tafi chair, Rousseau endowed in perpetuity in 1970 endowed in perpetuity in 1974 Fenwick Smith Roland Small Timpani Myra and Robert Kraft chair, Richard Ranti Everett Firth 1981 endowed in perpetuity in Associate Principal Sylvia Shippen Wells chair, Elizabeth Ostling endowed in perpetuity in 1974 Assistant Principal Contrabassoon Marian Gray Lewis chair, Gregg Henegar Percussion fullyfunded in perpetuity Helen Rand Thayer chair Thomas Gauger Peter and Anne Brooke chair, Piccolo Horns fullyfunded in perpetuity Geralyn Coticone Charles Kavalovski Frank Epstein Peter Andrew Lurie chair Evelyn and C. Charles Marran Principal chair, endowed in perpetuity in 1979 Helen SagqffSlosberg chair, J. William Hudgins endowed in perpetuity in 1974 Timothy Genis Richard Sebring Assistant Timpanist Oboes Associate Principal Alfred Genovese Margaret Andersen Congleton chair Harps Principal Daniel Katzen Ann Hobson Pilot Mildred B. Remis chair, Elizabeth B. Storer chair Principal endowed in perpetuity in 1975 Jay Wadenpfuhl Willona Henderson Sinclair chair Wayne Rapier Richard Mackey Sarah Schuster Ericsson Keisuke Wakao Jonathan Assistant Principal Menkis Trumpets Librarians English Marshall Burlingame Horn Charles Schlueter Principal Robert Sheena Principal Shisler Beranek chair, Roger Louis Voisin chair, William fullyfunded in perpetuity endowed in perpetuity in 1977 James Harper Peter Chapman Ford H. Cooper chair Clarinets Assistant Conductors Timothy Morrison William R. Hudgins Thomas Dausgaard Associate Principal Principal David Wroe Thomas Rolfs Ann S.M. Banks chair, Anna E. Finnerty chair endowed in perpetuity in 1977 Trombones § Julie Vaverka (1/24-2/25) Personnel Managers Thomas Martin Ronald Barron Principal Lynn Larsen Associate Principal & E-jlat clarinet J. P. and Mary B. Barger chair, Bruce M. Creditor fullyfunded in perpetuity Bass Clarinet Norman Bolter Stage Manager Craig Nordstrom Position endowed by Farla and Harvey Chet Bass Trombone Angelica L. Russell Krentzman chair Douglas Yeo Peter Riley Pfitzinger

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12 "Entartete Musik" Recovered by Mark Ludwig

Continuing its season-long musical survey commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the BSO plays music of Weill, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Britten through early February. Beginning in late February the orchestra performs music by three composers—Ervin Schulhoff, Pavel Haas, and Hans Krdsa— who died in the Nazi concentration camps.

9 '' '''Entartete Musik —this was the name given by the Nazis to a wide variety of composers and musical genres as part of their propaganda machine. "Entartete" or "degenerate" (connoting psychologically abnormal behavior) signified something abnormal about the art that was perceived as a threat to German society. The initial introduction of this concept to the public was through an exhibit of visual arts, "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art"), displayed in Munich in 1937. The following year, in Dusseldorf, music received similar attention in the "Entartete Musik" exhibition.

The Nazis planned to use music, as well as other arts, as a political tool to unify and educate the German "Volk. " In addition to educating people about the dangers of degenerate music, the public would also be "protected" from cultural pollution by a ban on the performance, recording, and publication of this music.

The music targeted was enormously varied, as were the lives and backgrounds of its composers. What the Nazis viewed as common to this music were elements of jazz or atonal music, or, most insidiously and specifically, any music written by Jewish composers. Racial considerations aside, the compositions of many German composers who were experimenting with new musical forms were also targeted. According to this twisted formula, this music was deemed symptomatic of a cancer infecting German culture. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry wanted to educate the public about the danger of this music, and to revitalize the concept of a pure German music as exemplified by Wagner and Bruckner. Ironically, many people attended the 1938 exhibit in hopes of hearing Kurt Weill, who was one of the "degenerate" composers.

The "Entartete" program became a policy of censorship that supported the ethnic and political cleansing of German society. Some of the targeted musicians were able to leave. Composers such as Schoenberg, Hindemith, Waxman, Weill, and Korngold came to the United States to make new lives for themselves. (Of this group, all but Waxman are represented in this season's BSO programs.) Others were not so fortunate; many exceptionally gifted artists were imprisoned and eventually murdered.

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Remarkably, in the midst of horrid living conditions, musical instuments were smug- gled into Theresienstadt as early as the second transport. At first, concerts were held secretly in the attics and basements of the barracks. The performances increased with the growing number of amateur and professional artists arriving with each transport. This active cultural community included many of Europe's most gifted artists, musicians, and literary figures. Upon discovery of these secret performances, the Nazis realized the great importance of culture to the lives of the prisoners in Theresienstadt. By allowing such cultural activities, the Nazis believed that they could better keep the prisoners under control.

The "Freizeit-Gestaltung" —the "Administration for Free-time Activities"—was instituted by the Nazi SS command. This Jewish-run organization was responsible for a wide range of cultural activities offered to the prisoners, including lectures, theater, opera, jazz, cabaret, chamber music, and concerts. Four composers emerged as the central creative forces in this extraordinary cultural community— Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Hans Krasa, and Viktor Ullmann.

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Two works by Theresienstadt composers are being performed this season by the Boston Symphony Orchestra—Pavel Haas's Study for Strings (to be heard in March under Marek Janowski), and Hans Krasa's Chamber Symphony (to be played in April under Seiji Ozawa). In 1926 portions of Krasa's Chamber Symphony received a number of important performances, most notably by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. Haas's Study for Strings received its premiere on September 13, 1944, at Theresienstadt, where it was composed. Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the first performances by a major orchestra in January 1991, at Symphony Hall.

A third composer, Ervin Schulhoff, will be represented by his Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra (to be performed in February also under Seiji Ozawa, with the Hawthorne String Quartet—BSO members Ronan Lefkowitz, Si-Jing Huang, Mark Ludwig, and Sato Knudsen). Schulhoff's compositional style, as well as his Jewish and political background—among his works was a symphony on the text of the Communist Manifesto—made him an obvious target for the Nazis. He was imprisoned in the Wulzburg concentration camp, where he died on August 18, 1942.

There are many points of contact between the lives of Haas and Krasa. Both were born in 1899 in Czechoslovakia, where they also received much of their musical education. They were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp within four months of each other. Both were important figures in the active cultural community that developed there despite the abysmal living conditions. A good portion of their music from the 1920s, '30s, and their Theresienstadt incarceration has survived. In October 1944 both men were deported to Auschwitz, where they died in the gas chambers.

Haas, Schulhoff, and Krasa were among the victims of the "Entartete" blacklisting of hundreds of artists. For half a century, the music of these and other composers whose careers and lives were cut short by Nazi policies has been absent from our concert halls and musical consciousness. This season the BSO performs music by a wide variety of "Entartete" composers. Although some of these works are by composers with an established place in twentieth-century music, the works by Haas, Schulhoff, and Krasa will add a significant new element to our listening experience. The absence of this music has also been felt in the development of new generations of composers and performing artists. The reemergence of these composers represents a significant addition to our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century classical music.

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Sergei Sergeyevitch Prokofiev was born in Sontzovka, near Ekaterinoslav in the Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953. He wrote his Symphony No. 5 during the summer of 1944 and led the premiere with the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra on January 13, 1945. It was his last appearance as conductor. Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra introduced the work in the United States at concerts on November 9 and 10 that same year. Since then the BSO has also performed Prokofiev's * Fifth Symphony under the direction ofLeonard Bern- pft - -^^ stein, Richard Burgin, Erich Leinsdorf, Eugene Or- mandy, Lawrence Foster, Joseph Silverstein (the most ^ ^^. ^i^H^tffl recent subscription performances, in March 1979), and

Carl St. Clair (the most recent Tanglewood performance , in August 1986). The score calls for two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, high clarinet in E-flat, two clarinets in B-flat, and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, bass tuba, piano, harp, timpani, triangle, cymbals, tam- bourine, snare drum, wood block, bass drum, tam-tam, and strings.

Though he never returned to his native country after the Revolution and though he became an ardent American patriot, the legendary Boston Symphony music director (1924-49) Serge Koussevitzky maintained a profound inner identity as a Russian and as such sympathized passionately with the Soviet Union's war effort against the Ger- mans. For this reason, his performances here—often they were American premieres of the important wartime compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev were acts of commitment that went beyond the ordinary range of professional responsi- bility, ambition, and rivalry with colleagues. Aware of the material difficulties under which Russian composers labored, he regularly arranged to have shipments of music paper sent from Boston to the Soviet Composers' Union, and it gave him particular pleasure to discover that the score of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, whose manuscript is now in the Boston Public Library, was written on paper that had made the long round- trip from a store on Boylston Street in Boston.

Prokofiev and Koussevitzky, moreover, had known each other a long time. They had certainly known about each other as far back as 1908 when the thirty-four-year-old Koussevitzky, then the world's leading virtuoso on the double bass and already on the way to his even more important careers as conductor and publisher, repeatedly re- jected for publication the scores submitted by the teenage composer. Soon the relationship became more positive. In 1914, Koussevitzky invited Prokofiev to play his Piano Concerto No. 1 at a concert in Moscow, an event that marked the beginning of more than thirty years' devoted sponsorship on the part of the conductor. Between 1916 and 1937, Koussevitzky published many works by Prokofiev, including the Visions fugitives, the Third and Fourth piano sonatas, the Scythian Suite, the Dostoyevsky opera The Gambler, the ballet Chout, the Lieutenant Kije Suite, and several books of songs. In addition he frequently invited Prokofiev to Boston: the composer appeared with the Symphony as piano soloist in 1926 (Concerto No. 3), 1930 (Concerto No. 2), 1932-33 (Concerto No. 5), and 1937 (Concerto No. 3), and in 1938 he not only played his First Concerto but conducted Chout, the Suite No. 2 from the Romeo and Juliet ballet, and the American premiere of Peter and the Wolf.

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Coming Up in the BSO's Season-Long Musical Survey Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II

February 1 (Open Rehearsal), 2, 3, 4; Seiji Ozawa conducting BRITTEN War Requiem, Opus 66, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, mixed chorus, boychoir, full orchestra, and chamber orchestra One of the most harrowing experiences of the Battle of Britain early in World War II was the eleven-hour German bombing of the city of Coventry, in War- wickshire, central England, in November 1940; the entire center of the city, including the historic, fourteenth-century Cathedral of St. Michael, was de- stroyed. Commissioned to write an appropriate musical work for the dedication of the newly rebuilt cathedral in 1962, Benjamin Britten created in his War Requiem a work that is at once the most powerful anti-war music ever written and the most moving plea for the reconciliation of former enemies. The Amer- ican premiere of Britten's War Requiem was given by Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on July 27, 1963, atTanglewood. Seiji Ozawa, the only other conductor to have led Britten's work with the BSO, gave acclaimed performances at Tanglewood in August 1986 and at Symphony Hall the following October.

February 23, 24, 25; Seiji Ozawa conducting SCHULHOFF Concerto for String Quartet with Chamber Orchestra March 2 (AM Open Rehearsal, PM Concert), 3,4,7; Marek Janowski conducting HAAS Study for Strings Ervin Schulhoff and Pavel Haas died in the Nazi concentration camps: Schulhoff at Wiilzburg on August 18, 1942, and Haas at Auschwitz, where he was sent in October 1944 following his internment at Theresienstadt. Both of these composers wrote what the Nazis deemed "Entartete Musik"— "degenerate music" the Nazis claimed would pollute the German people's cultural values because of the composers' own political and cultural backgrounds (Jewish composers were a specific target), or because of the music's content, which might include, for example, elements of jazz or atonal music, or the use of new musical forms. (See the related article beginning on page 13 of this week's program book.) The recent revival of so-called "Entartete Musik" by such composers as Schulhoff and Haas, whose lives were cut short in the Nazi death camps, adds a new dimension to our understanding not only of the Holocaust, but of its effect on our perception and the development of 20th-century music. Ervin Schulhoff's Concerto for String Quartet with Chamber Orchestra—featuring the Hawthorne String Quartet, made up of BSO members Ronan Lefkowitz, Si-Jing Huang, Mark Ludwig, and Sato Knudsen—will introduce that composer's music to BSO audiences. Pavel Haas's Study for String Orchestra, premiered at Theresienstadt in September 1944, had its first performances by a major orchestra here at Symphony Hall in January 1991, when Seiji Ozawa led the Boston Sympho- ny Orchestra in this energetic and inspiring work.

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Discussion of the evolution of Prokofiev's later style has, not surprisingly, become mired in politics. Soviet critics, notably his more or less official biographer, Israel Nestyev, tend to imply that the composer only found himself after he came home; West- ern critics, especially if they are politically conservative, are inclined to deplore the softening of Prokofiev's music from the thirties on. Prokofiev had little to say about any of this: unlike Shostakovich, he didn't even repudiate his own earlier music. It may be, though, that his statement about the Fifth Symphony as a work that "crowns a great period" refers to what a musician might perceive regardless of political context, which is that here the composer has absolutely mastered his style, speaking his chosen language without self-consciousness, discomfort, compromise, and foreign accent. Even in the nineteenth century, good composers could be baffled by the question of how to confront the sonata style defined by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, how to get at its substance and not just its shell. Here, in the Fifth Symphony, the fifty-three-year- old Prokofiev takes on the challenge with the confidence, the freshness of approach, and the skill of a master.

He begins with a fairly slow movement in richly developed sonata form, picking up from Beethoven (string quartet in F, Opus 59, No. 1, first movement) and Brahms (Sym- phony No. 4, first movement) the device of seeming to embark upon a formal repeat of the exposition, only to have a dramatic turn of harmony reveal that in fact the development has begun. The scherzo brings back a touch of the old Prokofiev, the wry humor- ist from whom Shostakovich learned so much. An Adagio at once sombre and lyrical is followed by an exuberant finale. From the symphony's first page with its tart octaves of flute and bassoon, to the coda of the finale, with that daring scoring for solo strings, piano, harp, and percussion, all of this is most brilliantly worked out for the orchestra.

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Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Opus 21

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin— or, as he called himself during his many years in France, Frederic Chopin— was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, probably on

March 1, 1810, and died in Paris on October 17, 1849. He composed the E minor concerto during the summer of1830 and was himselfsoloist at the first performance which took place at his final concert in Warsaw on October 11 the same year. The American premiere took place in New York on November 21, 1846, when the Philharmonic Society performed the work with soloist Henry C. Timm under the direction of George Loder. Alfred Jaell played the concerto in Boston in a concert given at the Melodeon on December 11, 1852, with the Germania Musical Society conducted by Carl Berg- mann. Madeline Schiller was soloistfor the first Boston Symphony performance in De- cember 1882, Georg Henschel conducting. BSO performances have also been conducted by Wilhelm Gericke, Arthur Nikisch, Emil Paur, Karl Muck, Pierre Monteux, Henri Rabaud, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Seiji Ozawa (on several occasions with Alexis Weissenberg, including the orchestras most recent Tanglewood performance in August 1972), and David Zinman (the most recent subscription performances, with Stanislav Bunin, in October 1988). Earlier performancesfeatured Adele aus der Ohe, Teresa Carreno, Etelka Utassi, Moriz Rosenthal, Eugene DAlbert, Rafael Joseffy, Josef Hofmann, Ernest Hutcheson, Antoinette Szumowska, Elizabeth Claire Forbes, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leon Vartanian, and Gary Graffman. Besides the solo instrument, the score calls for two each offlutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, trombone, timpani, and strings.

Chopin composed all of his works for piano and orchestra—including the two piano concertos—before he turned twenty-one, when he was still undergoing or had barely finished his formal studies. He had begun the study of composition in 1822, when he was twelve, with Jozef Eisner, director of the Warsaw Conservatory. His talent as a performer had been recognized even earlier. In February 1818, a month before Cho- pin's eighth birthday, he made his first public appearance as a pianist, playing a concerto of Gyrowetz. And even at that time he was constantly improvising little pieces polonaises and the like. But formal composition studies were to lead ultimately to his greatest and most enduring fame. Eisner attempted to teach Chopin the traditional classical forms, supervising the composition of the First Sonata, Opus 4, which is almost completely un-Chopinesque. Eventually, though, Eisner recognized that Cho- pin simply had such gifts that it was useless to impose an outside taste on them. He retained the private hope that Chopin would one day compose the great Polish national opera, but that hope was vain, since the young man desired only to write music for the piano.

Few composers, indeed, have so consciously limited their output. Chopin never wrote a piece that did not include the piano, and the bulk of his works are for piano solo. But since it is on that instrument that he is most original, we are not inclined to complain. Despite his years of piano studies, he never became academic in the technical mechanics of performing, and his boundless imagination soon came up with new sonorities and devices that set him apart.

Warsaw was something of a musical backwater, but visiting celebrities gave Chopin a sense of the larger musical world. In 1828 he heard Hummel perform, and he quickly adopted the decorative elegance of that composer in his ensuing works. The

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28 following year he heard Paganini, who was such a powerful influence on instrumental music of the 1830s and 1840s by demonstrating the degree of virtuosic proficiency that might be possible.

Chopin composed a Fantasia on Polish Airs in 1828, during his last year of formal conservatory training, following it up with another brilliant piece for piano and orchestra based on Polish melodies, Krakowiak, Opus 14. The following year, when he was nineteen, he finished his formal studies and visited Vienna, where the exotic Polish character of works like the Krakowiak attracted a great deal of attention. When he returned home on September 12, he began work on his F minor piano concerto (published as No. 2, though it was the first to be composed). It was premiered on two concerts of March 17 and 22. On the whole, the F minor concerto was favorably received, especially its slow movement, and this encouraged Chopin, a few months later, to compose the E minor concerto, later published as No. 1, though it was second in order of writing. A few months after that, in November 1830, he left Poland to study abroad, never to return.

It would be unrealistic to expect a piano concerto written by a budding young virtuoso not out of his teens to display a command of the symphonic style of concerto writing—the careful balancing of soloist and orchestra, the intricate development of thematic ideas, and so on— that we have come to recognize in the earlier works of Mozart and Beethoven. Not only was such a style inimical to Chopin's original genius, but he had not even encountered the concertos of Beethoven. (This is not to say that he disliked Beethoven's music; while working on the F minor concerto, he had taken part in a private reading of the Archduke Trio and wrote to Titus Woyciechowski, "I've never heard anything so great; in it Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.") But the musical life of Warsaw had not yet admitted Beethoven to the pantheon, especially with his larger works. Hummel was the major composer whose concertos provided a basic model for Chopin, along with works of Ries, Gyrowetz, and Moscheles—concertos by keyboard virtuosi written to display their own technical prowess.

But for all of Chopin's youth and relative inexperience, his concertos are extraordinary in that special way that makes all of his best music personal and immediately identifiable; this in spite of the fact that Chopin avoids the expected key relationships, which help create the shape of the music by setting up the drama of musical incident. Chopin's first movement, most unusually, keeps to the tonic key for both first and second subjects, a procedure that Donald Francis Tovey regards as "suicidal." Yet it is full of surprising and poetic and majestic moments for all its apparent lack of a strong ground plan. The second movement, "Romance," is nearer to the heart of Chopin, a pure outpouring of elegant and spontaneous melody. The finale, like the middle movement, is in E major. Its most characteristic element appears in the third theme, a krakowiak of great verve and rhythmic subtlety, which brings the concerto to a vigorous close.

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30 Richard Strauss Till EulenspiegeVs Merry Pranks, after the old rogue's tale, set in rondo form for large orchestra, Opus 28

Richard Strauss was born in Munich, Germany, on June 11, 1864, and died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, on September 8, 1949. He completed Till Eulenspiegel on May 6, 1895, and Franz Wullner

conducted the first performance on November 5 that year, in Cologne. Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra introduced the work to this country on November 15, 1895. Emil Paur gave the first BSO performances on February 21 and 22, 1893, later performances being led by Wilhelm Gericke, Karl Muck, Max Fiedler, Otto Urack, Pierre Monteux, Bruno Wal- ter, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Igor Marke- vitch, Richard Burgin, Erich Leinsdorf, Werner Torkanowsky, JosefKrips, William Steinberg, Michael Tilson Thomas (including the most recent subscription performances, in December 1983), Eugen Jochum, Okko Kamu, Joseph Silverstein, Kurt Masur, Andrew Davis, and Marek Janowski (the most recent Tanglewood performance, in August 1993). Till Eulenspiegel is scoredfor piccolo, threeflutes, three oboes and English horn, two clarinets, clarinet in D, and bass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns plusfour more ad lib., three trumpets plus three more ad lib., three trombones and bass tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, large rattle, and strings.

There was a real Till Eulenspiegel, born early in the fourteenth century near Brunswick and gone to his reward— in bed, not on the gallows as in Strauss's tone poem— in 1350 at Molln in Schleswig-Holstein. Stories about him have been in print since the beginning of the sixteenth century, the first English version coming out around 1560 under the title Here beginneth a merye Jest ofa man that was called Howleglas ("Eule" in German means "owl" and "Spiegel" "mirror" or "looking- glass"). The consistent and serious theme behind his jokes and pranks, often in themselves distinctly on the coarse and even brutal side, is that here is an individual getting back at society, more specifically the shrewd peasant more than holding his own against a stuffy bourgeoisie and a repressive clergy. The most famous literary version of Till Eulenspiegel is the one published in 1866 by the Belgian novelist Charles de

Coster: set in the period of the Inquisition in the sixteenth century, it is also the most

explicitly politicized telling of the story, and it is the source of one of the great under- ground masterpieces of twentieth-century music, the oratorio Thyl Claes by the Rus- sian-German composer Vladimir Vogel.

Strauss knew de Coster's book, and it seems also that in 1889 in Wiirzburg he saw an opera called Eulenspiegel by Cyrill Kistler, a Bavarian composer whose earlier opera Kunihild had a certain currency in the '80s and early '90s, and for which he was proclaimed as Wagner's heir. Indeed, Strauss's first idea was to compose an Eulen- spiegel opera, an idea that appealed to him especially after the failure of his own ex- ceedingly Wagnerian Guntram in 1894. He sketched a scenario and later commissioned another from Count Ferdinand von Sporck, the librettist of Kistler's Kunihild, but somehow the project never got into gear. "I have already put together a very pretty scenario," he wrote in a letter, "but the figure of Master Till does not quite appear before my eyes. The book of folk-tales only outlines a generalized rogue with too superficial a dramatic personality, and developing his character in greater depth, taking into account his contempt for humanity, also presents considerable difficulties."

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I really cannot provide a program for Eulenspiegel. Any words into which I might put the thoughts that the several incidents suggested to me would hardly suffice; they might even offend. Let me leave it, therefore, to my listeners to crack the hard nut

the Rogue has offered them. By way of helping them to a better understanding, it seems enough to point out the two Eulenspiegel motives [Strauss jots down the opening of the work and the virtuosic horn theme], which, in the most diverse disguises, moods, and situations, pervade the whole up to the catastrophe when, after being condemned to death, Till is strung up on the gibbet. For the rest, let them guess at the musical joke a Rogue has offered them.

On the other hand, for Wilhelm Mauke, the most diligent of early Strauss exegetes, the composer was willing to offer a more detailed scenario—Till among the market- women, Till disguised as a priest, Till paying court to pretty girls, and so forth—the sort of thing guaranteed to have the audience anxiously reading the program book instead of listening to the music, probably confusing priesthood and courtship anyway, wondering which theme represents "Till confounding the Philistine pedagogues," and missing most of Strauss's dazzling invention in the process. (Also, if you've ever been shown in a music appreciation class how to "tell" rondo form, forget it now.) It is probably useful to identify the two Till themes, the very first violin melody and what the horn plays about fifteen seconds later,* and to say that the opening music is intended as a "once-upon-a-time" prologue that returns after the graphic trial and hanging as a charmingly formal epilogue (with rowdily humorous "kicker"). For the rest, Strauss's compositional ingenuity and orchestral bravura plus your attention and fantasy will see to the telling of the tale.

—Michael Steinberg

Now Program Annotator of the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Steinberg was the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Director of Publications from 1976 to 1979.

*It is told that Strauss's father, probably both the most virtuosic and the most artistic horn player of his time, protested the unplayability of this flourish. "But Papa," said the composer, "I've heard you warm up on it every day of my life."

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The big biography of Richard Strauss is Norman Del Mar's, which gives equal space to the composer's life and music (three volumes, Cornell University Press; available in paperback). It is unsurpassed for those seeking full details on any matter relating to Strauss. Michael Kennedy's account of the composer's life and works for the Master Musicians series is the volume of choice for a more compact introduction, sympathetic and enthusiastic (Littlefield paperback). The symposium Richard Strauss: The Man and his Music, edited by Alan Walker, is worth looking into (Barnes and Noble). Ken- nedy also provided the Strauss article in The New Grove, available in paperback in The Modern Masters I (Norton). Among the most splendid recordings of Till Eulenspiegel is one made in 1957 by the Cleveland Orchestra at the top of its form with George Szell at the helm, and now available at a bargain price (Sony Essential Classics, with Don Juan and Ein Heldenleben). Claudio Abbado's version with the Berlin Philharmonic is lean and trim (Deutsche Grammophon, with the Burleske for piano and orchestra, Don Juan, and music from Der Rosenkavalier), while Herbert von Karajan's reading with the same ensemble is more voluptuous (also Deutsche Grammophon, with Don Quix- ote). Among older recordings, Rudolf Kempe's, in his traversal of the complete Strauss orchestral works with the Dresden State Orchestra (three three-disc sets from EMI Classics), is particularly distinguished. Till Eulenspiegel is in volume I, along with the horn concertos, the Oboe Concerto, Don Juan, Ein Heldenleben, and several other works.

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Dr. and Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Mr. and Mrs. William R. Driver, Jr. Mrs. Richard R. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. George W. Berry Dr. Richard W. Dwight Mr. and Mrs. Denny F High

Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Birger Mrs. Charles Freedom Eaton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Mr. and Mrs. Goetz B. Eaton Mrs. Harrison D. Horblit

Bowersock, Jr. Mrs. Otto Eckstein Mr. and Mrs. William White Mr. and Mrs. William L. Boyan Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Emmet Howells Mrs. James W. Bradley Mrs. Priscilla Endicott Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hubbard

Mrs. Alexander H. Bright Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Fennell Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hyman Mr. and Mrs. William L. Brown Mrs. Sewall H. Fessenden Mrs. Joanie V. Ingraham

Mrs. Karl Burack Dr. and Mrs. Henry L. Foster Mrs. Albert S. Kahn Betty 0. and Richard S. Burdick Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Martin and Wendy Kaplan

Mr. and Mrs. J. Gary Burkhead Freedman Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F Kingsley

Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Stefan M. Freudenberger Mason J. 0. Klinck

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Kravitz

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Caro Galligan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Landay Mr. and Mrs. James F Cleary Dr. and Mrs. Donald B. Giddon Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Lataif Mrs. Nicholas B. Clinch Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Glauber Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lawrence

Mrs. I. W. Colburn Carol R. Goldberg and Avram J. Barbara Lee Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Cole Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Irving Levy Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Collier Mr. and Mrs. Jordan L. Golding Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Linde Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Joel A. Goldthwait Graham Atwell Long Dr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Crandall Mark R. Goldweitz Dr. and Mrs. Frederick H.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Mrs. Harry N. Gorin Lovejoy, Jr.

Creighton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. Brainard Graves Diane H. Lupean

45 Mrs. Victor A. Lutnicki Mr. and Mrs. Peter Read Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swiniarski

Ms. Anna L. Lyon Mrs. Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Patricia L. Tambone

Mr. and Mrs. J. Peter Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Charles H. Taylor Barbara Jane Macon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Rosse Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Teplow Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mahoney Mrs. Benjamin Rowland Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. Gael Mahony Dr. Jordan S. Ruboy Mr. and Mrs. W Nicholas Mrs. Olivia A. Manice Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saltonstall Thorndike Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Marks Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert R. Sanger Mr. and Mrs. John A. Tillinghast

Mr. and Mrs. Satoru Masamune Mrs. George Lee Sargent Drs. Eugene J. and Hilde H. Dr. and Mrs. John D. Matthews Mrs. Paul A. Schmid, Sr. Tillman

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Meagher, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.

Dr. and Mrs. Louis Meeks Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Shane Trippe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wells Morss Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shenton Mrs. Irving Usen Mr. and Mrs. E. James Morton Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. John H. Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Scott Mrs. Jeanette S. Simon Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Voisin Morton Mrs. Donald B. Sinclair Mrs. Richard Warren Mr. and Mrs. David G. Mugar Richard and Susan Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Watts II Dr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Myers Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Weber

Miss Alice B. Newell Dr. and Mrs. Fredrick J. Stare Miss Christine White Mr. and Mrs. Vincent M. O'Reilly Mrs. Irma Mann Stearns Mrs. Florence T. Whitney Mrs. Andrew Oliver and Dr. Norman Stearns Mrs. Nancy P. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Paine Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stepanian Mrs. Shepard F Williams Gary M. Palter Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Williams

Miss Harriet F. Parker Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Wilson

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46 Capital Gifts Contributors

The Boston Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges those individuals whose cash payments to a Boston Capital Gift Program made during the 1993-94 season equal or exceed $1,500.

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon R. Alden Mr. and Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone

Professor and Mrs. Rae D. Mrs. Kenneth J. Germeshausen Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Morse Anderson Mrs. Haskell R. Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Moss

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr. Mr. Michael A. Halpeson Mrs. Mary Anna A. Nairn Ms. Esther W. Atkins Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos Ms. Patricia Thayer Nitzburg

Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood E. Bain Mrs. Harry R. Healey, Jr. Ms. Marilyn T Oettinger Mr. and Mrs. David Bakalar Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E Hearne Ms. Edith H. Overly

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Barger Mrs. Ruth L. Hertz Mr. and Mrs. Guido R. Perera, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Mr. and Mrs. George E Hodder Mr. and Mrs. William J. Poorvu Mr. and Mrs. John Bihldorff Mr. William Morris Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Remis Mrs. Edward E Bland Mr. and Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Mr. Daniel L. Romanow Mrs. Mark Bortman Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Dr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Rost Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Brooke Mr. and Mrs. George Kidder Mrs. Angelica L. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. King Mr. Roger A. Saunders Mrs. George H. A. Clowes Mr. and Mrs. Allen Z. Kluchman Mrs. Janos Scholz

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cogan, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. David I. Kosowsky Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Shane Dr. and Mrs. John M. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. AbramT. Collier Krentzman Dr. and Mrs. Jerome H. Shapiro

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Mr. Thomas H. Lee Mr. Joseph M. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Nader E Darehshori Ms. Barbara Fish Lee Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Stoneman

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Ms. Bessie E. Levine Miss Elizabeth B. Storer Phyllis Dohanian Mrs. Frederick H. Lovejoy, Sr. Mrs. Kenneth E Whitaker Dr. 0. W. Donnenfeld Ms. Margaret L. Marr Miss Christine White

Mr. Kendall Farrar Mr. and Mrs. C. Charles Marran Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. White

Mr. and Mrs. Steven S. Feinberg Mr. Robert G. McClellan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. P.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Richard Fennell Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. McCormick Whitney Miss Anna E. Finnerty Mr. and Mrs. Nathan R. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Angus E Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Miner Mrs. John J. Wilson Mrs. Mary H. French

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is also grateful to the following Corporations and Foundations for their contributions of $1,500 and above to one or more of the Capital Gift Programs.

Arthur Andersen & Co. Dynatech Corporation Kresge Foundation Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers The Gillette Company Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Clark Charitable Trust The Florence Gould Foundation The Stephen & Sybil Stone Connell Limited Partnership John Hancock Financial Services Foundation Coopers & Lybrand Henry Hornblower Fund, Inc.

47 BSO Corporate Sponsorships

The Boston Symphony wishes to acknowledge this distinguished group of corporations for their outstanding and exemplary support of the Orchestra during the 1994 fiscal year.

NEC Lexus Boston Symphony Orchestra Opening Night at Pops European Tour TDK Electronics Corporation Seiji Ozawa Hall Inaugural Concert Tanglewood Tickets for Children Tanglewood Opening Night

Digital Equipment Corporation AT&T Boston Pops Orchestra Public American Encore Program Television Broadcasts NYNEX Bank of Boston WCVB-TV, Channel 5 Boston BayBanks, Inc. WCRB 102.5 FM The Boston Company Salute to Symphony Country Curtains and The Red Lion Inn Northwest Airlines Houghton Mifflin Company Holiday Pops Series John Hancock Financial Services The Boston Company Northern Telecom, Inc. Opening Night at Symphony PaineWebber, Inc. Circuit City Foundation Shawmut Bank Esplanade Concert Series Single Concert Sponsors

For information on the BSO Corporate Sponsorship Program, contact Madelyne Cuddeback, Director of Corporate Sponsorships, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115, (617) 638-9254.

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The Business Leadership Association forms a strong coalition of corporate support for the BSO and has been instrumental in enabling the Orchestra to pursue its mission of performing at the highest level of musical excellence. The BSO gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their generous leadership support.

(Thefollowing includes annual, capital, and sponsorship support during the BSO's fiscal year beginning September 1, 1993 through August 31, 1994.)

Beethoven Society $500,000 and above

Digital Equipment Corporation NEC Corporation Robert B. Palmer Dr. Hisashi Kaneko

Gold Baton $100,000-$499,999

The Boston Company Sony Corporation of America Lawrence S. Kash, W. Keith Smith Michael P. Schulhof NYNEX WCRB 102.5 FM Donald Reed Cynthia Scullin

Northwest Airlines, Inc. WCVB-TV Channel 5 Terry M. Leo Paul LaCamera

Silver Baton $75, 000-$99, 999 AT&T Circuit City Foundation

Robert E . Allen Richard L. Sharp

Bronze Baton $50,000-$74,999 Country Curtains & The Red Lion Inn Four Seasons Hotel Jane & Jack Fitzpatrick Robin A. Brown

Dynatech Corporation Lexus John F. Reno George E. Borst

Conductor's Circle $25,000-$49,999

Arthur Andersen LLP Houghton Mifflin Company William F. Meagher Nader F. Darehshori

Bank of Boston John Hancock Financial Services Ira Stepanian William L. Boyan

BayBanks, Inc. Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

William M. Crozier, Jr. Fund at the Boston Foundation Gary L. Countryman Coopers & Lybrand LLP

Francis A . Doyle Northern Telecom Inc. Robert 0. Nelson The Gillette Company Alfred M. Zeien

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PaineWebber, Inc. TDK Electronics Corporation James F. Cleary Takashi Tsujii

Parrish Wickersham & Partners Von Hoffmann Press, Inc. Frank Parrish Frank A. Bowman Shawmut Bank, N.A. Joel B. Alvord

Principal Player $15,000-$24,999 Connell Limited Partnership Harcourt General Charitable Foundation William F. Connell Richard A. Smith

CS First Boston Corporation Neiman Marcus Kenneth H. Colburn, F. Corning Kenley, William D. Roddy Pamela F. Lenehan R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Dav El Chauffered Transportation Network Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr. Scott Solombrino Raytheon Company

Eastern Enterprises/Boston Gas Company Dennis J. Picard

. Atwood Ives , Chester R. Messer J Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. Essex Investment Management Co., Inc. John A. Balch Joseph C. McNay Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers Fidelity Investments Robert J. Morse SherifA. Nada, Alexander Webb III

Honor Roll $10,000- ,999 Advanced Management Associates Choate, Hall & Stewart Harvey Chet Krentzman Robert M. Gargill

Analog Devices Converse Inc. Ray Stata Gilbert Ford

Arnold Fortuna Lawner & Cabot EG&G, Inc. Ed Eskandarian John M. Kucharski

Arthur D. Little, Inc. EMC Corporation Charles R. LaMantia Richard J. Egan

Barter Connections Ernst & Young LLP Kenneth C. Barron James S. DiStasio

Bingham, Dana & Gould Filene's Jay S. Zimmerman Joseph M. Melvin

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Fisher Scientific International Inc. William C. Van Faasen Paul M. Montrone

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Fleet Bank of Massachusetts, N.A. Jonathan L. Isaacs Leo R. Breitman, John P. Hamill

The Boston Globe Heidrick & Struggles William 0. Taylor Robert E. Hallagan

Boston Herald Hewlett Packard Company

Patrick J. Purcell Ben L. Holmes Boston Edison Company

Thomas J. May

50 Honor Roll continued

Hill, Holiday, Connors, State Street Bank and Trust Company Cosmopulos, Inc. Marshall N. Carter

John M. Connors, Jr. The Stop & Shop Foundation IBM Corporation Avram J. Goldberg Patricia S. Wolpert Stratus Computer, Inc. KPMG Peat Marwick William E. Foster Robert D. Happ The Studley Press Lapham Miller Associates Charles R. Gillett, Thomas Reardon Paul Kroner Thermo Electron Corporation Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. Dr. George N. Hatsopoulos Todd A. Robinson Trust Insurance Company Loomis-Sayles & Company, L.P. Craig M. Bradley Mark W. Holland UST Corp. McKinsey & Company, Inc. Neal F. Finnegan David G. Fubini, Robert P. O'Block Watts Industries, Inc. Millipore Corporation Timothy P. Home John A. Gilmartin Vintage Northwest, Inc. North American Mortgage Company Joseph S. Orrico

John F. Farrell, Jr.

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!7iease join Robin Brown, General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel, and BSO Business Fund Chairman Bill Van Faasen in supporting the BSO's Youth Education Programs.

On Monday, February 6, 1995, attend a closed TV taping for the "Salute to Symphony" broadcast (to be aired on March 17, 1995), then join Boston's corporate "movers and shakers" for an elegant party at the Four Seasons. See Chet and Natalie in action, swing to the beat of the Jazz Pops Ensemble, savor the terrific menu prepared by Four Seasons Executive Chef Jamie Mammano, and mingle with the evening's stars for an unforgettable evening of fun and entertainment! All proceeds from this event benefit the Youth Education Programs of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets are not available to the general public, are priced at $125 each, and include the TV taping at Symphony Hall and the post-concert bash at the Four Seasons. To receive your invitation, please contact Deborah Elfers, Director of Corporate Development, at (617) 638-9298. We hope to see you there!

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51 BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION (Industry Listing)

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the following business leaders for their generous contributions of $1,500 or more during the BSO's fiscal year ending August 31, 1994. Companies contributing $10,000 or more are indicated in bold capital letters; contributions of $5, 000- $9, 999 are indicated in capital letters, and an asterisk denotes gifts of $2,500-$4,999. For information about becoming a Business Leadership Association member, please contact Deborah Elfers, Director of Corporate Development, at (617) 638-9298.

Accounting INGALLS, QUINN & Pioneer Bank JOHNSON Richard E. Bolton LLP ARTHUR ANDERSEN Richard C. Garrison William F. Meagher SHAWMUT BANK, N.A. Irma S. Mann Strategic Joel B. Alvord *Charles E. Di Pesa & Marketing, Inc. Company, CPA's South Boston Savings Bank Irma S. Mann William F. Di Pesa Richard R. Laine Moore + Associates STATE STREET BANK COOPERS & Joseph R. Moore HI LYBRAND LLP AND TRUST COMPANY Francis A. Doyle PARRISH WICKERSHAM Marshall N. Carter & PARTNERS Sterling Bank DELOITTE & TOUCHE Frank Parrish James T. McBride John C. Warren ERNST & YOUNG LLP Alarm Systems UST CORP. James S. DiStasio Neal F. Finnegan American Alarm & Grant Thornton Wainwright Bank & Trust Communications, Inc. John S. Quinn Company Richard L. Sampson John M. Plukas KPMG PEAT MARWICK First Security Services Robert D. Happ Corporation Building /Contracting PRICE WATERHOUSE Robert F. Johnson *George B. H. Macomber Kenton J. Sicchitano Company Robert Ercolini & Company Automotive John D. Macomber Robert Ercolini *Harvey Industries, Inc. J.N. Phillips Glass Co. , Inc. Frederick Bigony Tofias, Fleishman, Norman S. Rosenfield Shapiro & Co., PC. *Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. Ira Lexus Allan Tofias Lee M. Kennedy Ira Rosenberg Wolf Company, PC. & New England Insulation Co. Joseph A. Ribaudo Lexus of Norwood Herbert Chambers Theodore H. Brodie *Perini Corporation Advertising/Public Lexus of Watertown David B. Perini Relations Murray Patkin ARNOLD FORTUNA Consulting: Management/ LAWNER & CABOT Banking Financial Ed Eskandarian BANK OF BOSTON ADVANCED *Bronner Slosberg Humphrey Ira Stepanian MANAGEMENT Michael Bronner ASSOCIATES BAYBANKS, INC. Harvey Chet Krentzman DesignWise William M. Crozier, Jr. Freelow Crummett THE BOSTON COMPANY Anchor Capital Advisors, Inc. William P. Rice *Dickinson Direct Marketing Lawrence S. Kash Reed Dickinson W Keith Smith ANDERSEN CONSULTING LLP HILL, HOLLIDAY, Cambridge Trust Company William D. Green CONNORS, James F. Dwinell III COSMOPULOS, INC. FLEET BANK OF ARTHUR D. LITTLE, INC. John M. Connors, Jr. Charles R. LaMantia MASSACHUSETTS, N.A. Houston, Efner & Partners, Inc. Leo R. Breitman BAIN & COMPANY, INC. Douglas W. Houston John P. Hamill Charles M. Farkas

52 BBF Corporation CHANDON Napa Valley Engineering Boruch B. Frusztajer Sparkling Wine C. Edwin Farver *GZA GeoEnvironmental THE BOSTON Technologies, Inc. CONSULTING GROUP, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Donald T. Goldberg INC. of New England Jonathan L. Isaacs Terrance M. Marks HNTB Corporation Gordon Slaney CSC Index, Inc. DIFFERENT TASTES David G. Robinson Jack Milan Entertainment/Media *The Cullinane Group, Inc. Gardner Merchant Food Continental Cablevision, Inc. John J. Cullinane Services/Creative Gourmets Richard T.L. Hutchinson Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Dock Square Consultants, Inc. *Don Law Company Richard J. Lettieri Johnson, O'Hare Co., Inc. Don Law HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES Harry "Chip" O'Hare, Jr. Robert E. Hallagan * Jules Catering *New Boston Garden Anita Baglaneas Corporation Lee Hecht Harrison, Inc. Lawrence C. Moulter Angelo M. Troisi Kluchman Associates Inc. Allen Z. Kluchman WCRB 102.5 FM Lochridge & Company Cynthia Scullin Richard K. Lochridge *Mirabelle Steve Elmont, Proprietor WCVB-TV CHANNEL 5 *The Lyons Company Paul LaCamera J. Peter Lyons O'Donnell-Usen Fisheries *WHDH-TV Channel 7 MCKINSEY & COMPANY, Corporation Arnold S. Wolf Mike Carson INC. David G. Fubini *Seasoned to Taste *Yawkey Foundation L. Harrington Robert P. O'Block Tom Brooks John

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*Boston Concessions Group, BOSTON GAS COMPANY Richard J. DeAgazio Inc. J. Atwood Ives John P. Manning Joseph J. O'Donnell Chester R. Messer *B0T Financial Corporation- * Boston Showcase Company *New England Electric System Bank of Tokyo

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What finer way to honor someone or commemorate a special occasion! For a $25,000 contribution to the Boston Symphony Annual Fund, you will enjoy the privilege of naming a BSO concert in tribute to or in memory of an individual you designate. In addition, you will become a Patron of the Higginson

Society, the Orchestra's circle of its most generous benefactors.

Your named concert will receive prominent acknowledgment in the BSO program book, along with a biographical appreciation about the honoree. We will also include complimentary tickets for your friends and relatives. Afterwards, you and your guests can toast the occasion at a private reception where you will be greeted by the conductor, members of the Orchestra, and members of the Board of Trustees.

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%£¥ Carson Limited Partnership *Wellington Management IONICS, INCORPORATED Herbert Carver Company Arthur L. Goldstein Duncan M. McFarland *The CIT Group/Capital *LAU Technologies David W Scudder Equipment Financing Joanna T. Lau G. Todd Derr WOODSTOCK CORPORATION LOTUS DEVELOPMENT Cowen & Company CORPORATION Edith L. Dabney Richard A. Altschuler Jim P. Manzi CS FIRST BOSTON MILLIPORE CORPORATION High Technology CORPORATION Kenneth H. Colburn ANALOG DEVICES, INC. John A. Gilmartin Pamela F. Lenehan Ray Stata NEC CORPORATION CS FIRST BOSTON *ATI Orion Research Dr. Hisashi Kaneko INVESTMENT Chane Graziano MANAGEMENT GROUP PRINTED CIRCUIT CORP. E Corning Kenley BOLT BERANEK AND Peter Sarmanian NEWMAN INC. ESSEX RAYTHEON COMPANY INVESTMENT Stephen R. Levy MANAGEMENT CO., INC. Dennis J. Picard Joseph C. McNay *BroadBand Technologies SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FIDELITY CAPITAL Salim Bhatia CORPORATION MARKETS *Bull, Worldwide Information Dale J. Peterson Sherif A. Nada Systems SONY CORPORATION FIDELITY MANAGEMENT Axel J. Leblois OF AMERICA TRUST COMPANY *Cognex Corporation Michael P. Schulhof Alexander Webb III Dr. Robert J. Shillman STRATUS COMPUTER JOHN HANCOCK COMPUTERVISION William E. Foster FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION TASC William L. Boyan Russell E. Planitzer Dr. Arthur Gelb KAUFMAN & COMPANY CORNING COSTAR TDK ELECTRONICS Sumner Kaufman CORPORATION CORPORATION KESSLER FINANCIAL Paul A. Looney TakashiTsujii SERVICES, L.R *Data General Corporation Teradyne, Inc. Howard Kessler J. Ronald L. Skates Alexander V DArbeloff KIDDER, PEABODY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT THERMO ELECTRON &CO. CORPORATION CORPORATION Maxwell D. Bardeen, Jr. Robert B. Palmer Dr. George N. Hatsopoulos Harold W Schwartz DYNATECH KRUPP COMPANIES CORPORATION Laurence Gerber John E Reno Hotels/Restaurants George Krupp *EDS Back Bay Hilton *Liberty Financial Rusty Gaston Brigitte Bias Companies, Inc. Kenneth R. Leibler EG&G, INC. *Bertucci's Inc. John M. Kucharski Joseph Crugnale LINSCO/PRIVATE LEDGER CORP. EMC CORPORATION *Boston Marriott Copley Place Todd A. Robinson Richard J. Egan William Munck LOOMIS-SAYLES & Helix Technology Corporation THE BOSTON PARK PLAZA COMPANY, L.P. Robert J. Lepofsky HOTEL & TOWERS Mark W. Holland HEWLETT PACKARD Gary Saunders PAINEWEBBER, INC. COMPANY The Colonnade Hotel

James E Cleary Ben L. Holmes David J. Colella THE PIONEER GROUP, INC. IBM CORPORATION FOUR SEASONS HOTEL John F. Cogan, Jr. Patricia S. Wolpert Robin A. Brown

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NEXT PROGRAM . .

Thursday, February 2, at 8 Friday, February 3, at 1:30 Saturday, February 4, at 8

SEIJI OZAWA conducting

BRITTEN War Requiem, Opus 66, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, mixed chorus, boys' choir, full orchestra, and chamber orchestra (Words from the Missa pro defunctis and the poems of Wilfred Owen) (commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter)

Requiem Aeternam Dies Irae Offertorium Sanctus Agnus Dei Libera Me

CAROL VANESS, soprano ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON, tenor BENJAMIN LUXON, baritone TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor AMERICAN BOYCHOIR, JAMES LITTON, director

One of the most harrowing experiences of the Battle of Britain early in World War II was the eleven-hour German bombing of the city of Coventry, in War- wickshire, central England, in November 1940; the entire center of the city, including the historic, fourteenth-century Cathedral of St. Michael, was de- stroyed. Commissioned to write an appropriate musical work for the dedication of the newly rebuilt cathedral in 1962, Benjamin Britten created in his War Requiem a work that is at once the most powerful anti-war music ever written and the most moving plea for the reconciliation of former enemies. Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the American premiere of Britten's War Requiem on July 27, 1963, at Tanglewood. Seiji Ozawa is the only other conductor to have led Britten's work with the BSO, when he gave acclaimed performances at Tanglewood in August 1986 and at Symphony Hall the following October.

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Wednesday, February 1, at 7:30 Open Rehearsal Steven Ledbetter will discuss the program at 6:30 in Symphony Hall. Thursday 'C —February 2, 8-9:40 Friday 'B'— February 3, 1:30-3:10 Saturday 'A'—February 4, 8-9:40 SEIJI OZAWA conducting CAROL VANESS, soprano ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON, tenor BENJAMIN LUXON, baritone TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, MARIA JOHN OLIVER, conductor AMERICAN BOYCHOIR, Warm and romantic... JAMES LITTON, director Uniformly considered the best in the BRITTEN War Requiem North End. Zagat Survey, 1994-95 Thursday, February 9, at 10:30 Open Rehearsal Steven Ledbetter will discuss the program ONE OF BOSTON'S BEST at 9:30 in Symphony Hall. RESTAURANTS, PERIOD. Thursday 'D'— February 9, 8-9:50 Saturday *B' February 11, 8-9:50 Mamma Maria has hit its stride, — a non-cliche place where everything SEIJI OZAWA conducting organ worlds graciously. JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE, Bon App&U, April 1994 HAYDN Symphony No. 6, Morning LUTOSLAWSKI Symphony No. 4 (performed in memory of the composer) 3 NORTH SQUARE, BOSTON (617) 523-0077 SAINT-SAENS Symphony No. 3, Organ Valet Parking Private Dining Rooms Available Friday 'A'—February 10, 1:30-3:25 Tuesday 'C—February 14, 8-9:55 SEIJI OZAWA conducting DUBRAVKATOMSIC, piano

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Programs and artists subject to change.

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FOR SYMPHONY HALL CONCERT AND TICKET INFORMATION, call (617) 266-1492. For Boston Symphony concert program information, call "C-O-N-C-E-R-T" (266-2378).

THE BOSTON SYMPHONY performs ten months a year, in Symphony Hall and at Tangle- wood. For information about any of the orchestra's activities, please call Symphony Hall, or write the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115.

THE EUNICE S. AND JULIAN COHEN WING, adjacent to Symphony Hall on Huntington Avenue, may be entered by the Symphony Hall West Entrance on Huntington Avenue.

IN THE EVENT OF A BUILDING EMERGENCY, patrons will be notified by an announce- ment from the stage. Should the building need to be evacuated, please exit via the nearest door, or according to instructions.

FOR SYMPHONY HALL RENTAL INFORMATION, call (617) 638-9241, or write the Function Manager, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115.

THE BOX OFFICE is open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; on concert

evenings it remains open through intermission for BSO events or just past starting time for other events. In addition, the box office opens Sunday at 1 p.m. when there is a concert that afternoon or evening. Single tickets for all Boston Symphony subscription concerts are available at the box office. For most outside events at Symphony Hall, tickets are available three weeks before the concert at the box office or through SymphonyCharge.

TO PURCHASE BSO TICKETS: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, a personal check, and cash are accepted at the box office. To charge tickets instantly on a major credit card, or to make a reservation and then send payment by check, call "SymphonyCharge" at (617) 266-1200, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Outside the 617 area code, phone 1-800-274-8499. There is a handling fee of $2.25 for each ticket ordered by phone.

GROUP SALES: Groups may take advantage of advance ticket sales. For BSO concerts at Symphony Hall, groups of twenty-five or more may reserve tickets by telephone and take advantage of ticket discounts and flexible payment options. To place an order, or for more information, call Group Sales at (617) 638-9345.

LATECOMERS will be seated by the ushers during the first convenient pause in the program. Those who wish to leave before the end of the concert are asked to do so between program pieces in order not to disturb other patrons.

IN CONSIDERATION of our patrons and artists, children under four will not be admitted to Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts.

TICKET RESALE: If for some reason you are unable to attend a Boston Symphony concert for which you hold a subscription ticket, you may make your ticket available for resale by calling (617) 266-1492 during business hours, or (617) 638-9426 at any time. This helps bring needed revenue to the orchestra and makes your seat available to someone who wants to attend the concert. A mailed receipt will acknowledge your tax-deductible contribution.

RUSH SEATS: There are a limited number of Rush Seats available for Boston Symphony subscription concerts Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and Friday afternoons. The low price of these seats is assured through the Morse Rush Seat Fund. The tickets for Rush Seats are sold at $7.00 each, one to a customer, on Fridays as of 9 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays as of 5 p.m. Please note that there are no Rush Tickets available on Friday or Saturday evenings.

PLEASE NOTE THAT SMOKING IS NO LONGER PERMITTED IN ANY PART OF SYM- PHONY HALL.

CAMERA AND RECORDING EQUIPMENT may not be brought into Symphony Hall during concerts.

WHEELCHAIR ACCESS to Symphony Hall is available via the Cohen Wing, at the West Entrance. Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located in the main corridor of the West Entrance, and in the first-balcony passage between Symphony Hall and the Cohen Wing.

63 LOST AND FOUND is located at the security desk just inside the Cohen Wing entrance on Huntington Avenue.

FIRST AID FACILITIES for both men and women are available. On-call physicians attending concerts should leave their names and seat locations at the switchboard near the Massa- chusetts Avenue entrance.

PARKING: The Prudential Center Garage offers a discount to any BSO patron with a ticket stub for that evening's performance, courtesy of R.M. Bradley & Co. and The Prudential Realty Group. There are also two paid parking garages on Westland Avenue near Symphony Hall. Limited street parking is available. As a special benefit, guaranteed pre-paid parking near Symphony Hall is available to subscribers who attend evening concerts. For more information, call the Subscription Office at (617) 266-7575.

ELEVATORS are located outside the Hatch and Cabot-Cahners rooms on the Massachusetts Avenue side of Symphony Hall, and in the Cohen Wing.

LADIES' ROOMS are located on the orchestra level, audience-left, at the stage end of the hall, on both sides of the first balcony, and in the Cohen Wing.

MEN'S ROOMS are located on the orchestra level, audience-right, outside the Hatch Room near the elevator, on the first-balcony level, audience-left, outside the Cabot-Cahners Room near the coatroom, and in the Cohen Wing.

COATROOMS are located on the orchestra and first-balcony levels, audience-left, outside the Hatch and Cabot-Cahners rooms, and in the Cohen Wing. The BSO is not responsible for personal apparel or other property of patrons.

LOUNGES AND BAR SERVICE: There are two lounges in Symphony Hall. The Hatch Room on the orchestra level and the Cabot-Cahners Room on the first-balcony level serve drinks starting one hour before each performance. For the Friday-afternoon concerts, both rooms open at noon, with sandwiches available until concert time.

BOSTON SYMPHONY BROADCASTS: Friday-afternoon concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are broadcast live by WGBH-FM (Boston 89. 7) and by WAMC-FM (Albany 90.3, serving the Tanglewood area). Saturday-evening concerts are broadcast live by WCRB-FM (Boston 102.5).

BSO FRIENDS: The Friends are donors to the Boston Symphony Orchestra Annual Fund. Friends receive BSO, the orchestra's newsletter, as well as priority ticket information and other benefits depending on their level of giving. For information, please call the Development Office at Symphony Hall weekdays between 9 and 5, (617) 638-9251. If you are already a Friend and you have changed your address, please send your new address with your newsletter label to the Development Office, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115. Including the mailing label will assure a quick and accurate change of address in our files.

BUSINESS FOR BSO: The BSO's Business Leadership Association program makes it possible for businesses to participate in the life of the Boston Symphony Orchestra through a variety of original and exciting programs, among them "Presidents at Pops," "A Company Christmas at Pops," and special-event underwriting. Benefits include corporate recognition in the BSO program book, access to the Beranek Room reception lounge, and priority ticket service. For further information, please call Deborah Elfers, Director of Corporate Development, at (617) 638-9298.

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