BOSTON

POPS AT TAN GLEWOO D BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS, CONDUCTOR 105th SEASON

For the benefit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund

Tuesday evening, July 1 7, 1 990, at 8:30 JOHN WILLIAMS

currently working on the score for Pre- sumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford. Mr. Williams has also written many concert pieces, including two sympho- nies, and a flute concerto and violin con- certo recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Recent works include "Were Lookin' Good!," composed for the Special Olympics in celebration of the 1987 Inter- national Summer Games, and the theme for the 1988 Summer Olympics. The soundtrack album to Star Wars has sold more than four million copies, more than any non-pop album in record- In 1990 John Williams celebrates his ing history. The Boston Pops Orchestra tenth anniversary as Conductor of the Bos- and John Williams may be heard on ton Pops Orchestra. In January 1980, he Sony Classical and Philips Records. Many was named nineteenth conductor of the of Mr. Williams's film scores have been ensemble since its founding in 1885. Born recorded, and his recent acclaimed in New York, Mr. Williams attended UCLA, albums with the Boston Pops Orchestra studied composition privately with Mario include Digital Jukcho\ Pops Britannia, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and attended the featuring music of the British Isles, and

Juilliard School, where he studied piano Salute to Hollywood. Pops a la Russe, an with Madame Rosina Lhevinne. He worked album of favorite Russian music, has as a jazz pianist before beginning his recently been released on Philips Rec- career in the film studios, where he ords, and an all-Gershwin album has worked with such composers as Bernard been recorded for future release on the Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz same label. John Williams and the Bos- Waxman. He went on to write music for ton Pops Orchestra may also be heard in many television programs in the 1960s, their first recording on the Sony Classical winning two Emmys for his work. label, Music of the Night, an album of John Williams has composed the contemporary' and classic show tunes, music and served as music director for which was recently released. more than seventy films, including Stan- Mr. Williams has led the Boston Pops ley and Iris, Always, Born on the Fourth of Esplanade Orchestra on United States July, The Accidental Tourist, Empire of tours in 1985 and 1989, and on a tour of the Sun, The Witches of Eastwick, the Japan in November 1987. He led the Indiana Jones trilogy, E.T. (the E?ttra- Boston Pops Orchestra on a tour of

Terrestrial) , Superman, Close Encounters Japan this June. Mr. Williams has also of the Third Kind, the Star Wars trilogy, appeared as guest conductor with a Jaws, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He has number of major orchestras. He has received twenty-six Academy Award nom- been awarded honorary degrees from inations and has been awarded four many American colleges and universities, Oscars and fifteen Grammies, as well as most recently from the University of several gold and platinum records. He is Massachusetts at Boston. PROGRAM

THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA

JOHN WILLIAMS, CONDUCTOR

Tuesday evening, July 17, 1990, at Tanglewood

Celebrate Discovery! Williams Written in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the 1492 Discovery Voyages

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Theme from Born on the Fourth of July Williams

I imotln Morrison, trumpet solo

I loedow n from Rodeo Copland

Suite from Porgy and Bess Gershwin-Courage

Prelude — Summertime — 1 Got Plenty o' Nothin' — Bess VOU Is \1\ Woman -I Cant Sit Down — It Ain't

Necessaril} so — I Loves You, Porgy— There's a Boat Dat's Leavin soon for New \ork — Oh Lawd, I'm on mv Wav

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\lamho from West Side Story Bernstein

\ I lihute to Duke Ellington arr. Burns Sophisticated Lady— Take the V Train-

Mood Indigo — It Don t Mean a rhing

rhree Pops Favorites Theme from The Pink Panther Mancini

{ nder the Sea, from The little Mermaid Menken-Hayman Ciribiribin Pestaloza-Osser

No One is Alone, from Into the Woods Sondheim-Morley

l l o\e a Parade arr. Hayman

Established in 1903, the Boston Symphony Pension Institution is the oldest among the American symphony orchestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid nearh M million annually to nearly one hundred pensioners or their

widows. Pension Institution income is derived from Pension Fund concerts, from Open Rehearsals at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, and from radio hroadcasts through tin' Boston Symphon) Transcription Trust. Contrihutions are also made each year h\ the Boston Symphon) Orchestra, Inc. Representatives of the players and the

Corporation art 1 members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors.

The Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams may he heard on Sony Classical and Philips Records.

Baldwin Piano

The Boston Pops New Music Program is principally funded by a generous grant from the Chiles Foundation of Portland, Oregon. )

BOSTON ^Joseph Conte Bass Clarinet iJoseph Scheer Craig Nordstrom Ling Ling Guan Bassoons IK Richard Ranti ^\ Violas Robert Barnes Roland Small Jerome Lipson . Contrabassoon Joseph Pietropaolo Hit hard Plaster THE BOSTON POPS Michael Zaretskv ORCHESTRA Marc Jeannerel Horns Betty Benthin Richard Sebring *Mark Ludwig Daniel kat/en JOHN WILLIAMS, * Roberto Diaz Jay WadenpfuhJ Conductor * Rachel Fagerburg Richard \lacke\ Jonathan \lenkis HARRY ELLIS DICKSON, Cellos Associate Conductor Martha Babcock Trumpets Helene and Vorman 1 ( ahners < hair Laureate Timotln Morrison Sato Knudsen Peter Chapman Joel Moerschel RONALD L. FELDMAN, Steven Emerj ' Robert Ripley Assistant Conductor : Bruce Hall Luis Leguia First Violins Carol Procter Trombones Tamara Smirnova-Sajfar ' Konald Feldman Norman Bolter

Leo /.. Beranek ( haii •Jerome Patterson 1 awrence Isaacson Max Hobart * Jonathan Miller Edward and Bertha C. Rose Chair JDa\ id Finch Bass Trombone Lucia Lin Douglas ^ co Bo Youp Hwang Basses Max Winder Lawrence Wolfe Tuba Gottfried Wilfinger Joseph Hearne Chester Schmitz Fredy Ostrovsky Bela Wurtzler Timpani Leo Panasevich John Salkowski Aitliur Pk Sheldon Rotenberg tRobert Olson Alfred Schneider James Orleans Percussion Raymond Sird 'Todd Seeber Charles Smith Ikuko Mizuno 'John Stovall Thomas Gauger Amnon Levy tRobert Caplin Prank Epstein Nicolas Tsolainos Second Violins : I red Buda Marylou Speaker Churchill Flutes Harp Vyacheslav Uritsky Leone Buyse Ann Hobson Pilot Ronald Knudsen Elinor Preble Joseph McGauley Rhythm Section Leonard Moss Piccolo Fred Buda — drums * Harvey Seigel Lois Schaefer :Bob Winter — piano * Jerome Rosen Oboes Personnel Managers * Sheila Fiekowsky * Richard Dorsey Lynn Larsen Ronan Lefkowitz Wayne Rapier Harry Shapiro * Nancy Bracken * Jennie Shames English Horn Librarians *Aza Raykhtsaum Laurence Thorstenberg Marshall Burlingame * Valeria Vilker Kuchment William Shisler * Bonnie Bewick Clarinets *Tatiana Dimitriades Peter Hadcock Stage Manager Alfred Robison * James Cooke Thomas Martin * Si-Jing Huang

* Participating in a system of rotated seating within each string section tOn sabbatical leave t Substituting, Tanglewood 1990