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Boston Symphony Orchestra are guest con- BSO ductors John Mauceri and , and guest artists including Patti Austin, Lauren Bacall, Victor Borge, Betty H . Symphony Spotlight Comden, Lukas Foss, Jerry Hadley, Barbara

This is one in a series of biographical sketches Hendricks, Quincy Jones, Larry Kert, Christa that focus on some of the generous individuals Ludwig, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Midori, Kurt Ollmann, Robert Osborne, Mstislav , who have endowed chairs in the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. Their backgrounds are var- Rostropovich, Dawn Upshaw, and Frederica

ied, but each felt a special commitment to the von Stade. The program also includes filmed i

• Boston Symphony Orchestra. greetings from Barbara Cook, , 1 with the New York Philharmonic Robert Bradford Newman Chair and the Israel Philharmonic, Yehudi Menuhin, Robert Bradford Newman, the eminent acous- , Harold Prince, Stephen

\ tical architect and teacher, received his mas- Sondheim, , , ter's degree in architecture from the Massa- Michael Tilson Thomas with the London Sym- 1 • •{ chusetts Institute of Technology. He was phony, and Richard Wilbur. Bernstein's chil-

Qk • ' faculty immediately appointed to the and dren—Nina Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein, M*M taught there until his death in 1983. He also Jamie Bernstein Thomas, and David the School of I taught at Harvard Graduate Thomas—offer a special birthday tribute to ^HH s --.u*. Design, held a senior Fulbright Scholarship at their father, whose life and music is celebrated *., the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and through historic film footage and a taped seg- __v H 1 $*'*•*% j received many prestigious awards. During an ment from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony Jfj**^ outstanding career in applied acoustical archi- with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as con- M

^* ; Hty#4 ll tecture at the firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, ducted by Mr. Bernstein on the final concert of Inc., Mr. Newman worked on many diverse last summer's Tanglewood season. Don't miss -1 buildings, including Boston's Symphony Hall. "Bernstein at 70!" on PBS's "Great Perform- Given his sensitivity to sound, he loved music ances," Friday, March 19, at 8 p.m. and was an amateur violinist as well as a loyal BSO subscriber. When Mrs. Newman decided American Premiere Exhibit of to endow a BSO chair in honor of her late Paintings by Charles Roussel in husband, the poignant pieces she remembered Symphony Hall, March 13-April 10 played by Luis Leguia in Robert Newman's memory; endowing Mr. Leguia' s chair seemed The Boston Symphony Orchestra is proud to a fitting tribute to her husband and to the present the first American showing of paintings Se8 musician. by French artist Charles Roussel (1861-1936) in the Cabot-Cahners Room from March 13 through April 10. Part of the American pre- "Bernstein at 70!" to Air on PBS's miere exhibit of Roussel's works at Vose Gal- "Great Performances" on WGBH leries, the Symphony Hall exhibit is presented r* Sunday, March 19, at 8 p.m. in conjunction with the French Cultural Serv- Relive the excitement and the emotion of last ices and Vose Galleries. Cousin of composer summer's Gala Birthday Performance cele- Albert Roussel, Charles Roussel is considered brating 's 70th birthday at France's foremost artistic interpreter of the Tanglewood when PBS presents "Bernstein coast of Normandy. Later this month, the at 70!" on its "Great Performances" series. Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform mB5w The two-and-one-half-hour program will be Albert Roussel's Symphony No. 4 under the televised in stereo on Sunday, March 19, at direction of guest conductor Charles Dutoit. 8 p.m. by WGBH-Channel 2 in Boston (check Members of the Roussel family will attend one local listings for the date and time in other of the concerts. In addition, Donna Heinley of areas). "Bernstein at 70!" has already been Vose Galleries, curator of the exhibit, will seen by millions of viewers in more than speak at the Thursday-night "Supper Talk" on twenty countries worldwide; this is the pro- March 23. Tickets to the talk are available at gram's first showing in the United States. $21 per person from the Volunteer Office, Joining Serji Ozawa, John Williams, and the (617) 266-1492, ext. 177.