POPS AT TANGLEWOOD BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, CONDUCTOR 111th SEASON
For the benefit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund
Tuesday evening, July 9, 1996, at 8:30 .
ARTISTS
In February 1995 Keith Lockhart was named twentieth Conductor of the Boston Pops
Orchestra since its founding in 1885. Mr. Lockhart holds both the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor's Chair and the Germeshausen Family Boston Symphony Youth Concerts Conductor's Chair. Highlights of his 1996 Boston Pops season have included
taping five new television shows for "Evening at Pops" and his first recording sessions with the orchestra under a new exclusive contract with RCA Victor, the orchestra's original recording label, for which Arthur Fiedler made many hit recordings. Mr. Lockhart will take
the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra on a two-week national tour beginning July 1 1 Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1959, Keith Lockhart began his musical studies with piano lessons at the age of seven and holds degrees from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has held positions as Director of Orchestral Activities at Carnegie-Mellon, Conductor of the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra, and Conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony. In 1989 Mr. Lockhart was one of two Conducting Fellows of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. The following year, he moved to Cincinnati as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Beginning with the 1992-93 season, he served as Associate Conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, while also becoming Music Director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. He made his Boston Pops debut in June 1993. With his appointment as Boston Pops Conductor, Keith Lockhart succeeded John Williams, who held that position from 1980 to 1993.
Named Boston Pops Conductor at age 35, Mr. Lockhart is only the third conductor to lead the orchestra since 1930, when Arthur Fiedler, who was himself 35, began his tenure.
Cherish the Ladies was formed in 1983 after a series of three highly successful concerts, the brainstorm of Dr. Mick Moloney and New York's Ethnic Folk Arts Center. With funding made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, the concerts featured various women performers from around the country. Cherish the Ladies, made up of first-generation Irish-American musicians, singers, and stepdancers,
takes its name from an old Irish jig. The group, which also appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra in this year's Opening Night concert, has become the most successful Irish- American musical ensemble in Celtic music, with tours throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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 nearly $1 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 broadcasts through the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust. Contributions are also made each year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representatives of the players and the Corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors. THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, Conductor
Tuesday evening, July 9, 1996, at 8:30, at Tanglewood
SPONSORED BY LEXUS
The Hebrides Mendelssohn
Scottish Dances Arnold Peasante—Vivace—Allegretto—Con brio
An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise Maxwell Davies
Nancy Tunnicliffe, bagpipes
INTERMISSION
Irish Suite Anderson
The Irish Washerwoman—The Last Rose of Summer The Rakes of Mallow
Presenting CHERISH THE LADIES
Joanie Madden (flute and whistles), Mary Coogan (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Mary Rafferty (accordion, flute, whistles), Donna Long (piano, fiddle), Siobhan Egan (fiddle, bodhran), and Aiofe Clancy (vocals, guitar); Donny Golden, Eileen Golden, Cara Butler, and Liam Harney, dancers
Highway to Kilkenny arr. Hollenbeck
Magh Seola arr. Hollenbeck
Hornpipe trad. -Cherish the Ladies
Green Grow the Rushes, Oh! arr. Cherish the Ladies
The Otter's Nest arr. Keene/Hollenbeck
Go, Lassie, Go arr. Cherish the Ladies
The Cat Rambles to the Child's Saucepan arr. Hollenbeck
The Boston Pops Orchestra may be heard on RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Philips Records. Baldwin Piano
The Boston Pops New Music Program is principally funded by a generous gift from the Chiles Foundation of Portland, Oregon. § Gerald Elias Bassoons
§ Joseph Conte Richard Ranti § Ann Leathers Roland Small
Violas Contrabassoon Hui Liu Gregg Henegar Deborah and Michael Davis Chair Horns THE BOSTON POPS Robert Barnes Richard Sebring ORCHESTRA Joseph Pietropaolo Daniel Katzen Burton Fine Jay Wadenpfuhl KEITH LOCKHART Michael Zaretsky Richard Mackey Marc Jeanneret Conductor Jonathan Menkis "Rachel Fagerburg Julian and Eunice Cohen § Kevin Owen * Edward Gazouleas Boston Pops Conductor's Chair, '""Kazuko Matsusaka fully funded in perpetuity Trumpets § Emily Bruell Timothy Morrison JOHN WILLIAMS § Christof Huebner Roberta and Stephen R. Laureate Conductor Weiner Chair Cellos Thomas Rolfs HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Martha Babcock Peter Chapman Associate Conductor Helene and Norman L. § Bruce Hall Laureate Cahners Chair Sato Knudsen Trombones First Violins Joel Moerschel Norman Bolter Tamara Smirnova Luis Leguia § Darren Acosta Leo L. Beranek Chair Carol Procter Bo Youp Hwang ""Ronald Feldman Bass Trombone Edward and Bertha C. "Jerome Patterson Douglas Yeo Rose Chair *Jonathan Miller
Lucia Lin "' Owen Young Tuba Leo Panasevich Emmanuel Feldman § Chester Schmitz Gottfried Wilfinger Alfred Schneider Basses Timpani Raymond.Sird Lawrence Wolfe Timothy Genis ijilkuko Mizuno Charles and JoAnne Amnon Levy Dickinson Chair Percussion * Sheila Fiekowsky John Salkowski Thomas Gauger "Valeria Vilker Kuchment "Robert Olson Frank Epstein *Tatiana Dimitriades *James Orleans William Hudgins *Jennie Shames "Todd Seeber J. Fred Buda *Si-Jing Huang . "John Stovall *Nicole Monahan "Dennis Roy * Harps Kelly Barr § Henry Peyrebrune Ann Hobson Pilot Sarah Schuster Ericsson Second Violins Flutes
Marylou Speaker Churchill § Marianne Gedigian Piano Jim and Barbara Cleary Fenwick Smith Chair Bob Winter Vyacheslav Uritsky Piccolo Ronald Knudsen Geralyn Coticone Rhythm Section Joseph McGauley Fred Buda ""Harvey Seigel Oboes Bob Winter Ronan Lefkowitz Keisuke Wakao * Bracken Librarians Nancy § Chikao Inomata ::'Aza Raykhtsaum Marshall Burlingame * Bonnie Bewick English Horn William Shisler ''James Cooke Robert Sheena Sandra Pearson "''Victor Romanul "'Catherine French Clarinets Personnel Managers Thomas Martin Lynn Larsen Bruce M. Creditor * Participating in a system Scott Andrews of rotated seating Stage Manager %On sabbatical leave Bass Clarinet Craig Nordstrom Peter Riley Pfitzinger § Substituting, Tanglewood 1 996