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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMA£ Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-SECOND SEASON 1972-1973 FRIDAY-SATURDAY 20 TUESDAY B6 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K. ALLEN ROBERT H. GARDINER JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS ALLEN G. BARRY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN T. NOONAN SIDNEY STONEMAN MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR Manager THOMAS W. MORRIS DAVID ROCKEFELLER JR MARY H. SMITH Assistant Manager, Assistant Manager, Assistant Manager, Business Affairs Audience & Public Affairs Concerts & Artists FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN DONALD W. MACKENZIE Development Director Administrator of Operations Manager, Educational Affairs Symphony Hall JAMES F. KILEY RICHARD C. WHITE Operations Manager, Assistant to Tanglewood the Manager copyright © 1973 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS SORING f€CLS Made-For-Each-Other Separates Share a Soft and Gentle Feeling They like the same things . delicate pastel flowers on a stretch of white polyester/cotton. The sheer voile shirt with tuck detail and two pockets. The matching seersucker skirt with stitched pleats. By New Issues. Misses' sizes. Each $20. Sportswear. 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Earl Hedberg NEW ENGLAND'S OUTSTANDING AUCTION GALLERY FOR Joseph Pietropaolo THE SALE OF ANTIQUES, WORKS OF ART AND FINE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager 840 Commonwealth Avenue Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison Boston, Massachusettes 022 1 5 Telephone (6 17) 27 7-0 740 personnel manager William Moyer 1081 - <• *_» "* (•err . - . ' will m hi T\ ^ FNC. m ml* s?MM UWWi Qp3odu> in tune with pleasure The light and airy freshness of summer is further enhanced by the striking designs and colors of our indoor-outdoor furnishings . created for your very special festivities! ffiostohTi JSjaUck. • Y^eabodu at the north shore *S -J * ~f J SHOPPING CENTER CONTENTS Program for April 13, 14 and 17 1973 1085 A tribute to Reverend Theodore P. Ferris by the Right Reverend Monsignor Edward C. Murray 1107 Program notes by John N. Burk Mozart - Piano concerto in B flat K. 450 1087 Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 1092 The conductor 1101 The soloists 1101 The chorus 1105 Season summary 1120 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6500.342 COMPLETE SYMPHONIES AVAILABLE SINGLY LISZT: The Complete Symphonic Poems; London Philharmonic Orchestra 6709.005 RAVEL: „Daphnis et Chloe"; „Ma Mere l'Oye"; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6500.311 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 in B flat; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6700.055 HOLST: ,,The Planets"; London Philharmonic Orchestra 6500.072 BARTOK: BERNARD HAITINK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta „Bearerofa Great Tradition" KODALY: ,,Hary Janos"; PHILIPS Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam A product of Phonogram Inc. 6500.015 1083 * t We specialize in futures. Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-SECOND SEASON Friday afternoon April 13 1973 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening April 14 1973 at 8.30 Tuesday evening April 17 1973 at 7.30 BERNARD HAITINK conductor MOZART Piano concerto in B flat K. 450 Allegro Andante Allegro NERINE BARRETT intermission *BEETHOVEN Symphony no.
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    1 J MIT t / ^ii "fv :' • "" ..."?;;:.»;:''':•::•> :.:::«:>:: : :- • :/'V *:.:.* : : : ,:.:::,.< ::.:.:.: .;;.;;::*.:?•* :-: ;v $mm a , '.,:•'•- % BOSTON ''•-% m SYMPHONY v. vi ORCHESTRA TUESDAY A SERIES EIGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 -^^VTW-s^ Exquisite Sound From the palaces of ancient Egypt to the concert halls of our modern cities, the wondrous music of the harp has compelled attention from all peoples and all countries. Through this passage of time many changes have been made in the original design. The early instruments shown in drawings on the tomb of Rameses II (1292-1225 B.C.) were richly decorated but lacked the fore-pillar. Later the "Kinner" developed by the Hebrews took the form as we know it today. The pedal harp was invented about 1720 by a Bavarian named Hochbrucker and through this ingenious device it be- came possible to play in eight major and five minor scales complete. Today the harp is an important and familiar instrument providing the "Exquisite Sound" and special effects so important to modern orchestration and arrange- ment. The certainty of change makes necessary a continuous review of your insurance protection. We welcome the opportunity of providing this service for your business or personal needs. We respectfully invite your inquiry CHARLES H. WATKINS & CO. Richard P. Nyquist — Charles G. Carleton 147 Milk Street Boston, Massachusetts Telephone 542-1250 OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description EIGHTY-SEVENTH SEASON 1967-1968 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ERICH LEINSDORF Music Director CHARLES WILSON Assistant Conductor THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. HENRY B. CABOT President TALCOTT M. BANKS Vice-President JOHN L. THORNDIKE Treasurer PHILIP K.
  • Verdi's Rigoletto

    Verdi's Rigoletto

    Verdi’s Rigoletto - A discographical conspectus by Ralph Moore It is hard if not impossible, to make a representative survey of recordings of Rigoletto, given that there are 200 in the catalogue; I can only compromise by compiling a somewhat arbitrary list comprising of a selection of the best-known and those which appeal to me. For a start, there are thirty or so studio recordings in Italian; I begin with one made in 1927 and 1930, as those made earlier than that are really only for the specialist. I then consider eighteen of the studio versions made since that one. I have not reviewed minor recordings or those which in my estimation do not reach the requisite standard; I freely admit that I cannot countenance those by Sinopoli in 1984, Chailly in 1988, Rahbari in 1991 or Rizzi in 1993 for a combination of reasons, including an aversion to certain singers – for example Gruberova’s shrill squeak of a soprano and what I hear as the bleat in Bruson’s baritone and the forced wobble in Nucci’s – and the existence of a better, earlier version by the same artists (as with the Rudel recording with Milnes, Kraus and Sills caught too late) or lacklustre singing in general from artists of insufficient calibre (Rahbari and Rizzi). Nor can I endorse Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s final recording; whether it was as a result of his sad, terminal illness or the vocal decline which had already set in I cannot say, but it does the memory of him in his prime no favours and he is in any case indifferently partnered.
  • The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976 David Allen Chapman Washington University in St

    The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976 David Allen Chapman Washington University in St

    Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Spring 4-27-2013 Collaboration, Presence, and Community: The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976 David Allen Chapman Washington University in St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Chapman, David Allen, "Collaboration, Presence, and Community: The hiP lip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976" (2013). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 1098. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/1098 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Department of Music Dissertation Examination Committee: Peter Schmelz, Chair Patrick Burke Pannill Camp Mary-Jean Cowell Craig Monson Paul Steinbeck Collaboration, Presence, and Community: The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966–1976 by David Allen Chapman, Jr. A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2013 St. Louis, Missouri © Copyright 2013 by David Allen Chapman, Jr. All rights reserved. CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................................