TCHAIKOVSKY *i FESTIVAL V* Wk \ ' BOSTON ^ I SYMPHONY ^ORCHESTRA \ SEIJI OZAWA ^ (fik^i/ Music Dinner ^/% IJHffMMMB Spend some time with a Little Witch tonight, Ifthis wasn't a black &white ad, we could show you whatPciine's InteriorDesigners can dowith colon We have assembled a talented group of men and women to work with you on your decorating and redecorating plans. One room or many, traditional or modern, they will share their creative ideas with you. There is no added charge for this designer service. For information, please call Mrs. Scully at PAINE 426-1500, extension 156. FURNITURE H ^>;&&^ Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Eighth Season 1978-1979 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Abram T. Collier, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. Richard P. Chapman Roderick M. MacDougall Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H. A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray John Hoyt Stookey Albert L. Nickerson Trustees Emeriti Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Peter Gelb Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill Director of Promotion Director of Development Director of Business Affairs Elizabeth A. Young Candice L. Miller Richard C. White Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant to the of Promotion of Development Manager Elizabeth Dunton Dorothy M. Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Director of Sales Controller Administrator of Youth Activities Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Katherine Whitty Manager of Box Office Operations Manager, Coordinator of Tanglewood Boston Council Niklaus Wyss Donald W. MacKenzie Richard Ortner Advisor for the Operations Manager, Assistant Admin is tra to r, Music Director Symphony Hall Berkshire Music Center Michael Steinberg Director of Publications Programs copyright © 1978 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 3 The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Vice Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Richard P. Morse John Q. Adams Mrs. Robert Gibb Dr. Barbara W. Newell Mrs. Frank G. Allen Jordan L. Golding Stephen Paine Hazen Ayer Mrs. John L. Grandin David Pokross David W. Bernstein Mrs. Howard E. 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The unique combination of direct and reflected sound is what gives a live performance its depth, richness and excitement. Instead of bringing an orchestra into your living room, bring home a pair of Bose Direct/Reflecting®speakers. Photo Courtesy of the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston il&K&si BSO Our Alumni/ae "Our" here means the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. From time to time we shall bring you news of some of the former BMC students and their doings. The alumnus most prominently in the news this year is Zubin Mehta, who was a Fellow in 1958 and is now beginning his first season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. That was a good year for conductors at Tangle- wood: one of Mehta's classmates was Claudio Abbado, whose current posts include the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony, and Milan's La Scala opera house. Abbado will be guest conductor with the Boston Symphony on 8, 9, and 10 March, leading Mahler's Symphony No. 2, the Resurrection. Pianist Barbara Weintraub '77 recently took first place in the international competition in Munich as half of the best sonata team. Her partner was cellist Carter Brey. Weintraub and Brey, together with violinist Karen Clarke, also Tanglewood '77, have been performing together to great acclaim as the Rogeri Trio. Two players who have just joined the BSO are former Tanglewood students: violinist Joseph McGauley '75 and flutist Fenwick Smith 74. Another pianist, Janice Weber, who was a Fellow in 1975 and 1976, will give her second Carnegie Recital Hall concert on 31 October. Don't look for her under that name, though: she performs as Lily van Ballmoos. Billed as a Musical Mas- querade, her program consists of ten of the famous and fearsomely difficult tran- scriptions by Leopold Godowsky, each of which will be paired with the piece in its original version. Violinist Ann Ourada '72, '75, and '78 joined the Minnesota Orchestra for the 1978-79 season. David Howard '77 and '78 is the new bass clarinettist of the New Jersey Symphony. Three of the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum, which Seiji Ozawa conducts on 11, 12, 13, and 16 January, are Tanglewood alumni. They are soprano Cheryl '76 '77 Studer '76 and '77, mezzo-soprano Janice Meyerson and , and tenor Kim Scown '76 and '77. If you watched Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict on Evening at Symphony on 16 October, you saw and heard Janice in the role of Ursule. Kim Scown will be appearing as Klaus-Narr in Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder when Seiji Ozawa conducts the work in March: he took the same part in the performance Gunther Schuller conducted at his farewell concert at the New England Conser- vatory in May 1977. Finally there is Shirley Mae Carter '54, who starred in the recent Norma broad- cast from the San Francisco Opera. Name doesn't ring a bell? Try Shirley Verrett. This Coach® Belt is made of real glove tanned cowhide and conies in men's and women's sizes. Seiji Ozawa Seiji Ozawa became Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1973. He is the thirteenth conductor of the Orchestra since its founding in 1881. He was born in Shenyang, China in 1935, and studied both Western and Oriental music as a child. He attended Toho School of Music in / Tokyo and graduated with first prizes in composition and conducting. Shortly after his graduation, he won first prize at the International Competition of Conducting at Besancon, France, and was invited by Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, to spend a summer studying at Tanglewood. In 1964 and for the next five seasons, Mr. Ozawa was Music Director of the Ravinia Festival. At the beginning of the 1965-66 season he became Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, a position he relinquished four seasons later to study and guest conduct. In 1970 he accepted the position of Artistic Director of the Berkshire Music Festival, and in December of the same year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, titles that he held concurrently with his position as Music Director of the Boston Symphony. In the spring of 1976 he resigned his San Francisco position although he remained Honorary Conductor for the 1976-77 season. Mr. Ozawa pursues an active international career and is a regular and favorite guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and at the Salzburg Festival each year. He has conducted at Covent Garden, and returns to Japan annually to conduct the New Japan Philharmonic and other orchestras. The newest items on his large and growing discography with the Boston Symphony are Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin Suite, and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, the Brahms First Symphony, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade (all on Deutsche Grammophon), and Roger Sessions's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'diNew World Records). Violas Bassoons Burton Fine Sherman Walt Charles S. Dana chair EdioardA. Taft chair Eugene Lehner Roland Small Robert Barnes Matthew Ruggiero Jerome Lipson Bernard Kadinoff Contra Bassoon Vincent Mauricci Richard Plaster Earl Hedberg Joseph Pietropaolo Horns Michael Zaretsky Charles Kavalovski Helen Sagoff Slosherg chair * Marc Jeanneret * Betty Benthin Charles Yancich BOSTON SYMPHONY Cellos David Ohanian ORCHESTRA Jules Eskin Richard Mackey. Phillip R. Allen chair Ralph Pottle 1978/79 Martin Hoherman Mischa Nieland Trumpets Jerome Patterson Armando Ghitalla Roger Louis Voisin chair First Violins * Robert Ripley Andre Come Joseph Silverstein Luis Leguia Concertmaster * Carol Procter Rolf Smedvig Charles Munch chair * Ronald Feldman Trombones Emanuel Borok * Joel Moerschel Ronald Barron Assistant Concertmaster * Jonathan Miller Helen Horner Mclntyre chair Norman Bolter * Martha Babcock Max Hobart Gordon Hallberg