Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 94, 1974-1975
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Founded in 1881 by HENRY LEE HIGGINSON SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS Principal Guest Conductor NINETY- FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K.ALLEN SIDNEY STONEMAN JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN E.MORTON JENNINGS JR PAULC. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD M. KENNEDY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT NELSON J. DARLING JR EDWARD G. MURRAY JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS FRANCIS W. HATCH PALFREY PERKINS HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood ELEANOR R. JONES Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. December SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS J 6 e 2 2 Meet Him In a Cloud of Chiffon Li Surely, he'll appreciate this graceful flow of gray / chiffon. Sc'oop necked and softly tiered skirted. • Ready to rise to an occasion. From our outstanding /Collection of long and short evening looks, ay or navy polyester chiffon. Misses sizes. $100 isses Dresses, in Boston and in Chestnut Hill Boston, Chestnut Hill, South \Shore, Northshore, Burlington, Wellesley BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS Principal Guest Conductor NINETY-FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. VERNON R.ALDEN Chairman MRS FRANK C. 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Allen chair Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman bassoons Emanuel Borok Mischa Nieland Max Hobart Jerome Patterson Sherman Walt Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley Edward A. Taft chair Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Ernst Panenka Max Winder Carol Procter Matthew Ruggiero Harry Dickson Ronald Feldman Gottfried Wilfinger Joel Moerschel contra bassoon Fredy Ostrovsky Jonathan Miller Richard Plaster Leo Panasevich Martha Babcock Sheldon Rotenberg Alfred Schneider horns Stanley Benson basses Gerald Gelbloom Charles Kavaloski Henry Portnoi Raymond Sird Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Hodgkinson chair Ikuko Mizuno Harold D. Charles Yancich Cecylia Arzewski William Rhein Harry Shapiro Amnon Levy Joseph Hearne David Ohanian Bela Wurtzler Richard Mackey Leslie Martin Ralph Pottle Salkowski second violins John John Barwicki Clarence Knudson Robert Olson trumpets Fahnestock chair Lawrence Wolfe Armando Ghitalla Marylou Speaker Andre Come Michel Sasson Rolf Smedvig Ronald Knudsen flutes Gerard Goguen Leonard Moss William Waterhouse Doriot Anthony Dwyer Walter Piston chair Laszlo Nagy Pappoutsakis trombones Michael Vitale James Spencer Larrison Paul Fried William Gibson Darlene Gray Ronald Barron Ronald Wilkison Gordon Hallberg Harvey Seigel piccolo Bo Youp Hwang Lois Schaefer tuba Victor Yampolsky Jerome Rosen Chester Schmitz oboes violas Ralph Gomberg timpani John Holmes Everett Firth Burton Fine Wayne Rapier Charles S. Dana chair Sylvia Shippen Wells chair Reuben Green Eugene Lehner english horn percussion George Humphrey Jerome Lipson Laurence Thorstenberg Charles Smith Robert Karol Arthur Press Bernard Kadinoff assistant timpanist Vincent Mauricci clarinets Thomas Gauger Earl Hedberg Harold Wright Frank Epstein Joseph Pietropaolo Ann S. M. Banks chair Robert Barnes Pasquale Cardillo harps Michael Zaretsky Peter Hadcock Es> clarinet Bernard Zighera Ann Hobson personnel manager librarians stage manager William Moyer Victor Alpert Alfred Robison William Shisler 6 5PeanL0fKw We've our own exciting and colorful 230-page catalog brimming with ideas for your St., Boston, Mass. 02 1 home decor for only $3.50 (plus state sales tax). Send to: Paine Furniture, Attn: AD, 8 1 Arlington 1 IGOR STRAVINSKY 1882-1971 by Jeremy Noble If Stravinsky had died 20, 30, even 50 years earlier than he actually did, he would still have ranked among the major composers of this centu- ry. We have had so long to become accustomed to the idea of him as a great man, so long to get our impressions of him and his music into some sort of historical perspective, that the usual obituary assessments may seem more than usually unnecessary. And yet Stravinsky's own powers of self-renewal, based on his questing appetite for musical materials, were so phenomenal that until the very last years it was impossible to be sure that he would not strike out on some new line, open some further door, and in doing so suggest a whole new per- spective from which to view his earlier works. Only n6w, when we know there can be no more surprises of that kind, does it seem safe to attempt a final summary of the course of that stupendous career. He happened to be born at a seaside resort on the Gulf of Finland ('le maitre d'Oranienbaum', as Charles-Albert Cingria chaffingly called him) but his home, in the spirtitual as well as the physical sense, was St Petersburg—the beautiful capital city that owed its very existence to imperial whim. Here, in Peter the Great's window on the west, any sensitive young composer was bound to feel the competing claims of Europe—above all, Paris—and the vast Russian hinterland. The young Stravinsky was particularly well placed to experience both. His father was principal bass at the Imperial Opera (Shalyapin's immediate pre- decessor); even though there was at first no idea of the son's becom- ing a professional musician, he was able to hear a wide repertory of foreign and Russian operas and also to make the acquaintance at a very early age of Tchaikovsky's music. But a part of each year was usually spent at the country estate of one or another of his mother's relations; here he made contact at first-hand with the peasant music that was to have so lasting an effect on his own melody and rhythm. In his invaluable, if occasionally self-contradictory, dialogues with Robert Craft, Stravinsky has told us as much as we could possibly need to know about the various musical influences he was exposed to in these early years, both before and after Rimsky-Korsakov accepted him as a pupil and almost, one would gather, as a foster-son. About his personal history he was more reticent, but a clear enough picture emerges of a rather lonely family life, in which most of his affection was reserved for his younger brother and his nurse (both died in 1917, during his wartime residence in Switzerland). Photographs suggest that he was something of an ugly duckling in a rather good-looking family, and it seems likely that the aloofness which marked many of his personal relationships, his aesthetics and sometimes his music, was developed early as a defence against this. In 1906, shortly after he finished his legal studies at St Petersburg University, he married his first cousin, Catherine Nossenko; the summer home they built near her parents' estate at Ustilug became Stravinsky's preferred haven for composition until war and revolution prevented him from returning to Russia.