Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 124, 2004-2005
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m 2004-2005 SEASON afPF* BOSTON \\ SYM PHONY ORCHESTRA LEVI E JAMES N sin • * * \H iV 4" JAMES LEVINE MUSIC DIRECTOR BERNARD HAITINK CONDUCTOR EMERITUS SEIJI OZAWA MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE Invite the entire string section for cocktails. With floor plans from 2,300 to over Phase One of this 5,000 square feet, you can entertain magnificent property is in grand style at Longyear. 100% sold and occupied. Enjoy 24-hour concierge service, Phase Two is now under con- single-floor condominium living struction and being offered by at its absolute finest, all Sotheby's International Realty & harmoniously located on Hammond Residential Real Estate an extraordinary eight- GMAC. Priced from $1,725,000. acre gated community atop prestigious Call Hammond at (617) 731-4644, Fisher Hill ext. 410. LONGYEAR. fin< ! REASON #11 open heart surgery that's a lot less open There are lots of reasons to consider Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for your major medical care. Like minimally invasive heart surgery that minimizes pain, reduces cosmetic trauma and speeds recovery time. From cardiac services and gastroenterology to organ transplantation and cancer care, you'll find some of the most cutting-edge medical advances available anywhere. To find out more, visit www.bidmc.harvard.edu or call 800-667-5356. Beth Israel Deaconess A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School Medical Center Affiliated with Joslin Clinic | A Research Partner of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center | Official Hospital of the Boston Red Sox James Levine, Music Director Bernard Haitink, Conductor Emeritus Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate 124th Season, 2004-2005 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Peter A. Brooke, Chairman John F. Cogan, Jr., Vice-Chairman Robert P. O'Block, Vice-Chairman Nina L. Doggett, Vice-Chairman Roger T. Servison, Vice-Chairman Edward Linde, Vice-Chairman Vincent M. O'Reilly, Treasurer Harlan E. Anderson Eric D. Collins Edmund Kelly Edward I. Rudman George D. Behrakis Diddy Cullinane, George Krupp Hannah H. Schneider Gabriella Beranek ex-officio R. Willis Leith, Jr. Thomas G. Sternberg Mark G. Borden William R. Elfers Nathan R. Miller Stephen R. Weber Jan Brett Nancy J. Fitzpatrick Richard P. Morse Stephen R. Weiner Samuel B. Bruskin Charles K. Gifford Donna Riccardi, Robert C. Winters Paul Buttenwieser Thelma E. Goldberg ex-officio James F. Cleary Life Trustees Vernon R. Alden Julian Cohen Edna S. Kalman Peter C. Read David B. Arnold, Jr. Abram T. Collier George H. Kidder Richard A. Smith J.P. Barger Mrs. Edith L. Dabney Harvey Chet Krentzman Ray Stata Leo L. Beranek Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Mrs. August R. Meyer John Hoyt Stookey Deborah Davis Berman Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. Robert B. Newman John L. Thorndike Jane C. Bradley Dean W. Freed William J. Poorvu Dr. Nicholas T. Zervas Helene R. Cahners Avram J. Goldberg Irving W. Rabb Other Officers of the Corporation ftaSHB Mark Volpe, Managing Director Thomas D. May, Chief Financial Officer Suzanne Page, Clerk of the Board Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Diddy Cullinane, Chair Helaine B. Allen Alan Dynner Dr. Arthur R. Kravitzf Patrick J. Purcell Joel B. Alvord George M. Elvin Robert J. Lepofsky Carol Reich Marjorie Arons-Barron John P. Eustis II Christopher J. Lindop Alan Rottenberg Diane M. Austin Pamela D. Everhart Shari Loessberg Joseph D. Roxe Lucille M. Batal Judith Moss Feingold Edwin N. London Michael Ruettgers Maureen Scannell Lawrence K. Fish Jay Marks Kenan Sahin Bateman Myrna H. Freedman Jeffrey E. Marshall Arthur I. Segel Milton Benjamin Dr. Arthur Gelb Carmine Martignetti Ross E. Sherbrooke George W. Berry Stephanie Gertz Joseph B. Martin, M.D. Gilda Slifka James L. Bildner Jack Gill Robert J. Mayer, M.D. Christopher Smallhorn Bradley Bloom Robert P. Gittens Thomas McCann Charles A. Stakeley Alan Bressler Paula Groves Joseph C. McNay Jacquelynne M. Michelle Courton Brown Michael Halperson Albert Merck Stepanian William Burgin Ellen T Harris Dr. Martin C. Mihm, Jr. Patricia L. Tambone Rena F. Clark Virginia S. Harris Robert Mnookin Wilmer Thomas Carol Feinberg Cohen Deborah M. Hauser Paul M. Montrone Samuel Thorne Mrs. James C. Collias Carol Henderson Robert J. Morrissey Diana Osgood Charles L. Cooney Richard Higginbotham Robert T O'Connell Tottenham Ranny Cooper Phyllis S. Hubbard Norio Ohga Paul M. Verrochi Martha H.W. Roger Hunt Louis F. Orsatti Matthew Walker Crowninshield William W Hunt Joseph Patton Larry Weber Cynthia Curme Ernest Jacquet Ann M. Philbin Robert S. Weil James C. Curvey Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. May H. Pierce David C. Weinstein Tamara P. Davis Michael Joyce Joyce L. Plotkin James Westra Mrs. Miguel de Martin S. Kaplan Dr. John Thomas Mrs. Joan D. Wheeler Braganca Stephen Kay Potts, Jr. Reginald H. White Disque Deane Cleve L. Killingsworth Dr. Tina Young Richard Wurtman, M.D. Betsy P. Demirjian Douglas A. Kingsley Poussaint Dr. Michael Zinner Paul F. Deninger Robert Kleinberg Millard H. Pryor, Jr.f D. Brooks Zug Overseers Emeriti Caroline Dwight Bain Mrs. James Garivaltis Mrs. Gordon F. Robert E. Remis Sandra Bakalar Mrs. Kenneth J. Kingsley Mrs. Peter van S. Rice William M. Bulger Germeshausen f David I. Kosowsky John Ex Rodgers Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Jordan Golding Robert K. Kraft Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Earle M. Chiles Mark R. Goldweitz Benjamin H. Lacy Roger A. Saunders Joan P. Curhan Mrs. Haskell R. Mrs. William D. Larkin Lynda Anne Schubert Phyllis Curtin Gordon Hart D. Leavitt Mrs. Carl Shapiro JoAnne Walton Susan D. Hall Frederick H. L. Scott Singleton Dickinson John Hamill Lovejoy, Jr. Mrs. Micho Spring Phyllis Dohanian Mrs. Richard D. Hill Diane H. Lupean Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Goetz B. Eaton Glen H. Hiner Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Robert A. Wells Harriett Eckstein Marilyn Brachman Mrs. Harry L. Marks Mrs. Thomas H.P. Edward Eskandarian Hoffman C. Charles Marran Whitney J. Richard Fennell Lola Jaffe Barbara Maze Margaret Williams- Peter H.B. H. Eugene Jones Hanae Mori DeCelles Frelinghuysen Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Mrs. Hiroshi H. Nishino Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Thomas Richard L. Kaye John A. Perkins Mrs. John J. Wilson Galligan, Jr. Daphne Brooks Prout tDeceased Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Donna Riccardi, President Ursula Ehret-Dichter, Executive Vice-President/ Ann M. Philbin, President-Elect Tanglewood Olga Turcotte, Executive Vice-President/ Patricia A. Kavanagh, Secretary Administration William A. Along, Treasurer Linda M. Sperandio, Executive Vice-President/ Judy Barr, Nominating Chair Eundraising William S. Ballen, Tanglewood Audley H. Fuller, Membership Lisa A. Mafrici, Public Relations Melinda Brown, Resource Lillian Katz, Hall Services Leah Weisse, Symphony Shop Development James M. Labraico, Special Staffing Jerry Dreher, Education and Projects Outreach Tanglewood BOSTON mxnm THE BSO ONLINE Boston Symphony and Boston Pops fans with access to the Internet can visit the orchestras official home page (http://www.bso.org). The BSO web site not only provides up-to-the- minute information about all of the orchestra's activities, but also allows you to buy tickets to BSO and Pops concerts online. In addition to program listings and ticket prices, the web site offers a wide range of information on other BSO activities, biographies of BSO musi- cians and guest artists, current press releases, historical facts and figures, helpful telephone numbers, and information on auditions and job openings. Since the BSO web site is updat- ed on a regular basis, we invite you to check in frequently. u — BSO Announcing James Levine's Second Season as BSO Music Director In the 2005-2006 season—the 125th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and James Levine's second season as BSO Music Director—Maestro Levine will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in eleven programs offering masterworks that are part of BSO history, as well as programs juxtaposing masterpieces by two seminal figures in music, Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg. More than any other American orchestra, the BSO has maintained a great tradition performing the French repertoire, to be reflected in Mr. Levine's season-opening all- French program (concluding with Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony) as well as his perform- ances of Debussy's La Mer and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique . Recognizing the BSO's proud tradition of commissioning and performing new music, a single program (in Dec- bmmh ember) brings together four works given their world or American premieres by the BSO Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (a BSO 50th-anniversary commission), Dutilleux's Sym- $* phony No. 2, Le Double (a BSO 75th-anniversary commission), Elliott Carter's Boston 418 Concerto (a BSO commission premiered here in 2003), and Bartok's Concerto for Or- chestra (commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky and introduced in 1944). Mr. Levine will also lead the BSO in the premieres of three newly commissioned works—Carter's Three Illusions for Orchestra; a new work by Leon Kirchner; and the east coast premiere of Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as soloist. Also figuring in Mr. Levine's programming are such important, varied masterworks as Mozart's Sym- ' ;• phony No. 35, Haffner, Schumann's Symphony No. 4, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Ives's Three Places in New England, and Gershwin's R w Piano Concerto in F. Highlights of the first six programs in the Levine/BSO Beethoven/Schoenberg project (to be continued in 2006-07) include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Schoenberg's lushly romantic Gurrelieder and Pelleas und Melisande, an all-Beethoven program featuring the Beethoven Triple Concerto for piano, violin, and cello (with Jona- than Biss, Miriam Fried, and Ralph Kirshbaum) framed by the symphonies 2 and 7, and a special Boston Symphony Chamber Players program, with guest vocalists Anja L M Silja and Matthew Polenzani, in which Mr.