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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 100, 1980-1981, Subscription # o '?, *ne Hundredth Season . MIST SOFTENS tf/EFYTHING rr touches. What a pleasant way to feel the soft touch of Irish Mist, in "Liquid Sunshine'.' Start with a tall glass of ice. add 1 part Irish Mist and 3 parts orange juice. Irish Mist, the centuries old liqueur sweetened with a hint of heather honey, will blend with almost anything. Pour the soft touch of Irish Mist anytime. anywhere. You'll like the way it feels. IRISH MIST THE LEGENDARY SPIRIT Imported Irish Mist® Liqueur. 70 Proof. ©1980 Heublein, Inc., Hartford, Conn. U.S.A. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundredth Season, 1980-81 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. Norman L. Cahners George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H. A. Clowes, Jr. David G. Mugar Mrs. George Lee Sargent Archie C. Epps III Albert L. Nickerson William A. Selke Mrs. John L. Grandin Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Allen G. Barry John T. Noonan Richard P. Chapman Mrs. James H. Perkins Edward G. Murray John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Caroline E. Hessberg Theodore A. Vlahos Anita R. Kurland Promotion Controller Administrator of Coordinator Youth Activities Richard Ortner Joyce M. Snyder Assistant Administrator, Katherine Whitty Development Berkshire Music Center Coordinator of Coordinator Boston Council Charles Rawson Elizabeth Dunton Manager of Box Office James F. Kiley Director of Operations Manager, James E. Whitaker Sales Tanglewood Hall Manager, Symphony Hall Steven Ledbetter Jean Miller MacKenzie Marc Mandel Director of Publications Publications Publications Assistant Assistant Programs copyright ©1980 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Peter Schaaf The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Chairman William J. Poorvu Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Carlton P. Fuller J. William Middendorf II John Q. Adams Jordan L. Golding Paul M. Montrone Mrs. Frank G. Allen Haskell R. Gordon Mrs. Hanae Mori Hazen H. Ayer Graham Gund Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris J.P. 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" A UNIT OF ALLIED STORES BSO BSO Recordings Honored Two Boston Symphony recordings conducted by Music Director Seiji Ozawa have been singled out in High Fidelity magazine's thirteenth annual International Record Critics Awards: the BSO recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was named one of the three best recordings of 1980 ("all [the jurors} thought it about the best they had ever heard ... If someone who has never before heard Gurre-Lieder picks up this record, he will fall in love with it . "). And Ozawa's recording with violin soloist Itzhak Perlman of the Alban Berg and Igor Stravinsky violin concertos was included among the recordings nominated for best of the year. Also included among the nominees for year's best was the Boston Symphony Chamber Players recording of Strauss waltzes as transcribed by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. BSO on WGBH Interviews by Robert J. Lurtsema with BSO personalities and guest artists continue this season on WGBH-FM-89.7's Morning Pro Musica. Coming up: conductor and former BSO music director Erich Leinsdorf on Monday, 1 December at 1 1 a.m., pianist Emanuel Ax on Thursday, 4 December at 1 1 a.m., conductor James Conlon on Friday, 16 January at 1 1 a.m., and composer Theodore Antoniou on Monday, 19 January at 1 1 a.m. Junior Council Memberships The Junior Council is a group of young men and women who undertake a variety of fundraising activities on behalf of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, including "Opening Night at Pops." New members are admitted in September, January, and May. Membership inquiries are most welcome and should be directed to the membership chairman, Mrs. Lewis Cabot, at 723-7328. Correction In the program book of 20-22 November, it was incorrectly stated that George Zazofsky was assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony for twenty-five years. Mr. Zazofsky, a first violinist with the orchestra as of 1941-42, was actually assistant concert- master of the Boston Pops from 1952 until 1969. The assistant concertmaster of the BSO during those years was the late Alfred Krips. George Zazofsky is now concert- master of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Fiduciary Trust Company 175 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON BOARD of DIRECTORS Robert H. Gardiner Chairman of the Board Edward H. Osgood President & Chief Executive Officer Edmund H. Kendrick H. Gilman Nichols, Jr. Vice President Vice President John L. Thorndike John Plimpton Vice President Vice President & Treasurer John W. Cobb Daniel A. Phillips Vice President Vice President & Secretary Alexander W. Watson Vice President James Barr Ames Oliver F. Ames Ropes & Gray Trustee Mrs. Nancy B. Beecher Mrs. John M. Bradley Chair, Board of Trustees, Northfield Manchester, Mass. Mount Herman School John W. Bryant Samuel Cabot Treasurer, Perkins School Director, Samuel Cabot, Inc. for the Blind Edward L. Emerson James M. Fitzgibbons Scudder, Stevens & Clark President, Howes Leather Co., Inc. Francis W. 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While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied on the New York Philhar- monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was made an assistant conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 season. His first professional concert appearance in North America came in January 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for five summers beginning in 1964, and music director for four seasons of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a post he relinquished at the end of the 1968-69 season in favor of guest conducting numerous American and European orchestras.
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