Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1994
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I --v. !. -.:. ' ti^iriMtTilWiiiifit JffiHIHBB'"' •''--.' %'<' •':-"'..'.'"•.'• v * ' .''-' 4 4 POPS ATTANGLEWOOD BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS, LAUREATE CONDUCTOR 1 09th SEASON Monday evening, August 29, 1 994, at 8:30 John Williams John Williams became Boston Pops Laureate Conductor as of January 1994 and is also serving as Music Adviser for the 1994 season. In January 1980 he was named nineteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. Born in New York, Mr. Williams attended UCLA, studied composi- tion privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and attended the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Madame Rosina Lhevinne. He worked as a jazz pianist before beginning his career in the film studios, where he worked with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for many television pro- grams in the 1960s, winning two Emmy awards for his work. John Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than seventy-five films, including Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Home Alone 2, Far and Away, JFK, Hook, Home Alone, Presumed Innocent, Born on the Fourth ofJuly, the three Indiana Jones films, Always, Stanley and Iris, The Accidental Tourist, Empire of the Sun, The Witches ofEastwick, the Star Wars trilogy, E.T (the E^tra-Terrestrial) , Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. He has received thirty Academy Award nominations and has been awarded five Oscars and fifteen Grammies, as well as several gold and platinum records. This year Mr. Williams won the Oscar for his score to Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. In addition to his film music, Mr. Williams has written many concert pieces, including two symphonies and a flute concerto and violin concerto recorded by the London Sym- phony Orchestra. Recent works include music for the 1992 Summer Olympics and a bassoon concerto, commissioned for New York Philharmonic principal bassoonist Judy LeClair. The soundtrack album to Star Wars has sold more than four million copies, more than any non-pop album in recording history. Many of Mr Williams' film scores have been recorded, and he has led a series of highly acclaimed albums with the Boston Pops Orchestra for Sony Classical and Philips Records. Among their most recent record- ings, all on Sony Classical, are The Green Album, a new Christmas album entitled Joy to the World, an album of favorite Pops encores entitled Unforgettable, a tribute to Frank Sinatra entitled Night and Day, and Musicfor Stage and Screen featuring works by Aaron Copland and John Williams. Mr. Williams has led the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra on United States tours in 1985, 1989, and 1992, and on a tour of Japan in November 1987. He led the Boston Pops Orchestra on tours of Japan in 1990 and 1993. Mr. Williams has appeared as guest con- ductor with a number of major orchestras, including the London Symphony the Cleve- land Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with which he has appeared many times at the Hollywood Bowl. He has been awarded hon- orary degrees from many American colleges and universities. — ——. THE BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS, LAUREATE CONDUCTOR Monday evening, August 29, 1994, at Tanglewood A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES From Hollywood's Golden Age . 20th Century Fox Fanfare Newman Conquest from Captain from Castile Newman The Sea Hawk Korngold Tara's Theme from Gone With the Wind Steiner-Morley ....... - Music from Psycho Herrmann Suite from A Place in the Sun Waxman Kenneth Radnofsky, alto saxophone Parade of the Charioteers, from Ben Hur Rozsa INTERMISSION flfiP ... 7b More Recent Years Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey Strauss ("Sunrise" from Also sprach Zarathustra) The Magnificent Seven E. Bernstein Theme from Jurassic Park Williams Love Theme from Out ofAfrica Barry-Reisman The Magic of Walt Disney arr. Ferguson When You Wish Upon a Star—Whistle While You Work Someday My Prince Will Come—Hi-Diddle Dee-Dee Chim-Chim-Cher-ee—Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah When You Wish Upon a Star Main Theme from Schindler's List Williams Tamara Smirnova-Sajfar, violin solo Throne Room and Finale from Star Wars Williams WtEEtmBU ""r"-' The Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams may be heard on Sony Classical and Philips Records. Baldwin Piano The Boston Pops New Music Program is principally funded by a generous gift from the Chiles Foundation of Portland, Oregon. »: Violas Horns ZPOPS Robert Rarnes Jay Wadenpfuhl twiiug Rurton Fine Richard Menaul '$%>*:. MmflaMm 9 Rachel Fagerburg Jonathan Menkis H ^^ JHUI i Joseph Pietropaolo Richard Mackey Hi | Kenneth Stalberg Kevin Owen wmmmmm Jean Haig Ifl^jfl'HfiTT'ffifT^T Anne Rlack Trumpets Emily Rruell Timothy Morrison Rruce Hall THE BOSTON POPS Cellos Peter Chapman ESPLANADE Martha Rabcock Thomas Smith ORCHESTRA Joel Moerschel Luis Leguia Carol Procter Trombones JOHN WILLIAMS Rnnald Feldman Norman Rolter Laureate Conductor Douglas Wright Ronald Lowry Hans Rohn David Finch Mark Cantrell First Violins 8 Tamara Smirnova-Sajfar "^l^ ,, n Tuba JUI1I1 OdlKUWbJU Victor Romanul Chester Schmitz James Orleans Lucia Lin Todd Seeber Alfred Schneider . Dennis Roy Timpani Amnon Levy Timothy Genis Jerome Rosen Robert Caplin Valeria Vilker Kuchmen Henry Peyrebrune Percussion Harvey Seigel Thomas Gauger Aza Raykhtsaum Flutes Frank Epstein Ronnie Rewick Marianne Gedigian J William Hudgins James Cooke Catherine Payne Fred Ruda John M.Williams Maynard Goldman Piccolo Daniel Ranner Iva Milch Harp Lisa Crockett Oboes Sarah Schuster Ericsson Alexander Romanul Keisuke VVakao Wayne Rapier Piano Rob Winter English Horn Robert Sheena Second Violins Alto Saxophone Vyacheslav Uritsky Clarinets Kenneth Radnofsky Ronald Knudsen William Wrzesien Joseph McGauley Andre Lizotte Rhythm Section Ronan Lefkowitz Fred Ruda—drums Joseph Conte Bass Clarinet Rob Winter-piano Sandra Kott Craig Nordstrom Tison Street Bassoons Diane Pettipaw Librarian Richard Ranti Cynthia Cummings William Shisler Roland Small Paul MacDowell Gerald Mordis Contrabassoon Personnel Manager James Orent Gregg Henegar Rruce M. Creditor *.