Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1996
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA, MUSIC DIRECTOR 1 9 "Two words describe both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Hoover Capital Management: sound and disciplined." "When you come to Symphony Hall, you do so to hear wonderful sound produced by talented and disciplined musicians. When you come to Hoover Capital, you do so to get sound investment management practiced by a team of talented and disciplined investment professionals. "Our value-based approach benefits substantially our institutional and individual clients because, at Hoover Capital, we have only one standard for both performance and service — the highest." — Stevin R. Hoover — Chairman and CEO HOOVER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT 50 Congress Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 617-227-3133 as Hoover Capital Management is a Registered Investment Advisor. Copies of Form ADV results. filed with the SEC are available upon request. Past performance is no guarantee of future Jazz At Tanglewood August 29 - September 2, 1996 Seiji Ozawa Hall Thursday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. ARTURO SANDOVAL SEXTET Friday, August 30, at 7:30 p. m. BETTY CARTER and her quartet Saturday, August 31, at 1:30 p.m. JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO with special guest BUCKY PIZZARELLI at 7:30 p.m. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Sunday, September 1, at 1:30 p.m. T.S. MONK, JR., QUARTET at 7:30 p.m. GEORGE SHEARING and JOE WILLIAMS Monday, September 2, at 1:30 p.m. JOE LOVANO QUARTET with special guests THE CHRISTIAN McBRIDE QUINTET i - ARTISTS Arturo Sandoval and performed at conservatories and uni- Born in Artemisa, versities throughout the world. Last year Cuba, trumpet Hal Leonard Publishing released three new player Arturo method books that include Arban and orig- Sandoval was inal exercises by Mr. Sandoval. A featured granted political artist in the Dizzy Gillespie United Nation asylum by the Orchestra, Mr. Sandoval was also featured United States in in that orchestra's 1992 Grammy-winning July 1990; he and album Live at Royal Festival Hall. He has per- his family have formed with Billy Cobham, Woody Herman, settled in Miami, Herbie Hancock, Michel Legrand, and Stan Florida. A protege Getz, and his playing can also be heard on of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, such film soundtracks as Havana, The Mam- Mr. Sandoval began studying classical trum- bo Kings (which includes his Grammy-nomi- pet at the age of twelve, but soon caught nated composition "Mambo Caliente"), and the excitement of the jazz world. Mr. San- The Perez Family. His own albums include doval was a founding member of the Gram- Arturo Sandoval & The Latin Train, the 1994 my-winning group Irakere, whose style mixed Grammy winner (Best Latin Jazz Album) jazz, classical, rock, and traditional Cuban Damon, Dream Come True (with Michel music. In 1981 he left Irakere to form his Legrand), 1 Remember Clifford (dedicated own band, which garnered enthusiastic to the great Clifford Brown), and Flight praise from critics and audiences in Europe to Freedom. and Latin America. Mr. Sandoval was voted Cuba's best instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990. Before founding Irakere, he performed Betty Carter with the Cuban Orchestra of Modern Music and was a guest artist with the BBC Sympho- Like Ella Fitzger- ny in London and the Leningrad Symphony ald and Sarah in the Soviet Union. Since his defection he Vaughan, Betty has increased his classical performances, Carter first gained appearing with the National Symphony, Los attention by win- Angeles Philharmonic, and Atlanta Sym- ning an amateur phony, among others. In 1993 he appeared contest. While still with John Williams and the Boston Pops a teenager in her Orchestra in a performance taped for native Detroit, Ms. "Evening at Pops." Currently a full profes- Carter performed sor at Florida International University, with such modern Mr. Sandoval maintains an extensive educa- jazz founders as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie tional program, offering about fifty perfor- Parker, Miles Davis, and Max Roach. At age mances and clinics per year. He has lectured eighteen, she joined Lionel Hampton's Big , _ r -jip -*im0>* 0*- Band, an experience that also taught her John Pizzarelli about running an band and writing ar- Pizzarelli's rangements. She left Hampton in the early John 1950s and moved to New York, where she most recent re- played in small clubs. During a Washington, cording, After D.C., engagement with Miles Davis, she was Hours, has an inti- introduced to his agents. This led to a tour mate tone and fea- with Ray Charles and their classic collabora- tures the vocalist/ tive album, which produced the hit duet guitarist in ballads "Baby It's Cold Outside." The recording and mid-tempo was a turning point in Betty Carter's career. tunes. The John Pizzarelli Trio Through the 1950s and '60s, she recorded j was for Epic, Peacock, ABC, Paramount, ATCO, 1 chosen to open and United Artists. But with major labels' Frank Sinatra's 1994 tour dates, an experi- attention turning away from acoustic jazz in ence that partly influenced the choice of the late 1960s, she founded her own label, repertory for After Hours. The selections in- Bet-Car, which produced such classic re- clude "In the Wee Small Hours," "It Might as cordings as The Audience with Betty Carter. In Well Be Spring," "Sometimes I'm Happy," the next two decades, Ms. Carter released "You're Looking at Me," "Be My Baby To- albums on Bet-Car and toured the college night," "Lullaby," and "But Not For Me." circuit with her young bands. Then in 1988, With brother Martin on bass and Ray Ken- Verve offered her a contract, releasing the nedy on piano, the John Pizzarelli Trio has recording Look What I've Got and reissuing developed a strong following across the her four earlier Bet-Car albums on compact country. The son of famed jazz guitarist disc. Betty Carter has been voted #1 Female Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli grew up in Jazz Singer in the Down Beat Critics or New Jersey listening to Nat King Cole and Readers poll for multiple years. Look What Billy Joel. Although he had a rock-band I've Got won a Grammy in 1988, and she was phase as a teenager, John always enjoyed lis- nominated the same year for a duet with tening to his dad swing with such artists as Carmen McRae. Ms. Carter's 1990 live album Zoot Sims and George Barnes, and spent the first three years his career Droppin' Things and her 1992 album It's Not of accompanying About the Melody, were both nominated for his father. John Pizzarelli began on the banjo Grammy awards. Her 1994 release Feed the as a boy of six or seven, switching four years Fire, recorded live at London's Royal Festi- later to guitar. His vocal career was inspired val Hall, captures a tour deforce concert. by the re-release of some old Nat King Cole Personally invited by President Clinton to records. Making a return Tanglewood ap- perform at the White House, Betty Carter pearance, Mr. Pizzarelli appeared in the 1993 was also headlining artist at Verve's 50th Jazz Festival, and in 1995 performed in a anniversary celebration at Carnegie Hall. Gershwin tribute with the Boston Pops Or- chestra under the direction of Keith Lockhart, a performance taped for "Evening at Pops." For rates and J|S^ information on ^BOSTON\ advertising in the I SYMPHONY | Boston Symphony, ^ORCHESTRA/ Boston Pops, XsEIJI OZAWA^f and Tanglewood program books please contact: ^5^^ STEVE GANAKAD REPS 51 CHURCH STREET (617) 542-6913 BOSTON, MASS. 02116 1 Bucky Pizzarelli concert he has appeared with the New Guitarist John Amsterdam Symphony, the North Jersey "Bucky" Pizzarelli 's Symphony, the New York Pops with Skitch long career has Henderson, and Canada's Thunder Bay taken him from Symphony. He has appeared in numerous the Vaughn jazz festivals across the United States and in Monroe Orchestra Europe. An active performer in jazz rooms to the White and college concerts, Mr. Pizzarelli is also a House, where he faculty member emeritus of William Pater- performed in con- son College in Wayne, New Jersey. cert with Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra. Along the way, he has been a Dave Brubeck staff musician with NBC, ABC, Skitch Hen- derson, Doc Severinsen, and Mitch Miller; Jazz legend Dave he has appeared at Carnegie Hall with Brubeck was pre- George Barnes and Les Paul, performed sented with a with the Boston Pops in duet with Stephane Lifetime Achieve- Grappelli, and played a solo concert at New ment Award at York's Town Hall. Mr. Pizzarelli may be this year's Gram- heard on many albums, including Guitars my Awards, a show Pure & Honest dead The Guitar Album, both televised interna- with George Barnes, Green Guitar Blues, tionally. This is Bucky s Bunch, solo albums entitled Love the latest in a long Songs and Solo Flight, and a number of list of honors be- albums recorded in Europe with Benny stowed upon the 75-year-old pianist and Goodman. He toured Europe with Mr. composer, who began his career sixty years Goodman four times, made two American ago in the small town of lone, California. tours with Stephane Grappelli, and toured Born in Concord, California, Dave Brubeck Japan with Zoot Sims and Benny Carter. In worked his way through college as a jazz boston s: PHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS with GILBERT KALISH, PIANIST THREE SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT 3PM $59.00, $43.00, $35.50 NOVEMBER 3, 1996 BEETHOVEN Trio in B-flat for clarinet, cello, and piano, Op. 1 STRAVINSKY 'Ragtime' for eleven instruments FALLA Concerto for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, and cello FRANCK Quintet in F minor for piano and strings FEBRUARY 9, 1997 Explore the full spectrum of chamber music repertoire MOZART Quintet in E-flat for horn and strings, K.407 VARESE 'Octandre' for double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the bassoon, horn, trumpet, and trombone KIRCHNER Piano Trio No.