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SEIJI OZAWA Music Director

COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors

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CONTENTS

Program for April 16 1974

Program notes

Haydn - Symphony No. 1 in D major by Philip Hale 11

Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht op. 4 by John N. Burk 15

Stravinsky - The Firebird (Complete Ballet Music) by Harry Neville 21

The Music Director 37

Announcements 45

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Tuesday evening April 16 1974 at 8.30

SEIJI OZAWA conductor

HAYDN Symphony No. 1 in D major

Presto Andante Finale: Presto

SCHOENBERG 'Verklarte Nacht' (Transfigured Night'), String Sextet op. 4, arranged for String Orchestra intermission

STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Complete Ballet Music)

Introduction

Scene I: Kashchei's Enchanted Garden Appearance of the Firebird Pursued by Ivan Tsarevich Dance of the Firebird Ivan Tsarevich Captures the Firebird Supplication of the Firebird Appearance of Thirteen Enchanted Princesses The Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples (Scherzo) Sudden Appearance of Ivan Tsarevich The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance) Daybreak Ivan Tsarevich Penetrates the Palace of Kashchei Magic Carillon; Appearance of Kashchei's Guardian Monsters; Capture of Ivan Tsarevich Arrival of Kashchei the Immortal; His Dialogue with Ivan Tsarevich; Intercession of the Princesses Appearance of the Firebird Dance of Kashchei's Retinue under the Firebird's Spell Infernal Dance of all Kashchei's Subjects Lullaby (Firebird) Kashchei's Death

Scene II: Disappearance of the Palace and Dissolution of Kashchei's Enchantments; Animation of the Petrified Warriors General Thanksgiving

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• Count Morzin, known as a 'conspicuous patron of art,' had several Parents need a vacation country places, built among them a castle Unter-Lukavec, about 1708, • Handicapped people need help for which Schor, a professor of geometry and architecture, had laid out a pleasure garden which the Bohemian sculptor Andreas Guitainer • Chronic illness strikes adorned with many statues. Diabacz, in his 'Kiinstler-Lexikon,' speaks of •A terminal patient needs the Count's 'celebrated orchestra' in Prague and adds that he had studied homecare composition with Franz Habermann (Count Morzin died in 1763 in his seventieth year). Call . . Nothing is known about the condition of the orchestra at Lukavec during Haydn's stay. There were probably not more than from twelve Suburban Homemaking to sixteen members, to whom the Count's officers and retainers may and Maternity Agency, Inc. have been added. BROOKLINE 232-7650 FRAMINGHAM 879-1516 It was here in 1759 that Hadyn wrote his first symphony, for the 'Wein- zirl' symphony is really a quartet.

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JORDAN MARSH IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird (Complete Ballet Music) Program note by Harry Neville

Stravinsky was born at Oranienbaum on June 17 1882; he died in New York City on April 6 1971. Composition of The Firebird was begun in early November 1909, at a dacha of the Rimsky-Korsakov family near St Petersburg. The compo- sition was finished by March of the following year and the orchestral score was

ready one month later. After final retouching, it was dated May 18 1910. Com- missioned by Diaghilev as a ballet in two scenes, the work was first performed by the Ballet Russe at the Paris Opera on June 25 1910, with Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird, Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan, Vera Fokina as the Tsarevna and Bulgakov as Kaschei. Gabriel Pierne conducted; the settings were by Alexandre Golovine, the costumes by Colovine and Leon Bakst, the scenario by Fokine.

The score is dedicated to Andrei Rimsky-Korsakov, son of the composer.

Stravinsky made three suites from his score, the first in 1911, the second in 1919, the last in 1945, and these have been played on many occasions by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Pierre Monteux conducted the Orchestra's first perform- ance of the 1911 suite on October 31 1919, and Stravinsky himself conducted the Orchestra's first performance of the second suite on March 14 1935. The Orchestra's most recent performance of one of the suites was at Tanglewood on August 4 1973, when Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the 1919 version. The present performances are the Orchestra's first of the complete 1910 score.

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From specimens in the remarkable Casadesus Collection of Antique Instruments at Symphony Hall. Drawings by Sylvia Gilman. Historic data by Laning Humphrey. These instruments date only from the 18th century, but they have very ancient historical relationships. One of the earliest approaches to music-making was by plucking a tensed string, such as that of a hunting-bow. The addition of some kind of sound-box as a resonating chamber produced harps, lyres, and all manner of lute-like instruments. Some came to be played with an arched bow. Thus, the violin has been classified as a "bowed lute." From about 1400 to 1700 the lute itself was the instrument of virtuosos. But this long supremacy ran out in the 18th century, giving way to the guitar and mandolin. But in fashioning these, instrument-makers cast a backward look of admiration at the beauty of form shown in examples of the lute family.

2. MANDOLIN of Milanese design, relating it to mandola of 17th c. Typical mandolins of 18th c. are Neapolitan.

1. NEO-MANDOLA, 18th c. Vir- tually big mandolin. A mandola- Iike body is joined to a guitar fingerboard.

3. TROMPETTE MARINE. This one-string "fiddle" traces its ancestry far back through centuries. In 6th c. B.C. Pythagoras formed an exact musical scale by plucking a taut string at precisely measured distances. After four centuries as a tuning device called MONO- CHORD, it was raised to musical instrument status — in late 11th c. First it was plucked. Later, bowed, it proved capable of trumpet-like, as well as cello and double-bass tones. It was used for the tuning of organs in 19th c.

4. LYRE-GUITAR. French, late 18th c. The nickname of this hybrid creation — "lady's guitar" — indicates its attractiveness to women from Paris to London. Although Schubert's baritone friend, Johann Vogl, played it, most men considered it too awkward. Ladies thought it beautiful — even to look at on a table if one could not play it. And if a lady did, she could pose with it goddess-like, in her flowing Empire-style gown.

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J. Ganson egg. As with many such tales, the story deals with three separate and distinct kinds of beings: humans, who in this case are naive and essen- tially good (the Prince and Princesses, among the latter his wife-to-be); Longy the bad fairy (Kashchei, the embodiment of malignancy, and his evil cohorts); the good fairy (the Firebird, the embodiment of purity, who School r intercedes to save the Prince from Kashchei). Stravinsky's method of differentiating among these elements has been credited by Eric Walter Music White (Stravinsky, the Composer and His Works) to the example sup- plied by his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, in The Golden Cockerel. The Prince and Princesses are associated with diatonic themes, while the supernatural characters are associated with an intense chromaticism, Private instrumental and vocal particularly the interval of the augmented fourth. Stravinsky further instruction; courses leading to Diploma and Bachelor of Music Degree differentiates between the music of the Firebird and that of Kashchei by providing the former with all manner of rhythmical intricacies to suggest the fluttering movements, while with Kashchei the rhythms tend to be One Follen Street, Cambridge, Mass. tense and undeviating. Telephone 876-0956 02138

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How two Russian geniuses met and collaborated to their mutual glory the in The firebird is interestingly told by Romola Nijinsky, in her life of her AINSWORTH husband, Nijinsky (Simon and Schuster, 1934), a book which is much concerned, naturally, with the amazing career of Diaghilev, and the GALLERY Ballet Russe. 42 BROMFIELD STREET BOSTON. MASS. 02108 Diaghilev and Nijinsky, in the days of their early fame, before breaking 542-7195 with the Imperial Ballet School, had the habit of wandering about St Petersburg on free evenings, in search of ballet material.

'One evening they went to a concert given by members of the composi- tion class at the Conservatory of Music. On the program was the first hearing of a short symphonic poem called "Feu d'artifice". Its author was a young man of twenty-six, the son of a celebrated singer at the Imperial Theatre — Feodor Stravinsky. After the performance Diaghilev called on the young Igor, whose father he had known and admired, and, to Stravinsky's utter amazement, commissioned him to write a ballet expressly for his company.

'For a long time Fokine had had the idea of a distinctly Russian story for dancing, founded on native legends. Fokine told the story of the firebird to Benois, over innumerable glasses of tea, and with every glass he added another embellishment, and every time he repeated the tale he put in another incident. Benois was enthusiastic, and they went so far as to tell Diaghilev and asked who would be a good one to compose the music. Liadov's name was mentioned. "What," cried Fokine, "and wait ten Custom Framing years!" Nevertheless, the commission was awarded to Liadov and three months passed. Then Benois met him on the street and asked him how Contemporary Graphics the ballet was progressing. "Marvellously," said Liadov. "I've already bought my ruled paper." Benois' face fell, and the musician, like a character out of Dostoievsky, added: "You know I want to do it. But

I'm so lazy, I can't promise."

'Diaghilev thought at once of Igor Stravinsky, and the conferences be- tween him, Benois, and Fokine commenced. HARVARD 'Fokine heard Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice and saw flames in the music. The musicians made all manner of fun of what they considered his "unnecessary" orchestration, and he was touched by, and grateful for, CATERING Fokine's congratulations. They worked very closely together, phrase by phrase. Stravinsky brought him a beautiful cantilena on the entrance of the Tsarevich into the garden of the girls with the golden apples. But AGENCY Fokine disapproved. "No, no," he said. "You bring him in like a tenor. Break the phrase where he merely shows his head on his first intrusion. Then make the curious swish of the garden's magic noises return. And providing then, when he shows his head again, bring in the full swing of the melody." experienced, uniformed

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Quick name one Goncharova's design for Kashchei in the Russian Ballet's 1926 revival of The Firebird. famous In his biography of Diaghilev, Serge Lifar relates the following incident, which provides an interesting vignette of Stravinsky at this time. R. Brus- sel, a French critic who visited St Petersburg during the winter of 1909- Alaskan 1910, was invited by Diaghilev to come and hear Stravinsky play through the score. 'At the appointed hour,' Brussel later recalled to Lifar, 'we all met in the little ground-floor room on Zamiatin Perenlok, which artist saw the beginnings of so many magnificent productions. The composer, For centuries, the young, slim and uncommunicative, with vague meditative eyes, and lips artists artisans of set firm in an energetic looking face, was at the piano. But the moment and

he began to play, the modest and dimly lit dwelling glowed with a the Far North worked in

dazzling radiance. By the end of the first scene, I was conquered: by anonymity, and their

the last, I was lost in admiration. The manuscript on the music-rest, work was scattered over scored over with fine pencillings, revealed a masterpiece.' the globe by explorers. Now, for the first time, Another interesting recollection of the composer at this period comes there will be a major from Tamara Karsavina, who was cast in the title role when Pavlova showing of art from the refused it, the latter finding the music complicated and meaningless. The company had begun rehearsals of the ballet in St Petersburg, and four Alaskan cultures, it was Stravinsky's practice to attend these faithfully. 'Often he came gathered from collec- early to the theatre,' Karsavina relates, 'before a rehearsal began in order tions all over the world. to play for me, over and over again, some specially difficult passage. Far North: 2000 years I felt grateful, not only for the help he gave me, but for the manner The

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AND LMB//Q mm continued from page 27 punctuating staccatos with his head, he made the pattern of his music forcibly clear to me, more so than the counting of bars would have done.'

When the company left for Paris in the early spring, Stravinsky stayed behind for a short vacation, joining the group in time for final rehearsals at the end of May. It was Stravinsky's first acquaintance with that city. 'My stay in Paris,' he later wrote, 'enabled me to become acquainted with several personalities of the musical world, such as Debussy, Ravel, Florent Schmitt, and Manuel de Falla, who were in Paris at the time.'

In Conversations, the first of his collaborative books with Robert Craft, Stravinsky's recollection of the Paris premiere was rather limited: 'The first Firebird! I stood in the dark of the Opera through eight orchestra rehearsals conducted by Pierne. The stage and the whole theater glit- tered at the premiere, and that is all I remember.' By the time Craft and Stravinsky wrote Expositions and Developments, however, the composer's memory had improved, as the following shows:

'The first-night audience glittered indeed, but the fact that it was heavily perfumed is more vivid in my memory; the grayly elegant London audience, when I came to know it later, seemed almost deodorized by comparison. I sat in Diaghilev's box, where, at intermissions, a path of celebrities, artists, dowagers, aged Egerias of the Ballet, writers, ballet- omanes, appeared. I met for the first time Proust, Giraudoux, Paul

Morand, St John Perse, Claudel (with whom, years later, I nearly col- laborated on a musical treatment of the Book of Tobit) at The Firebird, though I cannot remember whether at the premiere or at subsequent performances. I was also introduced to Sarah Bernhardt, who sat in a wheel chair in her private box, thickly veiled, and terribly apprehensive lest anyone should recognize her. After a month of such society I was happy to retire to a sleepy village in Brittany.

'A moment of unexpected comedy occurred near the beginning of the performance. Diaghilev had had the idea that a procession of real horses should march on stage — in step with, to be exact, the last six eighth-notes of measure 8. The poor animals did enter on cue all right, but they began to whinny and capriole, and one of them, a better critic than an actor, left a malodorous calling card. The audience laughed, and Diaghilev decided not to risk a repetition in future performances.

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Shortly after his Tanglewood triumph, Mr Ozawa won a scholarship to study with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin. It was there that Leonard Bernstein, who was touring Europe with the New York Philharmonic, asked him to accompany him and his orchestra on a tour of Japan dur- ing the spring of 1961 and to return to New York during the 1961-1962 season as one of his assistants. He directed several concerts of the

Philharmonic that season, though it was with the San Francisco Sym- phony Orchestra, during the same season, that he made his first full- length professional concert appearance in North America.

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There are more than two million people living in the Boston area, many of whom want to hear the Orchestra in concert, but can only make an occasional visit to Symphony. 1000 Paradise Road You, as a subscriber, can help. If you cannot come to a concert in your series, please avoid leaving your seat empty.

You help yourself, you help the Orchestra, you help the other members of the com- munity, by releasing your ticket for resale.

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You help the Orchestra, since if your Napoleon's palm trees . . . you're ticket is resold, the added income helps invited to our other late-night oasis. to reduce the annual deficit. (Last year the Orchestra benefited by more than $9,000 The French Room awaits you—for late from this scheme.) supper or a nightcap—night after

night. But, once in a while, it may be You help the community by making it engaged as a function room possible for those who cannot buy com- plete subscriptions to obtain single tickets. Then visit the lounge next door. No gilded palm trees (like those under All need is you do telephone Symphony which Napoleon drank toasts to Hall (266-1492), and give your and name Josephine)—but the same generous seat location to the switchboard operator. Ritz drinks and dining and hospitality. Your ticket will then become available for resale. Af ter- the- theater or late-evening in

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The concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are heard regularly in many parts of the United States and Canada by delayed broadcast. In addition the Friday afternoon concerts in Symphony Hall are broadcast live by WGBH-FM (Boston, 89.7), WMEH-FM (Bangor 90.9), WHEA-FM (Portland, 90.1), WAMC-FM Mr Ozawa's debut with the Toronto Symphony occurred during the (Albany, 90.3), and WFCR-FM (Amherst, 88.5). The Saturday evening concerts in 1963-1964 season and his success there led to his appointment as Music Symphony Hall are also broadcast live Director of that Orchestra beginning with the 1965-1966 season. During by WGBH-FM, WMEH-FM, WHEA-FM, his initial season with the Toronto he guest conducted a number of WCRB-AM-FM (Boston, 102. 5FM & major orchestras in the United in States and Europe, having the previous 1330AM), WFCR-FM and WPJB-FM (Provi- season added the London Symphony and Lamoureux Orchestras to the dence, 105.1). WGBH-FM and WCRB-FM list of his European debuts. At the end of the 1968-1969 season he cooperate in four-channel transmission of resigned his post with the Toronto Symphony and devoted the following the Saturday evening concerts, in associa- season to guest conducting. tion with Acoustic Research Inc. of Cambridge. During the summer of 1969 he conducted opera for the first time, Cosi The majority of the Tuesday evening con- fan tutte at Salzburg, and served as principal guest conductor of the certs are broadcast live by WGBH-FM, Ravinia Festival. He opened the 1969-1970 season of the New York WAMC-FM and WFCR-FM. Philharmonic and later guest conducted L'Orchestre de Paris, the Phila- delphia and Cleveland Orchestras and the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1970 Acoustic Research Speaker Systems are he was made artistic co-director, with Gunther Schuller, of the Berkshire used to monitor the radio broadcasts of Music Festival. That same summer he also returned to the Salzburg the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Festival, conducted Berlin Philharmonic concerts and co-directed, with Leonard Bernstein, another New York Philharmonic tour of Japan.

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The above statistics come from the Boston Symphony concert of November 2 1973, a concert that was conducted by Seiji Ozawa and acclaimed by the public and critics alike. These statistics do not repre- sent a paradox. What happened was that several non-attending subscribers ne-

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was a situation that is typical of many concerts this season: a sold-out house, many unoccupied seats, many people who keenly wanted those seats. This need not have happened, because there is a ticket resale plan — a plan that would have allowed fifty of those 400 to attend, a plan that brings additional and badly needed revenue to the Orchestra, a plan that reimburses the subscriber through tax deductions.

You help the Orchestra, the community and yourself by taking advantage of this

plan. All you need do is to telephone Symphony Hall (266-1492) and give your name and seat location to the operator. Your ticket will then become available for resale, and you will receive by mail a written acknowledgement of your gift to the Orchestra, which can then be claimed as a tax deduction. You will also have allowed other music lovers, those who cannot obtain or afford subscriptions, to share the Boston Symphony experience.

What could be more sensible? May we ask you to consider this plan the next time you cannot attend? Everyone gains. No one loses.

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAMS The photographs on these pages were taken by Danny Pitts of Jet Photographers during the performance of Berlioz' La damnation de Boston Symphony Orchestra programs Faust on October 9 1973. for the Friday-Saturday series are avail- able by mail to those wishing to buy a program subscription. The programs are mailed on the Friday of each pair of con- CABOT-CAHNERS ROOM & certs. Subscription prices for the 1973- EDWARD HATCH MEMORIAL ROOM 1974 season are $16 (first class mail) and $11 (third class mail). Requests should be addressed to TREASURER'S OFFICE, These rooms are open for refreshments one hour before the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, start of each concert. They remain open until a reasonable time SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, MASSA- after the concert's end. the fine liquors Among available at the CHUSETTS 02115. bar are those advertised in the program book, Jack Daniels and Beefeater Gin.

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J. Ganson ANNOUNCEMENTS BOSTON UNIVERSITY CELEBRITY SERIES RUDOLF SERKIN, SEIJI OZAWA AND THE BOSTON SYMPHONY TO WALTER PIERCE APPEAR IN A CONCERT BENEFITTING THE BOSTON SYMPHONY Managing Director PENSION INSTITUTION MRS. AARON RICHMOND Consultant Musicians are human — legend to the contrary — and in retirement they need and deserve the same kind of security that you and I would FRI. APR. 19,8:30 P.M. wish for ourselves. The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra SYMPHONY HALL CO 6-1492 have long been aware of this fact and not long after the Orchestra's $6.50, $5.b0, $4.50, $3.50 formation they took steps to ensure that its members would survive the inevitable fact of retirement. Thus in 1903 the Boston Symphony ENGLISH CHAMBER Orchestra Pension Institution was founded. The oldest such fund among

American orchestras, it has paid more than one half million dollars ORCHESTRA annually during recent years to more than one hundred retirees and PINCHASZUKERMAN their widows. Conductor - Soloist Institution income is derived from a variety of sources: open rehearsals BACH in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, radio broadcasts, invested funds Concerto in C minor and contributions from the Boston Symphony Orchestra Incorporated. for Violin & Oboe Other important sources of revenue are the annual Pension Fund con- Concerto in D minor certs, through which patrons may make an important contribution to for 2 Violins this worthy cause. On Sunday afternoon, April 21 at 3.00, Boston Symphony Music Director Seiji Ozawa and pianist Rudolf Serkin will MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, appear with the Orchestra in a concert benefitting the Institution. Mr A Major, K. 219 Ozawa will direct the Orchestra in Ravel's Menuet antique and the complete ballet music of Ma Mere L'Oye. Mr Serkin will perform VERDI Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor. Tickets for this event will String Quartet in E Minor go on sale on March 25, but subscribers have been mailed postcards, (Orchestral Version) presentation of which at the box office on or after March 18 will enable them to purchase tickets prior to the general sale. Prices are $25, $20, $15, $10 and $5, and the respective tax deductible amounts are $15, $12, $9, $5 and $1. SUN. APR. 21 AT 3 AMADEUSJORDAN HALL KE 6-2412 THE CURRENT EXHIBIT IN THE CABOT-CAHNERS ROOM QUARTET The exhibition of contemporary tapestries now on display in the Cabot Haydn, Op. 54, No. 2, C Major Cahners room at Symphony Hall presents a selection of works by Tippett, Quartet No. 2 Schubert, "Death and the European American artists in this exciting and recently rediscovered and Maiden" medium. Since Lurcat, Picasso, Braque and Miro began designing tapes- tries in the thirties and sparked a resurgence of interest in an art form that had lain dormant for hundreds of years, many of our finest con- temporary artists have become attracted to the possibilities of tapestry BERLIN PHILHARMONIC, as a medium. Herbert Von Karalan, Conductor

This exhibition includes examples of tapestries by such masters as LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS Picasso, Miro, Leger the Europeans, Calder, Katz, Lindner, and among ORCHESTRA EastGeTmany and Zox among the American artists. All the tapestries are hand woven in pile or rug weave, of pure virgin wool. The artists, working with the LEONTYNE PRICE master weavers, create designs in which the sensibility of the artists' PETER PEARS and imagery is enhanced by the various weaves and textural combinations. Distinguished as a genre by reliance on clear, vibrant colors, strong, MURRAY PERAHIA simple images, and the tactile pleasures of the wool, the tapestries on JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET display represent a remarkably wide range of subject matter and treat- ment, indicating the high quality of interest and achievement possible CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF in the reemergent art. LINCOLN CENTER The exhibition appears through the courtesy of the Harcus Krakow Rosen CLAUDIO ARRAU Sonnabend Gallery at 7 Newbury Street in Boston, and continues through April. ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET

are included among the more than IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCIES... forty outstanding music and dance events In the 1974-75 By the nature of their profession, many patrons of the Boston Symphony BOSTON UNIVERSITY Orchestra are subject to emergency telephone calls. Such patrons may CELEBRITY SERIES ensure that they can be reached during performances by leaving the The 1974-7S season brochure describing number of their seat location at the switchboard (adjacent to the box the series in detail will soon be available. office in the Massachusetts Avenue corridor). All patrons are urged, in For a copy, write to the event of emergency, to leave the number of their location with mem- BOSTON UNIVERSITY CELEBRITY SERIES 420 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON 02116 bers of their family at home. PHONE 536-6037

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The auditorium of Symphony Hall can be emptied in a few minutes. Patrons are asked to make a note of the exit nearest to their seat. In case of emergency they shouid walk (not run) to that exit. All exits in these plans are indicated with a star. FLOOR

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SALZBURG International Festival Mozart Tour Upper Bavaria Tour VIENNA State Opera

Thomas Cook is proud to announce Musical Vienna that once again John Salkowski, Hayden and the/Burgenland member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will escort a tour of musical Europe. JOURNEY TO MUSIC — EUROPE 74, planned by PRAGUE Mr. Salkowski in conjunction with Thomas Cook for a limited National Opera number of you who love music. You will attend outstanding performances Czech Composers Tour at international festivals of music at Salzburg, Besancon and Flanders, Central Bohemia Tour as well as the opening of the opera seasons in Vienna and Prague. Highlights include a special Salzburg Festival opera performance of the 80th birthday of Karl Bohm, conducted by the maestro; the BESANCON Besancon Festival featuring orchestral music and French artists; the International Festival Flanders Festival with performances occurring in medieval cathedrals, Burgundy Tour abbeys and castles; in Leuven, Ghent and Brussels. Opening nights at Vienna State and Prague National Opera. Conductors: Karl Bohm, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta. Symphony FLANDERS Orchestras: Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, ORTF International Festival Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Opera: Salzburg Festival, Flanders Tour Vienna State Opera, Prague National Opera, Ballet of Flanders and Chamber Concerts.

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Address: 1 56 Federal St., Boston, Mass. 02110 City .State. _Zip (617)267-5000 Phone:_ YOUTH CONCERTS AT SYMPHONY HALL HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Music Director with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1974-1975 Season

Three series of three Concerts (geared for young people in grade four and above) Series Subscription — $7 Series A Series B Series C Saturdays Saturdays Weekdays at 11 o'clock at 11 o'clock at 10.15 am November 9 November 16 November 11 January 25 February 8 February 3 March 1 March 8 March 10

Applications and information available at Symphony Hall by calling ANITA KURLAND 266-1492 or 267-0656

'Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall,' as photographed by Earl Ostroff, 'Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall/ November 1973. as photographed by Earl Ostroff, November 1973.

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Derrick Te Paske 51 COUNCIL OF FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Council of Friends announces with great pleasure that the 1974 Musical Marathon was a fortissimo success. The Marathon, presented by radio station WCRB for the benefit of the Boston Symphony Orches- tra and the Boston Pops, ran from 7.00 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 through midnight on Sunday, March 10.

Mrs Thomas Gardiner, Chairman of this year's Marathon, told members of the Orchestra at rehearsal on Monday, March 11, that late pledges

had boosted the total to $93,993.00, which is considerably in excess of fcs N the goal of $85,000.

On behalf of the Council, the Chairman of the Marathon would like to express her gratitude to the members of the Orchestra for their extra- ordinary generosity with their time and talents. Their enthusiasm and encouragement make the Marathon. *r

Thanks are also due to the members of the Council of Friends, who actually do most of the work, especially Mrs George Lee Sargent, Chairman of the Council and Mrs John M. Bradley, Vice-Chairman, for their unflagging support and hours of practical help; Mrs A. Lloyd Russell, co-ordinator of volunteers at WCRB; Ms Nina Ratshin of Brandeis University, in charge of college volunteers; Mrs Richard Thompson, Premium Chairman; Mrs Thomas Franks and Mrs F. Corning Kenly, who handled a mountain of paperwork; Mrs Howard E. Hansen, whose Area Chairmen were responsible for staffing WCRB and the many other operations which the Marathon entails — all these deserve the plaudits of the Committee. Mrs Richard Hill's committee mailec catalogs, Mrs P. Adams Colony fed an army of volunteers, and Mrs Elting E. Morison's publicity brought the public to the telephones. In addition there were literally hundreds of volunteers without whose help the Marathon could not be run.

Radio Station WCRB, which co-sponsors and broadcasts the Marathon, contributes much more than time, money and talent to the cause. The

Council would like to express its gratitude to the staff of the station, who put up with extraordinary inconvenience, lost many hours of sleep, and then joined with the Symphony volunteers in staffing the station. Without them there could be no Marathon.

This announcement would not be complete if it did not also express the gratitude of the Marathon Committee to the members of the Sym- phony Hall staff, particularly to Mr Steven L. Solomon, Special Events Administrator, Mrs Bernard Zighera, Mrs Frank Whitty, Miss Mary H. Smith, and Mr Donald MacKenzie and the house crew, whose contribu- tion was beyond measure.

And, of course, the thanks of all concerned go to those who contributed, in amounts which ranged from a few cents to thousands of dollars, be-

cause it was, in the final analysis, their interest in the Orchestra, and

their understanding of its role in the community which brought the Marathon so triumphantly 'over the top.'

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COUNCIL OF FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FUTURE ACTIVITIES

The Annual meeting of the Friends will take place at Symphony Hall on

Wednesday morning May 8. Arthur Fiedler will rehearse the Pops Orches- tra, Talcott M. Banks will speak and there will be refreshments and a box

luncheon. Invitations will be mailed to all current Friends.

The Annual meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday May 29. Miss Mary Smith, Assistant to the Manager, will be the speaker.

A Talk and Walk at Tanglewood, a popular event of last season, will take

place again this summer. The date will be announced at the annual meeting.

Under the leadership of Area Chairman Mrs Howard Hansen the various area chairmen and their council members conducted a letter writing campaign to encourage subscribers who had not already done so to become Friends. As a result of this effort, 176 new Friends subscribed a

total of $4,377.50. This brings the total number of Friends as of March 1 to 4,522.

There is still time to join the family of Friends for the current season — to be eligible to receive an invitation to the annual meeting. You may use the form printed below. Derrick Te Paske

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