Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 93, 1973
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON 1973-1974 THURSDAY A6 FRIDAY-SATURDAY 22 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K. ALLEN SIDNEY STONEMAN JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C EPPS III JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood HARRY NEVILLE Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ^H jgfism SPRING LINES" Outline your approach to spring. In greater detail with our hand- somely tailored, single breasted, navy wool worsted coat. Subtly smart with yoked de- tail at front and back. Elegantly fluid with back panel. A refined spring line worth wearing. $150. Coats. Boston Chestnut Hill Northshore Shopping Center South Shore PlazaBurlington Mall Wellesley BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON 1973-1974 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. VERNON R. ALDEN Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Vice-Chairman MRS STEPHEN V. C. 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Gottfried Wilfinger Joel Moerschel horns Fredy Ostrovsky Jonathan Miller Charles Kavaloski Leo Panasevich Martha Babcock Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Sheldon Rotenberg ,*< Charles Yancich Alfred Schneider Harry Shapiro Stanley Benson basses •' David Ohanian Gerald Gelbloom fl k Henry Portnoi Richard Mackey Raymond Sird William Rhein Ralph Pottle Ikuko Mizuno Joseph Hearne Cecylia Arzewski Bela Wurtzler trumpets Amnon Levy Leslie Martin Armando Ghitalla John Salkowski Andre Come John Barwicki Rolf Smedvig Robert Olson Gerard Goguen in Lawrence Wolfe second violins Clarence Knudson trombones Fahnestock chair flutes William Gibson William Marshall Doriot Anthony Dwyer Ronald Barron Michel Sasson Walter Piston chair Gordon Hallberg Ronald Knudsen James Pappoutsakis Leonard Moss Paul Fried William Waterhouse tuba Laszlo Nagy «»i Chester Schmitz Michael Vitale piccolo Spencer Larrison I!**'! 7 Marylou Speaker Lois Schaefer timpani Darlene Gray Everett Firth Ronald Wilkison Harvey Seigel oboes Bo Youp Hwang Ralph Gomberg percussion Victor Yampolsky John Holmes Charles Smith Wayne Rapier Arthur Press assistant timpanist Thomas Gauger english horn Frank Epstein violas Laurence Thorstenberg Burton Fine harps Charles S. Dana chair Reuben Green clarinets Bernard Zighera Eugene Lehner Ann Hobson George Humphrey Harold Wright S. Banks chair Jerome Lipson Ann M. Pasquale Cardillo librarians Robert Karol Peter Hadcock Bernard Kadinoff Victor Alpert Eb clarinet Vincent Mauricci William Shisler Earl Hedberg *r- Joseph Pietropaolo \*r\ bass clarinet stage manager Robert Barnes Michael Zaretsky Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison 1~ K personnel manager William Moyer 1179 ?4&CitlulOctS • - • for entertaining! Nature's living room beckons again for your social fun-fests. We've a sparkling host of handsomely designed and superbly crafted settings to cap your summer days and evenings with leisure and enjoyment. It costs little more to have the very best! BtfNE CHESTNUT HILL • BOSTON • NATICK • DANVERS FURNITURE Interior Design Studio On The Northshore At The Towers (Opening in the fall) ^m '"^B CONTENTS Program for April 18, 19 and 20 1974 1183 Program notes Hoist- The Hymn of Jesus op. 37 by Harry Neville 1185 Schoenberg - Moderner Psalm op. 50c by Harry Neville 1191 Mahler- Symphony No. 1 in D (with 'Blumine' movement) by Jack Diether 1195 The Music Director 1205 Soloists 1203 BOSTON Seven Newbury Street Georges Noel / Recent Paintings Andre Derain / Works On Paper Cabot Cahners Room at Symphony Hall / Contemporary Tapestries CHESTNUT HILL MALL Neil Welliver/ Paintings and Graphics The Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery at Seven Newbury Street and at their location in the Mall at Chestnut Hill offers the largest collection of contemporary art in the area. Their consulting firm, Four Arts Services, is available for Corporate art proposals and commissions. Corporate Inquiries: Portia Harcus 262-4483 \3S-K/e G -1/ ^ rQ n \ yu S? 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Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON Thursday evening April 18 1974 at 8.30 Friday afternoon April 19 1974 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening April 20 1974 at 8.30 SEIJI OZAWA conductor HOLST The Hymn of Jesus op. 37 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS Lorna Cooke de Varon conductor first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra SCHOENBERG Moderner Psalm op. 50c ANDREW FOLDI speaker NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHORUS Lorna Cooke de Varon conductor first Boston performance intermission *MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D (with 'Blumine' movement) Langsam: schleppend wie ein Naturlaut (Slow: stretched out, like a sound of nature) ^Andante allegretto 'Blumine' Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Moving strongly, but not too fast) Feierlich und gemes,sen, ohne zu schleppen (Solemn and precise, without dragging) Sttirmisch bewegt (Moving stormily) * first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra The concert on Friday will end about 3.55, the concerts on Thursday and Saturday