Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1971
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG 7 Music Director TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE and GALA CONCERT for the benefit of the BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER in honor of OLGA KOUSSEVITZKY Tuesday July 27 1971 BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND RCA RECORDS TANGLEWOOD 1971 Seiji Ozawa, Gunther SchuUer Artistic Directors Leonard Bernstein Advisor BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER Joseph Silverstein Chairman of the Faculty The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra extend heartfelt thanks to Curtis Buttenheim and Mrs Stephen V.C. Morris and their committee chairmen and vice- chairmen for their tireless efforts on behalf of the 1971 Tanglewood season. The trustees would also like to extend special thanks to James R. Sloane, Chairman, and William H. McAlister Jr, Vice-Chairman, of the Tanglewood Business Committee and the following workers: Robert C. Alsop Richard Jackson Arthur R. Birchard Jr Paul J. Jacques George J. Bisacca Joseph T. Kelley Russell E. Bolduc James F. Kiley Samuel Boxer Robert MacLenna Curtis Buttenheim Miss Mary Ellen McPeak Joseph T. Duffy Paul Merlino O.E. Dugan Jeffrey S. Nicholson John H. Fitzpatrick Richard Ochs John V. Geary John Plante Robert K. George William Roy Milton J. Gordon Gary Scarafoni James C. Hart William Shove James S. Hatch Daniel Sullivan Mrs Lawrence A. Howitt Theodore Trombly Steven lacuessa Morton Weiss THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER In the years since 1940 the Music Center, under the leadership of Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, and now Seiji Ozawa, Gunther Schuller and Leonard Bernstein, has given experience, guidance and valuable training to more than 6,500 young musicians, including 700 from foreign countries. Its alumni are now members of hundreds of orchestras here and abroad (there are 41 alumni in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 20 in the Philadelphia Orchestra and 15 in the New York Philharmonic) , members of many opera companies, conductors of many orchestras (Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Lukas Foss and Zubin Mehta among them) , heads of many schools (Eastman School of Music, Interlochen Academy of the Arts) , and performers and teachers in all parts of the world. Without the aid and support of the Friends of Music at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra could never have supported the Center for these years. At the mid-point of this 1971 season, the Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra acknowledge with grateful appreciation all those who have supported the Berkshire Music Center in its thirty-first anniversary year at Tanglewood. Their gifts have helped us meet the Rockefeller Foundation challenge grant again this year. Their continued support will help to train young musicians and to maintain the highest standard of musical excellence at Tanglewood. TALCOTT M. BANKS President Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra The Berkshire Music Center is maintained by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg Music Director, Thomas D. Perry Jr, Manager. Checks should be made payable to the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. By this means you will insure that your gift is allowable as a tax deduction. ^.v M: MM OLGA KOUSSEVITZKY Olga Koussevitzky is a familiar and beloved figure throughout the year at concerts in Boston, New York, and here at Tanglewood. Since the death of her husband twenty years ago, she has striven tirelessly to perpetuate his ideals. As President of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation she has given encouragement of the most practical kind to countless young composers, while her staunch support of the Berkshire Music Center has been unstinted. Since the foundation of the Friends of Music at Tanglewood, Mrs Koussevitzky has devoted much of her time and energy to the encouragement and expansion of their activities. Olga Koussevitzky's father, Alexander Naoumoff, was a distinguished member of the government in Tsarist Russia, becoming Minister of Agriculture two years before the Revolution. She was herself born on the family estate on the River Volga. At the age of twelve she was taken to her first symphonic con- cert; the conductor was Serge Koussevitzky, her uncle by marriage. The Naoumoff's traditional ways of life were disrupted by the Revolution of 1917, and the family was forced to leave Russia. They fled first to Constan- tinople and Greece, finally seeking refuge, with many of their compatriots, in France. In 1929 Olga Naoumoff accompanied Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky to the United States, where she became their secretary. Koussevitzky had by this time achieved world fame as Conductor of the Boston Symphony Or- chestra. When her aunt Natalie died in 1942, Olga shared the deep grief of Serge Koussevitzky. Five years later they were married quietly here in Lenox and were not parted until the death of the great conductor in 1951. Olga Koussevitzky is President of the American International Music Fund and is a member of many prominent musical and civic organizations. Her decor- ations and awards include the Cross of Finland, an honorary doctorate of music from the New England Conservatory of Music, the American Medal of Honor, the Louis B. Brandeis award, the Spirit of Achievement award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Junior Hadassah Annual Award. She has been honored also by the National Arts Club for distinguished service to music, and has received a citation from the National Music Council. Mrs Koussevitzky has written articles about her late husband, and is known for her elegant and witty pen-line drawings of musicians. But it is above all the personality of Olga Koussevitzky which impresses itself most strongly on those who are privileged to know her. The gracious charm, generous hospitality, and the courage and strength which underlie her gentle bearing excite respect, admiration, and deep love. Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and indeed the whole world of music and the arts, is by her presence immeasurably enriched. 6.30 pm TANGLEWOOD TENT THE LAWN BY THE MAIN HOUSE AT THE FOUNTAIN IN THE FORMAL GARDEN Opera Arias SAINT-SAENS Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (from Samson et Dalilah) Susan Fisher Clickner mezzo-soprano PUCCINI Sola perduta abbandonata (from Manon Lescaut) Carolyn Smith soprano MOZART Madamina! il catalogo e questo (from Don Giovanni) David Cumberland baritone WEBER Leise, leise, fromme Weise (from Der Freischiitz) Patricia Stasis soprano Larry Leitch piano Dance Program Improvisations and rehearsal of new works in progress. Music will be played by Chili Walker and Bob Wolenski of the Boston University faculty. 8.30 pm GALA CONCERT SHED BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA WAGNER Overture to *Der fliegende Hollander' conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS BARTOK Suite from 'The miraculous mandarin' conducted by SEIJI OZAWA intermission • WAGNER Die Walkiire — Act 1 conducted by GUNTHER SCHULLER Sieglinde LINDA PHILLIPS Siegmund HENRY GROSSMAN Hunding SAVERIO BARBIERI There will be a display of fireworks over Lake Mahkeenac at the end of the concert BALDWIN PIANO jm *-^ r, BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 1971 violins Ayke Agus (Buffalo, New York) Lee Savings Bank Fellowship Sharon Allsopp (Seattle, Washington) Erwin Millimet Fellowship Thalassos Aylward (Boston, Massachusetts) Sharon Berenson (Kenosha, Wisconsin) Nancy Brase (New York, New York) Carolyn Edwards (Detroit, Michigan) Beranek Fellowship Marion Guest (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) Michael Levin (Washington, D.C.) Adams Super Market Fellowship David Marshall (Great Neck, New York) Beinecke Fellowship Nancy McAlhany (Springfield, Missouri) Fromm Fellowship Robin O'Brien (Portland, Oregon) Alice Willard Dorr Fellowship Steve Ognavic (Rochester, New York) Carol Paine (Pleasantville, New York) Arthur M. Abell Fellowship Margaret Wooten Partin (Merritt Island, Florida) Charles Pikler (Norwich, Connecticut) Stuart Haupt Fellowship Jaun Ramirez (Mexico) Leonard Bernstein Fellowship David Reffkin (Warwick, Rhode Island) Mary-Catherine Rendleman (Charlotte, North Carolina) Mead Corporation Fellowship Terri Sternberg (Miami, Florida) Reiko Tanaka (Japan) Sharon Wood (Seattle, Washington) Stanley Chappie Fellowship Ellen Yafet (Maplewood, New Jersey) Carol Zeavin (Inglewood, California) Fromm Fellowship violas Daniel Avshalomov (Portland, Oregon) Leonard Bernstein Fellowship Kevin Byrnes (East Brunswick, New Jersey) National Federation of Music Clubs— Ada Holding Miller Fellowship Ronald Carbone (Longmont, Colorado) Erwin Chmiel (Katowice, Poland) Koussevitzky Music Foundation Fellowship Deborah Collins (Brookline, Massachusetts) Young Artists Award Carol Kapek (Seattle, Washington) Kimberly Clark Fellowship Marian Kent (Los Angeles, California) Fromm Fellowship Renita Koven (Los Angeles, California) Carlotta M. Dreyfus Fellowship Mark Perlman (New York, New York Karen Ritscher (Needham, Massachusetts) Carol Rossiter (East Meadow, New York) cellos Paul Cheifetz (Evanston, Illinois) Koussevitzky Music Foundation Fellowship Hector Cortes (Mexico) Edward Dingilian (New York, New York) Cheryl Fippen (St. Joseph, Illinois) Jan Fischer (Muncie, Indiana) Fromm Fellowship Toshihiko Kono (New York, New York) Fromm Fellowship Janet Lohman (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) Laura Schlessinger (South Norwalk, Conn.) Selly A. Eisemann Memorial Fellowship double basses James Carroll (East Hartford, Connecticut) Richard Fletcher (Natick, Massachusetts) Dorothy Lewis Fellowship Anthony Knight (New Castle, Indiana) Fromm Fellowship Sandra Lake (Los Angeles, California) Helen Palmer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Perry Steinberg (Los Angeles, California) Lenox School