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Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa, Music Direftor J»—ft-t^lfiilgg^B fc OPENING NIGHT 1985 Tuesday, October First . WE'RE PROUDTO BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMANCE. As the sponsors of this opening night, we congratulate the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its continuing tra- dition of excellence. And, as the new $14 billion Bank of New England Corporation, we look forward to being even more instrumental in the many great performances ahead. BANK OF NEW ENGLAND CORPORATION I Seiji Ozawa, Music Director One Hundred and Fifth Season, 1985-86 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President J. P. Barger, Yice-Chairman Mrs. John M. Bradley, Vice-Chairman George H. Kidder, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Treasurer Mrs. George L. Sargent, Vice-Chairman Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps Mrs. August R. Meyer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick E. James Morton Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Mrs. John L. Grandin David G. Mugar George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Frances W Hatch, Jr. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Roderick M. MacDougall Richard A. Smith Mrs. Michael H. Davis John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John T. Noonan Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Irving W Rabb Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray Paul C. Reardon Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson Sidney Stoneman Mrs. Harris Fahnestock John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W Morris, General Manager Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Manager Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Theodore A. Vlahos, Director of Business Affairs Arlene Germain, Financial Analyst Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Charles Gilroy, Chief Accountant Richard Ortner, Administrator of Vera Gold, Assistant Director of Promotion Tanglewood Music Center Patricia Halligan, Personnel Administrator Robert A. Pihlcrantz, Properties Manager Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Charles Rawson, Manager of Box Office John M. Keenum, Director of Eric Sanders, Director of Corporate Foundation Support Development Nancy Knutsen, Production Manager Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Anita R. Kurland, Administrator of of Development Youth Activities Diane Greer Smart, Director of Volunteers Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Nancy E. Tanen, Media/Special Projects Program Annotator Administrator Programs copyright ®1985 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Harvey Chet Krentzman Chairman Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Carl Koch Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Ray Stata Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Vice-Chairman Secretary John Q. Adams Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Mrs. Weston W. Adams Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Vincent M. O'Reilly Martin Allen Jordan L. Golding Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. David Bakalar Joseph M. Henson John A. Perkins Bruce A. Beal Arnold Hiatt Peter C. Read Peter A. Brooke Mrs. Richard D. Hill Robert E. Remis Mary Louise Cabot Susan M. Hilles Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Glen H. Hiner David Rockefeller, Jr. James F. Cleary Mrs. Marilyn Brachman Hoffman John Ex Rodgers John F. Cogan, Jr. Mrs. BelaT. Kalman Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Mrs. William C. Rousseau William H. Congleton Richard L. Kaye Mrs. William H. Ryan Arthur P. Contas Robert D. King Gene Shalit Mrs. A. Werk Cook John Kittredge Mark L. Selkowitz Phyllis Curtin Robert K. Kraft Malcolm L. Sherman A.V. d'Arbeloff Mrs. E. Anthony Kutten W Davies Sohier, Jr. Mrs. Michael H. Davis John P. LaWare Ralph Z. Sorenson Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Harriett Eckstein Laurence Lesser William F. Thompson Mrs. Alexander Ellis Royal W. Leith, Jr. Luise Vosgerchian Katherine Fanning Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. An Wang John A. Fibiger Mrs. Harry L. Marks Roger D. Wellington Kenneth G. Fisher Hanae Mori Mrs. Thomas H.P. Whitney Gerhard M. Freche Richard P. Morse Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Mrs. Thomas S. Morse John J. Wilson Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Robert B. Newman Brunetta Wolfman 1 Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Nicholas T. Zervas 1 , Overseers Emeriti 1 1 • Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris ; Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Louis I. Kane David R. Pokross David W Bernstein Leonard Kaplan Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Benjamin H. Lacy Symphony Hall Operations 1 Cheryl Silvia Tribbett, Function Manager James E. Whitaker, House Manager 1 Earl G. Buker, Chief Engineer Cleveland Morrison, Stage Manager Franklin Smith, Supervisor of House Crew m Wilmoth A. Griffiths, Assistant Supervisor House Crew of William D. McDonnell, Chief Steward . ' ' ' Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Mrs. Michael H. Davis President Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mrs. Carl Koch Executive Vice-President Treasurer Mrs. Harry F. Sweitzer, Jr. Mrs. Gilman W. Conant Secretary Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett, Development Services Mrs. BelaT. Kalman, Youth Activities Ms. Phyllis Dohanian, Fundraising Projects Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt, Regions Mrs. Craig W. Fisher, Tanglewood Mrs. August R. Meyer, Membership Mrs. Mark Selkowitz, Tanglewood Ms. Ellen M. Massey, Public Relations Chairmen of Regions Mrs. Thomas M. Berger Ms. Prudence A. Law Mrs. FL. Whitney Mrs. Charles A. Hubbard Mrs. Robert B. Newman Mrs. Thomas H.P. Whitney Mrs. Herbert S. Judd, Jr. John H. Stookey Mrs. Norman Wilson Mrs. Thomas Walker Seiji Ozawa Symphony Orchestra, a post he relin- quished at the end of the 1968-69 season. Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January 1968; he had previously appeared with the orchestra for four summers at Tanglewood, where he became an artistic director in 1970. In December 1970 he began his inau- gural season as conductor and music director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The music directorship of the Boston Symphony followed in 1973, and Mr. Ozawa resigned his San Francisco posi- tion in the spring of 1976, serving as music advisor there for the 1976-77 season. As music director of the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strength- The 1985-86 season is Seiji Ozawa's thir- ened the orchestra's reputation inter- teenth as music director of the Boston Sym- nationally as well as at home, beginning phony Orchestra. In the fall of 1973 he with the BSO's 1976 European tour and, in became the orchestra's thirteenth music March 1978, a nine-city tour of Japan. At director since it was founded in 1881. the invitation of the Chinese government, Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, to Mr. Ozawa then spent a week working with Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both the Peking Central Philharmonic Orches- Western and Oriental music as a child and tra; a year later, in March 1979, he returned later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School to China with the entire Boston Symphony of Music with first prizes in composition for a significant musical and cultural and conducting. In the fall of 1959 he won exchange entailing coaching, study, and first prize at the International Competition discussion sessions with Chinese musi- of Orchestra Conductors, Besancon, cians, as well as concert performances. Also France. Charles Munch, then music in 1979, Mr. Ozawa led the orchestra on its director of the Boston Symphony and a first tour devoted exclusively to appear- judge at the competition, invited him to ances at the major music festivals of Tanglewood, where in 1960 he won the Europe. Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Sym- Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student phony celebrated the orchestra's one-hun- conductor, the highest honor awarded by dredth birthday with a fourteen-city the Berkshire Music Center (now the American tour in March 1981 and an inter- Tanglewood Music Center). national tour to Japan, France, Germany, Austria, and England in October/November While working with Herbert von Karajan that same year. In August/September 1984, in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the Mr. Ozawa led the orchestra in a two-and- attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he one-half-week, eleven-concert tour which accompanied on the New York Philhar- included appearances at the music festivals monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was of Edinburgh, London, Salzburg, Lucerne, made an assistant conductor of that orches- and Berlin, as well as performances in tra for the 1961-62 season. His first profes- Munich, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. This sional concert appearance in North February he returns with the orchestra to America came in January 1962 with the San Japan for a three-week tour. Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the Ravinia Festival for Mr. Ozawa pursues an active interna- five summers beginning in 1964, and music tional career. He appears regularly with the director for four seasons of the Toronto Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the French National Radio Orches- music of Ravel, Berlioz, and Debussy with tra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philhar- mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and monia of London, and the New Japan the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Philharmonic. His operatic credits include Isaac Stern; in addition, he has recorded Salzburg, London's Royal Opera at Covent the Schoenberg/Monn Cello Concerto and Garden, La Scala in Milan, and the Paris Strauss's Don Quixote with cellist Yo-Yo Ma Opera, where he conducted the world for future release. For Telarc, he has premiere of Olivier Messiaen's opera recorded the complete cycle of Beethoven St. Francis of Assist in November 1983. piano concertos and the Choral Fantasy Messiaen's opera was subsequently with Rudolf Serkin. Mr. Ozawa and the awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique 1984 orchestra have recorded five of the works in the category of French world premieres.

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