PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING 5 AUGUST 1980 at 8:30 Flute Concerto, And, Most Recently, a Violin Concerto
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PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING 5 AUGUST 1980 at 8:30 flute concerto, and, most recently, a violin concerto. Mr. Williams has composed the music and served as music director for approximately sixty films, including lane Eyre, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, and Dracula. He has recently completed his latest score for the sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and recorded it with the London Sym- phony Orchestra. For his work in films, Mr. Williams ha& received fourteen Academy Award nominations, and he has been awarded three Oscars: for his filmscore arrangement of Fiddler on the John Williams Roof, and for his original scores to Jaws John Williams was named the nine- and Star Wars.This year, he has won his teenth Conductor of the Boston Pops seventh and eighth Grammys: the on 10 January 1980. Mr. Williams was soundtrack of his score for Superman born in New York in 1932 and moved was chosen as best album of an original to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. movie or television score, and the He studied piano and composition at Superman theme was cited as the year's the University of California in Los best instrumental composition. In addi- Angeles and privately with Mario tion, the soundtrack album to Star Castelnuovo-Tedesco; he was also a Wars has sold over four million copies, piano student of Madame Rosina more than any non-pop album in Lhevinne at the Juilliard School in recording history. New York. While in New York, Mr. Williams' conducting experience Williams was active as a pianist, work- includes concerts of light classical music ing with leading jazz musicians both in with orchestras in London, Los clubs and on recordings. He returned to Angeles, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles to rejoin his family and Dallas. He was guest conductor with the began his work in the film studios, Boston Pops for two Symphony Hall working with such composers as Alfred programs in May of 1979, and since his Newman, Dmitri Tiomkin, and Franz appointment as Pops Conductor he has Waxman. Mr. Williams went on to led the orchestra at Carnegie Hall, on a write music for "golden age" television midwestern tour to Chicago, South programs like Alcoa Theater, Kraft Bend, and Detroit, and in Providence. Theater, and Playhouse 90—winning Mr. Williams was also co-conductor for two Emmys for his work in television— a BSO/Pops Marathon fundraiser with and has since become the most sought- BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa shortly after composer of film music in the before he opened his first full season as world. He has also written concert Conductor of the Boston Pops on 29 music, including two symphonies, a April 1980. THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS CONDUCTOR TANGLEWOOD Lenox Massachusetts Tuesday evening 5 August 1980 at 8:30 Coronation March Tchaikovsky The Bronze Horse Overture Auber Concerto No. 1 in g minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 26 Bruch Prelude: Allegro moderato— Adagio Finale: Allegro energico DYLANA JENSON INTERMISSION Midway March Williams Yoda's Theme and the Imperial March, from The Empire Strikes Back Williams Selections from A Little Night Music Night Waltz—Send in the Clowns Sondheim-Tunick 1980 POPS HITS That's Entertainment Schwartz-Hayman Through the Eyes of Love, from Ice Castles Hamlisch-Byers South Rampart Street Parade Bauduc/Haggart-May John Williams and the Boston Pops record exclusively for Philips Records. Baldwin Piano Dylana Jenson At the age of 17, Dylana Jenson Competition, Miss Jenson toured with became the youngest and first woman Milton Katims and the Seattle violinist ever to win the Tchaikovsky Symphony, and the Organization of Competition in Moscow. American States presented her in recital Born in Los Angeles in 1961, Miss in Washington, D.C., a recital which Jenson began playing the violin, guided was broadcast worldwide over the Voice by her mother, before she was 3 years of America. She also appeared in con- old. She received Young Musician certs with the New York Philharmonic Foundation grants and at the age of 7 and Andre Kostelanetz, and with became the protegee of Manuel Com- Thomas Schippers and the Cincinnati pinsky. Under his tutelage she began Symphony. her international concert career. When Miss Jenson substituted for Pinchas she was 13, she received the Martha Zukerman in concerts at the Frankfurt Baird Rockefeller Grant and began Opera House with Jean Martinon, for studying with Nathan Milstein. That Nathan Milstein at his own request at same year she made her European the International Music Festival in debut in recital at Zurich's Tonhalle. Austria, and for Itzhak Perlman with Miss Jenson has appeared on nation- the Indianapolis Symphony in concerts al television in the United States on the that were televised on National Educa- Mery Griffin Show, the Tonight Show tional Television. She has appeared with Johnny Carson, and on the Mike with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Douglas Show. She has also appeared her Hollywood Bowl debut with Arthur on national radio and television in Fiedler, and has made several Central America, Mexico, France, appearances with the St. Louis, Indiana- Switzerland, West Germany, and the polis, and Houston symphonies. Miss Soviet Union. Jenson recently concluded a tour of the Before winning the Tchaikovsky Soviet Union and Poland. The Boston Symphony Pension Institution The Boston Symphony Pension Institution, established in 1903, is the oldest among American symphony orchestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid more than $600,000 annually to nearly one hundred pensioners or their widows. Pension Institution income is derived from Pen- sion Fund concerts, from open rehearsals in Symphony Hall and at Tangle- wood, and from radio broadcasts through the Boston Symphony Trans- cription Trust, for which the members of the Orchestra donate their services. Contributions are also made each year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representatives of the players and the Corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors. Programs copyright ®1980 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. .