four 99th SEASON 6*1 §M^ y) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director I ^ ^ Accompanist to Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops • Gilbert Kalish • Seiji Ozawa Berkshire Music Center and Festival QUALITY A DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTE State Street Bank and Trust Company invites you to an evening with The Boston Symphony Orehestra every Friday at nine on WCRB/FM. «***--* er^ Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season 1979-1980 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman . Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan Harold D. Hodgkinson Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Lawrence Murray Dorothy Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Promotion Controller Administrator of Coordinator Youth Activities Richard Ortner Elizabeth Elisabeth Dunton Assistant Administrator, Quinn Director of Berkshire Music Center Director of Sales Volunteer Services James F. Kiley Charles Katherine Whitty Rawson Operations Manager, Manager of Tanglewood Coordinator of Box Office Boston Council James E. 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UnionWarren Savings Bank Main Office— 133 Federal Street, Boston r^S$>V>>**-<**a»«-: :'-'• - H:';^-;:''-^"^^^^^^,' 1 'That's my wife, those are the twins, and, on the right, my New England Merchants trust officer" For good advice on personal trust matters, call our Trust Division at (617) 742-4000. Or write >w England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The Bank of New England. BSO BSO on Record Several new Boston Symphony recordings conducted by Music Director Seiji Ozawa are now available. From Philips, there is Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, taped live during Symphony Hall performances last spring and featuring Jessye Nor- man, James McCracken, Tatiana Troyanos, David Arnold, Kim Scown, Werner Klemperer, and John Oliver's Tanglewood Festival Chorus. New on Deutsche Grammophon are Respighi's Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, and Roman Festivals on a single disc and Tchaikovsky's complete Swan Lake, a three-record set. Other recent releases on DG include Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances and a Boston Symphony Chamber Players recording of Strauss waltzes as transcribed by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Still a best-seller is the disc released by Philips last spring in conjunction with the Orchestra's trip to China and which includes Wu's Concerto for Pipa and Orchestra, Liszt's E-flat Piano Concerto, and Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. New Orchestra Faces Three new faces are visible in the ranks of the Boston Symphony this season. Patricia McCarty is the new assistant principal violist and comes to the BSO with experience in orchestral, solo, and chamber music performance; she was pre- viously a member of the Chicago Symphony's viola section. Nancy Bracken is new to our second violin section; she studied at the Curtis Institute and the East- man School of Music and for the past two years was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. French horn player Daniel Katzen has played in the Orchestra since last spring's Pops season and was with the BSO at Tanglewood and for the recent European tour; his past experience includes the Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Chicago Sym- phony, for which he was an extra horn player. Joseph Silverstein and the BSO This season marks Joseph Silverstein's twenty- fifth year with the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra: he joined the Orchestra in 1955 under then Music Director Charles Munch, became Concertmaster in 1962 under Erich Leinsdorf, and was named Assistant Conductor at the beginning of the 1971-72 season under William Steinberg. BSO listeners, orchestra members, and staff note this anniver- sary with considerable pride and thanks. Art Exhibitions in the Cabot-Cahners Room The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to continue its samplings of Boston- based art. Each month a different gallery or art organization will be represented by an exhibition in the Cabot-Cahners Room, and the first half of the season includes: 2 October - 29 October Impressions Gallery 29 October - 27 November Art/Asia 27 November - 27 December Decor International 27 December - 21 January Polaroid 21 January - 18 February Art Institute of Boston Information for Friends Remaining Stage Door Lecture dates, all Fridays, are 7 December, 11 January, 29 February, and 28 March, at 11:45. Luise Vosgerchian will discuss the afternoon's Symphony program. The Council is again presenting a series of Pre-Symphony Suppers for Friends oftheBSO: Tuesday 'B' 23 October, 27 November, 22 April Tuesday 'C 13 November, 11 December, 1 April Thursday A' 15 November, 7 February, 3 April Thursday '10' 18 October, 10 January, 13 March Thursday 'B' 17 January, 21 February, 27 March Please call the Friends' Office at 266-1348 for further information. a round of applause for the store in the heart of the square HARVARD SQUARE MIT. STUDENT CENTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER Seiji Ozawa In the fall of 1973, Seiji Ozawa became the thirteenth Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since the Orchestra's founding in 1881. Born in Shenyang, China in 1935 to Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both Western and Oriental music as a child and later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music with first prizes in composition and conducting. In the fall of 1959 he won first prize at the Interna- tional Competition of Orchestra Con- ductors, Besancon, France. Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, invited him to Tanglewood for the summer following, and he there won the Berkshire Music Center's high- est honor, the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied on the New York Philhar- monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was made an Assistant Conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 season. His first professional concert appearance in North America came in January 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for five summers begin- ning in 1963, and Music Director for four seasons of the Toronto Symphony Orches- tra, a post he relinquished at the end of the 1968-69 season in favor or guest conduct- ing numerous American and European orchestras. Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January of 1968; he had previously appeared with the Orchestra at Tanglewood, where he was made an Artistic Director in 1970. In December of that year he began his inaugural 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 position in the spring of 1976, remaining Honorary Conductor there for the 1976-77 season. As Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strengthened the Orchestra's reputation internationally as well as at home. In February/March of 1976 he conducted concerts on the Orchestra's European tour, and in March 1978 he took the Orchestra to Japan for thirteen concerts in nine cities.