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The first concert in the Cabot-Cahners Room

ALEXIS WEISSENBERG piano

MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS RALPH GOMBERG oboe HAROLD WRIGHT clarinet SHERMAN WALT bassoon CHARLES KAVALOSKI horn

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Alexis Weissenberg plays the Steinway piano

THE BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS RECORD EXCLUSIVELY FOR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & RCA RECORDS

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 annually over 400,000 dollars to nearly one hundred pensioners and their widows. Pension Institution income

is derived from Pension Fund concerts, from open rehearsals in Sym- phony Hall and at Tanglewood and from radio broadcasts, for which the members of the Orchestra donate their services. Contributions are also made each year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representa- tives of the players and the Corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors.

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SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser

SEIJI OZAWA, Music Adviser to the Boston DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS COLIN Symphony, Artistic Director of the Berk- Principal Guest Conductors shire Festival, and Music Director of the , was born in Hoten, Manchuria, in 1935. He graduated Sunday evening February 18 1973 at 8.30 from the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, where he won first prizes in composition and con- SEIJI OZAWA conductor ducting, then went to Europe in 1959, and won the first prize at the International Competition of conductors at Besanoon; one of the judges was Charles Munch, who *BERLIOZ Overture 'Le carnaval romain' op. 9 invited him to Tanglewood to be a conducting student. The following year Seiji Ozawa received the Koussevitzky Memorial Scholarship as the outstanding young conductor at the Berkshire Music Center. Appointed one of the 's assistant conductors in 1961, he *BEETHOVEN Piano concerto no. 4 in G op. 58 directed the orchestra in several concerts. The same summer he con- ducted twenty-five concerts in Japan with the NHK and Japanese Phil- Allegro moderato harmonic Orchestras. Andante con moto Rondo: vivace

ALEXIS WEISSENBERG Since that time he has appeared extensively in Europe and America with many of the greatest orchestras, among them the London Symphony, the Concertgebouw, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna State Opera, the , Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Pitts- intermission burgh Symphony Orchestras.

HAYDN Symphony no. 60 in C 'II distratto' At the end of the 1968-1969 season Seiji Ozawa resigned his post as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, and devoted the following Adagio - allegro di molto season to guest conducting. During the summer of 1969 he conducted Andante opera for the first time, Cos! fan tutte at Salzburg, and was principal Menuet & trio guest conductor of the Ravinia Festival. He opened the 1969-1970 season Presto of the New York Philharmonic, and later was guest conductor with Adagio L'Orchestre de , the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and the Philharmonic. Prestissimo

Since the end of the 1972 season at Tanglewood Seiji Ozawa has con- BARTOK Suite from 'The miraculous mandarin' ducted major orchestras at the Lucerne Festival, in Helsinki, Tokyo, Milan, Rome, Berlin, Toronto, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Alexis Weissenberg plays the Steinway piano THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY Next fall Seiji Ozawa becomes Music Director of the Boston Symphony, FOR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON in addition to his duties in San Francisco. He has made many recordings for Deutsche Grammophon labels, including per- BALDWIN PIANO the RCA, Angel and formances by the Boston Symphony of Stravinsky's Firebird and Petrushka DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & *RCA RECORDS suites, and of Orff's Carmina Burana. SOLOISTS and played at the Marlboro Festival for eighteen. In past years he has THE made many recordings, including albums of the Brahms sonatas, Cop- ALEXIS WEISSENBERG, who has appeared land's Sextet, Mozart's Clarinet quintet, and, with and with the Orchestra in recent seasons on Benita Valente, Schubert's Shepherd on the rock. His in New several occasions here in Boston, activities have included appearances with the world's leading quartets, was York, Chicago, and at Tanglewood, the Galimir, Guarneri, Juilliard and Budapest among them. He has toured studied in his born in , . He on several occasions to Europe and South America both with the Na- in Israel, where he made native country, and tional Symphony and the Marlboro Festival players. Harold Wright is a of four- his professional debut at the age member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, with whom he has Africa he came teen. After a tour to South recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. During his career he has taught attend the Juilliard to the United States to privately and at the Catholic University of America in Washington. School. He toured to Israel, Egypt, and South America, then returned to win SHERMAN WALT, principal bassoon of the the Leventritt Competition. He then made his debut with the New York Boston Symphony Orchestra, was born in Philharmonic and began the first of his concert tours throughout the Virginia, Minnesota. He won a scholarship country. He was also invited to appear with the . to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where Alexis Weissenberg has appeared since in all parts of the world, includ- he studied chamber music with Marcel ing tours to North and South America, Europe, the Near and Far East, Tabuteau and bassoon with Ferdinand del and the Soviet Union. Among the major orchestras with which he has Negro. He served in the armed forces dur- performed are the , the Vienna Philharmonic, the Chi- ing the second world war, and was awarded cago Symphony, the Cleveland, the Royal Philharmonic, the Royal the Bronze Star for distinguished combat Danish, the Israel Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Japan Phil- service. In 1947 Sherman Walt joined the harmonic, the Minnesota, the Pittsburgh Symphony, L'Orchestre de Chicago Symphony as principal bassoon. Paris, and the French National. His recordings are on the Angel and RCA He moved to Boston six years later to assume his present position. He

labels. is a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, with whom he has toured and made many recordings for RCA and Deutsche Grammo- RALPH GOMBERG, principal oboe of the phon. He is on the faculties of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood Boston Symphony Orchestra, is the young- and of the New England Conservatory. He has appeared as soloist with est of seven children, five of whom grad- the Boston Symphony on many occasions during the past fifteen years in uated from the Curtis Institute of Music. At Boston, at the Berkshire Festival, and during the Orchestra's tour to the age of fourteen, he was the youngest Europe in 1971. student ever accepted by the distinguished oboe teacher Marcel Tabuteau. Three years CHARLES KAVALOSKI, newly appointed later he was appointed by Leopold Sto- principal horn of the Boston Symphony kowski as principal oboe of the All Ameri- Orchestra, took up his position at the start can Youth Orchestra. Subsequently he of the 1972 Berkshire Festival. Until 1971 principal of , became the New his career was in the world of science: as a City York Center and Mutual Broadcasting Orchestras. He joined the Professor of physics with a Ph.D. degree in Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1949. A member of the Boston Symphony experimental nuclear physics from the Uni- Chamber Players, with whom he has toured to Europe and throughout versity of Minnesota, he was engaged in the United States, is and made many recordings, Ralph Gomberg on the teaching and research at the University of faculties of , the of Music New England Conservatory Washington in Seattle, at the University of and the Berkshire Music at has appeared Center Tanglewood. He many Minnesota, and at the Massachusetts Insti- times as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. tute of Technology. Meanwhile he studied with Christopher Lenba, HAROLD WRIGHT, principal clarinet of the former principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra and Chicago Sym- Boston Symphony Orchestra, was born and phony, and with Robert Elworthy, the present principal in Minnesota. played brought up in Wayne, Pennsylvania. He Before turning to music as a full-time career, Charles Kavaloski 1971 started to play the clarinet at the age of in the Minnesota Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. In the fall of the twelve, and later studied at the Curtis Insti- he was appointed principal horn of the Denver Symphony. During San tute in Philadelphia, where his teacher was past year he was winner of the co-principal horn auditions for the Ralph McLane. He played with the Houston Francisco Symphony, but preferred to decline the position in order to and Dallas Symphonies before his appoint- stay in the running for the post he won subsequently with the Boston ment to the principal clarinet chair of the Symphony. He made his debut as a member of the Boston Symphony Washington National Symphony. For five Chamber Players during the 1972 Berkshire Festival. Charles Kavaloski years he took part in the Casals Festivals, is also on the faculty of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood.