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May 6, 1988 Ga'a Bönen Co Ctvm Am Getty Mrs. Artur Rubinstein Kray Callaie Hail James D WoJensctm 22 Square de L'Avenue Foch Paris FRANCE
Dear Mrs. Rubinstein,
I am very pleased co be able to provide you with more specific details about "Bernstein at 701" The Celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 70th Birthday at Tanglewood in August. As we indicated in an earlier letter, both Seiji Ozawa and I hope that you will be able to join us for this important occasion.
Thu celebration will begin on Thursday, August 25, with a Gala Birthday Performance featuring many of Lenny's important works from the fields of both popular and symphonic music. The evening will include a supper prior to the performance for those persons participating as Benefactors and Patrons. There will also be a party in honor of Lenny for members of the cast and Benefactors following the performance. We have enclosed a schedule of the entire weekend for your convenience and a response card which we would appreciate having returned to us as soon as possible.
David Burnham, who is coordinating arrangements for us, will be pleased to offer any assistance you might need in making arrangements for hotel accom modations. Please feel free to call him at (617) 266-9032 if you have any questions pertaining to plans for the weekend.
We look forward to the possibility of having you with us for this most important and exciting tribute to one of the world’s pre-eminent musicians.
Kenneth Haas Managing Director
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Ann Getty. Kitty Carlisle l l.iri, |amc» WolfeiiMihn CoC.lwirmcn Tlic Benefit Committee Tlw Board of Trustee* of The Boston Symphony Orchestra request the pleasure of your company at BERNSTEIN AT 7
The Tanglewood Music Center—one of the great inusti.d snslitutums of thr world—was established by the Boston Symphony in 1940, fultiiling the dream of Serge Kouwev ilzky that Tangleworn! would lie the setting not only for summer festival concert* by the < IrchcMra. but for an international music academy as welL There, with "summers sjk-iii living and working hi music,” the world’s inosr promising young musician* could accomplish intensive work in performance alongside and under the aegis of a great f kihcstra, help ng them to make the difficult transition from formal studies to concert stages.
Today that dream is a reality. Each year mure than ..f rhe be« voung muucans from aero» the country and around the world auditton for the mveted 145 tmtioiHfrcc powtioni in the Tanglcwood Musk Center Fellowship Program. Typically the student enrollment include* students from some 55 Mate* and 25 foreign countries.
Alumni of the Tanglcwood Music Center make significant contributions to musn around the world. Instrumentalists Irorn the program make up about Jf>% al the lit major American orchestras and occupy some 35‘A of (he principal chain in those orchestras. < )vcr the years participants ill the Fellowship Program have included such artists asGluudio Ahlxido. Bur: Bacharach. Luciano Berio, Phyllis Curtin, David Del Tredict. Christoph von Dohnlnyi. Jacob Druckman, Marin l-anza, Wynton Marsalis, Zubin Mi Illa, Sherrill Milnes, Scip Oy.iw.i, Leontyne Price. Ned Rorem. and Shirley Verrett, who studied and performed at a critical stage of their development with such rhstinguisherl faculty as Sarah Caldwell. Aaron Copland, Boris Goldovsky, Erich Lritisdurf, Yu-Yu Ma, Gtegor Piatigursky, Andre Previn, Gunther Schuller, and Leonard Bernstein himself, who has served lor virtually every year on the faculty.
Proceeds from "Bernstein at 70!". the gala celebration of Leonard Bernsteins accomplishments as conductor, composer, (cache: and performer, will help to ensure the cnntinibilion of this institution that has meant so much to musicians and tnusic lovers .ill over the world. Honorary Committee
Claudio Abbadu |ahn Guare Nathan Milucin Anp Silja Maurice Abravanel Ki Hun. Edward Heath Phylli* Newman Beverly Sills Edward Albee Dame Gwyneth Jones Seiji Ozawa Alvin Singleton Claudio Arrau Quincy Jone* George I’erk Sir Georg Solti Uuien Bacall Madeline Kahn Shirley Gabis Perle Stephen Sondheim Daniel Barenboim Gilbert Kalish Bernadette Peters Stephen Spender Pierre Boulez (iene Kelly George Arne* Plimpton Frederica von Stadr Sarah Caldwell Leon Kirchner André Previn Isaac Stern Bruy (xunden Oliver Kriuwcn Hamid Prince William Styron Aaron Copland Arthur l-aurents Sid Ramin Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Phyllo Curtin lames Lx vine Jerome Robbins Michael Tilwn Tlmma Gordon Davidion Yo-Yo Ma Ned Rorem Slur 1er Verre« Chnitoph von Dohnanyi Peter Martin* Patricia Routledge ('lui let Wadsworth Davicl Del Trcdici John Mmxeri Susan Sarandon William Warfield Jacob Druckrnan Roddy McDouall Peter Sr hat Elie Wiesel Eileen Farrell Zubin Mehta William Schuman John Williams Robert Ftzdalc Sir Yehudi Menuhin James Schwabacher Yehudi Wyner Leon Flasher Melina Mercouri Stephen Schwartz Committee if/ formation laika* Frtex Sherrill Milnes Harold Shapero Arthur Gobi Bright Sheng Adolph Green Maxim Shostakovich Ann Mr. and Mrs. Amyjs Aina loan Bennett Kennedy Mr. anti Mrs. Nnrio t )hgj Mr. and Mrs Lionel Krvrr Senator lohn F Kerry Jacqueline Kennedy Onasvi* Mr. and Mk. Humphrey Button Mt und Mn George H. Kidder Mr. and Mrs. Andtall Pearson Mr. and .Mr*. Schuyler ('lupin Dr. and Mrs. Leo Kirch Anne ind Martin Peretz Mn. Nat Cole Mr. and Mr#. Michael V Korda Mr and Mrs. Thoma* D. Perry, It. MW. A. Werk Cook Mr. I larry I Kraut Mt and Mrs. Samuel Pitot (nanne Toor Cummtngi Mt. and Mrs. David Lloyd Krcegct William mid Lta Puorvu Governor and Mr*. Mario (dromo Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Chet Krcntzman Mr. und Mr». Irvmg W. Rabb Mr. D. Ronald Daniel Mathilde and Arthur B. Krim Dr. mil Mn. Raymond IL Schneider Mr. and Mrs. Nelson (. Darling. Ir Ixe Lamont Mr. Avi Shosluni Mi John Ditirnmund Mt. and Mrs. Frederick Lazarus III Mn. |ouett Shouse Governor and Mrs. Militaci S. Dukakis The Honorable and Mn. lohn V Lindsay The Honorable anti Mrs. Leonard Silverstein Osborn and Inger Elliott The Honorable and Mrs. Sol M. Lmowi'.z Mt. ami Mrs Stephen E. Smith .Mr. Paul Epstem Dr Carsate Mazzonts Mr. ami Mrs. Stephen Stamuv Mrs. Harns Fahnestock Senator and Mrs Howard M. Metzerikium Mrs. Arthur Stanton Mr. and .Mn. Sampson R. Field The Honorable and Mrs. Wolter F Mondjlc Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stiita The Honorable and Mrs. John I I Fitzpatrick 1 Lnac .Mori Elizabeth and George Stevens. Jr Mr. and Mrs. George G Gallant? Mr anti Mrs. Akin Minna The Honorable and Mrs. Roger 1_ Stevens Henry and Mary Rodgrr* Giiciiel Helen S Morns Mr und .Mrs. Sidney Stoncman Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Halhg Mr. Carlos Moseley Mr. and Mrs. George Weissman Mr. and Mrs. Naoyasu Kajimnio Senator and Mrs. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Mr Robert Whitehead Senator Edward M. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Edward N Ney Mr and Mrs. Ronald A. Will'ord Bernstein at 71)' The Cdcbr.it ichi Thursday. August 2S (rjiti RtrtMiiy Petffirmjnt* 8:«lp.ni It it inn Symphony < Jrvbcstr* conducted by Seiji Ozawa, |ohn Williams, lohn Maucen an.) Michael Tilson Tlmniav with distinguished artists from the l>cl Friday. August 26 Tangiat'wtd A/ron G«Mrt' Saturday. August 27 Bermtrin MASS. -I Thame I'xrcfot lingers. Pktynf ¿nd Dmwi. A 8:30 pm. fully staged production from the Indiana University Opera Theater Sunday, August 28 Hm'tm A'j wpZorri Ikxktilrt Ixonard Bernstein. conductor Haydn Symphony No. 8X Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 IfflW 7^ y „ Bernstein Tangjewœd