^M *. / -^•rt § idredth Season . im M MST SOFTENS EVERYTHING rr touches. What a pleasant way to feel the soft touch of Irish Mist, in "Liquid Sunshine" Start with a tall glass of ice. add 1 part Irish Mist and 3 parts orange juice, Irish Mist, the centuries old liqueur sweetened with a hint of heather honey, will blend with almost anything. Pour the soft touch of Irish Mist anytime . anywhere. You'll like the way it feels. IRISH MIST THE LEGENDARY SPIRIT Imported Irish Mist® Liqueur. 70 Proof. ©1980 Heublein, Inc., Hartford, Conn. U.S.A. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundredth Season, 1980-81 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. Norman L. Cahners George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. David G. Mugar Mrs. George Lee Sargent Archie C. Epps III Albert L. Nickerson William A. Selke Mrs. John L. Grandin Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Allen G. Barry John T. Noonan Richard P. Chapman Mrs. James H. Perkins Edward G. Murray John L. Thorndike 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 Caroline E. Hessberg Theodore A. Vlahos Anita R. 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" A UNIT OF ALLIED STORES BSO BSO Recordings Honored Two Boston Symphony recordings conducted by Music Director Seiji Ozawa have been singled out in High Fidelity magazine's thirteenth annual International Record Critics Awards: the BSO recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was named one of the three best recordings of 1980 ("all [the jurors] thought it about the best they had ever heard ... If someone who has never before heard Gurre-Lieder picks up this record, he will fall in "). love with it . And Ozawa's recording with violin soloist Itzhak Perlman of the Alban Berg and Igor Stravinsky violin concertos was included among the recordings nominated for best of the year. BSOonWGBH Interviews by Robert J. Lurtsema with BSO personalities and guest artists continue this season on WGBH-FM-89.7's Morning Pro Musica. Coming up: conductor and former BSO music director Erich Leinsdorf on Monday, 1 December at 1 1 a.m., pianist Emanuel Ax on Thursday, 4 December at 1 1 a.m., conductor James Conlon on Friday, 16 January at 1 1 a.m., and composer Theodore Antoniou on Monday, 19 January at 1 1 a.m. Junior Council Memberships The Junior Council is a group of young men and women who undertake a variety of fundraising activities on behalf of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, including "Opening Night at Pops." New members are admitted in September, January, and May. Membership inquiries are most welcome and should be directed to the membership chairman, Mrs. Lewis Cabot, at 723-7328. Symphony Hall Tours Guided tours of Symphony Hall are available on most Tuesdays, and some Wednes- days, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. from 1 October until the end of the Pops season in mid- July; other days may be available by special arrangement. 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I CALL TOLL-FREE IN MASSACHUSETTS 1-800-952-7443 OR IN 1-800-343-7111. 1 RHODE ISLAND BSO_ 13 These policies are available only in those jurisdictions which permit the sale of John Hancock Variable Life Insurance. "The phrasings, colors and dynamic inflections of the music unfolded with winning simplicity and seeming effortlessness.' THE NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 1979 SUNDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 7 AT 4 PM GILBERT KALISH, PIANIST JOHN HARBISON, CONDUCTOR SCHUMANN Three Romances for oboe and piano SHIFRIN 'In Eius Memorlam' SOLLBERGER 'Sunflowers' (1977) for flute and percussion DVORAK Piano Trio in f Remaining Tickets available at the Jordan Hall Box Office $!*>$, $6.50, $5.50 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 1935 in Shenyang, China, 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 highest honor, the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor.