^ ~4h *' 4* ^ dM&k? *£; m"i& 6?^ r J* For 104 years we've been serious about people who make music. In 1872 Boston University established the first professional music program within an American university to train creative and talented students for careers in music. 104 years later the Boston University School of Music is still doing what it does best. • Performance • Music Education • History and Literature • Theory and Composition strings music history and literature Walter Eisenberg, violin 'Charles Kavaloski, French horn Karol Berger 'Gerald Gelbloom, violin Charles A. Lewis, Jr., trumpet Murray Lefkowitz 'Bernard Kadinoff, viola 'David Ohanian, French horn Joel Sheveloff Endel Kalam, chamber music Samuel Pilafian, tuba theory and composition ' ' Robert Karol, viola Rolf Smedvig, trumpet David Carney ' Alfred Krips, violin 'Harry Shapiro, French horn David Del Tredici 'Eugene Lehner, chamber music ' Roger Voisin, trumpet John Goodman 'Leslie Martin, string bass 'Charles Yancich, French horn Alan MacMillan George Neikrug, cello percussion Joyce Mekeel ' Mischa Nieland, cello 'Thomas Gauger Malloy Miller Leslie Parnas, cello 'Charles Smith Gardner Read "Henry Portnoi, string bass Allen Schindler " Jerome Rosen, violin harp Tison Street Kenneth Sarch, violin Lucile Lawrence ' Alfred Schneider, violin music education 'Roger Shermont, violin piano Lee Chrisman 'Joseph Silverstein, violin Maria Clodes Allen Lannom Roman Totenberg, violin Anthony di Bonaventura Jack O. Lemons Walter Trampler, viola Lenore Engdahl Mary Ann Norton ' Max Winder, violin Bela Boszormenyi-Nagy musical organizations 'Lawrence Wolfe, string bass Philip Oliver, staff accompanist Edith Stearns Adelaide Bishop, opera woodwinds Fredrik Wanger Warren Wilson, opera Edward Avedisian, clarinet Joseph Huszti, chorus 'Pasquale Cardillo, clarinet organ 'Joseph Silverstein, orchestra 'Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute George Faxon 'Jerome Rosen, repertoire Roderick Ferland, saxophone Jack Fisher orchestra 'Ralph Gomberg, oboe Max Miller ' Roger Voisin, wind ensemble 'John Holmes, oboe harpsichord boston symphony orchestra 'Phillip Kaplan, flute Joseph Payne woodwind quintet in residence 'James Pappoutsakis, flute 'Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flute 'Richard Plaster, bassoon voice 'Ralph Gomberg, oboe 'Matthew Ruggiero, bassoon Eunice Alberts, contralto ' Harold Wright, clarinet 'Felix Viscuglia, clarinet Germaine Arosa, diction * Sherman Walt, bassoon * Sherman Walt, bassoon Mary Davenport, contralto 'Charles Kavaloski, French horn 'Harold Wright, clarinet Terry Decima, vocal coaching empire brass quintet brass Ellalou Dimmock, soprano in residence * Ronald Barron, trombone Maeda Freeman, mezzo Charles A. Lewis, Jr., trumpet Peter Chapman, trumpet Robert Gartside, tenor 'Rolf Smedvig, trumpet John Coffey, trombone Ituba Mac Morgan, baritone 'David Ohanian, French horn * Armando Ghitalla, trumpet Chloe Owen, soprano 'Norman Bolter, trombone Paul Gay, trombone Allen Rogers, vocal coaching Samuel Pilafian, tuba * Gordon Hallberg, Barbara Stevenson, soprano trombone Ituba Wilma Thompson, mezzo 'Member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston University School of Music Wilbur D. Fullbright, Director • Robert Lee Tipps, Assistant to Director offering degrees at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels. School for the Arts: Music, Theatre, Visual Arts • Norman Dello Joio, Dean 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 - *> Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Fifth Season 1975-76 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks President Philip K. Allen Sidney Stoneman John L. Thorndike Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Albert L. Nickerson Allen G. Barry Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Mrs. John M. Bradley David O. Ives Mrs. James H. Perkins Richard P. Chapman E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Abram T. Collier Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Archie C. Epps III John Hoyt Stookey Trustee Emeritus Henry A. Laughlin Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Thomas W. Morris Executive Director Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Dinah Daniels Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Director of Promotion Paul Bronstein Forrester C. Smith Richard C. White Business Manager Development Director Assistant to the Manager Donald W. Mackenzie James F. Kiley Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Operations Manager, Tanglewood John Kronenberger Program Editor Programs copyright ® 1976 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Contents: page page Tanglewood 6 Programs 13-27 Seiji Ozawa 9 Berkshire Music Center 29 Map 10 In and Around The Berkshires 33 Information 11 Friends 35,37 The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. David O. Ives, Chairman Hazen H. Ayer, Vice Chairman Mrs. Arthur I. Strang, Secretary Charles F. Adams Paul Fromm Richard P. Morse Mrs. Frank G. Allen Carlton P. Fuller David G. Mugar Dr. Leo L. Beranek Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Dr. Barbara W. Newell David W. Bernstein Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Stephen Paine David Bird Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. Priscilla Potter Gerhard Bleicken Bruce Harriman Harry Remis Frederick Brandi Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Mrs. Henry B. Cabot Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt Mrs. A. Lloyd Russell Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Leonard Kaplan William A. Selke Levin H. Campbell, III Leon Kirchner Samuel L. Slosberg Dr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Mrs. James F. Lawrence Richard A. Smith Arthur P. Contas Roderick MacDougall Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson The Hon. Silvio O. Conte John S. McLennan Mrs. Edward A. Taft Robert Cushman Colman M. Mockler, Jr. Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Michael J. Daly Mrs. Charles L. Moore Stokley P. Towles Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. Elting E. Morison D. Thomas Trigg Weston P. Figgins Frank E. Morris Julius Vogel Boston University Tanglewood Institute Norman Dello Joio, Executive Director Gary L. Zeller, Administrator Robert Lee Tipps, Music Coordinator Eleventh Season Summer Instrumental and Vocal Programs for the out- standing high school musician. Private study with master artists including members of the faculty of the Boston University School of Music and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music, orchestral and vocal perform- ances at Tanglewood. For information: Boston University Tanglewood Institute, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. A program offered by the Boston University School for the Arts in association with the Berkshire Music Center. Todays Great Piano. For many years Baldwin pianos have been the accompanist to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Berkshire Festival, The Berkshire Music Center, and these 1976 Tanglewood artists: Leonard Bernstein Arthur Fiedler Gilbert Kalish Seiji Ozawa Andre Previn Gunther Schuller Earl Wild TSaldwm Tanglewood In August, 1934, a group of music- loving summer residents of the Berk- shires organized a series of three INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC given by members of the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Henry Hadley. The venture was so World Music Days successful that the promoters incor- porated the Berkshire Symphonic 1976 Festival and repeated the experiment during the next summer. October 24-October 30 The Festival committee then invited Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston New England Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra to take part in the Boston, Massachusetts following year's concerts. The Orches- tra's Trustees accepted and on August A festival of 13 concerts of contemporary 13, 1936, the Boston Symphony gave music representing composers its first concert in the Berkshires (at from 27 countries Holmwood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later the Foxhollow School). The series, again consisting of three concerts, was Performing groups include: given under a large tent, and a total of Boston Symphony Orchestra, nearly 15,000 people attended. New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham University of Iowa Orchestra. Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan offered Tanglewood, the Tap- Conductors: pan family estate, with its buildings and Seiji Ozawa, GuntherSchuller, James Dixon, Richard Pittman 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to Koussevitzky and the Orchestra. Chamber music concerts featuring The offer was gratefully accepted, and Boston MusicaViva. Collage. Societe de on August 12, 1937, the Festival's MusiqueContemporainedu Quebec. largest crowd thus far assembled under The Purcell String Quartet, and others. a tent for the first Tanglewood concert, a program of music by Wagner. For information: As Koussevitzky began The Ride of the ISCM Valkyries, a storm erupted, overpowering New England Conservatory the music and causing the concert to be 290 Huntington Avenue interrupted three times before the first Boston. Massachusetts 02115 half could be completed. The second half Tel. 617-262-0122 of the program had to be changed, because of water damage to some of the instruments, and when the concert ended, Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, one of the Festival's founders, came to the stage and told the audience that the storm had demonstrated the need for a permanent structure. A hundred thousand dollars, she said, would be needed for this purpose, and the response to her plea was so generous