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X f *r .:.. p : ,[ , .. :.,.._ intermission uvz _F I am concerned about next year's soaring vacation costs. T _F A Berkshire "summer" whets my appetite for other Berkshire seasons. T _F I like the best of two worlds. The Berkshires now, March in the sun. Did you find yourself checking "TRUE" more than once? IDEA! Share your vacation dream with "The Fox". The Ponds at Foxhollow offers the ultimate in affordable time-shared vacations: a famous 230-acre country estate- turned resort. Lovely lake, sailing, riding, tennis, pool, posh dining, evening entertainment. Your own home with breathtaking views; exquisitely furnished, even a private Jacuzzi. And the clincher: you can trade at 240 exchange resorts worldwide—and never pay escalating rates again! Out-Fox Vacation Inflation. Make an appointment for a personal tour with wine and ICW cheese welcome. Phone (413) 637-2706, Mass. toll-free 800-292-6631 Out-of-state 800-628-8840 Route 7, Lenox, Mass. 01240 Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundredth Season, 1980-81 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 Edward G. Murray Mrs. James H. Perkins Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan 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 Artistic Development Business Affairs Administrator Joyce M. Snyder Theodore A. Vlahos Richard Ortner Development Controller Administrator, Coordinator Arlene Germain Berkshire Music Center Katherine Whitty Financial Analyst Marc Solomon Coordinator Production of Elizabeth Dunton Boston Council Assistant Director of Sales Caroline E. Hessberg Anita R. Kurland Charles Rawson Promotion Administrator of Coordinator Manager of Box Office Youth Activities Judith Gordon James E. Whitaker James F. Kiley Assistant Promotion Hall Manager, Operations Manager, Coordinator Symphony Hall Tanglewood Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Editorial Printing Production Publications Coordinator Coordinator Programs copyright ®1981 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Walter H. Scott, Stockbridge Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners, Chairman William J. Poorvu Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice -Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding Paul M. Montrone John Q. Adams Haskell R. Gordon Mrs. Hanae Mori Mrs. Frank G. Allen Graham Gund Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Hazen H. Ayer Christian G. Halby Richard P. Morse J. P. Barger Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Richard Bennink Frank Hatch, Jr. David R. Pokross David W. Bernstein Ms. Susan M. Hilles Mrs. Curtis Prout Mrs. Edward J. Bertozzi, Jr. Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Peter C. Read David Bird Richard S. Jackson, Jr. Harry Remis Gerhard D. Bleicken Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry William M. Bulger Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Curtis Buttenheim Leonard Kaplan Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Francis P. Sears Julian Cohen Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. Gene Shalit Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. Carl Koch Donald B. Sinclair Johns H. Congdon Robert K. Kraft Richard A. Smith Arthur P. Contas Harvey C. Krentzman Peter J. Sprague Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Mrs. Michael H. Davis Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Richard H. Thompson William S. Edgerly Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mark Tishler, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick C. Charles Marran Ms. Luise Vosgerchian Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Mrs. August R. Meyer Robert A. Wells Paul Fromm Edward H. Michaelsen Mrs. Donald Wilson Carlton P. Fuller J. William Middendorf II John J. Wilson Take the Music home with you— The complete selection of recorded classics you'll find at the Coop makes it possible to enjoy tonight's selected pieces whenever you like Choose your favorite renditions from the many different recordings available HARVARD SQUARE New England's Largest Record Center The Boston Symphony's 1981-82 season—the Orchestra's 100th- irthday year—will comprise a glorious season of concert programs, guest conductors and / soloists. / Under Music Director Setji Ozawa, the HBSO will present a subscription series in / {Symphony Hall \n Boston; in Carnegie / ! Hall in New York; and at the Ocean / ! State Performing Arts Center in ml I Providence. Joining Ozawa will be BSO I Principal Guest Conductor Sir Colin Davis, Claudio Abbado, l Leonard Bernstein, Antal Dorati, Kurt Masur, and Klaus Tennstedt. Among the guest soloists are pianists Martha Argerich, Misha Dichter, Rudolf Serkin; soprano Jessye Norman, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and violinist Itzhak Perlman. Share in the tradition of the past, the excitement of the present, and the anticipation of a second century of excellence by subscribing now to the Boston Symphony's 100th-birthday season in Boston, New York or I Providence. | If you would like to receive a subscription brochure with complete program and ticket information, please write the Subscription Office, Symp" Hall, Boston, Mass. 02115, or calf (617)266-1492. O^K SYMPHONY IB (_) lH.OR.CHh S IRA -y i O ^B This is a CoacK Belt N2 7807 fyflifc m&mmmWmM. .... "''*?.'::";;. ;,:*§»>: -,;: 'A; It is one of twenty belts fl W we make out of leather-trimmed wools Jj » and linens in a wide range of colorful ^Umf stripes and solids in both men's and women's sizes. These belts, as well as our Glove Leather belts, are sold in selected storesthroughout the country. If you cannot find the Coach® Belt you want in a store near you, you can also order it directly from the Coach Factory in New York. For Catalogue and Store List write or call: Consumer Service, Coach Leatherware, 516 West 34th Street, New York City 10001. Tel: (212) 594-3914 TANGLEWOOD The Berkshire Festival In August 1934, a group of music-loving summer residents of the Berkshires organized a series of three outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be given by members of the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Henry Hadley. The venture was so successful that the promoters incorporated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival and repeated the experiment during the next summer. The Festival Committee then invited Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to take part in the following year's concerts. The orchestra's Trustees accepted, and on 13 August 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first concerts in the Berkshires (at Holmwood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later the Center at Foxhollow). The series again consisted of three concerts and was given under a large tent, drawing a total of nearly 15,000 people. In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan family estate, with its buildings and 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to Koussevitzky and the orchestra. The offer was gratefully accepted, and on 5 August 1937 the festival's largest crowd so far assembled under a tent for the first Tanglewood concert, an all -Beethoven program. At the all-Wagner concert which opened the 1937 festival's second weekend, rain and thunder twice interrupted the performance of the Rienzi Overture and necessitated the omission altogether of the Siegfried "Forest Murmurs," music too delicate to be heard through the downpour. At the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, one of the festival's founders, made a fundraising appeal for the building of a permanent structure. The appeal was broadened by means of a printed circular handed out at the two remaining concerts, and within a short time enough money had been raised to begin active planning for a "music " pavilion. Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an elaborate design that went far beyond the immediate needs of the festival and, more important, went well beyond the budget of $100,000. His second, simplified plans were still too expensive, and he finally wrote that if the trustees insisted on remaining within their budget, they would have "just a shed," which "any builder could accomplish without the aid of an architect." The trustees then turned to a Stockbridge engineer, Joseph Franz, to make further simplifications in Saarinen's plans in order to lower the cost. The building that he erected remains, with modifications, to this day; it is still called simply "the Shed." The Shed was inaugurated for the first concert of the 1938 festival. It has echoed with the music of the Boston Symphony Orchestra every summer since, except for the war years 1942-45, and has become almost a place of pilgrimage to millions of concertgoers. By 1941, the Theatre-Concert Hall, the Chamber Music Hall, and several small studios — all part of the Berkshire Music Center, which had begun operations the preceding year— were finished, and the festival had so expanded its activities and its reputation for excellence that it attracted nearly 100,000 visitors. Today Tanglewood annually draws close to a quarter of a million visitors; in addition to the twenty-four regular concerts of the Boston Symphony, there are weekly chamber music concerts, "Prelude" concerts and open rehearsals, the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, and MORE MUSIC FORYOUR MONEY.

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