TANGLEWOOD ^jS m ram? ' I'' Festival of Contemporary Music August 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 1968 Sponsored by the Berkshire Music Center In Cooperation with the Fromm Music Foundation What tomorrow Sa Be Li sounds like Ai M D Ei B: M Red Seal Albums Available Today Pi ELLIOTT CARTER: PIANO CONCERTO ^ML V< Lateiner, pianist * - ~t ^v, M Jaeob World Premiere Recorded Live M at Symphony Hall, Bostoe X MICHAEL C0L6RASS: AS QUIET AS CI GINASTERA ^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ERICH LEINSDORF * M Concerto for Piano and Orchest ra Steffi! *^^l !***" Br Variaciones Concertantes (1961) (Me^mdem^J&K^irai .55*4 EH Joao Carlos Martins. Pianist Bit* Ei Boston Symphony, ZTAcjlititcvicU o/'Oic/>e*tia& Erich Pa Leinsdori, Conductor St X; ''?£x£ k M Pa gir ' H ** IF ^^P^ V3 SEIJI OZAWA H at) STRAVINSKY wa Victor 5«sp JBT jaVicruit ; M AGON TURANGAlilA SYMPHONY SCHULLER k TAKEMITSU jKiWiB ^NOVEMBER 5TEP5^ 7 STUDIES on THEMES of PAUL KLEE Bk (First recording] . jn BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ERICH LEINSDORF Wk. 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Gustin, Assistant Administrator mm 3w Festival of Contemporary Music presented in cooperation with Hi The Fromm Music Foundation mm Paul Fromm, President Fellowship Program Contemporary Music Activities Gunther Schuller, Head Earle Brown, Robert Gogan, Mario Davidovsky, Andrew Imbrie and Ernst Krenek, Guest Teachers Paul Zukofsky, Assistant The Berkshire Music Center is maintained for advanced study in music sponsored by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Erich Leinsdorf, Music Director Charles Wilson, Assistant Conductor Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager BALDWIN PIANO RCA VICTOR RECORDS - 1 - V Ss PERSPECTIVES B( Li A: M D Ei & M OF Pi V< M M X CI M Bi NEW D« E\ P: St Nj M Ps VI MUSIC H M PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC Participants in this year's Festival are invited to subscribe to the American journal devoted to im- portant issues of contemporary music and the problems of the composer. Published for the Fromm Music Foundation by Princeton University Press. se Editors: Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone ai Ernst Krenek, al Advisory Board: Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Pi Igor Stravinsky. fa L< A. Semi-annual. $5.00 a year. $12.50 three years. For- eign Postage is 25 cents additional per year. Single Pi or back issues are $3.00. Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey — 2 — Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky and Erich Leinsdorf The Berkshire Music Center 3Efc In 1940, the Berkshire Music Center was established at Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in fulfillment of the dream of Serge Koussevitzky, MH its Music Director, to provide an environment in which young musicians could continue their professional training and add to their artistic experience through the guidance of eminent musicians. The Center was developed under his leader- ship until his death in 1951, when he was succeeded by Charles Munch. Erich Leinsdorf has been Director of the Center since 1963 and Joseph Silverstein, UBS Concertmaster of the Orchestra, is Chairman of the Faculty. Since the founding of the Center, one of the principal sponsors of composers and contemporary music at Tanglewood has been the Koussevitzky Music Founda- tion, established in 1 942 by Serge Koussevitzky, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in memory of his wife Natalie. Last year the Festival of Contemporary Music was honored to open the celebration of the Foundation's 25th anniversary with performances of many of the works commissioned by the Foundation. Many visiting composers and composition teachers at the Center work and stay at the Koussevitzky Studio for Composers, located on the Kousse- vitzky estate near Tanglewood, which was established in 1966 by the Foundation in conjunction with the National Federation of Music Clubs. The Director "Each year under the auspices of the Berkshire Music Center and the Fromm Foun- dation, a Festival of Contemporary Music is presented here at Tanglewood. I am very pleased that this festival takes place within our larger Berkshire Festival, for I feel that it offers a unique opportunity both for composers of today to be heard and for audiences to learn the works of their contemporaries. 'T think that the Berkshire Music Center is an ideal environment in which to hold the Festival of Contemporary Music, for here at the Center we are striving to give the young, professional musician a chance to be exposed to as much significant music as possible; and it is as important that the instrumentalist and vocalist be able to hear and participate in the music of today as it is that today's composer be given an opportunity to be performed and heard. "Over the past few years I feel we have made great progress toward the goals which its founder, Serge Koussevitzky, envisioned for the Berkshire Music Center. The Center has indeed become a place where the young, talented musician can gain the practical experience he needs to enter the professional life. The instrumentalists and singers who are members of the Center today are talented indeed and akin to the music which is being composed in our time. Thus they make especially good interpreters of the music which our contemporary composers are writing. "The Festival of Contemporary Music has become an integral and important part of the Berkshire Festival and the Berkshire Music Center. I welcome you to this " year's 'festival within a Festival.' — Erich Leinsdorf V Sa B< L\ A; M D Ei & M Pi V< M WUAtf/ oV OUKUtf QOJtik M W X. CI M SOURCE, unique music periodical of avant-garde composition, Bi D< presents in each issue five or more provocative new works E\ Pc attractively published in open score. St x< M Pa SOURCE provides composers, performers, conductors, scholars, Vi educators, students, Hi amateurs, and libraries with a vital and M Hi long absent forum of today's music. Good Grief! It's Gorgeous. — Robert Ashley, composer, I think you've done beautifully and everyone else is of the same opinion. —John Cage, composer SOURCE appears semiannually, in a large se spiral It ai format, with a binding. averages eighty pages of scores, fifteen of articles, and five of half-tones. pl One year subscription, 2 issues, $9 fa ($12 outside U.S. and Canada) I.< A. Two year subscription, 4 issues, $17.50 ($23 outside U.S. and Canada) Single issue rate, $5 ($7, resp.) of All foreign subscriptions payable in U.S. dollars 330 UNIVERSITY AVENUE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA 95616 4 — Paul Fromm Gunther Schuller THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION The Fromm Music Foundation is dedicated to the furtherance of contemporary music. Wishing to bring the living flow of musical creation closer to the public, the Foundation aims to return the initiative to the composer and to strengthen the most vital source of a healthy musical culture: composition. To foster the realization of this aim, the Founda- tion commissions new works, awards prizes for existing works, and sponsors the study, performance, publication and recording of contemporary music. The Foundation is headed by Paul Fromm of Chicago, its founder and President, and Alexander Schneider, its Associate Director. The Fromm Music Foundation program at Tanglewood was begun in 1957. aH t&i CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT TANGLEWOOD The Contemporary Music Program at the Berkshire Music Center comprises two kinds m of activity: the study and performance of contemporary music, and instruction in com- position for a limited number of composers whose previous studies and experiences have prepared them for work on an advanced level. The program is headed by Gunther m Schuller, President of the New England Conservatory of Music. Student composers not only receive instruction from Mr. Schuller and this year's guest teacher, Ernst Krenek, but also participate in a series of seminars conducted by four visiting com- posers: Robert Cogan, Mario Davidovsky, Earle Brown, and Andrew Imbrie. In addition compositions by the student composers are performed at various Berkshire Music Center concerts, and prepared, as are the concerts of the Festival of Contemporary Music, under the supervision of Mr. Schuller. Mr. Schuller replaces Aaron Copland who retired in 1965 after twenty-five years as head of the Composition Department at the Center. THE FESTIVAL "The Festival of Contemporary American Music was initiated in 1963. The generous support of the Fromm Music Foundation and the farsighted vision of the Berkshire Music Center's Director, Erich Leinsdorf, have made this week-long confrontation with contemporary music an institution at Tanglewood — a festival within a Festival. "Its purposes are manifold. It provides a forum for new ideas and directions in music, and as such has become one of the most important annual events in the vital task of keeping the lines of communication open between composer and public. It also re- affirms the position that music can only survive in our society through the careful nurturing of the creative mind.