TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS A GALA EVENING OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER Charles Munch, Director Thursdayj August IJj IQ6l For the Benefit of The Berkshire Music Center BALDWIN PIANO R.C.A. VICTOR RECORDS A GALA EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD Performances by the Berkshire Music Center PROGRAMS 4:00 OPERA THEATRE-CONCERT HALL The Opera Department : Boris Goldovsky, assisted by Robert K. Evans, Thomas Philips, Frederic Popper, Arthur Schoep, Felix Wolfes. IL CAMPANELLO (The Night Bell) Opera in One Act Text and Music by Gaetano Donizetti English Version by R. and A. Hilfreich Staged by Arthur Schoep Piano Accompaniment by Robert K. Evans Setting and Lighting by Paul Marantz CAST Don Annibale Pistacchio, an elderly druggist . David Clatworthy Serafina, his bride Jan Saxon Madame Rosa, her mother Joan Caplan Enrico, a rake Jerold Sien Spiridione, Don Annibale's servant ...... James Flannery Wedding Guests ......... Members of the Opera Department The opera takes place in Naples in the eighteenth century. Musical Preparation : Peggy Donovan, Robert Larsen Properties : Robert Larsen, James Flannery INTERMISSION ARLECCHINO Text and Music by Ferruccio Busoni English Version by M. and B. Hilfreich Staged by Boris Goldovsky Piano Accompaniment by Felix Wolfes CAST Matteo, a tailor Richard Golden Cospicuo, a lay brother Eugene Green Bombasto, a doctor Thomas Paul Arlecchino, a rake Anthony Addison Leandro, a singer Emary Mclver Annunziata, Matteo's wife Betty Heidema Colombina, Arlecchino's wife ....... Judi Turano Two warriors, a carter, a donkey Members of the Opera Department The opera takes place in Bergamo in the eighteenth century. Musical Preparation: Maurits Sillem Stage Management and Costume Supervision : Norman Womack Stage Crew : Nick Bellini, Kim Brandt — — 7:00 TANGLEWOOD CHOIR MAIN HOUSE PORCH Choral Department: Hugh Ross; Willis W. Beckett, Alfred Nash Patterson, Associates; 6:00 COMPOSITION THEATRE-CONCERT HALL Dan Border, Coordinator Department of Composition: Aaron Copland, Wolfgang Fortner, Roberto Gerhard GABRIELI JUBILATE DEO CELSO GARRIDO-LECCA DIVERTIMENTO For 8-Part Chorus and Brass Ensemble Donald Reber—Conductor (Santiago, Chile) DEBUSSY TROIS CHANSONS I Introduccion III Nocturno (Charles d' Orleans) Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! (Lord, lovely hast thou made my dear!) Final Jazz II Variaciones IV — Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin (When'er the tambourine I hear) Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain (Cold winter, villain that thou art) Talmon Herz—Conductor WESLEY FULLER ...... PIANO VARIATIONS AARON COPLAND LARK Seymour Schonberg—Conductor (Norton, Massachusetts) JANEQUIN LE CHANT DES OYSEAUX I Adagio III Adagio Alfred Nash Patterson—Conductor Madrigal Quartets conducted by William Catherwood, David Fox, II Presto IV Allegro Talmon Herz, Seymour Schonberg V Moderato BRAHMS i HEAR A HARP The Composer at the Piano Song from Ossian's "Fingal," For Women's Voices, French Horn, and Harp Arletta Helfrich—Conductor MICHAEL FINK CAPRICES FOR CLARINET AND PIANO WILLIAM BERGSMA (Long Beach, California) THREE TRADITIONAL RIDDLES I. The Snow II. The Egg III. The Cow I Cafe II In Between III Excursion David Fox—Conductor VAUGHAN WILLIAMS THREE SHAKESPEARE SONGS I. Full fathom five II. The cloud-capp'd towers PETER LEWIS THREE SONGS—1958 HI. Over hill, over dale Hugh Ross Conductor (Bradford, Rhode Island) LIONEL GREENBERG TEMPUS EST YOCUNDUM I October country (Ray Bradbury) (Now's the Time for Pleasure) Hugh Ross Conductor II The chair was stiff (Artelia Bowne Court) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS O, CLAP YOUR HANDS HI The last poem (Robert Desnos) For Chorus and Brass Ensemble STANLEY SILVERMAN "WHO HURT YOU SO" 8:30 ORCHESTRA, CHORUS AND SOLOISTS MUSIC SHED (New York City) (Edna St. Vincent Millay) Orchestral Department: Eleazar de Carvalho, assisted by Seymour Lipkin. For Soprano and Guitar HAYDN SYMPHONY NO. 99, IN E FLAT MAJOR Guitar Accompaniment by the Composer I. Adagio; Vivace assai III. Menuetto: Allegretto II. Adagio IV. Finale: Vivace Conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho ROGER REYNOLDS .. ACQUAINTANCES JULIET," (Ann Arbor, Michigan) TCHAIKOVSKY "ROMEO AND OVERTURE- -FANTASIA Conducted by Charles Munch I Abrupt II Antic III Acceptance INTERMISSION COPLAND Concert Excerpts from the Opera, "THE TENDER LAND' THE FROMM FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS Conducted by the Composer Peter Marsh—violin David Perkett— oboe FESTIVAL CHORUS Theodora Mantz—violin Arthur Bloom—clarinet SOLOISTS Paul Hersh—viola ane Taylor— j bassoon Laurie Mary Ellen Pracht Mr. Splinters . Eugene Green Donald Caplan McCall—violoncello William Brown—French Horn MaMoss Joan Mrs splinters Joy Mclntyre Grandpa John Perras—flute Mr enI« Thomas Paul pau l Jacobs—piano Chalat - J Martin . MarkBdfort Mrs. Jenks Junetta Jones Marianne Weltman soprano Top Allen Cathcart Robert K. Evans, Robert Larsen, Assisting—Richard Webster, Contrabass Musical Preparation: Peggy Donovan, Frederic Popper, Ross Reimueller COMMITTEE FOR THE GALA EVENING Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky, Chairman THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER Miss Anna R. Alexandre Mrs. Shaun Kelly Twenty years ago, in 1940, The Berkshire Music Center was estab- Mrs. Bruce Crane Mme. Anna de Leuchtenberg lished at Tanglewood. It was the fruition of many years of love, skill, Mrs. William Crane Mrs. Lawrence K. Miller and experience of working with music and musicians by the Director of Mrs. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Mrs. David Huxley the Boston Symphony Orchestra at that time, Serge Koussevitzky. His Mr. C. D. Jackson Mrs. Bruce W. Sanborn idea was that young musicians would find their musical talents sharpened Mrs. David B. Karrick Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith and developed by spending an intensive period in an environment of professional music making, working with professional musicians, and following a professional schedule, and that in so doing the younger gen- ORCHESTRA OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER eration would absorb some of the wisdom, idealism and accumulated understanding of music. VIOLINS VIOLONCELLOS OBOES TRUMPETS talent character Priscilla Brown William Brent Jane Ehrlich Albert Cioffi The and of the Tanglewood students has been Jennifer Creel Nancy Hall Marsha Heller John DePetrillo denned by Ross ,Parmenter (New York Times, August 6, I960): H. June DeForest Ingrid Heim Jay Light Carolyn Mawby "Whether as opera performers, composers of chamber music, choral Lyndl Fowler Nanette Koch Janice Miner Daniel Sapochetti singers or members of a symphony, they approached their work with the Lawrence Franko Ann McMurray James Stubbs Masako Fujii Marianne Marshall utmost sincerity, with unfailing musical sensibility and with the willing- John Golz Hasmig Sare-Kechichian CLARINETS TROMBONES ness to submerge their very considerable talents in the re-creation of Manfred Horr Ronald Saunders Edward Avedisian Harold Blevins music they cared about. The artistic integrity of the students, in fact, was Karen Jackson Michael Stoughton Victor Battipaglia Paul Eickmann just as impressive as the sum total of their gifts and skills. And the extent Oleg Kovalenko Herbert Geller Richard Landry Donna Lohbauer of those gifts was shown most decisively." Craig Watj en Robert Moore Sharon Mulligan BASSES William Wrzesien Kim Taylor Vera Newman Ann Niemiec Mary Christine Atwood TUBA The problem of financing such an undertaking has always been a Robert Pecci Diane Bulgarelli BASSOONS Kenneth Faria thorny one, inasmuch as it is done by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carol Rowles Richard Cohen Isidor Saslav E. Grawford Best which is already dependent on contributions for its continuation, and George Elvin TIMPANI-PERCUSSION Martha Strongin F. James Levinson Janice Low because students of music are seldom persons of means. For example, of John Wehlan Donald Martin Robert Moore Reginald Bonnin the 280 students enrolled at the Berkshire Music Center this year, 186 Brent Rickman Gerald Carlyss James Tranks have had to receive full or partial scholarship aid. The expenses of oper- Richard Webster James Fogg Douglas Igelsrud ating the Music Center will amount to more than $175,000—about $625 VIOLAS FRENCH HORNS Karen Jackson per student. The fees, for those who can pay them, are: Carol Boyd FLUTES Edward Birdwell HARPS Pamela Brand Edwin Black Tuition for 7 weeks $220 Lois Brown Brenton Crane Mary Bovey Marilyn Bone Dormitory for 7 weeks 215 Hilary Hollis Pamela Campbell William Hammond Sally Foster Registration and reservation fee 25 Myrna Janzen Hubert Laws Ruth Lighty Lee Robert Dean Miller Joseph Rinello LIBRARIAN Ronald Sabaroff Gretchen Moore Mary Anne Stephens James Whitaker $460 Payment of these fees by students and the grants from the Tangle- THE TANGLEWOOD CHOIR wood Revolving Scholarship Fund, supported by the gifts of Friends of the Berkshire Center, provide only $95,000 to offset these $175,000 of SOPRANOS ALTOS TENORS BARITONES expenses. Proceeds from tonight's Gala Evening and from the Boston Sally Aaronson Denise Chagnon George Dunbar William Cameron Pops at Tanglewood on August 3rd will reduce the loss of the undertaking Marjorie Axelrad C. Sylvia Chapman Carl Ericson William Catherwood for this season, but there will be a final deficit of considerable size. In Roberta Basnett Rose Marie Collins Talmon Herz David Fox order to carry on the work of the Center, more scholarship aid is needed. Beryl Brigham Lula Gentry Alan Mehlman Chandler Gregg wishes to sponsor a partial or full scholarship, the fol- Patricia Brown Marianne Green James Olesen Abraham Lind For anyone who Florence Dispenza Gloria Paret Bennett Penn Stuart Raleigh lowing amounts are of significance: Marion Hakewessell Janet Pollitt Donald Reber John Rodland Arietta Helfrich Calliope Shenas Ernest Sullivan Seymour Schonberg $625—The cost per student of operating the school Annette Hufendick Carol Sykes Harold Troy Walter Westafer Hilda Kaplan Nancy Walz George Vincent $460—Tuition and dormitory fees for one student for 7 weeks Nancy Lipman Kathryn Tobey $220—Tuition for one student for 7 weeks Mary Violet Pamela Whinston.