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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1974 Artistic Directors SEIII OZAWA Berkshire Festival GUNTHER SCHILLER Berkshire Music Center LEONARD BERNSTEIN Adviser Ian ewood 1974 BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL ' » I. \ 3£ tA fi!tWtJ-3mA~%^-u my*9^V r 1 t '," ' r ' ' T nfii , rum'*' / -'^ ])Jiit»~ }fil<'fj>it >'W BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director 3 ***** M , * <• v * > •« 3H a placf to think An established, planned community designed to preserve the ecostruc- ture of the original forest-dirt roads, hiking paths, lakes and ponds, clean air, 4 to 6 acres all by yourself, neigh- boring on a 15,000 acre forest. Strong protective covenants. Restricted to ^ 180 lots. By appointment only. Tel. 413-623-8933 becket ' RECENT RECORD RELEASES BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SEIJI OZAWA BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique DG/2530 358 THE GREAT STRAVINSKY BALLETS album includes Petrushka and Suite from The firebird RCA VCS 7099 i ) conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM MOZART & SCHUBERT (October release) Symphony no. 41 in C K. 551 'Jupiter' Symphony no. 8 in B minor 'Unfinished' DG/2530 357 conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG HINDEMITH Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' { DG/2530 246 Concert music for strings and brass ) conducted by MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS \ STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps ' Le roi d'etoiles DG/2530 252 conducted by CHARLES MUNCH THE WORLD'S FAVORITE CONCERTOS album includes Mendelssohn's Violin concerto with Jascha Heifetz RCA LSC 3304 THE WORLD'S FAVORITE CONCERTOS album includes Beethoven's Violin concerto with Jascha Heifetz RCA LSC 3317 conducted by ERICH LEINSDORF THE WORLD'S FAVORITE CONCERTOS album includes Tchaikovsky's Piano concerto no. 1 with Artur Rubinstein RCA LSC 3305 conducted by ARTHUR FIEDLER THE WORLD'S FAVORITE SYMPHONIES album includes the 'New World' symphony of Dvorak RCA LSC 3315 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON and DUCBZ/D Variations on a Theme by Palaset. Open with simple plastic cubes, 13 1/2" square, in white or brown. Then introduce variations, with doors, drawers (deep or shallow), shelves, dividers, and bases. Compose just the right arrangement for what you want to store or display. As a finale, admire the static-free cleanability of the Palaset system's painted matte finish. Audition it at either of our stores. THE UPPER STORY THE LOWER STORY 1045 Massachusetts Ave. 171 Huron Ave. Cambridge. 547-3994 Cambridge. 547-5938 Free parking in rear The sculptures displayed at Tanglewood this summer are by two Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. This artists closely associated with the Berkshires. spring he had a one-man show at the Lee Ault Gallery, his New York representative. Richard Stankiewicz, who has lived and worked in Hunt- Will Horwitt grew up in Lenox where he started working ington, Massachusetts since 1962, teaches at the State in sculpture, continuing his studies at the Art Institute of University of New York in Albany, and has recently been Chicago. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in creating many of his works in a Pittsfield foundry. His 1965, he is represented in the collections of the Boston activities as a sculptor-teacher have taken him to Tampa, Museum of Fine Arts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Mu- Florida and Sydney, Australia. He is represented in the seum, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Smith principal museums of the United States — among them College Museum of Art, among others. His works have the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of been widely shown in this country, most recently at the American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago — as well as the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Tel Aviv Museum. The Zabriskie Gallery, New York City, is his representative. Will Horwitt: 'SKY 1963' Richard Stankiewicz: '1973-10' Private Collection, photograph by Charles Uht 'VM +~>2 nam iir We don't have to tell you how good the Boston Symphony Orchestra is. H v*< And we don't have to tell you why they chose to record on Deutsche Grammophon. %'C.V *Rl^^p'ft ncomparable recordings of incomparable performances. 5ISJ ^ Deutsche >.*> - \jhamnwprwn wzsk W ^H BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 TANGLEWOOD 1974 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 JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to the Manager Educational Affairs DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood HARRY NEVILLE Program Editor program copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. TANGLEWOOD LENOX MASSACHUSETTS Everyone's Guide to the Friends of Music or.' fefep ^Tr? Membership in the Friends of Music TENT The Tanglewood Tent, available to con- tributors of $50 and over, provides a hospi- at Tanglewood provides with exciting MEMBERSHIP you many table gathering place behind the Music opportunities and priviliges all year long. Shed where food and drink may be pur- chased on concert days. Hot buffet dinners It's the secret buy of the Berkshires! are served on Saturday evenings begin- ning at 6:30 p.m. Reservations must be made through the Friends Office no later than 10:00 a.m. on the Friday morning pre- ceding each Saturday evening buffet. FREE Over 40 concerts each summer by the SPECIAL Two convenient reserved parking areas are BERKSHIRE members of the Berkshire Music Center, PARKING available to all donors of $100 or more for MUSIC CENTER the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer FOR FRIENDS all Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts: CONCERTS academy for the advanced study of music. either the Box Parking Lot (Hawthorne FOR ALL These outstanding mid-week concerts in- Street entrance), or the Tent Parking Lot MEMBERS clude chamber music recitals, full orches- (West Street entrance). tra concerts, vocal and choral programs, and the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, Tanglewood's "festival within a BERKSHIRE Contributors of $250 and over may audit festival." Individual memberships in the selected classes in the Berkshire Music Friends are available for $15.00; Family MUSIC Center's Listening and Analysis Seminar. memberships are available for $25.00. CENTER CLASSES Those wishing to attend should check with the Berkshire Music Center Office in the ADVANCE In the early spring, all Friends will be sent Main House at Tanglewood for a class PROGRAM advance Berkshire Festival programs and schedule. INFORMATION ticket ordering forms, as well as receive AND TICKET the "Symphony/Tanglewood Newsletter." ORDERING NAMED Fellowships are awarded each summer to FORMS FELLOWSHIPS the Berkshire Music Center's most promis- ing members. $1,000 Fellowships and $500 Associate Fellowships are awarded in the A fascinating series which grows more TANGLEWOOD name of the donor or whomever the donor popular each year, these informal talks on TALKS elects, and will help to underwrite the Thursdays at 12:30 in the Tanglewood Tent AND WALKS cost of one Berkshire Music Center mem- present a member of the Boston Symphony ber's 8-week study program. Orchestra or visiting guest artist, followed by a special guided tour of the Tanglewood grounds. Those bring picnic attending a FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT TANGLEWOOD lunch — refreshments provided! Please call the Friends Office for reservations. LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS 01240 413/637-1600 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. VERNON R. ALDEN Chairman MRS FRANK G. ALLEN Vice-Chairman MRS STEPHEN V. C. MORRIS Secretary HAZEN H. AYER MRS THOMAS GARDINER FRANK E. MORRIS ROBERT C. ALSOP MRS CHARLES GARSIDE DAVID MUGAR LEO L BERANEK STEPHEN W. GRANT DR BARBARA W. NEWELL DAVID W. BERNSTEIN BRUCE HARRIMAN JOHN T. G. NICHOLS ). CARTER BROWN MRS RICHARD D. HILL DAVID R. POKROSS CURTIS R. BUTTENHEIM JOHN HOLT MRS PRISCILLA POTTER MRS NORMAN L. CAHNERS RICHARD S. HUMPHREY JR MRS FAIRFIELD E. RAYMOND LEVIN H. CAMPBELL III MRS JIM LEE HUNT MRS PETER VAN S. RICE GEORGE H. A. CLOWES JR DAVID O. IVES MRS GEORGE R. ROWLAND SILVIO O. CONTE MRS LOUIS I. KANE MRS A. LLOYD RUSSELL JOHN L. COOPER GEORGE H. KIDDER DONALD B. SINCLAIR ROBERT CUSHMAN LEON KIRCHNER SAMUEL L. SLOSBERG ' MICHAEL J. DALY MRS JAMES F. LAWRENCE RICHARD A. SMITH NELSON J. DARLING JR RODERICK MacDOUGALL MRS RICHARD H. THOMPSON HENRY B. DEWEY john Mclennan STOKLEY P. TOWLES RICHARD A. EHRLICH colman m. mockler jr D. THOMAS TRIGG PAUL FROMM mrs charles l. moore ROBERT G. WIESE MRS THOMAS J. GALLIGAN mrs elting morison VINCENT C.ZIEGLER w Spend an evening-or a week-with us! r A lot of places serve steak. But The Colonial Hilton Inn— a magnificent modern there's only one steak house like 14-story inn right in the heart of the Berkshires the Branding Iron. Maybe it's the ...a complete resort complex with luxurious charcoal broiling, or the salad bar air-conditioned rooms and suites, dining in or the draft beer. Maybe it's the three restaurants, glass-domed pool, saunas, decor—as elegantly casual as any cinema, indoor parking and two-level shopping steak house and "saloon" east of plaza— all under one roof.* San Francisco .
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