Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1985

the benefit of tl Tanglewo)d Music Center fl iHR§& Win a Benefit the Tangiew®d Music Center Scholarship Fund. Enter the Raffle Tickets available at the Drawing Today! Friends Office. Or visit the Tanglewood-on-Parade of a Baldwin Baby Raffle Booth located on Tuesday, August 27, 1 985 Grand Piano* Played the grounds near The Winner will be notified. This Summer at Glass House and *a smaller piano (spinet Tanglewood Tanglewood Music Store; or console) available, if ($15,000 value). open from 6 pm through preferred. Delivery included, intermission of each continental U.S. Employees Donation -$2/ Ticket BSO concert. of the BSO and their $10/ Book of Six Tickets families not eligible. Tanglewood on Parade Tuesday, 27 August 1985 Tanglew<©d Music For the Benefit of the Tanglewood Music Center Center 2:00 Gates Open 5:30 Alpine horn demonstration (Lawn near Box Lot) 2:10 Brass fanfares at Main Gate Drive: 5:45 Balloon Ascension Ronald Barron (Lawn near Box Lot, (Rear of Shed in weather permitting) case of rain) 6:00 Tanglewood Music Center 2:30 Boston University Fellowship Wind Music Tanglewood Institute (Main House Porch; Young Artists Orchestra Shed if rain) (Shed) 7:00 Berkshire Highlanders 2:45 Tanglewood Music Center (Lion Gate; Theatre- Fellowship Vocal Concert Concert Hall if rain) (Chamber Music Hall) 8 : 00 Eastover Train 3:30 Tanglewood Music Center (Main Gate) Chamber Music Concert 8: 15 Fanfare at rear of Shed: (Theatre-Concert Hall) Roger Voisin 3:45 Boston University 8:40 Fanfare from Shed stage: Tanglewood Institute Charles Daval Young Artists Chorus (Shed) 8:50 Raffle Drawing by Seiji Ozawa 4:15 Boston University (Shed stage) Tanglewood Institute Chamber Music Concert 9:00 Gala Concert (Chamber Music Hall) (Shed) Hot air balloon courtesy Charles Joseph of New York City Alpine horns courtesy BSO horn player Daniel Katzen Artillery, cannon, and train supplied by Eastover, Inc. Scottish folk music courtesy the Berkshire Highlanders Fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl following the Gala Concert A Message from Seiji Ozawa I was five years old and living with my But it is costly to operate such a dream. family in China when Serge Koussevitzky The campaign which was announced this founded the Tanglewood Music Center. summer to raise $12 million has as its He dreamed that together a music festival goal to make the TMC self-supporting and a music school would fulfill a vital and to provide much-needed improve- musical need for America. Here in this ments that will make the Theatre-Concert beautiful setting, young musicians could Hall, the smaller shed on the Tanglewood study with the members of the Boston grounds where most student performances Symphony and all of the artists who would take place, more comfortable and attrac- come to Tanglewood. tive for our audiences and performers. Twenty years later I came to America We invite people everywhere who for the first time to study conducting at share our dream for the highest artistic the Tanglewood Music Center at the invi- standards to support us in this effort. By tation of Olga Koussevitzky. Today, ful- attending this summer's Tanglewood on filling Koussevitzky's dream, theTMC Parade, you are helping. In 1990, when continues to welcome the extraordinarily the TMC celebrates its 50th anniversary, talented young instrumentalists, singers, we hope the successful completion of our conductors, and composers who make up goal will enable us to celebrate our distin- our school, and are performing for you guished past and look to an even more today. glorious future. The Tanglewood Music Center is the Thank you. only institution of its kind administered and financed by a major symphony orchestra. Members of the orchestra and I are constantly challenged through our relationship with the students of the TMC to set the very highest standards as an example and, we hope, an ideal. Seiji Ozawa The Tanglewood Music Center Tanglewood is much more than a pleas- now in the New World") and music, the ant, outdoor, summer concert hall; it is first performance of Randall Thompson's also the site of one of the most influential Alleluia for unaccompanied chorus, centers for advanced musical study in the which had been written for the ceremony world. Here, the Tanglewood Music and had arrived less than an hour before Center, which has been maintained by the event was to begin, but which made the Boston Symphony Orchestra ever such an impression that it has remained since its establishment (as the Berkshire the traditional opening music each Music Center) under the leadership of summer. Serge Koussevitzky in 1940, provides a The emphasis at the Tanglewood Music wide range of specialized training and Center has always been not on sheer experience for young musicians from all technique, which students learn with over the world. This year, Leon Fleisher their regular private teachers, but on becomes Artistic Director of the Tangle- making music. Although the program has wood Music Center, succeeding Gunther changed in some respects over the years, Schuller, who held the position for twelve the emphasis is still on ensemble per- years until his departure at the end of the formance, learning chamber music with a 1984 session. group of talented fellow musicians under The TMC was Koussevitzky s pride and the coaching of a master musician- joy for the rest of his life. He assembled teacher. Many of the pieces learned this an extraordinary faculty in composition, way are performed in the regular student operatic and choral activities, and instru- recitals; each summer brings treasured mental performance; he himself taught memories of exciting performances by the most gifted conductors. The school talented young professionals beginning a opened formally on 8 July 1940, with love affair with a great piece of music. speeches (Koussevitzky, alluding to the The Tanglewood Music Center war then raging in Europe, said, "If ever Orchestra performs weekly in concerts there was a time to speak of music, it is covering the entire repertory under the Serge Koussevitzky . T.he Tanglewood Music Ruth S. Morse Fellowship Center is maintained by the Boston Symphony Albert L. and Elizabeth P. Nickerson Fellowship Northern California Fund Fellowship Orchestra to offer advanced training in music to Theodore Edson Parker Foundation Fellowship young professional musicians. The Orchestra David R. and Muriel K. Pokross Fellowship underwrites the cost of operating the Music Center Daphne Brooks Prout Fellowship with generous help from donors to the Annual Harry and Mildred Remis Fellowship Fellowship Program and with the sustaining Hannah and Raymond Schneider Fellowship support of income from the following permanent Surdna Foundation, Inc., Fellowships endowment funds: R. Amory Thorndike Fellowship Augustus Thorndike Fellowship Faculty Funds Other Funds Chairman of the Faculty endowed by the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Anonymous Fund The Rothenberg/Carlyle Foundation Library Fund Head of Keyboard Activities endowed in memory of Charles E. Merrill Trust Fund Marian Douglas Martin by Marilyn Brachman Hoffman. Koussevitzky Centennial Fund Master Teacher endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bowles Jason Starr Fund Alice Willard Dorr Foundation Fund Guarantor Fellowships Carlotta Dreyfus Fund Selly Eiseman Fund Leondard Bernstein Fellowship Eno Ethel Barber Fund Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Fellowship Frelinghuysen Fund Jascha Heifetz Fund Omar del Carlo Tanglewood Fellowship Howard/Ehrlich Fund Clowes Fund Fellowship Dorothy Lewis Fund Northern California Audition Fund Endowed Fellowships AsherJ. ShufferFund Edward G. Shufro Fund Mr. and Mrs. David B. Arnold, Jr., Fellowship Mary H. Smith Fund Kathleen Hall Banks Fellowship Albert Spaulding Fund Leo L. Beranek Fellowship TMC General Scholarship Fund Leonard Bernstein Fellowship Helene R. and Norman L. Cahners Fellowship Rosamond Sturgis Brooks Memorial Fellowship Stanley Chappie Fellowship Alfred E. Chase Fellowship Nat King Cole Memorial Fellowship Caroline Grosvenor Congdon Memorial Fellowship Dr. Marshall N. Fulton Memorial Fellowship Juliet Esselborn Geier Memorial Fellowship Gerald Gelbloom Memorial Fellowship Armando A. Ghitalla Fellowship Fernand Gillet Memorial Fellowship Marie Gillet Fellowship John and Susanne Grandin Fellowship Tanglew©d The Luke B. Hancock Foundation Fellowship Hodgkinson Fellowship CD. Jackson Fellowships Music Philip and Bernice Krupp Fellowship Lucy Lowell Fellowship Stephen and Persis Morris Fellowship Center direction of student conductors as well as and composers. The Tanglewood Seminars members of the TMC staff and visitors are a series of special instructional pro- who are in town to lead the BSO in its grams, this summer including the Phyllis festival concerts. The quality of this Curtin Seminar for Singers, a Listening orchestra, assembled for just eight and Analysis Seminar, and a Seminar for weeks each summer, regularly astonishes Conductors. Beginning in 1966, educa- visitors. It would be impossible to list all tional programs at Tanglewood were ex- the distinguished musicians who have tended to younger students, mostly of been part of that annual corps of young high-school age, when Erich Leinsdorf people on the verge of a professional invited the Boston University School for career as instrumentalists, singers, con- the Arts to become involved with the ductors, and composers. But it is worth Boston Symphony Orchestra's activities noting that 20% of the members of the in the Berkshires. Today, Boston Univer- major orchestras in this

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