BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON 1973-1974 TUESDAY A8 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 HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT 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 Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood HARRY NEVILLE Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ^•Wvid SPRING LINES Outline your approach to spring. In greater detail with our hand- somely tailored, single breasted, navy wool worsted coat. Subtly smart with yoked de- tail at front and back. Elegantly fluid with back panel. A refined spring line worth wearing. $150. Coats. Boston Chestnut Hill Northshore Shopping Center South Shore Plaza Burlington Mall Wellesley CONTENTS Program for March 12 1974 Future programs Tuesday A series 49 Program notes Haydn - Sinfonia Concertante in B flat for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello op. 84 by John N. Burk 11 Mozart - Piano Concerto in A K. 488 by John N. Burk 13 Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole by John N. Burk 17 Ravel - Alborada del gracioso by John N. Burk 21 Ravel - La Valse by John N. Burk 25 The Music Director 27 The Soloists 39 Announcements 43 S3? f —-—--" We've rented this space to remind you of us. Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-THIRD SEASON Tuesday evening March 12 1974 at 8.30 SEIJI OZAWA conductor HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante in B flat for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello op. 84 Allegro Andante Allegro con spirito RALPH GOMBERG oboe SHERMAN WALT bassoon JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN violin JULES ESKIN cello MOZART Piano Concerto in A K. 488 Allegro Adagio Allegro assai MAURIZIO POLLINI intermission RAVEL *Rapsodie espagnole Prelude a nuit Malaguena Habanera Feria Alborada del gracioso *La Valse The concert will end about 10.30 Maurizio Pollini plays the Steinway piano THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON & *RCA RECORDS $2000 for braces but not one cent more for goodies. A 12-year-old's pocket money is not State Street Bank's normal concern. But she and her trust fund are. And we don't overlook the details. We have to be sure we give the right answers when requests for trust money are made. And we get requests for just about everything. From dentist bills to school bills. From new kitchens to new cars. Of 350 requests in a typical six months, we've had to say "no" to only nine. Because we don't give pat answers. In every case we respect not just the letter of the trust but its original intent. Which means putting ourselves in the shoes of the person who established it. And giving his beneficiaries the same answers he would have. If that means we have to disburse principal, we do it. Which may not fit your stereotype of a banker. Stern, conservative, remote. But neither would the trust officer we'd assign to your account. More than a trained professional, he or she is someone who becomes thoroughly involved with a family, and all its needs. And STATE STREET BANK works in a one-to-one relationship, almost as a member of the family. We do our homework. That's why our 12-year-old is dressed up for a "date." Braces -_^ Personal Trust Division 225 r and all. Her trust officer is taking her to lunch. And he's promised #J| ^ h^^ a hot dog with all the trimmings. ^8^ Street Boston Financial Corporation . FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante in B flat for Oboe, Bassoon, WaterviUe Valley Violin and Cello Op. 84 Program note by John N. Burk New Hampshire Haydn was born at Rohrau, Lower Austria, on March 31 or April 1 1732; he died in Vienna on May 31 1809. He composed the Sinfonia Concertante in 1792, and it was first performed at Salomon's concert in London on March 9 of that year. The most recent performance by the Orchestra was at Tanglewood on July 15 1973, when the conductor and soloists were the same as those being heard today. The instrumentation: flute, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, strings and the solo quartet. Windsor Hill RESORT CONDOMINIUMS Studios, 1, 2, and 3 Bedrooms from under $25,000 69 Jennings Peak Rd. WaterviUe Valley, N.H. (603) 236-8388 (WaterviUe Office) (617) 482-5080 (Boston Office) When . • A mother is unable to care for children • Serious illness disrupts family life Six symphonies for each of Haydn's two visits to London, however •An aging or ill person is prodigious a contribution, were not the sum of the music he wrote convalescing for the concerts of Johann Peter Salomon. During his first visit of •A person under psychiatric eighteen (between 2 1791 22 he found months January and June 1792), treatment needs temporary care talents time to write a Sinfonia concertante to bring forward certain in the home in Salomon's orchestra, in particular Salomon himself, as leader of the • Parents need a vacation violins (nor is Salomon slighted in the score). Haydn conducted it at the fourth concert on March 9th with Salomon, Menel, Harrington and • Handicapped people need help Holmes as the soloists, repeated the performance in the following week • Chronic illness strikes and again at a concert for his own benefit on May 3rd. •A terminal patient needs Haydn follows the old concerto grosso style, combining and alternat- homecare ing the two groups, the tutti and the concertino of four instruments. The small group plays for the most part as a quartet, a high string and wind instrument balancing a low string and wind instrument. While, Call . .. according to quartet procedure, the single voices are heard in turn, Suburban Homemaking there is little opportunity until the Finale for each instrument to ex- and Maternity Agency, Inc. ploit its individual character. This is true even in the thirty-five measures BROOKLINE 232-7650 for the concertino unaccompanied which take the place of a cadenza F RAM INGHAM 879-1516 before the close of the first movement. In the Andante, the solo voices within the quartet, lightly supported by the orchestra, take the melodic burden. The tutti set the pace of the lively Finale, whereupon the solo violin, after two brief interrupting recitatives (adagio), becomes the leading voice. The two wind instruments and then the cello have their innings before the concerted close. 11 HP WINTERDREAMS 1 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra • Williamam Steinberg BOSTON Michael Tilson Thomas SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA : IIi - iWU^icTil2530 358 SMETANA MaVIast Mg Fatherland Boston Symphony Orchestra RAFAEL KUBEUK 2707 054 (2 LP's) 2530 357 2530145 Deutsche Grammophon Records, MusiCassettes and 8-Track Stereo Cartridges are distributed in the USA by Polydor Incorporated; in Canada by Polydor Ltd.i WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto in A K. 488 Program note by John N. Burk THE PLACE TO BUY EVERYTHING Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27 1756; he died in Vienna on March 2 1786. According to the autograph score, the concerto was completed in Vienna from what's in style on March 2 1786. Its most recent performance by the Boston Symphony was at Tanglewood on July 17 1970. Seiji Ozawa was the conductor and Yuji Takahashi to what's traditional the soloist. The instrumentation: flute, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, strings. * * * OPEN THURSDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 8:30 'ypUNG MgT^s 4£ THE PREP SHOP, 1-HOUR FREE PARKING at the Church Street Garage (right next door) * * * 31 CHURCH ST. • CAMBRIDGE UNiversity 4-2300 MOZART from a silver point drawing by Dora Stock, 1789 In the Lenten season in Mozart's Vienna, concerts were extremely The C French Library E popular, and the Concerto in A major is the second of three which in Boston, Inc. N Mozart wrote for three Lenten concerts in the spring of 1786. T E A glance at Mozart's activities in the winter of 1785-86 will show to what I 53 Marlborough St R N efforts he was put to budget his small household and his pleasures. In Boston, Mass. 02116 the first place, he had just ventured upon his most cherished project — 1617) 2664351 The Marriage of Figaro. The father wrote to Marianne on November 2 that her brother was 'up to his ears' in Figaro - he had shifted all of his pupils to afternoon hours in order to have his mornings free for uninter- rupted progress on his opera. Meanwhile, he had much else to do. There was Der Schauspieldirector, the one-act opera-travesty, which he must compose for a performance at Schonbrunn on February 7.