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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 122, 2002-2003 *9C 2002-2003 SEASON JAMES LEVINE Mm MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE BERNARD HAITINK PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR fZAWA ' IC DIRECTOR LAUREATE BOSTON SYMPHON ORCH ESTRA Bring your Steinway: With floor plans from 2,300 Phase One of this magnificent to over 5,000 square feet, property is 100% sold and you can bring your Concert occupied. Phase Two is now Grand to Longyear. being offered by Sotheby's Enjoy full-service, single- International Realty and floor condominium living at its Hammond Residential Real absolute finest, all harmoniously Estate. Priced from $1,500,000. located on an extraordinary eight-acre Call Hammond Real Estate at gated community atop prestigious (617) 731-4644, ext. 410. Fisher Hill LONGYEAR at Jisner Jiill BROOKLINE mi CORTLANlf SOTHEBY'S Hammond properties INC. 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Anderson Diddy Cullinane, Edna S. Kalman Edward I. Rudman Gabriella Beranek ex-officio George Krupp Hannah H. Schneider Jan Brett William R. Elfers R. Willis Leith, Jr. Roger T. Servison Paul Buttenwieser Nancy J. Fitzpatrick Richard P. Morse Thomas G. Sternberg James F. Cleary Charles K. Gifford Mrs. Robert B. Newman Stephen R. Weber John F. Cogan, Jr. Avram J. Goldberg Peter C. Read Stephen R. Weiner Eric D. Collins Thelma E. Goldberg Donna Riccardi, Dr. Nicholas T. Zervas Julian T. Houston ex-officio Life Trustees Vernon R. Alden Helene R. Cahners Dean W. Freed Mrs. George Lee David B. Arnold, Jr. Abram T. Collier George H. Kidder Sargentt J. P. Barger Mrs. Edith L. Dabney Harvey Chet Krentzman Richard A. Smith Leo L. Beranek Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Mrs. August R. Meyer Ray Stata Deborah Davis Berman Archie C. Epps William J. Poorvu John Hoyt Stookey Jane C. Bradley Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Irving W Rabb John L. Thorndike Other Officers of the Corporation Thomas D. May and John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurers Suzanne Page, Clerk of the Board Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Diddy Cullinane, Chair Helaine B. Allen JoAnne Walton Steven E. Karol Patrick J. Purcell Joel B. Alvord Dickinson Stephen Kay Carol Reich Marjorie Arons-Barron Harry Ellis Dicksont Douglas A. Kingsley Alan Rottenberg Diane M. Austin Francis A. Doyle Robert Kleinberg Michael Ruettgers Caroline Dwight Bain Alan Dynner Dr. Arthur R. Kravitz Kenan Sahin Maureen Scannell Jane C. Edmonds Mrs. William D. Arthur I. Segel Bateman George M. Elvin Larkin, Jr. Ross E. Sherbrooke George D. Behrakis John P. Eustis II Robert J. Lepofsky L. Scott Singleton Milton Benjamin Pamela D. Everhart Alexander M. Levine Gilda Slifka George W Berry Judith Moss Feingold Christopher J. Lindop Mrs. Micho Spring Mark G. Borden J. Richard Fennell Shari Loessberg Charles A. Stakeley Alan Bressler Lawrence K. Fish Edwin N. London Jacquelynne M. Robin A. Brown Myrna H. Freedman Diane H. Lupean Stepanian Samuel B. Bruskin Dr. Arthur Gelb John A. MacLeod II Wilmer Thomas William Burgin Jack Gill Carmine Martignetti Samuel Thorne Dr. Edmund B. Cabot Robert P. Gittens Joseph B. Martin, M.D. Bill Van Faasen Rena F Clarke Paula Groves Robert J. Mayer, M.D. Loet A. Velmans Mrs. James C. Collias Michael Halperson Barbara E. Maze Paul M. Verrochi Margot Connell Ellen T. Harris Thomas McCann Larry Weber Ranny Cooper Deborah M. Hauser Joseph C. McNay Robert S. Weil Martha H.W. Carol Henderson Dr. Martin C. Mihm, Jr. David C. Weinstein Crowninshield Richard Higginbotham Molly Beals Millman James Westra Joan P. Curhan Phyllis S. Hubbard Robert Mnookin Mrs. Joan D. Wheeler Robert W. Daly Roger Hunt Robert T. O'Connell Reginald H. White Tamara P. Davis Ernest Jacquet Norio Ohga Robin Wilson Mrs. Miguel de Mrs. Robert M. Jaffe Louis F. Orsatti Robert Winters Braganca Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. May H. Pierce Kathryn A. 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Nishino DeCelles Mrs. Thomas Leonard Kaplan John A. Perkins Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Galligan, Jr. Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon David R. Pokross Mrs. John J. Wilson Mrs. James Garivaltis Richard L. Kaye Daphne Brooks Prout Mrs. Kenneth J. Mrs. Gordon F. Robert E. Remis Germeshausen Kingsley Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Business Leadership Association Board of Directors Charles K. Gifford, Chairman Leo L. Beranek, James F. Cleary, and Michael J. Joyce, President Harvey Chet Krentzman, Chairmen Emeriti Robin A. Brown John P. Hamill Thomas J. May Roger T. Servison Michael J. Costello Ernest K. Jacquet J. Kent McHose Malcolm L. Sherman Robert W. Daly Steven E. Karol Joseph C. McNay Ray Stata Francis A. Doyle Edmund F Kelly Louis F. Orsatti William C. Van Faasen William R. Elfers Christopher J. Lindop Patrick J. Purcell Paul M. Verrochi Lawrence K. Fish Carmine A. Martignetti Lynda A. Schubert Lawrence Weber Ex-Officio Peter A. Brooke • Diddy Cullinane • Nicholas T Zervas Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Donna Riccardi, President Melvin R. Blieberg, Executive Vice-President/ Audley Fuller, Executive Vice-President/ Tanglewood Administration Olga Turcotte, Secretary Ann Philbin, Executive Vice-President/ William A. Along, Treasurer Fundraising Una Fleischmann, Nominating Committee Chairman Joyce Anagnos, Symphony Shop Howard Cutler, Resource Lisa Mafrici, Special Projects Staffing Development Ellen Mayo, Public Relations Judy Barr, Hall Services Ursula Ehret-Dichter, Patty Blais, Education and Dorothyann M. Callahan, Tanglewood Outreach Membership Table of Contents On Display at Symphony Hall 6 This Week's Boston Symphony Orchestra Program 11 Featured Artist 43 Future Programs 60 Symphony Hall Exit Plan 62 Symphony Hall Information 63 This week's Pre-Concert Talks are given by Harlow Robinson, Northeastern University. Programs copyright ©2003 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover design by Sametz Blackstone Associates, Boston/Cover photograph by Constantine Manos Administration Mark Volpe, Managing Director Eunice and Julian Cohen Managing Directorship, fullyfunded in perpetuity Tony Beadle, Manager, Boston Pops Kim Noltemy, Director of Sales and Marketing Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator Caroline Taylor, Senior Advisor to the Marion Gardner-Saxe, Director of Human Resources Managing Director Director Music Center Ellen Highstein, of Tanglewood Ray F. Wellbaum, Orchestra Manager Thomas D. May, Director of Finance and Business Affairs ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF/ARTISTIC Karen Leopardi, Artist Assistant/Secretary to the Music Director • Vincenzo Natale, Chauffeur/Valet • Suzanne Page, Assistant to the Managing Director/Manager of Board Administration • Alexander Stein- beis, Artistic Administration Coordinator ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF/ PRODUCTION Christopher W. Ruigomez, Operations Manager Felicia A. Burrey, Chorus Manager • H.R. Costa, Technical Supervisor • Keith Elder, Production Coordinator • Stephanie Kluter, Assistant to the Orchestra Manager • Jake Moerschel, Stage Techni- cian • Julie G. Moerschel, Assistant Chorus Manager • Mark C. Rawson, Stage Technician • Timothy Tsukamoto, Orchestra Personnel Coordinator BOSTON
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