Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 99, 1979
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twenty- two 99th SEASON "-^..iKWC,;, :\) BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA i Music Director ^ \v k ZT X ^ mm V.S.O.R, g.«* 5 tegnff&r jja^t^4 <Q0. 8^ VJlQp 1 COGNAC ™.^eo^ FRANCS ;:;: u fiBB^JOTTlEl, BY B.RKMV MABTSiSiSiai''^ Ne champagne cogN. THE FIRST NAME IN COGNAC SINCE 1724 : VAC ! XCLUSIVEUf FINE CHAMPAGNE COGNAC: FROM TH HF mi QUALITY A DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTE State Street Bank and Trust Company invites you to an evening with The Boston Symphony Orchestra every Friday at nine on WCRB/FM. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIfl OZAWA Musk Director Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season 1979-80 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George HA. Clowes, Jr Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Richard P. Chapman JohnT. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D.Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Caroline E. Hessberg Dorothy Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Promotion Controller Administrator of Coordinator Youth Activities Richard Ortner \ lizabeth Dunton Assistant Administrator, Elisabeth Quinn Directo' Berkshire Music Center Director of Sales Volunteer Servu es James V. Kiley C hark-s Rawson Katherine Whitty ( )pentionS Manager, Manag< • Tanglnrood Coordinator of Box Office Boston Couru il James I Whitaker Hall Manager, Symphony Hall Steven Ledbetter Jean Miller MacKen/ie Marc Mandel Diret d • Publu nitions Publu ations Publications Assistant Assistant Programs copyright j I97M Boston Symphony ( )rchestra, Inc. 3 The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 1 1 Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice-Chairman V ice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding David Mugar John Q. Adams Haskell R. Gordon Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. John L. Grandin David R. Pokross Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Howard E. Hansen William Poorvu Mrs. Richard Bennink Christian Halby Mrs. Curtis Prout David W. Bernstein Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Harry Remis David Bird Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice 1 Gerhard D. Bleicken Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry 1 William M. Bulger Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Kelton Burbank Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. George R. Rowland Curtis Buttenheim Leonard Kaplan Francis P. Sears, Jr. Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. William A. Selke i The Hon. Levin H. Campbell III John Kittredge Gene Shalit Julian Cohen Robert K. Kraft Donald Sinclair Johns H. Congdon Benjamin H. Lacy Samuel L. Slosberg Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Richard A. Smith Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. Warren B. Manhard II Peter J. Sprague William Edgerly C. Charles Marran Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Mrs. Fitzpatrick William Middendorf II Mrs. Richard H. Thompson 1 John J. Paul Fromm Colman M. Mockler Mark Tishler Carlton P. Fuller Paul Montrone D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Elting E. Morison Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris Roger H. Woodworth Mrs. Robert Gibb Richard P. Morse ThetejstofthetKinch. ,1 1 i UnionWemen Savings Bank I Main Office -133 Federal Street, Boston i 4 the right, That's my wife, those are the twins, and, on 1 my New England Merchants trust officer Massachusetts 02 109. The Bank of New England. England Merchants National Bank. 28 State Street, Boston, I The Boston Symphony Chamber Players embark on their 1980 European tour next month, performing fourteen concerts between 6 May, in London, and 22 May, in Vienna. Highlights of the tour include appearances at King's College Chapel in Cambridge, at the Brighton Festival, and at the Flanders Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. The Chamber Players will be joined by members of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for a Brahms Festival performance in Col- ogne, and they will also be heard in eight other cities, including Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Munich, and Prague. The tour has been made possible by grants from Bechstein Piano and the Digital Equipment Corporation. BSO Chamber Preludes and Suppers The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the continuation of its popular series of chamber music concerts and suppers during the 1980-81 season. Subscribers to Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evening BSO concerts can hear orchestra members perform chamber music at 6 pm in the intimate surroundings of the Cabot-Cahners Room, which will open for drinks at 5:15 pm; a light sup- per is served following the recital, and you'll be seated in plenty of time for the evening's 8 pm BSO concert. Only 150 seats are available for each Prelude series, so we urge you to place your order when you renew your BSO subscription this spring; the ticket price includes supper. No single tickets will be sold for these concerts, and, again, only subscribers may attend these special events. Boston Symphony 1980-81 Subscriptions Boston Symphony Orchestra subscribers will receive program and renewal information for 1980-81— the BSO's Hundredth Anniversary Season—by mid- May. New subscriptions will also become available at that time. Details of the 1980-81 season were announced at a Symphony Hall press conference on 15 April. Tanglewood 1980 Complete program and ticket information for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 1980 Tanglewood season is now available. Please address your inquiry to Tangle- wood Ticket Information, Press Office, Symphony Hall, Boston 02115. Art in Support of Art • .» ., I Following its immensely successful preview showing at the John F. Kennedy Library, the first BSO/WCRB Marathon Art Exhibition and Sale has moved to the first floor corridors of Symphony Hall where it will hang through 26 April. Col- lected by the Marathon '80 Fine Arts Committee headed by Mrs. Peter Graneau and Mrs. Richard Thornton of Concord, the works for sale include Gardner Cox's portrait "Charles Munch," Jack Callahan's "Arthur Fiedler," Harel Kedern's "Bach Studio," Mark Steele's "The Rehearsal," and Marian Knapp's cold cast bronze, "Cello Woman." Over 100 New England artists and galleries have donated their works, in media ranging from watercolors to sculpture, as Marathon '80 premiums. Two pledge desks will be staffed for the remaining BSO concerts during the hour before, intermissions, and for a time afterwards. Any- one interested in purchasing a work may come to a pledge desk located in the Hall's first floor corridors, or may telephone the Marathon Office at Symphony Hall at 266-1492, ext. 130 during business hours. Brigitta Graneau can be reached by phone at 369-7936, and she will arrange to meet with possible buyers at Sym- phony Hall or in Concord. Area Buses Ten areas have provided bus service to and from Symphony Hall on Friday after- noons. In addition to providing a great convenience to subscribers, the buses make a profit which at the end of the year is donated to the BSO to help offset the annual deficit. We are indebted to the following BSO Council members who gave so much time and effort to this project: from the Andover Area, Mrs. Hart C. Leavitt and Mrs. Alexander Z. Warren; Cape Cod, Mrs. Daniel Bushnell; Con- cord, Mrs. Douglas Sears; Dedham/Dover, Mrs. Whitney Wright; Newton/ Wellesley, Mrs. Lewis S. Pilcher and Mrs. Worthing L. West; New Hampshire, Mrs. George Foote; North Shore I, Mrs. Frank D'elseaux; North Shore II, Mrs. Richard S. Russell and Mrs. Lyon Weyburn; South Shore, Mrs. Winthrop Coffin; Weston, Mrs. Lovett Morse. Friends' Contributions to the BSO Beginning with the Symphony's Centennial Season of 1980-81, the benefits to Friends contributing to the BSO will be adjusted somewhat. As a current Friend, you will be mailed a full description of the new categories of contribution. For the immediate information of those concertgoers planning their '80-'81 season attendance at Stage Door Lecture/Luncheons and Pre-Symphony Suppers, how- ever, it must be noted that invitations to these very popular and stimulating events will now be received only by those Friends contributing $50 or more. Annual BSO Council Meeting and Luncheon The BSO Council's Annual Meeting and Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, 27 May at 12 noon in the Cabot-Cahners Room. William Pierce, "the Voice of the BSO," will be the featured speaker. Council members will receive their invitations the second week of May. HERE'S WORTH LIS Please give .1 There are countless reasi km why the name i 4 loved one with an the BSO is a cause worthy of your con- endowment, scholarship, orcapital tribution. Bur the performance you're improvement. Y< >ur contribution will is attending now surely the best re be re< 1 agnized and identified in a last* of all. We need your support in order ing way. In addition, major benefac- mtinue to offer this same level of tors V or more will have musical quality in th< me. their names inscribed on ,\ Centennial And now thai we'resoclosi ich- f [onor Roll in Symphony f lall.