•'•• • • " • Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Third Season, 1983-84 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick William J. Poorvu J. P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley E. James Morton Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners David G. Mugar Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson William A. Selke Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Abram T. Collier, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward M. 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Fibiger C. Charles Marran Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Kenneth G. Fisher Mrs. August R. Meyer Mark Tishler, Jr. Gerhard M. Freche J. William Middendorf II Ms. Luise Vosgerchian Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Paul M. Montrone Roger D. Wellington Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Mrs. Hanae Mori Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris John J. Wilson Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Richard P. Morse Nicholas T. Zervas Mrs. Thomas Spurr Morse Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm David W Bernstein Carlton P. Fuller Leonard Kaplan ^ ^^H Seiji Ozawa The 1983-84 season is Seiji Ozawa's eleventh season. His first professional concert as music director of the Boston Symphony appearance in North America came in Janu- Orchestra. In the fall of 1973 he became the ary 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony orchestra's thirteenth music director since it Orchestra. He was music director of the was founded in 1881. Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for five summers beginning in 1964, and music Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, to director for four seasons of the Toronto Sym- Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both phony Orchestra, a post he relinquished at the Western and Oriental music as a child and end of the 1968-69 season. later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music with first prizes in composition and con- Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Sym- ducting. In the fall of 1959 he won first prize phony in Symphony Hall in January 1968; he at the International Competition of Orchestra had previously appeared with the orchestra for Conductors, Besancon, France. Charles four summers at Tanglewood, where he Munch, then music director of the Boston became an artistic director in 1970. In Symphony and a judge at the competition, December 1970 he began his inaugural season invited him to Tanglewood for the summer as conductor and music director of the San following, and he there won the Berkshire Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The music Music Center's highest honor, the directorship of the Boston Symphony followed Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student in 1973, and Mr. Ozawa resigned his San conductor. Francisco position in the spring of 1976, serv- ing as music advisor there for the 1976-77 While working with Herbert von Karajan in season. West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied As music director of the Boston Symphony on the New York Philharmonic's spring 1961 Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strengthened the Japan tour, and he was made an assistant orchestra's reputation internationally as well conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 as at home, leading concerts on the BSO's -m 1976 European tour and, in March 1978, on a Symphony" television series. His award- win- nine-city tour of Japan. At the invitation of the ning recordings include Berlioz's Romeo et gtChinese government, Mr. Ozawa then spent a Juliette, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, and the week working with the Peking Central Philhar- Berg and Stravinsky violin concertos with monic Orchestra; a year later, in March 1979, Itzhak Perlman. Other recordings with the he returned to China with the entire Boston orchestra include, for Philips, Richard Symphony for a significant musical and Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra and Ein cultural exchange entailing coaching, study, Heldenleben, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du and discussion sessions with Chinese musi- printemps, Hoist's The Planets, and Mahler's cians, as well as concert performances. Also in Symphony No. 8, the Symphony ofa Thou- 1979, Mr. Ozawa led the orchestra on its first sand; for CBS, a Ravel collaboration with tour devoted exclusively to appearances at the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and the major music festivals of Europe. Most Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Isaac Stern; recently, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Sym- and, for Telarc, Vivaldi's Four Seasons with phony celebrated the orchestra's one-hun- violin soloist Joseph Silverstein, and music of dredth birthday with a fourteen-city American Beethoven—the Fifth Symphony, the Egmont i tour in March 1981 and an international tour Overture, and, with soloist Rudolf Serkin, the to Japan, France, Germany, Austria, and Eng- Fourth and Fifth piano concertos. Mr. Ozawa land in October/November that same year. has recorded Roger Sessions's Pulitzer Prize- winning Concerto for Orchestra and Andrzej Mr. Ozawa pursues an active international Panufnik's Sinfonia Votiva, both works com- career. He appears regularly with the Berlin missioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the for its centennial, for Hyperion records. He French National Radio Orchestra, the Philhar- and the orchestra have also recently recorded monia of London, and the New Japan Philhar- Stravinsky's Firebird and, with soloist Itzhak monic, and his operatic credits include the Perlman, the violin concertos of Earl Kim and Paris Opera, Salzburg, London's Covent Robert Starer for Angel/EMI. Mr. Ozawa Garden, and La Scala in Milan. Mr. Ozawa has holds an honorary Doctor of Music degree won an Emmy for the BSO's "Evening at from the New England Conservatory of Music. K* HOW LUNCH NEVER GREW UP. It was kind of fun back then . bringing your own food service programs that bolster employee morale everyday. and stimulate productivity. The shiny foil. The favorite sandwich, prepared just We are conceptualizers who emphasize positive, so. The surprise sweet. The personal nourishment of human interaction and productive moods. We are special care - and caring. architects who custom-tailor refreshing changes in It's not fun anymore. 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