Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 109, 1989
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA MUSIC DIRECTOR ~ n V /3 >v r *•• / y 1 1 1 1 Mb to »> ^^ .M^,,. * J r L 109TH SEASON 1989-90 / ~+ IMPORTED 750 ml 94.6P*00f " Q~ ,ct*»ii SPECIAL DRY A Q^ *>: far 5f Wufi/£et& owa&^&jm T: CHARLES TANQUERAY & C° L LONDON. ENGLAND. ifip"<_. '•'--. '-i Of ENGLAND • IOO% GR A'N NtliTRiL i~- « — ' — ' v «i mv| Lfim wfipy 'A?g raj § i Tanqueray. A singular experience. Imported English Gin. 47.3% Alc/Vol (94.6°). 100% Grain Neutral Spirits. © 1988 Schteffelin & Somerset Co.. New York. NY Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, Assistant Conductors One Hundred and Ninth Season, 1989-90 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Chairman Emeritus J. P. Barger, Chairman George H. Kidder, President Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney, Vice-Chairman Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman Mrs. John H. Fitzpatriek, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. August R. Meyer Peter A. Brooke Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Robert B. Newman James F. Cleary Mrs. John L. Grandin Peter C. Read John F. Cogan, Jr. Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Richard A. Smith Julian Cohen Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Ray Stata William M. Crozier, Jr. Mrs. George I. Kaplan William F. Thompson Mrs. Michael H. Davis Harvey Chet Krentzman Nicholas T. Zervas Trustees Emeriti Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Mrs. George R. Rowland Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. George Lee Sargent Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Sidney Stoneman Leo L. Beranek Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Mrs. John M. Bradley Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John L. Thorndike Abram T. Collier Irving W. Rabb Other Officers of the Corporation John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Michael G. McDonough, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Administration Kenneth Haas, Managing Director Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Managing Director and Manager of Tanglewood Michael G. McDonough, Director of Finance and Business Affairs Evans Mirageas, Artistic Administrator Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Caroline Smedvig, Director of Public Relations and Marketing Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Robert Bell, Data Processing Manager Michelle R. Leonard, Media and Production Madelyne Codola Cuddeback, Director Manager, Boston Symphony Orchestra of Corporate Development Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Patricia F. Halligan, Personnel Administrator John C. Marksbury, Director of Sarah J. Harrington, Budget Manager Foundation and Government Support Margaret A. Hillyard, Director of Volunteers Julie-Anne Miner, Manager of Russell M. Hodsdon, Manager of Box Office Fund Reporting Craig R. Kaplan, Controller Richard Ortner, Administrator of Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales & Tanglewood Music Center Marketing Manager Scott Schillin, Assistant Manager, John M. Kcenum, Director of Pops and Youth Activities Tanglewood Music Center Development Joyce M. Serwitz, Director of Major Gifts/ Patricia Krol, Coordinator of Youth Activities Assistant Director of Development Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Cheryl L. Silvia, Function Manager Program Annotator Susan E. Tomlin, Director ofAnnual Giving Programs copyright € 1990 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover by Jaycole Advertising, Inc./Cover photo by Steve J. Sherman Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. John F. Cogan, Jr., Chairman R. Willis Leith. Jr., Vice-Chairman Mrs. Kay A. Goldberg, Vice-Chairman Mrs. K. Douglas Hall III, Secretary Mrs. David Bakalar Haskell R. Gordon E. James Morton Bruce A. Real Steven Grossman David G. Mugar Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Joe M rlensoo David Nelson Lynda Schubert Hodman Susan M. I lilies Robert P. O' Block Donald C. Bowereock, Jr. Glen II. I liner Walter II. Palmer William M. Bulger Mrs. Marilyn Braehman Hoffman Andrall E. Pearson Mrs. Levin II. Campbell Ronald A. Homer John A. Perkins Earle M. Chiles Julian T. Houston Daphne Brooks Prout Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Lola Jaffe Millard H. Pryor. Jr. James F. Geary Anna Faith Jones Robert E. Remis William II. Congleton II. Eugene Jones John Ex Rodgcrs William F. Connell Susan B. Kaplan Mrs. William II. Ryan Walter J. Connolly, Jr. Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Keizo Saji Albert C. Cornelio Richard L. Kaye Roger A. Saunders Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Robert D. King Mrs. Raymond H. Schneider Phyllis Dohanian Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Mark L. Selkowitz Hugh Down is Mrs. Carl Koch Mrs. Donald B. Sinclair Goetz B. Eaton Robert K. Kraft W. Davies Sohier, Jr. Harriett M. Eckstein George Krupp Ralph Z. Sorenson Edward Eskandarian Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt Ira Stepanian Katherine Fanning Stephen R. Levy Mrs. Arthur I. Strang John A. Fibiger Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Mark Tishler, Jr. Peter M. Flanigan Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Luise Vosgerchian Henry L. Foster C. Charles Marran Roger D. Wellington Dean Freed Nathan R. Miller Robert A. Wells Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Hanae Mori Mrs. Thomas H.P. Whitney Mrs. James Garivaltis Mrs. Thomas S. Morse Mrs. John J. Wilson Jordan L. Golding Richard P. Morse Brunetta R. Wolfman Mark R, Goldweitz Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Weston W. Adams Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mrs. Frank G. Allen Leonard Kaplan Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Richard Bennink Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. William C. Rousseau Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. James F. Lawrence Francis P. Sears, Jr. Johns Congdon Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Richard D. Hill David R, Pokross Symphony Hall Operations Robert L. Gleason, Facilities Manager James E. Whitaker, House Manager Cleveland Morrison, Stage Manager Franklin Smith, Supervisor of House Crew Wilmoth A. Griffiths, Assistant Supervisor of House Crew William D. McDonnell, Chief Steward H.R. Costa, Lighting Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Nina Doggett, President Thelma Goldberg, Executive Vice-President Pat Jensen, Secretary Goetz B. Eaton, Treasurer Florence T. Whitney, Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mary Bates, Hall Services Denise Mujica, Membership Charles Jack, Adult Education Susan Robinson, Eundraising Projects Marilyn Larkin, Tanglewood Carol Scheifele-Holmes, Public Relations Kathy Massimiano, Tanglewood Preston Wilson, Development Services Molly Millman, Regions Pat Woolley, Youth Activities Chairmen of Regions Krista Kamborian Baldini Kathleen G. Keith Patti Newton Joan Erhard Helen Lahage Pamela S. Nugent Bettina Harrison Janet Landry Beverly J. Pieper Betty Hosage Elaine Miller Patricia L. Tambone Business and Professional Leadership Association Board of Directors Harvey Chet Krentzman, Chairman James F. Clearv, BPLA President Members J. P. Barger Thelma Goldberg Malcolm L. Sherman Leo Beranek Joe Henson Ray Stata William F. Connell George H. Kidder Stephen J. Sweeney Walter J. Connolly Vincent M. O'Reillv Roger Wellington Nelson J. Darling For their continued support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, special thanks to the Massachusetts Council on the and the National I I arts 1 and Endowment humanities for the Arts also serving science museums and environmental institutions Aje-#4trf/0%r /fAW/xfd^y- /!/&* BSO Friday-Afternoon Concert tas. Mr. Contas, a founding partner of the Endowed in Honor of Boston Consulting Group, a member of the Doriot Anthony Dwyer Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, a graduate of Harvard College This week's Friday-afternoon concert has been and Harvard Graduate School of Business endowed by a generous gift from Mrs. James Administration, and an Overseer of the Boston H. Perkins through the BSO Annual Fund's Symphony Orchestra from 1976 until his death Concert Sponsorship Program. Mrs. Perkins on February 1, 1987, at age fifty-five, remem- holds the distinction of being the first woman bered the Orchestra in his will with a very gen- elected to the BSO's Board of Trustees, in erous and greatly appreciated bequest to endow 1962; she was also deeply involved in the Ford the Arthur P. Contas Commissioning Fund. Foundation's fundraising efforts in the 1960s. Mr. Contas was a talented amateur musician For the past twenty-five years, Mrs. Perkins himself, studying the violin and the piano at has continued to support the Boston Sym- the New England Conservatory of Music. phony Orchestra through generous financial Besides his love for the traditional repertory, commitments and ongoing involvement in Mr. Contas also felt that a wide range of new Board-related activities. The April 27 concert, musical expression was essential and should be which marks BSO principal flutist Doriot fostered and sponsored. He believed that the Anthony Dwyer's retirement from the orches- Boston Symphony Orchestra, as one of the tra •with a new work commissioned especially world's foremost symphony orchestras, must for her ( "What wonderful music to play with be committed to the presentation of new Seiji and my colleagues — and with which to works; at the same time, as a BSO Overseer start my new career as a soloist!"), is the active on the Budget Committee, he was aware fourth concert to be sponsored by Mrs. Per- of the Orchestra's substantial need for funds. kins; the other three were a performance of Mr. Contas' bequest designated for the com- Strauss's Elektra in November 1988, a concert missioning of new works will help the Boston with guest soloist Murray Perahia in October Symphony Orchestra add new works to its 1987, and a performance of Bach's B minor repertory. Mass in December 1985. Mrs. Perkins notes that "it's great fun to be "Presidents at Pops" Slated for June 6 an Esterhazy" and chooses to give to the Orchestra through the Concert Sponsorship The ninth annual "Presidents at Pops" will Program because of its obvious and direct sup- take place Wednesday evening, June 6. Jack port of music. For a gift of $25,000 to the Sidell, President and CEO of U.S. Trust, is Annual Fund, the BSO will name a concert in chairman of the 1990 "Presidents at Pops" honor of, or in memory of, someone you care committee.