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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA S I I E J O ZAW WENTY -FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 1 1 8th Season • 1 998-99 Bring your Steinway: With floor plans from acre gated community atop 2,100 to 5,000 square feet, prestigious Fisher Hill you can bring your Concert Jointly marketed by Sotheby's Grand to Longyear. International Realty and You'll be enjoying full-service, Hammond Residential Real Estate. single-floor condominium living at Priced from $1,100,000. its absolute finest, all harmoniously Call Hammond Real Estate at located on an extraordinary eight- (617) 731-4644, ext. 410. LONGYEAR at Ijrisner Jiill BROOKLINE ^fc. £P^&^ "*| < , fit ;ui'JK*MHM8il 1 .,, Si'v ; i^^S^^^^ LEU <p CORTLAND Hammond SOTHEBYS PROPERTIES INC RESIOENTIAL iTTTfuaiHTlTniTii I JtSfn PR f. S T A T F, • ' & .:'. I r i \ : . Seiji Ozawa, Music Director 25 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON Bernard Haitink, Principal Guest Conductor One Hundred and Eighteenth Season, 1998-99 *\ Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. R. Willis Leith, Jr., Chairman Nicholas T. Zervas, President Peter A. Brooke, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Harvey Chet Krentzman, Vice-Chairman Ray Stata, Vice-Chairman Harlan E. Anderson Deborah B. Davis Edna S. Kalman Vincent M. O'Reilly Gabriella Beranek Nina L. Doggett George Krupp Peter C. Read James F. Cleary Nancy J. Fitzpatrick Mrs. August R. Meyer Hannah H. Schneider John F. Cogan, Jr. Charles K. Gifford, Richard P. Morse Thomas G. Sternberg Julian Cohen ex-officio Mrs. Robert B. Stephen R. Weiner William F. Connell Avram J. Goldberg Newman Margaret Williams- William M. Crozier, Jr. Thelma E. Goldberg Robert P. O'Block, DeCelles, ex-ojficio Nader F. Darehshori Julian T. Houston ex-ojficio Life Trustees Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Edith L. Dabney Mrs. John L. Grandin Richard A. Smith David B. Arnold, Jr. Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Mrs. George I. Kaplan John Hoyt Stookey J. P. Barger Archie C. Epps George H. Kidder John L. Thorndike Leo L. Beranek Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Irving W Rabb Abram T. Collier Dean W. Freed Mrs. George Lee Sargent Other Officers of the Corporation Thomas D. May and John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurers Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Robert P. O'Block, Chairman Molly Beals Millman, Secretary Phyllis Dohanian, Treasurer Mrs. Herbert B. Abelow Mitchell L. Dong Martin S. Kaplan Gloria Moody Press Helaine B. Allen Hugh Downs Susan Beth Kaplan Millard H. Pryor, Jr. Joel B. Alvord Francis A. Doyle William M. Karlyn Patrick J. Purcell Amanda Barbour Amis Goetz B. Eaton Steven E. Karol William D. Roddy, Jr. Marjorie Arons-Barron William R. Elfers Nan Bennett Kay Edward I. Rudman Caroline Dwight Bain George M. Elvin Frances Demoulas Roger A. Saunders George W Berry Edward Eskandarian Kettenbach Carol Scheifele-Holmes Lynda Schubert Bodman Pamela D. Everhart David I. Kosowsky Elizabeth T. Selkowitz Mark G. Borden J. Richard Fennell Dr. Arthur R. Kravitz Roger T Servison William L. Boyan Lawrence K. Fish Florence Ladd Ross E. Sherbrooke Jan Brett Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. William D. L. Scott Singleton Robin A. Brown M.D. Larkin, Jr. Mrs. Micho Spring Samuel B. Bruskin Myrna H. Freedman Barbara Lee Jacquelynne M. Paul Buttenwieser A. Alan Friedberg Thomas H. Lee Stepanian Dr. Edmund B. Cabot Dr. Arthur Gelb Alexander M. Levine Samuel Thorne, Jr. Mrs. Marshall Nichols Mrs. Kenneth J. Edward Linde Bill Van Faasen Carter Germeshausen Christopher J. Lindop Loet A. Velmans Earle M. Chiles Charles K. Gifford Edwin N. London Paul M. Verrochi Mrs. James C. Collias Mark R. Goldweitz Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Stephen R. Weber Eric D. Collins Michael Halperson Diane H. Lupean Robert S. Weil Martha H.W John P. Hamill Barbara Jane Macon Robert A. Wells Crowninshield Daphne P. Hatsopoulos Barbara E. Maze Mrs. Joan D. Wheeler Diddy Cullinane Deborah M. Hauser Joseph C. McNay Reginald H. White Joan P. Curhan Ronald A. Homer Nathan R. Miller Margaret Williams- Tamara P. Davis Phyllis S. Hubbard Paul C. O'Brien DeCelles Mrs. Miguel de Braganca F. Donald Hudson Robert T. O'Connell Robin Wilson Betsy P. Demirjian Lola Jaffe Norio Ohga Kathryn A. Wong JoAnne Walton Mrs. Robert M. Jaffe Louis F. Orsatti Richard Wurtman, M.D. Dickinson Charles H. Jenkins, Jr. Dr. Tina Young Harry Ellis Dickson Dr. Hisashi Kaneko Poussaint 1 Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Weston Adams Mrs. Haskell R. Robert K. Kraft Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Sandra Bakalar Gordon Benjamin H. Lacy John Ex Rodgers Bruce A. Beal Susan D. Hall Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld William M. Bulger Mrs. Richard D. Hill Laurence Lesser Angelica L. Russell Mrs. Levin H. Susan M. Hilles Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Francis P. Sears, Jr. Campbell Glen H. Hiner Mrs. Harry L. Marks Mrs. Carl Shapiro Johns H. Congdon Marilyn Brachman Hanae Mori Mrs. Donald B. William H. Congleton Hoffman Patricia Morse Sinclair Phyllis Curtin H. Eugene Jones Mrs. Hiroshi H. Ralph Z. Sorenson Harriett Eckstein Leonard Kaplan Nishino Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Andrall S. Pearson Louise Vosgerchian Mrs. Thomas Richard L. Kaye John A. Perkins Mrs. Thomas H.P Galligan, Jr. Robert D. King David R. Pokross Whitney Mrs. James Garivaltis Mrs. Gordon F. Daphne Brooks Prout Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Jordan Golding Kingsley Robert E. Remis Mrs. John J. Wilson Business Leadership Association Board of Directors William F. Connell, Chairman Leo L. Beranek, James F. Cleary, Charles K. Gifford, President and Harvey Chet Krentzman, Nader F. Darehsori, Vice-President Chairmen Emeriti Lynda S. Bodman William R. Elfers Michael J. Joyce Roger T. Servison Robin A. Brown Lawrence K. Fish Christopher J. Lindop Malcolm L. Sherman Diane Capstaff Nancy J. Fitzpatrick J. Kent McHose Ray Stata Martha H.W Bink Garrison Joseph McNay Thomas Tierney Crowninshield John P. Hamill Robert J. Murray William Van Faasen Diddy Cullinane Steven E. Karol Patrick J. Purcell Paul M. Verrochi Francis A. Doyle Edmund Kelly Ex-Ojficio R. Willis Leith, Jr., Nicholas T Zervas, Robert P. O'Block Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Margaret Williams-DeCelles, President Eda Daniel, Secretary Diane Austin, Executive Vice-President/Boston Charles W. Jack, Treasurer Judith M. Cook, Executive Vice-President/ Goetz B. Eaton, Nominating Committee Tanglewood Chairman Mary Blair, Resource Nancy Ferguson, Fundraising Dee G. Schoenly, Membership Development Judith E. Mosse, Youth Education Betty C. Sweitzer, Hall Services Linda Clarke, Fundraising Michael Murphy, Development Beth Tobias, Adult Education Harry Methven, Tanglewood Doreen M. Reis, Public Relations Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra: A 25-Year Partnership Now in his twenty-sixth season as the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra's music director, Seiji Ozawa this year surpasses Serge Koussevitzky as the longest- serving music director in BSO history. To celebrate Mr. Ozawa's twenty-fifth anniversary as music director, the BSO Archives has mounted an exhib- it in the Cohen Wing display cases examining and illustrating not only many highlights of his tenure with the BSO, but also his education and early life, his experiences as a student at Tanglewood, and his appointment as the orchestra's thirteenth music director. In addition to items preserved in the BSO Archives, the exhibit also draws on materials lent by the Ozawa family. Programs copyright ©1999 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover design by WondriskaRusso Associates Inc. /Cover photo of Seiji Ozawa by Walter H. Scott Administration Mark Volpe, Managing Director J. Carey Bloomfield, Director of Development Caroline Smedvig, Director of Public Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator Relations and Marketing Marion Gardner-Saxe, Director of Human Resources Ray F. Wellbaum, Orchestra Manager Ellen Highstein, Director of Tanglewood Music Center Thomas D. May, Director of Finance and Business Affairs ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF/ARTISTIC Dennis Alves, Artistic Coordinator, Boston Pops • Faith Hunter, Executive Assistant to the Managing Director • Karen Leopardi, Artist Assistant/Secretary to the Music Director • Vincenzo Natale, Chauffeur/ Valet • Brian Van Sickle, Executive Assistant to the Manager of Tanglewood ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF/ PRODUCTION Christopher W. Ruigomez, Operations Manager, Boston Symphony Orchestra Felicia A. Burrey, Chorus Manager • Nancy Cohen, Auditions Coordinator/Administrative Assistant, Orchestra Personnel • Jana Gimenez, Operations Coordinator/Assistant to the Conductor, Boston Pops • Diane Amelia Read, Production Coordinator BOX OFFICE Russell M. Hodsdon, Manager of Box Office Mary J. Broussard, Clerk • Cary Eyges, Clerk • Lawrence Fraher, Clerk Kathleen Kennedy, Assistant Manager of Box Office • Arthur Ryan, Clerk BUSINESS OFFICE Sarah J. Harrington, Budget Manager Craig R. Kaplan, Controller Roberta Kennedy, Manager, Symphony Shop Gerald Blum, Staff Accountant • Yaneris Briggs, Cash Accountant • Yuelei Chen, Senior Accountant • Christopher Fox, Budget Analyst • Michelle Green, Executive Assistant to the Director of Finance and Business Affairs • Scott Langill, Accounting Manager • John O'Callaghan, Payroll Accountant • Debra Reader, Payroll and Accounting Clerk • Sharon Sherman, Accounts Payable Supervisor DEVELOPMENT Ellen-Marie Bonner, Director of Development Services and Research Daniel P. Breen, Director of Administration for Development Madelyne Cuddeback, Director of Corporate Programs Julie H. Diaz, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving Kerri A. Aleksiewicz, Administrative Assistant, Tanglewood Development • Howard L. Breslau, Associate
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