Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 96, 1976-1977
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA © 1976 New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston. Subsidiary: NEL Equity Services Corporation, mutual funds; Affiliate: Loomis. Sayles & Company. Inc., investment counselors "MyNewEngland Life Agency? Downing &Desautels, of courseAVhyr Because Downing & Desautels know the ropes so well, especially in the areas of pensions, estate planning and mutual funds. To be on the safe side, call them at 542-0553 in Boston. ^v* BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA >, L (ft Music Director -S^w ft Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Sixth Season 1976-77 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc Talcott M. Banks President Philip K. Allen Sidney Stoneman Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Vice-President Vice-President Vice-President John L. Thorndike Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry David O. Ives Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman Edward M. Kennedy David Rockefeller Jr. Abram T. Collier George Kidder Mrs. George Lee Sargent Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Edward G. Murray John Hoyt Stookey Albert L. Nickerson Trustees Emeritus Harold D. Hodgkinson Henry A. Laughlin John T. Noonan Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Thomas W. Morris Executive Director Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter Hill Dinah Daniels Director of Development Director of Business Affairs Director of Promotion Richard C. White Anita R. Kurland Niklaus Wyss Assistant to the Manager Administrator of Youth Activities Advisor for the Music Director Donald W. Mackenzie James F. Kiley Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Operations Manager, Tanglewood Michael Steinberg Director of Publications Programs copyright © 1976 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Who's who in oil refineries. 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Member F.D.I.C BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Sixth Season Thursday, 21 April at 8 : 30 Friday, 22 April at 2 &=*^y ^^ Saturday, 23 April at 8:30 Tuesday, 26 April at 7:30 SEIJI OZAWA, conductor VIVALDI Concerto in C major for piccolo, P. 79 [Allegro] Largo Allegro molto LOIS SCHAEFER VIVALDI Concerto in F major for bassoon, P. 318 Allegro non molto Andante Allegro molto SHERMAN WALT INTERMISSION SESSIONS When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd (Poem by Walt Whitman) ESTHER HINDS, soprano FLORENCE QUIVAR, mezzo-soprano DOMINIC COSSA, baritone TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor Thursday's concert will end about 10:10, Friday's about 3:40, Saturday's about 10 : 15, and Tuesday's about 9 : 10. Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra record exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon. Baldwin piano Jerome Lipson Robert Karol Bassoons Bernard Kadinoff Sherman Walt Vincent Mauricci Edward A. Taft chair Roland Small Earl Hedberg Matthew Ruggiero Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes Michael Zaretsky Contra bassoon Richard Plaster Cellos Horns Jules Eskin Philip R. Allen chair Charles Kavalovski Martin Hoherman Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Mischa Nieland Charles Yancich Peter Gordon violins Jerome Patterson First David Ohanian Joseph Silverstein Robert Ripley Richard Mackey Concertmaster Luis Leguia Ralph Pottle Charles Munch chair Carol Procter Emanuel Borok Ronald Feldman Assistant Concertmaster Joel Moerschel Trumpets Horner Mclntyre chair Helen Jonathan Miller Armando Ghitalla Max Hobart Martha Babcock Andre Come Rolland Tapley Rolf Smedvig Roger Shermont Gerard Basses Goguen Max Winder William Rhein Harry Dickson Harold D. Hodgkinson chair Trombones Gottfried Wilfinger Joseph Hearne Ronald Barron Fredy Ostrovsky Bela Wurtzler Norman Bolter Leo Panasevich Leslie Martin Gordon Hallberg Sheldon Rotenberg John Salkowski William Gibson Alfred Schneider John Barwicki Gerald Gelbloom Robert Olson Tuba Sird Raymond Lawrence Wolfe Chester Schmitz Ikuko Mizuno Henry Portnoi Cecylia Arzewski Timpani Amnon Levy Flutes Everett Firth Bo Youp Hwang Doriot Anthony Dwyer Sylvia Shippen Wells chair Walter Piston chair Second violins James Pappoutsakis Percussion Victor Yampolsky Paul Fried Charles Smith chair Fahnestock Arthur Press Marylou Speaker Piccolo Assistant timpanist Michel Sasson Lois Schaefer Thomas Gauger Ronald Knudsen Frank Epstein Leonard Moss Oboes Vyacheslav Uritsky Ralph Gomberg Harps Laszlo Nagy Mildred B. Remis chair Bernard Zighera Michael Vitale Ann Hobson Darlene Gray Wayne Rapier Ronald Wilkison Personnel Managers Harvey Seigel English Horn William Moyer Jerome Rosen Laurence Thorstenber^ Harry Shapiro Sheila Fiekowsky Gerald Elias Clarinets Librarians Lefkowitz Ronan Harold Wright Victor Alpert Ann 5.M. Banks chair William Shisler Violas Pasquale Cardillo Burton Fine Peter Hadcock Stage Manager Charles 5. Dana chair E-flat clarinet Reuben Green Alfred Robison Eugene Lehner Bass Clarinet George Humphrey Felix Viscuglia Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Seiji Ozawa became Music Director of the the beginning of the 1965-66 season he Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall became Music Director of the Toronto of 1973 and is the thirteenth conductor Symphony, a post he relinquished after to head the Orchestra since its founding four seasons to devote his time to study in 1881. and guest conducting. He was born in Hoten, Manchuria, in In 1970 Mr. Ozawa became Artistic 1935, and graduated from the Toho Director of the Berkshire Music Festival, School of Music in Tokyo with first and in December of that prizes in composition and conducting. year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and When he won first prize at the Inter- Music Director of the national Competition of Conducting at San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Besancon, France, shortly after his gradu- titles he held con- currently with his position ation, one of the judges of the competition as Music Director of the Boston was the late Charles Munch, then Music Symphony until he resigned them in the spring Director of the Boston Symphony, who of 1976. (He will be Honorary Conductor in invited him to study at Tanglewood San Francisco for the 1976-77 during the following summer. Mr. season). Ozawa's association with the Orchestra began during that session of the Berkshire Mr. Ozawa's recordings for Deutsche Music Center as a student of conducting Grammophon include Berlioz's Sym- in 1960. phonic fantastique, La damnation de Faust, and Romeo et Juliette (awarded a Beginning with the summer of 1964, Grand Prix du Disque). This spring, DG Mr. Ozawa was for five seasons Music will release the Ozawa/BSO recording of Director of the Ravinia Festival, and at Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. David O. Ives, Chairman Hazen H. Ayer, Vice Chairman Mrs. Arthur I. Strang, Secretary Charles F. Adams Weston P. Figgins Richard P. Morse Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm David G. Mugar Mrs. Richard Bennink Carlton P. Fuller Dr. Barbara W. Newell Dr. Leo L. Beranek Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Stephen Paine David W. Bernstein Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Priscilla Potter David Bird Mrs. John L. Grandin Harry Remis Gerhard Bleicken Bruce Harriman Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Frederick Brandi Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Henry B. Cabot Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. A. Lloyd Russell Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt William A. Selke Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Leonard Kaplan Samuel L. Slosberg Levin H. Campbell, III Leon Kirchner Richard A. Smith Dr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Arthur P. Contas Roderick MacDougall Mrs. Richard H. Thompson The Hon. Silvio O. Conte John S. McLennan Stokley P. Towles Robert Cushman Colman M. Mockler, Jr. D. Thomas Trigg Michael J. Daly Mrs. Elting E. Morison Mrs. C. Russell Eddv Frank E. Morris We'd like to give handicapped kids . a free education. Yes, free. | The Cotting School for Handicapped Children offers a 12-year academic program for physically and medically handicapped children with mentally normal capabilities. 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Kaufman aroused interest by playing Notes The Four Seasons on a CBS broadcast, a summer substitute in the slot occupied Antonio Vivaldi during the winter by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony.** But it was Concerto in C major for piccolo, with the arrival of the long-playing P. 79 (F.VI,4) record, that