Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1987, Tanglewood
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Meyer Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick E.James Morton George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Avram J. Goldberg David G. Mugar William M. Crozier, Jr. Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Francis W Hatch, Jr. Richard A. Smith Mrs. Michael H. Davis Harvey Chet Krentzman John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Irving W. Rabb Richard P. Chapman Albert L. Nickerson Paul C. Reardon Abram T. Collier John T. Noonan Sidney Stoneman Mrs. Harris Fahnestock John L. Thorndike Other Officers of the Corporation John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Jay B . Wailes, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Kenneth Haas, Managing Director Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Managing Director Michael G. McDonough, Director ofFinance and Business Affairs Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director ofPromotion Josiah Stevenson, Director ofDevelopment Robert Bell, Data Processing Manager Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Helen P. Bridge, Director of Volunteers Richard Ortner, Administrator of Madelyne Codola Cuddeback, Director Tanglewood Music Center of Corporate Development Nancy E. Phillips, Media and Vera Gold, Assistant Director ofPromotion Production Manager, Patricia F. Halligan, Personnel Administrator Boston Symphony Orchestra Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Charles Rawson, Manager ofBox Office John M. Keenum, Director of James Ross, Production Manager, Foundation Support Boston Pops James F. Kiley, Facilities Manager, Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Tanglewood ofDevelopment Anita R. Kurland, Administrator of Susan E. Tomlin, Director ofAnnual Giving Youth Activities James E. Whitaker, Chief Coordinator, Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist &? Tanglewood Music Center Program Annotator Programs copyright ®1987 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover design by Wondriska Associates Inc. OZAWA AND THE BSO: 15 EXTRAORDINARY YEARS AT SYMPHONY HALL AND CARNEGIE HALL. SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE 1987-88 SEASON! Join Music Director Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall for a 23-week season of magnificent music. In addition, Ozawa and the BSO will present their traditional three-concert series at Carnegie Hall, featuring appearances by Murray Perahia and Peter Serkin. For complete ticket and program information for the BSO's Boston and New York seasons write: BSO, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115 or call Symphony Hall, (617) 266-1492. Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Avram J. Goldberg Chairman Mrs. Carl Koch Ray Stata Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary John Q. Adams Gerhard M. Freche Richard P. Morse Mrs. Weston W. Adams Dean Freed Mrs. Thomas S. Morse Martin Allen Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Robert B. Newman Mrs. David Bakalar Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Bruce A. Beal Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Vincent M. O'Reilly Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Stephen Paine, Sr. Peter A. Brooke Jordan L. Golding John A. Perkins William M. Bulger Haskell R. Gordon Daphne Brooks Prout Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Robert E. Remis Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Joseph M. Henson Mrs. Peter van S. Rice James F. Cleary Arnold Hiatt David Rockefeller, Jr. John F. Cogan, Jr. Mrs. Richard D. Hill John Ex Rodgers Julian Cohen Glen H. Hiner Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld William H. Congleton Mrs. Marilyn B. Hoffman Mrs. William C. Rousseau Walter J. Connolly, Jr. Ronald A. Homer Mrs. William H. Ryan Mrs. A. Werk Cook H. Eugene Jones Mrs. Raymond H. Schneider Albert C. Cornelio Howard Kaufman Gene Shalit Phyllis Curtin Richard L. Kaye Mark L. Selkowitz A.V. dArbeloff Robert D. King Malcolm L. Sherman Mrs. Michael H. Davis Robert K. Kraft W. Davies Sohier, Jr. Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett John P. LaWare Ralph Z. Sorenson Ms. Phyllis Dohanian Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt William F. Thompson Harriett Eckstein Laurence Lesser Mark Tishler, Jr. Mrs. Alexander Ellis R. Willis Leith, Jr. Mrs. An Wang Edward Eskandarian Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Roger D. Wellington Katherine Fanning Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. Thomas H.P Whitney John A. Fibiger Mrs. Harry L. Marks Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Kenneth G. Fisher C. Charles Marran Brunetta Wolfman Peter M. Flanigan Nicholas T Zervas Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Hazen H. Ayer Leonard Kaplan David R. Pokross Paul Fromm Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Richard H.Thompson Officers of the Boston Symphony Association ofVolunteers Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett President Ms. Phyllis Dohanian Ms. Helen Doyle Executive Vice-President Secretary Mr. Goetz B. Eaton Mrs. SeaburyT. Short, Jr. Treasurer Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg, Fundraising Projects Mrs. Jeffrey Millman, Membership Ms. Kathleen Heck, Development Services Mrs. Harry F. Sweitzer, Jr. , Public Relations Mrs. James T Jensen, Hall Services Mrs. Thomas Walker, Regions Mrs. Eugene Leibowitz, Tanglewood Ms. Margaret Williams, Youth Mrs. Robert L. Singleton, Tanglewood Activities and Adult Education Chairmen of Regions Mrs. Claire E. Bessette Ms. Linda Fenton Mrs. Hugo A. Mujica Mrs. Thomas M. Berger III Mrs. Daniel Hosage Mrs. G. William Newton Mrs. John T Boatwright Ms. Prudence A. Law Mrs. Ralph Seferian Mrs. Gilman W Conant Mrs. Robert Miller Mrs. Richard E. Thayer Mrs. James Cooke Mrs. FT Whitney AFTER 50 YEARS, IT'S STILL A SOUND INVESTMENT. Were pleased and proud to support the fiftieth Tanglewood season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations to this wonderful institution which continues to show a remarkable rate of return with each successive year. BANK OF NEW ENGLAND »':« m Bank of New England makes possible the broadcast of these live at Tanglewood concerts on WGBH and other New England public radio stations. • ••• .', • • ~r.i:urA. i.i^.,:-;,/..: TANGLEWOOD offer was gratefully accepted, and on 5 August 1937 the festival's largest crowd The Tanglewood Festival so far assembled under a tent for the first In August 1934, a group of music- Tanglewood concert, an all-Beethoven loving summer residents of the program. Berkshires organized a series of three At the all-Wagner concert which outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be opened the 1937 festival's second given by members of the New York weekend, rain and thunder twice inter- Philharmonic under the direction of rupted the performance of the Rienzi Henry Hadley. The venture was so Overture and necessitated the omission successful that the promoters incorpo- altogether of the Siegfried "Forest rated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival Murmurs," music too delicate to be and repeated the experiment during the heard through the downpour. At the next summer. intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson The Festival Committee then invited Smith, one of the festival's founders, Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston made a fundraising appeal for the build- Symphony Orchestra to take part in the ing of a permanent structure. The appeal following year's concerts. The orchestra's was broadened by means of a printed Trustees accepted, and on 13 August circular handed out at the two remaining 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first concerts, and within a short time enough concerts in the Berkshires (at Holm- money had been raised to begin active wood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later planning for a "music pavilion." the Center at Foxhollow). The series Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect again consisted of three concerts and was selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an given under a large tent, drawing a total elaborate design that went far beyond of nearly 15,000 people. the immediate needs of the festival and, In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham more important, went well beyond the Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tap- budget of $100,000. His second, pan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan simplified plans were still too expensive, family estate, with its buildings and 210 and he finally wrote that if the Trustees acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to insisted on remaining within their Koussevitzky and the orchestra. The budget, they would have "just a shed," A 1939 banner advertising that summers Boston Symphony Tanglewood Festival Drawing by Dougtei McGregor Since 1773 People by Norman Rockwell A great place to spend an overnight or enjoy a meal. Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 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