Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 91, 1971-1972
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GUSTIN Director of Development Administrator of Educational Affairs DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood RICHARD C WHITE Assistant to the Manager program copyright © 1971 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS The Baldwin Concert Grand* Seiji Ozawa conducting* Baldwin Piano & Organ Company 160 Boylston Street • Boston, Massachusetts 02116 BALDWIN PIANOS • ORGANS Telephone: 426-0775 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. ERWIN D. CANHAM Chairman VERNON ALDEN Vice-Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Secretary HAZEN H. AYER FRANCIS W. HATCH JR MRS FRANK G. ALLEN DAVID O. IVES ROBERT C. ALSOP MRS C. D. JACKSON LEO L BERANEK HOWARD W. JOHNSON DAVID W. BERNSTEIN W. SEAVEY JOYCE MRS CURTIS B. BROOKS MRS LOUIS I. KANE J. CARTER BROWN GEORGE H. KIDDER MRS LOUIS W. 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Allen chair Ernst Panenka Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero Alfred Krips Mischa Nieland Max Hobart Stephen Geber contra bassoon Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Richard Plaster Max Winder Carol Procter Harry Dickson Jerome Patterson horns Gottfried Wilfinger Ronald Feldman Charles Yancich Fredy Ostrovsky Joel Moerschel Harry Shapiro Leo Panasevich Jonathan Miller David Ohanian Noah Bielski Thomas Newell Sheldon Rotenberg basses Ralph Pottle Stanley Benson Henry Portnoi Alfred Schneider Gerald Gelbloom William Rhein trumpets Joseph Raymond Sird Hearne Armando Ghitalla Ikuko Mizuno Bela Wurtzler Roger Voisin Leslie Martin Cecylia Arzewski Andre Come John Salkowski Gerard Goguen second violins John Barwicki Clarence Knudson Robert Olson trombones Fahnestock chair Lawrence Wolfe William Marshall William Gibson Michel Sasson flutes Ronald Barron Ronald Knudsen Doriot Anthony Dwyer Gordon Hallberg Leonard Moss Walter Piston chair William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis tuba Ayrton Pinto Paul Fried Chester Schmitz Amnon Levy Laszlo Nagy piccolo timpani Michael Vitale Everett Firth Spencer Larrison Lois Schaefer Marylou Speaker Darlene Gray oboes percussion Ronald Wilkison Ralph Gomberg Charles Smith Harvey Seigel Arthur Press John Holmes assistant timpanist Wayne Rapier violas Thomas Gauger Burton Fine Frank Epstein Charles S. Dana chair english horn Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg harps Eugene Lehner Bernard Zighera George Humphrey clarinets Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Harold Wright Robert Kami librarians Bernard Kadinoff Pasquale Cardillo Vincent Mauricci Peter Hadcock Victor Alpert fb clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer Music and money have one thing in common. Time. Proper timing can be as important to money management as it is to music. A great performance from an investment depends upon entrances and exits made at the right time. Even financial planning benefits from good timing. The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company has been managing money successfully for almost a century. Perhaps it's time you talked to us. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMB4NY one boston place boston Massachusetts 02106 CONTENTS Program for November 19, 20 and 23 1971 459 Future programs Friday-Saturday series 506 Tuesday A series 507 Program notes Haydn - Symphony no. 96 in D 'Miracle' 471 by John N. Burk Bartok - Suite from 'The miraculous mandarin' 474 by James Lyons Takemitsu - 'Dorian horizon' for strings 476 by Andrew Raeburn Takemitsu - 'Cassiopeia' for percussion and orchestra 489 by Andrew Raeburn and Edward Downes The Guest Conductor 491 The soloist 491 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor and Assistant to the Music Director 457 NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 Friday afternoon November 19 1971 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening November 20 1971 at 8.30 Tuesday evening November 23 1971 at 8.30 SEIJI OZAWA conductor *HAYDN Symphony no. 96 in D 'Miracle' Adagio - allegro Andante Menuetto Finale: allegro vivace BARTOK Suite from The miraculous mandarin' intermission TAKEMITSU The Dorian horizon' first performance in Boston TAKEMITSU 'Cassiopeia' for percussion and orchestra JOHN WYRE first performance in Boston The concert on Friday will end about 3.50; the concerts on Saturday and Tuesday about 10.20 The Boston Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND *RCA RECORDS 459 it'll sound a lot better if the heat is sotto voce. 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