BOSTON SWPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA. Musk: Director - -t- " I Yes, if you're lucky! When you plan a Berkshire vacation, you're apt to neai^Sorry we're booked" m<|re than once. Simply because tourists value our country cnafm blended with cosmopolitan culture. We at Foxhollow hate the thought of your missing out on the Berkshire experience, so we're delighted to introduce our time-shared vacation home concept which provides you with superb accommodations at a fraction of their normal cost All yours ... a contemporary resort dwelling built on a renowned 280 acre country estate with stables, swimming, tennis, sailing, skiing and more. Savor authentic New England cuisine in our elegant dining room. Then enjoy a nightcap and entertainment in our Hunt's End Lounge. Breathe deeply . our air holds that special Berkshire magic. Imaginary voices of yesterday's literary giants mingle with the melodic strains of today's performers. Don't risk missing a Berkshire summer. Stop by and let us explain how you can share the Foxhollow experience. Same time next year? Guaranteed! The Ponds at Foxhollow . come share it with us. Route 7, Lenox, Massachusetts 01240 Tel. (413) 637-2706 1-800-292-6631 (in Massachusetts), 1-800-628-5990 (out of state) Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Hundredth Birthday Season, 1981-82 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. J. P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Mrs. George Lee Sargent Mrs. Norman L. Cahners David G. Mugar William A. Selke George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward G. Murray Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W. Morris General Manager William Bernell Edward R. Birdwell Daniel R. Gustin Artistic Administrator Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Caroline Smedvig Walter D. Hill B.J. Krintzman Director of Director of Director Promotion Business Affairs of Planning Judith Gordon Theodore A. Vlahos Joseph M. Hobbs Assistant Director Controller Director of Promotion Development of Arlene Germain Marc Solomon Financial Analyst Joyce M. Snyder Production Development Coordinator Elizabeth Dunton Coordinator Director of Sales James E. Whitaker Katherine Whitty Hall Manager, Charles Rawson Coordinator of Symphony Hall Manager of Box Office Boston Council James F. Kiley Anita R. Kurland Richard Ortner Operations Manager, Administrator of Administrator, Tanglewood Youth Activities Berkshire Music Center Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Editorial Print Production Publications Coordinator Coordinator Programs copyright ®1982 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Walter H. Scott, Stockbridge m m f Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners, Chairman William J. Poorvu Mrs. William H. Ryan V ice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Hanae Mori John Q. Adams Jordan L. Golding Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Frank G. Allen Haskell R. Gordon E. James Morton David B. Arnold, Jr. Graham Gund Stephen Paine, Sr. Hazen H. Ayer Christian G. Halby John A. Perkins Bruce A. Beal Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III David R. Pokross Mrs. Richard Bennink Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Mrs. Curtis Prout David W. Bernstein Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Eleanor Radin Mrs. Edward J. Bertozzi, Jr. Ms. Susan M. Hilles Peter C. Read Peter A. Brooke Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr Mrs. Peter van S. Rice William M. Bulger Richard S. Jackson, Jr. David Rockefeller, Jr. Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Mrs. George R. Rowland Julian Cohen Mrs. Louis I. Kane Francis P. Sears Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Gene Shalit Johns H. Congdon Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. Donald B. Sinclair William M. Crozier, Jr. Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Richard A. Smith Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Mrs. Carl Koch Ralph Z. Sorenson Mrs. Michael H. Davis Robert K. Kraft Peter J. Sprague William S. Edgerly Harvey C. Krentzman Ray Stata Mrs. Alexander Ellis, Jr. Mrs. E. Anthony Kutten Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Frank L. Farwell Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Kenneth G. Fisher Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mark Tishler, Jr. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen C. Charles Marran Ms. Luise Vosgerchian Paul Fromm Mrs. August R. Meyer Robert A. Wells Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Edward H. Michaelsen Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner J. William Middendorf II John J. Wilson Paul M. Montrone THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA- Join the Boston Symphony as it celebrates the beginning of the orchestra's soloists and conductors with one of the world's most glorious orchestras. Highlights will include performances of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust; Haydn's Creation/ Bruckner's Symphony Wo. 8, and Elgar's Dream of Under Ozawa, the BSO will continue its series of centennial commissions, as well as its retrospective of past masterpieces, such as Britten's Spring' Symphony and the Dvorak Cello Concerto, given their American premieres Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Eugene Ormandy, Andre Previn, and BSO Assistant st its will include ay P 2io Serkin, and Alexis ': sopranos ard Behrens and Jessye Norman; mezzo- «t*< N soprano Frederica 1 Nicolai Gedda; violinist ltzhak Perlman, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma in his - BSO debut. HI To receive complete program and ticket information, call or -4a^^M write: Symphony Hall, Boston, - ! m MA 02115. Tel. (617)266-1492 BOSTON IYMPHONY ORCHESTRA si l|l OZAWA x< Ma./, V" N 9 9635 ® This is a Coach Bag *--^ It is one of twenty-six small, medium and large Shoulder Bags, Pouches, Clutches, Totes, Satchels and Portfolios that we make jn ten colors of real Glove Tanned Cowhide. Coachf Bags are sold in selected stores throughout the country. If you cannot find the one you want in a store near you, you can also order it directly from the Factory. For Catalogue and Store List write or call: Consumer Service, Coach Leatherware, 516 West 34th St., New York City 10001. Tel: (212) 594-3914. TANGLEWOOD drawing a total of nearly 15,000 people. The Berkshire Festival In the winter of 1936, Mrs. In August 1934, a group of music- Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary loving summer residents of the Aspinwall Tappan offered Berkshires organized a series of Tanglewood, the Tappan family three outdoor concerts at estate, with its buildings and 210 Interlaken, to be given by members acres of lawns and meadows, as a of the New York Philharmonic gift to Koussevitzky and the under the direction of Henry orchestra. The offer was gratefully Hadley. The venture was so accepted, and on 5 August 1937 the successful that the promoters festival's largest crowd so far incorporated the Berkshire assembled under a tent for the first Symphonic Festival and repeated the Tanglewood concert, an all- experiment during the next Beethoven program. summer. At the all-Wagner concert which The Festival Committee then opened the 1937 festival's second invited Serge Koussevitzky and the weekend, rain and thunder twice Boston Symphony Orchestra to take interrupted the performance of the part in the following year's concerts. Rienzi Overture and necessitated the The orchestra's Trustees accepted, omission altogether of the Siegfried and on 13 August 1936 the Boston "Forest Murmurs," music too delicate Symphony gave its first concerts in to be heard through the downpour. the Berkshires (at Holmwood, a At the intermission, Miss Gertrude former Vanderbilt estate, later the Robinson Smith, one of the festival's Center at Foxhollow). The series founders, made a fundraising appeal again consisted of three concerts and for the building of a permanent was given under a large tent, structure. The appeal was i i : a h F s b oOSTONii. sym|>w <>n|c sy£vU ^ ~JL symphony ORCHESTRAF j* ?» 13 £ KOUSSEVITZKY - CONDUCTOR *< broadened by means of a printed circular handed out at the two remaining concerts, and within a short time enough money had been raised to begin active planning for a "music pavilion." Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an elaborate design that went far beyond the immediate needs of the festival and, more important, went well beyond the budget of $100,000. His second, simplified plans were still too expensive, and he finally wrote that if the Trustees insisted on remaining within their budget, they would have "just a shed," which "any builder could accomplish without the aid of an architect." The Trustees then turned to a Stockbridge engineer, Joseph Franz, to make further simplifications in Saarinen's plans in order to lower the cost. The building that he erected remains, with modifications, to this day; it is still called simply "the Shed." The Shed was inaugurated for the first concert of the 1938 festival. It has echoed with the music of the Boston Symphony Orchestra every summer since, except for the war years 1942- 45, and has become almost a place of pilgrimage to millions of concertgoers. By 1941, the Theatre- Concert Hall, the Chamber Music c>. Hall, and several small studios — all part of the Berkshire Music Center, which had begun operations the preceding year — were finished, and the festival had so expanded its activities and its reputation for excellence that it attracted nearly 100,000 visitors.