Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1986

Tuesday, 26 August 1986 For the benefit of the Tanglew<©d Music Center Win a Baldwin!^Sm&Wm Wm ^mm^Wm mm W Hi Ml mm Benefit the TanglewdDd Music Center Scholarship Fund. Enter the Raffle Tickets available at the Drawing Today! of a Baldwin Baby Friends Office. Or visit the Tanglewood-on-Parade Raffle Booth located on Tuesday, August 26,1986 Grand Piano* Played the grounds near The Winner will be notified. This Summer at Glass House and *a smaller piano (spinet Tanglewood Tanglewood Music Store; or console) available, if ($15,000 value). open from 6 pm through preferred. Delivery included, intermission of each continental U.S. Employees Donation -$2/ Ticket BSO concert. of the BSO and their $10/ Book of Six Tickets families not eligible. Tanglewood on Parade Tuesday, 26 August 1986 Tanglew®d m For the Benefit of the Tanglewood Music Center Music Center 2:00 Gates Open 5:30 Alpine Horn Demonstration (Lawn near 2:10 Brass fanfare at Chamber Music Hall) Main Gate Drive: Ronald Barron 5:45 Balloon Ascension (Rear of Shed in (Lawn near Box Lot, case of rain) weather permitting) 2:30 Boston University 6:00 Tanglewood Music Center Tanglewood Institute Fellowship Wind Music Young Artists Orchestra (Main House Porch; (Shed) Shed if rain) 2:45 Tanglewood Music Center 7:00 Berkshire Highlanders Fellowship Vocal Concert (Lion Gate; rear of (Chamber Music Hall) Shed if rain) 3:30 Tanglewood Music Center 8:00 Eastover Train Fellowship Chamber Music (Main Gate) (Theatre-Concert Hall) 8:15 Fanfare at rear of Shed: 4:00 Boston University Roger Voisin Tanglewood Institute 8:40 Fanfare from Shed stage: Chamber Music Concert Charles Daval (Chamber Music Hall) 8:50 Raffle Drawing 5:00 Boston University (Shed Stage) Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Chorus 9:00 Gala Concert (Shed) (Shed) Hot air balloon courtesy Charles Joseph of Lebanon, New Jersey Alpine horns courtesy BSO horn player Daniel Katzen Artillery, cannon, and train supplied by Eastover, Inc. Scottish folk music courtesy the Berkshire Highlanders Fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl following the Gala Concert A Message from Seiji Ozawa Tanglewood-on-Parade is a festive day musician to be inspired by the Boston with a serious and important purpose, to Symphony Orchestra, the preeminent provide funds to help support the Tangle- guest conductors and soloists performing wood Music Center. In fulfillment of at Tanglewood, and the magnificent sur- Serge Koussevitzky s dream, young musi- roundings of the Berkshires? cians come to this beautiful setting Because the Tanglewood Music Center to study with members of the Boston is very costly to operate, we are now in- Symphony Orchestra, and on this day the volved in a $12 million campaign with two orchestras traditionally make music the goal to make the Tanglewood Music together. Center self-supporting and to provide a The Tanglewood Music Center is the new Theatre-Concert Hall, the site of the only institution of its kind administered student performances. and financed by a major symphony or- Your attendance at this benefit concert chestra. The 150 Fellows who come here supports the Music Center. We invite all from thirty states and fifteen foreign coun- of you who share our love for great music tries pay no tuition and are offered free to participate in the Tanglewood Music room and board. This freedom from finan- Center s 50th Anniversary Campaign. In cial concerns for the summer gives these 1990 we hope to celebrate the successful gifted young musicians an opportunity completion of the campaign and look to focus all of their attention on a very forward to an even more glorious future. intense level of music-making. It is a fan- tastic experience, one which will influ- ence most of the Fellows for the rest of their lives. The summer I spent here as a Fellow in 1960 was one of the most challenging and stimulating periods of my musical life. Can you imagine what it is like for a young Seiji Ozawa The Tanglewood Music Center Tanglewood is much more than a pleas- first performance of Randall Thompson's ant, outdoor, summer concert hall; it is Alleluia for unaccompanied chorus, also the site of one of the most influential which had been written for the ceremony centers for advanced musical study in the and had arrived less than an hour before world. Here, the Tanglewood Music the event was to begin, but which made Center, which has been maintained by such an impression that it has remained the Boston Symphony Orchestra ever the traditional opening music each summer. since its establishment (as the Berkshire The emphasis at the Tanglewood Music Music Center) under the leadership of Center has always been not on sheer Serge Koussevitzky in 1940, provides a technique, which students learn with wide range of specialized training and their regular private teachers, but on experience for young musicians from all making music. Although the program has over the world. Now in its second year changed in some respects over the years, under Artistic Director Leon Fleisher, the emphasis is still on ensemble per- the Tanglewood Music Center looks for- formance, learning chamber music with a ward to celebrating its first half-century group of talented fellow musicians under of musical excellence in 1990. the coaching of a master-musician- The TMC was Koussevitzky s pride and teacher. Many of the pieces learned this joy for the rest of his life. He assembled way are performed in the regular student an extraordinary faculty in composition, recitals; each summer brings treasured operatic and choral activities, and instru- memories of exciting performances by mental performance; he himself taught talented young professionals beginning a the most gifted conductors. The school love affair with a great piece of music. opened formally on 8 July 1940, with The Tanglewood Music Center speeches (Koussevitzky, alluding to the Orchestra performs weekly in concerts war then raging in Europe, said, "If ever covering the entire repertory under the there was a time to speak of music, it is direction of student conductors as well as now in the New World") and music, the members of the TMC staff and visitors Serge Koussevitzky who are in town to lead the BSO in its are a series of special instructional pro- festival concerts. The quality of this grams, this summer including the Phyllis orchestra, assembled for just eight weeks Curtin Seminar for Singers, a Listening each summer, regularly astonishes vis- and Analysis Seminar, and a Seminar for itors. It would be impossible to list all the Conductors. Beginning in 1966, educa- distinguished musicians who have been tional programs at Tanglewood were ex- part of that annual corps of young people tended to younger students, mostly of on the verge of a professional career as high-school age, when Erich Leinsdorf instrumentalists, singers, conductors, invited the Boston University School for and composers. But it is worth noting the Arts to become involved with the that 20% of the members of the major Boston Symphony Orchestra's activities orchestras in this country have been in the Berkshires. Today, Boston Univer- students at the Tanglewood Music Center, sity, through its Tanglewood Institute, and that figure is constantly rising. sponsors programs which offer individual Today there are three principal pro- and ensemble instruction to talented grams at the Tanglewood Music Center, younger musicians, with ten separate each with appropriate subdivisions. The programs for performers and composers. Fellowship Program provides a demanding Today, alumni of the Tanglewood Music schedule of study and performance for Center play a vital role in the musical life students who have completed most of of the nation. Tanglewood and the Tangle- their training in music and who are wood Music Center, projects with which awarded fellowships to underwrite their Serge Koussevitzky was involved until his expenses. It includes courses of study for death, have become a fitting shrine to his instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, memory, a living embodiment of the vital, and composers. The Tanglewood Seminars humanistic tradition that was his legacy. Seiji Ozawa conducts the 1985 Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Gala Concert TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE TanglewoDd Tuesday, 26 August at 9 Music For the Benefit of the Tanglewood Music Center Center BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA, JOHN WILLIAMS, and LEON FLEISHER conducting BORODIN "Polovtsian Dances," from the opera Prince Igor TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA and BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA, LEON FLEISHER, conductor RAVEL Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, SEIJI OZAWA, conductor INTERMISSION WILLIAMS "Adventures on Earth," from E.T. "Yodas Theme," from The Empire Strikes Back Main Title from Star Wars TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA, JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY Ceremonial Overture, 1812 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA, JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor Baldwin piano The Tanglewood Music Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Notes Surely Alexander Borodin (1833-77) composed the best music ever written by a practicing chemist. He received a doctorate for his dissertation On the Analogy of Arsenical with Phosphoric Acid, while at the same time practicing his cello and writ- ing some of his first chamber works. At the age of thirty-one, he became a full profes- sor of chemistry at the Medico-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg. His professional life was spent there investigating the products of the condensation of the aldehydes of valerian, enantol, and vinegar. But he led a second life as well, one that was en- thusiastically supported by a group of Russian nationalist musicians including Balakirev and Mussorgsky.

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