Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 99, 1979-1980
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nine 99th SEASON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director x ^s^n H --^ ^ Accompanist to Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops •Gilbert Kalish • Seiji Ozawa Berkshire Music Center and Festival QUALITY A DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTE State Street Bank and Trust Company invites you to an evening with The Boston Symphony Orehestra every Friday at nine on WCRB/FM. ^ ^Ve Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season 1979-80 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D.Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Lawrence Murray Dorothy Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Promotion Controller Administrator of Coordinator Youth Activities Richard Ortner Elizabeth Elisabeth Dunton Assistant Administrator, Quinn Director of Berkshire Music Center Director of Sales Volunteer Services James F. Kiley Charles Katherine Rawson Operations Manager, Whitty Manager of Tanglewood Coordinator of Box Office Boston Council James E. Whitaker Hall Manager, Symphony Hall Steven Ledbetter Jean A. Miller Marc Mandel Director of Publications Publications Publications Assistant Assistant Programs copyright (cj]979 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 3 I The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. William H. Ryan V ice-Chairman V ice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding David Mugar John Q. Adams Haskell Gordon Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. John L. Grandin David R. Pokross Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Howard E. Hansen William Poorvu Mrs. Richard Bennink Christian Halby Mrs. Curtis Prout David W. Bernstein Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Harry Remis David Bird Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice <* Gerhard D. Bleicken Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry * William M. Bulger Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Kelton Burbank Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. George R. Rowland Curtis Buttenheim Leonard Kaplan Francis P. Sears, Jr. Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. William A. Selke The Hon. Levin H. Campbell III John Kittredge Gene Shalit Julian Cohen Robert K. Kraft Donald Sinclair Johns H. Congdon Benjamin H. Lacy Samuel L. Slosberg Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Richard A. Smith Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. Warren B. Manhard, Jr. Peter J. Sprague William Edgerly C. Charles Marran Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Mrs. John Fitzpatrick J. William Middendorf II Lawrence W. Strattner, Jr. Paul Fromm Colman M. Mockler Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Carlton P. Fuller Paul Montrone Mark Tishler Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Elting E. Morison D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Robert Gibb Richard P. Morse Roger H. Woodworth The best ofthe bunch UnionWarren Savings Bank Main Office— 133 Federal Street, Boston »«««•»«!•<.»<»»»* 1 'That's my wife, those are the twins, and, on the right, my New England Merchants trust officer" For gcx)d advice on personal trust matters, call our Trust Division at (617) 742-4000. Or write England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The Bank of New England. BSO Rolf Smedvig Named BSO Trumpet Principal Rolf Smedvig has been appointed the BSO's principal trumpet following the most extended audition process in the Orchestra's history; he now occupies the Roger Louis Voisin chair left vacant the end of last summer with the departure of his teacher and BSO predecessor, Armando Ghitalla. Born in Seattle, Mr. Smedvig studied at the University of Washington, Boston University, and the Berkshire Music Center; at twenty, he became the BSO's youngest member when he joined as third trumpet in 1973. He is on the faculty of the Boston Univer- sity School of Music and a founding member of the award-winning Empire Brass Quintet. Ozawa Leads Historic Beethoven Ninth in China As part of the continuing cultural exchange between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the People's Republic of China, Seiji Ozawa recently led three performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Peking Central Philhar- monic Orchestra. These performances, on 28, 29 and 30 December, were the first in China in twenty years, with Chinese chorus and soloists singing their native language. A documentary film crew from Boston's WNAC-TV/Channel 7 was on hand, and a one- hour special will be aired in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles. Joining Music Director Ozawa on this venture were BSO concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, principal cellist Jules Eskin, principal bassoon Sherman Walt, and horn player Richard Mackey, all of whom assisted in rehearsals. Funding for the trip was provided by the Mobil Oil Corporation in the form of a special grant. BSO to Perform Gluck's "Orfeo" The program for Thursday, 27 March (Thursday 'B' series), Friday and Saturday, 28 and 29 March, and Tuesday, 1 April (Tuesday 'O will be a concert perfor- mance of Gluck's Orfco ed Euridice, featuring mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani as Orfeo, soprano Margaret Marshall as Euridice, soprano Elizabeth Knighton as Amore, and John Oliver's Tanglewood Festival Chorus, all conducted by George Cleve. Good seats in all price ranges are still available for the three-concert Thursday 'B' series, which begins on 17 January with the first BSO performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater, continues on 21 February with a program featuring the Boston pre- miere of Donald Martino's Piano Concerto, and concludes on 27 March with Orfeo. BSO Guest Artists on WGBH-FM Robert J. Lurtsema, host of WGBH-FM-89.7's Morning Pro Musica, continues his series of live interviews with BSO guest artists on Friday, 4 January from 11 to noon when he talks with conductor Leonard Slatkin. Pianist Dwight Peltzer, who will be soloist in the Boston premiere of Donald Martino's Piano Concerto, will be interviewed on Saturday, 23 February, and conductor Sergiu Comissiona on Monday, 25 February. Where to be seen in Boston. The Bar at In The Colonnade Hotel. Zac#au/b. 4 PM to 2 AM Monday thru Saturday. Live contemporary jazz * from 9 PM tc :30 AM. Tie and jacket required. In-hotel parking. Telephone: 261-2800 Seiji Ozawa In the fall of 1973, Seiji Ozawa became the thirteenth Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since the Orchestra's founding in 1881. Born in Shenyang, China in 1935 to Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both Western and Oriental music as a child and later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music with first prizes in composition and conducting. In the fall of 1959 he won first prize at the Inter- national Competition of Orchestra Con- ductors, Besancon, France. Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, invited him to Tanglewood for the summer following, and he there won the Berkshire Music Center's high- f * est honor, the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied on the New York Philhar- monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was made an Assistant Conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 season. His first professional concert appearance in North America came in January 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for five summers begin- ning in 1964, and Music Director for four seasons of the Toronto Symphony Orches- tra, a post he relinquished at the end of the 1968-69 season in favor or guest conduct- ing numerous American and European orchestras. Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January of 1968; he had previously appeared with the Orchestra at Tanglewood, where he was made an Artistic Director in 1970. In December of that year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The Music Directorship of the Boston Symphony followed in 1973, and Mr. Ozawa resigned his San Francisco position in the spring of 1976, serving as Music Advisor there for the 1976-77 season. As Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strength- ened the Orchestra's reputation internationally as well as at home. In February/ March of 1976 he conducted concerts on the Orchestra's European tour, and in March 1978 he took the Orchestra to Japan for thirteen concerts in nine cities. At the invitation of the People's Republic of China, he then spent a week working with the Peking Central Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later, in March of 1979, he returned to China with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra for a significant musical and cultural exchange entailing coaching, study, and discussion sessions with Chinese musicians, as well as concert performances. Most recently, in August/September of 1979, the Orchestra under the direction of Mr.