Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 91, 1971
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Insurance of Every Description BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President FRANCIS W. HATCH PHILIP K. ALLEN Vice-President HAROLD D. HODGKINSON ROBERT H. GARDINER Vice-President E. MORTON JENNINGS JR JOHN L THORNDIKE Treasurer EDWARD M. KENNEDY ALLEN G. BARRY HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ERWIN D. CANHAM EDWARD G. MURRAY RICHARD P. CHAPMAN JOHN T. NOONAN ABRAM T. COLLIER MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK IRVING W. RABB THEODORE P. FERRIS PAUL C. REARDON SIDNEY STONEMAN TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT PALFREY PERKINS EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR Manager Assistant Managers THOMAS W. MORRIS DAVID ROCKEFELLER JR Business Affairs Audience and Public Affairs MARY H. SMITH Concerts and Artists FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. 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 © 1972 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1155 Accompanist to: The Boston Symphony Baldwin Piano & Organ Company • • Phone 426-0775 BALDWIN 160 Boylston Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 PIANOS • ORGANS 50 Middlesex Turnpike • Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 • Phone 273-0450 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. CABOT LEON KIRCHNER MRS NORMAN L. CAHNERS MAURICE LAZARUS LEVIN H. CAMPBELL III LAWRENCE K. MILLER GEORGE H. A. CLOWES JR FRANK E. MORRIS SILVIO O. CONTE MRS STEPHEN V. C. MORRIS JOHN L COOPER JOHN T. G. NICHOLS ROBERT CUTLER LOUVILLE NILES NELSON J. DARLING JR DAVID R. POKROSS HENRY B. DEWEY MRS BROOKS POTTER RICHARD A. EHRLICH HERBERT W. PRATT BYRON K. ELLIOTT MRS FAIRFIELD E. RAYMOND ARCHIE C. EPPS III MRS GEORGE R. ROWLAND PAUL FROMM MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT CARLTON P. FULLER DONALD B. SINCLAIR MRS ALBERT GOODHUE MRS L. LEE STANTON MRS JOHN L. GRANDIN JR JOHN HOYT STOOKEY STEPHEN W. GRANT STOKLEY P. TOWLES SAMUEL A. GROVES ROBERT G. WIESE VINCENT C. ZIEGLER SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1157 BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL • SOUTH SHORE • NORTHSHORE • BURLINGTON • WELLESLEY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN Assistant Conductor first violins cellos bassoons Joseph Silverstein Jules Eskin Sherman Walt concertmaster Philip R. 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 Richard Roger Shermont Luis Leguia 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 Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Pottle Stanley Benson basses Alfred Schneider Henry Portnoi Gerald Gelbloom William Rhein trumpets Raymond Sird Ikuko Mizuno Joseph Hearne Armando Ghitalla Cecylia Arzewski Bela Wurtzler Roger Voisin Leslie Martin 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 english Charles S. Dana chair horn Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg harps Eugene Lehner Bernard Zighera George Humphrey clarinets Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Harold Wright Robert Kami Pasquale Cardillo librarians Bernard Kadinoff Peter Hadcock Vincent Mauricci 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 LONDON TIMES REVIEWS CAVE ATLANTIQUE'S 1971 GOURMET WINE TOUR OF FRANCE This is a partial reproduction of an article that appeared in the December 18, 1 971 London Times describing Cave Atlantique's Gourmet Wine Tour of France. Copyright Times Newspapers Ltd. and the Good Food Guide (Consumers Association and Hodder) 1971. THE TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW DECEMBER 18 1971 Good Food Guide The grand gourmet tour of France Two of the Guide's inspectors notable dishes. recently accompanied nine cus- tomers of an eminent Massa- chusetts wine-merchant on a All, similarly, were unan- " gourmet " tour of France imous that the finest, and easily organized by an enterprising the most exquisitely presented agent. English dinner of the whole tour was at The tour began in Boston and the Pavilion Sevigne in Vichy, ended a fortnight later in Paris, also one of the Chateau-Hoteis its members having visited by chain, although a town hotel motorcoach the wine-growing (once Madame Sevigne's house regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy. and once, less honourably, Mar- Alsace and Champagne and shal Petain's headquarters). At sampled their wines ; enjoyed their one dinner there the the local delicacies in seven knowledgeable and, by this different hotels and three Paris time, highly experienced gour- restaurants ; and never encoun- mets gasped with admiration as tered the same dish twice ; all at each course was ceremonially a cost of $1,000 a head lun- — presented in its pristine, un- cheons not included. carved splendour to each end of • • • the table : cbarcuterie d'Auv- The restaurant of the Cha- ergne ; saumon de FALlier ; cote teau de Castel -Novel, near de charollais a la broche, with e- Brive, is one-starred in pommes aux raisins ; profit Michelin, and the visiting gour- roles desir de Marquise. Our mets still speak with reverence own inspectors swear that they of its truffled souffle and its have seen nothing finer at state confit de canard, among other or city banquets. THE 1972 GOURMET WINE COST OF THE TOUR TOURS OF FRANCE The cost of each tour will be $1,195 per person, which will include air fare Boston- For 1972 Cave Atlantique is offering three Paris-Boston, travel throughout by luxury parties of its Gourmet Wine Tour of France. coach, and luxury accommodations through- out with dinner and breakfast. May 4—May 18. Visiting the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Cognac and Paris. HOW TO BOOK Reservations are now being accepted for the June 25—June 29. Visiting Burgundy, 1972 parties of the Gourmet Wine Tour of Alsace, the Rhine in Germany, Champagne France. Those desiring a booking form, and a and Paris. detailed itinerary should contact Cave Atlan- tique, 1675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, September 21 —October 5. Same itinerary Mass. 02138, or call (617)491-2411 or(617) as the May party. 491-7629. 0«v£y «<^5 CONTENTS Program for March 3 and 4 1972 1163 Future programs 1211 Program notes Kirchner- Music for orchestra 1175 by the composer Brahms- Violin concerto in D op. 77 1177 by James Lyons Verdi - Quartet in E minor for strings 1180 by Andrew Raeburn The Music Director 1192 The Guest Conductor 1193 The soloist 1195 New members of the Orchestra 1196 Seiji Ozawa to be Music Director 1174 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor and Assistant to the Music Director 1161 NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 Friday afternoon March 3 1972 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening March 4 1972 at 8.30 His Honor Mayor Kevin H. White has declared this week of February 28 1972 'Boston Symphony Orchestra Week' in celebration of the Musical Marathon. WILLIAM STEINBERG and LEON KIRCHNER conductors conducted by Leon Kirchner KIRCHNER Music for orchestra first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg BRAHMS Violin concerto in D op. 77 Allegro non troppo Adagio Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace ZINO FRANCESCATTI intermission VERDI Quartet in E minor for strings Allegro Andantino Prestissimo Scherzo- fuga: allegro assai mosso first performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra The concert on Friday will end about 3.50; the concert on Saturday about 10.20. The Boston Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND RCA RECORDS 1163 The Museum of Science has a piece of the Rock. The Rock of Gibraltar has been our trademark since 1896. And we thought a two-ton piece of its 1 000-foot limestone cliffs would make a good gift for the Museum of Science Rock Garden of the World! 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