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POPS AT TANGLEWOOD BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, CONDUCTOR 110th SEASON For the benefit of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Pension Fund Wednesday evening, July 12, 1995, at 8:30 Keith Lockhart In February 1995 Keith Lockhart was named twentieth Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its found- ing in 1885. Mr. Lockhart was born in Poughkeepsie, York, New on November 7, 1959, and began his musical ! studies with piano lessons at the age of seven. He entered Furman University in Greenville, South Caro- lina, as a pre-law major but switched to a double major in music and German. A residency at the Aspen Festi- val in Colorado in the summer of 1980, working there with Leonard Slatkin, led Mr. Lockhart to commit himself to a career as a conductor. He received his M.F.A. in 1983 from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and remained there as a faculty member, eventually becoming Director of Orchestral Activities. During that same period, he assumed the post of Conductor of the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra as well. In 1988, while retaining his posts in Pittsburgh, he accepted an appointment as Assistant Conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of I the Akron Youth Symphony. In 1989 Mr. Lockhart became one of two Conducting Fellows of the Los Angeles Phil- harmonic Institute, where he conducted at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the Los Ange- les Summer Music Festival. The following year, he moved to Cincinnati as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He made his subscription debut with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in October 1991 and his subscription debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in April 1992. Beginning with the 1992-93 season, Keith Lockhart served as Associate Conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, while also becoming Music Director of the Cincinnati Cham- ber Orchestra. While in Cincinnati, he designed and conducted the orchestra's educational concerts; worked extensively with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra; and inaugu- rated an informal series of his own design, called "Casual Classics." Mr. Lockhart made his commercial recording debut in 1992 as the conductor of Christ- mas Songs, a Telarc release with Mel Torme accompanied by the Cincinnati Sinfonietta. Mr. Lockhart also has served as conductor for a tour by vocalist Mandy Patinkin. As a guest artist, Mr. Lockhart has conducted both orchestral and educational concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Toronto Sym- phony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Sinfon- ica de Tucuman (Argentina). He made his Symphony Hall debut with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra in June 1993. He conducted that ensemble again in September 1993 in a local area concert and made his debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall in May 1994. Keith Lockhart studied piano with John Noel Roberts, Gwendolyn Stevens, and Maria- Regina Seidlhofer of the Vienna Hochschule. His training as a conductor included study with Istvan Jaray, Otto-Werner Mueller, Harold Farberman, and Werner Torkanowsky. With his appointment to the position of Boston Pops Conductor, Keith Lockhart suc- ceeds John Williams, who held that position since 1980. The 35-year-old Lockhart is only the third conductor to lead the Boston Pops since 1930, when Arthur Fiedler, who was himself 35, began his tenure with the orchestra. — Rebecca Parris Massachusetts native Rebecca Parris has sung everything from rock to Sondheim, performed in tightly orchestrated vocal jazz ensembles, worked as a soloist in settings from duets to big bands, and recorded several acclaimed albums. Now singing in the jazz idiom, Ms. Parris per- forms standards, ballads, blues, Latin, and contempo- rary tunes. Her career was launched at age six, when she sang in summer stock musicals with her father. She has taught and performed at venues throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Monterey Jazz Festival and the International Floating Jazz Festival (Germany). In addition to touring for the past decade as a solo artist, she has performed and shared the stage with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Woody Herman, the Gunther Schuller Orchestra, Buddy Rich, and Joe Williams. With this performance, Rebecca Parris makes her Boston Pops debut. Notes on the Music EL SALON MEXICO Aaron Copland (1900-90) It was on his first trip to Mexico, in 1932, that Aaron Copland conceived the idea of an orchestral piece based on Mexican themes. Although he connected this idea with a wild and notorious dance hall in Mexico City called the Salon Mexico, he actually found the basic tunes in two books. He chose the themes partly for their local color, but par- ticularly, it seems, for the lively rhythmic shifts so characteristic of Latin music. These provide a basis for Copland's own tricky play of rhythm in the course of the work. The piece was first performed in a version for two pianos in New York in 1935. As Copland completed the orchestration the following year, he began to worry that his piece might not sound at all Mexican to the orchestra and conductor who were to premiere the score, but in fact the Mexican orchestra was honored that a foreign com- poser had found their melodies worthy for orchestral treatment. The work quickly achieved a remarkable popularity that it has never lost, and marked the beginning of a "populist" stage of Copland's creative career that established him firmly as the favorite American composer of his generation. LOVE THEME from ON THE WATERFRONT Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) The multi-talented Leonard Bernstein ventured only once into composition for a film Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, a story of violence and heroism, of racketeers and longshoremen. Marlon Brando played Terry, a longshoreman who, though at first a tool of the racketeers, develops the courage to withstand them, largely through the love and support of his girl Edie, played by Eva Marie Saint. The love music begins with a fresh, lyrical melody in the solo flute, accompanied by harp and clarinets, and gradually builds to a climax of great intensity. —Steven Ledbetter THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, Conductor Wednesday evening, July 12, 1995, at 8:30, at Tanglewood SPONSORED BY G.E. PLASTICS Liberty Fanfare Williams El Salon Mexico Copland Love Theme from On the Waterfront Bernstein An American in Paris Gershwin INTERMISSION St. Louis Blues March Handy /Miller-Hayman Presenting REBECCA PARRIS Suddenly It's Spring Burke/van Heusen-Evans Imagination Burke/van Heusen-Mishkin Let's Get Away From It All Dennis/Adair Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most Landesman/Wolf-Evans The Royalty of Swing Count Basie One O'Clock Jump Basie-Nestico Duke Ellington Satin Doll Ellington-Hayman Benny Goodman: The King of Swing Don't Be That Way Parish/Goodman/Sampson-May Sing, Sing, Sing Prima / Goodman-Hyman Established in 1903, the Boston Symphony Pension Institution is the oldest among the American symphony orchestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid nearly $1 mil- lion annually to nearly one hundred pensioners or their widows. Pension Institution income is derived from Pension Fund concerts, from Open Rehearsals at Symphony Hall and at Tangle- wood, and from radio broadcasts through the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust. Contribu- tions are also made each year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representatives of the players and the Corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors. The Boston Pops Orchestra may be heard on Sony Classical, Philips, and RCA records. Baldwin Piano The Boston Pops New Music Program is principally funded by a generous gift from the Chiles Foundation of Portland, Oregon. *Si-Jing Huang Bassoons * Nicole Monahan Richard Ranti §Joseph Conte Roland Small §Gerald Elias Contrabassoon §Lisa Crockett Gregg Henegar Violas Robert Barnes Horns Deborah and Michael Davis Richard Sebring Chair Daniel Katzen THE BOSTON POPS Burton Fine Jay Wadenpfuhl ORCHESTRA Joseph Pietropaolo Richard Mackey Michael Zaretsky Jonathan Menkis KEITH LOCKHART Marc Jeanneret Trumpets Conductor tMark Ludwig Timothy Morrison ""Rachel Fagerburg Peter Chapman * Edward Gazouleas JOHN WILLIAMS Thomas Rolfs *Kazuko Matsusaka Laureate Conductor §Bruce Hall §Susan Culpo Trombones HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Cellos Norman Bolter Associate Conductor Martha Babcock §Douglas Wright Laureate Helene and Norman L. Cahners Chair Bass Trombone Sato Knudsen First Violins Douglas Yeo Tamara Smirnova Joel Moerschel Tuba Leo L. Beranek Chair "Robert Ripley Laura Park Luis Leguia Chester Schmitz Edward and Bertha C. Rose Carol Procter Timpani Chair * Ronald Feldman Timothy Genis Bo Youp Hwang * Jerome Patterson Lucia Lin "Jonathan Miller Percussion Gottfried Wilfinger * Owen Young Thomas Gauger Leo Panasevich Frank Epstein Basses Alfred Schneider J. William Hudgins Lawrence Raymond Sird Wolfe Timothy Genis * Ikuko Mizuno Robert Olson Fred Buda Amnon Levy "James Orleans "Todd Harp * Harvey Seigel Seeber Ann Hobson Pilot * Nancy Bracken "John Stovall "Aza Raykhtsaum "Dennis Roy Piano * Bonnie Bewick §Nicolas Tsolainos Bob Winter * James Cooke Flutes Rhythm Section * Victor Romanul Elizabeth Ostling Fred Buda-drums "Catherine French §Catherine Payne Bob Winter-piano Second Violins Piccolo Librarians Vyacheslav Uritsky Geralyn Coticone Marshall Burlingame Ronald Knudsen William Shisler Joseph McGauley Oboes James Harper Leonard Moss Keisuke Wakao "Jerome Rosen Wayne Rapier Personnel Managers Ronan Lefkowitz English Horn Lynn Larsen * Sheila Fiekowsky Robert Sheena Bruce M. Creditor * Jennie Shames Stage Manager * Valeria Vilker Kuchment Clarinets Peter Riley Pfitzinger *Tatiana Dimitriades Thomas Martin §William Wrzesien "Participating in a system of Bass Clarinet rotated seating Craig Nordstrom tOn sabbatical leave ^Substituting, Tanglewood 1 995 Our Business Begins In The Berkshires ...and reaches the world. That's GE Plastics. A place where ideas and innovation flourish. From automobiles to computers to appliances., shaping and improving the products you use around the world.

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