BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT St© Tuesday August 1 1972 at 8.30 pm TANGLEWOOD ****' >Slfnru> m M&( M * * Anywhere his questing musical imagination takes him, that's 4y ~' o where Arthur Fiedler takes the Boston Pops. From show ^Vj/i^ tunes to Shostakovich, K from Sousa to "Superstar." o>i A v. / oo M > > & i&# 1 ^ V ML m Arthu; wm Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Orchestra y Polydor Records, Cassettes and 8-Track Cartridges are distributed in the USA by Polydor Incorporated; in Canada by Polydor Canada Ltd. TANGLEWOOD 1972 Artistic Director, Berkshire Festival SEIJI OZAWA nc/i RED SEAL HC/1 RED SEAL SCHULLER Artistic Director, Berkshire Music Center GUNTHER Music for Every Mood, Vol. 3 AMERICAN SALUTE ***k LEONARD BERNSTEIN Adviser Reverie ARTHUR FIEDLER/BOSTON POPS Music in a Reflective Mood Tuesday August 1 1972 at 8.30 pm Arthur Fiedler Boston Pops Misty Love Is Blue Intermezzo • Moon River BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA and more Guest Artist: CHET ATKINS conductor American Patrol Rodeo.-Hoedown ARTHUR FIEDLER Tennessee Waltz Shenandoah Galveston - SL Louis Blues March more PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT RED SEAL Rl nC/1 RED SEAL A LERNER AND LOEWE EVENING ItCil Those GREAT MUSIC i^fe A Taste of Honey & FOR GREAT LOVERS Were the Days LOUISE RUSSELL soprano CORINNE CURRY mezzo-soprano ARTHUR FIEDLER/BOSTON POPS MUSIC IN A HAPPY MOOD Arthur Fiedler VAHAN KHANZADIAN tenor RICHARD FREDRICKS baritone Arthur Fiedler/Boston Pops Boston Pops TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS 42 ALL-TIME FAVORITES John Oliver director Overture Orchestra 'With a Little Bit of Luck' (My Fair Lady) 'The March to Welcome Cuenevere' (Camelot) 'They Call the Wind Maria' (Paint Your Wagon) Liebestraum Schubert's Serenade Greensleeves Includes There Is a Tavern in the Town - Taii Barcarolle Theme tram "Elvira Madigan" Smiles - Little Brown Jug Sweet Adeline Up, Up and Away Hello, Dolly Tijuana 'It's Almost Like Being in Love' (Brigadoon) None But the Lonely Heart more The Band Played On Mack the Knife- Tijuana Taxi many more 'The Rain in Spain' (My Fair Lady) 'The Night They Invented Champagne' (Cigi) CAMELOT FIEDLER OLE! ***• 'Camelot' Richard Fredricks & Chorus ARTHUR FIEDLER 'What Do the Simple Folk Do?' Corinne Curry & Richard Fredricks BOSTON POPS 'If Ever I Would Leave You' Vahan Khanzadian Ritual Fire Dance • Malaguena Espana Rhapsody - La Sorella Cani more GIGI Espana 'The Night They Invented Champagne' Chorus 'I Remember It Well' Corinne Curry & Richard Fredricks 'Gigi' Richard Fredricks & Chorus BRIGADOON *Selection from 'Brigadoon' Orchestra Sword Dance and Reel - Down on MacConnachy Square - The Heather on the Hill - Almost Like Being in Love - Come to Me, - Bend to Me I'll Co Home with Bonny Jean ^^ PAINT YOUR WAGON 'I Talk to the Trees' Louise Russell & Vahan Khanzadian 'They Call the Wind Maria' Richard Fredricks & Chorus Finale Richard y Fredricks & Chorus x 'There's a Coach Comin' In' 'I'm on My Way' X MY FAIR LADY 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly' Corinne Curry & Chorus 1 Get 'The Rain in Spain' Corinne Curry, Vahan Khanzadian & Richard Fredricks 'I Could Have Danced All Night' Louise Russell 'Show Me' Louise Russell em Finale Entire Ensemble 'I Could Have Danced All Night' intermission while 'Eleanor Rigby Lennon & McCartney Medley of Burt Bacharach Tunes an. Knight + Look What They've Done to My Song Melanie ^they're fresh. THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR POLYDOR BALDWIN PIANO + POLYDOR & *RCA RECORDS nc/l Records and Tapes LOUISE RUSSELL makes her debut with the Pops this evening. A graduate of the State University of Iowa, she continued vocal studies in Cologne, Germany, and at Louisiana State University. During recent seasons she has appeared with major orchestras and with many leading opera companies, among them the New York City Opera, the Stuttgart Staatsoper, the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, the Cincinnati Summer Opera and the company of La Scala, Milan. Her travels have taken her as far afield as Japan. Louise Russell's large repertoire includes the roles of Gilda, Violetta, Lucia, Constanza, the Queen of the night, Nedda and Zerlina. percussion violin, viola, piano, celesta, organ and even CURRY is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. In ARTHUR FIEDLER is without doubt Boston's best known CORINNE after long planning and financial Hansel to the fiery Carmen, and she has and best loved citizen. His unique personality, his warmth, instruments. In 1929, opera her roles range from the boyish Fiedler launched the first of the free outdoor Lyric the Central City Opera, the Boston his style, and his individual approach to music have made struggle, Mr appeared with the Chicago Opera, on the east bank of the Charles River. Metropolitan Opera Studio. him as familiar as Symphony Hall itself. More than the Esplanade Concerts Opera Group, the Washington Opera Society and the specially historic month in Esplanade Mahler's of a local boy who made good, he has put an indelible mark July 1954 was a She has sung Verdi's Requiem, Ravel's Sheherazade and Songs Christian Herter cele- not only on the musical history of the city, but also on the history: it was then that Governor wayfarer with such orchestras as the Denver Symphony, the Kol Israel Philhar- of the concerts by musical taste of millions throughout the world. brated the twenty-fifth anniversary monic, the St Louis Symphony, and has appeared on several occasions with dedicating the new 'Arthur Fiedler Bridge' over what is Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Here at Tanglewood she has been soloist Born in Boston on December 17 1894, Arthur Fiedler now Storrow Drive. at the Fromm Festival of Contemporary music, working with such prominent inherited a rich family background of European musical In 1930 Mr Fiedler was appointed the eighteenth con- American composers as Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein. A frequent recitalist culture. His father, Austrian-born Emanuel Fiedler, was a ductor of the Boston Pops concerts and under his direc- and television performer, Corinne Curry has recorded for the Cambridge and first violinist with the Boston Symphony, and his mother tion the Orchestra has made more recordings than any Seraphim labels. a gifted amateur musician who gave young Arthur his first other in the world. His discovery of a forgotten composi- piano lessons. 'I was brought up in the European manner,' tion by Jacob Gade, jalousie, resulted in the sale of more Mr Fiedler says. 'As a young boy, I practiced the violin than a million copies of the Pops recording. Fourteen and piano, and studied French and German. I didn't like years ago RCA honored Arthur Fiedler with a plaque music more than any other kid. Practice and lessons were commemorating both his thirtieth anniversary with Espla- drudgery.' When he showed progress in his practice ses- nade concerts and the sale of his two millionth album. The sions, his mother rewarded him with a trip to B. F. Keith's total sales of albums, singles, tapes and cassettes are today vaudeville theatre — which may account for his reputa- the last not far from 50 million. VAHAN KHANZADIAN, who made his debut with Boston Symphony tion not only as a popular conductor but as a showman for first the Pops earlier this year. Music has Arthur Fiedler summer, appeared the time with par excellence. has also found time during his busy career a major part in his life and after successful appearances in New to teach at Boston University, to conduct Boston's Cecilia always played Arthur Fiedler was a at a contract in 1968 with the San Francisco Opera. Since that time pupil the Prince Grammar School Society Chorus, the University Glee Club of Providence, York, he signed and the Boston Latin School until his father retired with opera companies and symphony orchestras in many parts after Rhode Island, and the MacDowell Club Orchestra of he has appeared twenty-five years in the Boston Symphony and the family of the United States. Among his many roles are Alfredo in Die Fledermaus, Boston. He has conducted a long list of major American returned to their native Austria. In Vienna and later in Butterfly and Paco in La vida breve. orchestras including the Boston Symphony. He has also Pinkerton in Madam Berlin, Arthur worked in the publishing business before conducted orchestras all over North and South America, entering the Royal Academy in Berlin as a student of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. violin, piano and conducting. In December 1969 Mr Fiedler celebrated his seventy-fifth At the outbreak of world war one Arthur Fiedler returned birthday by conducting a Gala Concert in Symphony Hall to Boston, and in 1915, at the age of twenty, joined the with the Boston Symphony. Governor Sargent added to the Boston Symphony as a violinist under Karl Muck. His occasion by proclaiming it 'Arthur Fiedler Day' through- ambition to conduct led him to form, nine years later, the out the Commonwealth. Not only in Massachusetts, but Boston Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra composed of throughout the length and breadth of the globe, Arthur Boston Symphony members. At the same time he con- Fiedler and the Boston Pops spread pleasure and enjoy- tinued as a member of the Boston Symphony, playing the ment through the universal language of music. RICHARD FREDRICKS, a native of Los Angeles, began his career in musical comedy, and has sung the Rodgers and Hammerstein show at the Hollywood Bowl for the last eight years. Now leading baritone of the New York City and THE BOSTON SYMPHONY PENSION INSTITUTION San Francisco Operas, he has sung major roles in, among other operas, Don Devereux, Lucia di Lammermoor, Faust, The Marriage of Figaro, The Boston Pasquale, Roberto Symphony Pension Institution, established in 1903, is the oldest among American symphony tutte, The Barber of Seville, Lizzie Borden, The Tender orchestras.