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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 99, 1979 eight 99th SEASON i?fc^ j- % BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director £ yi A" t^ yr~~- 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. HK^ &=*<* 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. I hrl Talcott M. Banks, Chairman. Nelson Darling, President J. Jr., & 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 Quinn Dunton Assistant Administrator, Director of Berkshire Music Center Director of Sales Volunteer Services James F. Kiley Charles Katherine Whitty Rawson Operations Manager, 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 ©1979 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 3 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 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 y " " iiife irrJ "*'i/ IrMM1 1 'That's my wife, those are the twins, and, on the right, my New England Merchants trust officer' write For good advice on personal trust matters, call our Trust I )i vision at (617) 742-4000. (>r ew England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The Bank of New England BSO The BSO and China (continued) As part of the continuing cultural exchange between the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the People's Republic of China, Seiji Ozawa has been asked to return there to lead several performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Peking Central Philharmonic Orchestra. These will be the first performances of the Ninth with Chinese chorus and soloists singing in Chinese, and the event will be carried live to Japan via satellite transmission. A documentary film crew from Boston's WNAC-TV/Channel 7 will be on hand, and a one-hour special is planned for airing in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles. Joining Music Director Ozawa on this venture will be BSO concertmaster Joseph Silverstein as well as principals including Jules Eskin and Sherman Walt, all of whom will assist in rehearsals for the symphony and will lead master classes. The Boston Symphony delegation departs for Tokyo on 22 December, arrives in Peking on 25 December, and leaves China on 31 December. Funding for the trip has been provided in the form of a special grant from the Mobil Oil Corporation. 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 Orfeo 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 per- miere of Donald Martino's Piano Concerto, and concludes on 27 March with Orfeo. Consider a holiday gift subscription to this series, and turn some friends into BSO subscribers. 1 BSO on Record Several new Boston Symphony recordings conducted by Music Director Seiji Ozawa are now available. From Philips, there is Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, taped live during Symphony Hall performances last spring and featured Jessye Nor- man, James McCracken, Tatiana Troyanos, David Arnold, Kim Scown, Werner Klemperer, and John Oliver's Tanglewood Festival Chorus. New on Deutsche Grammphon are Respighi's Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome, and Roman Festivals on a single disc and Tchaikovsky's complete Swan Lake, a three-record set. Other recent releases on DG include a BSO recording of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances and a Boston Symphony Chamber Players recording of Strauss waltzes as transcribed by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. The latter disc has just been given a feature review in the December issue of High Fidelity, where it is described as "an absolutely glorious recording, an absolutely ideal Christmas present." Besides those listed above, the following recordings with Seiji Ozawa and the BSO on Deutsche Grammophon are also worth consideration for holiday giving: Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin Suite and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet; the Brahms First and Mahler First symphonies; Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Available from Philips, with Colin Davis leading the BSO, are the award-winning set of seven Sibelius symphonies (also available separately) and a single disc coupling Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony with excerpts from his Midsummer Night's Dream music. BSO Guest Artists on WGBH Last spring, The Orchestra on WGBH-FM-89.7 featured interviews by Robert J. Lurtsema with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and staff. This year, guest artists with the BSO will be featured in a series of live interviews: those scheduled include guest conductor Leonard Slatkin on Friday, 4 January from 1 to noon, and, together on Thursday, 17 January at the same hour, mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani and baritone Benjamin Luxon. Corrigenda Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony will record Hoist's The Planets not for CBS records, as stated in last week's program book, but for Philips records. Last week's program book also stated that Murray Perahia played his own cadenzas in the Mozart D-Minor Concerto. In fact, only the last movement cadenza was Mr. Perahia's; the first- movement cadenza was by Beethoven. 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 Interna- tional 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- for : 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 rive summers begin- ning in 1963, 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.
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