* «• f ^ :*** 1 #"# -t *<*" £1 -f*iMH '%* . »* "V ^f% I I. ;^ v tttfd JwP 5-. ^SN .ml ^ if. i • . - , ... ___-. K . Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety- Sixth Season 1976-1977 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, President | Philip K. Allen, Vice President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson Allen G. Barry Archie C. Epps III Mrs. James H. Perkins Dr. Leo L. Beranek E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman George Kidder David Rockefeller Jr. Dr. George Clowes Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Henry A. Laughlin Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Thomas W. Morris Executive Director Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter Hill Dinah Daniels Director of Development Director of Business Affairs Director of Promotion Richard C. White Anita R. Kurland Niklaus Wyss Assistant to the Manager Administrator of Youth Activities Advisor for the Music Director Donald W. Mackenzie James F. Kiley Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Operations Manager, Tanglewood Michael Steinberg Director of Publications Programs copyright ® 1977 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Contents: page page Tanglewood 4 Programs 11-42 Seiji Ozawa 7 Berkshire Music Center 46 Map 8 Friends 50, 51 Information 9 The cover photo is by Walter H. Scott, Stockbridge. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Dr. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Vice Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Mrs. Thomas Gardinei David G. Mugar Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrg. James Garivaltis Dr. Barbara W. Newell Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Robert Gibb Stephen Paine David W. Bernstein Jordan Golding Harry Remis David Bird Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Gerhard BJeicken Mrs. R. Douglas Hall, III Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Frederick Brandi Mrs. Howard E. Hansen Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Curtis Buttenheim Bruce Harriman Mrs. George Rowland Mrs. Henry B. Cabot Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. A. Lloyd Russell Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr Mrs. William Ryan Levin H. Campbell, III Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Francis P. Sears, Jr. Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt William A. Selke Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Louis I. Kane Gene Shalit Robert Cushman Leonard Kaplan Samuel L. Slosberg Michael J. Daly Benjamin Lacy Richard A. Smith Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Paul Fromm Roderick MacDougall Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Carlton P. Fuller John S. McLennan D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Colman M. Mockler, Jr. Roger Woodworth Mrs. Elting E. Morison Richard P. Morse Boston University Tanglewood Institute Norman DelloJoio, Executive Director Summer Instrumental and Vocal Programs for the outstanding high school/ college-age musician. Private study with master artists including members of the faculty of the Boston University School of Music and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music, orchestral and vocal performances at Tanglewood. For information: Boston University Tanglewood Institute, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. A program offered by the Boston University School for the Arts in association with the Berkshire Music Center/Boston Symphony Orchestra. Twelfth Season le reasons you visit <^the Berkshires may be the best reasons to move your business I to the Berkshires^ The Berkshires are a perfect place ... for people, If you have the opportunity to move a business, for families and for businesses. The kind of place or influence a business relocation, consider the where an unsurpassed quality of life is available. Berkshires. At Berkshire County Development Commission, to that In the Berkshires the average commute is 10 we have compiled data prove minutes. Golf courses, tennis clubs, ski resorts, the Berkshires add up for business reasons Come see theatres, lakes, and fine restaurants are at your us or write on your letterhead for more information. doorstep. We provide excellent schools — both public Or, if you know of a business contemplating and private — and the Berkshires are the perfect place relocation, let us know. We welcome \^our business to raise a family. It's no accident that titans of industry have lived and worked in the Berkshires Our labor force still believes in a day's work for a day's pay. And the the Berkshires Berkshires offer a readily available pool of labor. Our schools offer vocational programs and governmental Alan C. Marden training dollars are available. Most important, we want businesses to locate in Berkshire County Development Commission the Berkshires. That's why our banks have launched 205 West Street a program of financial assistance to attract new Pittsfield, Massachusetts 01201 industry and the County funds a full-time organization to assist you. Phone: (413) 499-4474 Tanglewood In August, 1934, a group of music- loving summer residents of the Berk- 44 shires organized a series of three Definitely not outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be given by members of the New York to be missed.., Philharmonic under the direction of 'Herbert Kupferberg's Tanglewood Henry Hadley. The venture was so is bursting with information that successful that the promoters incor- even some of us who worked there porated the Berkshire Symphonic had missed It catches the spirit Festival and repeated the experiment and truth of that beautiful place." during the next summer. — Francis Robinson. N.Y. Metropolitan Opera The Festival committee then invited 'Reads as excitingly as a who- Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston done-it!" —Julius Rudel, Symphony Orchestra to take part in the New York City Opera following year's concerts. The Orches- 'Unquestionably the definitive tra's Trustees accepted and on August history to date." Tanglewood 13, 1936, the Boston Symphony gave — Christian Science Monitor. its first concert in the Berkshires (at TANGLEWOOD Holmwood, a former Vanderbilt estate, later the Center at Foxhollow). The series, again consisting of three concerts, was given under a large tent, and a total of nearly 15,000 people attended. In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall by Tappan offered Tanglewood, the Tap- Herbert pan family estate, with its buildings and 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a Kupferberg 8x10. 280 pages. gift to Koussevitzky and the Orchestra. Cver 150 photos. The offer was gratefully accepted, and Index. $9.95 paperback. on August 12, 1937, the Festival's McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY largest crowd thus far assembled under a tent for the first Tanglewood concert, a program of music by Wagner. As Koussevitzky began The Ride of the Valkyries, a storm erupted, overpowering the music and causing the concert to be HANCOCK SHAKER interrupted three times before the first VILLAGE half could be completed. The second half of the program had to be changed, because of water damage to some of the Original 18th Century instruments, and when the concert Village Restored ended, Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, one of the Festival's founders, came to Open daily 9:30-5:00 the stage and told the audience that the Adults $3 Children $1 storm had demonstrated the need for a permanent structure. Annual Kitchen Festival A hundred thousand dollars, she said, Week of August 1st would be needed for this purpose, and Route 20 Five miles West the response to her plea was so generous of Pittsfield, Mass. that within a short time the amount was fully subscribed. Plans for the Music Shed were drawn up by the eminent architect Eliel Saarinen, and, as modi- fied by Josef Franz of Stockbridge, who also directed construction, it was com- pleted on June 16, 1938, a month ahead of schedule. Seven weeks later, Serge Koussevitzky led the inaugural concert, which included a performance of Beet- hoven's Ninth Symphony. By 1941, the Theatre-Concert Hall, the Chamber Music Hall and several small studios — all part of the Berkshire Music Center, which had begun operations the pre- ceding year — were finished, and the Festival had so expanded its activities and its reputation for excellence that it attracted nearly 100,000 visitors. Today Tanglewood annually draws close to a quarter of a million visitors; in addition to the twenty-four regular concerts of the Boston Symphony, there are weekly "Prelude" concerts and open WAIilC rehearsals, the annual Festival of FM 90.3 mHz Contemporary Music, and almost daily bring you fine music concerts by the gifted young musicians We of the Berkshire Music Center. Arthur AND dozens of interesting Fiedler and the Boston Pops perform events — live and without each summer, and the Festival also commercials. Sit in with us includes a series of concerts by popular at the National Press Club, artists. The season offers not only a where the next day's head- vast quantity of music but also a vast lines are often made. Enjoy range of musical forms and styles, all "All Things Considered," a of it presented with a regard for artistic fascinating magazine of news excellence that makes the Festival and issues. (Nothingelse like it unique. Tanglewood and the Berkshire Music Center, projects with which in broadcasting !) Savor some Koussevitzky was involved until his of the most satisfying thea- death, have become a fitting shrine to tre productions ever aired. his memory, a living embodiment of Revel in delightful, intelligent the vital, humanistic tradition that was conversation. his legacy. Listen . and if you like what you hear, write for our free monthly program directory.