Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER Thursday and Friday, July 5 and 6, 1990 Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass. ictured above is evidence of our arts proudly goes to The Chicago Sym- only previous artistic endeavor— phony Orchestra, The San Francisco namely, Lexus automobiles. We Opera, and American Ballet Theatre, sculpted Until Now,The OnlyFine clay mod- ArtsWe Supported Were Sculpture, els of the LS400's Painting And Music. aerodynamic shape. Devised a special to name just a few. paint that requires 42 steps. Because in creating Lexus auto- And the musical among us ere- mobiles, we learned that great works of art don't just happen. They have to be pursued relentlessly. THE L S 4 ated audio systems of superb quality. © Now, Lexus' sponsorship of the The Relentless Pursuit OfPerfection. 1 7989 Lexus, A Division Of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. il The Opening Night Pre-Concert Dinner at Highwood sponsored by the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers at Tanglewood in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center for the benefit of the Tanglewood Music Center was made possible through the generous support of LEXUS Lexus is a Division of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. Honored Guests Boris and Margaret Goldovsky Honorary Chairmen Phyllis Curtin Leontyne Price The Committee Ann Fischer, Chairman Brenda Johnson, Chairman Richard and Ann Brown Kathy E Massimiano Angelica L. Clagett Patricia B. Morse Leonard H. and Ileen S. Cohen Rosemarie Oliveira Albert C. Cornelio Millard H. Pryor, Jr. Hugh Downs Jane Gidley Rice Susan Draudt David Rockefeller, Jr. John H. and Jane P. Fitzpatrick Susan Roberts Athena Garivaltis Lincoln Russell and Nancy Fitzpatrick Haskell R. Gordon Jane K. Ryan Mary- Lynn Hatch Susan St. John Glen Hiner Raymond H. and Hannah H. Schneider Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Mark L. and Elizabeth T. Selkowitz Lolajaffe Joanne Shouldice George Krupp Mary Gene Sondericker Marilyn E. Larkin Robert A. and Claudia E. Wells Jeanne S. Massimiano Susan A. Wismer ii Benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Abelow Mr. and Mrs. Murray S. Katz J. P. Barger-Dynatech Corporation Nan and Stephen Kay Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Brown Mr. and Mrs. George H. Kidder Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Coyne George and Lizbeth Krupp Mr. and Mrs. Hal David Philip and Bernice Krupp Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Lesunaitis Dr.A.J.Delleall Lexus Phyllis Dohanian Mr. and Mrs. August R. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Downs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Perry Mrs. Judith Drucker Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Pesso Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Mr. and Mrs. Millard H. Pryor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Frederick W. Richmond Nancy Fitzpatrick and Lincoln Russell Mrs. William H. Risley Mrs. Elaine G. Fuhrmann Mr. David Rockefeller, Jr. Herbert and Evelyn Gillman Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider Haskell and Ina Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Schroeder Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hupper Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sondericker Lola and Edjaffe Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Strickman Mr. and Mrs. BelaT. Kalman Mrs. Evelyn R. Wagstaff-Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Wyman Patrons Lorinda Ackley and Thomas Mazur EricT Fossel Carole and Norman Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Dale Fowler Dudley and Jean Bahlman Dr. Stanley D. Freint George W. Berry Dr. Merwin Geffen Mr. and Mrs. Martin B. Biener Dr. and Mrs. Donald Giddon N.A. Bogdan Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brandt Joseph K. and Mary Jane Handler Mr. and Mrs. John R. Brower Maureen and Paul J. Hickey Betty O. and Richard S. Burdick Glen and Sara Hiner Mary Ellen and Jay Canavan Charles Housman Ileen S. and Leonard H. Cohen James and Joan Hunter Walter J. Connolly, Jr. John and Brenda Johnson Sidney Q. and Melissa J. Curtiss Mr. and Mrs. Irving Kalmanoff Maude S. Davis Nancy K. Kalodner Nina L. Doggett Mrs. Florence Kandell Mr. and Mrs. Barry Dressel Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kaplan Mr. and Mrs. George M. Elvin Leonard and Marcia Simon Kaplan Eitan and Malka Evan Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kaufman Dr. and Mrs. William H. Everett Fran and Ira Lapidus Dr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Feder Mr. and Mrs. William D. Larkin, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Craig W Fischer Fay C. Lavan I Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Leibowitz Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Scarafoni Mr. and Mrs. Uwe and Linda Lemberg Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Schnell Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Lesser Mark L. and Elizabeth T. Selkowitz Settles Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jan McDonagh Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Singleton Barbara and Ken Mahler Dr. Norman Solomon Anthony G. and Kathy F. Massimiano Roslyn Bremer Spielvogel Jeanne S. Massimiano Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Staffieri Enid and Jim Michelman Dr. and Mrs. Norman Stearns Stanley T. Miller Jain Tarnower Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Moody Mrs. Samuel M. Tarnower Mr. and Mrs. John M. Morss Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Weiss Suzanne and Kenneth Nash Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus S. Welch II Dr. and Mrs. James R. Parkinson Robert A. and Claudia E. Wells Robert and Susan Phillips Avahlee Westervelt Daphne Brooks Prout Ess A. White, Jr. M.D. Francis J. Quirico Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Fred A. Windover Mr. and Mrs. R. Dean Roberts Joseph G. and Georgia R. Wirth Mr. and Mrs. Mcrl L. Rouse Stephen H. and Susan A. Wismer Mr. and Mrs. Saul Rubenstein Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolansky Diane and Neil Saxton Mrs. George Zazofsky Willi s|)cc i.il thanks to the following for their contributions and assistance: Blantyre Chas. Gilman 8c Sons, Inc. Thomas Cinella Classical Tents Country Club Wine and Spirit Crane & Co., Inc. Dr. Lahey's Garden Ann Fitzpatrick Brown The Hilton Inn Jim Kiley and his staff Paul Rich 8c Son Home Furnishings Premier Wine Merchants The Red Lion Inn The Studley Press And to the many dedicated volunteers who helped make Opening Night a success. Names listed as ofJune 25. II TheTape Music Better. Proud'sponsors of the TDK Lawn Tickets For Children program at Tanglewood. &TDK AsSeriousAs'lbuCanGet Tanglewood Music Center 50th Anniversary Gala Celebration Honoray Committee Phylis Curtin and Leontyne Price Honorary Co-Chairmen Adele Addison Ellen Faull Maureen O'Flynn Eunice Alberts Margo Garrett John Oliver John Alexander R. David Gockley Robert Osborne S. Mark Aliapoulios Reri Grist Elizabeth Parcells Betty Allen Frank Guarrera Neva Pilgrim Burt Bacharach Leslie Guinn Frederick Popper McHenry Boatvvright Dennis Helmrich Mildred Miller Posvar Massimo Bojianckino Mattiwilda Dobbs Janzon Mary Ellen Pracht Phyllis Bryn-Julson Isola Jones Eve Queler Ariel Bybee Plato Karayanis Arthur Schoep Sarah Caldwell Keith Kibler George Shirley Lenus Carlson Florence Kopleff Joanna Simon Elsa Charlston Dominique Labelle Alan Smith David Clatworthy David Lloyd Ian Strasfogel Steven Cole Karen Lykes Cheryl Studer Osceola Davis Robert McFerrin Rose Taylor Terry Decima Nathaniel Merrill Leo Van Witsen Lorna Cooke deVaron Janice Meyerson Angela Vanstory Justino Diaz Philip David Morehead Nathaniel Watson Ryan Edwards Mac Morgan Jayne West Simon Estes Timothy Nolen Richard Woitach Margaret Anne Everitt Frances Yeend and all the Tanglewood Music Center Alumni singing in the July 5th Vocal Recital and the July 6th Gala. (Committee in Formation) TMC Opening Exercises in the late 1940s; among those pictured are (seated, from left) Luhas Foss, TMC Dean Ralph Berhowitz, Aaron Copland, and Serge Koussevitzky. SEIJI OZAWA and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon And with the Berlin Philharmonic Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 and Capriccio italien 1990 DG/PolyGram Records TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER 1990: Celebrating a Fiftieth Anniversary by Steven Ledbetter In 1939, Serge Koussevitzky, the admired and popular conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, offered an ultimatum. By then he had been at the helm of the orchestra for fifteen brilliant years. Not long after his arrival in Boston, he had com- missioned a distinguished series of compositions for the ensemble's semicentennial, resulting in several of this century's major masterworks, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. He had begun to play the works of an entire new generation of American composers and, in so doing, had brought to light talents such as Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Roy Harris, and many others. And in 1936 he had led a weekend series of concerts in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts that be- came very successful as the Berkshire Symphonic Festival. But Koussevitzky was not satisfied. He had long wanted to create a school for young musicians of high attainments. From his early years in Russia he had dreamed of founding such an institute, and in 1929, when Harvard awarded him an honorary doctorate, he had proposed that the orchestra join forces with the university to create a musical center. But the 1929 stock market crash scuttled those plans for good. Finally, at the end of the 1930s, with the BSO established in a beautiful summer home in the Berkshires, Koussevitzky was ready. He wanted to found his long-desired school at langlewood. The orchestra's Trustees were leery at first. A school would almost certainly lose money, and it would add complications to managing the orches- tra. But subtle hints that Koussevitzky might actually leave Boston if the school were not forthcoming seem to have done the trick. The Trustees agreed to the proposal, and the first class of what was then called the Berkshire Music Center (later to be renamed theTanglewood Music Center) met in the summer of 1940. Things were informal that first summer; living arrangements and food services had to be set up in the area for an orchestra-full of young instrumentalists, plus the com- Serge Koussevitzky posers, conductors, and singers who came as "Fellows" in the program, not to mention a substantial group of auditors.