Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1985, Tanglewood
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Or contact our exclusive sales agent, Reinholt Pines Realty—Main Street, Lenox (413) 637-1251 or country estate Main Street, Stockbridge (413) 298-3664. For more information, write P.O. Box 529, condominiums Hawthorne Street, Stockbridge, MA 01262. at Stockbridge Featured in $l)e JfeUf jjjork StlttCS 9HH98L Seiji Ozawa, Music Director One Hundred and Fourth Season, 1984-85 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President J. P. Barger, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Mrs. George L. Sargent, Vice-President William J. Poorvu, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Michael H. Davis E.James Morton David B. Arnold, Jr. Archie C. Epps David G. Mugar Mrs. John M. Bradley Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W Rabb George H. A. Clowes, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman Mrs. George R. Rowland William M. Crozier, Jr. Roderick M. MacDougall Richard A. Smith Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. John T. Noonan Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Mrs. James H. Perkins Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray Paul C. Reardon Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson Sidney Stoneman Mrs. Harris Fahnestock John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W. Morris, General Manager Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Manager Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Theodore A. Vlahos, Director of Business Affairs Charles S. Fox, Director of Annual Giving Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Arlene Germain, Financial Analyst Program Annotator Charles Gilroy, Chief Accountant Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Vera Gold, Assistant Director of Promotion Richard Ortner, Administrator of Patricia Halligan, Personnel Administrator Tanglewood Music Center Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Robert A. Pihlcrantz, Properties Manager John M. Keenum, Director of Charles Rawson, Manager of Box Office Foundation Support Eric Sanders, Director of Corporate Development James F. Kiley, Operations Manager, Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Tanglewood of Development Nancy Knutsen, Production Manager Diane Greer Smart, Director of Volunteers Anita R. Kurland, Administrator of Nancy E. Tanen, Medial Special Projects Youth Activities Administrator Programs copyright ®1985 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Walter H. Scott j Music After 1kiglew®d... Join the BSO in Boston and New York! ..'": Join Music Director Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall for a 22-week season which spans the major masterpieces of the repertoire to some exciting new music. During the 1985-86 New York season at Carnegie Hall, Ozawa and the BSO will present three stunning concerts, including appearances by Itzhak Perlman and Maurizio Pollini. For music after Tangiewood, subscribe today. Free brochures with complete program information for the BSO's Boston and New York seasons are available at the Tangiewood Main Gate. Or contact the Subscription Office, Symphony Hall, Boston MA 02115, (617) 266-1492. rSmBeSK msml , Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Harvey Chet Krentzman, Chairman Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. August R. Meyer Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Ray Stata Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Vice-Chairman Secretary Mrs. Weston W. Adams Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Martin Allen Jordan L. Golding Vincent M. O'Reilly Bruce A. Beal Haskell R. Gordon Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. R. Douglass Hall III John A. Perkins Peter A. Brooke Francis W Hatch, Jr. Mrs. Curtis Prout William M. Bulger Mrs. Richard D. Hill Peter C. Read Mary Louise Cabot Susan M. Hilles Robert E. Remis James F. Cleary Glen H. Hiner Mrs. Peter van S. Rice John F. Cogan, Jr. Mrs. Marilyn Brachman Hoffman David Rockefeller, Jr. Julian Cohen Mrs. BelaT. Kalman John Ex Rodgers Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Arthur P. Contas Richard L. Kaye Mrs. William C. Rousseau Mrs. A. Werk Cook John Kittredge Mrs. William H. Ryan Phyllis Curtin Mrs. Carl Koch Gene Shalit A.V. dArbeloff Mrs. E. Anthony Kutten Malcolm L. Sherman D.V. dArbeloff John P. LaWare Donald B. Sinclair Mrs. Michael H. Davis Mrs. James F. Lawrence Ralph Z. Sorenson Mrs. Otto Eckstein Laurence Lesser Mrs. Arthur I. Strang William S. Edgerly Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. Alexander Ellis Mrs. Harry L. Marks William F. Thompson John A. Fibiger C. Charles Marran Mark Tishler, Jr. Kenneth G. Fisher J. William Middendorf II Luise Vosgerchian Gerhard M. Freche Paul M. Montrone Mrs. An Wang Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Hanae Mori Roger D. Wellington Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Richard P. Morse John J. Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Robert B. Newman Brunetta Wolfman Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Nicholas T. Zervas Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm Benjamin H. Lacy Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris David W Bernstein Leonard Kaplan David R. Pokross Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Mrs. Michael H. Davis President Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt Mrs. Carl Koch Executive Vice-President Treasurer Mrs. Barbara W Steiner Mrs. August R. Meyer Secretary Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mrs. Gilman W Conant, Regions Mrs. Craig W. Fischer, Tanglewood Phyllis Dohanian, Fundraising Projects Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino, Youth Activities Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III, Mrs. Mark Selkowitz, Tanglewood Development Services Mark Tishler, Public Relations Chairmen of Regions Mrs. Roman W. DeSanctis Mrs. Charles Hubbard Mrs. Frank E. Remick Mrs. Russell J. Goodnow, Jr. Mrs. Herbert S. Judd, Jr. John H. Stookey Mrs. Baron M. Hartley Mrs. Robert B. Newman Mrs. Arthur I. 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Phone for reservations (413)298-5545 Fine Food and Lodging I m The Red Lm Inn STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 01262 TANGLEWOOD family estate, with its buildings and 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to The Tanglewood Festival Koussevitzky and the orchestra. The In August 1934, a group of music- offer was gratefully accepted, and on loving summer residents of the 5 August 1937 the festival's largest crowd Berkshires organized a series of three so far assembled under a tent for the outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be first Tanglewood concert, an all- given by members of the New York Beethoven program. Philharmonic under the direction of At the all-Wagner concert which Henry Hadley. The venture was so opened the 1937 festival's second successful that the promoters incorpo- weekend, rain and thunder twice inter- rated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival rupted the performance of the Rienzi and repeated the experiment during the Overture and necessitated the omission next summer. altogether of the Siegfried "Forest The Festival Committee then invited Murmurs," music too delicate to be Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston heard through the downpour. At the Symphony Orchestra to take part in the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson following year's concerts. The orchestra's Smith, one of the festival's founders, Trustees accepted, and on 13 August made a fundraising appeal for the build- 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first ing of a permanent structure. The appeal concerts in the Berkshires (at Holm- was broadened by means of a printed wood" a former Vanderbilt estate, later circular handed out at the two remain- the Center at Foxhollow). The series ing concerts, and within a short time again consisted of three concerts and enough money had been raised to begin was given under a large tent, drawing a active planning for a "music pavilion." total of nearly 15,000 people. Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect In the winter of 1936, Mrs. Gorham selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tap- elaborate design that went far beyond pan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan the immediate needs of the festival and, A 1939 banner advertising that summer's Boston Symphony Tanglewood Festival Remembrance of Things Tanglew(®d... -.The Glass House TANGLEWOOD'S DISTINCTIVE GIFT SHOP MasterCard /VISA /American Express LOCATED AT THE MAIN GATE, TANGLEWOOD, LENOX, MA 01240 (413) 637-1600 Monday through Saturday: 10am to 4pm Friday and Saturday: 6pm to closing of the grounds Weeknight Theatre concerts: 7pm to closing of the grounds Sunday: 12 noon to closing of the grounds more important, went well beyond the Center, which had begun operations budget of $100,000.