Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1978
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« $m -tel Accompanist to Leonard Bernstein • Arthur Fiedler Gilbert Kalish • Seiji Ozawa • Andre Previn Gunther Schuller • YehudiWyner BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA MS Music Director ^ ^ < Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Seventh Season 1977-1978 The Trustees of the Bostonjiymphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Abram T. Collier, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Albert L. Nickerson 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. Richard P. Chapman Roderick M. MacDougall Mrs. George Lee Sargent George Clowes Edward G. Murray • John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Thomas W. Morris Executive Director Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager A>>i*tant Manager Peter Gelb Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill Director of Promotion Director of Development Director of Business Affair! I Elizabeth A. Young Candice L. Miller Richard C. White Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant to the of Promotion of Development Manager Elizabeth Dunton Dorothy M. Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Director of Sale* Controller Administrator of Youth Activities Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Katherine Whitty Manager of Box Office Operation* Manager, Coordinator ol Tanglewood Boston Council Niklaus Wyss Donald W. MacKenzie Richard Ortner Advisor for the Operation* Manager, Assistant Administrator. Music Director Symphony Hall Berkshire Mu*ic Cento Michael Steinberg Director ol Publications Programs copyright ^1978 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 1 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 Gardiner Richard P. Morse John Q. Adams Mrs. James Garivaltis Dr. Barbara W. Newell Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. Robert Gibb Stephen Paine Hazen Ayer Jordan Golding David Pokross David W. Bernstein Mrs. John L. Grandin William Poorvu David Bird Mrs. Howard E. Hansen Harry Remis Gerhard Bleicken Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Frederic Brandi Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Levin H. Campbell, III Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt Mrs. George Rowland Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. William Ryan Arthur P. Contas Leonard Kaplan Francis P. Sears y Jr. Robert Cushman Mrs. F. Corning Kenly William A. Selke Michael J. Daly Robert Kraft Gene Shalit Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Benjamin Lacy Samuel L. Slosberg Mrs. John Fitzpatrick Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Paul Fromm Mrs. Warren B. Manhard II D. Thomas Trigg Carlton P. Fuller Colman M. Mockler, Jr. Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Mrs. Elting E. Morison Roger Woodworth Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris Boston University Tanglewood Thirteenth Institute Season Norman DellO JoiO, 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: Dr. Gary L. Zeller, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215. Telephone: 617/353-3386. Summer address: Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts 01240. Summer telephone: 413/637-1430. A program offered by the Boston University School for the Arts in association with the Berkshire Music Center/Boston Symphony Orchestra. ^tff&Jfrg Www*' * ,>*" «6fc J > ;?' '^OR T TAVtO? -I'Jlif* AYLDR l97* T| 59^0 1973 ^' *LQR -rISP1 OR TAYLOR TAYLOR > ^S -,12^GH IS74 ^LOft11 197! *aylqr Taylor tayloi? TAYLOR. Americas best loved premium Champagne. The Taylor Wine Company, Inc., Hammondsport, N.Y. 14840 - Producers of When you cantbe at Tanglewood, listen here: IN MASSACHUSETTS WGBH 89.7 FM Boston WFCR 88.5 FM Amherst IN NEW YORK WAMC 90.3 FM Albany IN MAINE WMEA 90.1 FM Portland WMEH 90.9 FM Bangor WMEM 106.1 FM Presque Isle Live Broadcasts of the BSO concerts at Tanglewood are originated by WGBH, are Listen . and if you Boston, and made like what you hear, possible in part by a grant write for our free monthly from the Prudential program guide. 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See convenient coupon. -I TANGLEWOOD In August 1934, a group of music-loving summer residents of the Berkshires organized a series of three outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be given by members of the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Henry Hadley. The venture was so successful that the promoters incorporated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival and repeated the experi- ment during the next summer. The Festival committee then invited Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to take part in the following year's concerts. The Orchestra's Trustees accepted, and on 13 August 1936 the Boston Symphony gave its first concerts in the Berkshires (at 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 Tappan offered Tanglewood, the Tappan family estate, with its buildings and 210 acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to Koussevitzky and the Orchestra. The offer was gratefully accepted, and on 12 August 1937 the Festival's 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 interrupted three times before the first half could be completed. The second half of the program had to be changed because of water damage to some of the instruments, and, when the concert ended, Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, one of the Festival's founders, came to the stage and told the audience that the storm had demonstrated the need for a permanent structure. A hundred thousand dollars, she said, would be needed for this purpose, and the response to her plea was so generous 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 modified by Josef Franz of Stockbridge, who also directed construction, it was completed on 16 June 1938, a month ahead of schedule. Seven weeks later, Serge Koussevitzky led the inaugural concert, which included a performance of Beethoven'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 preceding year —were finished, and the Festival had so expanded its activities and its reputation for excellence that it attracted nearly 100,000 visitors. 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