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Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Sixth Season &^~<c. Thursday, 3 February at 7:30 Friday, 4 February at 2 Saturday, 5 February at 8 : 30 MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Conductor SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 The Unfinished Allegro moderato Andante con moto INTERMISSION SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8, Opus 65 Adagio Allegretto Allegro non troppo Largo Allegretto Thursday's concert will end about 9:20, Friday's about 3:50, and Saturday's about 10:20. Deutsche Grammophon and Philips records Baldwin pianos Jerome Lipson Robert Karol Bassoons Bernard Kadinoff Sherman Walt Edward chair Vincent Mauricci A. Taft Roland Small Earl Hedberg Matthew Ruggiero Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes Michael Zaretsky Contra bassoon Richard Plaster Cellos Jules Eskin Horns Philip R. Allen chair Charles Kavalovski Martin Hoherman Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Mischa Nieland Charles Yancich Peter Gordon violins Jerome Patterson First David Ohanian Joseph Silverstein Robert Ripley Richard Mackey Concertmaster Luis Leguia Ralph Pottle Charles Munch chair Carol Procter Emanuel Borok Ronald Feldman Assistant Concertmaster Joel Moerschel Trumpets Helen Horner Mclntyre chair Jonathan Miller Armando Ghitalla Hobart Max Martha Babcock Andre Come Rolland Tapley Rolf Smedvig Roger Shermont Gerard Basses Goguen Max Winder William Rhein Harry Dickson Harold D. Hodgkinson chair Trombones Gottfried Wilfinger Joseph Hearne Ronald Barron Fredy Ostrovsky Bela Wurtzler Norman Bolter Leo Panasevich Leslie Martin Gordon Hallberg Sheldon Rotenberg John Salkowski William Gibson Alfred Schneider John Barwicki Gerald Gelbloom Robert Olson Tuba Raymond Sird Lawrence Wolfe Chester Schmitz Ikuko Mizuno Henry Portnoi Cecylia Arzewski Timpani Amnon Levy Flutes Everett Firth Bo Youp Hwang Doriot Anthony Dwyer Sylvia Shippen Wells chair Walter Piston chair Second violins James Pappoutsakis Percussion Victor Yampolsky Paul Fried Charles Smith Fahnestock chair Arthur Press Marylou Speaker Piccolo Assistant timpanist Michel Sasson Lois Schaefer Thomas Gauger Ronald Knudsen Frank Epstein Leonard Moss Oboes Vyacheslav Uritsky Ralph Gomberg Harps Laszlo Nagy Mildred B. Remis chair Bernard Zighera Michael Vitale Ann Hobson Darlene Gray Wayne Rapier Ronald Wilkison Personnel Managers Harvey Seigel English Horn William Moyer Jerome Rosen Laurence Thorstenberg Harry Shapiro Sheila Fiekowsky Gerald Elias Clarinets Librarians Ronan Lefkowitz Harold Wright Victor Alpert Ann S.M. Banks chair William Shisler Violas Pasquale Cardillo Burton Fine Peter Hadcock Stage Manager Charles 5. Dana chair E-flat clarinet Reuben Green Alfred Robison Eugene Lehner Bass Clarinet George Humphrey Felix Viscuglia In 1970 Mr. Ozawa became Artistic Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Director of the Berkshire Music Festival, and in December of that year he began Seiji Ozawa became Music Director of the his inaugural season as Conductor and Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall Music Director of the San Francisco of 1973 and is the thirteenth conductor Symphony Orchestra, titles he held con- to head the Orchestra since its founding currently with his position as Music in 1881. Director of the Boston Symphony until He was born in Hoten, Manchuria, in he resigned them in the spring of 1976. 1935, and graduated from the Toho (He will be Honorary Conductor in San School of Music in Tokyo with first Francisco for the 1976-77 season). prizes in composition and conducting. When he won first prize at the Inter- Mr. Ozawa's recordings for Deutsche national Competition of Conducting at Grammophon include Berlioz's Sym- Besancon, France, shortly after his gradu- phonie fantastique, La damnation de ation, one of the judges of the competition Faust, and Romeo et Juliette (awarded a was the late Charles Munch, then Music Grand Prix du Disque). This spring, DG Director of the Boston Symphony, who will release the Ozawa/BSO recording of invited him to study at Tanglewood Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony. during the following summer. Mr. Ozawa's association with the Orchestra began during that session of the Berkshire Music Center as a student of conducting AND IN GENERAL in 1960. Beginning with the summer of 1964, Mr. Ozawa was for five seasons Music The BSO performs 12 months a year, in Director of the Ravinia Festival, and at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. For the beginning of the 1965-66 season he more information about any of the Or- became Music Director of the Toronto chestra's activities, please call Symphony Symphony, a post he relinquished after Hall at 266-1492 or write Boston Sym- four seasons to devote his time to study phony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Bos- and guest conducting. ton, Massachusetts 02115. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. David O. Ives, Chairman Hazen H. Ayer, Vice Chairman Mrs. Arthur I. Strang, Secretary Charles F. Adams Weston P. Figgins Richard P. Morse Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm David G. Mugar Mrs. Richard Bennink Carlton P. Fuller Dr. Barbara W. 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The Cotting School for Handicapped Children is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, tuition-free institution supported primarily by private legacies, bequests and contributions. , Notes The most obvious question about The Unfinished we cannot answer. The title page is signed and dated — Vienna, 30 October 1822. Beyond that, there is Franz Schubert no absolutely sure reference to the work 8 in minor, D.759 Symphony No. B in Schubert's lifetime. Johann von The Unfinished Herbeck, who conducted its first per- formance in 1865, had retrieved the manuscript from Anselm Hiittenbrenner born in Franz Peter Schubert was in Ober-Andritz near Graz earlier that Vienna, 31 Liechtental, a suburb of on year. By then, the existence of the work January 1797 and died in Vienna on 19 was public knowledge, it having been 1828. score the two November The of mentioned in Hiittenbrenner's entry on his minor movements of unfinished B himself in the Biographisches Lexikon is dated 30 October 1822. Symphony A des Kaisertums Oesterreich (1863) and in scherzo exists in fairly complete piano the big Schubert biography of Heinrich sketch, the first nine measures and of Kreissle von Hellborn (1864). Anselm that scherzo, fully scored, are on the Hiittenbrenner had received it from his reverse the last page the second of of younger brother Josef, who seems to movement. August Ludwig, a German have had it directly from Schubert. The composer and critic who was born in details, however, of its journey from the 1865 and who died in 1946, was the first composer to Josef to Anselm are obscure.