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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 99, 1979-1980 Providence III 99th SEASON ./* $ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SHJI OZAWA Music Director te mil) s t *% wtw* v.s.ojpl REMY MAW- )fSKW>F ^iL^/n^^f^4 ****** llQ$ COGNAC f0eact& F n A N C6 *c»f2i £?.*Xft HOttLKO 8Y R.BFJWTC «*»«**-£. 'NE CHAMPAGNE COO' THE FIRST NAMEJJ^OGN^ : INE CHAMPAGNE QUALITY A DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTE State Street Bank and Trust Company invites you to an evening with The Boston Symphony Orehest every Friday at nine on WCRB/hM. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season 1979-80 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony 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 Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. 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. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Dorothy Sullivan Richard Ortner Anita R. Kurland Controller Assistant Administrator, Administrator of Berkshire Music Center Youth Activities Elizabeth Dunton James F. Kiley Elisabeth Quinn Director of Operations Manager, Director of Sales Tanglewood Volunteer Services Charles Rawson James E. Whitaker Katherine Whitty Manager of Hall Manager, Coordinator of Box Office Symphony Hall Boston Council Steven Ledbetter Jean A. Miller Marc Mandel Director of Publications Publications Publications Assistant Assistant Programs copyright ©1979 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. William H. Ryan V ice-Chairman V ice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding David Mugar John Q. Adams Haskell Gordon Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. John L. Grandih David R. Pokross Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Howard E. Hansen William Poorvu Mrs. Richard Bennink Christian Halby Mrs. Curtis Prout David W. Bernstein Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Harry Remis David Bird Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Gerhard D. Bleicken Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry William M. Bulger Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Kelton Burbank Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. George R. Rowland Curtis Buttenheim Leonard Kaplan Francis P. Sears, Jr. Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. William A. Selke The Hon. Levin H. Campbell III John Kittredge Gene Shalit Julian Cohen Robert K. Kraft Donald Sinclair Johns H. Congdon Benjamin H. Lacy Samuel L. Slosberg Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Richard A. Smith Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. Warren B. Manhard II Peter J. Sprague William Edgerly C. Charles Marran Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Mrs. John Fitzpatrick J. William Middendorf II Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Paul Fromm Colman M. Mockler Mark Tishler Carlton P. Fuller Paul Montrone D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Elting E. Morison Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris Roger H. Woodworth Mrs. Robert Gibb Richard P. Morse The best of the bunch. UnionWarren Savings Bank Main Office— 133 Federal Street, Boston ,;.- • s *vv> , . v , :v...^^_ Vi"'' -|»-|-T^ ^>' >/- V| ^ "That's my wife, those are the twins, and, on the right, my New England Merchants trust officer' For good advice on personal trust matters, call our Trust Division at (617) 742-4000. Or write England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The Bank of New England. BSO BSO/100 Drive Accelerates in March BSO/100 volunteers will mount a major telephone campaign next month to reach prospective donors. Mrs. John M. Bradley, Centennial Fund Chairman, empha- sizes that this effort is directed toward specially selected subscribers, Friends, and "other civic-minded individuals who would like to support our great Orchestra at the time of its 100th birthday by making a significant, lasting, per- manent contribution which can be added to the BSO's endowment fund and so benefit the Orchestra for years to come." The effort will be coordinated by Major Gifts Committee Chairmen, Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III and Mr. Mark Tishler. Two recent major gifts have come in the form of chair endowments: J.P. Barger, president of the Dynatech Corporation, Burlington, Massachusetts, has endowed the /. P. and Mary B. Barger chair occupied by principal trombonist Ronald Barron. Irving Rabb, for many years a Boston Symphony trustee, has endowed the Charlotte and Irving W. Rabb chair occupied by Vyacheslav Uritsky, assistant principal of the second violins. BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon '80 "Turn Your Money Into Music" during the tenth BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon, scheduled this year for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the weekend of 18 April. Once again, Marathon headquarters will be Symphony Hall's Cabot-Cahners Room, and host for the three days of broadcasting will be WCRB's Richard L. Kaye. There'll be a pledge booth and broadcast facility at the Quincy Market Rotunda, a special concert with BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa and Boston Pops Conductor John Williams— televised live from 6:30-8 pm by WCVB-TV-Channel 5 on Sun- day, 20 April— and lots of new "thank-you" premiums in return for your pledges. Again, that's the tenth annual BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon, the week- end of 18-19-20 April. 'Ozawa in Peking' "Ozawa in Peking," a one- hour television special documenting Seiji Ozawa's historic performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in China last December, will be aired in Boston by WNAC-TV-Channel 7 on Friday evening, 29 February from 8 to 9 pm. The program will be shown in New York by WOR-TV-Channel 9 on Monday evening, 10 March from 8 to 9 pm, and it will be seen in other parts of the country as well. BSO Guests on WGBH-FM Robert J. Lurtsema, host of WGBH-FM-89.7's Morning Pro Musica, continues his series of live interviews with BSO guest artists when he speaks with conductor Sergiu Comissiona on Monday morning, 25 February at 11. In addition, WGBH is repeating last season's series of Lurtsema-hosted inter- views, The Orchestra, on Thursday evenings at 8: 6 March— Peter Gelb, Assistant Manager 13 March— Charles Kavalovski, Principal Horn 20 March— Armando Ghitalla, Former Principal Trumpet 27 March— Ronald Barron, Principal Trombone BSO on Record A new Boston Symphony recording of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto has just been released by Philips records; Sir Colin Davis conducts, and the piano soloist is Claudio Arrau. And by mid-March, Deutsche Grammophon will have issued its latest BSO disc: the Alban Berg and Igor Stravinsky violin concertos with soloist Itzhak Perlman and Music Director Seiji Ozawa. BARNES &NOBLE The Classical Record Center . More music for your money. 395 Washington Street (across from Filene's) Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri. 9:30-7, Tues., Thurs., Sat. 9:30-6 Master Charge, VISA Seiji Ozawa In the fall of 1973, Seiji Ozawa became the thirteenth Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since the Orchestra's founding in 1881. Born in Shenyang, China in 1935 to Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both Western and Oriental music as a child and later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music with first prizes in composition and conducting. In the fall of 1959 he won first prize at the Inter- national Competition of Orchestra Con- ductors, Besancon, France. Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, invited him to Tanglewood for trie summer following, and he there won the Berkshire Music Center's high- est honor, the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied on the New York Philhar- monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was made an Assistant Conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 season. His first professional concert appearance in North America came in January 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for rive summers begin- ning in 1964, and Music Director for four seasons of the Toronto Symphony Orches- tra, a post he relinquished at the end of the 1968-69 season in favor of guest conduct- ing numerous American and European orchestras. Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January of 1968; he had previously appeared with the Orchestra at Tanglewood, where he was made an Artistic Director in 1970. In December of that year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The Music Directorship of the Boston Symphony followed in 197J, and Mr. Ozawa resigned his San Francisco position in the spring of 1976, serving as Music Advisor there for the 1976-77 season. As Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strength- ened the Orchestra's reputation internationally as well as at home. In February/ March of 1976 he conducted concerts on the Orchestra's European tour, and in March 1978 he took the Orchestra to Japan for thirteen concerts in nine cities.
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