Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1980
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>*CHAMFl^ ***««vt u * _ COGNAC 0BUCf5 *^ F R A N C 6 PROW*"p EXCLUSIVELY FINE CHAMPAGNE ( OGNAC fWC) "PREMIERS CRUS' M, BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director £s * xl Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season, 1979-80 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, Inc 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 Caroline E. Hessberg Dorothy Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Promotion Administrator Controller of Coordinator Youth Activities Joyce M. Snyder Richard Ortner Elisabeth Quinn Development Assitant Administrator, Director of Coordinator Berkshire Music Center Volunteer Services Elizabeth Dunton James E. Whitaker Katherine Whitty Director of Hall Manager, Coordinator of Sales Symphony Hall Boston Council Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Manager of Operations Manager, Box Office Tanglewood Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Director of Editor, Publications Tanglewood Program Programs copyright ®1980 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo hy Peter Schaaf Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice- Chairman Vice -Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding Richard P. Morse John Q. Adams Haskell R. Gordon David Mugar Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. John L. Grandin Stephen Paine, Sr. Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. Howard E. Hansen David R. Pokross Mrs. Richard Bennink Christian Halby William Poorvu David W. Bernstein Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mrs. Curtis Prout David Bird Mrs. Richard D. Hill Harry Remis Gerhard D. Bleicken Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Peter van S. Rice William M. Bulger Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Mrs. Kelton Burbank Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Curtis Buttenheim Leonard Kaplan Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. Francis P. Sears, Jr. The Hon. Levin H. Campbell III John Kittredge William A. Selke Julian Cohen Robert K. Kraft Gene Shalit Johns H. Congdon Benjamin H. Lacy Donald Sinclair Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Samuel L. Slosberg Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. Warren B. Manhard II Richard A. Smith William Edgerly C. Charles Marran Peter J. Sprague Mrs. John Fitzpatrick J. William Middendorf II Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Paul Fromm Colman M. Mockler Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Carlton P. Fuller Paul Montrone Mark Tishler Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Elting E. Morison D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Robert Gibb Roger H. Woodworth Discover America's Heyday Neorby Old Srurbridge village invires you and your family ro vtsir America when Old Glory was young. On 200 acres of woods and meadows rhe everyday life of an earlier age becomes a reality. See the working historical farm and rhe unusual, backbred livestock. Watch the blacksmith, shoemaker, cooper and porter craft their wares. Discover old recipes in use at open hearths. Char with the parson and storekeeper. Stroll the Common, stop by the Tavern for lunch. Select a reminder of your experiences from handmade craft wares in rhe museum's gift shops. An easy drive, a visit ro Old Srurbridge Village is a pleasant family outing. For additional information, and free, descriptive color brochures and map, write: Public Information, Dept. T, Old Srurbridge Village, Srurbridge, Mass., 01 566, or call (61 7) 347-3362. Exir 9, Massachusetts Turnpike • Exit 3 off I-86. • Please consult Peter Pan Bus Lines Old Sturbridge Village A Warm Tradition Awaits You 198 Accompanist to Leonard Bernstein • Aaron Copland • Gilbert Kalish Eugene Ormandy • Seiji Ozawa • Andre Previn Gunther Schuller • John Williams • Yehudi Wyner MOZART BEETHOVEN BRAHMS BEONE OF THE GREAT CONTRIBUTORS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC The great works these composers have given the world are gifts well appreciate forever. But there's also a way you can make a lasting contribution to the tradition of classical music. Tanglewood offers various endowment opportunities and you can choose from any of these gifts that will link your name to our music. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated and will help keep the classics alive and flourishing at Tanglewood in the years to come. Major benefactors of $100,000 or more will also have their names inscribed on The Honor Roll at Symphony Hall. Naming of new addition to Music Shed $1,000,000 Naming of spaces in new addition to Music Shed: Conductor's Green Room $75,000 Orchestra Library $50,000 Chorus Room $50,000 Piano Room $50,000 Large Tuning Room $50,000 Principal Soloist Room $40,000 Tuning Rooms (three) (each) $30,000 Naming of Music Shed seats $2,500 To establish a fund for the New Garden $40,000 To establish a fund for the Formal Gardens $100,000 To endow the Tent Club . $250,000 To endow the Prelude Concert Series $100,000 To name a Special Concert $50,000 -$150,000 Pledges are accepted in 3 to 5 year periods and can be made through a life income plan. BSO For more information, please contact Joseph Hobbs, Director of Development, BSOT00, Symphony lOQ Hall, Boston, MA 02115. Telephone: (617) 236-1823 or at Tanglewood, (413) 637-1600. TANGLEWOOD The Berkshire Festival 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 experiment 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 consisted of three concerts and was given under a large tent, drawing a total of nearly 15,000 people. 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 5 August 1937 the Festival's largest crowd so far assembled under a tent for the first Tanglewood concert, an all-Beethoven program. At the all-Wagner concert which opened the 1937 festival's second weekend, rain and thunder twice interrupted the performance of the Rienzi Overture and necessitated the omission altogether of the Siegfried Idyll, music too delicate to be heard through the downpour. At the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, one of the festival's founders, made a fundraising appeal for the building of a permanent structure. The appeal was broadened by means of a printed circular handed out at the two remaining concerts, and within a short time enough money had been raised to begin active planning for a "music pavilion." Plans for the 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 featured 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. Today Tanglewood annually draws close to a quarter of a million visitors; in addition to the twenty-four regular concerts of the Boston Symphony, there are weekly chamber music concerts, "Prelude" concerts and open rehearsals, the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, and almost daily concerts by the gifted young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center. The Boston Pops performs each summer, and the festival also includes a series of concerts by popular artists. The season offers not only a vast quantity of music but also a vast range of musical forms and 6 styles, all of it presented with a regard for artistic excellence that makes the festival unique. The Berkshire Music Center Tanglewood is much more than a pleasant, outdoor, summer concert hall; it is also the site of one of the most influential centers for advanced musical study in the United States. Here, the Berkshire Music Center, now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, and which has been maintained by the Boston Symphony Orchestra ever since its establishment under the leadership of Serge Koussevitzky in 1940, provides a wide range of specialized training and experience for young musicians from all over the world. There are three principal programs at the Berkshire Music Center, each with appropriate subdivisions.