Majestic pine lined drives, rambling elegant mfcor meandering lawns and gardens, velvet green mountalSj^ canoeing ponds and Laurel Lake. Two -hundred acres of the p and present tastefully mingled. Afulfillment of every vacation delight . executive conference fancy . and elegant home dream. A choice for a day ... a month ... a year. Savor the cuisine, entertainment in the lounges, horseback, sleigh, and carriage rides, health spa, tennis, swimming, fishing, skiing, golf The great estate tradition is at your fingertips, and we await you graciously with information on how to be part of the FoxhoUow experience. FoxfaoUow ... an 6ver growing select family. Offerings in: Vacation Homes, Time- Shared Villas, Conference Center. Route 7, Lenox, Massachusetts 01240 413-637-2000 Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Second Season, 1982-83 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick William J. Poorvu J. P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley David G. Mugar Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Albert L. Nickerson Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Thomas D. Perry, Jr. William A. Selke Archie C. Epps III John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray John L. Thorndike John T. Noonan Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W. Morris General Manager William Bernell Edward R. Birdwell Daniel R. Gustin Artistic Administrator Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Caroline Smedvig Theodore A. Vlahos B.J. Krintzman Director of Controller Director of Promotion Arlene Germain Planning Marc Solomon Financial Analyst Joyce Snyder Serwitz Director, Broadcasting Acting Director Nancy A. Kay and Special Projects of Development Director of Sales James E. Whitaker Katherine Whitty Charles Rawson Hall Manager, Coordinator of Symphony Hall Manager of Box Office Boston Council James F. Kiley Anita R. Kurland Richard Ortner Operations Manager, Administrator of Administrator, Tanglewood Youth Activities Berkshire Music Center Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Editorial Print Production Publications Coordinator Coordinator Programs copyright ®1983 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Lincoln Russell Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. William J. Poorvu, Chairman William M. Crozier, Jr. Mrs. Lewis S. 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For more than a century, the Boston Symphony has been renowned as an orchestra of international distinction. Join Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony for a stunning 1983-84 season. Joining Ozawa and the orchestra will be guest conductors Sir Colin Davis Kurt Masur Joseph Silverstein. Michael Tilson Thomas, and in his BSO debut, Simon Rattle. Soloists will include Rudolf Serkin, Emanuel Ax, Maunzio Pollini ' Isaac Stern. Henryk Szen/ng, Hildegard Behrens, and Frederica von Stane, Highlights will include the first BSO performance of Mahler s magnificeni Das klagende Lied; Berlioz sublime LEnfance au Chnst; and such masterpieces as Beethovens'Eroica; the Brahms Fourth Symphony Mahler Symphony No. 4, and Mozart's Symphony No. 40. Subscribe now and join the K Boston Symphony in an extraordinary season at Symphony Hall. To receive complete program and ticket information, call or write. Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115. Tel. (617) 266-1492. YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU Take home a taste of Tanglewood this summer by visiting the Glass House, Tanglewood's gift shop located by the Main Gate. From Tanglewood t-shirts to the Boston Symphony's centennial poster by American artist Robert Rauschenberg to the newest addition to the BSO family, Tanglewoodie the Raccoon, the Glass House offers a distinctive selection of gifts and souvenirs. The Glass House is open one hour before concerts, during intermissions and one hour after concerts, and weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MasterCharge and Visa credit cards are accepted. TANGLEWOOD drawing a total of nearly 15,000 people. The Berkshire Festival In the winter of 1936, Mrs. In August 1934, a group of music- Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary loving summer residents of the Aspinwall Tappan offered Berkshires organized a series of Tanglewood, the Tappan family three outdoor concerts at estate, with its buildings and 210 Interlaken, to be given by members acres of lawns and meadows, as a of the New York Philharmonic gift to Koussevitzky and the under the direction of Henry orchestra. The offer was gratefully Hadley. The venture was so accepted, and on 5 August 1937 the successful that the promoters festival's largest crowd so far incorporated the Berkshire assembled under a tent for the first Symphonic Festival and repeated the Tanglewood concert, an all- experiment during the next Beethoven program. summer. At the all-Wagner concert which The Festival Committee then opened the 1937 festival's second invited Serge Koussevitzky and the weekend, rain and thunder twice Boston Symphony Orchestra to take interrupted the performance of the part in the following year's concerts. Rienzi Overture and necessitated the The orchestra's Trustees accepted, omission altogether of the Siegfried and on 13 August 1936 the Boston "Forest Murmurs," music too delicate Symphony gave its first concerts in to be heard through the downpour. the Berkshires (at Holmwood, a At the intermission. Miss Gertrude former Vanderbilt estate, later the Robinson Smith, one of the festival's Center at Foxhollow). The series founders, made a fundraising appeal again consisted of three concerts and for the building of a permanent was given under a large tent. structure. The appeal was References furnished request Aspen Music School and Festival Gilbert Kalish Dickran Atamian Ruth Laredo Burt Bacharach Liberace David Bar-Illan Panayis Lyras Berkshire Music Center Marian McPartland and Festival at Tanglewood Zubin Mehta Leonard Bernstein Eugene Ormandy Jorge Bolet Seiji Ozawa Boston Pops Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn Brevard Music Center Ravinia Festival Dave Brubeck Santiago Rodriguez Chicago Symphony Orchestra George Shearing Cincinnati May Festival Abbey Simon Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti Aaron Copland Beveridge Webster Denver Symphony Orchestra Earl Wild Ferrante and Teicher John Williams Interlochen Arts Academy and Wolf Trap Foundation for the National Music Camp Performing Arts Byron Janis Yehudi Wyner Billy Joel Over 200 others Baldwin broadened by means of a printed pilgrimage to millions of concert- circular handed out at the two goers. By 1941, the Theatre-Concert remaining concerts, and within a Hall, the Chamber Music Hall, and :r- short time enough money had been several small studios — all part of the raised to begin active planning for a Berkshire Music Center, which had "music pavilion." begun operations the preceding Eliel Saarinen, the eminent year — were finished, and the festival architect selected by Koussevitzky, had so expanded its activities and its proposed an elaborate design that reputation for excellence that it went far beyond the immediate attracted nearly 100,000 visitors. needs of the festival and, more Today Tanglewood annually important, went well beyond the draws more than 300,000 visitors; in budget of $100,000. His second, addition to the twenty-four regular \' simplified plans were still too concerts of the Boston Symphony, expensive, and he finally wrote that there are weekly chamber music if the Trustees insisted on remaining concerts, "Prelude" concerts and within their budget, they would open rehearsals, the annual Festival have "just a shed," which "any of Contemporary Music, and almost builder could accomplish without daily concerts by the gifted young the aid of an architect." The Trustees musicians of the Berkshire Music then turned to a Stockbridge Center.