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Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1973 -:•:'.:--• BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT &u^ Tuesday August 21 1973 at 8.30 pm TANGLEWOOD ARTHUR FIEDLER Arthur Fiedler is without doubt Boston's best known and best loved citizen. His unique personality, his warmth, his style, and his individual approach to music have made him as familiar as Symphony Hall itself. More than the local boy who made good, he has put an indelible mark not only on the musical history of the city, EVENING but also on the musical taste of millions AT POPS throughout the world. on television with Born in Boston on December 17 1894, ARTHUR FIEDLER & Arthur Fiedler inherited a rich family background of European musical THE BOSTON POPS culture. His father, Austrian-born Emanuel Fiedler, was a first violinist ORCHESTRA with the Boston Symphony, and his mother a gifted amateur musician who gave young Arthur his first piano lessons. 'I was brought up in the produced for PBS European manner,' Mr Fiedler says. 'As a young boy, I practiced the violin by WGBH-Boston and piano, and studied French and German. I didn't like music more than any other kid. Practice and lessons were drudgery.' When he with guest artists showed progress in his practice sessions, his mother rewarded him with a trip to B. F. Keith's vaudeville theatre — which may account for his July 3 reputation not only as a popular conductor but as a showman par AN EVENING OF excellence. COLE PORTER Arthur Fiedler was a pupil at the Prince Grammar School and the Boston July 10 Latin School until his father retired after twenty-five years in the Boston ILANA VERED Symphony and the family returned to their native Austria. In Vienna and later in Berlin, Arthur worked in the publishing business before July 17 entering the Royal Academy in Berlin as a student of violin, piano THE NEW SEEKERS and conducting. July 24 At the outbreak of world war one Arthur Fiedler returned to Boston, ELLA FITZGERALD and in 1915, at the age of twenty, joined the Boston Symphony as a violinist under Karl Muck. His ambition to conduct led him to form, July 31 nine years later, the Boston Sinfonietta, a chamber orchestra composed CARMEN DE of Boston Symphony members. At the same time he continued as a LAVALLADE member of the Boston Symphony, playing the violin, viola, piano, celesta, organ and even percussion instruments. In 1929, after long August 7 planning and financial struggle, Mr Fiedler launched the first of the BOOTS RANDOLPH free outdoor Esplanade Concerts on the east bank of the Charles River. July 1954 was a specially historic month in Esplanade history: it was August 14 then that Governor Christian Herter celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver- RICHARD TUCKER & sary of the concerts by dedicating the new 'Arthur Fiedler Bridge' over ROBERT MERRILL what is now Storrow Drive. August 21 In 1930 Mr Fiedler was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston BOSTON BALLET Pops concerts, and under his direction the Orchestra has made more recordings than any other in the world. His discovery of a forgotten August 28 composition by Jacob Gade, jalousie, resulted in the sale of more than VIRGIL FOX a million copies of the Pops recording. Fifteen years ago RCA honored Arthur Fiedler with a plaque commemorating both his thirtieth anniver- September 4 ANNA MOFFO sary with Esplanade concerts and the sale of his two millionth album. The total sales of albums, singles, tapes and cassettes are today not far September 11 from 50 million. CHRISTOPHER PARKENING Arthur Fiedler has also found time during his busy career to teach at Boston University, to conduct Boston's Cecilia Society Chorus, the September 18 University Glee Club of Providence, Rhode Island, and the MacDowell OLD TIMERS' NIGHT Club Orchestra of Boston. He has conducted a long list of major with EUBIE BLAKE American orchestras including the Boston Symphony. He has also con- ducted orchestras all over North and South America, Europe, Africa, EVENING AT POPS will be broadcast Asia and Australia. nationally by the Public Broadcasting In December 1969 Mr Fiedler celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday by Service three times weekly (Tuesdays conducting a in Hall with the Boston Symphony. at 8 pm, Fridays at 9 pm & Sundays Gala Concert Symphony at 8 pm). Check in the local press Governor Sargent added to the occasion by proclaiming it 'Arthur Fiedler for the correct times for your area. Day' throughout the Commonwealth- Not only in Massachusetts, but In Boston EVENING AT POPS will be throughout the length and breadth of the globe, Arthur Fiedler and the shown at 9 pm on Tuesdays. Boston Pops spread pleasure and enjoyment through the universal language of music. TANGLEWOOD 1973 SEIJI OZAWA Artistic Director, Berkshire Festival GUNTHER SCHULLER Artistic Director, Berkshire Music Center LEONARD BERNSTEIN Adviser Tuesday August 21 1973 at 8.30 pm BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor PENSION FUND BENEFIT CONCERT 'Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Elgar ^Overture to 'Orpheus in Hades' Offenbach *Clair de Lune Debussy t *1812, Ouverture Solennelle Tchaikovsky 'Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Orchestra Gershwin LEO LITWIN Selection from 'Hair' MacDermot Aquarius- Donna - Frank Mills - Initials - Ain't Got No- Hair-Hare Krishna - Air- Good Morning Starshine - Let the Sunshine In Twelfth Street Rag Bowman Leo Litwin plays the Baldwin piano Artillery courtesy of EASTOVER There will be a display of fireworks over Lake Mahkeenac at the end of the concert. THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA RECORDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR POLYDOR BALDWIN PIANO tPOLYDOR & *RCA RECORDS TONIGHT'S SOLOIST LEO LITWIN received his early musical training in Boston under Hedwig Schroeder and Jesus Maria Sanroma, and later coached in New York with Josef Lhevinne. Since his first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, as official pianist of the Boston V^fI Pops Orchestra, he introduced more new V^J^ BL works for piano and orchestra at the Pops, -^-3 under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, than ^^. vl any other soloist. His many first perform- ances include Cornish Rhapsody by Hubert Bath, Rhapsody Sinfonica by Joaquin Turina, Smoky Mountain Suite by Richard Addinsell, Piano Concerto by Cordelli, Concerto in jazz by Phillips, Piano Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovitch, Interplay by Morton Could, the Alamein Concerto and Dream of Olwen, as well as the first performance in the United States of the Warsaw Concerto, which he has recorded three times for RCA with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops. In addition to his concert schedule, Leo Litwin heads the Music Department at Mount Ida College in Newton, teaches piano at his own studio at 476 Boylston Street in Boston, and has just pioneered a timely new course, Women in Music, for the Music Department of Northeastern University. THE BOSTON SYMPHONY PENSION INSTITUTION The Boston Symphony Pension Institution, established in 1903, is the oldest among American symphony orchestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid annually over 400,000 dollars to nearly one hundred pensioners and their widows. Pension Institution income is derived from Pension Fund concerts, from open rehearsals in Sym- phony Hall and at Tanglewood and from radio broadcasts, for which the members of the Orchestra donate their services. Contributions are also made each year by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representa- tives of the players and the Corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors. The Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are offer- ing for sale a colorful Tanglewood poster, designed by Susan Pear Meisel of New York, for $3 and Know Your Orchestra, a booklet of photographs and short biographies of each member of the Boston Symphony for $1. Both are available at the Tanglewood Music Store, as well as at the Tanglewood Friends Office located next to the Box Office..
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