Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1998
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MMAlfto. ^p KS rt» Tanglewood on Parade TUESDAY AUGUST 4 1998 ^K Tanglew®d 1 Music Center r 1998 IS tj^k ^^\ !Mf Tanglewood Music Center an activity ojthe Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa, Music Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra Mark Volpe, Managing Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra Ellen Highstein, Director, Tanglewood Music Center Boston Symphony Orchestra Members of each section of the Boston Symphony, including both principal and section players, are participating in the daily activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, giving master classes, sectional rehearsals, repertoire classes, and chamber music coachings. 1998 Additional Artist Faculty & Guest Artists Juilliard String Quartet Bonnie Hampton, cello Conducting Joel Smirnoff, violin Robert Mann, violin Seiji Ozawa Ronald Copes, violin Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Bowles Red Lion Inn Master Teacher Samuel Rhodes, viola Master Teacher Chair Chair Peter Joel Krosnick, cello Serkin, piano Jorma Panula Manan Douglas Martin Chan; Surdna Foundation Chair Guarneri Quartet endowed by Marilyn Brachman Andre Previn Arnold Steinhardt, violin Hoffman Stephen and Dorothy Weber John Dalley, violin Roger Voisin, trumpet Artist-in-Residence Michael Tree, viola Berkshire Chair Robert Spano David Soyer, cello Vocal Composition Arditti String Quartet Phyllis Curtin Michael Gandolfi Country Curtains Master Teacher Irvine Arditti, violin Osvaldo Golijov Chair Graeme Jennings, violin Henri Dutilleux Kenneth Griffiths Dov Scheindlin, viola Housatonic Curtain Company Dennis Heimlich Rohan de Saram, cello Master Teacher Chair Kayo Iwama Mauricio Kagel Chamber Music Karl Paulnack Sana H. Sabbagh and HasibJ. Emanuel Ax, piano Lucy Shelton Sabbagh Master Teacher Chair Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Renee Longy Chair, a gift ofJane John Williams Chair and John Goodwin Contemporary Music Norman Fischer, cello Alan Smith Barbara LaMont Master Teacher Pierre Vallet Reinbert de Leeuw, Director, Chair Festival of Contemporary Music Raphael Hillyer, viola A grant from the Velmans Richard Burgin Chair Foundation helps to underwrite Andrew Jennings, violin Mr. de Leeuw 's residency. Beatrice Sterling Proctor Master Stefan Asbury, Coordinator of Teacher Chair New Music Activities Tanglewood Music Center Funds and Prizes • Henry Cabot Award • Gino B. Cioffi Memorial Prize • Eleanor Naylor Dana Visiting Artist Fund • Fromm Award • The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Fund • Ralph Gomberg Award • Mickey L. Hooten Memorial Prize • Grace B.Jackson Prize • Paul Jacobs Memorial Commissioning Fund • Henri Kohn Memorial Award • Louis Krasner Fund for Inspirational Teaching and Performance, established by Marilyn Brachman Hoffman • Pierre Mayer Award • Samuel Mayes Memorial Prize • Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize • Harry Shapiro Award • Voisin Award • Karl Zeise Memorial Prize • Tanglewood Music Center Endowed Funds Tanglewood Music Center Staff Leslie Wu Foley, Associate Director • Katherine A. Lempert, Manager of Student Affairs • Timothy Tsukamoto, Operations Coordinator Tanglewood Development • Tracy Wilson, Director Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra • Harry Shapiro, orchestra manager • John Perkel and John Grande, librarians • Keith Elder, stage manager (Ozawa Hall) 1998 Summer Staff • Vytas Baksys • Thomas Biddlecombe • Jonathan Boehr • Gregg Brighenti • Jennifer Bilbie • Fredric Cohen • Ryan K. Darling • Susan Deering • Holly Fey • Michael Keams • Jacob Moerschel • John P Morin • Barbara Perkel • Marijke Reuvers • Philip Rothman • Nicki Schantz • Dirk Schoute • Jessica Happel • Stephanie Yu The Tanglewood Music Center is funded in part by grants from the National Endowmentfor the Arts and the J Helen E Whitaker Fund. Tanglewood on Parade Tanglew<©d August 1998 Tuesday, 4, Music For the benefit of the Tanglewood Music Center Center 2:00 Gates Open 5:00 Alpine Horn Demonstation (Lawn in front of Chamber Music 2:00 Boston University Hall; inside in case of rain) Tanglewood Institute: Fanfares at Main Gate Drive 5:30 Balloon Ascension (Rear of Shed in (Lawn near Lion Gate, case of rain) weather permitting) 2:30 Boston University 6:00 Tanglewood Music Center Tanglewood Institute: Fellowship Wind Music Chamber Music Concert (Tanglewood Manor House (Chamber Music Hall) porch; Chamber Music Hall in case of rain) 2:45 Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Chamber and 7:00 Berkshire Highlanders Vocal Music (Lion Gate; rear of (Seiji Ozawa Hall and Shed in case of rain) Theatre-Concert Hall) 8:00 Tanglewood Music Center 3:45 Boston University Fellowship Brass, Tanglewood Institute Roger Voisin conducting: Young Artists Orchestra Fanfares and Chorus (Koussevitzky Music Shed) (Koussevitzky Music Shed) 8:30 Gala Concert (Koussevitzky Music Shed) Hot air balloon courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Joseph of Lebanon, New Jersey Alpine horns courtesy of BSO horn player Daniel Katzen Artillery and cannon supplied by Eastover, Inc. Scottish folk music courtesy of the Berkshire Highlanders Fireworks over the Stockbrige Bowl following the Gala Concert !l A Message from Seiji Ozawa Welcome to Tanglewood on Parade, our hard to earn a place in these programs. annual celebration of Tanglewood and the This freedom from financial concern allows Tanglewood Music Center. Tanglewood on them to focus all their attention on music- Parade is a festive celebration with a special making. There is no other place in the purpose—to provide funds to support the world like Tanglewood, where young musi- Tanglewood Music Center, one of the most cians are inspired by the Boston Symphony influential centers for advanced musical Orchestra, the TMC Faculty, the guest study in the world. In fulfillment of Serge artists who perform here, and the unique Koussevitzky's dream, young musicians Tanglewood landscape. come to this beautiful setting to work The Tanglewood Music Center has held under the supervision of outstanding artist- a special place in my heart since I arrived teachers, all in daily contact with the life of here in 1960. Making others feel welcome the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This year, here has also become an important part of in a way Koussevitzky particularly envi- my life. For two months each year we live sioned, members from each section of the and work together. This is the spirit that BSO are participating more fully in the welcomed me when I first arrived, and which daily activities of the Tanglewood Music 1 hope to pass on to others. Just as I found Center, with an expanded schedule of a home in music at Tanglewood, so do master classes, sectional rehearsals, reper- hundreds of aspiring young musicians who toire sessions, and chamber music coach- come here each summer. We all thank you ings. In tonight's concert the BSO and TMC for helping to make this possible. Orchestra join together for what is always a very special highlight of our summer. By joining us here today you are sup- porting the important work of the Tangle- wood Music Center's extraordinary young musicians, young professionals and conser- Seiji Ozawa vatory or post-graduate level students of exceptional accomplishment. Each year generous patrons provide financial support that makes it possible to maintain the TMC year after year. Without this help, and the support of music lovers like yourselves, the Tanglewood Music Center could not sur- vive. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute offers similar advanced training to musicians of high school age. Their partici- pation reflects more than thirty years of partnership with the Boston Symphony. Every ticket sold today helps us con- tinue to offer tuition-free Fellowships to young musicians who have worked very — 1 The Tanglewood Music Center Since its start as the Berkshire Music Center tor, Seiji Ozawa became head of the BSO's in 1940, the Tanglewood Music Center has programs at Tanglewood, with Gunther become one of the world's most influential Schuller leading the TMC and Leonard centers for advanced musical study. Serge Bernstein as general advisor. Leon Fleisher Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orches- served as the TMC's Artistic Director from tra's music director from 1924 to 1949, 1985 to 1997. In 1994, with the opening founded the school with the intention of of Seiji Ozawa Hall, the TMC centralized its creating a premier music academy where, activities on the Leonard Bernstein Campus, with the resources of a great symphony which also includes the Aaron Copland orchestra at their disposal, young instru- Library, chamber music studios, administra- mentalists, vocalists, conductors, and com- tive offices, and the Leonard Bernstein posers would sharpen their skills under the Performers Pavilion adjacent to Ozawa Hall. tutelage of Boston Symphony Orchestra In 1997, Ellen Highs tein was appointed musicians and other specially invited artists. Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, The school opened formally on July 8, operating under the artistic supervision of 1940, with speeches and music. "If ever Seiji Ozawa. there was a time to speak of music, it is The Tanglewood Music Center Fellow- now in the New World," said Koussevitzky, ship Program offers an intensive schedule alluding to the war then raging in Europe. of study and performance for advanced Randall Thompson's Alleluia for unaccom- instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and panied chorus, specially written for the cer- composers who have completed most of emony, arrived less than an hour before the their formal training in music. In 1998, event began but made such an impression new TMC offerings led by BSO members that it continues to be performed at