I Festival of Contemporary Music

30July - 6August 1987

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Tanglew(©d Music Center 1

Boston's New Music collage Ensemble T ANNOUNCES 1987-1988 15TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

NOVEMBER 2 Premiere of semi-staged work CYMBELINE after Shakespeare composed and conducted by . Guest artists include tenor David Gordon and a prominent actor as narrator.

DECEMBER 14 Conducted by David Hoose, a program of works by Boston Com- posers in honor of Arthur Bergers 75th birthday. Joan Heller, soprano.

FEBRUARY 8 Composers Born in 1938, featuring works by , , Frederic Rzewski, John Heiss and David Stock. Con- ducted by John Harbison with soprano Roberta Gumbel.

MARCH 2 A Program of Premieres featuring works by and Nicholas C.K. Thorne written especially for COLLAGE'S 15th Anniversary. Conducted by Gunther Schuller with Janice Felty, soprano.

All concerts on Monday evenings.

November program in Sanders Theatre, all others at Longy School of Music. Tickets from $ 10 to $5-

Subscriptions are available at a substantial savings.

For further information and a season brochure, call (617) 437-0231 or write: COLLAGE, 295 Huntington Ave., Suite 208, Boston, MA 02115. 1987 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC sponsored by the MUSIC CENTER TanglewdDd

Leon Fleisher, Artistic Director Music Gilbert Kalish, Chairman of the Faculty Center

George Perl e, Composer-in-Residence Oliver Knussen, Coordinator of Contemporary Music Activities

Daniel R. Gustin, Administrative Director Richard Ortner, Administrator James E. Whitaker, Chief Coordinator

Works presented at this year's Festival were prepared under the guidance of the following Faculty:

Doriot Anthony Dwyer Gilbert Kalish John Oliver Oliver Knussen Margo Garrett Joel Krosnick Fenwick Smith Dennis Helmrich Donald MacCourt Roger Voisin Max Hobart Gustav Meier

1987 Visiting Composer/Teachers

Elliott Antokoletz Alexander Goehr Pieter van den Toorn

The Tanglewood Music Center is maintained for advanced study in music and sponsored by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Kenneth Haas, Managing Director

The 1987 Festival of Contemporary Music is sponsored in part by a grant from the Pepsico Foundation. Dedication

The Tangiewood Music Center dedicates this year's Festival of Contemporary Music to the memory of Paul Fromm.

Paul Fromm 28 September 1906— 4July 1987

Tanglew®d Music Center When Paul Fromm died a few weeks ago A modest and soft-spoken man with a the musical scene in this country lost one thick German accent which revealed his

of its most acute observers, one of its most origins as an immigrant in the '30s, Mr. avid listeners, and one of its most active Fromm could be tough and unyielding, supporters. Mr. Fromm was one of the im- especially when arguing the cause of con- portant figures in music during the second temporary music. He loved music and was half of the twentieth century, and although passionately devoted as a listener to all its he has not been involved at Tanglewood manifestations as a serious art form. His for several years now, nowhere is his rich support for living composers and for new legacy more in evidence than in the con- music was a result of this love for music, certs of this Festival. and he never sought a good deal of the A wine merchant who lived in Chicago public recognition that came to him later most of his adult life, Mr. Fromm had a in his life— he always disdained the name lifelong passion for the music of his time, "Fromm Week," which is how, informally, and in 1952, with a mere fraction of the the Contemporary Music Festival at Tangle- funds of the "important" foundations at the wood came to be known. time, he founded the Fromm Music Foun- Paul Fromm's dream, which he articu- dation. The Foundation's purpose was (and lated over and over in various ways and in

is) to support the creation of new works by various forums through the years, was that important composers of the day— both the certain masterpieces of music written since senior and the younger generation —and 1945 enter into the standard repertoire of to help underwrite performances of this performing organizations and be accepted and other significant contemporary music. by the wider public of concertgoers. For The Foundation has had a large influence the most part he did not live to see that on the musical life of the , an happen; but to the end he believed fer-

influence which far outweighs its financial vently that it will happen, and, outside his resources. The reason for this was the guid- family and his business, all his consider- ing spirit and relentless energy and deter- able energies were poured into the work of mination of Fromm himself. the Foundation. In an oft-quoted remark Beginning in 1958 Mr. Fromm got to- made in 1979 he said: "I am convinced

gether with and began pre- that our century wi 1 1 eventual ly prove to be senting concerts of new music at Tangle- one of the great musical centuries. If we wood in cooperation with the Tanglewood choose to ignore what is happening in our

Music Center, and then, in 1964, in al- midst, it is exclusively our loss." Mr. liance with Gunther Schuller, the present Fromm's life and work helped a great deal Festival of Contemporary Music was initi- to prevent that loss for many in an ever- ated. The Foundation's support continued widening musical community which through 1983, with Mr. Fromm having cherishes the music of its time. We at seen the concept through its infancy and Tanglewood are very proud of our associa- adolescence into a healthy maturity. Now tion with Paul Fromm and dedicate this the Festival is supported in part by the Pep- year's Festival of Contemporary Music to sico Foundation and funds from the Boston his memory in the hope that we, in our Symphony Orchestra itself; but those early own way, are carrying on the ideals he pioneering years were the crucial ones, helped set for us. and Mr. Fromm's vision and support, allied — Daniel R. Gustin with the redoubtable Gunther Schuller, Administrative Director, created the groundwork of success upon Tanglewood Music Center which we have built over the years at Tanglewood. Contemporary Music at Tanglewood

It is our hope that this year's Festival of There has been support for contempo- Contemporary Music continues our aim to rary music here at Tanglewood from the very present a cross-section of musical manners beginning. How could there not have been and substances from what must be by now with Serge Koussevitzky as Music Director four or five generations of twentieth-century and Aaron Copland as Head of the Com- composers: our oldest composers (Bartok position Department and Chairman of the and Stravinsky) are nearly eighty years Faculty? Nevertheless, in 1964 Erich older than our youngest (Gandolfi, Yim, Leinsdorf, together with Gunther Schuller and Turnage). The presence at Tanglewood and Paul Fromm, thought it worthwhile to of both George Perle and Alexander initiate what he called a "festival within a Goehr, two composers who have most pro- festival," a week-long series of concerts foundly considered the nature and function entirely devoted to contemporary music. of harmony in the music of our century, Individual works by contemporary com- has prompted, perhaps, a sort of hidden posers continued