Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 98, 1978-1979
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three 98th SEASON 1 S%^ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director I feSi X ^qi> — H s x ^ Strega means witch. Strega also means a bewitching golden liqueur you can sip and savor and spend some time with. Without ever tiring of its magically unique taste. .— A taste, legend has it, created centuries ago in Italy by the beautiful witches of Benevento. Enjoy Strega straight, on-the-rocks, or mixed in a Little Witch. Truly, a haunting brew. I Imported from Italy. Eighty Proof, by Schenley Imports Co., NY, NY © 1977 l£4Jrol Ml aojii ^H Ifthis wasn't a black &white ad, we could showyou whatPainds InteriorDesigners can dowith color. We have assembled a talented group of men and women to work with you on your decorating and redecorating plans. One room or many, traditional or modern, they will share their creative ideas with you. There is no added charge for this designer service. For information, please call Mrs. Scully at PADNE 426-1500, extension 156. FURNITURE KS3 !«&>$ £*, Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Eighth Season 1978-1979 The 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 Abram T. Collier, 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. Richard P. Chapman Roderick M. MacDougall Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray John Hoyt Stookey Albert L. Nickerson Trustees Emeriti Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Peter Gelb Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D.Hill Director of Promotion Director of Development Director of Business Affairs Elizabeth A. Young CandiceL. Miller Richard C. White Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant to the of Promotion of Development Manager Elizabeth Dunton Dorothy M. Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Director of Sales Controller Administrator of Youth Activities Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Katherine Whitty Manager of Box Office Operations Manager, Coordinator of Tangleivood Boston Council Niklaus Wyss Donald W. MacKenzie Richard Ortner Advisor for the Operations Manager, Assistant Administrator, Music Director Symphony Hall Berkshire Music Center Michael Steinberg Director of Publications Programs copyright © 1978 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. 3 The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. I Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. Arthur I. Strang I Vice Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Mrs. James G. Garivaltis Richard P. Morse John Q. Adams Mrs. Robert Gibb Dr. Barbara W. Newell Mrs. Frank G. Allen Jordan L. Golding Stephen Paine Hazen Ayer Mrs. John L. Grandin David Pokross David W. Bernstein Mrs. Howard E. Hansen William Poorvu David Bird Mrs. Richard D.Hill Harry Remis Gerhard Bleicken Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Peter vanS. Rice Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot RichardS. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Levin H. Campbell, III Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Louise I. Kane Mrs. George Rowland Arthur P. Contas Leonard Kaplan Mrs. William Ryan Robert Cushman Mrs. F. Corning Kenly Francis P. Sears, Jr. Michael J. Daly Robert Kraft William A. Selke Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Benjamin Lacy GeneShalit Mrs. John Fitzpatrick Mrs. James F. Lawrence Samuel L. Slosberg Paul Fromm Mrs. Warren B. Manhard II Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Carlton P. Fuller Colman M. Mockler, Jr. D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Mrs. Elting E. Morison Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris Roger Woodworth The best of the bunch. UnionWarren Savings Bank Tuesday, 7 November — 8-9:40 Tuesday 'B' series sights Set your SEIJI OZAWA conducting high enough and Haydn Symphony No. 102 in you can't miss the Bflat Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Top* Top-floor in F minor dining, top-flight food. If thats what Friday, 10 November - 8-9:50 Saturday, 11 November — 8-9:50 you've come to TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL to expect, come up SEIJI OZAWA conducting the Top Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Act I of the Violin Concerto in D ^¥Ml ISAAC STERN Huh < V/fl Tuesday, 14 November — 8-9:35 Va Wednesday, 15 November — 8-9:35 TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL SEIJI OZAWA conducting Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Act II Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Stnuff<ers HORACIO GUTIERREZ Top of the Hub Friday, 17 November — 8-9:45 Prudential Center • 536-1775 Saturday, 18 November — 8-9:45 TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL SEIJI OZAWA conducting Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Act III Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello LYNN HARRELL Swan Lake, Act IV Tuesday, 21 November — 8-9:30 Tuesday 'C series SEIJI OZAWA conducting Haydn Symphony No. 102 in Bflat Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Act III 53 _ :••-..:• THiBCStON SYMPHONY'S PivCifii PLAYERS, /NDA/ICXiALLV GREAT VIRTUOSI PERFORM SUPERB CHAMBER MUSIC TOGETHER BOSTON ( namfar SYMPHONY Uujur m at JORDAN HALL 3 SUNDAY AFTERNOONS AT 4 PM 1. October 29 2. January 21 3. March 11 Gilbert KaKsh, guest pianist SEMI OZAWA, conductor Gilbert KaKsh, guest pianist BENJAMIN BRITTEN Sinfonietta Op.l Gilbert KaKsh, guest pianist FRANCOIS DeVIENNE Quartet for 1 ALEXANDER GOEHR Lyric Pieces POULENC Oboe, bassoon bassoon and strings Op. 36 & piano trio CARTER Eight etudes and a Fantasy BACH Trio from the Musical lOtfering' SCHOENBERG Suite, Op. 29 for Woodwinds Piano trio. BRAHMS Piano Quintet, Op. 34b conducted by Seiji Ozawa DVORAK Op. 90 Durrfttf: MOZART Quartet for piano and strings in g, K.478 NEW SUBSCRIBER FORM. You may become a Boston Symphony Chamber Players subscriber by indicating your choice of price and by returning this form, together with M check made payable to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, mail to: New Subscriber, Symphony Hall, Boston, Ma. 02115: PRICES. $18.00, $15.00, $12.00 cj ^ *~ SERIES PRICE NO OF TICKETS TOTAL f~CHAMBER PLAYERS AT JORDAN HALL J NAME DAY PHONE. STREET EVE. PHONE tttY STATE. ZIP Z=Z? iSfoSSi Great Performances 1978/79 OPEN REHEARSALS AT SYMPHONY HALL You can attend the final run throughs, in an informal atmosphere, of some of the great performances scheduled this season. j For the 21st consecutive year, you're invited to enjoy an inside look at the Boston Symphony as it prepares its - concerts. You can also hear an ; [; informal discussion led by the \ BSO's Michael Steinberg, 45 minutes before the rehearsal begins. Mb—i . r BSO Tchaikovsky Festival Serge Koussevitzky liked occasionally to break up or sometimes close a winter subscription season with a celebration in honor of one of his favorite composers. The Brahms Centenary Festival of 1933 was perhaps the most famous of these, but there were, over the years, festive commemorations also of Beethoven, Bach, and Tchaikovsky. This year, Seiji Ozawa revives the custom with a Tchaikovsky Festival that will run six evenings in November. Central to the event will be the rare opportunity to hear the complete score of Swan Lake played in concert by a first-class symphony orchestra. Swan Lake will be parceled out across three pro- grams, each given twice, and with each portion coupled with one of Tchai- kovsky's most loved pieces for solo instrument and orchestra. On Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 November, Act I of Swan Lake is followed by the Violin Concerto with Isaac Stern as soloist. On Tuesday and Wednesday, 14 and 15 November, Act II of the ballet— this is the actual lake scene where the Prince first encounters the Princess-turned-Swan— is followed by the Piano Con- certo No. 1 in B flat minor, played by Horacio Gutierrez. At the final pair of con- certs on Friday and Saturday, 17 and 18 November, the third and fourth acts of Swan Lake enclose the brilliant Variations on a Rococo Theme, with Lynn Harrell making his Boston Symphony debut as cello soloist. All six concerts are con- ducted by Seiji Ozawa and all begin at 8. Your ticket also admits you to a special Prelude, scheduled to begin at 6:45. On 10 and 11 November, six members of the Boston Symphony— violinists Emanuel Borok and Bo Youp Hwang, violists Burton Fine and Robert Barnes, and cellists Jules Eskin and Ronald Feldman— will play Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. On 14 and 15 November, mezzo-soprano Beverly Morgan, who last appeared with the orchestra in De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat, and pianist Thomas Muraco will perform songs in French and Russian by Tchaikovsky as well as songs by Lalo, Bizet, and Gounod, all composers Tchaikovsky particularly enjoyed, and by Anton Rubinstein, his teacher. On 17 and 18 November, Boston Symphony concertmaster Josephy Silverstein with pianist Betty Benthin will play Tchaikovsky's Meditation, which was the original slow movement of the Violin Concerto, a sonata by Mozart, the composer Tchaikovsky loved most of all, and the Divertissement from The Fairy's Kiss by Stravinsky, with its affectionate and witty reworkings of Tchaikovsky themes. And, there is more! After each symphony concert you can stay and enjoy a movie like Ken Russell's The Music Lovers. We'll be announcing details of that soon. We plan also to publish a special Tchaikovsky Festival program including an essay on Swan Lakeby Noel Goodwin. It's not often you can pinpoint a partic- ular writer as the one who knows most about a subject, but in the case of Mr.