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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor

Fourth - of-July Special Sunday, 4 July 1982 and Monday, 5 July 1982

2:00 Gates Open 2:00 SLAPHAPPY Comedy and juggling Continuous entertainment on the lawn 2:30-3:30 The WUZ Main House Porch (Chamber Music Hall in case of rain) 3:30-4:30 EMPIRE BRASS QUINTET

Theatre - Concert Hall

4:30 - 5:30 BILL CROFUT with Carver Blanchard, guitar Bob Gordon, guitar Main House Porch (Chamber Music Hall in case of rain)

5:30 - 6:30 NEXUS Percussion Ensemble Theatre-Concert Hall 6:30-7:15 BERKSHIRE HIGHLANDERS Lawn 8:30 LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC Shed

Fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl following the performance. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and

James M. Nederlander Michael Frazier Fred Walker in Association with Sherman Sneed and

present • LENA HORNE s The Lady and Her Music

Concept by Lena Horne & Sherman Sneed Musical Conductor Linda Twine Musical Direction by Harold Wheeler Scenery Designed by Costumes Designed by Lighting Designed by David Gropman Stanley Simmons Thomas Skelton Miss Home's Wardrobe by Giorgio Sant'Angelo Production Stage Mangaer Press Representative Miss Horne's Hair Designed by Anne Sullivan Josh Ellis Phyllis Della Production Staged by Arthur Faria Piano by Baldwin

Miss Home's appearance by arrangement with Sherman Sneed and Ralph Harris Award, theDramaDeskaSpecialNewYorkCritics'CircleAward season, Lena scene andtheSixties'protestera. young BlackgirlfromBrooklyn,NewYorkwhoseshowbusinesscareerencom-

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"A Lady Must Live" by and Lorenz Hart. Warner Bros. Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "As Long As I Live" by and Harold Arlen. Arko Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "But Not For Me" by Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin. Copyright 1930, Warner Bros. Music. (New World Music). All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Can't Help Loving Dat Man" by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and . T.B. Harms Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Copper Colored Gal of Mine" by B. Davis and J. Fred Coots. Mills Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Deed I Do" by W. Hirsch and Fred Rose. Copyright 1926, renewed 1954. Herald Square Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Fly" by Martin Charnin. Edward H. Morris Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "From This Moment On" by Cole Porter. Copyright 1950. "I Got a Name" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. Fox Fanfare. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I Want to Be Happy" by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar. Warner Bros. Music. "If You Believe" by Charlie Smalls. Fox Fanfare. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I'm Glad There is You" by Paul Madeira and Jimmy Dorsey. Morley Music Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" by Fred Ahlert and . Fred Ahlert Music Corp. and Rytvock Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Just One of Those Things" by Cole Porter. Copyright 1935. Harms Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Robert H. Montgomery, Trustee. "Lady With a Fan" by , Jeanne Burns, Al Blackman. American Academy of Music Inc. A Subsidiary of Belwin - Mills. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Life Goes On" by Paul Williams and . Copyright 1972. Almo Music Corp. and Fair Star Music, Inc. (ASCAP) All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Love" by and . Copyright © 1943, 1945. Renewed 1971, 1977. Leo Feist Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Push De Button" by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen. Harwin Music. Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "' The Rent" by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen. Mills Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Stormy Weather" by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen. Arko Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "That's What Miracles Are All About" by Charles Smalls. Shambam Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Williamson Music Inc. (Chappell Music Administration) All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Watch What Happens" by Norman Gimbel and Michele Legrande. Vogue Music Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "," "," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Chappel Co. Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Yesterday, When I Was Young" by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer. Hampshire House Publ. Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

THERE WILL BE ONE TWENTY-MINUTE INTERMISSION. MUSICIANS LENA'S TRIO Grady Tate—Drums Steve Bargonetti—Guitar Benjamin Franklin Brown—Bass and Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman Cecil Bridgewater Glenn Drewes Fred Griffen Dick Griffin Jack Jeffers Larry Nash Jimmy Owens John D. Parran Roger Rosenberg Mort Silver Harold Vick THE Clare Bathe Marva Hicks L. Edmond Wesley Lance K. Hardy—Alternate Janet Powell—Alternate

LENA HORNE has dazzled audiences in the country. From there it was only a matter throughout the world with her charm, taste, of time before she would become a ranking intelligence and her formidable talent. Her ca- international star playing to SRO audiences in reer began modestly enough at the age of six- world capitals, sharing theatre and teen as a dancer in the of 's stages with such artists as , Count famous , where she was chap- Basie, Billy Eckstein, Danny Thomas, Harry eroned by her mother, a former actress with the Belafonte, , and Lafayette Players, a black theatrical company. It Willie Tyler and Lester, among many others, was there she first met and worked with such and performing as a guest star on television renowned artists as , Cab Callo- with , Flip Wilson, , way, , and Ivy Ander- and The Muppets. No stranger to son. This was a very heady atmosphere for the the Broadway musical stage, Miss Home first young Lena. She later danced with the Noble appeared there in Blackbirds of 1939, scored a Sissle Band. It was Sissle who trained her to be major triumph in Harold Arlen's Jamaica, and a singer. She next sang with Charlie Barnett her dual concert with Tony Bennett was the and then at New York's Cafe Society Down- highlight of the 1974 - 75 season. In 1978, she town where she worked with , returned to films in as the good witch J.C. Heard and Sid Catlett. The Hollywood "Glinda." Her impressive career as a performer years began with an engagement at The Little aside, Miss Horne is a devout activist for the Troc where an MGM talent scout caught her causes she truly believes in whether it be civil act and arranged a screen test for her, and she rights (she is a lifetime member of the NAACP), found herself under contract to the studio—not Martin Luther King, Jr., voter registration in the an entirely gratifying experience since they south or the Hadassah. She has toured the didn't know what to do with her (up to that time south as a speaker to try to right civil wrongs black film actresses were only cast in 'ervice" and in 1952 gave a series of 30 charity concerts roles). She finally made two fine black musicals in Israel to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. The the founding of Statehood. One of her proudest studio sent her on a tour of their theatres as a achievements was receiving an Honorary Doc- singing act to promote the films. That was the torate from . She is also an turning point. Lena Home became one of the honorary member of the top nightclub and theatre box office attractions Sorority. For Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music, Miss Horne won a Drama Desk Award recorded with vibraharpist Roy Ayers as a as the Outstanding Actress in a Musical, a Spe- member of the group Eighties Ladies and is cial Tony Award for Distinguished Achieve- featured on Ayer's Africa Center of the World ment in the Theatre, a Special Award of the album. Most recently she recorded with the New York Drama Critics' Circle, New York group Maltese produced by composer/ar- City's , the city's highest ranger Carl Maultsby. "Faith in God, and the award in the arts and music and two Grammy support of my family and friends have brought Awards: Best Female Pop Vocalist of 1982 and me this far." Best Original Cast Album. Lena Home's pri- vate life includes the role of one of the world's L. EDMOND WESLEY is a native Missourian most glamorous grandmothers with two grand- who entered the New York theatrical scene sons and two granddaughters courtesy of her after graduation from Lincoln University in son and daughter. 1970. Edmond is an alumnus of the St. Louis CLARE BATHE has appeared in the regional Municipal Opera where he participated in theatre productions of Purlie, Damn Yankees, more than 50 productions. He has been seen on (with Vincent Price), Hair and Hallelujah, Broadway in Bubblin' Brown Sugar, Over Baby! (for which she won the Irene Ryan Here! and No, No Nanette. A member of Vin- Scholarship Award). More than a singer, nette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps, Edmond has dancer and actress, she is currently the pro- participated in productions of The Flies, Step ducer and lead vocalist for 's Lively Boys, and Croesus and The Witch. His new album, is recording a duet single with fel- national and international exposure has come low Posse Records artist, Joe Simon and is vocal in productions of Hello, Dolly!, Promises, arranger on the new Fantasy album, and their Promises and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope! recent #1 disco hit, "You're Too Late." Using (which he choreographed for the Australian her expertise, she assisted on the vocal production). Most recently, Edmond was seen arrangements and lyric phrasing for some of in ' Gala Benefit at the Met for the the tunes in Lena Home: The Lady and Her Joffrey Ballet. He is also a featured performer Music. Formerly, Clare was a lead vocalist for in Billy Wilson's soon to be released National such groups as "Chic" and "Machine." Educational Television production Blues and LANCE K. HARDY, who made his Broadway Gone! Most recently he choreographed the debut in this show, was born and raised in Los highly acclaimed The White Hawk, a play in signs, words and music. Above all, Edmond Angeles where he graduated in directing from gives thanks for the loan of the talent which Pomona College. He later studied abroad must be used for the greater glorification of where he played the role of Judas in Jesus God. Christ, Superstar at the National Theatre of Kenya. Soon thereafter, he came to New York HAROLD WHEELER (Musical Director) made and appeared in the Off-Off Broadway produc- his Broadway debut as conductor for the tions of Daddy, Daddy and The Legacy. He is musical Promises, Promises. His Broadway also a professional cellist and has played studio credits as orchestrator and musical supervisor and concert engagements with , include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Ain't Sup- and Freddie Hubbard. St. Mark posed to Die a Natural Death, Don't Play Us 11:22-24. Cheap, Coco and The Wiz. He arranged Gloria MARVA HICKS, who is making her Broadway Gayner's hits "Never Can Say Goodbye" and debut in this show, was born and raised in "How High the Moon," created and produced Petersburg, Virginia. Upon graduating with disco versions of "Baby Face" and "Ease on honors from Howard University, Marva was Down the Road" and arranged and/or pro- signed as the first artist on Ron Alexenburg's duced for , Engelbert Humper- Infinity Records and received favorable re- dinck, , Lena Horne, Tony Orlando, views for her single "Looking Over My Shoul- , Buddy Rich and Dizzy Gillespie, der." She then successfully auditioned for her among others. A graduate of Howard Univer- first Broadway play, Eubie!, and toured with the sity and the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. company for one year throughout the U.S. and Wheeler has, with his own Music Production Canada. Her professional theatrical credits House, personally arranged over 500 radio and also include the national company of One Mo' television commercials. For films, he acted as Time, Will They Ever Love Us On Broadway at musical supervisor for Cotton Comes to the Amas Repertory Theatre and the 1981 Radio Harlem and Fortune and Men's Eyes, and ar- City Christmas Spectacular. Marva has ranged, orchestrated and composed the score for the A.I.P. film Sunnyside. He is currently rope including Baryshnikov's Spectre of the working with Jack Lawrence on a musical, Rose for the American Ballet Theatre. Among Tallulah Dahlin'. His most recent Broadway his many Broadway credits are The King and I, venture is Dreamgirls, for which he provided Rodgers and Hart, , and the orchestrations. He is married to Singer/Actress recent revival of Brigadoon. Some of his televi- Hattie Winston. sion credits include the Emmy Award-winning ARTHUR FARIA (Musical Staging) contributed Shirley MacLaine special " in My Soul," his considerable talents to the creative staging "The Dain Curse," for which he won an award of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain't Mis- and "You Can't Go Home Again." He recently behavin' for which he was nominated for the worked with Claude Lelouche on the film The Tony and Drama Desk Awards and won an Ins, The Outs. Obie for the presentation of that production at THOMAS SKELTON (Lighting Designer) has the Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Faria chore- created the lighting designs for Peter Pan, ographed the record-breaking national tour of Oklahoma!, The King and I, Brigadoon, A Mat- South Pacific, starring Jane Powell and Howard ter of Gravity, Coco, The Lady From the Sea, Keel, and earlier this season he was respon- Death of a Salesman, Absurd Person Singular, sible for the roller-skating sequences and Shenadoah, and The Glass musical staging of the Off-Broadway produc- Menagerie, on Broadway, receiving Tony nom- tion of The Derby, as well as the inventive inations for Indians and All God's Chillun. He dances and musical staging for Trixie True created the sets and lighting for Joffrey's Teen Detective. In 1979, he directed and chore- Astarte, ' Dances at a ographed Storyville at Ford's Theatre in Wash- Gathering and Heinz Poll's Adagio for Two ington, D.C., and two seasons prior to that, he Dancers. Mr. Skelton is associated with Ohio created the staging for The All Night Strut Ballet, Yale and the N.Y. Studio and Forum of which had a ten-month run at Ford's. Stage Design. LINDA TWINE (Musical Conductor) hails GIORGIO SANT'ANGELO (Miss Horne's Cos- from Muskogee, Oklahoma, and attended tume Designer), a two-time winner of the Coty Oklahoma City University before moving to the Award (fashion's Tony), has made a profound Manhattan School of Music. She's played key- impact on contemporary fashion with his gypsy boards and was the assistant conductor on The dresses and modern clothes and his collection Wiz, Ain't Misbehavin' and Bring Back Birdie. which paid homage to the American Indian. He She's written and arranged for the Boys Choir has dressed some of the world's most glamorous of Harlem and a variety of nightclub acts. people and today limits his private work to very DAVID GROPMAN (Set Designer) on Broad- special clients. He trained as an architect and way has designed Passione, Billy Bishop Goes industrial designer, and studied art in France to War and The 1940's Radio Hour. He also where he worked with Picasso. Giorgio designs designed the New York premieres of Mass women's sportswear, dresses, sweaters, blouses, Appeal, Conjuring an Event and Sam swimwear, men's neckwear, furs, children's Shepard's plays Buried Child and True West. In wear and men's wear. In addition to fashion, he regional theatre he has worked with the Good- has applied his talent to designing fabric, area man Theatre in , the Guthrie Theatre, rugs and furniture for the home. He also the Yale Repertory Theare and Long Wharf designed clothes for two Warner Brothers films. Theatre. Outside the United States, Mr. Crop- JAMES M. NEDERLANDER (Producer) is man has designed Children of a Lesser God for the Schauspielhaus in Dusseldorf, Germany scion of a family long prominent in the man- agement and operation of theatres and the pro- and Joseph Chaikin's production of The Dyb- duction of distinguished ballet, opera and buk for the Habimah National Theatre in Tel Aviv. He is a graduate of the Yale School of theatre. Mr. Nederlander has among his Broad- way productions the recent revivals of Drama. He was recently represented on Broad- Peter Pan, , and Oklahoma!, Night way with the setting for Mass Appeal, directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Come Back to the and Day, Sherlock Holmes, London Assurance, Habeas Corpus, The Grand Tour, Treemonisha, 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean directed by Robert Altman. Applause, the revivals of Hello, Dolly!, and 1981's , Other- STANLEY SIMMONS (Costume Designer) wise Engaged and Whose Life Is It Anyway? created the costumes for major ballet com- and most recently, the triumphant The Life and panies in the United States, Canada and Eu- Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and The Dresser. He is currently represented on Broad- Stars and The Consul at the Cleveland Play- way with , Woman of the Year starring house and appeared in New York in Porgy and Raquel Welch, and Nine starring Raul Julia. Bess, Carmen Jones, Jamaica and The King And I, in which he also understudied the role MICHAEL FRAZIER (Producer), prior to Lena of "Lun Tha." Mr. Sneed is responsible for Home: The Lady and Her Music, presented bringing Lena Home: The Lady and Her Coming Attractions at Playwrights Horizons. Music to Broadway. His Broadway credits include Hide and Seek with Elizabeth Ashley, Noel Coward in Two JACK LAWRENCE (Associate Producer), com- Keys starring , Anne Baxter and poser, author and producer, has scores of song , and the all-star revival of The hits to his credit, among them such standards as Women with , , Dorothy "All or Nothing At All," "Tenderly," "Ciri-Biri- Loudon, Rhonda Fleming and Kim Hunter. He Bin," "Sleepy Lagoon," "Sunrise Serenade," presented the American premiere of Joseph "Linda," "If I Didn't Care" and "Hold My and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Hand," for which he received an Academy and Tim Rice, creators Award nomination, to mention only a very few. of Jesus Christ, Superstar and , the Obie- He has written for such films as Peter Pan, The winning Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre and tour- Lady Eve, Affairs of Bel Ami and The Pawn- ing productions of El Grande De Coca Cola broker. His Broadway credits include the and What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a musical I Had a Ball starring Buddy Hackett State Like This? Mr. Frazier produced indus- and Richard Kiley, and he is currently working trial shows for Cartier, General Electric, Ford, with Harold Wheeler on a new musical for and Nabisco and the first American Book Broadway, Tallulah Dahlin'. His most recent Award Show. He was Executive Director of Broadway producing venture was Come Back Philadelphia's Playhouse in the Park and Vice to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. President of Industrial Relations for Paramount Pictures. FRED WALKER (Producer) was the guiding force behind one of Broadway's major tri- umphs of the last five years. In 1977 he per- suaded the great to return to Broadway in a dazzling new production of The King and I, which won glorious reviews from the critics and played record-breaking engage- ments in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Prior to that he was the executive producer of Wonderful Town starring , starring Jean Simmons and STAFF FOR Hermione Gingold and Forty Carats starring "LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC" GENERAL MANAGEMENT JAMES WALSH Ginger Rogers. He was also a co-producer of GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JOSHUA ELLIS of The Music Man, directed and choreographed SOLTERS/ROSKIN/FRIEDMAN, INC. by Michael Kidd, which marked Dick Van COMPANY MANAGER VERONICA CLAYPOOL Press Associate David LeShay Dyke's first Broadway appearance in 20 years. Press Assistant Cindy Valk Production Electrician Michael LoBue Sound Jim Van Winkle, Lenny Will SHERMAN SNEED (Associate Producer) has Wardrobe Supervisor Audrey Witmore been associated with Lena Home for many Dresser to Miss Home Margo Sallee Assistant to Mr. Skelton Peter Kaczorowski years, first as her production and company Assistant to Mr. Gropman Ron Placzek Dance Captain Clare Bathe manager, currently as her personal manager. Production Photographer Martha Swope Prior to his association with her he was a mem- Advertising Representatives Serino, Coyne & Nappi, Inc. Attorneys Cohen, Grossberg & Zinkin ber of the organization for 15 David Grossberg Accountant Pinto, Winokur & Pagano years. Before turning to the managerial end of Insurance Walsh Group, Incorporated show business, Mr. Sneed was a professional CREDITS vocalist and lead singer in choral groups, Costumes by Grace Costumes; Miss Home's costumes executed by Barbara Matera, Ltd. and Giorgio Sant'Angelo; Belts by La beginning in high school and college, in theatre Crasia; Shirts by Sy Mondschen; Jewelry by Kenneth G. Lane; and on television. He sang with the interna- Shoes by Capezio; Feather fans and headdresses executed by Janet Harper. tionally famous "Wings over Jordan" group, was a featured player in Cleveland's Karamu Cover photo by Christian Steiner Theatre, played leading roles in Lost in the MISS HORNE'S FURS BY BEN KAHN The WUZ

The WUZ is a group of Boston Symphony and athon fundraising benefits, appearances on Pops musicians who get together for jazz music national television, a BBC film called Inside of the thirties, forties, and fifties—the music the Boston Symphony, and a wide variety of that "was." Each member of the WUZ began other benefit performances. A unique feature his musical career playing jazz at club, record- of the group is its tongue-in-cheek approach to ing, and "jam" sessions, and some have per- symphonic themes combined with pop and jaz formed with such notables as Jimmy Dorsey, tunes. In addition to three BSO members— Gene Krupa, Joe Williams, Milt Jackson, Benny vibraphone player Tom Gauger, bass player Goodman, Buddy Rich, and Tony Bennett. Leslie ("Tiny") Martin, and drummer Arthur Since its debut in the spring of 1975, the WUZ Press—the group also includes Dick Johnson c has participated in Boston Symphony Mar- clarinet and Ray Santisi on piano.

Empire Brass Quintet Bill Crofut

countries. He has made seven worldwide tours representing the United States, and he has received a Presidential Citation honoring his contribution to international cultural exchange. He has served as Presidential Consultant on Cultural Affairs, and his book The Moon on the One Hand was a winner of the American Library Association National Book Award. Fifteen records represent Bill's diverse musical interests from folk music to jazz, with ethnic collections of Asian and African music, presentations of poems and texts, classical music with harpsichordist Ken- neth Cooper, and English and American folk song with British baritone Benjamin Luzon, with whom Bill will collaborate for concert and television appearances in London later this summer. Bill's television credits include The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Good Morning ,p4. -- America, Camera Three, and several special Internationally acclaimed Bill Crofut has programs on British television. A Bill Crofut appeared at the Edinburgh International Fes- concert includes folk songs, jigs and reels, rag- tival, the Brighton Festival, the Hong Kong Fes- time, blues, Bartok, Bach, and Bill's own tival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the White musical presentations of favorite poems from House, the United Nations, Symphony Hall, William Blake to e.e. cummings. This year the Tanglewood Berkshire Festival, and for col- marks his second appearance at Tanglewood's lege and university audiences in nearly fifty Fourth-of-July festivities.

The members of the Empire Brass Quintet first clinicians at the Mannes College of Music in met at Tanglewood in 1971 and performed to- New York. The Empire Brass Quintet have gether for the first time in 1973 at the New York recorded twelve albums to date, and they have Brass Conference for Scholarships. Since then, commissioned works from such leading com- they have concertized extensively throughout posers as Peter Maxwell Davies and Gunther the United States and . Special per- Schuller. In addition, they have served the stu- formances have included former President dent community by establishing an annual EBQ Carter's inaugural festival, a concert for Queen Fellowship at the Berkshire Music Center and Elizabeth II during her American Bicentennial a scholarship at the Boston University Tangle- visit to Boston, and the 90th Anniversary Cele- wood Institute for an outstanding brass student. bration of Carnegie Hall. In 1976 they became While maintaining a base in Boston, the the first brass ensemble ever to receive the Quintet tour domestically some twenty weeks coveted Naumburg Chamber Music Award, each season, and they gave concerts in Japan in and in 1980 they were awarded the Harvard March 1982. Musical Association Prize. Television appear- Rolf Smedvig, former BSO principal trumpet ances have included a New Year's Eve Pops and a former member of the BSO, Boston Sym- concert with the late Arthur Fiedler, and their phony Chamber Players, and Pops; horn player ongoing projects include an annual concert se- David Ohanian, also a former member of the ries in Massachusetts, the Empire Brass Quintet Boston Symphony; and tuba player Samuel Pil- Symposium for brass players at Tanglewood, afian are original members of the Empire Brass and an annual performance on the island of Quintet. The current membership also includes Martha's Vineyard. They have been Quintet- trumpeter Charles A. Lewis and trombonist in-Residence at Boston University for five con- Mark H. Lawrence. secutive years, and in 1979 they became guest Nexus

Nexus was formed in 1971 when its members formed with the Toronto Symphony and the came together to improvise on their vast collec- Rochester Philharmonic. They have also toured tion of instruments gathered from Japan, India, the Southern United States, appeared at the Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, the So- Cologne Festival in West Germany, and taken viet Union, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the part in a cultural exchange program with main- Americas. Responding to the ideas which sur- land China. They have appeared coast-to-coast faced from this meeting, they combined their in Canada, they made the soundtrack for the backgrounds in jazz, symphonic, and contem- Academy Award-winning documentary The porary music with the indigenous music of Man Who Skied Down Everest, and they have many cultures to produce their unique mosaic recorded three albums: one of improvisational of sound. African ceremonial tunes, Russian jazz with flutist Paul Horn, another of ragtime and Mexican folk songs, ragtime rhythms, fife arrangements, and one of "unexpected plea- and drum music, and the soft bell-sounds of the sures." Nexus meets people in workshops as Orient are some of the influences which well as at concerts and has held residencies in provide the pervading flavor of Nexus. The several colleges and universities. "Nexus" group also uses contemporary repertoire, means a tie, a link, a means of connection, and including works by John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, the group brings together the talents of six Steve Reich, and Jo Kondo, and has made internationally acclaimed virtuoso percus- arrangements of music by Haydn, Satie, Scott sionists, all composers in their own right, and Joplin, Spike Jones, and the American dedicated to improvisation as a basis for all xylophone master, George Hamilton Green. types of musical experience. The members of Nexus toured Japan in 1976, and in 1978, under Nexus are Bob Becker, William Cahn, Michael the auspices of the British Arts Council and the Craden, Robin Engelman, Russell Harten- Canadian Department of External Affairs, berger, and John Wyre. Nexus toured England. Also in 1978 they per-