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Garrick Ohlsson bernard haitink conductor emeritus seiji ozawa music director laureate 2013–2014 Season | Week 14 andris nelsons music director designate season sponsors Table of Contents | Week 14 7 bso news 15 on display in symphony hall 16 the boston symphony orchestra 19 old strains reawakened: the boston symphony’s historical instrument collection by douglas yeo 27 this week’s program Notes on the Program 28 The Program in Brief… 29 Richard Wagner 35 Witold Lutos´lawski 43 Dmitri Shostakovich 51 To Read and Hear More… Guest Artists 57 Andris Poga 59 Garrick Ohlsson 62 sponsors and donors 72 future programs 74 symphony hall exit plan 75 symphony hall information the friday preview talk on january 24 is given by harlow robinson of northeastern university. program copyright ©2014 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. design by Hecht Design, Arlington, MA cover photo of BSO principal bassoon Richard Svoboda by Stu Rosner BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115-4511 (617)266-1492 bso.org andris nelsons, ray and maria stata music director designate bernard haitink, lacroix family fund conductor emeritus, endowed in perpetuity seiji ozawa, music director laureate 133rd season, 2013–2014 trustees of the boston symphony orchestra, inc. Edmund Kelly, Chair • William F. Achtmeyer, Vice-Chair • Carmine A. Martignetti, Vice-Chair • Stephen R. Weber, Vice-Chair • Theresa M. Stone, Treasurer David Altshuler • George D. Behrakis • Jan Brett • Paul Buttenwieser • Ronald G. Casty • Susan Bredhoff Cohen, ex-officio • Richard F. Connolly, Jr. • Diddy Cullinane • Cynthia Curme • Alan J. Dworsky • William R. Elfers • Thomas E. Faust, Jr. • Michael Gordon • Brent L. Henry • Charles W. Jack, ex-officio • Stephen B. Kay • Joyce G. Linde • John M. Loder • Nancy K. Lubin • Robert J. Mayer, M.D. • Robert P. O’Block • Susan W. Paine • Peter Palandjian, ex-officio • John Reed • Carol Reich • Arthur I. Segel • Roger T. Servison • Wendy Shattuck • Caroline Taylor • Roberta S. Weiner • Robert C. Winters life trustees Vernon R. Alden • Harlan E. Anderson • David B. Arnold, Jr. • J.P. Barger • Gabriella Beranek • Leo L. Beranek • Deborah Davis Berman • Peter A. Brooke • John F. Cogan, Jr. • Mrs. Edith L. Dabney • Nelson J. 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Perkins • May H. Pierce • Dr. Tina Young Poussaint • Daphne Brooks Prout • Robert E. Remis • John Ex Rodgers • Alan W. Rottenberg • Roger A. Saunders • Lynda Anne Schubert • L. Scott Singleton • Gilda Slifka • Samuel Thorne • Diana Osgood Tottenham • Paul M. Verrochi • James Westra • Mrs. Joan D. Wheeler • Margaret Williams-DeCelles • Richard Wurtman, M.D. † Deceased week 14 trustees and overseers 5 BSO News Tanglewood 2014 In his first Tanglewood appearances as the BSO’s Music Director Designate, Andris Nelsons leads four concerts in July: an all-Dvoˇrák program with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter (7/11); a special Tanglewood Gala featuring both the BSO and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, including excerpts from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (7/12); a BSO program fea- turing trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger (7/19); and a program featuring violinist Joshua Bell and closing with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 (7/20). Prior to these concerts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra opens its 2014 Tanglewood on July 5 with soprano Renée Fleming as soloist in an all-American program. The next day, conductor Asher Fisch, pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and the BSO join forces for Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, in a concert also includ- ing music of Liszt and Wagner (7/6). Other favorite guest conductors this summer include Christoph von Dohnányi in three appearances, featuring baritone Thomas Hampson (7/18), pianist Paul Lewis (7/25), and, in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, Camilla Tilling, Sarah Connolly, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (7/26). Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s soloists include Gabriela Montero playing Rachmaninoff (7/27) and violinist Augustin Hadelich in Mozart (8/3). Stéphane Denève appears with Keith Lockhart and John Williams for Tanglewood on Parade (8/5), leads a concert with violinist Leonidas Kavakos (8/9), and partners with Emanuel Ax for Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto (8/15). Bramwell Tovey leads a complete concert perform- ance of Bernstein’s Candide (8/16), and Charles Dutoit leads the BSO’s traditional season- ending performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (8/24), as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert, with pianist Nikolai Lugansky (8/17). Other Shed highlights include the return of James Taylor (7/3 & 7/4); Keith Lockhart lead- ing the Boston Pops Orchestra in “Oz with Orchestra,” a presentation of the brilliantly restored classic film accompanied live by full orchestra (8/22); a guest appearance by Jason Alexander with Lockhart and the Pops (7/13); John Williams’ Film Night (8/2), and the return to Tanglewood of Josh Groban (8/30). In addition, Garrison Keillor returns for his annual broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion (6/28), and NPR’s weekly quiz pro- gram Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! returns for another live taping (8/28). Ozawa Hall celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2014 with a wide variety of offerings, including the Boston Symphony Chamber Players (7/1), Chanticleer extolling the ever-complex and continuing dialogue between the sexes (7/9), the Emerson String Quartet (7/10), Benjamin Bagby leading his Sequentia Ensemble in The Lost Songs Project: Music from the Court of Charlemagne (7/15), baritone Thomas Hampson with pianist Wolfram Rieger in a program celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss (7/16), The Knights chamber orchestra with soprano Dawn Upshaw plus a quartet of virtuoso instrumentalists (7/23), the National Youth Orchestra of the USA with violin soloist Gil Shaham (7/24), the new chamber version of Jack Beeson’s opera Lizzie Borden with a Chamber Ensemble from week 14 bso news 7 Boston Lyric Opera (7/31), all-Brahms programs with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (8/6) and Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma (8/7), pianist Jeremy Denk performing Ives and J.S. Bach (8/13), the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra perform- ing Handel’s Teseo in concert (8/14), jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr., and his trombonist son Delfeayo Marsalis (8/17), and the Maria Schneider Orchestra (8/24).
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