BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Seiji Ozawa, Music Director , Principal Guest Conductor One Hundred and Sixteenth Season, 1996-97

Thursday, January 2, at 8 Friday, January 3, at 1:30 Saturday, January 4, at 8

Please note that Edo de Waart is suffering from exhaustion and was advised by his doctor to cancel his engagement here this week. We are fortunate that Zdenek Macal is available to conduct these concerts at short notice. The program remains unchanged.

Zdenek Macal Zdenek Macal has conducted more than 150 orchestras worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Czech Philharmonic, the NHK Tokyo, the Orchestra della Scala, and major orchestras in Vienna, Stockholm, Hamburg, and Munich, as well as at the Prague National Theater, the Smetana Theater, Brno Opera, and the opera houses of Cologne, Geneva, Turin, and Bologna. He has participated in such major international festivals as those of Vienna, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Prague, Zurich, Besancpn, Athens, Montreux, Holland, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and the Ravinia and Wolf Trap festivals in the United States. For nearly twenty-five years he has conducted widely throughout North America. During the 1996-97 season, Mr. Macal conducts in New York City on four separate occasions, with the New Jersey Symphony, the , the Juilliard Symphony, and the Manhattan School Orchestra. He also appears as guest conductor with the National Sym- phony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the orchestras of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Internationally he appears with the Helsinki Radio Orchestra, the West German Radio Symphony of Cologne, and the Vienna Symphony. As music director of the New Jersey Symphony since September 1993 he has helped build that orchestra's reputation through an exclusive recording contract with Delos International—recent releases including Gliere's The Red Poppy Suite and Symphony No. 2, and Dvorak's Stabat Mater—and through the introduction of several highly acclaimed series, including the Amadeus Festival, a summer concert series performed around the state. On the Koss label he has recorded Dvorak's complete symphonies and tone poems, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony. Previously Mr. Macal was music director of the Milwaukee Symphony, the Cologne Radio Symphony, and the Radio Orchestra of Hanover, chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, principal conductor of Chicago's Grant Park Summer Festival, and principal conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, with which he conducted both symphonic concerts and operatic performances. Born in 1936 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Macal is now a United States citizen. He began violin studies at age four with his father and went on to study conducting at the Brno Conservatory and then at the Janacek Academy of Music, where he graduated with highest honors in 1960. He first received international attention by winning the 1965 International Conducting Competition in Besan^on, France, and the 1966 Competition in New York, chaired by the late . Mr. Macal has conducted the Boston Symphony on one previous occasion, in January 1990. Week 10