BOSTON

POPSATTANGLEWOOD , CONDUCTOR

1 08th SEASON

For the benefit of the Boston Synnphony Orchestra Pension Fund

Tuesday evening, July 20, 1 993, at 8:30 John Williams

In January 1980, John Williams was named nineteenth con- ductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He will retire as Boston Pops Conductor following the 1993 season. Mr. Williams was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. There he attended UCLA and studied composition privately with Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco. After servdce in the Air Force, Mr. Williams returned to New York to attend the Juilliaixl School, where he studied piano with Madame Rosina Lhevinne. While in New York, he also worked as a jazz pianist, both in clubs and on recordings. Again Mr. Williams moved to Los Angeles, where he began his career in the film studios, working with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He went on to urite music for many television programs in the 1960s, winning two Emmy awards for his work. John Williams has composed the music and seived as music director for more than seventy films. He has received thirty Academy Award nominations and has been award- ed four Oscars and fifteen Grammies, as well as several gold and platinum records. His most recent Oscar was for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture, for E.T. He recently completed the music for Steven Spielberg's film Jurassic Park and is working on the score to another new Spielberg film, Schindler's List. In addition to his film music, Mr. Williams has written many concert pieces, including tAA'o symphonies, and a flute concerto and violin concerto recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Recent works include music foi- the 1992 Summer Olympics and a bassoon concerto, commissioned for New York Philharmonic principal bassoonist Judy LeClair. The soundtrack album to Star Wars has sold more than four million copies, more than any non-pop album in recording history. The Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams may be heard on Sony Classical and Philips Recorcls. I heir recent albums include a collection of favorite marches, entitled / Love a Parade, an album of John Williams' music for the films of Steven Spielberg entitled The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration, The Green Album, and a new Christmas album entitled Joy to the lA/or/d. Their newest album for Sony, entitled Unforgettable, has just been released. Mr. Williams has led the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra on United States tours in 1985, 1989, and 1992, and on a tour of Japan in November 1987. He led the Boston Pops Orchestra on a tour of Japan in June 1990, and returned there vvdth that ensemble in June.

Wendy White

Chicago-born mezzo-soprano Wendy White has established herself on the concert and operatic stages of the United States and Europe. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 1989-90 season in a new Zeflfirelli production of La traviata conducted by Carlos Kleiber. In the spring of 1991 she partici- pated in new recordings under James Levine of Parsifal and La traviata for Deutsche Grammophon, and Luisa Miller for Sony Classical. The past season has included Met appear- ances in Madama Butterfly, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Eugene Onegin, Die Meistersinger, Cavalleria rusticana, and Das Rhein- gold. In August 1987 she made her Boston Symphony debut at Tanglewood, performing 's Jeremiah S\Tn- phony under the composer's baton. It was Mr. Bernstein who chose her in 1988 to per- form the leading role of Dinah in the Vienna State Opera's new production of Bernstein's A QjLiiet Place, which was subsequently recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. —— —

THE BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS, CONDUCTOR

Tuesday evening, July 20, 1993, at Tanglewood

AN EVENING OF UNFORGETTABLE LOVE SONGS

Sound the Bells! Williams Written to celebrate with the Japanese people the wedding of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako Owada

Carousel Waltz Rodgers

Love Theme from Laura Raksin

Selections from Porgy and Bess Gershwdn-Courage

Prelude —Summertime— I Got Plenty of Nuttin'

Bess, You Is My Woman— I Can't Sit Down— It Ain't

Necessarily So — I Loves You, Porgy—There's a Boat Dat's Leaving Soon foi- New York—Oh Lawd, I'm on m3/ Way INTERMISSION

Love Is Sweeping the Countiy, from Of Thee I Sing Gershwin-Ramin

(ireat Love Songs of Hoagy Camiichael aiT. Ramin Skylark—Georgia on My Mind—Lazy River The Nearness of You —My Resistance is Low Staixlust

All the Things You Are, from Very Warm for May Kem/Hammerstein-Hyman My Man's (ione Now, from Porgv and Bess Gershwin/Heyward Somewhere, from Beinstein/Sondheim WENDY WHITE, mezzo-soprano

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Fain-Morley

Beautiful Maria of My Soul, from The Mambo Kings Kraft-Morley

Lover, from Love Me Tbnight Rodgers-Morley

Established in 1903, the Boston Symphony Pension Institution is the oldest among the American symphony oix^hestras. During the past few years the Pension Institution has paid nearly $1 million annually to nearK' one hundi'ed pensioners or their widows. Pension Institution income is derived fmm Pension Fund concerts, fixjm Open Rehearsals at Symphony Hall and at Tangle- wood, and fixjm radio bixjadcasts thix)ugh the Boston Symphony Transcription Trust. Contribu- tions are also made each year fixjm the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Representatives of the playei^ and the corporation are members of the Pension Institution's Board of Directors.

The Boston Pops Orchestra and John Williams may be heard on Sony Classical and Philips Records. Baldwin Piano

The Boston Pops \e\v Music Program is principally funded by a generous gift from the Chiles Foundation of Portland, Oregon. O S T O N tJoseph Conte Contrabassoon tJoseph Scheer (iitigg Hentigar

Violas Horns Robert Barnes Richard Sebring Joseph Pietixjpaolo Daniel Katzen Michael Zarctsky Jay Wadenptuhl *Maik Ludwig Richaixi Mackey *Rachel Fagerburg Jonathan Menkis *Edwaixl Gazouleas THE BOSTON POPS *Kazuko Matsusaka Trumpets ORCHESTRA tSusan Culpo I imothy Morrison tEmily Biuell rhomas Rolfs JOHN WILLIAMS tJean Haig Peter Chapman tBiuce Hall Conductor Cellos 1 1 homas Smith HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Maltha Babcock Hrlrne and Norman L. ( nhni'is Chuir Associate Conductor Sato Knudsen Trombones Laureate Jo(!l MocrscJiel X'orman Bolter RONALD FELDMAN Robert Ripley tDouglas Wright tDairxMi Acosta Assistant Conductor Luis Le^guia Cai'ol Procter Bass *Ronald Feldnian Trombone Douglas Yeo *Jerome PattCMson First Violins *Jonathan Milici laniara Sniirnova-vSajfar Tuba *Owen Young Lao L lieninrk I'.hnir Chester Schmitz Victor RomariLil Basses Edwnrd and Hrrthn ('. Hose C.linir limpani Bo YoLi[i Hwang Lawi-ence Wolfe Timothy Genis Lucia Lin BelaVVurtzler Gottfried Wilfinger *Robeit Olson *Janies (Orleans Percussion Freely Ostrovskv Thomas Gauger Leo Panas(n'i('h *Todd S(U!l)er Frank Fpstein Allred Schneider 'John Stoxall J. VMlliam Hudgins Kayniond Sird tHeniy Pe\ ii!l)i unc Fi'ed Buda Ikuko Mizuno Flutes Amnon Levy Fenwick Smith Harp *Jei"ome Rosen ti:lin()il'ivhl(> Ann Hobson Pilot *Nan(\v Brac^ken *Aza Raykhtsaum Piccolo Piano *Bonnie Bewick Geiahn C^olicxjiie Bob Winter *Janies C^ooke Oboes Rhj'thm Section Second Violins Keisuke VVakao Frtxl Buda-drums Maiylou Speaker Churchill Wayne Rapier Bob Winter -piano Vyacheslav Uritsky English Horn Ronald Knudsen Laurence Thorstenberg Librarians Joseph McGauley Marshall Buriingame Leonard Moss Clarinets William Shisler *Hai'vey Seigel Thomas Martin James Harper *Sheila Fiekowsky William R. Hudgins Ronan Lefkowitz Bass Clarinet Personnel Managers *Jennie Shames tRobert Annis L\ain Larsen *Valeria Vilker Kuchment Bruce M. Creditor *Tatiana Dimitriades Bassoons *Si-Jing Huang Richaixi Ranti Stage Manager Roland Small Peter Riley Pfitzinger *Participating in a system of rotated seating tSubstituting, Tanglewood 1993