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Old ColonyTrust A Division of The First National Bank of Boston BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Sixth Season Thursday, 27 January at 8 : 30 Friday, 28 January at 2 gr^ Saturday, 29 January at 8 : 30 Tuesday, 1 February at 7:30 MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Conductor BRAHMS Variations on a theme by Haydn, Opus 56a Chorale St. Antoni — Andante V. Vivace I. Poco piu animato VI. Vivace II. Piu vivace VII. Grazioso III. Con moto VIII. Presto non troppo IV. Andante con moto Finale — Andante HAYDN Symphony No. 44 in E minor Mourning Allegro con brio Menuetto — Allegretto (Canone in diapason) Adagio Finale — Presto INTERMISSION PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky Cantata for chorus and orchestra, Opus 78 Russia under the Mongolian yoke Song about Alexander Nevsky The crusaders in Pskov Arise, ye Russian people The battle on ice Field of the dead Alexander's entry into Pskov Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, Conductor Lili Chookasian, mezzo-soprano Thursday's and Saturday's concerts will end about 10:15, Friday's about 3 : 45, and Tuesday's about 9 : 15. Deutsche Grammophon and Philips records Baldwin piano Jerome Lipson Robert Karol Bassoons Bernard Kadinoff Sherman Walt Vincent Mauricci Edward A . Taft chair Roland Small Earl Hedberg Matthew Ruggiero Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes Michael Zaretsky Contra bassoon Richard Plaster Cellos Jules Eskin Horns Philip R. Allen chair Charles Kavalovski Martin Hoherman Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Mischa Nieland Charles Yancich Peter Gordon First violins Jerome Patterson David Ohanian Joseph Silverstein Robert Ripley Richard Mackey Concertmaster Luis Leguia Charles Munch chair Carol Procter Ralph Pottle Emanuel Borok Ronald Feldman Assistant Concertmaster Joel Moerschel Trumpets Helen Horner Mclntyre chair Jonathan Miller Armando Ghitalla Max Hobart Martha Babcock Andre Come Rolland Tapley Rolf Smedvig Roger Shermont Gerard Basses Goguen Max Winder William Rhein Harry Dickson Harold D. Hodgkinson chair Trombones Gottfried Wilfinger Joseph Hearne Ronald Barron Ostrovsky Fredy Bela Wurtzler Norman Bolter Leo Panasevich Leslie Martin Gordon Hallberg Sheldon Rotenberg John Salkowski William Gibson Alfred Schneider John Barwicki Gelbloom Gerald Robert Olson Tuba Raymond Sird Lawrence Wolfe Chester Schmitz Ikuko Mizuno Henry Portnoi Cecylia Arzewski Timpani Amnon Levy Flutes Everett Firth Bo Youp Hwang Doriot Anthony Dwyer Sylvia Shippen Wells chair Walter Piston chair Second violins James Pappoutsakis Percussion Victor Yampolsky Paul Fried Charles Smith Fahnestock chair Arthur Press Marylou Speaker Piccolo Assistant timpanist Michel Sasson Lois Schaefer Thomas Gauger Ronald Knudsen Frank Epstein Leonard Moss Oboes Vyacheslav Uritsky Ralph Gomberg Harps Laszlo Nagy Mildred B. Remis chair Bernard Zighera Michael Vitale Ann Hobson Darlene Gray Wayne Rapier Ronald Wilkison Personnel Managers Harvey Seigel English Horn William Moyer Jerome Rosen Laurence Thorstenber^ Harry Shapiro Sheila Fiekowsky Gerald Elias Clarinets Librarians Ronan Lefkowitz Harold Wright Victor Alpert Ann 5.M. Banks chair William Shisler Violas Pasquale Cardillo Burton Fine Peter Hadcock Stage Manager Charles 5. Dana chair E-flat clarinet Reuben Green Alfred Robison Eugene Lehner Bass Clarinet George Humphrey Felix Viscuglia In 1970 Mr. Ozawa became Artistic Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Director of the Berkshire Music Festival, and in December of that year he began Seiji Ozawa became Music Director of the his inaugural season as Conductor and Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall Music Director of the San Francisco of 1973 and is the thirteenth conductor Symphony Orchestra, titles he held con- to head the Orchestra since its founding currently with his position as Music in 1881. Director of the Boston Symphony until He was born in Hoten, Manchuria, in he resigned them in the spring of 1976. 1935, and graduated from the Toho (He will be Honorary Conductor in San School of Music in Tokyo with first Francisco for the 1976-77 season). prizes in composition and conducting. Mr. Ozawa's recordings with the When he won first prize at the Inter- Orchestra on the Deutsche Grammophon national Competition of Conducting at label include Berlioz's Symphonie fan- Besancon, France, shortly after his gradu- tastique and La damnation de Faust, ation, one of the judges of the competition Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 with was the late Charles Munch, then Music soloist Christoph Eschenbach, and the Director of the Boston Symphony, who complete orchestra music of Ravel. This invited him to study at Tanglewood fall DG has two new Ozawa /BSO during the following summer. Mr. collaborations scheduled for release: Ozawa's association with the Orchestra Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette and Charles began during that session of the Berkshire Ives's Fourth Symphony. Music Center as a student of conducting in 1960. AND IN GENERAL Beginning with the summer of 1964, Mr. Ozawa was for five seasons Music The BSO performs 12 months a year, in Director of the Ravinia Festival, and at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. For the beginning of the 1965-66 season he more information about any of the Or- became Music Director of the Toronto chestra's activities, please call Symphony Symphony, a post he relinquished after Hall at 266-1492 or write Boston Sym- four seasons to devote his time to study phony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Bos- and guest conducting. ton, Massachusetts 02115. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. David O. Ives, Chairman Hazen H. Aver, Vice Chairman Mrs. Arthur I. Strang, Secretary Charles F. Adams Weston P. Figgins Richard P. Morse Mrs. Frank G. Allen Paul Fromm David G. Mugar Mrs. Richard Bennink Carlton P. Fuller Dr. Barbara W. Newell Dr. Leo L. Beranek Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan. Jr. Stephen Paine David W. Bernstein Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Priscilla Potter David Bird Mrs. John L. Grandin Harry Remis Gerhard Bleicken Bruce Harriman Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Frederick Brandi Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. Amory Houghton. Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Henry B. Cabot Richard S. Humphrey. Jr. Mrs. A. Lloyd Russell Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt William A. Selke Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Leonard Kaplan Samuel L. Slosberg Levin H. Campbell, III Leon Kirchner Richard A. Smith Dr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Arthur P. Contas Roderick MacDougall Mrs. Edward A. Taft The Hon. Silvio O. Conte John S. McLennan Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Robert Cushman Colman M. Mockler. Jr. Stokley P. Towles Michael 1. Dalv Mrs. Elting E. Morison D. 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