BOSTON SOYMPHONY OWRCHESTRA For BestAudience *4^C r0\r o: H»>^ - *»V c^^ THE'FIRST NAME IN COGNAC SINCE 17 2 4. XCLUSIVELY fINf CHAMPAGNE COGNAC f ROM THE TWO BEST DISTRICTS Of THE COGNAC REGION Sole U.S.A. Distributor Foreign Vintages, Inc. N.Y., N.Y. 80 Prvof. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Second Season, 1982-83 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick William J. Poorvu L. Irving Rabb J. P. Barger Mrs. John Grandin W. Mrs. John M. Bradley David G. Mugar Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Albert L. Nickerson Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Thomas D. 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Or write Bank of New England, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. wgmmm^jmmmm-mm ENJOY THE CONVENIENCE OF YOUR FILENE CHARGE BSO BSO Members in Concert The Francesco String Quartet closes its 1982-1983 subscription season on Sunday, 1 May at 3 p.m. at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. The program includes music of Haydn, Bartok, and Beethoven. Tickets are $7, and seats are unreserved. For further information, call 862-0995. The quartet includes BSO violinists Bo Youp Hwang and Ronan Lefkowitz, violist Robert Barnes, and cellist Joel Moerschel. Also on Sunday, 1 May, at 8 p.m. at the Boston Conservatory, Max Hobart conducts the Boston Conservatory Orchestra in a program including Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations for cello and orchestra and the Brahms Symphony No. 2. Ronald Thomas is cello soloist for the Tchaikovsky. John Williams will be guest conductor at the season's final concert by the Civic Sym- phony Orchestra of Boston, Max Hobart, Conductor. Mr. Williams will conduct his own Fanfare fpr a Festive Occasion, composed especially for the Civic Symphony. The concert Gala Event BOSTON The Ninth Annual CklYT "OPENING NIGHT AT POPS" Presented by the Junior Council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the benefit of the BSO Tuesday night, May 3 at 8:00 p.m. A gala concert with John Williams conducting Special guest Marvin Hamlisch For ticket prices and additional information, please call (617) 696-0151. wmm FRIENDS' WEEKEND AT TANGLEWOOD by chartered Greyhound motor coach August 5 through August 7, 1983 FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 12:30 p.m. Leave Boston 1 =00 p.m. Leave Riverside; stay at Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge 5:00 p.m. Cocktails and dinner at Tanglewood 7:00 p.m. Prelude 9:00 p.m. Concert (best seat locations) SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 Free for breakfast 9:30 a.m. Leave Red Lion Inn for 10:00 a.m. Open Rehearsal followed by picnic lunch at Seranak 6:00 p.m. Cocktails and dinner at private home in Berkshires 8:30 p.m. Concert (best seat locations) followed by nightcap in Tent with special guests SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 Free for breakfast 9:30 a.m. Leave Red Lion Inn for 10:00 a.m. Chamber concert 12:00 noon Leave Tanglewood for Blantyre for lunch 5:30-6:00 p.m. (approx.) Arrive home T enclose r.herk fnr reserve tinn(s) at $39.5 DO p$c\\ (d^nbl*3 <xriipancy) including $50.00 tax-deductible gift to the Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. ($350.00 for single occupancy) NTamp AHdrpss Zip Please make checks payable to Council, Boston Symphony Orchestra and mail to Friends' Office, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115. Reservations accepted in order received. takes place in Jordan Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, 8 May. Also on the program: Max Hobart conducts Mozart's Posthorn Serenade, K.320, and the Symphony No. 3, the so-called Organ Symphony of Saint-Saens. James David Christie will be organ soloist in the symphony. The North Shore Philharmonic under Music Director and Conductor Max Hobart gives its final concert of the season at Salem High School Auditorium on Sunday 15 May at 7:30 p.m. The program includes Ode to Lord Buckley, Concerto for Alto Saxophone by David Amram, and the Brahms Symphony No. 4. Kenneth Radnofsky will be soloist in the concerto, which was written for him by the composer. With Thanks We wish to give special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities for their continued support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1983-84 BSO Subscriptions Complete program and ticket information is available for the Boston Symphony Orches- tra's 1983-84 subscription season. Guest conductors joining Music Director Seiji Ozawa include Sir Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Michael Tilson Thomas, and, in his BSO debut, Simon Rattle. Guest soloists include Rudolf Serkin, Frederica von Stade, Maurizio Pollini, Hildegard Behrens, Peter Serkin, and Isaac Stern. For full details, please phone Symphony Hall at (617) 266-1492. Farewell and Thanks Charles Yancich, a member of the Boston Symphony horn section since 1954, and for many years alternate first horn of the BSO and principal horn of the Boston Pops, will leave the orchestra at the end of the 1983 Tanglewood season. Also leaving the orchestra this year are two members of the Boston Symphony staff. As Director of Sales since October 1975, Elizabeth Dunton has been giving her personal attention to many Symphony subscribers and handling advanced bookings for Pops groups for nearly nine years. Of her forty-five years in business, Ms. Dunton considers her time at Symphony Hall as the happiest of her career. Paul Kehayias, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's official driver, has been a fixture around Symphony Hall for almost forty years. During this time he has been chauffeur for Music Directors Munch, Leinsdorf, Steinberg, and Ozawa, for Pops Conductors Arthur Fiedler and John Williams, and for many guest conductors and soloists. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is deeply grateful to Mr.