' I **- TanglewQDd 1989 E9¥»Km South Pond Farm. The standard of quality in the Berkshires. The lakefront location is perfect. The architecture elegant. The quality and craftsmanship superb. For information on our selection of condominium homes, call 413-443-3330. 1136 Barker Road (on the Pittsfield-Richmond line) Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, Assistant Conductors One Hundred and Eighth Season, 1988-89 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Chairman George H. Kidder, President J. P. Barger, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney, Vice-Chairman Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. Robert B. Newman David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Peter C. Read Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Avram J. Goldberg Richard A. Smith James F. Cleary Mrs. John L. Grandin Ray Stata Julian Cohen Francis W. Hatch, Jr. William F. Thompson William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman Nicholas T Zervas Mrs. Michael H. Davis Mrs. August R. Meyer Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. George R. Rowland Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Mrs. George Lee Sargent Leo L. Beranek Albert L. Nickerson Sidney Stoneman Mrs. John M. Bradley Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Abram T. Collier Irving W. Rabb John L. Thorndike Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Other Officers of the Corporation John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Jay B. Wailes, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Administration Kenneth Haas, Managing Director Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Managing Director and Manager ofTanglewood Michael G. McDonough, Director ofFinance and Business Affairs Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director ofPublic Relations and Marketing Josiah Stevenson, Director ofDevelopment Robert Bell, Data Processing Manager Michelle R. Leonard, Media and Production Madelyne Codola Cuddeback, Director Manager, Boston Symphony Orchestra of Corporate Development Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Patricia E Halligan, Personnel Administrator John C. Marksbury, Director of Sarah J. Harrington, Budget Manager Foundation and Government Support Margaret A. Hillyard, Director of Volunteers Julie-Anne Miner, Supervisor of Russell M. Hodsdon, Manager ofBox Office Fund Accounting Craig R. Kaplan, Controller Richard Ortner, Administrator of Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales & Tanglewood Music Center Marketing Manager Scott Schillin, Assistant Manager, John M. Keenum, Director of Pops and Youth Activities Tanglewood Music Center Development Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director James F. Kiley, Facilities Manager, Tanglewood ofDevelopment Patricia Krol, Coordinator of Youth Activities Cheryl L. Silvia, Function Manager Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Susan E. Tomlin, Director ofAnnual Giving Program Annotator James E. Whitaker, Chief Coordinator, Tanglewood Music Center Programs copyright ®1989 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover design byjaycole Advertising, Inc. Seiji Ozawa And The Boston Symphony Orchestra. More Than A Tradition. Subscribe now to the 1989-90 season! Dedicated to performances of the highest quality, Music Director Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offer a 22-week season at Symphony Hall and two three-concert series at Carnegie Hall. Enjoy the coming season of inspiring programs and distinguished guests by subscribing now. Become a part of the tradition. Write for complete ticket and program informa- tion for the BSO's Boston and New York series: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115, or call Symphony Hall, (617) 266-1492. I Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Avram J. Goldberg, Chairman John E Cogan, Jr., Vice-Chairman >W' Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III, Secretary Martin Allen Haskell R. Gordon E.James Morton Mrs. David Bakalar Steven Grossman David G. Mugar Bruce A. Beal Joe M. Henson Mrs. Hiroshi H. Nishino Mrs. Richard Bennink Susan M. Hilles Robert P. O'Block Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Glen H. Hiner Vincent M. O'Reilly Lynda Schubert Bodm?n Ronald A. Homer Walter H. Palmer Donald C. Bowersock Jr. Julian T Houston Andrall E. Pearson Peter A. Brooke LolaJafFe John A. Perkins William M. Bulger Anna Faith Jones Daphne Brooks Prout Mrs. Levin H. Campbell H. Eugene Jones Robert E. Remis Earle M. Chiles Mrs. BelaT Kalman John Ex Rodgers Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Susan B. Kaplan Mrs. William H. Ryan James E Cleary Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Keizo Saji Mrs. Nat Cole Howard Kaufman Roger A. Saunders William H. Congleton Robert D. King Mrs. Raymond H. Schneider Walter J, Connolly, Jr. Mrs. Gordon E Kingsley Mark L. Selkowitz Albert C. Cornelio Mrs. Carl Koch Malcolm L. Sherman Phyllis Curtin Robert K. Kraft Mrs. Donald B. Sinclair AlexV.dArbeloff Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt W. Davies Sohier, Jr. Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett R. Willis Leith, Jr. Ralph Z. Sorenson Phyllis Dohanian Laurence Lesser Ira Stepanian Harriett M. Eckstein Stephen R. Levy Mrs. Arthur I. Stang Edward Eskandarian Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Mark Tishler, Jr. Katherine Fanning Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Luise Vosgerchian Peter M. Flanigan Mrs. Harry. L. Marks Mrs. An Wang Henry L. Foster C. Charles Marran Robert A. Wells Dean Freed Nathan R. Miller Mrs. Thomas H.P. Whitney Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Hanae Mori Mrs. John J. Wilson Jordan L. Golding Mrs. Thomas S. Morse Brunetta R. Wolfman Mark R. Goldweitz Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Leonard Kaplan David R. Pokross Hazen H. Ayer Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. James E Lawrence Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. Richard D. Hill Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Louis I. Kane Officers of the Boston Symphony Association ofVolunteers Nina Doggett, President Thelma Goldberg, Executive Vice-President Barbara J. Boatwright, Secretary Goetz B. Eaton, Treasurer Florence T Whitney, Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mary Bates, Hall Services Denise Mujica, Membership Charles Jack, Adult Education Susan Robinson, Fundraising Projects Marilyn Larkin, Tanglewood Carol Scheifele-Holmes, Public Relations Kathy Massimiano, Tanglewood Preston Wilson, Development Services Molly Millman, Regions Pat Woolley, Youth Activities Chairmen of Regions Krista Kabarian Baldini Kathleen G. Keith Patti Newton Joan Erhard Helen LaHage Pamela S. Nugent Bettina Harrison Janet Landry Beverly J. Pieper Betty Hosage Elaine Miller Patricia L. Tambone THANKS TO A Bec GRANT FROM TDK, aus B CHILDREN CAN ENJOY TANGLEWOOD FOR FREE THIS SUMMER.* See details in this program. &TDK TM KIMBALL FARMS at LENOX The Berkshires' most distinctive address for retirement living A comfortable, independent community in a beautiful, secure estate, enhanced with the financial advantages of Lifecare. Just two miles from Tanglewood. Stop by while you're in town, or call for more information 4 Main Street Lenox, MA 01240 • Toll Free (800) 283-0061 -(413) 637-9880 Affiliated with Berkshire Health Systems TANGLEWOOD August 5, 1937, the festival's largest crowd so far assembled under a tent for The Tanglewood Festival the first Tanglewood concert, an all- n In August 1934 a group of music- Beethoven program. loving summer residents of the At the all-Wagner concert which Berkshires organized a series of three opened the 1937 festival's second outdoor concerts at Interlaken, to be weekend, rain and thunder twice inter- given by members of the New York rupted the performance of the Rienzi Philharmonic under the direction of Overture and necessitated the omission Henry Hadley. The venture was so altogether of the Siegfried "Forest successful that the promoters incorpo- Murmurs," music too delicate to be rated the Berkshire Symphonic Festival heard through the downpour. At the and repeated the experiment during the intermission, Miss Gertrude Robinson next summer. Smith, one of the festival's founders, The Festival Committee then invited made a fundraising appeal for the build- Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston ing of a permanent structure. The appeal Symphony Orchestra to take part in the was broadened by means of a printed following year's concerts. The orchestra's circular handed out at the two remaining Trustees accepted, and on August 13, concerts, and within a short time enough 1936, the Boston Symphony Orchestra money had been raised to begin active gave its first concerts in the Berkshires planning for a "music pavilion." (at Holmwood, a former Vanderbilt Eliel Saarinen, the eminent architect estate, later the Center at Foxhollow). selected by Koussevitzky, proposed an The series again consisted of three con- elaborate design that went far beyond certs and was given under a large tent, the immediate needs of the festival and, drawing a total of nearly 15,000 people. more important, went well beyond the In the winter of 1936 Mrs. Gorham budget of $100,000. His second, Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tap- simplified plans were still too expensive, pan offered Tanglewood, theTappan and he finally wrote that if the Trustees family estate, with its buildings and 210 insisted on remaining within their acres of lawns and meadows, as a gift to budget, they would have "just a shed," Koussevitzky and the orchestra. The which "any builder could accomplish offer was gratefully accepted, and on without the aid of an architect." The rim A 1939 banner advertising that summer's Boston Symphony Tanglewood Festival Drawing by Douglas McGregor Since 1773 People by Normm Rockwell A