OSTON OYMPHONY URCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA, Music Director *fe 7 BOSTON % /symphony"! \ orchestra j ,\ SEIJI OZAWA. y: 103rd Season 1983-84 1 I Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Third Season, 1983-84 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick William J. Poorvu J. P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley E. James Morton Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners David G. Mugar Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson William A. Selke Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Abram T. Collier, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Richard P. Chapman Edward G. Murray John L. Thorndike John T. Noonan Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Thomas W. Morris - General Manager William Bernell - Artistic Administrator Daniel R. Gustin - Assistant Manager B.J. Krintzman - Director of Planning Anne H. Parsons - Orchestra Manager Caroline Smedvig - Director of Promotion Theodore A. Vlahos - Director of Business Affairs Arlene Germain - Financial Analyst Richard Ortner - Administrator of Charles Gilroy - ChiefAccountant Berkshire Music Center Vera Gold - Promotion Coordinator Charles Rawson - Manager ofBox Office Patricia Halligan - Personnel Administrator Eric Sanders - Director of Corporate Development Nancy A. Kay - Director ofSales Joyce M. Serwitz - Assistant Director ofDevelopment Nancy Knutsen - Production Assistant Cheryl L. Silvia - Symphony Hall Function Manager Anita R. Kurland - Administrator of James E. Whitaker - Hall Manager, Symphony Hall Youth Activities Katherine Whitty - Coordinator ofBoston Council Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Publications Editorial Coordinator Print Production Coordinator Programs copyright ©1983 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Walter H. Scott Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. William J. Poorvu Chairman William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey C. Krentzman I ice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Secretary John Q. Adams Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Thomas Spurr Morse Mrs. Weston W. Adams Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg Mrs. Robert B. Newman Martin Allen Haskell R. Gordon Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Vincent M. O'Reilly Bruce A. Beal Mrs. Richard E. Hartwell Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Richard Bennink Francis W. Hatch, Jr. John A. Perkins Mrs. Edward J. Bertozzi, Jr. Mrs. Richard D. 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A convenient stage- seating diagram with the names of the players and their chair positions is also included. To order a copy of "The Orchestra Book" by mail, please send $6 per book, plus $2 postage and handling (for one or two books; $3 for three or more books) to The Council Office, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115. Make your check payable to "Boston Symphony Orchestra," and act now to receive your copy of this attractive, 72-page limited edition while the supply lasts! Boston Symphony Chamber Players at Jordan Hall on 15 January Some good seats still remain for the second program of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players twentieth-anniversary season. The concert takes place on Sunday afternoon, 15 January at 3 p.m. at Jordan Hall. Gilbert Kalish is guest pianist with the Chamber Players in a program including the Sonata for bassoon and piano of Camille Saint-Saens, the C minor Trio for piano, violin, and cello of Bedrich Smetana, and Mozart's Quintet in A for clarinet and strings, K.581. Single tickets are available at $10, $7.50, and $5.50. For additional information, please call the Jordan Hall box office at 536-2412. WGBH Intermission Features on the Air WGBH radio personality Ron Delia Chiesa conducts interviews with Boston Symphony staff and orchestra members throughout the 1983-84 season. These interviews are aired as intermission features during the Friday-afternoon and Saturday-night BSO concerts broadcast live by WGBH-FM-89.7. Coming up: BSO chauffeur "Peppino" Natale on 13 and 14 January; BSO Director of Promotion Caroline Smedvig on 20 and 21 January; and BSO violinist and Pops Associate Conductor Harry Ellis Dickson on 17 and 18 February.