BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMA£ Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-SECOND SEASON 1972-1973 FRIDAY-SATURDAY 20 TUESDAY B6 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K. ALLEN ROBERT H. GARDINER JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN HAROLD D. HODGKINSON MRS JAMES H. PERKINS ALLEN G. BARRY E. MORTON JENNINGS JR IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN EDWARD M. KENNEDY PAUL C. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD G. MURRAY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN T. NOONAN SIDNEY STONEMAN MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT HENRY A. LAUGHLIN PALFREY PERKINS FRANCIS W. HATCH EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR Manager THOMAS W. MORRIS DAVID ROCKEFELLER JR MARY H. SMITH Assistant Manager, Assistant Manager, Assistant Manager, Business Affairs Audience & Public Affairs Concerts & Artists FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN DONALD W. MACKENZIE Development Director Administrator of Operations Manager, Educational Affairs Symphony Hall JAMES F. KILEY RICHARD C. WHITE Operations Manager, Assistant to Tanglewood the Manager copyright © 1973 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS SORING f€CLS Made-For-Each-Other Separates Share a Soft and Gentle Feeling They like the same things . delicate pastel flowers on a stretch of white polyester/cotton. The sheer voile shirt with tuck detail and two pockets. The matching seersucker skirt with stitched pleats. By New Issues. Misses' sizes. Each $20. Sportswear. Jt yji(^M BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL • NORTHSHORE SHOPPING CENTER • SOUTH SHORE PLAZA • BURLINGTON MALL • WELLESLEY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-SECOND SEASON 1972-1973 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. VERNON R. ALDEN Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Vice-Chairman MRS STEPHEN V. C. MORRIS Secretary HAZEN H. AYER john holt MRS FRANK C. ALLEN david o. ives ROBERT C. ALSOP mrs c. d. jackson LEO L. BERANEK w. seavey joyce DAVID W. BERNSTEIN mrs louis i. kane MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY george h. kidder MRS CURTIS B. BROOKS leon kirchner J. CARTER BROWN maurice lazarus CURTIS R. BUTTENHEIM john Mclennan MRS MARY LOUISE CABOT lawrence k. miller MRS NORMAN L. CAHNERS mrs charles l. moore LEVIN H. CAMPBELL III frank e. morris ERWIN D. CANHAM david mugar GEORGE H. A. CLOWES JR john t. g. nichols SILVIO O. CONTE david r. pokross JOHN L. COOPER mrs brooks potter NELSON J. 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Allen chair Ernst Panenka Appraised Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero Jerome Rosen Mischa Nieland Purchased Max Hobart Stephen Geber Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley contra bassoon Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Richard Plaster Max Winder Carol Procter Harry Dickson Jerome Patterson Gottfried Wilfinger Ronald Feldman horns Expertise and knowledge are Fredy Ostrovsky Joel Moerschel Charles Kavaloski old-fashioned qualities that have Leo Panasevich Jonathan Miller Charles Yancich become tradition with Louis Joseph Sheldon Rotenberg Harry Shapiro Alfred Schneider Auction Galleries. 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Earl Hedberg NEW ENGLAND'S OUTSTANDING AUCTION GALLERY FOR Joseph Pietropaolo THE SALE OF ANTIQUES, WORKS OF ART AND FINE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager 840 Commonwealth Avenue Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison Boston, Massachusettes 022 1 5 Telephone (6 17) 27 7-0 740 personnel manager William Moyer 1081 - <• *_» "* (•err . - . ' will m hi T\ ^ FNC. m ml* s?MM UWWi Qp3odu> in tune with pleasure The light and airy freshness of summer is further enhanced by the striking designs and colors of our indoor-outdoor furnishings . created for your very special festivities! ffiostohTi JSjaUck. • Y^eabodu at the north shore *S -J * ~f J SHOPPING CENTER CONTENTS Program for April 13, 14 and 17 1973 1085 A tribute to Reverend Theodore P. Ferris by the Right Reverend Monsignor Edward C. Murray 1107 Program notes by John N. Burk Mozart - Piano concerto in B flat K. 450 1087 Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 1092 The conductor 1101 The soloists 1101 The chorus 1105 Season summary 1120 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6500.342 COMPLETE SYMPHONIES AVAILABLE SINGLY LISZT: The Complete Symphonic Poems; London Philharmonic Orchestra 6709.005 RAVEL: „Daphnis et Chloe"; „Ma Mere l'Oye"; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6500.311 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 in B flat; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam 6700.055 HOLST: ,,The Planets"; London Philharmonic Orchestra 6500.072 BARTOK: BERNARD HAITINK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta „Bearerofa Great Tradition" KODALY: ,,Hary Janos"; PHILIPS Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam A product of Phonogram Inc. 6500.015 1083 * t We specialize in futures. Old Colony Trust A DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Adviser COLIN DAVIS & MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Principal Guest Conductors NINETY-SECOND SEASON Friday afternoon April 13 1973 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening April 14 1973 at 8.30 Tuesday evening April 17 1973 at 7.30 BERNARD HAITINK conductor MOZART Piano concerto in B flat K. 450 Allegro Andante Allegro NERINE BARRETT intermission *BEETHOVEN Symphony no.