ft : lliU ames Levine Bernard Haitink Conducto | Seiji Music Direi. Ozawa | —m Table of Contents | Week 23 15 BSO NEWS 21 ON DISPLAY IN SYMPHONY HALL 23 BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES LEVINE 26 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 29 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SYMPHONY HALL 34 THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM Notes on the Program Johannes Brahms 39 Symphony No. 3 55 Piano Concerto No. 1 67 Piano Concerto No. 2 77 To Read and Hear More. Guest Artist 81 Evgeny Kissin 85 SPONSORS AND DONORS 96 FUTURE PROGRAMS 98 SYMPHONY HALL EXIT PLAN 99 SYMPHONY HALL INFORMATION THIS WEEK S PRE-CONCERT TALKS ARE GIVEN BY JAN SWAFFORD OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY. program copyright ©2008 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. design by Hecht Design, Arlington, MA cover photograph by Peter Vanderwarker Mr THE ARTS ALLOW US TO DISCOVER WHO WE CAN BE Imagine the world without music and dance, or literature and art. Life is incomplete without ways to express ourselves, and to discover who we are and what we can be. 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At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, we wrote the book on arrhythmias and are leading the way with less invasive and more permanent treatments. We're also tending to matters of the heart in our renowned catheterization lab, cardiac MRI and peripheral vascular diseases units and unique diabetes partnership with Joslin Clinic. To find out more, visit www.bidmc.harvard.edu/heart or call 800-667-5356. Beth Israel Deaconess A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School Medical Center Affiliated with Joslin Clinic I A Research Partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center I Official Hospital of the Boston Red Sox JAMES LEVINE, MUSIC DIRECTOR BERNARD HAITINK, CONDUCTOR EMERITUS SEIJI OZAWA, MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE 127th season, 2007-2008 TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. Edward H. Linde, Chairman • Diddy Cullinane, Vice-Chairman • Robert P. O'Block, Vice-Chairman Stephen Kay, Vice-Chairman Roger T. Servison, Vice-Chairman Edmund Kelly, Vice-Chairman • Vincent M. O'Reilly, Treasurer George D. Behrakis • Mark G. Borden • Alan Bressler • Jan Brett • Samuel B. Bruskin • Paul Buttenwieser Eric D. Collins Cynthia Curme William R. Elfers Nancy J. Fitzpatrick Charles K. Gifford Thelma E. Goldberg George Krupp Shari Loessberg, ex-officio Carmine Martignetti • Robert J. Mayer, M.D. • Nathan R. Miller Richard P. Morse • Susan W. Paine Ann M. Philbin, ex-officio • Carol Reich Edward I. Rudman • • • • • Jr. Hannah H. Schneider Arthur I. Segel Thomas G. Sternberg Wilmer J. Thomas, Stephen R. Weber Stephen R. Weiner Robert C. Winters LIFE TRUSTEES Vernon R. Alden • Harlan E. Anderson • David B. Arnold, Jr. • J. P. Barger Leo L. Beranek Deborah Davis Berman • Peter A. Brooke Helene R. Cahners • James F. Cleary • John F. Cogan, Jr. Abram T. Collier • Mrs. Edith L. Dabney Nelson J. Darling, Jr. • Nina L. Doggett • Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Dean W. Freed Edna S. Kalman • George H. Kidder • R. Willis Leith, Jr. Mrs. August R. Meyer • Mrs. Robert B. Newman • William J. Poorvu Irving W. Rabb • Peter C. Read Richard A. Smith Ray Stata • John Hoyt Stookey John L. Thorndike Dr. Nicholas T. Zervas OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION Mark Volpe, Managing Director • Thomas D. May, Chief Financial Officer Suzanne Page, Clerk of the Board BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. Shari Loessberg, Chairman William F. Achtmeyer • Diane M. Austin • Lucille M. Batal • Maureen Scannell Bateman Linda J.L. Becker • George W. Berry • James L. Bildner • Bradley Bloom Anne F. Brooke Gregory E. Bulger • William Burgin • Ronald G. Casty Carol Feinberg Cohen Susan Bredhoff Cohen • Richard F. Connolly, Jr. Charles L. Cooney Ranny Cooper James C. Curvey • Mrs. Miguel de Braganca • Disque Deane • Paul F. Deninger • Ronald M. Druker Alan J. Dworsky • Alan Dynner • Ursula Ehret-Dichter • John P. Eustis II • Pamela D. Everhart Joseph F. Fallon • Thomas E. Faust, Jr. • Judith Moss Feingold Steven S. Fischman • John F. Fish Lawrence K. 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