BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Mujic Director 107th Season 1987-88 C 1987 80 Proof. Imported from France by Regal Brands. Inc.. New York. NY \ \ ^^ BOM B&Beloved ^%^^^ LIQUEUR B 1-800-238-4373 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED TO SEND A GIFT OF B&B LIQUEUR ANYWHERE IN THE US CALL BOSTON SYMPHONY , ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA^ Mujic Director Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, Assistant Conductors One Hundred and Seventh Season, 1987-88 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Leo L. Beranek, Honorary Chairman George H. Kidder, President Nelson J. Darling, Jr, Chairman J. P. Barger, Vice-Chairman Mrs. John M. Bradley, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvn, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Roderick M. MacDougall David B. Arnold, Jr Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. August R. Meyer Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Avram J. Goldberg David G. Mugar William M. Crozier, Jr Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. George R. 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Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Robert Bell, Data Processing Manager Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Helen P. Bridge, Director of Volunteers Julie-Anne Miner, Supervisor of Madelyne Codola Cuddeback, Director Fund Accounting of Corporate Development Richard Ortner, Administrator of Vera Gold, Assistant Director of Promotion Tanglewood Music Center Patricia F. Halligan, Nancy E. Phillips, Media and Personnel Administrator Production Manager, Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Boston Symphony Orchestra John M. Keenum, Director of Charles Rawson, Manager of Box Office Foundation Support Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & of Development Program Annotator Susan E. Tomlin, Director of Annual Giving Michelle R. Leonard, Budget Manager John G. Welch, Controller Programs copyright ®1987 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Christian Steiner/Design by Wondriska Associates Inc. Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Avram J. Goldberg Chairman Mrs. Carl Koch John F. Cogan, Jr. Mrs. R. Douglas Hall HI Vice-Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary Mrs. Weston W. Adams Jordan L. Golding Mrs. Robert B. Newman Martin Allen Mark R. Goldweitz Mrs. Hiroshi Nishino Mrs. David Bakalar Haskell R. Gordon Vincent M. O'Reilly Mrs. Richard Bennink Joseph M. Henson Stephen Paine, Sr. Mrs. Samuel W. Bodman Arnold Hiatt Andrall E. Pearson William M. Bulger Susan M. Hilles Daphne Brooks Prout Mary Louise Cabot Glen H. Hiner Peter C. Read Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Mrs. Marilyn B. Hoffman Robert E. Remis James F. Cleary Ronald A. Homer John Ex Rodgers Julian Cohen Anna Faith Jones Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Nat Cole H. Eugene Jones Mrs. William C. Rousseau William H. Congleton Mrs. Bela T. Kalman Mrs. William H. Ryan Walter J. Connolly, Jr. Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Roger A. Saunders Mrs. A. 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(617) 237-5759 References furnished request Aspen Music Festival Metropolitan Opera Leonard Bernstein Mitchell -Ruff Duo Bolcom and Morris Seiji Ozawa Jorge Bolet Luciano Pavarotti Boston Pops Orchestra Alexander Peskanov Boston Symphony Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Brevard Music Center Andre Previn Dave Brubeck Ravinia Festival David Buechner Santiago Rodriguez Chicago Symphony Orchestra George Shearing Cincinnati May Festival Bobby Short Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Abbey Simon Aaron Copland Georg Solti Denver Symphony Orchestra Stephen Sondheim Eastern Music Festival Tanglewood Music Center Michael Feinstein Michael Tilson Thomas Ferrante and Teicher Beveridge Webster Natalie Hinderas Earl Wild Dick Hyman John Williams Interlochen Arts Academy and Wolf Trap Foundation for National Music Camp the Performing Arts Marian McPartland Yehudi Wyner Zubin Mehta Over 200 others Baldwin^ BSO In Memoriam Symphony Spotlight The BSO family was deeply saddened earlier this year by the loss of two longtime Boston This is the first in a series of biographical sketches Symphony Orchestra members, both of whom which will focus on some of the generous individu- died following the close of last year's sub- als who have endowed chairs in the Boston Sym- scription season. phony Orchestra. Their backgrounds are varied, Andre M. Come, a trumpet player with the but each felt a special commitment to the Boston orchestra for thirty years, died unexpectedly Symphony. last June. Born in Cambridge, Andre was The John Moors Cabot loved and respected for both his character and Endowed Music Directorship his musicianship. In addition to his faculty position at the New England Conservatory, he A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard in was also a devoted teacher for many years at 1923 and of Oxford in 1925, John Moors Cabot the Tanglewood Music Center, where a memo- spent forty years in the foreign sendee, during rial fellowship has been established in his which time he served in Latin America and memory. Europe and represented the United States as BSO violist Bernard Kadinoff, who died in ambassador to Brazil, Columbia, Finland, August, joined the Orchestra in 1951 under Poland, and Sweden. Both Ambassador Cabot Charles Munch, having previously played in and his widow Elizabeth Lewis Cabot recog- the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the nized and enjoyed beauty in a wide variety of direction of Arturo Toscanini. Bernard was a art forms. They followed a family tradition of devoted teacher of viola and chamber music at supporting those academic and cultural insti- Boston University and at the Boston Univer- tutions that would make the finest art avail- sity Tanglewood Institute, where a schol- able to the whole community. After Mr Cabot arship has been established in his name. died in 1981, his four children continued this tradition. He asked that his planned bequest to the BSO be put into the endowment and not Planned Giving Seminars used for current operating expenses because Again this season the Boston Sjinphony he wanted to be certain that it would ensure offers series the future of one of the great cultural institu- Orchestra a of Personal Financial tions in his beloved Boston. Planning Seminars, to include such topics as gifting to family members, estate planning, and charitable giving in today's tax setting. Symphony Shop Begins New Season The programs are presented by John Brown, The Symphony Shop, a project of the Boston an internationally-known consultant in the Symphony Association of Volunteers, begins field of deferred giving. Upcoming seminars at the 1987-88 season wdth a wide array of new Symphony Hall will be held on October 15 and and exciting merchandise. Gifts wdth a BSO or 30. For further information, please contact musical motif, umbrellas, tote bags, books, cal- Joyce M.