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SCHOFER Press and Public Information program copyright © 1971 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 1970-1971 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. ABRAM T. COLLIER Chairman ERWIN D. CANHAM V'ice-Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Secretary VERNON ALDEN SAMUEL A. GROVES MRS FRANK G. ALLEN FRANCIS W. HATCH JR ROBERT C. ALSOP MRS C. D. JACKSON OLIVER F. AMES HOWARD W. JOHNSON LEO L BERANEK W. SEAVEY JOYCE DAVID W. BERNSTEIN MRS LOUIS I. KANE MRS CURTIS B. BROOKS GEORGE H. KIDDER J. CARTER BROWN LAWRENCE K. MILLER MRS LOUIS W.CABOT MRS STEPHEN V. C. MORRIS MRS NORMAN L CAHNERS JOHNT. G. NICHOLS LEVIN H. CAMPBELL III LOUVILLE NILES JOHN L. COOPER DAVID R. POKROSS ROBERT CUTLER HERBERT W. PRATT NELSON J. DARLING JR NATHAN M. PUSEY HENRY B. DEWEY MRS FAIRFIELD E. RAYMOND RICHARD A. EHRLICH PAUL C. REARDON BYRON K. 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Allen chair Ernst Panenka Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero Alfred Krips Mischa Nieland Stephen Max Hobart Geber contra bassoon Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley Richard Plaster Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Max Winder Carol Procter Harry Dickson Jerome Patterson horns Gottfried Wilfinger Ronald Feldman James Stagliano Fredy Ostrovsky William Stokking Charles Yancich Leo Panasevich Joel Moerschel Harry Shapiro Noah Bielski David Ohanian Herman Silberman basses Thomas Newell Stanley Benson Paul Keaney Henry Portnoi Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Pottle William Rhein Alfred Schneider Gerald Gelbloom Joseph Hearne Bela Wurtzler trumpets Raymond Sird Leslie Martin Armando Ghitalla second violins John Salkowski Roger Voisin Barwicki Clarence Knudson John Andre Come Robert Olson Fahnestock chair Gerard Goguen Lawrence Wolfe William Marshall Michel Sasson trombones Ronald Knudsen flutes William Gibson Leonard Moss Doriot Anthony Dwyer Ronald Barron William Waterhouse Walter Piston chair Kauko Kahila Ayrton Pinto James Pappoutsakis Amnon Levy Paul Fried tuba Laszlo Nagy Chester Schmitz Michael Vitale piccolo John Korman timpani Lois Schaefer Christopher Kimber Everett Firth Spencer Larrison oboes Ikuko Mizuno percussion Cecylia Arzewski Ralph Gomberg Charles Smith Marylou Speaker John Holmes Arthur Press Wayne Rapier violas assistant timpanist Burton Fine Thomas Gauger english horn Epstein Charles S. Dana chair Frank Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg harps Eugene Lehner George Humphrey clarinets Bernard Zighera Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Harold Wright Robert Karol Pasquale Cardillo Bernard Kadinoff librarians Peter Hadcock Vincent Mauricci Victor Alpert £b clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Hironaka Sugie* Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer ''member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra participating in a one season exchange with Yizhak Schotten. 000 personal trust services Are "the usual" trust services what you really want . .for yourself . for your family? Many banks have departments that can give you the usual trust services. But we've been specializing in the business of trusts for nearly a century. Now, to add even greater scope, we're a major component of THE BOSTON COMPANY, INC.'s national organization devoted to the imaginative management of capital. 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Burk Mozart- Piano concerto in E flat K. 271 'Jeunehomme' 1368 by John N. Burk Schuller- Five bagatelles for orchestra 1370 by the composer Beethoven - Symphony no. 5 in C minor op. 67 1372 by John N. Burk The soloist 1375 Season summary 1394 Program Editor ANDREW RAEBURN 1353 On April 13th,Virgo arrives on Earth. For five days, April 13th to April 17th, Virgo and her astro- logical playmates will make a rare, wild and hilarious visit to Earth. In person. The stars say, don't Her escapades will miss this once-in-a- take place at New millennium opportunity. England Life Hall, as Old Colony Trust A part of "High Sign", DIVISION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON the 79th annual Vincent Show for the benefit of Vincent Memorial Hospital. Get your tickets now at the box office (225 Clarendon St.), or call 267-6812. — Tl - NINETIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON 1970-1971 Wednesday evening March 31 1971 at 8.30 Thursday afternoon April 1 1971 at 2 o'clock WILLIAM STEINBERG conductor HINDEMITH Concert music for string orchestra and brass instruments op. 50 Massig schnell, mit Kraft (Moderately fast, with energy) Lebhaft- langsam - Lebhaft (Lively - slow - lively) MOZART Piano concerto in E flat K. 271 'Jeunehomme' Allegro Andantino Rondeau: presto JOHN BROWNING intermission SCHULLER Five bagatelles for orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony no. 5 in C minor op. 67' Allegro con brio Andante con moto Allegro Allegro John Browning plays the Steinway piano The concert on Wednesday will end about 10.30; that on Thursday about 4 o'clock The Boston Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND RCA* RECORDS 1355 e GLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, BOSTON 'J!!!^f? 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