97th SEASON BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA A\usic Director . TRUST BANKING. A symphony in financial planning. Conducted by Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company Decisions which affect personal financial goals are often best made in concert with a professional advisor. However, some situations require consultation with a number of professionals skilled in different areas of financial management. Real estate advisors. Tax consultants. Estate planners . Investment managers To assist people with these needs, our venerable Boston banking institution has developed a new banking concept which integrates all of these professional services into a single program. The program is called trust banking. Orchestrated by Roger Dane, Vice President, 722-7022, for a modest fee. DIRECTORS HansH. Estin George W. Phillips C. Vincent Vappi Vernon R. Alden Vice Chairman, North Executive Vice President, Vappi & Chairman, Executive American Management President Company, Inc. Committee Corporation George Putnam JepthaH. Wade Nathan H. Garrick, Jr. Partner, Choate, Hall DwightL. Allison, Jr. Chairman, Putnam Vice Chairman of the Chairman of the Board Management & Stewart Board Inc. David C. Crockett Company, William W. Wolbach Donald Hurley Deputy to the Chairman J. John E. Rogerson Vice Chairman Partner, Goodwin, of the Board of Trustees Partner, Hutchins & of the Board Proctor Hoar and to the General & Wheeler Honorary Director Director, Massachusetts Robert Mainer Henry E. Russell Sidney R. Rabb General Hospital Senior Vice President, President Chairman, The Stop & The Boston Company, Companies, inc. F. Stanton Deland, Jr. Mrs. George L. Sargent Shop Partner, Sherburne, Inc. Director of Various Powers & Needham William F. Morton Corporations Director of Various Charles W.Schmidt Corporations President, S.D. Warren LovettC. Peters Company (A Division Director of Various of Scott Paper Company) Corporations BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY <n> One Boston Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02106 \7 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJl OZAWA MuiK Dirrdor , Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Seventh Season 1977-1978 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Nelson J. Darling, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson Allen G. Barry Archie C. Epps III Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy David Rockefeller Jr. Richard P. Chapman George Kidder Mrs. George Lee Sargent Dr. George Clowes Edward G. Murray John Hoyt Stookey Abram T. Collier Trustees Emeriti Harold D. Hodgkinson John T. Noonan Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Thomas W. Morris Executive Director Manager Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D. Hill Director of Development Director of Business Affairs Elizabeth A. Young CandiceL. Miller Richard C.White Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant to the of Promotion of Development Manager Elizabeth Dunton Dorothy M. Sullivan Anita R. Kurland Director of Sales Controller Administrator of Youth Activities Charles Rawson Donald W. MacKenzie KatherineWhitty Manager of Box Office Operations Manager, Coordinator of Symphony Hall Boston Council Niklaus Wyss James F. Kiley Richard Ortner Advisor for Operations Manager, Assistant Administrator, the Music Director Tanglewood Berkshire Music Center Michael Steinberg Director of Publications Programs copyright © 1977 Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Vice Chairman Vice Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Mrs.- Thomas Gardiner David G. Mugar Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. James Garivaltis Dr. Barbara W. Newell Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Robert Gibb Stephen Paine David VV. Bernstein Jordan Golding Harry Remis David Bird Mrs. John L. Grandin Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Gerhard Bleicken Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Frederick Brandi Mrs. Howard E. Hansen Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Curtis Buttenheim Bruce Harriman Mrs. George Rowland Mrs. Henry B. Cabot Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. A. Lloyd Russell Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. William Ryan Levin H. Campbell, III Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Francis P. Sears, Jr. Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Jim Lee Hunt William A. Selke Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Louis I. Kane Gene Shalit Robert Cushman Leonard Kaplan Samuel L. Slosberg Michael J. Daly Benjamin Lacy Richard A. Smith Mrs. C. Russell Eddy Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Paul Fromm Roderick MacDougall Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Carlton P. Fuller John S. McLennan D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Colman M. Mockler, Jr. Roger Woodworth Mrs. Elting E. Morison Richard P. Morse We'd like to give handicapped Icids a free education."^ Yes, free. The Getting School for Handicapped Children offers a 12-year academic program for physically and medically handicapped children with mentally normal capabilities. Included in school services are both vocational and college preparatory training, transportation to and from, medical and dental care, speech and physical therapy, social development, noon meal, testing, recrea- tion and summer camping. Without any cost whatsoever to pai^ents. Right now, we have openings for handicapped children. Please pass the word. Call or write William J. Carmichael, Superintendent, The Cotting School for Handicapped Children, 241 St. Botolph St., Boston, Mass. 021 15, 536-9632. (Formerly Industrial School for Crippled Children.) , ^^.,_. The Cotting School for Handicapped Children is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian, tuition-free institution supported ' primarily by private legacies, bequests and contributions. ¥^ J^>, ^^^ »< THE Backgammon Cruise. The ultimate Caribbean cruise for Backgammon enthusiasts. Here's your chance to play and learn this fascinating game with Prince Alexis Obolensky, his staff. Grandmasters Champion Tony Goble, and many international stars. Besides tournament play for the Grand Prize Scandinavian Cruise, there will be plenty of time for swimming, sauna, entertainment, and dancing. We leave Port Everglades, Florida, on November 19 and again on April 29, aboard the Vistafjord, flagship of the Norwegian America Line. Ports of call for this 14-night cruise include Haiti, Curacao, Venezuela, and many more. For detailed information, call the Masters of a Fine Art — Faneuil Hall Travel Associates. In Boston: 742-6070, or Cambridge: 661-7555. Faneuil Hall Travel 59 Beacon Street, Boston. 1105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. The Vistafjord is registered in Norway. Seiji Ozawa Seiji Ozawa became Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1973. He is the thirteenth conductor of the Orchestra since its founding in 1881. He was born in Hoten, Manchuria in 1935, and studied both Western and Oriental music as a child. He attended Toho School of Music in Tokyo and graduated with first prizes in composition and conducting. Shortly after his graduation, he won first prize at the International Competition of Conducting at Besan^on, France, and was invited by Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, to spend a summer studying at Tanglewood. In 1964 and for the next five seasons, Mr. Ozawa was Music Director of the Ravinia Festival. At the beginning of the 1965-66 season he became Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, a position he relinquished four seasons later to study and guest conduct. In 1970 he accepted the position of Artistic Director of the Berkshire Music Festival, and in December of the same year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, titles that he held concurrently with his position as Music Director of the Boston Symphony. In the spring of 1976 he resigned his San Francisco position although he remained Honorary Conductor for the 1976-77 season. Mr. Ozawa's recordings include: on the Deutsche Grammophon label, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, La damnation de Faust, Romeo et Juliette (which was awarded a Grand Prix du Disque), Ives's Symphony No. 4 and Central Park in the Dark, and De Falla's Three-cornered Hat, and, on the New World Records label, Griffes's Songs of Fiona McLeod. Recordings soon to be released are: Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin Suite and Music for Percussion, Strings, and Celeste, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Brahms's Symphony No. 1, and Rimsky- Korsakov's Sheherazade, all on Deutsche Grammophon, and Sessions's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd on New World Records. Violas Bass Clarinet Burton Fine Felix Viscuglia Charles S Dana chair Reuben Green BOSTON Bassoons Eugene Lehner SYMPHONY Sherman Walt Robert Barnes Edward A Tafi chair ORCHESTRA Jerome Lipson Roland Small SEIJl OZAWA Bernard Kadinoff Muiie Dirtctor Matthew Ruggiero Vincent Mauricci Earl Hedberg Contra Bassoon Joseph Pietropaolo Richard Plaster Michael Zaretsky Horns Marc Jeanneret Betty Benthin Charles Kavalovski BOSTON SYMPHONY Helen Sagoff Slosberg chair Charles Yancich ORCHESTRA Cellos Peter Gordon Jules Eskin 1977/78 Phillip R. Allen ohair David Ohanian Martin Hoherman Richard Mackey MischaNieland Ralph Pottle Jerome Patterson First Violins Robert