I' H I I fWl IBv H I .#= MS? • *vt-i: •v. - **e* ? The Mall At Chestnut Hill 617-965-5555 Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, Assistant Conductors One Hundred and Eighth Season, 1988-89 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Chairman George H. Kidder, President J. P. Barge r, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney, Vice-Chairman Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. August R. Meyer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. Robert B. Newman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Avram J. Goldberg Peter C. Read James F. Cleary Mrs. John L. Grandin Richard A. Smith Julian Cohen Francis W Hatch, Jr. Ray Stata William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman William F. Thompson r Mrs. Michael H. Davis Roderick M. MacDougall Nicholas T Zervas Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. George R. Rowland Allen G. Barry Edward M. 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NEC Information Systems, the performance-driven computer, printer and disk drive leader, salutes The Boston Symphony Orchestra, the world's premier performing orchestra. NEC NEC Information Systems, 1414 Massachusetts Ave., Boxborough, MA 01/19. ' 'ir I v - \ *: S3 tLwtk BSO i An Endowed Concert: of her ninety-nine years. In addition to her In Appreciation family, her other great loves in Boston were the BSO and the Red Sox! Mrs. Stoneman This week's Friday-afternoon concert has lived quietly in dignity and beauty, and the been underwritten by a generous gift from endowment of the Boston Symphony Orches- Mrs. James H. Perkins under the BSO's Con- tra Chair currently occupied by assistant prin- cert Endowment Program. Mrs. Perkins holds \. cipal violist Patricia McCarty is intended to i the distinction of being the first woman honor Mrs. Stoneman's memory appropriately elected to the BSO's Board of Trustees, in by benefiting an institution she held so dear. 1962; she was deeply involved in the Ford Foundation fundraising efforts in the 1960s. For the past twenty-five years Mrs. Perkins BSO to Tour Europe has continued to support the Boston Sym- December 1 through 14 1 phony Orchestra through generous financial The Boston Symphony Orchestra will tour to 1 support and ongoing involvement in Board- England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, raB9 related activities. The November 18 perform- Germany, and Austria from Thursday, Decem- ance of Strauss's Elektra is the third concert I ber 1, through Wednesday, December 14, per- Mrs. Perkins has underwritten, the other two t* forming eleven concerts, in London, ,f.vKj St, being a performance of Bach's B minor Mass Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Hamburg, in December 1985 and a concert with guest Berlin, Hannover, Vienna, Frankfurt am soloist Murray Perahia in October 1987. Mrs. • * • Main, and Munich. The tour is being under- Perkins chooses to give to the orchestra written by a generous grant from NEC Corpo- through this program because of its obvious ration. Additional support is being provided and direct support of music. She says that by a group of Friends of the Boston Sym- "it's great fun to be an Esterhazy." phony Orchestra who will accompany the For a gift of $25,000, the BSO will name a orchestra on the tour. concert in honor of, or in memory of, someone Tour repertory will include the Mahler you care about. If you are interested in nam- Symphony No. 9, Beethoven's Symphony No. ing a concert, please call the Development 7, Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony, and Office at (617) 266-3143. Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for oboe, clar- inet, bassoon, and horn, the latter to feature Symphony Spotlight BSO principals Alfred Genovese, Harold Wright, Sherman Walt, and Charles Kava- This is one in a series of biographical sketches lovski. The programs also include Webern's that focus on some of the generous individuals Five Pieces for Orchestra and a performance who have endowed chairs in the Boston Sym- of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with soprano phony Orchestra. Their backgrounds are var- Jessye Norman. ied, but each felt a special commitment to the Subscribers should note that because of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. tour, there will be no Boston Symphony Anne Stoneman Chair Orchestra concerts at Symphony Hall in For more than fifty years and continuing well December. The orchestra will resume its per- into her eighties, Mrs. David Stoneman came formances here following the Christmas Pops to Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts on season, in early January.