BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA sen ozawa MUSIC DIRECTOR m^^^ ^ ife §^1 Pi^ #J 7 1 109TH SEASON 1989-90 X^ Zm&_ IMPORTED 750 ml 94.6 PROOF ---? -• *m ® *>* SPECIAL DRY ft * T 5f * m ^**f.& T CHARLES TANQUERAY & C° L LONDON. ENGLAND. « : ' »50UC6 OF ENGLAND • IOO % GR AIN NEUTR4- I liTtft RnflR^ ITiui iiwiiffi Tanqueray. A singular experience. Imported English Gin. 47.3% Alc/Vol (94.6°). 100% Grain Neutral Spirits. © 1988 Schieffelin & Somerset Co., New York. N.Y. Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, Assistant Conductors One Hundred and Ninth Season, 1989-90 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Chairman Emeritus J. P. Barger, Chairman George H. Kidder, President Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney, Vice-Chairman Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. August R. Meyer Peter A. Brooke Avram J. Goldberg Mrs. Robert B. 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Serwitz, Director of Major Gifts/ Patricia Krol, Coordinator of Youth Activities Assistant Director of Development Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Cheryl L. Silvia, Function Manager Program Annotator Susan E. Tomlin, Director ofAnnual Giving Programs copyright '1990 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover by Jaycole Advertising, Inc. /Cover photo by Steve J. Sherman Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. John F. Cogan, Jr., Chairman R. Willis Leith, Jr., Vice-Chairman Mrs. Ray A. Goldberg, Vice-Chairman Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III, Secretary Mrs. David Bakalar Haskell R. Gordon E. James Morton Bruce A. Beal Steven Grossman David G. Mugar Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Joe M. Henson David Nelson Lynda Schubert Bodman Susan M. Hilles Robert P. O'Block Donald C. Bowersock, Jr. Glen H. Hiner Walter H. Palmer William M. Bulger Mrs. Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Andrall E. Pearson Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Ronald A. Homer John A. Perkins Earle M. Chiles Julian T. 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Connell George H. Kidder Stephen J. Sweeney Walter J. Connolly Vincent M. O'Reilly Roger Wellington Nelson J. Darling For their continued support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, special thanks to the Massachusetts Council on the and the National arts and Endowment humanities for the Arts also serving science museums and environmental Institutions Afc-#4%rf/0%r ^A4^/f^a^y- © f BSO he served as a Trustee of the New England A Tribute to The Calvert Trust Conservatory, the Copley Society, and the Ellis The appearances of Maurizio Pollini on March Memorial. He was described by a friend as "a 22, 23, 24, and 27 have been funded in part by cultured pearl protected by a gruff shell made The Calvert Trust Endowment Fund. The Cal- even more lustrous by his acquisition of skills vert Trust was established in 1965 by the late and interests as an architect, pianist, talented Mrs. Ruth Crary Young and named in honor of painter, traveler, student of literature, and, her father, Calvert Crary. Mrs. Young was a above all, a social being." In 1984 the Ford H. faithful Friday-afternoon subscriber and dedi- Cooper Chair was established in his memory. cated Friend of the Boston Symphony Orches- It endows the second trumpet position, cur- tra during her lifetime. The Fund was created rently held by Peter Chapman. in 1989 to support the appearance of a guest artist each season. Joseph Silverstein to Perform Benefit Recital for Project STEP Boston Symphony Chamber Players at Project STEP (String Training and Educa- Jordan Hall, Sunday, March 25, at 3 p.m. tional Program for minority students) is spon- The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, with soring a benefit recital featuring former Boston pianist Gilbert Kalish, close their 1989-90 sub- Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Joseph scription season at Jordan Hall on Sunday, Silverstein and pianist Sandra Rivers on Mon- March 25, at 3 p.m. with Mozart's Quartet in day, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Sanders Theater, D for flute and strings, K.285, Dvorak's Piano Cambridge. Project STEP student Vali Phil- Quartet in D, Op. 23, Lerdahl's Waltzes for lips will also participate. The program will violin, viola, cello, and double bass, and include music of Bach, Chopin, Leclair, Schu- Mozart's Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, bert, Strauss, and Wieniawski. Tickets are K.452. Single tickets are $15, $11.50, and $50, $25, and $15 ($10 students). A collabora- $8.50, available in advance at the Symphony tive undertaking of the Boston Symphony Hall box office or by calling Symphony-Charge Orchestra, Boston University, the New at (617) 266-1200 (tickets are available at the England Conservatory of Music, and the Jordan Hall box office only on the day of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, concert). Project STEP provides comprehensive music education for talented minority students, with Symphony Spotlight the goal of increasing the number of minority string players in the classical music profession. 77m is one in a series of biographical sketches For tickets or further information, please call that focus on some of the generous individuals the Project STEP office at (617) 267-5777. who have endowed chairs in the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. Their backgrounds are varied, Art Exhibits in the Cabot-Cahners Room but each felt a special commitment to the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra. For the sixteenth year, a variety of Boston area galleries, museums, schools, and non- Ford H.