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Insurance of Every Description BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC TALCOTT M. BANKS President FRANCIS W. HATCH PHILIP K. ALLEN Vice-President HAROLD D. HODGKINSON ROBERT H. GARDINER Vice-President E. MORTON JENNINGS JR JOHN L. THORNDIKE Treasurer EDWARD M. KENNEDY ALLEN G. BARRY HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ERWIN D. CANHAM EDWARD G. MURRAY RICHARD P. CHAPMAN JOHN T. NOONAN ABRAM T. COLLIER MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK IRVING W. RABB THEODORE P. FERRIS PAUL C. REARDON SIDNEY STONEMAN TRUSTEES EMERITUS HENRY B. CABOT PALFREY PERKINS EDWARD A. TAFT ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR Manager Assistant Managers THOMAS W. MORRIS DAVID ROCKEFELLER JR Business Affairs Audience and Public Affairs MARY H. SMITH Concerts and Artists FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN Director of Development Administrator of Educational Affairs DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood RICHARD C. WHITE Assistant to the Manager program copyright © 1972 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1411 Accompanist to: The Boston Symphony Baldwin Piano & Organ Company BALDWIN 160 Boylston Street • Boston, Massachusetts 02116 • Phone 426-0775 PIANOS • ORGANS 50 Middlesex Turnpike • Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 • Phone 273-0450 1412 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. ERWIN D. CANHAM Chairman VERNON ALDEN Vice-Chairman LEONARD KAPLAN Secretary HAZEN H. AYER FRANCIS W. HATCH JR MRS FRANK G. ALLEN DAVID O. IVES ROBERT C. ALSOP MRS C. D. JACKSON LEO L. BERANEK HOWARD W. JOHNSON DAVID W. BERNSTEIN W. SEAVEY JOYCE MRS CURTIS B. BROOKS MRS LOUIS I. KANE J. CARTER BROWN GEORGE H. KIDDER MRS LOUIS W. CABOT LEON KIRCHNER MRS NORMAN L. CAHNERS MAURICE LAZARUS LEVIN H. CAMPBELL III LAWRENCE K. MILLER GEORGE H. A. CLOWES JR FRANK E. MORRIS SILVIO O. CONTE MRS STEPHEN V. C. MORRIS JOHN L. COOPER JOHN T. G. NICHOLS ROBERT CUTLER LOUVILLE NILES NELSON J. DARLING JR DAVID R. POKROSS HENRY B. DEWEY MRS BROOKS POTTER RICHARD A. EHRLICH HERBERT W. PRATT i BYRON K. ELLIOTT MRS FAIRFIELD E. RAYMOND ARCHIE C. EPPS III MRS GEORGE R. ROWLAND PAUL FROMM MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT CARLTON P. FULLER DONALD B. SINCLAIR MRS ALBERT GOODHUE MRS L. LEE STANTON MRS JOHN L GRANDIN JR JOHN HOYT STOOKEY STEPHEN W. GRANT STOKLEY P. TOWLES SAMUEL A. GROVES ROBERT G. WIESE VINCENT C. ZIEGLER SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS i 1413 • BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL • SOUTH SHORE • NORTHSHORE • BURUNGTON • WELLESLEY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate Conductor JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN Assistant Conductor first violins cellos bassoons Joseph Silverstein Jules Eskin Sherman Walt concertmaster Philip R. Allen chair Ernst Panenka Charles Munch chair Martin Hoherman Matthew Ruggiero Alfred Krips Mischa Nieland Max Hobart Stephen Geber contra bassoon Rolland Tapley Robert Ripley Richard Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Plaster Max Winder Carol Procter Harry Dickson Jerome Patterson horns Gottfried Wilfinger Ronald Feldman Charles Yancich Fredy Ostrovsky Joel Moerschel Harry Shapiro Leo Panasevich Jonathan Miller David Ohanian Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Pottle Stanley Benson basses Alfred Schneider Henry Portnoi Gerald Gelbloom William Rhein trumpets Raymond Sird Ikuko Mizuno Joseph Hearne Armando Ghitalla Cecylia Arzewski Bela Wurtzler Roger Voisin Leslie Martin Andre Come John Salkowski Gerard Goguen second violins John Barwicki Clarence Knudson Robert Olson trombones Fahnestock chair Lawrence Wolfe William Marshall William Gibson Michel Sasson flutes Ronald Barron Ronald Knudsen Doriot Anthony Dwyer Gordon Hallberg Leonard Moss Walter Piston chair William Waterhouse James Pappoutsakis tuba Ayrton Pinto Paul Fried Chester Schmitz Amnon Levy Laszlo Nagy piccolo timpani Michael Vitale Everett Firth Spencer Larrison Lois Schaefer Marylou Speaker Darlene Gray oboes percussion Ronald Wilkison Ralph Gomberg Charles Smith Harvey Seigel Arthur Press John Holmes assistant timpanist Wayne Rapier violas Thomas Gauger Burton Fine Frank Epstein Charles S. Dana chair english horn Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg harps Eugene Lehner Bernard Zighera George Humphrey clarinets Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Harold Wright Robert Karol Bernard Kadinoff Pasquale Cardillo librarians Vincent Mauricci Peter Hadcock Victor Alpert fb clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Yizhak Schotten Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer HOW CAVE ATLANTIQUE CAN HELP YOU SELECT WEDDING, ANNIVERSARY & BABY GIFTS Cave Atlantique is a wine importing and or by a wedding gift that will significantly retailing firm that has made a study of the improve within one year and become extra- types of presents people like to give during ordinary within five: the Spring. 1969 Beaune "Marconnets" C.A. $ 6.75 1969 Vosne Romanee "Les GIFTS FOR THOUGHTFUL Malconsorts" C.A. 7.75 INDIVIDUALS 1966 Ch. Cos d'Estournel 5.50 A documented wine sampler is a selection of 1966 Ch. 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Burk The Music Director 1439 The soloists 1440 Season summary 1460 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor and Assistant to the Music Director 1417 1418 NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 Friday afternoon April 21 1972 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening April 22 1972 at 8.30 WILLIAM STEINBERG conductor WAGNER Tristan und Isolde' — Act 2 Tristan JAMES KING Isolde EILEEN FARRELL.