BOSTON SOYMPHONY OWRCHESTRA Hundredth Birthday Season ^ORCHESTRA, SHUaZAWA 1 1881 -OCTOBER 22 -1981 V.S.OP / REMY • itf0Of @ <OjP. VSQp COGNAC rtit.NCt ;.!** ^**> Bom p» By E RKMV maTIN * Cl ^CHAMPAGNE COO" THE FIRST NAME IN COGNAC SINCE 1724 EXCLUSIVELY FINE CHAMPAGNE COGNAC: FROM THE TWO "PREMIERS CRLS" OF THE COGNAC REGION Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Hundredth Birthday Season, 1981-82 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President George H. Kidder, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps III Thomas D. Perry, Jr. J. P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Mrs. George Lee Sargent Mrs. Norman L. Cahners David G. Mugar William A. Selke George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. James H. Perkins Allen G. Barry Edward G. Murray Paul C. Reardon Richard P Chapman John T. Noonan John L. Thorndike Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager William Bernell Edward R. Birdwell Daniel R. Gustin Artistic Administrator Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Caroline Smedvig Walter D. Hill Joseph M. Hobbs Director of Director of Director of Promotion Business Affairs Development Judith Gordon Joyce M. Snyder Theodore A. Vlahos Assistant Director Development Controller of Promotion Coordinator Marc Solomon Katherine Whitty Arlene Germain Production Coordinator of Financial Analyst Coordinator Boston Council James E. Whitaker Elizabeth Dunton Richard Ortner Hall Manager, Director of Sales Adminstrator Symphony Hall Berkshire Music Center Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Anita R. Kurland Manager of Box Office Operations Manager, Administrator of Tanglewood Youth Activities Steven Ledbetter Marc Mandel Jean Miller MacKenzie Director of Editorial Printing Production Publications Coordinator Coordinator Programs copyright ©1981 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Peter Schaaf 1 Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Chairman William J. Poorvu Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding Paul M. Montrone John Q. Adams Haskell R. Gordon Mrs. Hanae Mori Mrs. Frank G. Allen Graham Gund Mrs. Stephen VC. Morris David B. Arnold, Jr. Christian G. Halby E. James Morton Hazen H. Ayer Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Stephen Paine, Sr. Bruce A. Beal Francis W Hatch, Jr. John A. Perkins Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Richard D. Hill David R. Pokross David W. Bernstein Ms. Susan M. Hilles Mrs. Curtis Prout Mrs. Edward J. Bertozzi, Jr. Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Radin Peter A. Brooke Richard S. Jackson, Jr. Peter C. Read William M. Bulger Mrs. Bela T Kalman Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. Louis I. Kane David Rockefeller, Jr. Julian Cohen Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Nat King Cole Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. Francis P. Sears Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Gordon F. Kingsley Gene Shalit William M. Crozier, Jr. Mrs. Carl Koch Donald B. Sinclair Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney Robert K. Kraft Richard A. Smith Mrs. Michael H. Davis Harvey C. Krentzman Ralph Z. Sorenson William S. Edgerly Mrs. E. Anthony Kutten Peter J. Sprague Mrs. Alexander Ellis, Jr. Benjamin H. Lacy Ray Stata Frank L. Farwell Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Kenneth G. Fisher Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen C. Charles Marran Mark Tishler, Jr. Paul Fromm Mrs. August R. Meyer Ms. Luise Vosgerchian Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. Edward H. Michaelsen Robert A. Wells Mrs. Thomas Gardiner J. William Middendorf II Mrs. Donald Wilson Avram J. Goldberg John J. Wilson THE SYMBOL OF GOOD BANKING. Union Warren Savings Bank Main Office: 133 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 'But ifyou turn your back on the market entire ly, will the Dow ever break a thousand again?" For good advice on personal trust and investment matters, call our Trust Division at (617) 742-4000. Or write New England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. Bank of New England. I Join morningpro musica's host Robert J. Lurtsema as he surveys the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 100th Birthday season through a series of infor- mal conversations with featured soloists, conduc- tors, and composers. morningpro musica is WVPS(1079fm) now heard coast to coast Burlington, VT on stations of the Public WMEH(90.9fm) Radio Cooperative Bangor, ME including, in the New York/New England area: WMEA(90.1fm) Portland, ME WGBH(89.7fm) Boston, MA WMEM (106.1 fm) Presque Isle, ME WFCR(88.5fm) Amherst, MA WPBH(90.5fm) Hartford, New Haven, WAMC(90.3fm) Waterbury, CT Albany, NY WEVO(89.1fm) WNYC(939fm) Concord, NH New York, NY WVPR(89.5fm) Windsor, VT . BSO "Opening Night at Pops" For the eighth consecutive year, the Junior Council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will sponsor "Opening Night at Pops," this year marking the opening of the Boston Pops 1982 season with John Williams beginning his third year as Pops conductor. The evening, to take place on Tuesday, 4 May in Symphony Hall, begins with cocktails at 5:30, followed by supper at 6:30 and the concert at 8:00. A champagne reception with John Williams will follow for Benefactors. The concert will include a piece by John Bolcom especially commissioned for this evening,- many special guests will also be part of the opening celebration. Ticket prices, which include the supper, range from $17.50 to $100. For ticket information, please call Mrs. Deborah Spangler at 899-4982. The Junior Council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is a group of young men and women who donate their varied talents and time to fundraising efforts, such as "Opening Night at Pops" and sale of the Symphony Mint, for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. New members are admitted in September, January, and May. For further information, please call the Friends' Office at 266-1348. Share the BSO with the Kids!! The final program of this season's Boston Symphony Youth Concerts, Harry Ellis Dickson, Artistic Director, will focus on The Classical Orchestra and feature music of Haydn, Mozart, and Prokofiev. Although weekday concerts are sold out, a limited number of Saturday-morning tickets are available this year due to school budget cuts which have affected group sales. Share the BSO with the kids on either Saturday morning, 27 March at 11, or Saturday morning, 3 April at 11. Please call the Symphony Hall Youth Activities Office at 267-0656 for complete ticket information. In addition, the second of this year's new Boston Symphony High School Concerts takes place on Monday morning, 29 March at 10:15. An all-Mozart program offers examples of the composer's work as dramatist, performer, and symphonist: the overture to Don Giovanni, two movements from the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466, and the Haffner Symphony. For ticket information, please call 267-0656. BSOonWGBH Interviews by Robert J. Lurtsema with BSO personalities and guest artists continue this season on WGBH-FM-89.7's Morning Pro Musica. Coming up= pianist Misha Dichter on Friday morning, 12 March at 11, and noted Haydn specialist, conductor Antal Dorati, on Monday morning, 5 April at 1 1 With Thanks We wish to give special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities for their continued support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. BSO Members in Concert The debut of the Boston Radio Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Wolfe will mark the return to the Boston area of live, in-studio orchestra concerts intended solely for broad- cast. The group is composed primarily of BSO members, and Music Director Wolfe is BSO assistant principal bass as well as principal bass of the Boston Pops. The Boston Radio Orchestra will give six concerts during the 1982-83 season. The first concert will be broadcast from the studios of WGBH-FM-89.7 on Sunday 21 March at 2 and will include Haydn's Symphony No. 30 (Alleluia), Mozart's Symphony No. 33, and Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, with BSO cellist Ronald Feldman as the featured soloist. The contemporary chamber ensemble Collage, whose music director is BSO percus- sionist Frank Epstein and which also includes BSO members Martha Babcock, Ann Hobson Pilot, and Joel Smirnoff, offers its final concert of the season on Monday evening, 29 March at 8, at Sanders Theater. The program includes music of Louis Gruenberg, John Heiss, Leonard Rosenman, T.J. Anderson, and Ray Shattenkirk. Earlier that evening, at 5 p.m. at the Longy School of Music, there will be a discussion of "The Composer Today," featuring T.J. Anderson, Charles Fussell, John Harbison, and John Heiss. For ticket information, please call 738-5372. The Boston Artists' Ensemble, which includes violinist Arturo Delmoni, pianist Andrew Wolf, and BSO cellist Jonathan Miller, has two concerts coming up at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge: on Tuesday evening, 30 March at 8, they'll perform trios by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn. On Tuesday evening, 4 May there'll be music of Beethoven, Faure, Chopin, Debussy, and Grieg. For ticket information, please call 864-1774. Wednesday, 31 March at 8 p.m. in Symphony Hall "SOIREE MUSICALE" A Special Concert Commemorating Franz Joseph Haydn's 250th Birthday with ANTAL DORATI Michael Steinberg, host Music of Haydn, Debussy, Ravel, and Dorati, with participating artists Use von Alpenheim, piano,- vocalists Linda Zoghby, Sarah Walker, Claes H.