OSTON sOYMPHONY OORCHESTRA - For BestAudience. kc £0? das AlRST NAME IN COGNAC SINCE 172 THE COGNAC RtGJl XCLUSiVELY f IN€ CHAMPAGNE COGNAC fROM THE TWO BEST DISTRICTS Of THE Sole U.S.A. Distributor Foreign Vintages, Inc. N.Y., N.Y 80 Proof. MSHMMHBlHin Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundred and Second Season, 1982-83 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 Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick William J. Poorvu J.P. Barger Mrs. John L. Grandin Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley David G. Mugar Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Albert L. Nickerson Mrs. George Lee Sargent George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Thomas D. 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I ENJOY THE CONVENIENCE OF YOUR FILENE CHARGE BSO John Williams Signs New Pops Contract BSO General Manager Thomas W Morris has recently announced John Williams's agreement to a long-term commitment with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Under his new contract, whose initial terms are firm until 1987, Williams will conduct seven weeks of the Pops season, in addition to Tanglewood specials, Christmas Pops concerts, the Fourth- of-July concert on the Esplanade, and other Esplanade concerts in July. "It seemed appropriate that after three happy years of getting to know this great orchestra, and their getting to know me, that we look at this as a long-term commitment," Williams said. "With a full sense of the history of this marvelous and unique institution, I hope we can work towards a future as bright as the glorious past has been. I am delighted and honored to continue my association with the Pops and look forward to a long and happy future with my colleagues and friends in Boston." BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon '83!! The Council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra invites everyone to participate in its major fundraising event, the 1983 BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon, on 11, 12, and 13 March. WCRB-FM-102.5, with Richard L. Kaye at the helm, will begin broadcasting from the Cabot-Cahners Room in Symphony Hall at 9 a.m. Friday morning and will continue until this year's Marathon goal of $300,000 is reached Sunday night. During the week- end, hundreds of volunteers will staff Symphony Hall taking telephone pledges and ensuring the smooth running of every facet of this year's endeavor. WCVB-TV-Channel 5 will broadcast a special Sunday-evening program featuring performances by the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Pops under John Williams. This year's premiums offer something for everyone, including a specially commissioned silk- screened poster, "The Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa," by Lance Hidy. Exclusive premiums new this year include an updated tote bag, a lyre pendant in silver and gold, and a stuffed BSO bear sporting a sweater hand-knit by Council members. In addition, members of the orchestra and Symphony Hall staff have donated many unique premiums, as have numerous BSO Trustees and Overseers. The 1983 BSO/WCRB Mara- thon Catalog, with more items than ever before, and underwritten with the help of New England Telephone, will be in the mail early in February. Invitations are already in the mail for a gala Marathon Preview Party to take place Tuesday, 1 March, with complimen- tary champagne, music, a cash bar, and a cocktail buffet. At 7:15 that evening, Sotheby Parke Bernet will be on hand to offer a very special group of premiums, ranging from Reed and Barton pewter candlesticks to a helicopter ride over Boston Harbor to a tour of the West Wing of the White House. Tickets for the Preview Party are $12.50 per person. For further information and reservations, call the Marathon Office at (617) 266-1492, ext. 230. Share the BSO With the Kids! The second program of this season's Boston Symphony Youth Concerts, Harry Ellis Dickson, Artistic Director and Conductor, will include Ibert's Divertissement and a staged production with music from Richard Strauss's Bourgeois gentilhomme Suite. Steven Aveson of WBZ-TV's "Evening Magazine," actor Will Lebow, and Deborah Wolf, resi- dent choreographer at the Concert Dance Company of Boston, will be featured in the Strauss. Dates for this program are Wednesday, 16 February at 10:15 a.m.; Friday, 18 February at 10:15 a.m.; and Saturday, 19 February at 10=30 a.m. For tickets and further information about Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall, call the Youth Activities Office at (617)266-1492. The first of this year's two Boston Symphony High School Concerts will take place on Thursday morning, 17 February at 10:15. The program includes Haydn's Military Sym- phony, Darius Milhaud's Creation of the World, and the Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3. Marc Mandel, program annotator and music consultant for the BSO Youth Con- certs, will introduce the program. William Pierce, the "radio voice" of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will be guest host for the second high school program on Thurs- day, 24 March. For tickets, or for additional information regarding the two-concert high school series, call the Youth Activities Office at Symphony Hall, (617) 266-1492. BSO Members in Concert BSO principal clarinet Harold Wright will perform the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Newton Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ronald Knudsen on Sunday evening, 16 January at 8 p.m. at Brown Junior High School, Meadowbrook Road in New- ton. For information, call 332-7495 or 965-2555. BSO principal cellist Jules Eskin performs music of Brahms, Chadwick, and Chopin with pianist Virginia Eskin at the Gardner Museum on Sunday, 30 January at 3 p.m. BSO cellist Ronald Feldman appears in recital with Elizabeth Morse, harp, at the First Parish Church of Watertown, 35 Church Street (corner of Summer Street), on Friday, 4 February at 8 p.m.