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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 © 1971 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 643 Accompanist to: I The Boston Symphony I Baldwin Piano & Organ Company I BALDWIN 160 Boylston Street • Boston, Massachusetts 02116 • Phone 426-0775 PIANOS • ORGANS 50 Middlesex Turnpike • Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 • Phone 273-0450 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 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. 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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 Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Richard 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 Noah Bielski Thomas Newell Sheldon Rotenberg basses Ralph Pottle Stanley Benson Henry Portnoi Alfred Schneider Gerald Gelbloom William Rhein trumpets Joseph Hearne Raymond Sird Armando Ghitalla Ikuko Mizuno Bela Wurtzler Roger Voisin Leslie Martin Cecylia Arzewski 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 english Charles S. 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Avenue Another gift idea is to give someone a suf- Cambridge, Mass. 02138 ficient quantity of a single wine so that he or Telephone 491-2411 or 491-7629 •;-- '--' ~~i CONTENTS Program for December 17 and 18 1971 651 Future programs 699 Program notes Corelli - Concerto grosso in G minor op. 6 no. 8 'Christmas' 663 by John N. Burk Mendelssohn - Symphony no. 1 in C minor op. 11 666 by Klaus C. Roy Dvorak - Symphony no. 9 in E minor op. 95 'New World' 668 by John N. Burk The Guest Conductor 681 ANDREW RAEBURN Program Editor and Assistant to the Music Director 649 NINETY-FIRST SEASON 1971-1972 Friday afternoon December 17 1971 at 2 o'clock Saturday evening December 18 1971 at 8.30 ALDO CECCATO conductor CORELLI Concerto grosso in G minor op.