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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WILLIAM STEINBERG Music Director MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Associate 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 Robert Ripley Rolland Tapley Richard Plaster Roger Shermont Luis Leguia Winder Carol Procter Max horns Harry Dickson Jerome Patterson James Stagliano Gottfried Wilfinger Ronald Feldman Charles Yancich Fredy Ostrovsky William Stokking Leo Panasevich Joel Moerschel Harry Shapiro Noah Bielski David Ohanian Herman Silberman basses Thomas Newell Benson Paul Keaney Stanley Henry Portnoi Sheldon Rotenberg Ralph Pottle William Rhein Alfred Schneider Joseph Hearne Gerald Gelbloom trumpets Bela Wurtzler Raymond Sird Leslie Martin Armando Ghitalla John Salkowski Roger Voisin second violins John Barwicki Andre Come Clarence Knudson Robert Olson Gerard Goguen William Marshall Lawrence Wolfe Michel Sasson trombones Ronald Knudsen flutes William Gibson Leonard Moss Doriot Anthony Dwyer Ronald Barron William Waterhouse Walter Piston chair Kauko Kahila Ayrton Pinto James Pappoutsakis Amnon Levy Paul Fried tuba Laszlo Nagy Chester Schmitz Michael Vitale John Korman piccolo timpani Christopher Kimber Lois Schaefer Spencer Larrison Everett Firth Ikuk.o Mizuno oboes Cecylia Arzewski percussion Ralph Gomberg Marylou Speaker Charles Smith John Holmes Arthur Press Wayne Rapier violas assistant timpanist Burton Fine Thomas Gauger english horn Charles S. Dana chair Frank Epstein Reuben Green Laurence Thorstenberg Eugene Lehner harps George Humphrey clarinets Bernard Zighera Ann Hobson Jerome Lipson Harold Wright Robert Karol Pasquale Cardillo Bernard Kadinoff librarians Peter Hadcock Vincent Mauricci Victor Alpert £b clarinet Earl Hedberg William Shisler Joseph Pietropaolo Robert Barnes bass clarinet stage manager Hironaka Sugie* Felix Viscuglia Alfred Robison personnel manager William Moyer *member of the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra participating in a one season exchange with Yizhak Schotten. ONE BOSTON PLACE a distinctive new home for Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company After 60 years at 100 Franklin Street, we have moved to the new Boston Company Building at One Boston Place. We are the major tenants of this distinguished structure and occupy its first eight floors. Our new location is at the junction of Washington, Court and State Streets, across from the Old State House in Boston's financial district. Our Trust Company entrance is on Court Street. Our new facilities will enable us, as one of New England's largest and oldest trust organizations, to continue to provide the best in contemporary customer service in a locale of great tradition. BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY ONE BOSTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02106 136 CONTENTS 139 Program for October 9 and 10 1970 187 Future programs Program notes 1 32 151 Reger _ Variations and fugue on a theme by Mozart op. by Andrew Raeburn 153 Bruckner- Symphony no. 7 in E (1883) by John N. Burk 170 The Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1970 173 The Music Director Program Editor ANDREW RAEBURN 137 XAforry not work, is what makes a man old before his time. Here's what you can do to make things easier for your husband The pace. The grind. The rat race. The jungle. Fears and frustrations (especially the financial kind) can do a cruel job on the family manoftheyo's. Old Colony can help. 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