THE MUSIC DIRECTOR music department he organizes the vocal lenufa, Aida, Parsifal, The flying Dutch- fellows' activities, which have been much When ERICH LEINSDORF relinquishes his man, Tristan und Isolde, Elektra and Son's extended during the last two seasons. post as Music Director of the Boston Sym- Codunov, to name only a few. He now Charles Wilson becomes principal resi- phony Orchestra at the end of the 1969 lives in Hamburg. dent conductor of the New York City Berkshire Festival, he will have made a Opera Company, beginning this coming significant contribution to American mu- SHERRILL MILNES, who made his first fall. sical life. Under his leadership the Or- appearance with the Boston Symphony chestra has presented many premieres and last summer here at Tanglewood, started revived many forgotten works. Among THE SOLOISTS his professional career as a member of the latter have been the complete Schu- Margaret Hiilis's Chicago Choir, and was mann Faust, the original versions of Twenty-three year old ANDRE WATTS soon taking solo parts when the chorus Beethoven's Fidelio and Strauss's Ariadne made his debut with the Boston Sym- appeared with the Chicago Symphony. auf Naxos, and the Piano concerto no. 1 phony Orchestra last winter. He started He won scholarships to the opera depart- of Xaver Scharwenka, while among the to study the piano with his mother when ment of the Berkshire Music Center for numerous world and American premieres he was seven. Two years later he won a two consecutive summers, then joined have been works like Britten's War competition to play a Haydn concert for Boris Goldovsky's company for several requiem and Cello symphony, the piano one of the Philadelphia Orchestra chil- tours. After winning a Ford Foundation concertos of Barber and Carter, Schuller's dren's concerts, appeared the following award in 1962, he sang with the Pitts- Diptych for brass quintet and orchestra, summer at the Robin Hood Dell, and at burgh, San Antonio, Houston, Central City, and Piston's Symphony no. 8. Despite his the age of fourteen he was soloist again and Cincinnati Opera companies. heavy schedule, leading the majority of with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Franck's Today he is a regular singer at the Metro-- the concerts during the lengthy Boston 'Symphonic Variations'. He auditioned for politan Opera. He has sung leading roless Symphony winter season, the Berkshire Leonard Bernstein shortly afterwards, and in Faust, Pique Dame, Fidelio, Aida, Un\ Festival in the summer, and heading the early in 1963 was soloist at a New York ballo in maschera, Lohengrin and Mourn- activities of the Berkshire Music Center, Philharmonic Young People's concert. ing becomes Electra. He has appeared Erich Leinsdorf has found time to make Three weeks later he stepped in to take abroad in Venice, Florence, Milan and several guest conducting tours with Euro- the place of Glenn Gould, who was ill, at Mexico City. Sherrill Milnes records for pean orchestras, and to record full-length two regular New York Philharmonic sub- RCA. Recently he took part in recordings operas for RCA Records, the most recent scription concerts. Since then Andre Watts with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Sym- of which were Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, a has played with many of the major or- phony of Brahms's A German Requiem, Grammy award winner, Verdi's Masked chestras in the United States, and in Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw and ball, and Salome by Strauss, soon to be Europe with the London Philharmonic and Beethoven's Ninth symphony. released. During the past months Erich the Berlin Philharmonic. During a State Leinsdorf has conducted in Frankfurt and Department tour in the autumn of 1967 Lausanne, and a few days before return- he made solo appearances abroad in MARALIN NISKA is a native of California, ing to the United States led the London many cities, including Paris, Munich, and was encouraged early in life towardsl Symphony Orchestra in their 65th anni- Milan, Athens and Teheran. Andre Watts a singing career. She won a Los Angeles versary concert. records for Columbia Records. Philharmonic contest and was the LoS: Angeles finalist in the San Francisco Opera THE ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Debut Auditions before her professional RICHARD CASSILLY, who last appeared CHARLES WILSON, Assistant Conductor debut in 1959 as Manon. New York audi- with the Boston Symphony in perform- of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, came ences first heard her as Susannah in ances of Beethoven's Ninth symphony to Boston from New York City, where for November 1965 at the New York State three years ago, began his musical train- six years he was a conductor and on the Theatre at Lincoln Center, and since then ing at the Peabody Conservatory in Balti- musical staff of the New York City Opera she has sung leading roles with the more. He then moved to New York and Company, where he has returned regu- Metropolitan National Opera Company spent a season in the Opera Department larly as a guest conductor; last season he and the New York City Opera in La Tra- of the Berkshire Music Center here at directed performances of Mozart's The viata. Madam Butterfly, The marriage of Tanglewood. After making his professional marriage of Figaro, and this season he Figaro, La Boheme, Faust and Prince Igor. debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in has conducted the Company's production She has also appeared with other leading 1954, he joined the original Broadway of Madam Butterfly. opera companies and with many major production of The saint of Bleeker Street. orchestras. Earlier this year she sang four- Charles Wilson received a Bachelor of This led to his engagement by the New teen performances as Violetta in La Travi- Science degree in Music in 1960 from the York City Opera, where he sang in the ata in Israel. Maralin Niska makes her Mannes College of Music. company for eleven consecutive years. debut with the Boston Symphony this Last summer he conducted concerts by Meanwhile he was engaged to sing with weekend. both the Boston Symphony and Berkshire almost every major opera company, sym- Music Center Orchestras, as he does phony orchestra and music festival in ARA BERBERIAN, who has sung on many again this year, and during the winter North America. During the last few years occasions with the Boston Symphony Or season appeared with the Orchestra on Richard Cassilly has sung regularly in chestra in Boston, New York and here at many occasions. As head of vocal activi- opera houses in Europe, including the Tanglewood, has sung leading roles in ties of the Berkshire Music Center, he Deutsche Oper of West Berlin, the Ham- more than seventy-five operas with the prepares the Tanglewood Choir and the burg State Opera, the Opera of the Royal San Francisco Opera, New York Cityt Berkshire Chorus for their performances Theatre in Geneva, and the Royal Opera Opera, New Orleans Opera and othei with the Boston Symphony, and as head House, Covent Garden. His repertoire in- companies across the country. He has alsO' of the Berkshire Music Center's vocal cludes leading roles in Samson, Fidelio, appeared with more than forty symphony| ERICH LEINSDORF CHARLES WILSON ANDRE WATTS RICHARD CASSILLY Milton Feinberg Buck Hoeffler 30.