three 99th SEASON &M^ BOSTON SYMPHONY SEIJI OZAWA Music Director 4 te \y,\ ^ "S ^ %. Accompanist to Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops • Gilbert Kalish • Seiji Ozawa Berkshire Music Center and Festival QUALITY A DISTINGUISHING ATTRIBUTE State Street Bank and Trust Company invites you to an evening with The Boston Symphony Orchestra every Friday at nine on WCRB/FM. gr^ Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Ninety-Ninth Season 1979-1980 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Talcott M. Banks, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President John L. Thorndike, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Archie C. Epps 111 Thomas D. Perry, Jr. Allen G. Barry E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Leo L. Beranek Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. John M. Bradley George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Edward G. Murray Mrs. George Lee Sargent Abram T. Collier Albert L. Nickerson John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan Harold D. Hodgkinson Mrs. James H. Perkins Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thomas W. Morris General Manager Peter Gelb Gideon Toeplitz Daniel R. Gustin Assistant Manager Orchestra Manager Assistant Manager Joseph M. Hobbs Walter D.Hill William Bernell Director of Director of Assistant to the Development Business Affairs General Manager Lawrence Murray Anita R. Kurland Dorothy Sullivan Promotion Administrator of Controller Coordinator Youth Activities Elizabeth Dunton Richard Ortner Elisabeth Quinn Director of Assistant Administrator, Director of Sales Berkshire Music Center Volunteer Services Charles Rawson James F. Kiley Katherine Whitty Manager of Operations Manager, Coordinator of Box Office Tanglewood Boston Council James E. Whitaker Marc Mandel Hall Manager, Acting Symphony Hall Publications Editor Programs copyright © 1979 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Leo L. Beranek Chairman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Weston P. Figgins Mrs. William H. Ryan V ice-Chairman V ice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Haskell Gordon Stephen Paine, Sr. John Q. Adams Mrs. John L. Grandin David R. Pokross Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. Howard E. Hansen William Poorvu Hazen H. Ayer Christian Halby Mrs. Curtis Prout Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Harry Remis David W. Bernstein Mrs. Richard D. Hill Mrs. Peter van S. Rice David Bird Mrs. Amory Houghton, Jr. Mrs. Samuel L. Rosenberry Gerhard D. Bleicken Richard S. Humphrey, Jr. Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld William M. Bulger Mrs. Louis I. Kane Mrs. George R. Rowland Mrs. Keltoi, Burbank Leonard Kaplan Francis P. Sears, Jr. Curtis Buttenheim Mrs. F. Corning Kenly, Jr. William A. Selke Mrs. Mary Louise Cabot John Kittredge Gene Shalit The Hon. Levin H. Campbell III Robert K. Kraft Donald Sinclair Julian Cohen Benjamin H. Lacy Samuel L. Slosberg Johns H. Congdon Mrs. Henry A. Laughlin Richard Smith Arthur P. Contas Mrs. Warren B. Manhard, Jr. Peter J. Sprague Mrs. C. Russell Eddy C. Charles Marran Mrs. Arthur I. Strang William Edgerly J. William Middendorf II Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson Mrs. John Fitzpatrick Colman M. Mockler Lawrence W. Strattner, Jr. Paul Fromm Paul Montrone Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Carlton P. Fuller Mrs. Elting E. Morison Mark Tishler Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. Stephen V. C. Morris D. Thomas Trigg Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Richard P. Morse Mrs. Donald Wilson Mrs. Robert Gibb David Mugar Roger H. Woodworth Jordan L. Golding The best of the bunch UnionWarren Savings Bank Main Office— 133 Federal Street, Boston mm m - i "Jt's your lawyer and New England Merchants trust officer, sir. There's been another change in the tax laws." For gcx)d advice on personal trust matters, call our Trust Division at (617) 742-4000. Or write New England Merchants National Bank, 28 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The Bank of New England. (D The Boston Symphony Orchestra's European tour, 24 August to 8 September, was its first ever devoted exclusively to appearances at the major European music festivals, playing in close proximity to such orchestras as the Berlin Philhar- monic and the Vienna Philharmonic, and was marked by an extremely high level of music-making, high spirits, and an almost unexpected level of audience and critical acclaim. The tour included the Salzburg Festival, performances at Lucerne, Montreux, and Besancon, appearances in Belgium at Brussels and Ghent, and the Berlin and Edinburgh festivals. Tour repertory highlights included the complete ballet scores of Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and, in Salzburg and Berlin, Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. The Orchestra received a $125,000 grant from Technics, a division of Japan's Mat- sushita Electric Industrial Company, to help fund the tour. Joseph Silverstein and the BSO This season marks Joseph Silverstein's twenty-fifth year with the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra: he joined the Orchestra in 1955 under then Music Director Charles Munch, became Concertmaster in 1962 under Erich Leinsdorf, and was named Assistant Conductor at the beginning of the 1971-72 season under William Steinberg. BSO listeners, orchestra members, and staff note this anniver- sary with considerable pride and thanks. Art Exhibitions in the Cabot-Cahners Room The Boston Symphony Orchestra is pleased to continue its samplings of Boston- based art. Each month a different gallery or art organization will be represented by an exhibition in the Cabot-Cahners Room, and the first half of the season includes: 2 October - 29 October Impressions Gallery 29 October - 27 November Art/Asia 27 November - 27 December Decor International 27 December - 21 January Polaroid 21 January - 18 February Art Institute of Boston Information for Friends Stage Door Lecture dates, all Fridays, are 12 October, 7 December, 11 January, 29 February, and 28 March. At the first, at 11:45 on 12 October, Luise Vosgerchian will focus on that day's program. The Council is again presenting a series of Pre-Symphony Suppers for Friends of the BSO: Tuesday 'B' 23 October, 27 November, 22 April Tuesday 'C 13 November, 11 December, 1 April Thursday 'A' 15 November, 7 February, 3 April Thursday '10' 18 October, 10 January, 13 March Thursday 'B' 17 January, 21 February, 27 March Please call the Friends' Office at 266-1348 for further information. The dealership as respected as the automobiles it represents. V BMW Maserati ^M Leasing Arrangements Available /IIIto Engineering. 436 Marrett Road (Rte.2-A) Lexington, Mass. 862-6700 RTE 128 Seiji Ozawa In the fall of 1973, Seiji Ozawa became the thirteenth Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since the Orchestra's founding in 1881. Born in Shenyang, China in 1935 to Japanese parents, Mr. Ozawa studied both Western and Oriental music as a child and later graduated from Tokyo's Toho School of Music with first prizes in composition and conducting. In the fall of 1959 he won first prize at the Interna- tional Competition of Orchestra Con- ductors, Besancon, France. Charles Munch, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony and a judge at the competition, invited him toTanglewood for the summer following, and he there won the Berkshire Music Center's high- est honor, the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductor. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, whom he accompanied on the New York Philhar- monic's spring 1961 Japan tour, and he was made an Assistant Conductor of that orchestra for the 1961-62 season. His first professional concert appearance in North America came in January 1962 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival for rive summers begin- ning in 1963, and Music Director for four seasons of the Toronto Symphony Orches- tra, a post he relinquished at the end of the 1968-69 season in favor or guest conduct- ing numerous American and European orchestras. Seiji Ozawa first conducted the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January of 1968; he had previously appeared with the Orchestra at Tanglewood, where he was made an Artistic Director in 1970. In December of that year he began his inaugural season as Conductor and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. The Music Directorship of the Boston Symphony followed in 1973, and Mr. Ozawa resigned his San Francisco position in the spring of 1976, remaining Honorary Conductor there for the 1976-77 season. As Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Ozawa has strengthened the Orchestra's reputation internationally as well as at home. In February/March of 1976 he conducted concerts on the Orchestra's European tour, and in March 1978 he took the Orchestra to Japan for thirteen concerts in nine cities. At the invitation of the People's Republic of China, he then spent a week working with the Peking Central Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later, in March of 1979, he returned to China with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra for a signifi- cant musical and cultural exchange entailing coaching, study, and discussion ses- sions with Chinese musicians, as well as concert performances. Most recently, in August/September of 1979, the Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Ozawa under- took its first tour devoted exclusively to appearances at the major music festivals of Europe, playing concerts at Lucerne, Montreux, and Besancon, in Belgium at Brussels and Ghent, and at the Salzburg, Berlin, and Edinburgh festivals. Mr. Ozawa pursues an active international career and appears regularly with the orchestras of Berlin, Paris, and Japan. Since he first conducted opera at Salzburg in 1969, he has led numerous large-scale operatic and choral works.