*jM?kviA- : .-. »^_z> ->ttV^;A '^ "* ^ .- — :i =: : WwfP'" -'-;- t- QUADRUM The Mall At Chestnut Hill 617-965-5555 •^a, &r* BOSTON Seiji Ozawa, Music Director SYMPHONY .ORCHESTRA Carl St. Clair and Pascal Verrot, SEIJi OZAWA^ Assistant Conductors S\uuc Director One Hundred and Eighth Season, 1988-89 Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., Chairman George H. Kidder, President J.P Barger, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Lewis S. Dabney, Vice-Chairman Archie C. Epps, Vice-Chairman William J. Poorvu, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Vernon R. Alden Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. August R. Meyer David B. Arnold, Jr. Mrs. John H. Fitzpatrick Mrs. Robert B. Newman Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Avram J. Goldberg Peter C. Read James F. Cleary Mrs. John L. Grandin Richard A. Smith Julian Cohen Francis W. Hatch, Jr. Ray Stata William M. Crozier, Jr. Harvey Chet Krentzman William F. Thompson Mrs. Michael H. Davis Roderick M. MacDougall Nicholas T. Zervas Trustees Emeriti Philip K. Allen E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Mrs. George R. Rowland Allen G. Barry Edward M. Kennedy Mrs. George Lee Sargent Leo L. Beranek Albert L. Nickerson Sidney Stoneman Mrs. John M. Bradley Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Abram T. Collier Irving W Rabb John L. Thorndike Mrs. Harris Fahnestock Other Officers of the Corporation John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Jay B. Wailes, Assistant Treasurer Daniel R. Gustin, Clerk Administration of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Kenneth Haas, Managing Director Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Managing Director and Manager of Tanglewood Michael G. McDonough, Director of Finance and Business Affairs Anne H. Parsons, Orchestra Manager Costa Pilavachi, Artistic Administrator Caroline Smedvig, Director of Promotion Josiah Stevenson, Director of Development Robert Bell, Data Processing Manager Marc Mandel, Publications Coordinator Helen P. Bridge, Director of Volunteers John C. Marksbury, Director of Madelyne Codola Cuddeback, Director Foundation and Government Support of Corporate Development Julie-Anne Miner, Supervisor of Patricia F Halligan, Personnel Administrator Fund Accounting Russell M. Hodsdon, Manager of Box Office Richard Ortner, Administrator of Craig R. Kaplan, Controller Tanglewood Music Center Nancy A. Kay, Director of Sales Nancy E. Phillips, Media and Production John M. Keenum, Director of Manager, Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood Music Center Development Scott Schillin, Assistant Manager, Patricia Krol, Coordinator of Youth Activities Pops and Youth Activities Steven Ledbetter, Musicologist & Joyce M. Serwitz, Assistant Director Program Annotator of Development Michelle R. Leonard, Budget Manager Susan E. Tomlin, Director of Annual Giving Programs copyright ®1988 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover by Diane Fassi no I'Design Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Avram J. Goldberg, Chairman John F. Cogan, Jr., Vice-Chairman Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III, Secretary Martin Allen Mark R. Goldweitz Mrs. Thomas S. Morse Mrs. David Bakalar Haskell R. Gordon E. James Morton Bruce A. Beal Steven Grossman David G. Mugar Mrs. Richard Bennink Joe M. Henson Mrs. Hiroshi H. Nishino Mrs. Leo L. Beranek Susan M. Hilles Robert P. O'Block Lynda Schubert Bodman Glen H. Hiner Vincent M. O'Reilly Donald C. Bowersock, Jr. Ronald A. Homer Walter H. Palmer Peter A. Brooke Julian T. Houston Andrall E. Pearson William M. Bulger Lola Jaffe John A. Perkins Mrs. Levin H. Campbell Anna Faith Jones Daphne Brooks Prout Earle M. Chiles H. Eugene Jones Robert E. Remis Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Mrs. Bela T. Kalman John Ex Rodgers James F. Cleary Susan B. Kaplan Mrs. William H. Ryan Mrs. Nat Cole Mrs. S. Charles Kasdon Roger A. Saunders William H. Congleton Howard Kaufman Mrs. Raymond H. Schneider Walter J. Connolly, Jr. Robert D. King Mark L. Selkowitz Albert C. Cornelio Mrs. Gordon F Kingsley Malcolm L. Sherman Phyllis Curtin Mrs. Carl Koch Mrs. Donald B. Sinclair Alex V. d'Arbeloff Robert K. Kraft W. Davies Sohier, Jr. Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett Mrs. Hart D. Leavitt Ralph Z. Sorenson Phyllis Dohanian R. Willis Leith, Jr. Ira Stepanian Harriett M. Eckstein Laurence Lesser Mrs. Arthur I. Strang Edward Eskandarian Stephen R. Levy Mark Tishler, Jr. Katherine Fanning Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Luise Vosgerchian Peter M. Flanigan Mrs. Charles P. Lyman Mrs. An Wang Henry L. Foster Mrs. Harry L. Marks Robert A. Wells Dean Freed C. Charles Marran Mrs. Thomas H.P Whitney Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen Nathan R. Miller Mrs. John J. Wilson Jordan L. Golding Hanae Mori Brunetta R. Wolfman Overseers Emeriti Mrs. Frank G. Allen Mrs. Louis I. Kane David R. Pokross Hazen H. Ayer Leonard Kaplan Mrs. Peter van S. Rice Mary Louise Cabot Benjamin H. Lacy Mrs. Jerome Rosenfeld Mrs. Thomas J. Galligan Mrs. James F. Lawrence Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. Thomas Gardiner Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris Mrs. Donald B. Wilson Mrs. Richard D. Hill Stephen Paine, Sr. Symphony Hall Operations Robert L. Gleason, Facilities Manager Cheryl Silvia, Function Manager James E. Whitaker, House Manager Cleveland Morrison, Stage Manager Franklin Smith, Supervisor of House Crew Wilmoth A. Griffiths, Assistant Supervisor of House Crew William D. McDonnell, Chief Steward H.R. Costa, Lighting .: »' v ,v Officers of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Mrs. Eugene B. Doggett, President Phyllis Dohanian, Executive Vice-President * i • Ms. Helen Doyle, Secretary Mr. Goetz B. Eaton, Treasurer Mrs. Florence T. Whitney, Nominating Chairman Vice-Presidents Mrs. Nathaniel Bates, Hall Services Mrs. David Robinson, Fundraising Projects Ms. Kathleen Heck, Development Services Mrs. Harry F. Sweitzer, Jr., Public Relations Mrs. William D. Larkin, Tanglewood Mrs. Thomas S. Walker, Regions Mrs. Anthony Massimiano, Tanglewood Ms. Margaret Williams, Youth Activities Mrs. Jeffrey Millman, Membership and Adult Education Chairmen of Regions Mrs. Russell R. Bessette Mrs. Robert Miller Mrs. Ralph Seferian Mrs. James Cooke Mrs. Hugo A. Mujica Mrs. Anthony A. Tambone Mrs. Linda Fenton Mrs. G. William Newton Mrs. Richard E. Thayer Mrs. Harvey B. Gold Mrs. Jay B. Pieper Mr. F. Preston Wilson Mrs. Daniel Hosage OUR THIRTY- FIRST YEAR JUCflAM M-MJM, inc. JEWELERS . invites you to view our collection of handcrafted fine gold and platinum jewelry. We specialize in 1 I custom design and restoration. All work is done on the premises by our master goldsmiths. Choose from our selection of fine quality stones or incorporate your own into a contemporary or traditional design to suit your taste . 43 CENTRAL STREET • WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS • 237-2730 — ; m I H I I Em A little praise for a big accomplishment m congratulations to the Boston Symphony on their 108th season! Living the good life. Jordan marsh EST. 1851 MASSACHUSETTS CONNECTICUT RHODE ISLAND NEW HAMPSHIRE MAINE NEW YORK tilwtf BSO BSO principals Alfred Genovese, Harold Wright, Sherman Walt, and Charles Kava- Symphony Spotlight lovski. The programs also include Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra and a performance This is one in a series biographical sketches of of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with soprano on some the generous individuals that focus of Jessye Norman. who have endowed chairs in the Boston Sym- Subscribers should note that because of the phony Orchestra. Their backgrounds are var- tour, there will be no Boston Symphony ied, but each a special commitment to the felt Orchestra concerts at Symphony Hall in Boston Symphony Orchestra. December. The orchestra will resume its per- UK Anne Stoneman Chair formances here following the Christmas Pops season, in early January. For more than fifty years and continuing well into her eighties, Mrs. David Stoneman came Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts on to Members in Concert BSO « 1 . .X Friday afternoons and sat in the same seat in the left front section of Symphony Hall. She Max Hobart leads the Civic Symphony began attending concerts before the Orchestra at Jordan Hall on Sunday, Kg Koussevitzky era, and her devotion to the November 20, at 3 p.m. The program includes s* -« «> 1 V orchestra extended through the Munch and the world premiere of Chambliss Giobbi's - • • 1 Leinsdorf years. A very private woman, she Lunar Sun, composed for the Civic Symphony made her family the center of her life. She Orchestra, Barber's Essay No. 1 for Orches- grew up in Boston, where she remained for all tra, Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, and ^* c : of her ninety-nine years. In addition to her Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, with piano family, her other great loves in Boston were soloist Leslie Amper. Tickets are $12 and $8; the BSO and the Red Sox! Mrs. Stoneman for further information call 437-0231. lived quietly in dignity and beauty, and the BSO bass player John Salkowski and endowment of the Boston Symphony Orches- pianist Louise Grabowski present a recital of tra Chair currently occupied by assistant prin- music for double bass at the Massachusetts cipal violist Patricia McCarty is intended to Hospital School in Canton on Friday, honor Mrs. Stoneman's memory appropriately November 18, at 10:30 a.m. The program will M by benefiting an institution she held so dear. include music of Saint-Saens and Henry Eccles, and, in their premiere performances, arrangements by Mr. Salkowski of Jeffrey BSO to Tour Europe Moss's Rubber Duckie and marches by John December 1 through 14 Philip Sousa. For further information and The Boston Symphony Orchestra will tour to complimentary tickets call 828-2440. England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Harry Ellis Dickson leads the Boston Clas- Germany, and Austria from Thursday, Decem- sical Orchestra on Wednesday, December 7, and Friday, December 9, at 8 p.m. at Faneuil ber 1, through Wednesday, December 14, per- forming eleven concerts, in London, Hall. The program includes the overture to Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Hamburg, Rossini's La scala di seta, Haydn's Symphony Berlin, Hannover, Vienna, Frankfurt am No. 60, II distratto, and Mozart's Serenade Main, and Munich. The tour is being under- in D, K.100.