One Hundredth Season BEING THERE.. It can make a performance simultaneously electrifying and deeply personal. Clearly, there is no way to quite equal that experience at home. And even though we at Dahlquist design loudspeakers, we have always under- stood this. But being there isn't always possible for us, so we've devel- oped a loudspeaker that puts us almost there. It's called v the Dahlquist DQ-10 Phased Array.' And we're proud that over the years, music lovers have been so impressed with its ability to capture the elusive qualities of classical music that the DQ-10 has itself become a classic. What we've done is to restore the missing third dimension — depth. The DQ-10 gives the music back its substance and form and lets you explore its inner spaces. Subtlety, power, contrast, shading — perhaps even emotion and intent — stand revealed. There's nothing between you and the There are good technical reasons for this and if you write to us at the address below, we'll be glad to tell you about them. But all we want to say here is this — if music and musicality are im- portant in your life, visit a Dahlquist representative soon to audition the DQ-10. It's almost like being there. {Villi UHlm 601 Old Willets Path. Hauppaugc, NY 11787 TOMm Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor One Hundredth Season, 1980-81 The Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Abram T. Collier, Chairman Nelson J. Darling, Jr., President Philip K. Allen, Vice-President Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Vice-President Leo L. Beranek, Vice-President Sidney Stoneman, Vice-President Roderick M. MacDougall, Treasurer John Ex Rodgers, Assistant Treasurer Vernon R. Alden E. Morton Jennings, Jr. Irving W. Rabb Mrs. John M. Bradley Edward M. Kennedy Paul C. Reardon Mrs. Norman L. Cahners George H. Kidder David Rockefeller, Jr. George H.A. Clowes, Jr. David G. Mugar Mrs. George Lee Sargent Archie C. Epps III Albert L. Nickerson William A. Selke Mrs. John L. Grandin Thomas D. Perry, Jr. John Hoyt Stookey Trustees Emeriti Talcott M. Banks, Chairman of the Board Emeritus Allen G. Barry Edward G. Murray Mrs. James H. Perkins Richard P. Chapman John T. Noonan John L. Thorndike 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 Joyce M. Snyder Theodore A. Vlahos Richard Ortner Development Controller Administrator, Coordinator Berkshire Music Center Arlene Germain Katherine Whitty Financial Analyst Marc Solomon Coordinator of Production Elizabeth Dunton Boston Council Assistant Director of Sales Caroline E. Hessberg Anita R. Kurland Charles Rawson Promotion Administrator of Coordinator Manager of Box Office Youth Activities E. Whitaker Judith Gordon James James F. Kiley Assistant Promotion Hall Manager, Operations Manager, Coordinator Symphony Hall Tanglewood Steven Ledbetter Jean Miller MacKenzie Marc Mandel Director of Printing Production Editorial Publications Coordinator Coordinator Programs copyright ©1980 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Cover photo by Peter Schaaf The Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Mrs. Norman L. Cahners Chairman William J. Poorvu Mrs. William H. Ryan Vice-Chairman Secretary Charles F. Adams Jordan L. Golding J. William Middendorf II John Q. Adams Haskell R. Gordon Paul M. Montrone Mrs. Frank G. Allen Graham Gund Mrs. Hanae Mori Hazen H. Ayer Christian G. Halby Mrs. Stephen V.C. Morris J. P. Barger Mrs. R. Douglas Hall III Richard P. Morse Mrs. Richard Bennink Mrs. Howard E. Hansen Stephen Paine, Sr. David W. 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Morning pro musica is now heard coast to coast on stations of the Public Radio Cooperative in- cluding, in the New York/New England area: WGBH (fm 90) Boston, MA WFCR(88.5fm) Amherst, MA WAMC (90.3 fm) Albany, NY WNYC (93.9 fm) New York, NY WVPR(89.5fm) Vermont Public Radio WMEH (90.9 fm) Bangor, ME WMEA(90.1fm) Portland, ME WMEM (106.1 fm) Presque Isle, ME WPBH(90.5fm) Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, CT — BSO Boston Symphony Orchestra Centennial Tour This season, as part of its hundredth-anniversary festivities, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Seiji Ozawa will undertake a three-week trans- continental tour, the BSO's first coast-to-coast tour in seventeen years. Beginning 3 March, the orchestra will perform in fourteen cities throughout the United States Newark, New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Charleston, and Washington, D.C. — in repertory including Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, given its world premiere by the BSO; Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, both given their American premiere performances by the BSO; and the Symphony No. 2 of Peter Maxwell Davies, specially commissioned to celebrate the orchestra's centennial. Since Mr. Ozawa became the BSO's music director in 1973, he has led the orchestra on tour both at home and abroad. His major touring ventures have included the 1976 European tour; concerts in nine Japanese cities in 1978; an historical trip to China in 1979; and performances at the major music festivals of Europe later that same year. BSO on Record Seiji Ozawa's Boston Symphony recording of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps has just been released by Philips records; due from Philips this spring is the Ozawa/BSO disc of Hoist's The Planets, and Philips has also recorded the Boston Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 under Mr. Ozawa's direction for future release. Upcoming from CBS records is the orchestra's collaboration with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade in music of Maurice Ravel, including Sheherazade; and, most recently, Rudolf Serkin has recorded Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony for Telarc. Two Boston Symphony recordings conducted by Music Director Ozawa were singled out recently in High Fidelity magazine's thirteenth annual International Record Critics Awards: the BSO recording for Philips of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, a recent recipient of France's coveted Grand Prix du Disque, was named by High Fidelity as one of the three best recordings of 1980. And Ozawa's recording with soloist Itzhak Perlman of the Alban Berg and Igor Stravinsky violin concertos on Deutsche Grammophon was included among the year's nominees for best recording. Also included among these nominees was the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players recording, also for Deutsche Grammophon, of Strauss waltzes as transcribed by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. As the BSO prepares for its second century, the BSO/WCRB Musical Marathon enters its second decade: the eleventh annual Marathon will take place from Friday, 27 March through Sunday, 29 March, with excitement emanating from Symphony Hall and Quincy Market. WCRB-FM-102.5 will carry the Marathon live throughout the weekend, with television coverage of the BSO, the Pops, and many surprise celebrities on Sunday evening from 5:30 to 8 p.m., courtesy WCVB-TV-Channel 5. Each year, of course, the variety of premiums which one may receive by giving to the BSO increases, but this year's centennial season has inspired its own unique array of gift choices: a two- sided replica of a ticket to the very first BSO concert becomes a brass key ring or luggage tag; a T-shirt will be emblazoned with a reproduction of the program page from the first BSO concert; a totebag, clutch, eyeglass case, and scarf will feature a woodcut illustra- tion of Friday afternoon concertgoers leaving the old Boston Music Hall. The BSO/ WCRB Musical Marathon '81 premium catalog will be mailed to the orchestra's subscribers and Friends in late February; watch for it, or stop by Symphony Hall to pick one up. BSO Centennial Poster A highlight of the BSO's hundredth-anniversary celebrations is a poster specially commissioned from one of America's most prominent artists, Robert Rauschenberg, to commemorate the orchestra's one hundredth birthday; Mr.