'a BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEll xZAWA0o BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Sir Colin Davis, Principal Guest Conductor Joseph Silverstein, Assistant Conductor Fourth - of-July Special Sunday, 4 July 1982 and Monday, 5 July 1982 2:00 Gates Open 2:00 SLAPHAPPY Comedy and juggling Continuous entertainment on the lawn 2:30-3:30 The WUZ Main House Porch (Chamber Music Hall in case of rain) 3:30-4:30 EMPIRE BRASS QUINTET Theatre - Concert Hall 4:30 - 5:30 BILL CROFUT with Carver Blanchard, guitar Bob Gordon, guitar Main House Porch (Chamber Music Hall in case of rain) 5:30 - 6:30 NEXUS Percussion Ensemble Theatre-Concert Hall 6:30-7:15 BERKSHIRE HIGHLANDERS Lawn 8:30 LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC Shed Fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl following the performance. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and James M. Nederlander Michael Frazier Fred Walker in Association with Sherman Sneed and Jack Lawrence present • LENA HORNE s The Lady and Her Music Concept by Lena Horne & Sherman Sneed Musical Conductor Linda Twine Musical Direction by Harold Wheeler Scenery Designed by Costumes Designed by Lighting Designed by David Gropman Stanley Simmons Thomas Skelton Miss Home's Wardrobe by Giorgio Sant'Angelo Production Stage Mangaer Press Representative Miss Horne's Hair Designed by Anne Sullivan Josh Ellis Phyllis Della Production Staged by Arthur Faria Piano by Baldwin Miss Home's appearance by arrangement with Sherman Sneed and Ralph Harris iner Ste LENA! Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music is ian t is the happy result of "the lady's" decision Chr to put off retirement for just a few more years. Two years ago Lena announced her intentions of cutting back on work com- mitments. Her way of saying good-bye to a full-time performance schedule was to do a series of benefit concerts for Delta Sigma Theta, a Black Women's service sorority of which she is an honorary but very active member. Still, while cutting back, Broadway was on her mind. Sherman Sneed, Lena's personal manager, came to New York in 1980 to meet with James M. Nederlander, the producer, theatre owner and impresario. Out of production meetings with Nederlander and his two co-producers, Michael Frazier and Fred Walker, Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music emerged. However, the road to Broadway took a full year of planning, writing, honing and rehearsing. Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music is the brainchild of Lena Home and Sherman Sneed, who created the evening as a musical drama that tells the story of a young Black girl from Brooklyn, New York whose show business career encom- passed the Cotton Club, the Big Band Era, the Hollywood movie years, the Broadway scene and the Sixties' protest era. The words you'll hear in Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music are the inimitable words of Lena herself. The music and lyrics are by some of the great composers and lyricists of the century. As the critics astutely pointed out, Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music is a unique blend of music and theatre. For distinguished contribution to this Broadway season, Lena Home: The Lady and Her Music was honored with a Special Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, a Special New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (voted unanimously by all of New York's drama critics, a historic first), New York City's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion, and two Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocalist and Best Original Cast Album. MUSIC CREDITS (Musical numbers in alphabetical order. Program subject to change.) "A Lady Must Live" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Warner Bros. Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "As Long As I Live" by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen. Arko Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "But Not For Me" by Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin. Copyright 1930, Warner Bros. Music. (New World Music). All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Can't Help Loving Dat Man" by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Jerome Kern. T.B. Harms Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Copper Colored Gal of Mine" by B. Davis and J. Fred Coots. Mills Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Deed I Do" by W. Hirsch and Fred Rose. Copyright 1926, renewed 1954. Herald Square Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Fly" by Martin Charnin. Edward H. Morris Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "From This Moment On" by Cole Porter. Copyright 1950. "I Got a Name" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. Fox Fanfare. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I Want to Be Happy" by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar. Warner Bros. Music. "If You Believe" by Charlie Smalls. Fox Fanfare. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I'm Glad There is You" by Paul Madeira and Jimmy Dorsey. Morley Music Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" by Fred Ahlert and Joe Young. Fred Ahlert Music Corp. and Rytvock Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Just One of Those Things" by Cole Porter. Copyright 1935. Harms Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Robert H. Montgomery, Trustee. "Lady With a Fan" by Cab Calloway, Jeanne Burns, Al Blackman. American Academy of Music Inc. A Subsidiary of Belwin - Mills. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Life Goes On" by Paul Williams and Craig Doerge. Copyright 1972. Almo Music Corp. and Fair Star Music, Inc. (ASCAP) All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Love" by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. Copyright © 1943, 1945. Renewed 1971, 1977. Leo Feist Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Push De Button" by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen. Harwin Music. Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Raisin' The Rent" by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen. Mills Music. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Stormy Weather" by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen. Arko Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "That's What Miracles Are All About" by Charles Smalls. Shambam Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Williamson Music Inc. (Chappell Music Administration) All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Watch What Happens" by Norman Gimbel and Michele Legrande. Vogue Music Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Where or When," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Chappel Co. Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. "Yesterday, When I Was Young" by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer. Hampshire House Publ. Co. All rights reserved. Used by permission. THERE WILL BE ONE TWENTY-MINUTE INTERMISSION. MUSICIANS LENA'S TRIO Grady Tate—Drums Steve Bargonetti—Guitar Benjamin Franklin Brown—Bass and Kenyatte Abdur-Rahman Cecil Bridgewater Glenn Drewes Fred Griffen Dick Griffin Jack Jeffers Larry Nash Jimmy Owens John D. Parran Roger Rosenberg Mort Silver Harold Vick THE COMPANY Clare Bathe Marva Hicks L. Edmond Wesley Lance K. Hardy—Alternate Janet Powell—Alternate LENA HORNE has dazzled audiences in the country. From there it was only a matter throughout the world with her charm, taste, of time before she would become a ranking intelligence and her formidable talent. Her ca- international star playing to SRO audiences in reer began modestly enough at the age of six- world capitals, sharing theatre and nightclub teen as a dancer in the chorus line of Harlem's stages with such artists as Alan King, Count famous Cotton Club, where she was chap- Basie, Billy Eckstein, Danny Thomas, Harry eroned by her mother, a former actress with the Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone and Lafayette Players, a black theatrical company. It Willie Tyler and Lester, among many others, was there she first met and worked with such and performing as a guest star on television renowned artists as Duke Ellington, Cab Callo- with Perry Como, Flip Wilson, Judy Garland, way, Count Basie, Ethel Waters and Ivy Ander- Frank Sinatra and The Muppets. No stranger to son. This was a very heady atmosphere for the the Broadway musical stage, Miss Home first young Lena. She later danced with the Noble appeared there in Blackbirds of 1939, scored a Sissle Band. It was Sissle who trained her to be major triumph in Harold Arlen's Jamaica, and a singer. She next sang with Charlie Barnett her dual concert with Tony Bennett was the and then at New York's Cafe Society Down- highlight of the 1974 - 75 season. In 1978, she town where she worked with Teddy Wilson, returned to films in The Wiz as the good witch J.C. Heard and Sid Catlett. The Hollywood "Glinda." Her impressive career as a performer years began with an engagement at The Little aside, Miss Horne is a devout activist for the Troc where an MGM talent scout caught her causes she truly believes in whether it be civil act and arranged a screen test for her, and she rights (she is a lifetime member of the NAACP), found herself under contract to the studio—not Martin Luther King, Jr., voter registration in the an entirely gratifying experience since they south or the Hadassah. She has toured the didn't know what to do with her (up to that time south as a speaker to try to right civil wrongs black film actresses were only cast in 'ervice" and in 1952 gave a series of 30 charity concerts roles). She finally made two fine black musicals in Israel to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather.