Introduced by Beverly Sills Last month at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, an audience of 10,000 assembled to salute
America's grand old man of music, who began his studies at Tanglewood in 1940 and still returns every year to teach and conduct.
Television cameras were there to record some of the highlights of an epic evening. Among the guests were old friends from every branch of musical life including: Patty Austin Lauren Bacall
Victor Borge
Barbara Hendricks
Christa Ludwig
Yo Yo Ma, Midori Mstislav Rostropovich
Frederica von Stade
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL
CHORUS, director John Oliver
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductors SEIJI OZAWA ,
JOHN WILLIAMS , MICHAEL
TILSON THOMAS , JOHN MAUCERI Gala written and produced by HUMPHREY BURTON
TV director KIRK BROWNING Television production MICHAEL BRONSON
THOMAS P. SKINNER
An ITCC/UNITEL production
('Breast of Peacock.... Apple Pie' tomorrow 6.30pm BBC2; Bernstein's 'Candide' next Saturday with Radio
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