Saturday, July 28, 2009

THE GEORGE AND ROBERTA BERRY SUPPORTING

ORGANIZATION CONCERT

BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA

JOHN WILLIAMS, CONDUCTOR
FRANK LANGELLA, SPECIAL GUEST

FILM NIGHT AT TANGLEWOOD

arr. WILLIAMS Tribute to the Film Composer

WILLIAMS Suite from “Far and Away”

County Galway, June 1892—The Fighting Donnellys—
Joseph and Shannon—Blowin’ Off Steam—Finale

PREVIN (arr. WILLIAMS) Theme from “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”

with TAMARA SMIRNOVA, violin solo

WILLIAMS Symphonic Suite from “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”

Three Million Light Years from Home
Stargazers
with ANN HOBSON PILOT, harp solo
Adventures on Earth
{Intermission}

“A TRIBUTE TO WARNER BROS. STUDIOS”

KORNGOLD Suite from “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex”

WARREN/DUBIN Jolson, Cagney, and Berkeley: The Musicals

Three Warners Legends

KORNGOLD A Tribute to Erroll Flynn (Music from “The Seahawk”)
STEINER (arr. WILLIAMS) A Tribute to Bette Davis (Theme from “Now Voyager”)
with TAMARA SMIRNOVA, violin solo
ROSENMAN A Tribute to James Dean (Music from “East of Eden”)

STEINER Suite from “Casablanca”

WILLIAMS “Superman” March

Look for the motion pictures shown tonight on DVD and Blu-Ray from Warner Home Video.

Movie Musicals, Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, and James Dean film montages by Susan Dangel and Dick
Bartlett.

Warner Bros., Casablanca, and Superheroes film montages by Laura Gibson and Scott Draper.
Bank of America is proud to sponsor the 2009 Tanglewood season.
Steinway and Sons Pianos, selected exclusively for Tanglewood.
Special thanks to Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation.
In consideration of the performers and those around you, please turn off all cellular phones, texting
devices, pagers, and watch alarms during the concert.
Please do not take pictures during the concert. Flashes, in particular, are distracting to the performers
and to other audience members.
Note that the use of audio or video recording during performances in the Koussevitzky Music Shed or
Seiji Ozawa Hall is prohibited.

Artists
John Williams
In a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished
and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as conductor of one of the
country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and maintains thriving artistic
relationships with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He remains one of our nation’s most
distinguished and contributive musical voices. Mr. Williams has composed the music and served as
music director for more than one hundred films. His thirty-five-year artistic partnership with director
Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films,
including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the
Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Munich, and Catch Me If You
Can. Mr. Williams also composed the scores for all six Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter
films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The
Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, Nixon, The Patriot, Angela’s Ashes, Seven Years in Tibet, The
Witches of Eastwick, The Cowboys, The Reivers, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, among many others. His
contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the early
anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre, and Playhouse 90, as
well as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press, and PBS’s Great
Performances. He has received five Academy Awards and forty-five Oscar nominations (making him
the Academy’s most-nominated living person), seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), twenty-one
Grammys, four Golden Globes, four Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In January
1980 Mr. Williams was named nineteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the
legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, which he
assumed following his retirement in December 1993, and also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at
Tanglewood. Mr. Williams has composed music for many important cultural and commemorative
events, including “Liberty Fanfare,” composed for the 1986 rededication of the Statue of Liberty;
“American Journey,” first performed in Washington, D.C., on New Year’s Eve 1999 to accompany
Steven Spielberg’s millennial film The Unfinished Journey; and “Soundings,” performed at the
opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He wrote the musical themes for the 1984,
1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Mr. Williams has
been awarded honorary degrees from twenty-one American universities and the Olympic Order for
his contributions to the Olympic movement. He served as the Grand Marshal of the 2004 Rose Parade
in Pasadena and was a 2004 Kennedy Center Honor recipient. His many concert works include two
symphonies and concertos for flute, violin, clarinet, viola, and tuba. His cello concerto was
commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and premiered by Yo-Yo Ma at Tanglewood in
1994. Other commissioned works include a bassoon concerto (“The Five Sacred Trees”) for the New
York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for the Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. “Seven for Luck,” a song cycle for soprano and orchestra based on
texts by poet Rita Dove, was premiered by the BSO at Tanglewood in 1998. In January 2009 Mr.
Williams composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the inaugural ceremony of
President Barack Obama. To open the 2009-10 season, James Levine will lead the BSO in the
premiere of Mr. Williams’s “On Willows and Birches,” a new work for harp and orchestra written for
BSO principal harp Ann Hobson Pilot.

Frank Langella
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is among the American theater world’s greatest living
actors. Though he gained recognition as a film star in the 1970s, the stage has always been his first
love. His career off-Broadway was launched with a 1965 Obie Award for his performance in poet-
playwright Robert Lowell’s The Old Glory: Benito Cereno. Mr. Langella’s other major off-Broadway
productions include Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano, Arthur Miller’s After the Fall, John Webster’s The
White Devil, Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg, André Gide’s The Immortalist, and
Shakespeare’s The Tempest. His triumphs on Broadway include Tony Awards for Edward Albee’s
Seascape, Turgenev’s Fortune’s Fool, and in 2007 for his role as President Richard Nixon in the New
York production of Frost/Nixon. He also received Tony nominations for Belber’s Match and
Hamilton-Dean’s Dracula, and has starred on Broadway in Strindberg’s The Father, Coward’s
Present Laughter and Design for Living, Shaffer’s Amadeus, Rabe’s Hurlyburly, Nichols’s Passion,
Marowitz’s Sherlock’s Last Case, Gibson’s A Cry of Players, and Lorca’s Yerma, among others. Born
in Bayonne, New Jersey, Frank Langella studied acting at Syracuse University before beginning his
professional career in New York. His first break on screen was Frank Perry’s 1970 drama Diary of a
Mad Housewife, co-starring Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgress. The film earned Mr. Langella a
Golden Globe nomination and an award from the National Board of Review for Best Supporting
Actor. That same year, he starred in Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs. In 1979, a successful remake of
Dracula, directed by John Badham, brought him to pop-culture stardom. His recent performance in
the Ron Howard-directed film adaptation of Frost/Nixon was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a
Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Oscar. Upcoming films include All Good Things, with Ryan
Gosling, and The Box, with Cameron Diaz. Some of Mr. Langella’s other previous films include
George Clooney’s Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck, the box-office hit Superman
Returns, and the drama Starting Out in the Evening. He has also starred in Adrian Lyne’s
controversial Lolita; the hit comedy Dave; Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise; the humorous
tribute to summer stock, Those Lips, Those Eyes; the touching drama I’m Losing You; David
Duchovny’s House of D; and The Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski. On television, Mr.
Langella has appeared in I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind, an Emmy-nominated performance;
PBS productions of Eccentricities of a Nightingale and Chekhov’s The Seagull; ABC’s The Beast;
HBO’s Doomsday Gun; and Vonnegut’s Monkey House for Showtime, which earned him a
CableACE Award. He also starred in all ten episodes of the short-lived but widely praised HBO series
Unscripted. Frank Langella was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2003. In addition to his
three Tony Awards, he has won five Drama Desks, three Obies, two Outer Critics Circles, and a
Drama League Award. Several dozen roles in America’s leading regional theaters include Hampton’s
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon, Whiting’s The Devils, Bolt’s A Man for
All Seasons, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime, and Barker’s Scenes
From an Execution.