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Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

Berkeley Symphony was founded in 1969 as the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra by Thomas Rarick, a young protégé of Sir Adrian Boult, the great English maestro. Reflecting the spirit of the times, the Promenade replaced tuxedos with informal street dress and performed in unusual locations, including the University Art Museum. When Kent Nagano took over the orchestra in 1978, he charted a new course by offering innovative programming that included a good number of rarely heard twentieth-century scores. Under Nagano the orchestra also took measures to develop an image congruous with its more serious and sophisticated programming, first switching to formal concert dress and then, in 1981, changing its name to the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra