"I was told that everyone from the previous administration was going," said Phillip Ramey, who was the orchestra's program annotator for 16 years until he was dismissed last season.

He was also the program annotator for the National Symphony Orchestra from 1934 to 1943.

Bernard Jacobson, the program annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra, offers pre-concert notes at 7:45 P.M. on Friday, with the concert following at 8:30.

He is a regular program annotator for orchestras and venues including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and Carnegie Hall.

For many years he was the program annotator of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and also served as the orchestra's associate conductor from 1942-1948.

He was also a regular program annotator for CBS Records.

However, after almost 12 years with the Globe, he became program annotator for this orchestra.

Mr. Kramer was a longtime program annotator for the Cincinnati Symphony and other orchestras.

With Kurt Masur, music director of the Philharmonic, and the program annotator Michael Steinberg.

In one of the reminiscences, the program annotator Leonard Burkat calls him "kind and gentle, a person as lacking in cruelty, or even harshness, as one might ever encounter."