Marilyn Knordle serves as manager. Edward W. Blair is appointed as Executive Director of NJSO, a new position. The Women's Committees are renamed The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra League and continues to operate. Members are both male and female. A Board of Overseers is appointed.
Members are presidents of leading corporations in New Jersey.
Sydney Stevens is elected president and Alan V. Lowenstein chairman. Catherine French serves as General Manager. 1974 Financial restraints causes the orchestra to cut back from 36 to 23 weeks. The NJSO gives its first inaugural concert at the Veterans War Memorial Building in Trenton in conjunction with the inauguration of Brendan T. Byrne as Governor of New Jersey. Edward Blair resigns as Executive Director.