1938 –
1939
Programme 1
7, 8, 12 October 1938
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2
SIBELIUS
The Swan of Tuonela
RESPIGHI
Pines of Rome
Programme 2
14, 15 October 1938
Eugene Ormandy
CORELLI
Suite for Strings (arr. Pinelli)
STRAUSS
Don Juan
DEBUSSY
Iberia
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2
Programme 3
21, 22 October 1938
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 3
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOV
Three Preludes (trans. Cailliet)
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Programme 4
28, 29 October 1938
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
A Faust Overture
WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture and Venusberg
Music
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, prelude
Programme 5
11, 12 November 1938
Eugene Ormandy
VIVALDI
Concerto in A minor (arr. Cailliet)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHELLING
A Victory Ball, fantasy
JENKINS
Five-Part Fantasy in D for five strings
STRAVINSKY
Pastorale (orch. Stokowski)
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 1
Hortense Monath, piano
University of Pennsylvania Choral
Society
Programme 6
25, 26 November 1938
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Tragic Overture
BRAHMS
Double Concerto
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
Erica Morini, violin
Emanuel Feuerman, cello
Programme 7
2, 3 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
BARBER
Symphony in One Movement
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr.
Cailliet)
Josef Wissow, piano
Programme 8
6 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas, Suite (arr. Cailliet)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr.
Cailliet)
Programme 9a
16, 17 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Serenade No. 2
BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody
BRAHMS
Four Songs (Dein blaues Auge, Immer
leiser, Der Schmied, Von ewiger)
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Marian Anderson, contralto
University of Philadelphia Men's Glee
Club
Programme 9b
20 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
VIVALDI
Concerto in A minor (arr. Cailliet)
BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody
TRAD.
Negro Spirituals (Sometimes I feel like
a motherless child, Heav'n Heav'n, Trampin, My Soul's been Anchored in the
Lord)
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Marian Anderson, contralto
University of Philadelphia Men's Glee
Club
Programme 10
22, 23 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
GEMINIANI
Andante for strings, harp and organ
HANDEL
Christmas Music from The Messiah
BACH
Prelude and Fugue in B minor (orch.
Cailliet)
MacDOWELL
Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
TILY
Christmas Morning
Jacques Abram, piano
Programme 11
30, 31 December 1938
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
McDONALD
Lament for the Stolen
WEBER
Der Freischütz, overture
Women's Chorus of the University of
Philadelphia
Women's Chorus of the Mendelssohn Club
of Philadelphia
College of Chestnut Hill Women's Chorus
Programme 12
6, 7 January 1939
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Academic Festival Overture
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Programme 13
17 January 1939
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
STRAUSS
Don Juan
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Programme 14
20, 21 January 1939
Saul Caston
SMETANA
The Bartered Bride, Overture
LALO
Symphonie espagnole
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 1
Mischa Elman, violin
Programme 15
27, 28 January 1939
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2
Walter Gieseking, piano
Programme 16
3, 4, 7 February 1939
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude
WAGNER
Parsifal Gurnemanz's Narration from Act
1
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Blick' ich umher and O du
mein holder Abendstern
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Thatest du's wirklich
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wahn!
Wahn!
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Suite
from Act 3
Alexander Kipnis, bass
Programme 17
17, 18, 21 February 1939
Georges Enesco
GLUCK
Iphigenie en Aulide, Overture (arr.
Wagner)
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring'
ENESCO
Symphony No. 1
ENESCO
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Programme 18
24, 25 February 1939
Georges Enesco
DRAGOi
Two Romanian Carols
ENESCO
Orchestral Suite No. 2
LIPATTI
Merrymaking with Fiddlers
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
Programme 19
3, 4 March 1939
Vladimir Golschmann
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique
MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 20
RAVEL
Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
Boris Golschmann, piano
Programme 20
10, 11 March 1939
Saul Caston*
Nadia Boulanger
BACH*
Orchestral Suite No. 3
BEETHOVEN*
Symphony No. 1
LILI BOULANGER
Pour les Funerailies d'un soldat
FRANÇAIX
Piano Concerto
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals and Arias (arr. Boulanger)
SZALOWSKI
Overture
Jean Françaix, piano
Noemie Perugia, soprano
Nathalie Ledroff, tenor
Hugues Cuenod, tenor
Doda Conrad, baritone
Programme 21
14 March 1939
Saul Caston
BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
GLAZUNOV
Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite (1919)
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Programme 22
17, 18 March 1939
Leopold Stokowski
BACH
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (orch.
Stokowski)
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
WAGNER
Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5
Programme 23
24, 25 March 1939
Leopold Stokowski
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
MUSSORGSKY
A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr.
Stokowski)
DEBUSSY
Clair de lune (orch. Stokowski)
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite (1919)
Programme 24
31 March, 1 April 1939
Leopold Stokowski
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude to Act 3 of Ivan the Terrible
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov, a symphonic synthesis
(arr. Stokowski)
DEBUSSY
Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Immolation Scene
Programme 25
4 April 1939
Leopold Stokowski
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Prelude to Act 3 of Ivan the Terrible
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5
ORNSTEIN
Dance
MUSSORGSKY
A Night on the Bare Mountain (arr.
Stokowski)
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Immolation Scene
Programme 26
8, 10 April 1939
Eugene Ormandy
Paul Hindemith*
BUXTEHUDE
Passacaglia
MOZART
Symphony No. 40
HINDEMITH*
Nobilissima Visione, Suite
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Programme 27
14, 15 April 1939
Eugene Ormandy
REZNICEK
Donna Diana, overture
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 6
MOZART
Four German Dances
MAYSEDER
A Ball Scene (arr. Hellmesberger)
STRAUSS, Johann II
Der Waldmeister, Overture
STRAUSS, Johann II
Perpetuum Mobile
STRAUSS, Johann II and Josef
Pizzicato Polka
STRAUSS, Josef
Sphärenklange, Waltz
STRAUSS, Johann II
The Blue Danube, Waltz
Programme 28
21, 22, 25 April 1939
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN
Symphony No. 97
BERESOWSKY
Toccata, Variations and Finale for
string quartet and orchestra
SIBELIUS
Tapiola
IBERT
Escales
Coolidge String Quartet
Programme 29
28, 29 April 1939
Eugene Ormandy
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel
STRAUSS
Burleske for piano and orchestra
STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, Waltzes
Joseph Battista, piano
1939-1940
Programme 1
6, 7, 9 October 1939
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Funeral
March
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Programme 2
13, 14 October 1939
Eugene Ormandy
MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina, Entr'acte
SCRIABIN
Symphony No. 3, 'The Divine Poem'
PROKOFIEV
Lieutenant Kije, Suite
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, suite (1919)
Programme 3
20, 21 October 1939
Eugene Ormandy
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Sinfonia in B flat major
SCHUMANN
Fantasy for violin and orchestra
VIOTTI
Violin Concerto No. 22
RANDALL THOMPSON
Symphony No. 2
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Programme 4
27, 28 October 1939
Eugene Ormandy
PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas, suite (arr. Cailliet)
MOZART
Oboe Quartet in F major (orch.
Stokowski)
FRANCK
Symphony
Marcel Tabuteau, oboe
Programme 5
10, 11, 13 November 1939
Leopold Stokowski
HANDEL
Overture in D minor (orch. Stokowski)
MOZART
Symphony No. 40
BACH
Passacaglia in C mnor (orch. Stokowski)
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Programme 6
17, 18 November 1939
Leopold Stokowski
MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro, overture
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
DEBUSSY
Nocturnes
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.
Stokowski_
Women of the Choral Society of the
University of Pennsylvania
Programme 7
24, 25 November 1939
Leopold Stokowski
BACH
Fugue in G minor ‘The Little’ (orch.
Stokowski)
BACH
Adagio from Organ Toccata and Fugue in
C (orch. Stokowski)
BACH
Sonata in E flat (orch. Stokowski)
BACH
Chorale Prelude 'Ich ruf zu Dir (orch.
Stokowski)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7
DVOŘÁK
Slavonic Dance (arr. Stokowski)
McDONALD
Don Juan Capistrano
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
Programme 8a
1, 2 December 1939
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Programme 8b
3 December 1939
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Programme 9
8, 9 December 1939
Sergei Rachmaninov
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 3
RACHMANINOV
The Bells
Susanne Fisher, soprano
Jan Peerce, tenor
Mack Harrell, baritone
Westminster Symphonic Choir
Programme 10
15, 16, 17 December 1939
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
O Man, Bewail Thy Grievous Sin, Chorale
Prelude (orch. Ormandy)
BACH
Sleepers Awake, Chorale Prelude (orch. Ormandy)
TELEMANN
Suite in A minor for flute and Strings
MOZART
Symphony No. 39
STRAUSS
Don Quixote
William Kincaid, flute
Benar Heifetz, cello
Samuel Lifschey, viola
Programme 11
22, 23 December 1939
Eugene Ormandy
SMITH
Miniature Suite
BACH
Benedictus from Mass in B minor
BACH
Haste Ye Shephers from Christmas
Oratorio
C.P.E. BACH
Magnificat
DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'
Steuart Wilson, tenor
Thelma Davis, contralto
University of Pennsylvania Choral
Societyq
Programme 12
29, 30 December 1939
Eugene Ormandy
CORELLI
Suite for Strings
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2
TANSMAN
Viola Concerto
ZADOR
The Machine Man, Suite
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Samuel Lifschey, viola
Programme 13
5, 6 January 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Hetzliebester Jesu (arr. O'Connell)
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5
SIBELIUS
The Swan of Tuonela
RAVEL
Shéhérazade
ENESCU
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Selma Amansky, soprano
Programme 14
15 January 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3
VIVALDI
Violin Concerto in G minor
J.C. BACH
Sinfonia in B flat major
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Mischa Elman, violin
Programme 15
19, 20 January 1940
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Introduction Act 3
DVOŘÁK
Violin Concerto
RESPIGHI
The Fountains of Rome
McCOLLIN
Heavenly Children at Play
RAVEL
La Valse
Iso Briselli, violin
Programme 16
26, 27 January 1940
Eugene Ormandy
SIBELIUS
Finlandia
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7
SIBELIUS
En Saga
SIBELIUS
The Oceanides
SIBELIUS
The Return of Lemminkainen
Programme 17
2, 3 February 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Grosse Fuge (orch. Ormandy)
MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 20
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
MOZART
Double Piano Concerto
José Iturbi, piano
Amparo Iturbi, piano
Programme 18
9, 10 February 1940
Eugene Ormandy
WEINER
Divertimento for String Orchestra
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No. 1
DEBUSSY
Printemps (orch. Büsser)
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No. 2
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Programme 19
16, 17, 19 February 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Egmont, overture
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
Alexander Hillsberg, violin
Programme 20
23, 24 February 1940
Eugene Ormandy
HILL
Sinfonietta for String Orchestra
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
BARTOK
Two Pictures
BERLIOZ
Queen Mab Scherzo
STRAUSS, Johann II
Emperor Waltz
Programme 21
1, 2 March 1940
Edwin McArthur
WAGNER
The Flying Dutchman, Overture
WAGNER
Senta's Ballad from The Flying Dutchman
WAGNER
Forest Murmurs frpm Siegfried
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Dawn and Rhine
Journey, Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music, Immolaton Scene
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Programme 22
8, 9, 18 March 1940
Saul Caston
BERLIOZ
Roman Carnival, overture
FAURÉ
Pavane
RAVEL
Rapsodie espagnole
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
Programme 23
15, 16 March 1940
Leopold Stokowski
SHOSTAKOVICH
Prelude in C sharp minor (orch.
Stokowski)
GLIÈRE
Symphony No. 3, 'Ilya Murametz'
WAGNER
Good Friday Music from Parsifal
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Programme 24
23, 25 March 1940
Eugene Ormandy
ARCADELT
Ave Maria (orch. McDonald)
BACH
Sinfonia and Choral Excerpts from
Cantata No. 4, 'Christ lag in Todes bunden
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished'
GOOSSENS
By the Tarn, for strings
MOZART
L'amero saro Costante from Il re
pastore
WEBER
Leise, leise from Der Freischütz
CHARPENTIER
Depuis le jour from Louise
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
Dorothy Maynor, soprano
University of Philadelphia Choral
Society
Programme 25
29, 30 March 1940
Eugene Ormandy
WEBER
Euryanthe, Overture
HAYDN
Symphony No. 31, 'Horn Call'
DAVIS
The Last Knight
PAGANINI
Caprice No. 9 (arr. Dubensky)
PAGANINI
Moto Perpetuo (arr. Ormandy)
RAVEL
Bolero
Programme 26
5, 6 April 1940
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
overture
VARDELL
Symphony No. 1
DRAGONETTI
Double Bass Concerto
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
Anton Torello, double bass
Programme 27
12, 13, 15 April 1940
Eugene Ormandy
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 1, 'Classical'
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 1
Artur Schnabel, piano
Programme 28
19, 20 April 1940
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5
1940-1941
Programme 1
4, 5 October 1940
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Concerto grosso in D major
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 1
BARBER
Essay for Orchestra
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Suite
from Act 3
Programme 2
11, 12 October 1940
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 2
BRAHMS
Part Songs for women's voices (I hear a
Harp, Song from Twelfth Night, Greetings and Song from Ossian;s Fingal)
RESPIGHI
Roman Festivals
Women's Glee Club of Philadelphia
Programme 3
18, 19 October 1940
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Arietta and Passacaglia (orch. Harty)
MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder
WAGNER
Waltraute's Narration from
Götterdämmerung
VERDI
O don fatale from Don Carlo
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Enid Szantho, contralto
Programme 4
25, 26 October 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Herzliebster Jesu from the St. Matthew
Passion (arr. O'Connell)
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4, 'Italian'
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Programme 5
8, 9, 11 November 1940
Eugene Ormandy
GOLDMARK
In Spring, overture
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1
WEBER
Invitation to the Dance (orch. Ormandy)
WAGNER
Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
Beveridge Webster, piano
Programme 6
15, 16 November 1940
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3. 'Eroica'
Edith Braun, piano
Lea Luboschutz, violin
Elsa Hilger, cello
Programme 7
22, 23, 25 November 1940
Leopold Stokowski
BACH
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (orch.
Stokowski)
BACH
Arioso (orch. Stokowski)
BACH
Preludio (orch. Stokowski)
MOZART
Sinfonia concertante for wind
instruments
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
DEBUSSY
Night in Granada (orch. Stokowski)
Programme 8
29, 30 November 1940
Leopold Stokowski
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Death
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 6
Programme 9
6, 7 December 1940
Leopold Stokowski
MUSSORGSKY
A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch.
Stokowski)
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7
SCHOENBERG
Violin Concerto
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
Louis Krasner, violin
Programme 10
13, 14, 16 December 1940
Eugene Ormandy
STRAUSS
Don Juan
GRUENBERG
Lawd Jesus, heah my prayer from Emperor
Jones
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov, Death Scene and
Varlaam's Ballad
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Paul Robeson, baritone
Programme 11
20, 21 December 1940
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
SCALERO
The Divine Forest
BACH
Prelude and Fugue in F minor (orch.
Cailliet)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral'
Frances Greer, soprano
Elsie MacFarlane, contralto
Mario Berini, tenor
Robert Gay, baritone
Choral Art Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia Conservatory Chorus
Programme 12
27, 28 December 1940
Eugene Ormandy
LIADOV
Eight Russian Folk Songs
STRAVINSKY
Petrushka, Suite
GLIÈRE
Russian Sailor's Dance
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5
Programme 13
3, 4, 6 January 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BUXTEHUDE
Passacaglia (orch. Cailliet)
RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto
Joseph Szigeti, violin
Programme 14
10, 11 January 1941
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN
Symphony No. 101, 'The Clock'
MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro, Deh vieni and
Non so piu
MOZART
Ch'io mi scordi di te
RUSSELL BENNETT
Eight Etudes for Orchestra
CARPENTER
When I Bring You Colored Toys
RACHMANINOV
Vocalise
HAGEMAN
At the Well
DEBUSSY
Reflections in the Water (orch.
Ormandy)
STRAUSS, Johann
Wine, Women and Song
Helen Jepson, soprano
Programme 15
17, 18, 20 January 1941
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Water Music, Suite (arr. Ormandy)
SCHMIDT
Symphony No. 2
McDONALD
From Childhood, suite for harp and
orchestra
BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances Nos. 19, 20 and 21
(orch. Dvořák)
Programme 16
24, 25 January 1941
Eugene Ormandy
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5
MOZART
Mentro ti lascio
MOZART
Madamina from Don Giovanni
BARTÓK
Divertimento for Strings
MUSSORGSKY
Monologue from Boris Godunov
VERDI
Tu sui labbro from Nabucco
RAVEL
La valse
Ezio Pinza, bass
Programme 17
31 January, 1 February 1941
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Lohengrin, Prelude Act 1
WAGNER
Siegfried, Waldweben
WAGNER
Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine
Journey
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture and Venusberg
Music
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
Overture
Programme 18
7, 8 February 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Academic Festival Overture
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 4
DEBUSSY
La mer
BARBER
Violin Concerto
STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Albert Spalding, violin
Programme 19
14, 15 February 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 1
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Programme 20
21, 22, 24 February 1941
José Iturbi
GLINKA
Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture
DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'
LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1
RAVEL
Bolero
José Iturbi, piano
Programme 21
28 February, 1 March 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Air on a G String
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8
BACH
Concerto for Two Violins
PROKOFIEV
Peter and the Wolf
STRAUSS, Johann
Voices of Spring
Alexander Hilsberg, violin
David Madison, violin
Guy Marriner, narrator
Programme 22
7, 8, 10 March 1941
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro, overture
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9, 'The Great'
FAURÉ
Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Immolation Scene
Helen Traubel, soprano
Programme 23
14, 15 March 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BACH, Johann Christian
Sinfonia in D major
MOZART
Symphony No. 35, 'Haffner'
FRANCK
Symphony
Programme 24
21, 22, 24 March 1941
Saul Caston
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, Suite (1919)
Samuel Sorin, piano
Programme 25
28, 29 March 1941
Leopold Stokowski
BACH
St. Matthew Passion
LeRean Hodapp, soprano
Elizabeth Krueger, contralto
Harold Hedgpeth, tenor
John Baumgartner, bass
George Krueger, bass
Westminster Choir School Chorus
Programme 26
4, 5 April 1941
Eugene Ormandy
VILLA-LOBOS
Preludio from Bachianas Brasileiras No.
1
BACH
Before the Father our Redemmer Failing
and Bring me Cross and Cup from St. Matthew Passion
HANDEL
Arm, Arm, Ye Brave from Judas Maccabeus
McDONALD
Symphony No. 1, 'The Santa Fe Trail'
SIBELIUS
Pohjola's Daughter
VERDI
Eri tu from Un ballo in maschera
VERDI
Credo from Otello
LISZT
Feux Follets (orch. Weiner)
STRAUSS, Johann
Wiener Blut, waltz
Lawrence Tibbett, baritone
Programme 27
12, 14 April 1941
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude
HINDEMITH
Mathis der Maler, symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Programme 28
18, 19 April 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
DEBUSSY
Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
1941 –
1942
Programme 1
3, 4, 6 October 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3
BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 3
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Programme 2
10, 11 October 1941
Eugene Ormandy
DVOŘÁK
Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'
VILLA-LOBOS
Descobrimento do Brasil, suite
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, Waltzes
Programme 3
17, 18 October 1941
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 4
Sergei Rachmaninov, piano
Programme 4
24, 25 October, 3 November 1941
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Overture in D minor (orch. Ormandy)
MOZART
Symphony No. 38, Prague'
HARRIS
Three Pieces
DELIUS
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch.
Cailliet)
Programme 5
7, 8, 17 November 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major
(orch. Ormandy)
BRAHMS
Alto Rhapsody
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
Blanche Thebom, contralto
Men's Glee Club of the University of
Pennsylvania
Programme 6
14, 15 November 1941
Arturo Toscanini
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9, 'Great'
DEBUSSY
Iberia
RESPIGHI
Feste Romane
Programme 7
21, 22 November 1941
Saul Caston
MENOTTI
Amelia Goes to the Ball, Overture
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Nocturne and Appassionata for piano and
orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet
FRANCK
Symphony
Milton Kaye, piano
Programme 8
28, 29 November 1941
Sir Thomas Beecham
HAYDN
Symphony No. 93
MOZART
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'
VIRGIL THOMSON
Symphony No. 2
ROSSINI
La gazza ladra, Overture
Programme 9
5, 6 December 1941
Sir Thomas Beecham
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4
DELIUS
Piano Concerto
HANDEL
The Origin of Design (orch. Beecham)
JOHNSON
Streets of Florence
DEBUSSY
Cortege and Dance
BORODIN
Prince Igor, Overture
Betty Humby, piano
Programme 10
12, 13, 15 December 1941
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Andante from Sonata in B minor (orch.
Ormandy)
MOZART
Ach, ich fühls from The Magic Flute
HANDEL
V'adoro pupille from Julius Caesar
BONNER
White Nights
BEETHOVEN
Abscheulicher from Fidelio
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2
Dorothy Maynor, soprano
Programme 11
19, 20 December 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
BACH
Concerto for Three Pianos
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Jeanne Behrend, piano
Hilde Somer, piano
Henry Harris, piano
Programme 12
26, 27 December 1941
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Shepherd's Music from The Christmas
Oratorio
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, 'Unfinished'
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
Programme 13
2, 3 January 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Ricercare a 6 from The Musical Offering
(orch. Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2
Anton Rubinstein, piano
Programme 14
5 January 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Ricercare a 6 from The Musical Offering
(orch. Ormandy)
MOZART
Symphony No. 38, Prague'
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
Eight Etudes
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1
Anton Rubinstein, piano
Programme 15
9, 10 January 1942
Arturo Toscanini
HAYDN
Symphony No. 99
BACH
Passacaglia and Fugue (orch. Respighi)
MENDELSSOHN
A Midsummer Night's Dream, excerpts
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
Edwina Eustis, soprano
Florence Kirk, mezzo-soprano
Women's Glee Club of the University of
Pennsylvania
Programme 16
16, 17 January 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Komm, Süsser Tod (orch. O'Connell)
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1, 'Spring'
COPLAND
El Salon Mexico
BRITTEN
Diversions on a Theme for pleft-hand
piano and orchestra
WEINBERGER
Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the
Bagpiper
Paul Wittgenstein, piano
Programme 17
6, 7 February 1942
Arturo Toscanini
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
VIEUXTEMPS
Ballade and Polonaise
BERLIOZ
Queen Mab Scherzo
DEBUSSY
La mer
Programme 18
9 February 1942
Eugene Ormandy
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Christmas Eve, Suite
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5
Programme 19
13, 14 February 1942
Sir Ernest MacMillan
BYRD
Suite from the Fitzwilliam Virginal
Book (orch. Jacob)
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5
DEBUSSY
Petite Suite (orch. Büsser)
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
Programme 20
20, 21 February 1942
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART
Divertimento No. 10
HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, 'Military'
SCHUBERT
Entr'acte from Rosamunde
KORNGOLD
Suite from Much Ado about Nothing
JOHANN STRAUSS
Der Waldmeister, Overture
LANNER
Schönnbrunner Waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS
New Pizzicato Waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS
Leichtes Blut Waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS
Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz
Programme 21
23 February 1942
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, 'Military'
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Samuel Sorin, piano
Programme 22
27, 28 February 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Academic Festival Overture
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Programme 23
6, 7, 9 March 1942
Eugene Ormandy
VIVALDI
Concerto in A minor (orch. Cailliet)
HAYDN
Cello Concerto in D major
STRAUSS
Don Quixote
Emmanuel Feuermann, cello
Programme 24
13, 14 March 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Coriolan, overture
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
Sari Biro, piano
Alexander Hilsberg, violin
William Kincaid, flute
Programme 25
20, 21, 23 March 1942
Eugene Ormandy
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 1, 'Classical'
STRAVINSKY
Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
Nathan Milstein, violin
Programme 26
27, 28 March 1942
Eugene Ormandy
VERDI
Requiem
Judith Hellweg, soprano
Enis Szantho, contralto
Charles Kullman, tenor
Alexander Kipnis, bass
University of Philadelphia Choral
Society
Choral Art Society
Philadelphia Conservatory Chorus
Programme 27
4, 6 April 1942
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Parsifal, Good Friday Music
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7
WILLIAM SCHUMAN
Symphony No. 4
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2
Programme 28
10, 11, 13 April 1942
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART
Symphony No. 28
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'
ZADOR
Pastorale and Tarantelle
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
Edward Kilenyi, piano
Programme 29
17, 18 April 1942
Eugene Ormandy
RAVEL
Le trombeau de Couperin
VIRGIL THOMSON
Filling Station, ballet suite
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 1
Programme 30
24, 25 April 1942
Eugene Ormandy
WEBER
Der Freischütz, overture
FARNON
Symphony No. 1
DEBUSSY
Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Death,
Funeral Music and Immolation Scenes)
Programme 31
1, 2 May 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet
JOHANN STRAUSS
Emperor Waltz
1942 –
1943
Programme 1
2, 3, 5 October 1942
Eugene Ormandy
KHRENNIKOV
Symphony No. 1
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, suite (1919)
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5
Programme 2
9, 10 October 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
HAYDN
Symphony No. 88
McDONALD
Bataan, symphonic poem
BLOCH
Schelemo
FALLA
Three Dances from the Three Cornered
Hat
Samuel Mayes, cello
Programme 3
16, 17, 26 October 1942
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude Act 1
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Erfuhrst du meine
Schmach
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude Act 3
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Tristan! Geliebter!
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine
Journey, Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music and Immolation Scene
Helen Traubel, soprano
Programme 4
23, 24 October 1942
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Concerto in D (orch. Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
BARBER
Second Essay for Orchestra
KODÁLY
Hary Janos, Suite
Programme 5
30, 31 October 1942
Eugene Ormandy
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH,
Sinfonia in D for double orchestra
(orch. Ormandy)
MOZART
Symphony No. 36, 'Linz'
STRAUSS
Ein Heldenleben
Programme 6
13, 14, 16 November 1942
William Steinberg
WEBER
Der Freischütz, overture
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
LANGSTROTH
Scherzo
STRAVINSKY
Fireworks
STRAUSS
Don Juan
LISZT
Grand Galop Chromatique (orch. Byrns)
Programme 7
20, 21 November 1942
Arturo Toscanini
MOZART
Symphony No. 40
WAGNER
Tannhäuser, Overture and Venusberg
Music
MARTUCCI
Nocturne and Noveletta
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Programme 8
27, 28, 30 November 1942
Eugene Ormandy
SHOSTAKOVICH
Prelude and Scherzo for Strings
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 7, 'Leningrad'
Programme 9
4, 5 December 1942
Eugene Ormandy
HARRIS
Symphony No. 3
GOLDMARK
Violin Concerto
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Oscar Shumsky, violin
Programme 10
11, 12, 14 December 1942
Eugene Ormandy
ROSSINI
The Italian Girl in Algiers, overture
SZYMANOWSKI
Symphonie concertante for piano and
orchestra
HINDEMITH
Mathis der Maler, symphony
GRIEG
Piano Concerto
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Programme 11
18, 19 December 1942
Eugene Ormandy
MAHLER
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 3
MOZART
Four Dances
STRAUSS, Johann
Radetzky March
STRAUSS, Josef
The Music of the Spheres, Waltz
STRAUSS, Johann
The Gypsy Baron, Overture
STRAUSS, Josef
Frauenherz, Polka
STRAUSS, Johann
The Blue Danube, Waltz
Programme 12
26, 28 December 1942
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Two Chorales (Von Himmel hoch and
Wachet auf (orch. Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 4
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Programme 13
2, 4 January 1943
Eugene Ormandy
Virgil Thomson*
BACH
Concerto in D minor (orch. D'Antalffy)
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 4
VIRGIL THOMSON*
The Plow that Broke the Plains, suite
STRAVINSKY
Petrushka, suite
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Programme 14
8, 9 January 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 9, 'Choral'
Judith Hellwig, soprano
Enid Szantho, contralto
Ernest McChesney, tenor
James Pease, baritone
Choral Art Society
Philadelphia Conservatory Chorus
Delaware County Choral Society
University of Pennsylvania Choral
Society
Programme 15
29, 30 January 1943
Eugene Ormandy
VAN VACTOR
Overture to a Comedy No. 3
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5
DEBUSSY
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Programme 16
5, 6 February 1943
Eugene Ormandy
Efrem Zimbalist*
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 1, 'Classical'
BALAKIREV
Islamey (orch. Casella)
ZIMBALIST*
American Rhapsody
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Programme 17
8 February 1943
Eugene Ormandy
HARRIS
Symphony No. 3
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto
DEBUSSY
Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes
FALLA
Three Dances from the Three Cornered
Hat
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Programme 18
12, 13 February 1943
Saul Caston
WEBER
Oberon, Overture
DELIUS
A Dance Rhapsody
BORODIN
Prince Igor, Polovtsian Dances
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5
Programme 19
19, 20 February 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg)
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto
CARLTON COOLEY
Caponsacchi
RAVEL
Pavane pour une infante défunte
FALLA
La vida breve, Interlude and Dance
Carroll Glenn, violin
Programme 20
22 February 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Two Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg)
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Carroll Glenn, violin
Programme 21
26, 27 February 1943
Arturo Toscanini
GILBERT
Comedy Overture on Negro Themes
KENNAN
Night Soliloquy
CRESTON
Choric Dance No. 2
KABALEVSKY
Symphony No. 2
SCHUMANN
Manfred, overture
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 5, 'Reformation'
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
overture
Programme 22
5, 6, 8 March 1943
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Concerto grosso No. 12
MOZART
Violin Concerto No. 5
PROKOFIEV
Violin Concerto No. 1
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel
Josef Szigeti, violin
Programme 23
12, 13, 22 March 1943
Eugene Ormandy
SCARLATTI
Suite for Strings (arr. Byrns)
CRESTON
Symphony No. 1
SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto
RAVEL
Rapsodie espagnole
Claudio Arrau, piano
Programme 24
19, 20 March 1943
Eugene Ormandy
FRANCK
Symphony
McCOLLIN
Pavane
ROSZA
Pastorale e Danza
RESPIGHI
Pines of Rome
Programme 25
26, 27 March 1943
Eugene Ormandy
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH
Sinfonia in B flat major
BOCCHERINI
Cello Concerto
STILL
Plain Chant for America for baritone
and orchestra
HINDEMITH
Cello Concerto
RAVEL
Bolero
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
James Pease, baritone
Programme 26
2, 3 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
RACHMANINOV
The Isle of the Dead
GNATTALI
Piano Concerto No. 2
RAVEL
Alborada del gracioso
Arnaldo Estrella, piano
Programme 27
9, 10 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
COUPERIN
La Sultane, overture and allegro from
Suite (arr. Milhaud)
BERLIOZ
Harold in Italy
HUE
Fantasia for flute and orchestra
DEBUSSY
La mer
Samuel Lifschey, viola
William Kincaid, flute
Programme 28
12 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
COUPERIN
La Sultane, overture and allegro from
Suite, 'La Sultane' (arr. Milhaud)
FRANCK
Symphony
HUE
Fantasia for flute and orchestra
DEBUSSY
La mer
William Kincaid, flute
Programme 29
16, 17 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY
Francesca da Rimini
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
Programme 30
24, 25 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
DEBUSSY
Danse (orch. Ravel)
DELIUS
On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Programme 31
29, 30 April 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
DEBUSSY
Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
1943 –
1944
Programme 1
8, 9 October 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7
PROKOFIEV
Scythian Suite
STRAUSS
Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Programme 2
15, 16 October 1943
Eugene Ormandy
RESPIGHI
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1
SIBELIUS
The Swan of Tuonela
COPLAND
Billy the Kid, ballet suite
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
Programme 3
22, 23 October 1943
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
The Faithful Shepherd (arr. Beecham)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Concerto Accademico
WALTON
Façade, suite
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
Alexander Hillsberg, violin
Programme 4
29, 30 October 1943
Eugene Ormandy
WEINER
Divertimento for Strings
DVOŘÁK
Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'
HINDEMITH
Amor and Psyche, ballet overture
DEBUSSY
Printemps
JOHANN STRAUSS
Emperor Waltz
Programme 5
5, 6 November 1943
Eugene Ormandy
WEBER
Euryanthe, overture
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 4
MARTINŮ
Concerto for Two Pianos
IBERT
Escales
Pierre Luboshutz, piano
Genia Nemenoff, piano
Programme 6
12, 13 November 1943
Eugene Ormandy
MILHAUD
Suite Provençale
RAVEL
Vasles nobles et sentimentales
DEBUSSY
La damoiselle élue
FRANCK
Symphony
Programme 7
19, 20 November 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 6
Patricia Travers, violin
Programme 8
26, 27 November 1943
Eugene Ormandy
GLUCK
Iphigénie en Aulide, overture
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'
STRAUSS
Dpn Juan
HERMANN
The Devil and Daniel Webster, Suite
ALBENIZ
Navarra (orch. Arbos)
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Programme 9
3, 4 December 1943
Eugene Ormandy
MARTINŮ
Memorial to Lidice
DVOŘÁK
Cello Concerto
SMETANA
String Quartet, 'From My Life' (orch,
Szell)
WEINBERGER
Schwanda the Bagpiper, Polka and Fugue
Samuel Mayes, cello
Programme 10
10, 11 December 1943
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Organ Concerto No. 13 (arr. Ormandy)
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 4, 'Italian'
BEREZOWSKY
Symphony No. 1
SATIE
Gymnopedies No. 1 (orch. Debussy)
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, Waltzes
Programme 11
17, 18 December 1943
Eugene Ormandy
BARBER
Adagio for Strings
RUSSELL BENNETT
The Four Freedoms
LEVANT
Piano Concerto in One Movement
BLOCH
Winter and Spring
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue
Oscar Levant, piano
Programme 12
31 December 1943, 1 January 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Coriolan, overture
BEETHOVEN
Three Songs (Die Ehre Gottes, Freudvoll
und Leidvoll, Die Trommel geruhret)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4
WAGNER
Parsifal, Prelude
WAGNER
Brünnhilde's Plea from Die Walküre
WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
Overture
Helen Traubel, soprano
Programme 13
7, 8 January 1944
Eugene Ormandy
GRETRY
Cephale et Procris, ballet suite (arr.
Mottl)
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto
BARTÓK
Roumanian Folk Dances
FALLA
Love the Magician, suite
Angel Reyes, violin
Blanche Thebom, contralto
Programme 14
14, 15 January 1944
Eugene Ormandy
KABALEVSKY
Colas Breugnon, overture
SHOSTAKOVICH
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,
three fragments
KHATCHATURIAN
Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
William Kapell, piano
Programme 15
21, 22 January 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BUXTEHUDE
Passacaglia (orch. Cailliet)
HANDEL
Concerto Grosso in G minor for oboe and
strings
HAYDN
Symphony No. 102
RESPIGHI
The Fountains of Rome
STRAVINSKY
Symphony of Psalms
Marcel Tabuleau, oboe
Westminster Choir
Programme 16
28, 29 January 1944
Eugene Ormandy
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Taming of the Shrew, overture
PAGANINI
Violin Concerto No. 1
HANSON
Symphony No. 4
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2
Zino Francescatti, violin
Programme 17
4, 5 February 1944
Saul Caston
HANDEL
Water Music (arr. Harty)
MOZART
Clarinet Concerto
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
Ralph MacLean, clarinet
Programme 18
11, 12 February 1944
Bruno Walter
MOZART
Symphony No. 40
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Programme 19
18, 19 February 1944
Bruno Walter
HANDEL
Concerto Grosso No. 6
BARBER
Symphony in One Movement
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
Programme 20
25, 26 February 1944
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY
The Tempest, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5
Programme 21
3, 4 March 1944
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART
Symphony No. 35, 'Haffner'
WALTON
Viola Concerto
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2
William Primrose, viola
Programme 22
10, 11 March 1944
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART
The Magic Flute, overture
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Golden Cockerel, fantasy for violin
and orchestra (arr. Zimbalist)
BRAHMS
Liebeslieder Waltzes
DVOŘÁK
Scherzo capriccioso
Efrem Zimbalist, violin
Westminster Choir
Programme 23
17, 18 March 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Toccata, Intermezzo and Fugue in C
major (orch. Ormandy)
FRANCK
Symphonic Variations
LISZT
Piano Concerto No. 1
DEBUSSY
La mer
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Programme 24
24, 25 March 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Egmont, overture
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 3
DEBUSSY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes
GUARNIERI
Three Brazilian Dances
JOHANN STRAUSS
Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz
Marisa Regules, piano
Programme 25
31 March, 1 April 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
ZADOR
Biblical Triptych
GRIFFES
Poéme
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, suite (1919)
William Kincaid, flute
Programme 26
8, 10 April 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Herzliebster Jesu from St. Matthew
Passion (orch. O'Connell)
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 9, 'Great'
WAGNER
Parsifal, Transformation Scene,
Klingsor's Magic Garden, Good Friday Music
Programme 27
14, 15 April 1944
Saul Caston
BERLIOZ
Le carnaval romain, overture
RAVEL
Pavane pour une infante défunte
BLITZSTEIN
Freedom Morning
FALLA
La Vida breve, Interlude and Dance
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Programme 28
21, 22 April 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
STRAUSS
Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet, overture
Programme 28
21, 22 April 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1
STRAUSS
Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet, overture
1944 –
1945
Programme
1
29, 30 September, 1 October 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4
KODÁLY
Concerto for Orchestra
DEBUSSY
Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Programme
2
6, 7 October 1944
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Royal Fireworks Music (arr. Harty)
SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 1, 'Classical'
GRIFFES
The White Peacock
MENDELSSOHN
Scherzo in G minor
STRAUSS
Till Eulenspiegel
Programme
3
20, 21 October 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN
Leonore, Overture No. 3
MOZART
Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto
Erica Morini, violin
Programme
4
27, 28 October 1944
Eugene Ormandy
MIASKOVSKY
Symphony No. 21
RACHMANINOV
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5
William Kapell, piano
Programme
5
10, 11 November 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (orch.
Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 5
McDONALD
My Country at War, Suite
STRAUSS
Tod und Verklärung
Programme
6
17, 18, 20 November 1944
Eugene Ormandy
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto
VIRGIL THOMSON
Suite for Orchestra
RAVEL
La Valse
Nathan Milstein, violin
Programme
7
24, 25 November 1944
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of
Handel (orch. Rubbra)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 8
HERBERT
Cello Concerto No. 2
DUKAS
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Samuel Mayes, cello
Programme
8
1, 2 December 1944
Eugene Ormandy
WEBER
Der Freischütz, overture
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2
GRUENBERG
Violin Concerto
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Programme
9
8, 9, 11 Decmber 1944
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN
Symphony No. 100, 'Military'
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV
Chout, Ballet Suite
SMETANA
Vltava
Claudio Arrau, piano
Programme
10
15, 16 December 1944
Eugene Ormandy
MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina, Prelude
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 3, 'Polish'
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Scheherazade
Programme
11
22, 23 December 1944
Thor Johnson
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
Concerto for Orchestra in D major
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1
HOWLAND
Tribute to Fighting Men
Eugene List, piano
Programme
12
29, 30 December 1944
Saul Caston
BACH
Orchestral Suite No. 2
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
Programme
13
5, 6, 8 January 1945
Pierre Monteux
BACH
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (orch.
Respighi)
MOZART
Symphony No. 35, 'Haffner'
RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No.1
PROKOFIEV
Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 1
STRAVINSKY
The Firebird, suite
Programme
14
12, 13 January 1945
Pierre Monteux
BEETHOVEN
Egmont, overture
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto
CRESTON
Pastorale and Tarantella
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
Isaac Stern, violin
Programme
15
19, 20, 22 January 1945
Eugene Ormandy
RESPIGHI
The Birds, Suite
MARTINŮ
Symphony No. 2
SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto in A minor
Artur Rubinstein, piano
Programme
16
26, 27 January 1945
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Arietta and Passacaglia (arr. Harty)
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 4
BEREZOWSKY
Harp Concerto
DEBUSSY
Rondes de Printemps from Images
BARTÓK
Romanian Folk Dances
Edna Phillips, harp
Programme
17
2, 3 February 1945
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Chorale Prelude, 'O Mensch' (orch.
Ormandy)
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3
VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concerto No. 4
ENESCU
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Patricia Travers, violin
Programme
18
9, 10 February 1945
Eugene Ormandy
FRANCK
Symphony
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 1
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, excerpts
Programme
19
23, 24 February 1945
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL
Concerto in D major (orch. Ormandy)
SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto
STRAUSS
Don Quixote
Gregror Piatigorsky, cello
Programme
20
2, 3 March 1945
Saul Caston
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7
LIADOV
Eight Russian Folk Songs
MUSSORGSKY
A Night on a Bare Mountain
FERNANDEZ
Batuque
LISZT
Les Préludes
Programme
21
9, 10 March 1945
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN
Symphony No. 88
GESENSWAY
Suite for Strings and Percussion
STRAVINSKY
Fireworks
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No. 2
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Programme
22
16, 17 March 1945
Eugene Ormandy
ROSSINI
Semiramide, overture
McDONALD
Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Alexander Hilsberg, violin
Programme
23
23, 24 March 1945
Eugene Ormandy
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 1
PROKOFIEV
Alexander Nevsky
Rosalind Nadell, contralto
Westminster Choir
Programme
24
31 March, 2 April 1945
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 5, 'Reformation'
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Rhine
Journey, Siegfried's Death and Funeral March and Immolation Scene
Marjorie Lawrence, soprano
Programme
25
6, 7 April 1945
Eugene Ormandy
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2
YARMUDIAN
Desolate City
LISZT
Will-o'-the Wisps (orch. Weiner)
RESPIGHI
The Pines of Rome
Programme
26
13, 14 April 1945
Eugene Ormandy
BACH
Come Sweet Death (orch. O'Connell)
MARTINŮ
Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
Programme
27
20, 21 April 1945
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4
PERSICHETTI
Fables for narrtor and orchestra
STRAUSS, Josef
Sphärenklänge, waltz
Robert Grooters, narrator
Programme
28
27, 28 April 1945
Eugene Ormandy
FRANCK
Symphony
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and
Liebestod
STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
