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Philadelphia Orchestra - Subscription Concerts in the Ormandy era 1938 - 1945



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

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