The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1959 – 1960
season
60th Season
The first week of the season was lost due to
a musician’s strike following a failure to reach agreement on players’ salaries
Week 1
9,10 October 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Women's Glee Club of Temple University
BEETHOVEN Coriolan,
overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 8
BRAHMS Part
Songs for Women's Voices (Twelfth Night, Fingal, Greetings, I Hear
a
Harp)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 2
16, 17 October 1959
Eugene Ormandy
John Browning, piano
PERSICHETTI Symphony
for Strings
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 14
RICHARD STRAUSS Tod
und Verklärung
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
Week 3
23, 24 October 1959
Eugene Ormandy
ZADOR Fugue
Fantasy
MOZART Symphony
No. 34
ROREM The
Eagles
PROKOFIEV The
Love for Three Oranges, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia domestica
Week 4
30, 31 October, 2 November 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
STRAVINSKY Divertimento
from Le Baiser de la fée
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 1
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
Week 5
6, 7 November 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello
COWELL Hymn
and Fuguing Tune No. 3
SESSIONS The
Black Maskers, suite
KABALEVSKY Colas
Breugnon, overture
KHRENNIKOV Symphony
No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello
Concerto No. 1
Week 6
13, 14, 23 November 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Guiomar Novaes, piano
STRAVINSKY Ode
for Orchestra
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 20
FINNEY Symphony
No. 2
VILLA-LOBOS Momoprecoce
Week 7
20, 21 November 1959
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN The
Creatures of Prometheus, overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 6, 'Pastoral'
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
Week 8
27, 28 November 1959
Charles Munch
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
DEBUSSY La
mer
RAVEL Daphnis
et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Week 9
4, 5 December 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
VIVALDI Autumn
from The Four Seasons
WALTON Partita
for Orchestra
BACH Violin
Concerto No. 2
BARTÓK Violin
Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4
Week 10
11, 12, 14 December 1959
Eugene Ormandy
Phyllis Curtin, soprano, Maureen Forrester, contralto, Brian Sullivan, tenor, Donald Bell, baritone, Temple University Choirs
BACH Christmas
Oratorio (Parts 1-3)
Week 11
18, 19 December 1959
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER Lohengrin,
Prelude Act 3
WAGNER Tannhäuser,
Overture and Venusberg Music
WAGNER Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Suite from Act 3
WAGNER Siegfried
Idyll
WAGNER Siegfried,
Waldweben
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Week 12
26, 28 December 1959
Eugene Ormandy
REZNICEK Donna
Diana, overture
MOZART Symphony
No. 35, 'Haffner'
SCHUBERT Rosamunde,
ballet music
STRAUSS Der
Rosenkavalier, Suite
JOHANN STRAUSS II Wiener
Blut, waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS II Tritsch-Tratsch,
polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Voices
of Spring, waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS II New
Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Tales from the Vienna Woods, waltz
Week 13
2, 3, 4 January 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Lorne Munroe, cello
MESSIAEN L'Ascension
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 6
BRAHMS Double
Concerto
Week 14
8, 9 January 1960
Eugene Ormandy
WEBER Der
Freischütz, overture
VIVALDI Winter
from The Seasons
McDONALD From
the Damariscotta
DEBUSSY Rondes
de Printemps
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
Week 15
29, 30 January, 1 February 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH Sinfonia
for Double Orchestra in E flat major
RICHARD STRAUSS Don
Juan
MILHAUD Symphony
No. 8
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 16
5, 6 February 1960
Georg Solti
BRAHMS Variations
on a Theme of Haydn
HINDEMITH Symphonic
Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, 'Eroica'
Week 17
12, 13, 15 February 1960
Leopold Stokowski
Shirley Verrett, mezzo
soprano
MOZART The
Marriage of Figaro, overture
FALLA Love
the Magician, complete
RESPIGHI The
Pines of Rome
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 5
Week 18
19, 20 February 1960
William Smith
Byron Janis, piano
BERLIOZ Le
Corsaire, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano
Concerto No. 1
MAHLER Symphony
No. 1
Week 19
26, 27 February 1960
Eugen Jochum
William Kincaid, flute,
Louis Rosenblatt, cor anglais
WEBER Oberon,
Overture
HONEGGER Concerto
da Camera for flute, cor anglais and strings
EGK French
Suite (after Rameau)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
Week 20
4, 5, 7 March 1960
Pierre Monteux
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
HINDEMITH Symphony,
'Mathis der Maler'
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 9, 'Great'
Week 21
11, 12 March 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin,
Gyorgy Sandor, piano
VIVALDI Spring
from The Four Seasons
CASELLA Paganiniana
THOMSON Symphony
On A Hymn Tune
BARTÓK Piano
Concerto No. 2
RAVEL Bolero
Week 22
18, 19 March 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Three College Chorus
VERDI Stabat
Mater and Te Deum
HARRIS Prelude
and Fugue
RACHMANINOV Symphonic
Dances
DUKAS The
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Week 23
1, 2, 4 April 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
ROBERTSON Passacaglia
HAYDN Symphony
No. 94, 'Surprise'
ROUSSEL Bacchus
et Ariane, Suite No. 2
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 24
8, 9 April 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade
for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, 'Pathétique'
Week 25
15, 16, 18 April 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin,
William Kincaid, flute
VIVALDI Summer
from The Four Seasons
WAGNER Parsifal,
Good Friday Music
MOZART Flute
Concerto No. 1
GESENSWAY Ode
to Peace
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 5, 'Reformation'
Week 26
22, 23 April 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Janice Harsanyi, soprano,
Rudolf Petrak, tenor, Harve Presnell, baritone, Rutgers
University Choir
SAEVERUD Peer
Gynt, Suite No. 1
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 7
ORFF Carmina
burana
Week 27
29, 30 April 1960
Eugene Ormandy
BACH Toccata
and Fugue in D minor (orch. Ormandy)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
DEBUSSY Prélude
á l'après-midi d'un faune
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1960 – 1961
season
61st Season
Week 1
30 September, 1, 3 October
1960
Eugene Ormandy
Paul Callaway, organ
BARBER Toccata
festiva for organ and orchstra
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony
No. 3, 'Organ'
Week 2
7, 8 October 1960
Eugene Ormandy
J.C. BACH Sinfonia
for Double Orchestra No. 3
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 5
FOSS Concerto
for Improvising Instruments and orchestra
RESPIGHI Roman
Festivals
Week 3
14, 15 October 1960
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS Variations
on a Theme by Haydn
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 4
21, 22 October 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Mason
Jones, horn
VIVALDI Autumn
from The Four Seasons
BIZET Symphony
in C major
FLANAGAN A
Concert Ode
GLIÈRE Horn
Concerto
RAVEL La
valse
Week 5
28, 29, 31 October 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Camilla Williams, soprano
MOZART The
Marriage of Figaro, overture
MOZART Dove
sono from The Marriage of Figaro
MOZART Zefiretti
lusingheri from Idomeneo
MAHLER Symphony
No. 4
Week 6
4, 5 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
John Pennink, piano
BEETHOVEN Leonore,
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 4
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'
Week 7
11, 12 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin
ZADOR Elegie
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4
YARMUDIAN Violin
Concerto
DELIUS In
a Summer Garden
IBERT Escales
Week 8a
18, 19 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano, Jerome
Hines, bass
BEETHOVEN Leonore,
Overture No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 1
BARTÓK Bluebeard's
Castle
Week 8b
21 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 4
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 9
25, 26 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin
CRESTON Invocation
and Dance
FRANCK Symphony
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
Week 10
2, 3 December 1960
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER A
Faust Overture
WAGNER Das
Rheingold, Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
WAGNER Götterdämmerung,
Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Death and Funeral Music
WAGNER Die
Walküre, Ride of the Valkyrie, Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
Week 11
9, 10 December 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Irene Callaway, soprano, Peter
Harrower, bass baritone, Anshel Brusilow, violin,
Three College Chorus
PURCELL Dido
and Aeneas, suite (arr. Cailliet)
HONEGGER A
Christmas Oratorio
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldeleben
Eugene Ormandy
Robert Casadesus, piano, Gaby
Casadesus, piano
MOZART Symphony
No. 31, 'Paris'
MOZART Double
Piano Concerto
RIVIER Symphony
No. 5
RAVEL Piano
Concerto for the Left Hand
Week 13
30, 31 December 1960
George Georgescu
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan
ROGALSKI Three
Romanian Dances
ENESCU Romanian
Rhapsody No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
Week 14
6, 7, 9 January 1961
William Steinberg
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2
COPLAND Orchestra
Variations
RESPIGHI The
Fountains of Rome
RICHARD STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel
Week 15a
13, 14 January 1961
William Smith
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
STRAVINSKY Gesualdo
Monumento
CHOPIN Piano
Concerto No. 1
KOETSIER Symphony
No. 1
LISZT Totentanz
Week 15b
23 January 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Alexander Brailowsky, piano
STRAVINSKY Gesualdo
Monumento
CHOPIN Piano
Concerto No. 1
KOETSIER Symphony
No. 1
LISZT Totentanz
Week 16
27, 28 January 1961
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART The
Marriage of Figaro, overture
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 8, 'Unfinished'
MOZART Symphony
No. 40
JOHANN STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus,
Overture
JOHANN STRAUSS II Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Explosions Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Emperor Waltz
Week 17
3, 4 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremont, piano
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 3, 'Rhenish'
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 22
SAINT-SAËNS Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 18
10, 11, 13 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin
HAYDN Symphony
No. 100, 'Military'
PISTON Symphony
No. 7
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
Week 19
17, 18 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Nikita Magaloff, piano
BALAKIREV Islamey
KABALEVSKY Symphony
No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and
Juliet, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto
No. 1
Week 20
24, 25 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Lorne Munroe, cello
EPPERT Concerto
Grosso
HAYDN Cello
Concerto in D major
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Quixote
Week 21
3, 4 March 1961
William Smith
Tossy Spivakovsky, violin
MOZART The
Magic Flute, overture
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
Week 22
6, 10, 11 March 1961
Leopold Stokowski
Margarita Zambrana, soprano, Nell
Rankin, mezzo soprano, Rudolf Petrak, tenor, Thomas
Hageman, tenor, George Hoffman, bass, Temple
University Choirs
SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder
Week 23
17, 18 March 1961
Eugene Ormandy
BACH O Mensch bewein
dein'Sunde Gross, Chorale Prelude (orch. Ormandy)
BACH Orchestral Suite No.
2
C.P.E. BACH Sinfonia
No. 5 in B minor
BACH Passacaglia and Fugue
in C minor (orch. Ormandy)
BACH Brandenburg Concerto
No. 2
BACH Suite from French
Suites (orch. Honegger)
BACH Toccata, Intermezzo
and Fugue in C minor
Week 24
24, 25, 27 March 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 1, 'Classical'
VIOTTI Violin
Concerto No. 22
BARTÓK Violin
Concerto No. 1
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 25
31 March, 1, 10 April 1961
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe
WAGNER Parsifal,
Prelude
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, 'Eroica'
FRANÇAIX L'Horologe
de Fiore
RAVEL Alborada
del gracioso
Week 26
7, 8 April 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
RACHMANINOV Vocalise
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto
No. 2
Week 27
14, 15 April 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Walter Cassel, baritone. Rutgers
University Choir
BRAHMS Chorale,
Prelude and Fugue for strings (arr. Mason)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
WALTON Belshazzar's
Feast
Week 28
21, 22 April 1961
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.
6, 'Pathétique'
WAGNER Tristan
und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
RAVEL Daphnis
et Chloé, Suite No. 2
1961 – 1962
season
62nd Season
The first three weeks of the season were lost
due to a musician’s strike following a failure to reach agreement on players’
salaries
Week 1
20, 21, 23 October 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
STRAVINSKY Fireworks
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin
Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 6
Week 2
27, 28 October 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Samson François, piano
WEBER Overture
to Euryanthe
DELIUS Dance
Rhapsody No. 2
HINDEMITH Mathis
der Maler, Symphony
NABOKOV Solitude,
Four Moods for Orchestra (world premiere)
PROKOFIEV Piano
Concerto No. 3
Week 3
3, 4, 6 November 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Lorne Munroe, cello
HAYDN Symphony
No. 96, ‘Miracle’
ROCHBERG Night
Music
HINDEMITH Symphonic
Metamophosis on Themes by Weber
LALO Cello
Concerto
Week 4
10, 11 November 1961
William Smith
Michael Rabin, violin
CHERUBINI Overture
to Anacreon
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
BARTÓK Music
for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
RAVEL Rapsodie
espagnole
Week 5
17, 18, 20 November 1961
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
MOZART Symphony
No. 29
HENZE Symphony
No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
Week 6
24, 25 November 1961
Constantin Silvestri
WEBER Oveture
to Der Freischütz
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred
Symphony
BRITTEN Variations
and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
SILVESTRI Prelude
and Fugue
Week 7
1, 2, 11 December 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburn, piano
HAYDN Symphony
No. 101, ‘Clock
YARMUDIAN Symphony
No. 1 (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Week 8
8, 9 December 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Janice Harsanyi, soprano, Frank Porretta, tenor, McHenry
Boatwright, baritone, Herbert Beattie, bass, The Rutgers University Choir
BERLIOZ The
Childhood of Christ
Week 9
15, 16 December 1961
Eugene Ormandy
John Browning, piano
KODÁLY Hary
Janos, Suite
COPLAND Suite
from the Tender Land
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 10
29, 30 December 1961, 1 January 1962
Eugene Ormandy
BRUCKNER Symphony
in G minor
MOZART Four
German Dances
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 6
JOHANN STRAUSS II Der Waldmeister, Overture
JOHANN STRAUSS II Thousand One Nights, Waltz
JOHANN STRAUSS II New Pizzicato Polka
JOHANN STRAUSS II Auf der Jagd
JOHANN STRAUSS II Wine Women and Song
JOHANN STRAUSS II Tales from the Vienna Woods
Week 11
5, 6 January 1962
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
Week 12
26, 27, 29 January 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
BARTÓK Two
Portraits
DIAMOND Symphony
No. 7, (world premiere)
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 27
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 13
2, 3, 12 February 1962
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Egmont
Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 1
BEETHOVEN Grosse
Fuge (arr. Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
Week 14
9, 10 February 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Christian Ferras, violin
MENDELSSOHN The
Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture
PROKOFIEV Violin
Concerto No. 1
MENNIN Symphony
No. 6
MENDELSSOHN Violin
Concerto
Week 15
16, 17 February 1962
Eugene Ormandy
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
Week 16a
23, 24 February 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, David Madison, violin
BACH Orchestral
Suite No. 3
BADINGS Concerto
for Two Violins
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
Week 16b
26 February 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, David Madison, violin
BACH Orchestral
Suite No. 3
BADINGS Concerto
for Two Violins
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 7 (elab. Bogatyryev)
Week 17
2, 3 March 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Three College Chorus
J.C. BACH Overture
to Orione
C.P.E. BACH Concerto
for Orchestra in D major (trans, Maximilian Steinberg)
J.S. BACH Two
Chorale Preludes (orch. Schoenberg)
J.S. BACH Toccata
and Fugue in D minor (trans. Ormandy)
J.S. BACH Mass
in F major (Kyrie, Gloria and Cum Sancto Spiritu)
J.S. BACH The
Wise Virgins, Ballet Suite (arr. Walton)
Week 18
9, 10 March 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Elsa Hilger, soprano
CORELLI Concerto
Grosso in C minor, Op. 4 No. 1
DELIUS On
Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
VOLKMANN Cello
Concerto in A minor
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 1
Week 19
16, 17, 19 March 1962
Leopold Stokowski
WEBERN Passacaglia
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 4
DEBUSSY La
Soiree dans Grenade (orch. Stokowski)
MUSSORGSKY Pictures
at an Exhibtion (orch. Stokowski)
Week 20
23, 24 March 1962
Max Rudolf
C.P.E. BACH Symphony
in B flat major for String Orchestra No. 2
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
PETRASSI Concerto
for Orchestra
STRAVINSKY The
Firebird, Suite
Week 21a
30, 31 March 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
MOZART Symphony
No. 30
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 3
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 21b
2 April 1962
William Smith
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
MOZART Symphony
No. 30
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 3
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 22
6, 7, 15 April 1962
Eugene Ormandy
HANDEL Concerto
Grosso in D major (trans. Ormandy)
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 4, ‘Tragic’
DELIUS Brigg
Fair
ELGAR Enigma
Variations
Week 23
13, 14 April 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Jeanne Mitchell, violin
BEETHOVEN Coriolan
Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
BEETHOVEN Violin
Concerto
Week 24
20, 21, 23 April 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Eleanor Steber, soprano, Rosalind Elias, contralto,
Richard Verreau, tenor, Richard Cross, bass-baritone,
Temple University Choirs
BACH Mass
in B minor
Week 25
27, 28 April 1962
Eugene Ormandy
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
RESPIGHI Pines
of Rome
The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1962 – 1963
season
63rd Season
Week 1
20, 21, 22 September 1962
Eugene Ormandy
WAGNER Die
Meistersinger, Prelude
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
BERG Three
Pieces from Lulu
RAVEL Daphnis
and Chloé, Suite Nos. 1 and 2
Week 2
5, 6, 15 October 1962
Eugene Ormandy
E. Power Biggs, organ
BARBER Toccata
Festiva
POULENC Concerto
for Organ, Strings and Timpani
BACH Fantasia
and Fugue in G minor for organ
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony
No. 3, ‘Organ’
Week 3
12, 13 October 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Hilde Gueden, soprano, Carolyn Stanford, contralto,
Richard Verreau, tenor, McHenry Boatwright, baritone,
Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus
BEETHOVEN The
Consecration of the House, Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 9, ‘Choral’
Week 4
19, 20 October 1962
Otto Klemperer
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Week 5
26, 27 October 1962
Otto Klemperer
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
Overture
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4
Week 6
2, 3, 5 November 1962
Otto Klemperer
BACH Brandenburg
Concerto No. 1
MOZART Symphony
No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
Week 7
9, 10 November 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Ruth Slenczynska, piano
PISTON Lincoln
Center Festival Overture
VON EINEM Philadelphia
Symphony
CHOPIN Piano
Concerto No. 2
BARTÓK The
Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
Week 8
16, 17, 19 November 1962
Eugene Ormandy, Anshel Brusilow*
Eliane Magnan, cello
BACH Passacaglia
and Fugue in C minor (orch. Ormandy)
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4*
Week 9
23, 24 November 1962
Eugene Ormandy
PROKOFIEV Lieutenant
Kijé, Suite
STRAVINSKY Symphony
in Three Movements
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
Week 10
30 November, 1, 3 December 1962
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe
MOZAT Adagio
and Fugue for strings
MOZART Oboe
Concerto
KODÁLY Dances
from Galanta
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 2
Week 11
6, 7, 8, 10 December 1962
Eugene Ormandy
Robert Casadesus*, Gaby Casadesus, Jean
Casadesus, piano
BACH Brandenburg
Concerto No. 2
BACH Concerto
for Three Pianos in D minor
CARTER Variations
for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’*
Week 12
28, 29 December 1962
William Smith
Ruggiero Ricci, violin
WALTON Scapino
Overture
SIBELIUS Violin
Concerto
BEETHOVEN Cavatina
from Quartet in B flat major
IVES Symphony
No. 2
Week 13a
3, 4, 5 January 1963
William Smith
Lorne Munroe, cello
IBERT Divertissement
TARTINI Cello
Concerto in A major
ELGAR Cockaigne,
Overture
KABALEVSKY Cello
Concerto
LAMBERT Horoscope,
Ballet Suite
Week 13b
7 January 1963
William Smith
Lorne Munroe, cello
SIBELIUS En
Saga
TARTINI Cello
Concerto in A major
KABALEVSKY Cello
Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 2
Week 14
11, 12, 14 January 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburn, piano
BUXTEHUDE Passacaglia
(orch. Cailliet)
SCHUMAN Symphony
No. 6
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 15a
18, 19 January 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
HANDEL Concerto
Grosso in D major (arr. Ormandy)
PROKOFIEV Violin
Concerto No. 1
HARRIS Symphony
No. 9 (world premiere)
RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Week 15b
28 January 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
HANDEL Concerto
Grosso in D major (arr. Ormandy)
HARRIS Symphony
No. 9 (world premiere)
PROKOFIEV Violin
Concerto No. 1
RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Week 16
1, 2 February 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin
VIRGIL THOMSON A Solemn Music and A Joyful Fugue
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 4, ‘Italian’
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
Week 17
8, 9, 21 February 1963
Leopold Stokowski
BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
IPPOLITOV-IVANOV Caucasian Sketches
WAGNER Overture
to Tannhäuser
Week 18
15, 16, 18 February 1963
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART Symphony
No. 35, ‘Haffner’
WEBERN Im
Sommerwind
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 4
Week 19
22, 23, 25 February 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremont, piano
ROUSSEL Symphony
No. 4
CHABRIER España
RAVEL Rapsodie
espagnole
PROKOFIEV The
Love for Three Oranges, Suite
RACHMANINOV Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 20
7, 8, 9, 11 March 1963
Charles Munch
FAURÉ Pelléas
et Mélisande, Suite
HONEGGER Symphony
No. 2
RAVEL Valses
nobles et sentimentales
RAVEL Daphnis
et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Week 21
15, 16 March 1963
Charles Munch
RAMEAU Dardanus,
Ballet excerpts
DUTILLEUX Symphony
No. 2
BARBER Die
Natali
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 22a
22, 23 March 1963
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART Symphony
No. 34
BARTOK Two
Pictures for Orchestra
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 22b
25 March 1963
William Smith
MOZART Symphony
No. 34
DEBUSSY La
Mer
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 23
29, 30 March 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Murray Panitz, flute
HANSON Symphony
No. 2, ‘Romantic’
TELEMANN Suite
for Flute and Strings in A minor
WAGNER Tannhäuser,
Overture and Venusberg Music
WAGNER Prelude
and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Week 24
5, 6 April 1963
Eugene Ormandy
David Bar-Illan, piano
PISTON Symphonic
Prelude
DVOŘÁK Symphony
No. 9, ‘From the New World’
ZADOR Rhapsodie
for Orchestra
SCHUMANN Piano
Concerto
Week 25
11, 12, 13, 15 April 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Judith Raskin, soprano, Maureen Forrester, contralto, Richard
Lewis, tenor, Herbert Beattie, bass, Temple University Choirs
BACH Easter
Oratorio
BEETHOVEN Christ
on the Mount of Olives
Week 26
19, 20 April 1963
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS Variations
on a Theme by Haydn
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
Week 27
26, 27, 29 April 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Ivan Davis, piano
RACHMANINOV Three
Preludes (C sharp minor, G minor & G major) (trans Cailliet)
RACHMANINOV Symphony
No. 3
RACHMANINOV Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 28
2, 3, 4 May 1963
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS Academic
Festival Overture
FRANCK Symphony
in D minor
DEBUSSY Prélude
á l’après-midi d’un faune
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
1963 – 1964
season
64th Season
Week 1
19, 20, 21, 23 September 1963
Eugene Ormandy
MOZART Don
Giovanni, Overture
SCHOENBERG Theme
and Variations
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 5
MAHLER Symphony
No. 1
Week 2
27, 28 September 1963
Eugene Ormandy
E. Power Biggs, organ
HANDEL Concerto
Grosso No. 13 in F major
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 4, ‘Italian’
SOWERBY Organ
Concerto in C major
DEBUSSY Iberia
Week 3
4, 5 October 1963
Eugene Ormandy
RESPIGHI Arie
di Corte
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 5
PERSICHETTI Serenade
No. 5
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 4a
11, 12 October 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Jeanne-Marie Darré, piano
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Rhenish’
FORTNER Impromptus
SAINT-SAËNS Piano
Concerto No. 2
Week 4b
14 October 1963
Eugene Ormandy
RESPIGHI Arie
di Corte
FORTNER Impromptus
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 5
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 5
18, 19 October 1963
Milton Katims
ROSSINI Overture
to La gazza ladra
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
BARBER Symphony
in One Movement
RAVEL La
Valse
Week 6
25, 26, 28 October 1963
William Steinberg
LOPATNIKOFF Festival
Overture
MOZART Symphony
No. 40
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred
Symphony
Week 7
1, 2 November 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Henryk Szeryng, violin
SCARLATTI The
Good-Humoured Ladies (arr. Tommasini)
MOZART Symphony
No. 36, ‘Linz’
RICHARD STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
Week 8
7, 8, 9, 11 November 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Byron Janis, piano
PROKOFIEV Scythian
Suite
PROKOFIEV Piano
Concerto No. 3
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 5
Week 9
15, 16, 18 November 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Phyllis Curtin, soprano, Donald Gramm, bass-baritone, Rutgers University Choir
BRAHMS Schicksalslied
BRAHMS A
German Requiem
Week 10a
22 November 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Leonard Rose, cello
MENDELSSOHN A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and
Wedding
March
BRITTEN Sinfonia
da Requiem
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
President Kennedy’s death was announced after
the Nocturne. The rest of the concert was abandoned
Week 10b
23 November 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Leonard Rose, cello
BACH Komm,
süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh (orch. Ormandy)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
DVOŘÁK Cello
Concerto
The programme was changed in tribute to the
dead President.
Week 11
29, 30 November 1963
Werner Torkanowsky
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
BARTÓK Music
for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 9, ‘Great’
Week 12
5, 6, 7, 9 December 1963
Leopold Stokowski
BACH Wachet
auf, ruft uns die Stimme (orch. Stokowski)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
WAGNER Götterdämmerung,
Rhine Journey, Funeral Music and Closing Scene
Week 13
13, 14 December 1963
Eugene Ormandy
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, piano
BACH Ach
Gott, vom Himmel sieh’darein (orch. McDonald)
TCHAIKOVSKY The
Nutcracker, excerpts
MENDELSSOHN Concerto
for Two Pianos
Week 14
3, 4, 6 January 1964
William Smith
Lee Luvisi, piano
BERLIOZ Overture
to Benvenuto Cellini
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 27
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Burger als Edelmann, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS Waltz Scene from Intermezzo
Week 15
10, 11, 13 January 1964
Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft*
Vera Zorina, narrator, Loren Driscoll, tenor, Singing
City Choirs
STRAVINSKY Symphony
in C
SCHOENBERG Five
Pieces for Orchestra*
STRAVINSKY Persephone*
Week 16
16, 17, 18 January 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin
SATIE Three
Gymnopedies
CHAUSSON Symphony
in B flat
SAINT-SAËNS Violin
Concerto No. 3
DEBUSSY La
mer
Week 17
30, 31 January 1, 3 February 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
BUXTEHUDE Chaconne
in E minor (trans. Chavez)
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
FRANCK Symphony
in D minor
Week 18a
7, 8 February 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Irvin Rosen, violin,
William Schoen, viola, Lorne Munroe, cello
SPOHR Concerto
for String Quartet and Orchestra
SESSIONS Symphony
No. 5 (world premiere)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
Week 18b
10 February 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Henryk Szeryng, violin
BRAHMS Academic
Festival Overture
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
Week 19
14, 15 February 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Lorne Munroe, cello
IVES Three
Places in New England
MOZART Symphony
No. 39
SAINT-SAËNS Cello
Concerto No. 1
RESPIGHI Church
Windows
Week 20
21, 22, 27 February, 2 March 1964
Georg Solti
BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
STRAVINSKY The
Rite of Spring
Week 21
6, 7, 16 March 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
ROSS LEE FINNEY Symphony No. 3 (world premiere)
SCHUMANN Piano
Concerto
SCHUMANN Konzertstück
for piano and orchestra
STRAVINSKY Petrushka,
Suite
Week 22
13, 14 March 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Susan Starr, piano, Women’s Glee Club of Temple University
YARMUDIAN Chorale
Prelude, ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’
HAYDN Symphony
No. 99
DEBUSSY Nocturnes
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 23
20, 21 March 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo
and Juliet
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 5
Week 24
26, 27, 28, 30 March 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Cesare Valletti, tenor, Temple University Choirs
BERLIOZ Requiem
Week 25
3, 4 April 1964
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
MOZART Symphony
No. 38, ‘Prague’
PROKOFIEV Romeo
and Juliet, Suite No. 2
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4
STRAVINSKY The
Firebird, Suite
Week 26
10, 11 April 1964
Donald Johanos
MOZART Symphony
No. 34
SCRIABIN The
Poem of Ecstasy
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 4
Week 27a
17, 18 April 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Marilyn Costello, harp
ROZSA Notturno
Ungherese (world premiere)
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
RODRIGO Concierto
Serenata
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
Week 27b
20 April 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Marilyn Costello, harp
YARMUDIAN Chorale
Prelude, ‘Veni Sancte Spiritus’
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
RODRIGO Concierto
Serenata
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
Week 28
24, 25 April 1964
Eugene Ormandy
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan
RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
RICHARD STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
The Philadelphia Orchestra
1964 – 1965
season
65th Season
Week 1a
1, 2, 3 October 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Hilde Gueden, soprano, William Smith, organ
RICHARD STRAUSS Festival
Overture for Organ and Orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS Die
Liebe der Danae, excerpts
RICHARD STRAUSS Daphne,
excerpts
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia
Domestica
Week 1b
5 October 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Hilde Gueden, soprano
RICHARD STRAUSS Don
Juan
RICHARD STRAUSS Die
Liebe der Danae, excerpts
RICHARD STRAUSS Daphne,
excerpts
RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica
Week 2
9, 10 October 1964
Eugene Ormandy
RESPIGHI Gli
Uccelli, Suite
HINDEMITH Mathis
der Maler, Symphony
APOSTEL Variations
on a Theme of Haydn
MUSSORGSKY Pictures
at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Week 3
16, 17 October 1964
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
Week 4
23, 24 October 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Joseph de Pasquale, viola
BERG Three
Pieces for Orchestra
MOZART Sinfonia
concertante for Violin and Viola
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 9, ‘Great’
Week 5
30, 31 October, 2 November 1964
Hermann Scherchen
HAYDN Symphony
No. 49, ‘La Passione’
MAHLER Symphony
No. 5
Week 6
6, 7 November 1964
Sixten Ehrling
VERDI La
forza del destino, Overture
NIELSEN Symphony
No. 5
HINDEMITH The
Four Temperaments
FALLA Three
Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Week 7a
13, 14, 23 November 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Lili Chookasian, contralto
BRITTEN Sinfonia
da Requiem
YARDUMIAN Symphony
No. 2 (Psalms) (world premiere)
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 7b
16 November 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 8
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 4
Week 8
19, 20, 21 November 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Emil Gilels, piano
THORNE Elegy
for Orchestra
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 2
CHOPIN Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 9
27, 28 November 1964
Donald Johanos
BARTÓK Divertimento
for Strings
SCHULLER Seven
Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
Week 10
4, 5, 7 December 1964
William Smith
Virgil Fox, organ
RICHARD STRAUSS Metamorphosen
JONGEN Symphonie
concertante for Organ and Orchestra
DVOŘÁK Symphony
No. 8
Week 11
10, 11, 12, 14 December 1964
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
HAYDN Symphony
No. 100, ‘Military’
BEETHOVEN Romance
in F major for violin and orchestra
DVOŘÁK Violin
Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony
No. 7
Week 12
18, 19 December 1964, 7 January 1965
Leopold Stokowski
Kimio Eto, koto
SMETANA Sarka
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 2
COWELL Concerto
for Koto and Orchestra
WAGNER Prelude
Act 3 and Dance of the Apprentices from Die Meistersinger
Week 13a
8, 9 January 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Elsa Hilger, cello, Nicholas Divirgilio, tenor, Temple
University Choirs
ZADOR Five
Contrasts for Orchestra
HAYDN Cello
Concerto in D major
BERLIOZ Te
Deum
Week 13b
11 January 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 1
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 14
15, 16, 25 January 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Alfred Brendel, piano, Joseph de Pasquale, viola
HAYDN Symphony
No. 67
SCHUMANN Piano
Concerto
BERLIOZ Harold
in Italy
Week 15
29, 30 January 1965
Istvan Kertesz
MOZART Symphony
No. 39
KODÁLY Peacock
Variations
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
Week 16
5, 6, 8 February 1965
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
WEBER Overture
to Der Freischütz
HAYDN Symphony
No. 92, ‘Oxford’
HENZE Suite
No. 2 from Undine
DVOŘÁK Symphony
No. 7
Week 17
12, 13 February 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Peter Serkin, piano
MENNIN Canto
for Orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS Der Burger als Edelmann, Suite
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 19
STRAVINSKY Pastorale
STRAVINSKY The
Firebird, Suite (1919)
Week 18
18, 19, 20, 22 February 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp
VIRGIL THOMSON A Solemn Music and A Joyful Fugue
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
GINASTERA Harp
Concerto (world premiere)
WAGNER Prelude
and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Week 19
26, 27 February 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Nicholas Divirgilio, tenor, McHenry
Boatwright, baritone, Singing City Chorale
MOZART Symphony
No. 30
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin
Concerto
BRITTEN Cantata
Misericordium
RICHARD STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung
Week 20
5, 6, 8 March 1965
Lorin Maazel
STRAVINSKY Symphony
in Three Movements
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 4, ‘Romantic’
Week 21
12, 13 March 1965
Elyakum Shapira
BARBER Overture
to The School for Scandal
BERNSTEIN Symphony
No. 1, ‘Jeremiah’
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 22
18, 19, 20, 22 March 1965
Georges Prêtre
LALO Le
Roi d’Ys, Overture
ROUSSEL Symphony
No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 5
Week 23
26, 27 March 1965
Eugene Ormandy
PROKOFIEV Romeo
and Juliet, Suite
STRAVINSKY Le
Baiser de la Fée
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 5
Week 24
2, 3, 5 April 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano
BEETHOVEN Leonore
Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 4
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Week 25
9, 10 April 1965
Eugene Ormandy
BACH Orchestral
Suite No. 3
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 5 (original version)
Week 26
15, 16, 17, 19 April 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Teresa Stratas/Lucine Amara (19), soprano, Maureen Forrester, contralto, Richard
Lewis, tenor, John Macurdy, bass-baritone, Westminster Choir
VERDI Requiem
Week 27
23, 24 April 1965
William Smith
Anshel Brusilow, violin
HANDEL Suite
from Alcina
SHEINFELD Violin
Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony
No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
Week 28
30 April, 1 May 1965
Eugene Ormandy
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
Overture
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
DEBUSSY La
mer
RAVEL Suite
No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé
The
Philadelphia Orchestra
1965 – 1966
season
66th Season
Week 1
23, 24, 25 September 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Louis Rosenblatt, cor anglais, Murray
Panitz, flute
WEBER Overture
to Euryanthe
DIAMOND Elegies
for Flute, Cor Anglais and Strings
DUTILLEUX Ballet
Suite from La Loup
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 1
Week 2
1, 2, 4 October 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Gary Graffman, piano
RACHMANINOV The
Isle of the Dead
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini
RACHMANINOV Symphony
No. 1
Week 3
7, 8, 9 October 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Carolyn Stanford, mezzo-soprano, György Sandor, piano
BARTÓK Two
Portraits
BARTÓK Five
Songs for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
BARTÓK Piano
Concerto No. 1
BARTÓK Concerto
for Orchestra
Week 4
15, 16, 18 October 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Sidney Harth, violin
NIELSEN Maskarade,
Overture
NIELSEN Symphony
No. 6, ‘Sinfonia semplice’
MOZART Violin
Concerto No. 5
RAVEL Tzigane
Week 5
22, 23 October 1965
Eugene Ormandy
John Browning, piano
LESLIE BASSETT Variations for Orchestra
BARBER Piano
Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 2
Week 6
28, 29, 30 October, 1 November 1965
Zubin Mehta
BEETHOVEN Coriolan,
Overture
SCHOENBERG Five
Pieces for Orchestra
BRUCKNER Symphony
No. 9
Week 7
5, 6, 15 November 1965
Eugene Ormandy
HAYDN Symphony
No. 7, ‘Le midi’
MAHLER Symphony
No. 10 (compl. Cooke)
Week 8
12, 13 November 1965
Eugene Ormandy
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
BRAHMS Variations
on a Theme by Haydn
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
BRAHMS Violin
Concerto
Week 9
19, 20 November 1965
Leopold Stokowski
MOZART Overture
to Don Giovanni
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 7
PROKOFIEV Ural
Rhapsody from The Stone Flower
STRAVINSKY The
Firebird, Suite (1919)
Week 10
26, 27, 29 November 1965
Sergiu Comissiona
Jeanne-Marie Darré, piano
MOZART Overture
to The Impresario
SCHUBERT Symphony
No. 3
LISZT Piano
Concerto No. 2
DEBUSSY Nuages
et Fêtes from Nocturnes
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 9
Week 11
2, 3, 4 December 1965
Donald Johanos
MOZART Symphony
No. 35, ‘Haffner’
STRAVINSKY Symphony
in C
RACHMANINOV Symphonic
Dances
Week 12
10, 11, 13 December 1965
Seiji Ozawa
TAKEMITSU Requiem
for Strings
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 1
LIGETI Atmosphères
HINDEMITH Mathis
der Maler, Symphony
Week 13
17, 18 December 1965
Eugene Ormandy/Jussi Jalas*
David Oistrakh, violin
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 7
SIBELIUS Violin
Concerto
SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen
Suite
Week 14a
6, 10 January 1966
Eugene Ormandy
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
BRAHMS Serenade
No. 1
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
Week 14b
7, 9 January 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburn, piano
BRAHMS Tragic
Overture
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 4
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 15a
14, 15 January 1966
Colin Davis
ELGAR Falstaff
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 15b
24 January 1966
William Smith
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan
SIBELIUS Symphony
No. 5
BERLIOZ Symphonie
fantastique
Week 16
28, 29 January, 7 February 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Lili Chookasian, contralto, Richard Lewis, tenor
PISTON Toccata
for Orchestra
HAYDN Symphony
No. 102
MAHLER Das
Lied von der Erde
Week 17
4, 5 February 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano
VON EINEM Nachtstuck
MOZART Symphony
No. 31, ‘Paris’
SZYMANOWSKI Symphonie
conertante for piano and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Piano
Concerto No. 3
Week 18
11, 12 February 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Ingrid Bjoner, soprano, Joanna Simon, mezzo-soprano, Richard Cassilly, tenor, Yi-Kwei Sze, baritone, Rutgers University Choir
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 2
BEETHOVEN Ah!
Perfido
BEETHOVEN Mass
in C major
Week 19
18, 19, 21 February 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin
BACH Ach
Gott vom Himmel steh’ darein, Chorale (trans, Harl McDonald)
CHAVEZ Sinfonia
India
DVORAK Romance
for Violin and Orchestra
BRUCH Violin
Concerto No. 1
SCHUMAN New
England Triptych
ROUSSEL Bacchus
et Ariane, Suite No. 2
Week 20
25, 26 February 1966
William Smith
MUSSORGSKY Prelude
to Khovanshchina
MUSSORGSKY Suite
from Boris Godunov
PROKOFIEV Suite
from Lieutenant Kijé
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 1
Week 21
3, 4, 5, 7 March 1966
Wolfgang Sawallisch
MOZART Symphony
No. 38, ‘Prague’
FORTNER Symphony
1947
SCHUMANN Symphony
No. 4
Week 22
11, 12 March 1966
Rafael Kubelik
HAYDN Symphony
No. 99
MARTINŮ Concerto
for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani
FRANCK Symphony
in D minor
Week 23
18, 19, 21 March 1966
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
BERLIOZ Le
Corsaire, Overture
BARBER Medea’s
Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
REVUELTAS Sensemaya
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 3, ‘Eroica’
Week 24
24, 25, 26 March 1966
Georges Prêtre
BEETHOVEN Egmont,
Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony
No. 5
HONEGGER Symphony
No. 5, ‘Di tre re’
RAVEL Daphnis
et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Week 25a
1, 2 April 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello
BRAHMS Academic
Festival Overture
BRAHMS Double
Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
Week 25b
4 April 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburn, piano
BRAHMS Adacemic
Festival Overture
BRAHMS Symphony
No. 2
BRAHMS Piano
Concerto No. 1
Week 26
8, 9 April 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Maria Stader, soprano, Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano, John McCollum, tenor, Donald Gramm, bass, Temple University Choirs
WAGNER Prelude
to Parsifal
REGER Totenfeier
MENDELSSOHN Symphony
No. 5, ‘Reformation’
BRUCKNER Te
Deum
Week 27
15, 16, 18 April 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Firkusny, piano
HANDEL Concerto
for Orchestra (arr. Ormandy)
BECERRA Symphony
No. 1
MOZART Piano
Concerto No. 15
STRAVINSKY Capriccio
for piano and orchestra
MUSSORGSKY Pictures
at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Week 28
22, 23 April 1966
Eugene Ormandy
COPLAND Music
for a Great City
GINASTERA Variaciones
Concertantes
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony
No. 5
