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Philadelphia Orchestra - Subscription Concerts 1966 -1971


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1966 – 1967 season
67th Season
 

The first seven weeks of the season were lost due to a musician’s strike following a failure to reach agreement on players’ salaries
 

Week 1a
17, 18, 19 November 1966
William Smith
Susan Starr, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
NIELSEN                                             Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’

Week 1b
21 November 1966                             
William Smith
Claudio Arrau, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
NIELSEN                                             Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’

 

Week 2
25, 26 November 1966
Lorin Maazel

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel
DEBUSSY                                            La mer

 

Week 3
2, 3 December 1966
Lorin Maazel

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 95
BARTÓK                                            Dance Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5

 





 

Week 4
8, 9, 10, 12 December 1966
Lorin Maazel
Eugene Istomin, piano

SCHOENBERG                                    Variations
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

 

Week 5a
16, 17 December 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Emil Gilels, piano

HANDEL                                            Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 5b
26, 29 December 1966
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin

HANDEL                                            Pastoral Symphony from Messiah
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’
BARBER                                             Violin Concerto
WEINBERGER                                     Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper

 

Week 6
30, 31 December 1966, 2 January 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremont, piano

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  The Nutcracker, Suite
GERSHWIN                                        Piano Concerto
GERSHWIN                                        Rhapsody in Blue

 





 

Week 7
6, 7, 9, 12 January 1967
Istvan Kertesz

SCHUBERT                                         Rosamunde, Overture
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 29
RODNEY BENNETT                            Symphony No. 1
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

 

Week 8
13, 14, 19 January 1967
Istvan Kertesz

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 67
HINDEMITH                                       Nobilissima Visione
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 6

 

Week 9
27, 28 January 1967
Istvan Kertesz

RAVEL                                               Pavane pour une Infante défunte
BRITTEN                                            Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

 

Week 10a
2, 6 February 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin

WEBER                                              Overture to Der Freischütz
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

Week 10b
3, 4 February 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Lowenthal, piano

WEBER                                              Overture to Der Freischütz
NIELSEN                                             Symphony No. 1
KODÁLY                                            Concerto for Orchestra
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 2

 



 

Week 11
10, 11 February 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

GINASTERA                                       Concerto for Strings
IVES                                                   Symphony No. 1
MOZART                                           Adagio in E major for violin and orchestra
MOZART                                           Rondo in C major for violin and orchestra
LALO                                                 Symphonie espagnole

 

Week 12
16, 17, 18 February 1967
Seiji Ozawa

BIZET                                                 Symphony in C major
ROUSSEL                                            Symphony No. 3
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

 

Week 13
24, 25, 27 February 1967
Seiji Ozawa

IVES                                                   Symphony No. 4
PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suite
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 

Week 14
3, 4, 6 March 1967
Georges Prêtre

BACH                                                Orchestral Suite No. 3
RIVIER                                                Symphony No. 6
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

 




 

Week 15
10, 11, 16 March 1967
Georges Prêtre

CHABRIER                                          Gwendoline, Overture
POULENC                                          Les Biches, Suite
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 

Week 16
17, 18 March 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Luisa de Sett, soprano, Leonard Rose, cello

BERG                                                 Lulu, Suite
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Cello Concerto No. 1
LALO                                                 Cello Concerto
HINDEMITH                                       Mathis der Maler, Symphony

 

Week 17
24, 25 March 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Martina Arroyo, soprano, Maureen Forrester, mezzo-soprano, Richard Lewis, tenor, Cesare Siepi, bass-baritone, Singing City Choirs

BEETHOVEN                                      Missa solemnis

 

Week 18
31 March, 1 April 1967
David Zinman

MENDELSSOHN                                  The Hebrides, (Fingal’s Cave), Overture
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 33
FRANK MARTIN                                 Etudes for String Orchestra
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

 





 

Week 19
6, 7, 8, 10 April 1967
David Zinman
Byron Janis, piano

BERLIOZ                                            Benvenuto Cellini, Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947)

 

Week 20
14, 15, 17 April 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Samuel Mayes, cello, Joseph de Pasquale, viola, Judith Blegen, soprano, Richard Kness, tenor, Temple University Choir

WEBERN                                            Three Pieces for Orchestra (world premiere)
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Quixote
ORFF                                                 Catulli Carmina

 

Week 21
27, 28, 29 April 1967
Eugene Ormandy

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 101
IKUMA DAN                                      Symphony No. 4
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

 
































The Philadelphia Orchestra
1967 – 1968 season
68th Season
 

Week 1
21, 22, 23, 25 September 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Richard Ellsasser, organ

HANDEL                                            Organ Concerto No. 4
STRAVINSKY                                      Le chant du rossignol
DELLO JOIO                                       Antiphonal Fantasy for organ, Brass and Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 7 (elab. Bogatyryev)

 

Week 2a
28, 29, 30 September 1967
Anthony di Bonaventura, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

Week 2b
2 October 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Anthony di Bonaventura, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5
                                                        
 

Week 3
6, 7 October 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Bernard Garfield, bassoon, Gilbert Johnson, trumpet

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
HAYDN                                             Trumpet Concerto
KANITZ                                             Bassoon Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 7
                                                        
 



 

Week 4
12, 13, 14, 16 October 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Nelli Shkolnikova, piano

MOZART                                           Le nozze di Figaro, Overture
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 10 (compl. Cooke)

 

Week 5
20, 21 October 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 7
BARTÓK                                            Viola Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

 

Week 6
27, 28, 30 October 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Annie Fischer, piano

CARTER                                             Holiday Overture
SCHUMANN                                       Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 4

 

Week 7
3, 4, 9 November 1967
Leopold Stokowski
Veronica Tyler, soprano, Maria Lucia Godoy, mezzo-soprano, Singing City Choirs

BACH                                                Magnificat, excerpts
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’

 

Week 8
10, 11 November 1967
Istvan Kertesz

DVOŘÁK                                           Othello, Overture
BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
BARTÓK                                            The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

 

 

Week 9
16, 17, 18, 20 November 1967
Istvan Kertesz

MOZART                                           Divertimento in D major, K. 136
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 5

 

Week 10
24, 25, 27 November 1967
Jean Martinon

STRAVINSKY                                      Jeu de cartes
MARTINON                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Altitudes’
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 

Week 11
30 November, 1, 2 December 1967
Eugene Ormandy

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
CASELLA                                            Paganiniana
RIVIER                                                Symphony No. 5
ROUSSEL                                            Bacchus et Ariane, Suite No. 2

 

Week 12
8, 9 December 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Yehudi Menuhin, violin

ZADOR                                             Festival Overture (revised version)
BARTÓK                                            Violin Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

 

Week 13
15, 16, 17, 19 December 1967
Eugene Ormandy
Daniel Barenboim, piano

ROCHBERG                                       Zodiac (A Circle of Twelve Pieces)
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 3

 


 

Week 14
22, 23 December 1967
William Smith
Marylyn Mulvey, soprano, Anne Cleaves, contralto, Stanley Kolk, tenor, Ramon Kyser, baritone, Singing City Choirs

HANDEL                                            Messiah

 

Week 15
4, 5, 6, 8 January 1968
Lorin Maazel

SCHUBERT                                         Rosamunde, Overture
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 40
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 3

 

Week 16
12, 13, 18 January 1968
Lorin Maazel

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

 

Week 17a
25, 29 January 1968
Lorin Maazel
Itzhak Perlman, violin

DE SABATA                                        Night of Pluto
LALO                                                 Symphonie Espagnole
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 17b
26, 27 January 1968
Lorin Maazel
David Oistrakh, violin

GLINKA                                             Ruslan and Ludmilla, Overture
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Violin Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

 




 

Week 18
2, 3 February 1968
Lorin Maazel
Norman Carol, violin

SCHUMAN                                         Symphony No. 7
STRAVINSKY                                      Violin Concerto
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

 

Week 19
9, 10, 12 February 1968
Lorin Maazel

RAVEL                                               Daphnis and Chloé, complete ballet (without choir)
STRAVINSKY                                      The Rite of Spring

 

Week 20
16, 17 February 1968
Lorin Maazel
Jacqueline du Pré, cello

BACH                                                Orchestral Suite No. 4
SCHUMANN                                       Cello Concerto
WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
WAGNER                                          Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung
WAGNER                                          Prelude to Lohengrin
WAGNER                                          Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

 

Week 21a
22, 23, 24 February 1968
Lorin Maazel

CASELLA                                            Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timpani and Percussion
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 8
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie fantastique

Week 21b
26 February 1968
William Smith

WAGNER                                          Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
WAGNER                                          Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

 

 

Week 22
28 February, 1, 2, 4 March 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Gina Bachauer, piano

WEBER                                              Overture to Oberon
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

 

Week 23
8, 9 March 1968
Eugene Ormandy
John Ogdon, piano

BARTÓK                                            Divertimento for Strings
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

 

Week 24
28, 29, 30 March 1968
Antonio de Almeida

ROSSINI                                             Overture to The Siege of Corinth
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 95
CONSTANT                                       Chaconne and March Militaire
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor

 

Week 25a
5, 6 April 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 1
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 23
SCHUMANN                                       Introduction and Concert Allegro
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 10



Week 25b
8 April 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 10

 

Week 26
12, 13, 15 April 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Judith Raskin, soprano, Maureen Forrester, contralto, Richard Lewis, tenor, George Shirley, tenor, Norman Treigle, bass-baritone, Thomas Paul, bass, Singing City Chorale

BACH                                                St. John Passion

 

Week 27
9, 10, 11 May 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Gary Graffman, piano

STRAVINSKY                                      Fireworks
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5
 

Week 28
17, 18 May 1968
Eugene Ormandy

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
DEBUSSY                                            Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

 
















The Philadelphia Orchestra
1968 – 1969 season
69th Season
 

Week 1
19, 20, 21 September 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istominpiano

BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7 (original version)
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3

 

Week 2
26, 27, 28, 30 September 1968
Eugene Ormandy/Miklos Rosza*
Leonard Pennariopiano

BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
IVES                                                   Symphony No. 1
DEBUSSY                                            Iberia, from Images
ROZSA                                              Piano Concerto*

 

Week 3
4, 5 October 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin

WAGNER                                          Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
PROKOFIEV                                       The Love for Three Oranges, Suite
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’

 

Week 4
11, 12, 21 October 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Maria Stader, soprano, Florence Kopleff, contralto, John McCollum, tenor, McHenry Boatwright, bass-baritone, Temple University Choirs

GINASTERA                                       Psalm 150
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

 



 

Week 5
25, 26 October 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburnpiano

BARTÓK                                            The Wooden Prince, Ballet Suite
HENZE                                              Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

 

Week 6
31 October, 1, 2 November 1968
Claudio Abbado

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 6

 

Week 7
7, 8, 9, 11 November 1968
Seiji Ozawa

J.C. BACH                                           Sinfonia in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
TAKEMITSU                                        Requiem for Strings (in memoriam Munch)
RESPIGHI                                           Gli Uccelli, Suite
TAKEMITSU                                        Green, for orchestra
HINDEMITH                                       Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
 

Week 8
15, 16 November 1968
Seiji Ozawa
John de Lancieoboe

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4
FRANÇAIX                                         l’Horloge de Flore, for oboe and orchestra
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations

 

Week 9
22, 23, 25 November 1968
Lorin Maazel
Samuel Mayes, cello, Joseph de Pasquale, viola

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Burger als Edelmann, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Quixote

 


 

Week 10
29, 30 November 1968
Lorin Maazel

SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 5
FAURÉ                                               Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite
BARTÓK                                            The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite

 

Week 11
6, 7 December 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasqualeviola, Raymond McAfeebaritone

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’
BLOCH                                              Suite for Viola and Orchestra
VIRGIL THOMSON                              The Feast of Love, for baritone and orchestra
DEBUSSY                                            La mer

 

Week 12
12, 13, 14, 16 December 1968
Eugene Ormandy
John Browning, piano

BLACHER                                           Concertante Musik
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie fantastique

 

Week 13
20, 21, 30 December 1968
Eugene Ormandy
Elsa Hilgercello

CORELLI                                            Christmas Concerto
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Rococo Variations
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel

 



 

Week 14
3, 4 January 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Viktor Tretyakov, violin

COPLAND                                         Appalachian Spring, Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto
WAGNER                                          Das Rheingold, Entry of the Gods into Valhalla and Alberich
                                                         and the Nibelungs
WAGNER                                          Götterdämmerung, Rhine Journey and Funeral Music

 

Week 15
10, 11 January 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Peter Serkinpiano

PENDERECKI                                      Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
SCHUMAN                                         Symphony No. 9
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto (trans for piano and orchestra)

 

Week 16a
17, 18 January 1969
William Smith
William de Pasqualeviolin

WALTON                                          Violin Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra
RAVEL                                               La Valse

Week 16b
23, 27 January 1969
William Smith
Malcolm Frager, piano

STRAVINSKY                                      Four Norwegian Moods
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 3
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra
RAVEL                                               La Valse

 



 

Week 17
30, 31 January, 1 February 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Leonid Koganviolin

VIVALDI                                             Concerto Grosso, Op. 12 No. 1
BERG                                                 Violin Concerto
BENJAMIN LEES                                  Spectrum
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

 

Week 18
7, 8, 10 February 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Sternviolin

SCHULLER                                          Composition in Three Parts
SIBELIUS                                             Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

 

Week 19
14, 15, 20 February 1969
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Alicia Marsalian, mezzo-soprano

BEETHOVEN                                      Fidelio, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
FALLA                                                The Three-Cornered Hat, complete ballet

 

Week 20
21, 22, 24 February 1969
Donald Johanos

GLUCK                                              Iphigenie en Aulide, Overture
IVES                                                   Symphony No. 2
ERB                                                   Symphony of Overtures
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

 



 

Week 21
28 February, 1 March 1969
Wolfgang Sawallisch

GENZMER                                          Prologue for Orchestra
DVOŘÁK                                           In Natures Realm, Overture
DVOŘÁK                                           Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK                                           Othello, Overture
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Symphonia domestica

 

Week 22
6, 7, 8, 10 March 1970
Wolfgang Sawallisch

MOZART                                           Masonic Funeral Music
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Tod und Verklärung
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

 

Week 23
14, 15 March 1970
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Emil Gilelspiano

EGK                                                  French Suite, after Rameau
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

 

Week 24
20, 21, 22, 24 March
Carlo Maria Giulini

SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 5
ROSSINI                                             Semiramide, Overture
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 

Week 25
28, 29 March 1970
Werner Torkanowsky

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 2
WEBERN                                            Six Pieces for Orchestra
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 5

 

 

Week 26
4, 5, 7 April 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Jane Marsh, soprano, Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano, Richard Lewis, tenor, Tom Krause, baritone, Singing City Choirs, Columbus Boychoir

MENDELSSOHN                                  Elijah

 

Week 27
10, 11, 12 April 1970
Istvan Kertesz

ZADOR                                             Aria and Allegro
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 45, ‘Farewell’
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

 

Week 28
17, 18, 19, 21 April 1970
Istvan Kertesz

BERLIOZ                                            Les Francs-Juges, Overture
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 33
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 7

 

Week 29
15, 16, 17, 19 May 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Mstislav Rostropovichcello

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Romeo and Juliet
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony Concerto for cello and orchestra

 

Week 30
23, 24, 29 May 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Lorin Hollanderpiano

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Egyptian’
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1 (including Blumine movement)

 


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1969 – 1970 season
70th Season
 

Week 1
18, 19, 20 September 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Samuel Mayescello

PISTON                                              Toccata for Orchestra
HINDEMITH                                       Symphony, ‘Mathis der Maler’
KHACHATURIAN                               Concerto-Rhapsody for cello and orchestra
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

 

Week 2
25, 26, 27, 29 September 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Murray Panitz, flute, Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano, Temple University Choir

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Magnificat
BRAHMS                                            Alto Rhapsody
REGER                                               Requiem
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 

Week 3
3, 4 October 1969
Lorin Maazel

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 5, ‘Reformation’
DALLAPICCOLA                                 Variations for Orchestra
SCRIABIN                                           The Poem of Ecstasy

 

Week 4
9, 10, 11, 13 October 1969
Lorin Maazel

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  The Voyevode
RESPIGHI                                           The Pines of Rome

 



 

Week 5
17, 18 October 1969
Lorin Maazel
Joseph de Pasqualeviolin

CIMAROSA                                         Il matrimonio segreto, Overture
BERLIOZ                                            Harold in Italy
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (original version)

 

Week 6
7, 8, 10 November 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Alexis Weissenbergpiano

BARTÓK                                            Four Pieces for Orchestra
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
HARRIS                                              Symphony No. 3
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

 

Week 7
14, 15 November 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Sternviolin

IVES                                                   The Unanswered Question
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 102
HINDEMITH                                       Concert Music for Brass and Strings
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

 

Week 8
20, 21, 22, 24 November 1969
Sergiu Comissiona
Nelli Shkolnikovaviolin

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 6

 



 

Week 9
28, 29 November 1969
Stanislaw Skrowaczewki
Norman Carolviolin

LUTOSLAWSKI                                   Concerto for Orchestra
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 4
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 7

 

Week 10
4, 5, 6 December 1969
Zubin Mehta

J,C, BACH                                           Sinfonia in B flat major, No. 2, ‘Lucio Silla’
MENDELSSOHN                                  Octet (arr. for String Orchestra)
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra 

 

Week 11
12, 13 December 1969
Zubin Mehta

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
WEBERN                                            Six Pieces for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

 

Week 12
18, 19, 20 December 1969
William Smith

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 29
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 9
 

Week 13
2, 3, 5 January 1970
Claudio Abbado

BERG                                                 Three Pieces for Orchestra
WAGNER                                          Tristan und Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

 




 

Week 14
9, 10 January 1970
Claudio Abbado

VIVALDI                                             Concerto Grosso in C major, RV 533
PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suite (arr. Abbado)
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5
 

Week 15
16, 17, 19, 22 January 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Tom Krause, baritone, Yehudi Menuhin, violin, The Mendelssohn Club Men’s Choir

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 13, ‘Babi Yar’
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto

 

Week 16
29 January, 2 February 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Sviatoslav Richterpiano

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 40
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 17
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 22

 

Week 17
30, 31 January 1970
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe, Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet, Bernard Garfield, bassoon, Mason Jones, horn

MOZART                                           Divertimento in D major
MOZART                                           Sinfonia Concerto for Wind Instruments
MOZART                                           A Musical Joke
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 40

 

Week 18
6, 7 February 1970
István Kertész

BARTÓK                                            Dance Suite for Orchestra
KODÁLY                                            Háry János, Suite
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

 

 

Week 19
12, 13, 14, 16 February 1970
István Kertész
Edith Gabrysoprano

MOZART                                           Serenade No. 10 in B flat for 13 wind instruments
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 4

 

Week 20
20, 21 February 1970
István Kertész
Peter Franklpiano

RESPIGHI                                           Gli Uccelli, Suite
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 4

 

Week 21
26, 27, 28 February 1970
István Kertész
Joahn Monasevitch, soprano, Louise Love, mezzo-soprano, Temple University Women’s Glee Club

DVOŘÁK                                           Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
MENDELSSOHN                                  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music

 

Week 22
5, 6, 7 March 1970
Eugene Ormandy

BEETHOVEN                                      The Creatures of Prometheus, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

 

Week 23
13, 14, 16 March 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Evelyn Mandac, soprano, Birgit Finnila, contralto, Singing City Choirs

BACH                                                Chorale Prelude, O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, BWV 622 (trans.
                                                         Ormandy)
BACH                                                Chorale Prelude, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 (trans.
                                                         Ormandy)
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’

 


 

Week 24
20, 21 March 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkinpiano

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 96, ‘Miracle’
SCHUMAN                                         New England Triptych
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’

 


Week 25
26, 27, 28, 30 March 1970
Eugene Ormandy

WAGNER                                          Parsifal, Prelude
DELLO JOIO                                       Homage to Haydn
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

 

Week 26
3, 4, 6 April 1970
Seiji Ozawa

SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

 

Week 27
10, 11, 13 April 1970
Seiji Ozawa
Vladimir Sokolov, piano

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
MESSIAEN                                          Sept Haikai
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Dreams’

 




 

Week 28
16, 17, 18 April 1970
William Smith (replacing Seiji Ozawa)
Philippe Entremont, piano

BERLIOZ                                            Roman Carnival, Overture
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Piano Concerto No. 4
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor

 

Week 29
30 April, 1, 2 May 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburnpiano

BEETHOVEN                                      Coriolan, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
LISZT                                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOV                                 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

 

Week 30
8, 9 May 1970
Eugene Ormandy

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2
PENDERECKI                                      Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

 



The Philadelphia Orchestra
1970 – 1971 season
71st Season
 

Week 1
17, 18, 19 September 1970
Eugene Ormandy
William Whiteheadorgan

BARTÓK                                            Two Portraits
COPLAND                                         Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 2

 

Week 2
24, 25, 26, 28 September 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Stefania Woytowicz, soprano, Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano, Seth McCoy, tenor, Peter Lagger, bass, Bernard Ladysz. bass, Temple University Choirs

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5
PENDERECKI                                      Utrenja

 

Week 3
2, 3 October, 9 November 1970
Eugene Onegin
De Pasquale Quartet

PISTON                                              Lincoln Center Festival Overture
BENJAMIN LEES                                  Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

 

Week 4
9, 10, 12 October 1970
Istvan Kertesz

MOZART                                           Six Contredanses
BRITTEN                                            Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
WAGNER                                          Die Meistersinger, Prelude
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

 




 

Week 5
15, 16, 17 October 1970
Istvan Kertesz

SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 5
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’


Week 6
23, 24, 26 October 1970
Lorin Maazel

BEETHOVEN                                      The Consecration of the House, Overture
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’
SCHOENBERG                                    Music to Accompany a Film Scene
RAVEL                                               La Valse

 

Week 7
29, 30, 31 October 1970
Lorin Maazel
Anthony Gigliotticlarinet

GEMINIANI                                         Concerto Grosso in G minor
WEBER                                              Clarinet Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Le Chant du Rossignol
BARTÓK                                            The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite

 

Week 8
13, 14, 16 November 1970
Eugene Ormandy
Garrick Ohlsson, piano, Janice Harsanyi, soprano,  Carolyn Stanford, contralto, Seth McCoy, tenor, Thomas Paul, bass, Westminster Choir

HAYDN                                             Nelson Mass
POULENC                                          Gloria
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

 

Week 9
19, 20, 21 November 1970
Daniel Barenboim

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 95
SCHOENBERG                                    Verklärte Nacht
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

 


 

Week 10
27, 28, 30 November 1970
Daniel Barenboim
Jacqueline du Précello

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2
ELGAR                                               Cello Concerto
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 4

 

Week 11
4, 5 December 1970
Alain Lombard

VARÈSE                                              Intégrales
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 88
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947 vesion)
 

Week 12
11, 12, 14 December 1970
William Smith (replacing Eugene Ormandy)
Itzhak Perlman, violin

BACH                                                Toccata and Fugue in C major (orch. Ormandy)
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 7
WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto

 

Week 13a
17, 18, 19 December 1970
William Smith
Singing City Choirs

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Three Chorale Preludes (arr. Thomson)
BRAHMS                                            Nänie
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4

Week 13b
28 December 1970
William Smith

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Three Chorale Preludes (arr. Virgil Thomson)
BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4

 
 

Week 13
1, 2 January 1971
Eugene Ormandy/William Smith*
Alexis Weissenberg, piano, Phyllis Curtin, soprano, Simon Estes, baritone

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 14
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 2*
 

Week 14
7, 8, 9, 11 January 1971
William Smith (replacing Eugene Ormandy)
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor
DEBUSSY                                            Iberia from Images
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suites Nos. 1 and 2
 

Week 15
15, 16 January 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescattiviolin

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 39
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
ROZSA                                              Theme, Variations and Finale
PAGANINI                                          Caprices Nos. 9 and 24

 

Week 16
28, 29, 30 January, 1 February 1971
Claudio Abbado

PROKOFIEV                                       Chout, ballet suite
SCRIABIN                                           Poem of Ecstasy
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

 

Week 17
5, 6 February 1971
Zubin Mehta
Samuel Mayes, cello

SCHUMANN                                       Genoveva, Overture
DVORAK                                           Cello Concerto
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’

 


 

Week 18
12, 13, 15 February 1971
Zubin Mehta

BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 8

 

Week 19
19, 20 February 1971
Claudio Abbado
Norman Carol, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello, John de Lancie, oboe, Bernard Garfield, bassoon

HAYDN                                             Sinfonia concertante
HINDEMITH                                       Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 1

 

Week 20
25, 26, 27 February 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carolviolin

GESENSWAY                                      Commemoration Symphony
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
DEBUSSY                                            La mer

 

Week 21
5, 6 March 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburnpiano

PERSICHETTI                                      Sinfonia: Janiculum
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations

 

Week 22
11, 12, 13, 15 March 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
BRAHMS                                            Double Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

 


 

Week 23
19, 20 March 1971
André Previn

BERLIOZ                                            Beatrice and Benedict, Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Symphony No. 6
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

 

Week 24
25, 26, 27, 29 March 1971
Jorge Mester

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 33
STRAVINSKY                                      Jeu de Cartes
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

 

Week 25
1, 2, 3 April 1971
Roberto Benzi

RESPIGHI                                           Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

 

Week 26
8, 9, 10 April 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Mayumi Fujikawa, violin

JANÁČEK                                           Sinfonietta
SCRIABIN                                           Prometheus, Poem of Fire
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto

 

Week 27                                    
16, 17, 19 April 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Richard Lewis, tenor, John Shirley-Quirk, baritone, Evelyn Lear, soprano, Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano, Theo Adam, bass, Albert Garcia, baritone, Singing City Choirs and Youth Choir

BACH                                                St. Matthew Passion

 


 

Week 28
23, 24 April 1971
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Louis Rosenblattcor anglais

BARTÓK                                            Divertimento for Strings
SKROWACZEWSKI                             Cor Anglais Concerto
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

 

Week 29
6, 7, 8 May 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BACH                                                Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1
WAGNER                                          Die Meistersinger, Dance of the Apprentices and Entry of
                                                         the Masters
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
 



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