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
 
 
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 Istomin, piano
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony
No. 7 (original version)
 
 
Week 2
26, 27, 28, 30 September 1968
Eugene Ormandy/Miklos Rosza*
Leonard Pennario, piano
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 Cliburn, piano
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 Lancie, oboe
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 Pasquale, viola, Raymond McAfee, baritone
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 Hilger, cello
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
 
 
Week 15
10, 11 January 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Peter Serkin, piano
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 Pasquale, violin
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 Kogan, violin
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 Stern, violin
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 Gilels, piano
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 Rostropovich, cello
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 Hollander, piano
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 Mayes, cello
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 Pasquale. violin
CIMAROSA                                         Il
matrimonio segreto, Overture
BERLIOZ                                            Harold
in Italy
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka
(original version)
 
 
Week 6
7, 8, 10 November 1969
Eugene Ormandy
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
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 Stern, violin
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 Shkolnikova, violin
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin
Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony
No. 6
 
  
 
Week 9
28, 29 November 1969
Stanislaw Skrowaczewki
Norman Carol, violin
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 Richter, piano
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 Gabry, soprano
MOZART                                           Serenade
No. 10 in B flat for 13 wind instruments
MAHLER                                            Symphony
No. 4
 
 
Week 20
20, 21 February 1970
István Kertész
Peter Frankl, piano
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 Serkin, piano
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’
 
 
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 Cliburn, piano
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 Whitehead, organ
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’
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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
 
 
Week 7
29, 30, 31 October 1970
Lorin Maazel
Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet
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 Pré, cello
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
 
  
 
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 Francescatti, violin
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 Carol, violin
GESENSWAY                                      Commemoration
Symphony
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin
Concerto
DEBUSSY                                            La
mer
 
 
Week 21
5, 6 March 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Van Cliburn, piano
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 Rosenblatt, cor 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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