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Philadelphia Orchestra - Subscription Concerts 1959 - 1966


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 Callawayorgan

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 Brusilowviolin, Mason Joneshorn

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 Williamssoprano

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 Penninkpiano

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore, Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'

Week 7
11, 12 November 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Anshel Brusilowviolin

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 Eliasmezzo-soprano, Jerome Hinesbass

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 Milsteinviolin

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 Callawaysoprano, Peter Harrowerbass baritone, Anshel Brusilowviolin, Three College Chorus

PURCELL                                            Dido and Aeneas, suite (arr. Cailliet)
HONEGGER                                       A Christmas Oratorio
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Ein Heldeleben
12, 16, 17 December 1960
Eugene Ormandy
Robert Casadesuspiano, Gaby Casadesuspiano

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 Brailowskypiano

STRAVINSKY                                      Gesualdo Monumento
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1
KOETSIER                                          Symphony No. 1
LISZT                                                 Totentanz

Week 15b
23 January 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Alexander Brailowskypiano

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
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Rosenkavalier, Suite

Week 17
3, 4 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremontpiano

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 Francescattiviolin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 100, 'Military'
PISTON                                              Symphony No. 7
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

Week 19
17, 18 February 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Nikita Magaloffpiano

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 Munroecello

EPPERT                                              Concerto Grosso
HAYDN                                             Cello Concerto in D major
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Quixote

Week 21
3, 4 March 1961
William Smith
Tossy Spivakovskyviolin

MOZART                                           The Magic Flute, overture
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 4

Week 22
6, 10, 11 March 1961
Leopold Stokowski
Margarita Zambranasoprano, Nell Rankinmezzo soprano, Rudolf Petraktenor, Thomas Hagemantenor, George Hoffmanbass, 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 Sternviolin

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 Lancieoboe

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 Istominpiano

RACHMANINOV                                 Vocalise
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 2
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 27
14, 15 April 1961
Eugene Ormandy
Walter Casselbaritone. 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



 
 The Philadelphia Orchestra
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



The Philadelphia Orchestra
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

 



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