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Philadelphia Orchestra - Subscription Concerts 1971 - 1980


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1971 – 1972 season
72nd Season
 

Week 1
23, 24, 25, 27 September 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Sophie van Sante, mezzo soprano

HARRIS                                              Symphony No. 3
BERG                                                 Seven Early Songs
SCHOENBERG                                    Song of the Wood Dove from Gurrelieder
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie fantastique

Week 2
1, 2 October 1971
Eugene Ormandy

COLGRASS                                         “As Quiet As”
McDONALD                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘The Santa Fe Trail’
GLIERE                                               Symphony No. 3, ‘Ilya Muremetz’

Week 3a
8, 9 October 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Pinchas Zukerman, violin

MENOTTI                                           Triple Concerto a Tre
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6

Week 3b
18 October 1971
Eugene Ormandy

MENOTTI                                           Triple Concerto a Tre
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6
DEBUSSY                                            Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
RAVEL                                               La valse

Week 4
22, 23, 25 October 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Maurizio Pollini, piano

BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

Week 5
29, 30 October, 1 November 1971
William Smith
Singing City Women’s Chorus

DEBUSSY                                            Nocturnes
RAVEL                                               Rapsodie espagnole
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 6
4, 5, 6 November 1971
Bruno Maderna
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 20
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 5

Week 7
12, 13 November 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Firkusny, piano

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
THOMSON                                        Three Pictures for Orchestra
STRAVINSKY                                      Capriccio for piano and orchestra
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4

Week 8
18, 19, 20, 22 November 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Natalie Hinderas, piano

WAGNER                                          A Faust Overture
GINASTERA                                       Piano Concerto
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Ein Heldenleben

Week 9
26, 27 November 1971
Eugene Ormandy
Michael Best, tenor

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. e
BRITTEN                                            Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

Week 10
2, 3, 4, 6 December 1971
Istvan Kertesz

HANDEL                                            Water Music, Suite (arr. Harty)
RANKI                                               King Pomade’s New Clothes, Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

Week 11
9, 10, 11 December 1971
Istvan Kertesz
Norman Carol, violin

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 40
NIELSEN                                             Violin Concerto
RESPIGHI                                           Fountains of Rome
KODÁLY                                            Dances of Galanta

Week 12a
16, 17, 18 December 1971
William Smith
Gary Graffman, piano

BERLIOZ                                            Benvenuto Cellini, Overture
CLIFFORD TAYLOR                            Symphony No. 2 (world premiere)
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 12b
27 December 1971
William Smith
Norman Carol, violin


BERLIOZ                                            Benvenuto Cellini, Overture
BIZET                                                 Symphony in C
NIELSEN                                             Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 13
30, 31 December 1971, 1, 3 January 1972
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 29
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 9

Week 14
7, 8 January 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Alicia de Larrocha, piano

SIBELIUS                                             En Saga
SCHUMANN                                       Piano Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 4

Week 15
14, 15, 17 January 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Samuel Mayes, cello, Joseph de Pasquale, viola

BRAHMS                                            Tragic Overture
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4
RICHARD STRAUSS                            Don Quixote

Week 16
28, 29 January 1972
Seiji Ozawa
Gagaku musicians

VERDI                                                I vespri sicIliani, Overture
MAKI ISHII                                          So-Gu II
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 4

Week 17
3, 4, 5 February 1972
Seiji Ozawa

RAVEL                                               Mother Goose, Suite
VARÈSE                                              Hyperprism
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 18
11, 12, 14 February 1972
Seiji Ozawa
Yuji Takahashi, piano

XENAKIS                                            Synaphai-Connexities
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

Week 19
18, 19 February 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

MENDELSSOHN                                  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Overture
MENDELSSOHN                                  Piano Concerto No. 1
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7

Week 20
24, 25, 26, 28 February 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Stomu Yamash’ta, percussion, Stephen Charry, boy alto, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

STRAVINSKY                                      Symphonies of Wind Instruments
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
HEUWELL TIRCUIT                             Concerto for Solo Percussionist and Orchestra
BERNSTEIN                                        Chichester Psalms

Week 21
3, 4, 6 March 1972
Carlo Maria Giulini
Alexis Weissenberg, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont Overture
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1
GUIDO TURCHI                                 The Labyrinth
FALLA                                                Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat

Week 22
9, 10, 11 March 1972
Carlo Maria Giulini

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’
STEPHEN ALBERT                               Leaves from the Golden Notebook
BERLIOZ                                            Romeo and Juliet, excerpts

Week 23
16, 17, 18 March 1972
Carlo Maria Giulini

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 9

Week 24
24, 25, 27 March 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Nadia Koutzen, violin

SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 5
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 1
BARTÓK                                            Second Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra
RESPIGHI                                           Pines of Rome

Week 25
30, 31 March, 1 April 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Evelyn Mandac, soprano

WALTON                                          Partita
PROKOFIEV                                       Scythian Suite
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 4

Week 26
7, 8, 10 April 1972
James De Preist

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
BARBER                                             Symphony No. 1
SCHOENBERG                                    Pelleas und Melisande

Week 27
14, 15 April 1972
Thomas Schippers

ELGAR                                               Introduction and Allegro
SCHUMAN                                         Credendum
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 7

Week 28
21, 22, 24 April 1972
Thomas Schippers
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano

ROSSINI                                             The Siege of Corinth, Overture
FRANK MARTIN                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

Week 29
27, 28, 29 April 1972
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe

WEBERN                                            Five Movements for String Orchestra
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
MOZART                                           Oboe Concerto
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 30
11, 12, 13 May 1972
William Smith
Mayumi Fujikawa, violin

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

 

The Philadelphia Orchestra
1972 – 1973 season
73rd Season
 

Week 1
22, 23, 26 September 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Betty Allen, mezzo-soprano, The Women of the Mendelssohn Club, Newark Boys’ Chorus

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 3

Week 2
28, 29, 30 September, 3 October 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 3
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 15

Week 3
6, 7, 24 October 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Barbara Nissman, piano

STRAVINSKY                                      Ode, Triptychon for Orchestra
RACHMANINOV                                 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

Week 4
13, 14 October 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano, Norman Carol, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Symphony No. 3, ‘Pastoral’
BRAHMS                                            Double Concerto

Week 5
27, 28 October 1972
Riccardo Muti
Philippe Entremont, piano

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 9
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 3

Week 6
3, 4, 7 November 1972
Riccardo Muti

GHEDINI                                            Appunti per un Credo
HINDEMITH                                       Concert Music for Strings and Brass
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Aus Italien

Week 7
9, 10, 11 November 1972
Seiji Ozawa

GABRIELI                                            Canzon duodecimi toni
MOZART                                           Haffner Serenade
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 8
17, 18, 21 November 1972
Seiji Ozawa
John Ogdon, piano

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 60, ‘Il distratto’
LIGETI                                                Melodien
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 9
24, 25, 28 November 1972
Daniel Barenboim
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 86
BRUCH                                              Violin Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Symphony in D
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1910)

Week 10
30 November, 1, 2, December 1972
Daniel Barenboim

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 8
ELGAR                                               Symphony No. 2

Week 11a
7 December 1972
Eugene Ormandy

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Tod und Verklärung
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

Week 11b
8, 9 December 1972
Eugene Ormandy, Elaine Brown*
Singing City Choirs

STRAVINSKY                                      Symphony of Psalms*
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

Week 12
15, 16 December 1972
Eugene Ormandy
Jerome Lowenthal, piano

RAVEL                                               Le tombeau de Couperin
ROREM                                              Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

Week 13
28, 29, 30 December 1972, 2 January 1973
William Smith
Gerardo Ribeiro, violin

DVOŘÁK                                           Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK                                           Violin Concerto
SUDERBURG                                      Orchestral Music 1
JOHANN STRAUSS                              Emperor Waltz

Week 14
4, 5, 6, 9 January 1973
Claudio Abbado
Evelyn Mandac, soprano, Birgit Finnilä, contralto, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’

Week 15
12, 13, 16 January 1973
Claudio Abbado

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 40
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 2
STRAVINSKY                                      The Rite of Spring

Week 16
25, 26, 27 January 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

CRUMB                                              Variazioni
WALTON                                          Viola Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 17
1, 2, 3 February 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Garrick Ohlsson, piano

TIPPETT                                             Concerto for Double String Orchestra
LISZT                                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
IVES                                                   Symphony No. 2

Week 18
9, 10, 15 February 1973
Pierre Boulez
Heather Harper, soprano

DEBUSSY                                            Jeux
RAVEL                                               Shéhérazade
WEBERN                                            Six Pieces for Orchestra (original version)
BERG                                                 Altenberglieder
BARTÓK                                            The Miraculous Mandarin, complete

Week 19
16, 17, 20 February 1973
Claudio Abbado
Maurizio Pollini, piano, Kathryn Bouleyn, soprano

BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
NONO                                              Como una ola de fuerza y luz
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’

Week 20
23, 24 February 1973
Claudio Abbado
Christoph Eschenbach, piano

BERLIOZ                                            Roman Carnival, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

Week 21
1, 2, 3, 6 March 1973
William Steinberg

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 22, ‘The Philosopher’
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

Week 22
8, 9, 10 March 1973
Carlo Maria Giulini
Rafael Orozco, piano

BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 23
15, 16, 17, 20 March 1973
Carlo Maria Giulini
Norman Carol, violin, Samuel Mayes, cello, John de Lancie, oboe, Bernard Garfield, bassoon

HAYDN                                             Sinfonia concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon
DEBUSSY                                            La mer
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’

Week 24
23, 24 March 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Phyllis Curtin, soprano, George Shirley, tenor, Michael Devlin, baritone, André Watts, piano, Temple University Choirs

RACHMANINOV                                 Three Russian Songs for chorus and orchestra
RACHMANINOV                                 The Bells, symphony
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 25
13, 14 April 1973
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Susan Starr, piano, Raymond Gibbs, tenor

SZYMANOWSKI                                 Symphony No. 3, ‘The Song of the Night’
MENDELSSOHN                                  Piano Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

Week 26
19, 20, 21, 24 April 1973
Eugene Ormandy

WAGNER                                          Parsifal, Prelude
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 10, (performing version by Cooke)

Week 27
27, 28 April 1973
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

STRAVINSKY                                      Symphony in C
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 3

Week 28
11, 12, 15 May 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin, Robert Elmore, organ

BERG                                                 Three Pieces for Orchestra
BERNSTEIN                                        Serenade for Violin, Strings and Percussion
JONGEN                                            Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra

Week 29
18, 19, 22 May 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Thomas Stewart, baritone

WAGNER                                          Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
WAGNER                                          Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, ‘Was duftet’ and ‘Wahn! Wahn!’
WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
WAGNER                                          Siegfried Idyll
WAGNER                                          Die Walküre, Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music

Week 30
24, 25, 26 May 1973
Eugene Ormandy

WAGNER                                          Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor
DEBUSSY                                            Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Rosenkavalier, Suite


 

The Philadelphia Orchestra
1973 – 1974 season
74th Season
 

Week 1
28, 29 September, 9 October 1973
Eugene Ormandy

BEETHOVEN                                      Coriolan, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Five Pieces for Orchestra
LUTOSLAWSKI                                   Livre pour orchestra
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Week 2
12, 13 October 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Leslie Parnas, cello

SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 6
HINDEMITH                                       Cello Concerto
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 3
19, 20, 23 October 1973
Yuri Temirkanov

LIADOV                                             Kikimora
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947 version)
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6

Week 4
25, 26, 27 October 1973
Robert Page
Alexandra Hunt, soprano, Alan Baker, baritone, Ara Berberian, bass, Ernique Garcia, narrator, Temple University Choirs, All-Philadelphia Boys Choir

PENDERECKI                                      St. Luke Passion

Week 5
1, 2, 3, 6 November 1973
Riccardo Muti

BERLIOZ                                            Waverley Overture
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor
BUSONI                                             Turandot, Suite
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 6
9, 10 November 1973
Riccardo Muti
Sidney Harth, violin

ROSSINI                                             Semiramide, Overture
KHACHATURIAN                               Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 1

Week 7
16, 17, 20 November 1973
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 44, ‘Trauersymphonie’
ALBENIZ                                            Suite Española (orch. De Burgos)
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 8
23, 24, 27 November 1973
Eugene Ormandy

EGK                                                  French Suite after Rameau
HINDEMITH                                       Mathis der Maler, Symphony
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 9
30 November, 1,4 December 1973
Eugene Ormandy
Zino Francescatti, violin, Robert Elmore, organ

COUPERIN                                         Overture and Allegro from the Suite La Sultane (orch. Milhaud)
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 4
VITALI                                                Chaconne (orch. Francescatti)
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’

Week 10
6, 7, 8 December 1973
Carlo Maria Giulini
Norman Carol, violin

VIVALDI                                             The Four Seasons
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 2

Week 11
14, 15 December 1973
Max Rudolf

WEBER                                              Overture to Oberon
DALLAPICCOLA                                 Variations for Orchestra
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 91
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 4

Week 12
20, 21, 22 December 1973
Eugene Ormandy
William Stokking, cello

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV                           Church Scene from Christmas Eve
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 31, ‘Paris’
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Cello Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 2

Week 13
3, 4, 5 January 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Janet Baker, mezzo soprano, John Alexander, tenor

MESSIAEN                                          L’Ascension
MAHLER                                            Das Lied von der Erde

Week 14
10, 11, 12 January 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Leon Bates, piano, Paul Callaway, organ

BARBER                                             Toccata Festiva
STRAVINSKY                                      Symphony in Three Movements
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 3
DEBUSSY                                            La mer

Week 15
18, 19, 22, 24 January 1974
Claudio Abbado
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

VERDI                                                The Sicilian Vespers, Overture
BARTÓK                                            Viola Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

Week 16
31 January, 1, 2 February 1974
Claudio Abbado
Alan Baker, narrator, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

WEBERN                                            Passacaglia
BRAHMS                                            Schicksalslied
STRAVINSKY                                      King of the Stars
SCHOENBERG                                    A Survivor from Warsaw
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3

Week 17
7, 8, 9, 12 February 1974
Aldo Ceccato

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
DE SABATA                                        Juventus
RAVEL                                               Rapsodie espagnole
PENDERECKI                                      Polymorphia
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 1

Week 18
15, 16 February 1974
Zubin Mehta
Women of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MENDELSSOHN                                  Ruy Blas, Overture
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
HOLST                                               The Planets

Week 19
21, 22, 23 February 1974
Zubin Mehta

NORDHEIM                                        Greening, for orchestra
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

Week 20
1, 2, 5, 7, March 1974
Roberto Benzi

BRAHMS                                            Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel (orch. Benzi)
BERLIOZ                                            Symphony fantastique

Week 21
8, 9 March 1974
William Smith
Lee Luvisi, piano

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5

Week 22
15, 16, 19 March 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
HARRIS                                              Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 23
22, 23, 26 March 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano

RIEGGER                                            Canon and Fugue
BIZET                                                 Symphony in C
BRITTEN                                            Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
SCHUMANN                                       Piano Concerto

Week 24
29, 30 March 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Itzhak Perlman, violin

BEETHOVEN                                      The Creatures of Prometheus, Overture
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 3
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7 (original version)

Week 25
11, 12, 13 April 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV                           Russian Easter Festival Overture
MOZART                                           ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio’, concert aria
COPLAND                                         Quiet City
BACH                                                Cantata No. 51, ‘Jauchzet Gott
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 5, ‘Reformation’

Week 26
19, 20, 23 April 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Janice Harsanyi, soprano, Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano, George Shirley, tenor, Michael Devlin, bass, Singing City Choirs

DVOŘÁK                                           Requiem
Week 27
26, 27 April, 7 May 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Tedd Joselson, piano

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 88
RESPIGHI                                           Fountains of Rome
DEBUSSY                                            Iberia
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 2
Week 28
9, 10, 11, 14 May 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

KIRCHNER                                         Music for Orchestra
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto
Week 29
16, 17, 18 May 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Daniel Epstein, piano

BACH                                                Toccata and Fugue in D minor (orch. Ormandy)
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
VARIOUS                                           Yellow River Concerto
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

 


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1974 – 1975 season
75th Season
 

Week 1
20, 21, 24 September 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Kathryn Bouleyn, soprano, Claudine Carlson, contralto, John McCollum, tenor, Douglas Lawrence, bass, Singing City Choirs

BACH                                                Cantata No. 140, ‘Wachet auf!’
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 9
BRUCKNER                                        Te Deum

Week 2a
26 September 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano, Janice Harsanyi, soprano, Betty Allen, contralto, Tedd Joselson, piano

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
MAW                                                 Scenes and Arias
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 2b
27, 28 September, 1 October 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano, Janice Harsanyi, soprano, Betty Allen, contralto, Tedd Joselson, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7
MAW                                                 Scenes and Arias
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 3
4, 5, 8 October 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Pierre Cochereau, organ, Temple University Choirs

IVES                                                   Three Harvest Home Chorales
IVES                                                   Psalm 150 for chorus and organ
IVES                                                   Holidays Symphony
LISZT                                                 Ad Nos, ad Salutaren Undam

Week 4
10, 11, 12 October 1974
Claudio Abbado
Pinchas Zukerman, violin

MOZART                                           Adagio in E minor for violin and orchestra
MOZART                                           Rondo in C major for violin and orchestra
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 1
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 4, ‘Tragic’
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Tod und Verklärung

Week 5
18, 19 October 1974
Claudio Abbado
Birgit Finnila, contralto, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MUSSORGSKY                                    Four Pieces for Chorus and Orchestra
PROKOFIEV                                       Lieutenant Kijé, Suite
PROKOFIEV                                       Alexander Nevsky, cantata

Week 6
25, 26, 29 October 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Walter Klien, piano

SCHOENBERG                                    Five Pieces for Orchestra
SCHOENBERG                                    Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’

Week 7
31 October, 1, 2 November 1974
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

FALLA                                                El Amor Brujo, Suite
STRAINSKY                                        Petrushka (1947)
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

Week 8
7, 8, 9 November 1974
James Levine

BACH                                                Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 5

Week 9
15, 16 November 1974
James Levine

DVOŘÁK                                           Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 7
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 10
21, 22, 23, 26 November 1974
Antal Doráti

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 12
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 6

Week 11
29, 30 November 1974
William Smith
William Stokking, cello, Myung-Whun Chung, piano

PANUFNIK                                         Sinfonia Sacra
BLOCH                                              Schelomo
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Piano Concerto No. 2
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 12
5, 6, 7, 10 December 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Daniel Barenboim, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
IVES                                                   Three Places in New England
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 13
12, 13, 14 December 1974
Eugene Ormandy
Marilyn Costello, harp, Murray Panitz, flute

COPLAND                                         Preamble for a Solemn Occasion
MOZART                                           Flute and Harp Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

Week 14
20, 21 December 1974
Horst Stein
Itzhak Perlman, violin

BERGER                                             La Parola
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

Week 15
3, 4, 7 January 1975
William Smith

MOZART                                           Serenade for Wind Instruments, K. 388
PACHELBEL                                        Canon for Strings
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka, Suite
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

Week 16
9, 10, 11 January 1975
Yuri Temirkanov

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1
BIZET                                                 Carmen, Ballet Suite (arr. Shchedrin)

Week 17
17, 18, 21 January 1975
Lawrence Foster
Natalie Hinderas, piano

STRAVINSKY                                      Jeu de cartes
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations

Week 18
30, 31 January, 1 February 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, violin

MILHAUD                                           Suite Française
PISTON                                              Viola Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

Week 19
7, 8, 11 February 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

GOLDMARK                                       Rustic Wedding Symphony
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 20
14, 15, 18 February 1975
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe

CORELLI                                            Suite for Strings
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra
MARTINŮ                                           Oboe Concerto
KODÁLY                                            Háry Janos, Suite]

Week 21
20, 21, 22, 25 February 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Philippe Entremont, piano, Singing City Women’s Chorus

BERLIOZ                                            Roman Carnival Overture
DUTIILEUX                                         Métaboles
RAVEL                                               Piano Concerto in G major
DEBUSSY                                            Three Nocturnes

Week 22
28 February, 1 March 1975
Riccardo Muti
Murray Perahia, piano

VIVALDI                                             Concerto for Strings and Harpsichord
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV                                       Sinfonietta
BRITTEN                                            Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Week 23
7, 8, 11 March 1975
Riccardo Muti
Norman Carol, violin, Joseph de Pasquale, viola

MOZART                                           Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 6 (original version)

Week 24
14, 15 March 1975
Riccardo Muti

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Festive Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Dreams’
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 25
20, 21, 22 March 1975
Eugene Ormandy, Robert Page*
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2
GINASTERA                                       Turbae, Gregorian Passion (world premiere)*

Week 26
28, 29 March 1975
Eugene Ormandy

WAGNER                                          Good Friday Music from Parsifal
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
THOMSON                                        Louisiana Story, Suite
RAVEL                                               Rapsodie espagnole

Week 27
3, 4, 5, 8 April 1975
Dean Dixon

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 92, ‘Oxford’
HENZE                                              Trois Pas de Trifons from Undine
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 1


Week 28

10, 11, 12, 15 April 1975
John Pritchard

BERLIOZ                                            Les francs Juges, Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
MOZART                                           Divertimento No. 15, K. 287
NIELSEN                                             Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’

Week 29
17, 18, 19, 22 April 1975
Eugene Ormandy

LIGETI                                                Lontano
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 88
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 30
25, 26 April 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BARBER                                             Second Essay for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

 


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1975 – 1976 season
76th Season
 

Week 1
19, 20, 23 September 1975
Eugene Ormandy

HANDEL                                            Concerto for Orchestra in D major (trans. Ormandy)
ROREM                                              Eagles
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5

Week 2
25, 26, 27 September 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 3
IVES                                                   Decoration Day
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 3
3, 4 October 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Vera Zorina, narrator, Men of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
SCHOENBERG                                    A Survivor from Warsaw
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1 (with Blumine movement)

Week 4
10, 11, 14 October 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Claude Kahn, piano

SCHUMAN                                         In Praise of Shahn
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 2
RAVEL                                               La Valse

Week 5
16, 17, 18 October 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Pavel Kogan, violin

IVES                                                   Three Places in New England
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 5
BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto

Week 6
30, 31 October, 1 November 1975
James Levine

WAGNER                                          Rienzi, Overture
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 2

Week 7
6, 7, 8 November 1975
Riccardo Muti

MOZART                                           Divertimento in D major for Strings
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 29
BARTÓK                                            Deux Images for Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5

Week 8
14, 15 November 1975
Riccardo Muti
Zino Francescatti, violin

NINO ROTA                                      Variazioni sopra un Tema Gioviale
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

Week 9
20, 21, 22, 25 November 1975
Edo de Waart
Stephen Kates, cello

KETTING                                           Time Machine
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Cello Concerto No. 1
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie fantastique

Week 10
28, 29 November, 2 December 1975
William Smith
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

BARTÓK                                            Dance Suite
HINDEMITH                                       Der Schwanendreher
RAVEL                                               Valse nobles et sentimentales
POULENC                                          Les Biches, Suite

Week 11
4, 5, 6 December 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano, Rosalind Elias, contralto, Seth McCoy, tenor, Michael Devlin, bass-baritone, Bach Choir of Bethlehem

BACH                                                Mass in B minor

Week 12
11, 12, 13 December 1975
Eugene Ormandy
William Stokking, cello, Women of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

CHADWICK                                       Jubilee and Noel from Symphonic Sketches
BOCCHERINI                                      Cello Concerto
HOLST                                               The Planets

Week 13
19, 20, 30 December 1975
Eugene Ormandy
Miriam Fried, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Francesca da Rimini
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’

Week 14
2, 3, 6 January 1976
Eugene Ormandy

PENDERECKI                                      De Natura Sonoris No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 15
9, 10 January 1976
Yuri Temirkanov

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV                           Scheherazade

Week 16
16, 17, 20, 22 January 1976
Yuri Temirkanov

BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2
PROKOFIEV                                       Lieutenant Kije, Suite
PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suite

Week 17
30, 31 January, 3 February 1976
Claudio Abbado
Betty Allen, mezzo-soprano, Singing City Women’s Choir, Philadelphia Musical Academy Boys Choir

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 3

Week 18
6, 7 February 1976
Claudio Abbado
Martha Argerich, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 2
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7 (original version)

Week 19
13, 14, 17 February 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
RODRIGO                                          Concierto de Aranjuez
COPLAND                                         Suite from Billy the Kid
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6

Week 20
20, 21, 24 February 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 6

Week 21
27, 28 February, 2 March 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, viola, William de Pasquale, violin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 31, ‘Horn Signal’
ARTHUR BENJAMIN                            Romantic Fantasy for Violin and Viola
LESLIE BASSETT                                  Echoes from an Invisible World
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Tod und Verklärung

Week 22
4, 5, 6 March 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Byron Janis, piano

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 88
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 1
VARÈSE                                              Arcana
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Burleske for Piano and Orchestra

Week 23
11, 12, 13, 16 March 1976
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

TURINA                                             La Oracion del Torero
TURINA                                             Sinfonia Sevillana
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

Week 24
19, 20 March 1976
Zubin Mehta

GERHARD SAMUEL                             Requiem for Survivors
SCHOENBERG                                    Verklärte Nacht
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5
Week 25
26, 27 March 1976
Zubin Mehta
Sheila Armstrong, soprano, Joanna Simon, contralto, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’

Week 26
2, 3, 6 April 1976
Leonard Slatkin

BARBER                                             The School for Scandal, Overture
WYKES                                              Towards Time’s Receding
COPLAND                                         El Salon Mexico
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 2

Week 27
8, 9, 10, 13 April 1976
William Smith

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
DEBUSSY                                            La mer
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5

Week 28
15, 16, 17 April 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Monique Duphil, piano

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV                           Russian Easter Festival Overture
PERSICHETTI                                      Symphony No. 4
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 29
4 May 1976
Eugene Ormandy

WEBER                                              Overture to Euryanthe
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 5
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor

Week 30
7, 8 May 1976
Eugene Ormandy

PROKOFIEV                                       Scythian Suite
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’
DELIUS                                               On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
KODALY                                            Dances of Galanta
 


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1976 – 1977 season
77th Season
 

Week 1
24, 25 September 1976
Eugene Ormandy, Thea Musgrave*

WAGNER                                          American Centennial March
MUSGRAVE                                        Concerto for Orchestra*
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Dreams’

Week 2
30 September, 1, 2, 5 October 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano

RICHARD BALES                                 Music of the American Revolution
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 24
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 7

Week 3
7, 8, 9 October 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Leonid Kogan, violin, Kathryn Bouleyn, soprano, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

LESLIE BASSETT                                  Echoes from an Invisible World
SCHMITT                                           Psalm No. 47
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

Week 4
15, 16 October 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, violin

COWELL                                            Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 3
SIBELIUS                                             Pohjola’s Daughter
SIBELIUS                                             Tapiola
BERLIOZ                                            Harold in Italy

Week 5
22, 23, 26 October 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Marilyn Costello, harp

JOHANN FRIEDRICH PETER                Quintetto No. 1 for String Orchestra
RAVEL                                               Introduction and Allegro for Harp with Flute, Clarinet & Strings
SIBELIUS                                             The Oceanides
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Manfred Symphony

Week 6
29, 30 October, 2 November 1976
Riccardo Muti
William Stokking, cello

MENDELSSOHN                                  Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Overture
HAYDN                                             Cello Concerto in D major
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

Week 7
4, 5, 6 November 1976
Riccardo Muti

STRAVINSKY                                      Four Norwegian Moods
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 25
BERLIOZ                                            Romeo and Juliet, excerpts

Week 8
11, 12, 13, 16 November 1976
Leonard Slatkin
Janina Fialkowska, piano

BERLIOZ                                            Benvenuto Cellini, Overture
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1
COPLAND                                         Symphony No. 3

Week 9
18, 19, 20 November 1976
Kazuyoshi Akiyama

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 29
TAKEMITSU                                        Winter
DEBUSSY                                            Iberia
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3

Week 10
26, 27, 30 November 1976
Guido Ajmone-Marsan

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 99
PERSICHETTI                                      Symphony for Strings
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

Week 11
3, 4 December 1976
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4

Week 12
10, 11 December 1976
Eugene Ormandy

CORELLI                                            Concert Grosso, ‘Christmas’
DELLO JOIO                                       Colonial Variants
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie fantastique

Week 13
17, 18, 28, 30 December 1976
William Smith
Dong Suk Kang, violin

WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
SIBELIUS                                             Violin Concerto
CHAVEZ                                            Toccata for Percussion
COPLAND                                         El Salon Mexico
WALTON                                          Façade, Suite

Week 14
6, 7, 8 January 1977
James Levine
Norman Carol, violin

BERLIOZ                                            Le Corsaire, Overture
IVES                                                   The Unanswered Question
BARBER                                             Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

Week 15
13, 14, 15 January 1977
James Levine, conductor and piano

BACH                                                Piano Concerto in F minor
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 5

Week 16
21, 22 January 1977
William Smith

BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 4

Week 17
3, 4, 5 February 1977
Dimitri Kitaenko

MUSSORGSKY                                    Prelude to Khovanshchina
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 9
SCRIABIN                                           Symphony No. 2

Week 18
11, 12, 15 February 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 8
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 19
18, 19, 22 February 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Tedd Joselson, piano, Frank Kaderbek, trumpet

BRAHMS                                            Tragic Overture
BARBER                                             Piano Concerto
TELEMANN                                        Trumpet Concerto
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 20
25, 26 February 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Rudolf Serkin, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
BEETHOVEN                                      Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra

Week 21
3, 4, 5 March 1977
Eugene Ormandy
John de Lancie, oboe, Rose Taylor, mezzo-soprano

AMRAM                                             The Trail of Beauty (world premiere)
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

Week 22
11, 12, 15 March 1977
Yuri Temirkanov

LIADOV                                             Eight Russian Folk Songs
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 7, ‘Leningrad’

Week 23
17, 18, 19, 22 March 1977
Antal Dorati
Ilse von Alpenheim, piano

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 85, La Reine’
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 9
KODÁLY                                            Hungarian Rondo
IVES                                                   Central Park in the Dark
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel

Week 24
24, 25, 26 March 1977
William Smith

BERLIOZ                                            Beatrice and Benedict, Overture
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 25
8, 9, 12 April 1977
Klaus Tennstedt

BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 8

Week 26
14, 15, 16 April 1977
Aldo Ceccato
Daniel Heifetz, violin

BETTINELLI                                         Varianti for Orchestra
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY                                      Symphony in E flat
RAVEL                                               Bolero

Week 27a
22, 23 April 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Gary Graffman, piano

RACHMANINOV                                 The Isle of the Dead
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphonic Dances

Week 27b
3 May 1977
Eugene Ormandy

RACHMANINOV                                 The Isle of the Dead
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphonic Dances
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 28
5, 6, 7 May 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Benita Valente, soprano, Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano, Seth McCoy, tenor, Michael Devlin, baritone, Singing City Choir

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

Week 29
13, 14 May 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Women of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

DIAMOND                                         Symphony No. 4
DEBUSSY                                            La Mer
HOLST                                               The Planets

Week 30
20, 21 May 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

BARBER                                             Second Essay for Orchestra
MENOTTI                                           Symphony No. 1, ‘The Halcyon’
CHAUSSON                                       Poème
BRUCH                                              Violin Concerto No. 1
RAVEL                                               La Valse
 

The Philadelphia Orchestra
1977 – 1978 season
78th Season
 

Week 1
23, 24, 27 September 1977
Eugene Ormandy

HINDEMITH                                       Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber
PENDERECKI                                      To the Victims of Hiroshima
BRITTEN                                            Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 2

Week 2
29, 30 September, 1 October 1977
Eugene Ormandy
André Watts, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 3
6, 7, 8, 11 October 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Walter Klien, piano

ROREM                                              Pilgrims
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 19
STRAVINSKY                                      Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 4
13, 14, 15, 18 October 1977
Claudio Abbado
Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Tom Krause, baritone, Singing City Choir

MOZART                                           Laudate Dominum
MOZART                                           Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio
BRAHMS                                            A German Requiem

Week 5
21, 22, October 1977
Claudio Abbado
Benita Valente, soprano

MOZART                                           Masonic Funeral Music
MOZART                                           Angel’s Aria from Grabmusik
MOZART                                           Et incarnatus est from Mass in C minor
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 4

Week 6
28, 29 October 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Martha Argerich, piano

IVES                                                   Washington’s Birthday
HAYDN                                             Piano Concerto in D major
RAVEL                                               Piano Concerto in G major
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’

Week 7
4, 5 November 1977
Riccardo Muti

VIVALDI                                             Concerto in C major, ‘La Solennita de San Lorenzo’
PENDERECKI                                      Symphony No. 1
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

Week 8
10, 11, 12, 15 November 1977
Riccardo Muti
Itzhak Perlman, violin, Male Chorus of the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts

BRAHMS                                            Tragic Overture
SIBELIUS                                             Violin Concerto
PETRASSI                                           Coro di Morti
RAVEL                                               Rapsodie espagnole

Week 9
17, 18, 19 November 1977
Riccardo Muti
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 31
HANDEL                                            Viola Concerto
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

Week 10
25, 26 November 1977
Riccardo Muti

MOZART                                           Divertimento No. 17
BETTINELLI                                         Varianti per orchestra
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 4

Week 11
1, 2, 3 December 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Tod und Verklärung
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

9, 10 December 1977
Eugene Ormandy
Martina Arroyo, soprano, Marvellee Cariaga, mezzo-soprano, George Shirley, tenor, Ezio Flagello, bass, Temple University Choirs

VERDI                                                Messa da Requiem

Week 13a
16, 17 December 1977
William Smith
William de Pasquale, violin, The Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts Chorus

BACH                                                Christmas Oratorio, two excerpts
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Fantasia on Christmas Carols
ELGAR                                               Violin Concerto

Week 13b
27, 29 December 1977
William Smith
William de Pasquale, violin

BACH                                                Fugue in G minor
HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 104, ‘London’
ELGAR                                               Violin Concerto

Week 14
6, 7 January 1977
William Smith

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 7

Week 15
13, 14, 17 January 1978
Yuri Temirkanov

KANCHELI                                         Symphony No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 4

Week 16
20, 21, 24, 26 January 1978
Yuri Temirkanov
Pinchas Zukerman, violin

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 1
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’

Week 17
2, 3, 4 February 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Igor Oistrakh, violin

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Metamorphosen
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 7

Week 18
10, 11 February 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Emanuel Ax, piano

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Five Pieces for small orchestra
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Ein Heldenleben
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 19
17, 18 February 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Vladimir Askenazy, piano

DEBUSSY                                            Iberia
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 3
SIBELIUS                                             Lemminkainen Suite

Week 20
23, 24, 25, 28 February 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Tedd Joselson, piano, Bernard Garfield, bassoon

HINDEMITH                                       Concert Music for Brass and Strings
MOZART                                           Bassoon Concerto
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 4
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 21
2, 3, 4 March 1978
Riccardo Muti
Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano, Boris Carmeli, bass, Boris Morgunov, narrator, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

PROKOFIEV                                       Ivan the Terrible

Week 22
9, 10, 11 March 1978
Riccardo Muti

MUSSORGSKY                                    A Night on the Bare Mountain
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  The Voyevode
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 23
17, 18, 21 March 1978
Riccardo Muti
Norman Carol, violin

STRAVINSKY                                      Le Baiser de la Fée, Suite
GLAZUNOV                                       Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7

Week 24
23, 24, 25, 28 March 1978
Riccardo Muti

BEETHOVEN                                      The Consecration of the House, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 2

Week 25
30, 31 March, 1, 4 April 1978
James Levine
Lynn Harrell, cello

MAHLER                                            Adagio from Symphony No. 10
ELGAR                                               Cello Concerto
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

Week 26
7, 8 April 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Mark Kaplan, violin

PISTON                                              Toccata for Orchestra
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 7
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 12, ‘The Year 1917’

Week 27
14, 15, 18 April 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Anthony Gigliotti, clarinet, William Stokking, cello

HONEGGER                                       Pacific 231
HINDEMITH                                       Clarinet Concerto
LALO                                                 Cello Concerto
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations

Week 28
21, 22 April 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Clifford Curzon, piano

BRAHMS                                            Variations on a Theme by Haydn
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 24
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2     

Week 29
5, 6 May 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, viola, Jozsef Molnar, alphorn, Rose Taylor, soprano, Jerold Norman, tenor, Simon Estes, bass-baritone, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

BACH                                                Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
DAETWYLER                                      Alphorn Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Flos Campi
MENDELSSOHN                                  Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Week 30
12, 13 May 1978
William Smith
Gary Graffman, piano

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1

 


The Philadelphia Orchestra
1978 – 1979 season
79th Season
 

Week 1
22, 23, 26 September 1978
Eugene Ormandy

BARTÓK                                            Two Pictures for Orchestra
ROREM                                              Sunday Morning
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

Week 2
28, 29, 30 September 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Barbara Hendricks, soprano

HINDEMITH                                       Symphony, Mathis der Maler
DEL TREDICI                                      Final Alice

Week 3
5, 6, 7 October 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Isaac Stern, violin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 94, ‘Surprise’
RESPIGHI                                           Church Windows
ROCHBERG                                       Violin Concerto

Week 4
12, 13, 14, 18 October 1978
Riccardo Muti
Murray Panitz, flute

VIVALDI                                             Concerto for Flute and Strings in G minor, ‘La notte’
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’

Week 5
19, 20, 21 October 1978
Riccardo Muti

BACH                                                Orchestral Suite No. 3
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 5
STRAVINSKY                                      The Rite of Spring

Week 6
27, 28 October 1978
Riccardo Muti

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

Week 7
3, 4 November 1978
Eugene Ormandy

MIASKOVSKY                                     Symphony No. 21
BARTÓK                                            The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

Week 8
10, 11, 14 November 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Itzhak Perlman, violin

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Violin Concerto

Week 9
16, 17, 18, 21 November 1978
Eugene Ormandy
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano, Temple Painter, harpsichord

BACH                                                Harpsichord Concerto in F minor
BARTÓK                                            Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 27
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Week 10
24, 25 November 1978
Riccardo Muti
Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

BERLIOZ                                            Roman Carnival Overture
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’
PROKOFIEV                                       Alexander Nevsky

Week 11
30 November, 1, 2, 5 December 1978
Riccardo Muti
Norman Carol, violin, William Stokking, cello

BRAHMS                                            Academic Festival Overture
BRAHMS                                            Double Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4
Week 12
8, 9, 12 December 1978
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
SKROWACZEWSKI                             Night Music
BERLIOZ                                            Symphonie Fantastique

Week 13
15, 16 December 1978
Sergiu Comissiona
Marilyn Costello, harp

BERLIOZ                                            Le Corsaire, Overture
CHAUSSON                                       Symphony
DEBUSSY                                            Danses sacrées et profanes
ELGAR                                               Enigma Variations

Week 14
29, 30 December 1978, 2 January 1979
James Levine

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 9

Week 15
5, 6 January 1979
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

REGER                                               Variations on a Theme by Mozart
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV                           Scheherazade

Week 16
12, 13 January 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Claudio Arrau, piano

BRAHMS                                            Tragic Overture
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
BRAHMS                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 17
18, 19, 20 January 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Mischa Dichter, piano

RACHMANINOV                                 Prince Rostislav, Symphonic Poem
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 2
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 2

Week 18
1, 2, 3, 6 February 1979
William Smith
Jorge Bolet, piano, Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
SHCHEDRIN                                       Suite from the Opera, ‘Not Love Alone’
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3

Week 19
8, 9, 10 February 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Leonid Kogan, violin

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 1
VIVALDI                                             Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 12
BERG                                                 Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 10

Week 20
16, 17 February 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Faye Robinson, soprano, Doralene Davis, soprano, Marietta Simpson, contralto, John Aler, tenor, Michael Devlin, bass-baritone, Alan Wagner, baritone, Singing City Choir

HAYDN                                             The Creation

Week 21
23, 24, 27 February 1979
Yuri Temirkanov

SCHUBERT                                         Rosamunde, Overture
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 4
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

Week 22
2, 3 March 1979
Yuri Temirkanov

BEETHOVEN                                      Coriolan Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947)

Week 23
29, 30, 31 March, 3 April 1979
Klaus Tennstedt

WEBERN                                            Passacaglia
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 5

Week 24
6, 7, 10 April 1979
Klaus Tennstedt

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Burger als Edelmann, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra

Week 25
13, 14, 17 April 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

WAGNER                                          Parsifal, Prelude
BLOCH                                              Suite for Viola and Orchestra
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 26
19, 20, 21 April 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano, Michael Bookspan, percussion

WEBER                                              Oberon, Overture
SUDERBURG                                      Concerto for Solo Percussion and Orchestra
PROKOFIEV                                       Scythian Suite
BARTÓK                                            Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 27
4, 5 May 1979
Riccardo Muti
Alicia de Larrocha, piano

LIGETI                                                Ramifications
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 2

Week 28
11, 12 May 1979
Riccardo Muti
Franco Gulli, violin

MOZART                                           Serenata Notturna
MOZART                                           Symphony No. 25
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

Week 29
17, 18, 19 May 1979
Eugene Ormandy, Richard Wernick*
Irene Gubrud, soprano, The All-Philadelphia Boys Choir and the Men’s Chorale

CRUMB                                              Star-Child*
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 5

Week 30
24, 25, 26 May 1979
Eugene Ormandy

BACH                                                Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5
SMETANA                                          Vltava
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
 

The Philadelphia Orchestra
1979 – 1980 season
80th Season
 

Week 1
21, 22, 25 September 1979
Eugene Ormandy

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Waltz from Serenade for Strings
IVES                                                   Symphony No. 3
PROKOFIEV                                       The Love for Three Oranges, Suite
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Also sprach Zarathustra

Week 2
27, 28, 29 September 1979
Eugene Ormandy
André Watts, piano

PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS                                             Symphony No. 2

Week 3
4, 5, 6, 9 October 1979
Eugene Ormandy
John Browning, piano

COPLAND                                         Fanfare for the Common Man
GLIÈRE                                               Symphony No. 3, ‘Ilya Murometz’
BARBER                                             Piano Concerto

Week 4
12, 13, 16 October 1979
Riccardo Muti

SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 6
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’

Week 5
18, 19, 20 October 1979
Riccardo Muti

MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 5, ‘Scottish’

Week 6
26, 27 October 1979
Riccardo Muti

ROSSINI                                             La Scala di Seta, Overture
STRAVINSKY                                      Orpheus
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Aus Italien

Week 7
2, 3, 6 November 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Ute Vinzing, soprano

WAGNER                                          Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser
WAGNER                                          Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
WAGNER                                          Rhine Journey, Funeral Music and Immolation Scene, Götterdämmerung

Week 8
9, 10 November 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Symphonia Domestica
BEETHOVEN                                      Violin Concerto

Week 9
15, 16, 17 November 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Richard Woodhams, oboe

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 7, ‘Le Midi’
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Oboe Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 15

Week 10
23, 24, 27 November 1979
Riccardo Muti
Radu Lupu, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 4

Week 11
29, 30 November, 1, 4 December 1979
Riccardo Muti

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’
CHABRIER                                          España
RAVEL                                               Rapsodie espagnole
FALLA                                                Scenes and Dances from The Three Cornered Hat

Week 12
7, 8 December 1979
Eugene Ormandy
James Dick, piano

CASTALDO                                        Theoria, for fifteen winds, piano and percussion
PERSICHETTI                                      Piano Concerto
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

Week 13
14, 15 December 1979
Eugene Ormandy
Mayumi Fujikawa, violin

RAVEL                                               Le tombeau de Couperin
DVOŘÁK                                           Violin Concerto
FRANCK                                            Symphony in D minor

Week 14
21, 22 December 1979
William Smith
David Arben, violin

MENDELSSOHN                                  The Hebrides, Overture
MENDELSSOHN                                  Violin Concerto
BRAHMS                                            Serenade No. 2

Week 15
3, 4, 5, 8 January 1980
James Levine

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 10 (recon. Cooke)

Week 16
11, 12 January 1980
James Levine
Alfred Brendel, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
SCHUBERT                                         Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

Week 17
17, 18, 19, 22 January 1980
Klaus Tennstedt
Itzhak Perlman, violin

MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7

Week 18
31 January, 1, 2 February 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Norman Carol, violin, Michael Murray, organ

FAURÉ                                               Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
HINDEMITH                                       Violin Concerto
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’

Week 19
8, 9 February 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore Overture No. 2
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
RACHMANINOV                                 Symphony No. 3

Week 20
14, 15, 16, 19 February 1980
Eugene Ormandy, Dalia Atlas*
Monique Duphil, piano

DEBUSSY                                            La mer*
RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 1
RAVEL                                               Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
RAVEL                                               La Valse

Week 21
21, 22, 23, 26 February 1980
William Smith
Kathleen Battle, soprano, Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano, Temple University Choirs

MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’

Week 22
28, 29 February 1980, 1 March
Neeme Järvi

WEBER                                              Overture to Euryanthe
MENDELSSOHN                                  Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’

Week 23
7, 8 March 1980
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
IVES                                                   Decoration Day
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Week 24
13, 14, 15 March 1980
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano

PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2
MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 25
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

Week 25
28, 29 March, 1 April 1980
Riccardo Muti
Norman Carol, violin

VIVALDI                                             The Four Seasons
SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

Week 26
3, 4, 5 April 1980
Riccardo Muti
Joseph de Pasquale, viola

LUTOSLAWSKI                                   Funeral Music
WALTON                                          Viola Concerto (revised edition)
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 3

Week 27
11, 12 April 1980
Riccardo Muti
Katia Ricciarelli, soprano, Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano, Veriano Luchetti, tenor, Simon Estes, bass-baritone, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

VERDI                                                Requiem

Week 28a
17, 18, 19 April 1980
Eugene Ormandy
William Stokking, cello

BACH                                                Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sunde gross’(trans. Ormandy)
SCHUMAN                                         Credendum
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Cello Concerto No. 1
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 4

Week 28b
29 April 1980
Eugene Ormandy
William Stokking, cello

WAGNER                                          Prelude to Die Meistersinger
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 8
SAINT-SAËNS                                     Cello Concerto No. 1
MUSSORGSKY                                    Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Week 29
2, 3 May 1980
Eugene Ormandy

SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 1
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 30
9, 10 May 1980
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
BARTÓK                                            Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 5

 


1980 – 1981 season
81st Season
 

Week 1
18, 19, 23 September 1980
Eugene Ormandy

BEETHOVEN                                      Leonore, Overture No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'

Week 2
25, 26, 27 September 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Istomin, piano

GOLDMARK                                       In Spring, overture
BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 3
2, 3, 4, 7 October 1980
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

BRAHMS                                            Symphony No. 3
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Don Juan
STRAVINSKY                                      The Firebird, Suite (1919)

Week 4
10, 11 October 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Nathan Milstein, violin

RESPIGHI                                           Trittico botticelliano
GLAZUNOV                                       Violin Concerto
HARRIS                                              Symphony No. 3
BRUCH                                              Violin Concerto No. 1

Week 5
16, 17, 18 October 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Emanuel Ax, piano

COPLAND                                         Inscapes
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 6
CHOPIN                                            Piano Concerto No. 1

Week 6
24, 25 October 1980
Kirill Kondrashin
Norman Carol, violin

HAYDN                                             Symphony No. 103, 'Drum Roll'
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Ein Heldenleben

Week 7
30, 31 October, 1 November 1980
Kirill Kondrashin
Alexis Weissenberg, piano

RACHMANINOV                                 Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH                                Symphony No. 10

Week 8
6, 7, 8, 11 November 1980
Riccardo Muti
Alicia de Larrocha, piano, Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano, Jon Frederic West, tenor, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MOZART                                           Piano Concerto No. 25
SCRIABIN                                           Symphony No. 1

Week 9
14, 15 November 1980
Riccardo Muti

BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 7
HINDEMITH                                       Concert Music for Strings and Brass
ELGAR                                               In the South (Alassio) 

Week 10
21, 22, 23 November 1980
Riccardo Muti
Gwendolyn Bradley, soprano, Agnes Baltsa, contralto, Neil Rosenshein, tenor, Paul Plishka, bass, Singing City Choir

SCHUMANN                                       Symphony No. 1, 'Spring'
MOZART                                           Mass in C minor

Week 11
28, 29 November, 2 December 1980
Riccardo Muti
Itzhak Perlman, violin

BRAHMS                                            Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 4, 'Romantic'

Week 12
4, 5, 6 December 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Dylana Jenson, violin

ROUSSEL                                            Bacchus et Ariane, ballet suite No. 2
SIBELIUS                                             Violin Concerto
BARTÓK                                            Concerto for Orchestra

Week 13
11, 12, 13, 17 December 1980
Eugene Ormandy
Elmar Oliveira, violin

LADERMAN                                        Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER                                        Symphony No. 7

Week 14
18, 19 December 1980
William Smith
Jerome Lowenthal, piano

MOZART                                           Overture to The Magic Flute
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 1
COPLAND                                         Appalachian Spring, ballet suite
HANSON                                           Suite from the Opera. Merry Mount 

Week 15
2, 3, 6 January 1981
James Conlon

BERLIOZ                                            Le Corsaire, Overture
CHAUSSON                                       Symphony
BRITTEN                                            Peter Grimes, Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes
RAVEL                                               Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Week 16
8, 9, 10, 11 January 1981
James Conlon
Horacio Gutierrez, piano

MOZART                                           Adagio and Fugue
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 4

Week 17
16, 17, 20 January 1981
William Smith

RICHARD STRAUSS                             Love Scene from Feuersnot
RICHARD STRAUSS                             Till Eulenspiegel
RICHARD STRAUSS                             An Alpine Symphony

Week 18
29, 30, 31 January 1981
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 34
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 5
STRAVINSKY                                      The Rite of Spring

Week 19
6, 7, 10 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
William de Pasquale, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Hamlet, overture
BARTÓK                                            Violin Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Serenade for Strings

Week 20
12, 13, 14 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
Lynn Harrell, cello

SCHUMANN                                       Hermann und Dorothea, overture
SCHUMANN                                       Cello Concerto
PROKOFIEV                                       Romeo and Juliet, Suites Nos. 1 and 2

Week 21
20, 21 February 1981
Riccardo Muti
Salvatore Accardo, violin

ROSSINI                                             Semiramide, overture
PAGANINI                                          Violin Concerto No. 1
STRAVINSKY                                      Petrushka (1947 version)

Week 22
27, 28 February, 3 March 1981
Max Rudolf
Mark Zeltser, piano

MOZART                                           Symphony No. 28
PROKOFIEV                                       Piano Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 2

Week 23
6, 7 March 1981
William Smith

WALTON                                          Partita for orchestra
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS                         Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
DEBUSSY                                            Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 6

Week 24
12, 13, 14 March 1981
Aldo Ceccato
Susan Starr, piano

PENDERECKI                                      De Natura Sonoris No. 1
BERNSTEIN                                        Symphony No. 2, 'The Age of Anxiety'
PROKOFIEV                                       Symphony No. 5

Week 25
20, 21, 24 March 1981
John Nelson
Henryk Szeryng, violin

BARBER                                             Medea's Dance of Vengeance
MOZART                                           Violin Concerto No. 3
SZYMANOWSKI                                 Violin Concerto No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY                                  Francesca da Rimini

Week 26
26, 27, 28, 31 March 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Bruno Leonardo Gelber, piano

BEETHOVEN                                      Egmont, Overture
BEETHOVEN                                      Piano Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN                                      Symphony No. 5

Week 27
3, 4 April 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Benjamin Luxon, baritone

MAHLER                                            Kindertotenlieder
MAHLER                                            Symphony No. 1

Week 28
9, 10, 11 April 1981
Klaus Tennstedt
Shlomo Mintz, violin

WEBER                                              Oberon, Overture
PROKOFIEV                                       Violin Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK                                           Symphony No. 8

Week 29
23, 24, 25 April 1981
Aldo Ceccato
Norman Carol, violin, Joseph de Pasquale, viola, Faye Robinson, soprano, Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano, John Gilmore, tenor, John Cheek, bass, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia

MOZART                                           Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
ROSSINI                                             Stabat mater



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