A Listing of the Concerts of Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony
Fritz Reiner's Concerts with the Chicago Symphony -
from 1953 to 1963
Concerts and Recordings of Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony
In 1953, Fritz Reiner was named Music Director of the Chicago Symphony, a post he maintained for nine seasons until the end of the 1961-1962 season. Reiner then became Musical Advisor in Chicago for the 1962-1963 season.
After decades of frustration for Fritz Reiner, constantly seeking his own orchestra in a major cultural center with sound financial backing, the Chicago Symphony offered Reiner the potential for fulfillment of his ambitions. Fritz Reiner also proved to be the orchestra leadership cure Chicago had been seeking after ten years of the less-than-successful succession of Désiré Defauw, Arthur Rodzinski and Rafael Kubelik as Chicago principal conductors. This partnership of Reiner and the Chicago Symphony was to prove to be a legendary and fertile partnership, also immortalized in a series of spectacular recordings made for RCA Victor in the new stereophonic process.
This www.stokowski.org site also has a listing of all of the concerts of Fritz Reiner with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 1922-1931 when he was its conductor.
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To go directly to the Reiner-Chicago Symphony concert listing:
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The Famous Recordings of Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony
Even though Georg Solti famously claimed that prior to his arrival in Chicago in 1969, the Chicago Symphony was a "provincial orchestra", in fact, through good selection of musicians, demanding standards and in part through his ruthless elimination of any musician who displeased him, Reiner build one of the great orchestras of the world in Chicago. Reiner also built the orchestra's reputation by their famous series of recordings for RCA Victor during the 1950s, particularly his pioneering stereophonic recordings beginning in 1954. It is said that Reiner and the Chicago Symphony recorded 122 different works.
To see a complete discography of the recordings of Fritz Reiner, click here
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In 1953, when Fritz Reiner was named Music Director of the Chicago Symphony, he was already under contract with RCA Victor. The first commercial recording sessions of Reiner and the Chicago Symphony took place on 6 March 1954 in Orchestra Hall, Chicago. These also were their first stereophonic recordings. RCA was pioneering stereophonic recordings and this first session followed the 6 October 1953 Stokowski experimental recordings made in New York, and the February, 1954 stereophonic recordings of the Boston Symphony with Charles Munch.
RCA Recording Producer Richard Mohr with Fritz Reiner
In this first recording session were some famous Reiner recordings: stereophonic recordings of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben opus 40 and the Dance of the Seven Veils from Strauss's Salome opus 54. Ein Heldenleben was issued first in 1954 on a monophonic LP disc RCA LM-1807 (stereo LPs had not yet been developed) and then in a very successful 1954 stereo LP.
The 1958 stereophonic release RCA Red Seal LSC-1807 of the 1954 Ein Heldenleben
Fritz Reiner maintained his Chicago post for nine seasons until the end of the 1961-1962 season. At this point, after a series of heart attacks, failing health forced Reiner to reduce his activities. His last concert as Chicago Music Director was on 27 April 1962. Fritz Reiner then became "Musical Advisor" in Chicago for the 1962-1963 season, and he hoped to carry on with a reduced schedule. However, he then experienced a further series of coronary attacks, and his last performance with the Chicago Symphony was on 20 April 1963 with Van Cliburn in the Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4. Fritz Reiner died in a New York City hospital November 15, 1963.
Information Sources
A major source of information for this concert listing was the listing of subscription concerts disseminated by the excellent Fritz Reiner Society, Stephen C. Hillyer, President and key organizer of the Society's many efforts 1. This Fritz Reiner Society listing was supplemented and corrected by research in the archive of newspaper articles of the period, and my own collection of Reiner programmes. John Borders, another Fritz Reiner admirer provided Fritz Reiner Society publication useful in this effort. Thanks John!
I have also begun to add Reiner - Chicago Symphony concerts done in other cities, outside the usual subscription series, and other special concerts. Corrections, additions and comments on this material will be welcome by contacting me.
The Concerts of Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony listed Chronologically
All concerts took place in Orchestra Hall, Chicago unless otherwise indicated.
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March 12
Chicago Symphony University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Fritz Reiner |
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Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony at the University Music Society concerts, University of Michigan prior to his appointment as Chicago Symphony Music Director 4 years later
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June 11 NBC Symphony Studio 8-H, New York City | Fritz Reiner |
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"US Steel Hour of Summer Concerts" Bidu Sayão soprano Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture Villa-Lobos: Bachiana Brasileira no 5 - Bidu Sayão soprano Puccini: Madame Butterfly "Un bel di vedremo" - Bidu Sayão soprano Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) (1919): Three Dances: The Neighbours’ Dance, The Miller’s Dance. Final Dance Bela Bartok: Hungarian Sketches, BB 103 (1931) Sibelius: Alla Marcia from the "Karelia" Suite Strauss, Johann Jr.: Die Fledermaus (The Bat) (1874): Overture | ||
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July 23 NBC Symphony Studio 8-H, New York City | Fritz Reiner |
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"US Steel Hour of Summer Concerts" Dorothy Maynor soprano | ||
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1953 | October 7 | Fritz Reiner |
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First Reiner - Chicago Symphony Television Broadcast WGN Chicago
Thomas: "Mignon" Overture; Saint-Saën: Le déluge opus 45: Prelude Johann Strauss Jr.: Emperor Waltz Bizet: Symphony in C Major | ||
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1953 | October 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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First Reiner - Chicago Symphony Subscription Concert
Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1953 | October 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: "Francesca da Rimini"
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Guiomar Novaes) INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 36 ("Linz") | ||
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1953 | October 27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: "Francesca da Rimini"
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Guiomar Novaes) INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 39 | ||
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1953 | October 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Debussy: "Iberia"
Wagner: Music from Act I of "Tristan und Isolde" (Arr. Reiner) (Prelude and Shipboard Scene) INTERMISSION +Prokofiev: Symphony no 7 | ||
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1953 | October 31 | Fritz Reiner |
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Concert given in Des Moines, Iowa
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini Mozart: Symphony no 41 in C "Jupiter" Strauss: Don Juan Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 1 | ||
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1953 | November 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Concert given at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini Mozart: Symphony no 41 in C "Jupiter" Strauss: Don Juan Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 1 | ||
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1953 | November 4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Telecast from WGN Chicago
Mozart: Symphony no 41 in C "Jupiter" Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini | ||
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1953 | November 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
+Mozart: Recitative and Aria, "Ma che vi fecha, 0 stelle," K. 368 (Roberta Peters, soprano) Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 ("Italian") INTERMISSION +Bartok-Weiner: Two Roumanian Dances Strauss: Zerbinetta ' s. Aria, from "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Roberta Peters, soprano) +Stravinsky: Act I, Scene iii, from "The Rake's Progress" (Roberta Peters, soprano) | ||
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1953 | November 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: Symphony no 4
INTERMISSION Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream": Overture Scherzo Intermezzo Nocturne Wedding March Wagner: "Tannhaeuser" Overture | ||
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1953 | November 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 2
Beethoven: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION ***World Premiere - Barber: "Souvenirs" ballet opus 28 Delius: Prelude to "Irmelin" Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1953 | November 14 | Fritz Reiner |
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J.S. Bach: Suite No. 2 (Ernest Liegl, flute) Mozart: Symphony No. 39 Debussy-Buesser: Petite Suite Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers, from "The Nutcracker" Waltz, from "Sleeping Beauty" Waltz, from "Swan Lake" Waltz, from "Eugen Onegin" | ||
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1953 | November 19-20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1953 | November 24 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La gazza ladra" Overture
+Schubert-Cassadi: Cello Concerto in A Minor (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 | ||
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November 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
Schumann: "Genoveva" Overture
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (Nan Merriman, contralto; Northwestern University Men's Chorus, George Howerton director) Beethoven: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Falla: "El amor brujo" (Nan Merriman, contralto) Albeniz-Arbos: "Triana" from "Iberia" | ||
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1953 | December 3-4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 39
+Piston: Violin Concerto (John Weicher) INTERMISSION Debussy-Buesser: "Petite Suite" | ||
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1953 | December 5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Falla: El amor brujo (Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano) Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice | ||
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1953 | December 8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Hector Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Debussy-Buesser: "Petite Suite" Ravel: "La Valse" INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 1 (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
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1953 | December 10-11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 3
+Hindemith: Symphony, "Die Harmonie der Welt" INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
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1953 | December 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
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1953 | December 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Haydn" Variations
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Falla: "El amor brujo" (Nan Merriman, contralto) Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1953 | December 24 and 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Corelli: Concerto Grosso no 8, opus 6 ("Christmas")
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION +Kodaly: "Dances from Galanta" Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" Act III: Prelude Dance of the Apprentices, Procession of the Mastersingers | ||
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1953 | December 31 - January 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "The Impresario" Overture
Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") INTERMISSION +Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Die Fledermaus" Overture +Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Wiener Blut" +Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Schatzwalzer" +Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Thunder and Lightning" Polka | ||
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| 1954 | January 7-8 |
Antal Dorati |
Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished")
Kodaly: "Peacock" Variations INTERMISSION Bartok: "The Miraculous Mandarin" - Suite Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" | ||
| 1954 | January 12 |
Igor Stravinsky |
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Weber: "Turandot" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 2 ("Little Russian") INTERMISSION +Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (Soulima Stravinsky) Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1945 Version) | ||
| 1954 | January 14-15 |
Igor Stravinsky |
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Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss"
Stravinsky: Capriceio for Piano and Orchestra (Soulima Stravinsky) INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "Petrouchka" - Suite (1947 Version) Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1945 Version) | ||
| 1954 | January 21-22 |
Ernest Ansermet |
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Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring")
Debussy: "Nuages" and "Fetes," from Three Nocturnes
INTERMISSION Honegger: Symphony no 5 ("Di Tre Re") Falla: Three Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat" | ||
| 1954 | January 26 |
Ernest Ansermet |
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Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring")
Debussy: "Nuages" and "Fetes" from Three Nocturnes INTERMISSION Roussel: Suite in F Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole" | ||
| 1954 | January 28-29 |
Ernest Ansermet |
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Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
Chopin: Piano Concerto no 2 (Monique de la Bruchollerie) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1954 | February 4-5 |
Bruno Walter |
Wagner: "A Faust Overture"
Beethoven: "Triple" Concerto (George Schick, piano; John Weicher, violin; Janos Starker, cello) INTERMISSION Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique" | ||
| 1954 | February 9 |
Bruno Walter |
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Haydn: Symphony no 88
+Mozart: "Et Incarnatus est," from Mass in C Minor - Hilde Gueden, soprano Mozart: Motet, "Exsultate Jubilate" - Hilde Gueden, soprano INTERMISSION Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique" | ||
| 1954 | February 11-12 |
Bruno Walter |
Brahms: "Tragic" Overture
+Handel: Aria, "Ah, Spietato," from "Amadigi" - Hilde Gueden, soprano Mozart: Aria, "Ruhe sanft," from "Zaide" - Hilde Gueden, soprano Mahler: Songs from from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (1905) - Hilde Gueden, soprano: + "Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen" "Ich atmet' einen linden Duft" "Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?" INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 7 | ||
| 1954 | February 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Weiner: Toccata and Fugue in C
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 2 (Leon Fleisher) INTERMISSION Elgar: "Enigma” Variations | ||
| 1954 | February 23 | Fritz Reiner |
Haydn: Symphony no 95
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 2 (Leon Fleisher) INTERMISSION Elgar: "Enigma” Variations | ||
| 1954 | February 25-26 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Handel: "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba," from "Solomon"
+Haydn: Recitative and Aria, "Willkommen jetzt...Welche Labung," from The Seasons - Victoria de los Angeles, soprano Beethoven: Symphony no 7 INTERMISSION Strauss: "Dance of the Seven Veils," from "Salome" Ravel: "Sheherazade" - Victoria de los Angeles, soprano Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust: - "Dance of the Will-o'-the-Wisps," - "Dance of the Sylphs," - Rakoczy March | ||
| 1954 | March 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Egmont" Overture
Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra" INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Byron Janis) | ||
| 1954 | March 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Egmont" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 7 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Ricardo Odnoposoff) | ||
| 1954 | March 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" Overture
Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Ricardo Odnoposoff) | ||
| 1954 | March 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 95 +Thomson: Cello Concerto (Pierre Fournier) INTERMISSION Bloch: "Schelomo" (Pierre Fournier) Borodin: "Polovtsian Dances," from "Prince Igor" | ||
| 1954 | March 23 |
George Schick |
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Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 4 (Joseph Szigeti) INTERMISSION Bach-Weiner: Toccata and Fugue in C Borodin: "Polovtsian Dances," from "Prince Igor" | ||
| 1954 | March 25-26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Ruy Bias" Overture
+Tartini: Violin Concerto in D Minor (Joseph Szigeti) +Etler: Symphony no 1 INTERMISSION Scarlatti-Tommasini: "The Good-Humored Ladies" - Ballet Suite (Dorothy Lane, harpsichord) +Bartok: Portrait no 1, opus 5 (Joseph Szigeti, violin) Sibelius: "The Swan of Tuonela" +Sibelius: Alla Marcia, from "Karelia" Suite | ||
| 1954 | April 1-2 | Fritz Reiner |
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Leo Weiner
Gluck: "Iphigenie en Aulide" Overture (Wagner ending) ** US Premiere - Weiner (Reiner's teacher at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest): "Toldi" Suite INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1954 | April 8-9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Moussorgsky: "Khovantschina" Prelude
Debussy: "La Mer" +Blacher: Orchestra Variations on a Theme of Paganini INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 41 ("Jupiter") | ||
| 1954 | April 10 | Fritz Reiner |
| Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") Debussy: La Mer Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust: - "Dance of the Will-o'-the-Wisps," - "Dance of the Sylphs," - Rakoczy March | ||
| 1954 | April 13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 41 ("Jupiter")
Debussy: "La Mer" INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti
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| 1954 | April 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Spell, from "Parsifal"
INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (Artur Rubinstein) | ||
| 1954 | April 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Strauss: Music from "Der Rosenkavalier"
Act I - Duet: Octavian and Marschallin Monologue: Marschallin-- Duet: Octavian and Marschallin INTERMISSION Act II - Presentation of the Rose-- Duet: Octavian and Sophie--Finale Act III- Prelude--The Great Waltz (Exit of Baron Ochs)-- Terzett: Octavian, Marschallin and Sophie Duet: Octavian and Sophie--Finale Astrid Varnay, sopr., as The Marschallin; Hilde Gueden, sopr,} as Sophie; Martha Lipton, mezzo-sopr., as Octavian | ||
| 1954 | October 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Saint-Saens: Symphony No, 3 (Irwin Fischer, organ) INTERMISSION Respighi: "Fountains of Rome" Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" Suite no 2 | ||
| 1954 | October 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Rossini: "Il Signor Bruschino" Overture
Berlioz: "Harold in Italy" (Milton Preves, viola) INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1954 | October 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Also broadcast on NBC Radio
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 Berlioz: Harold in Italy (Milton Preves, viola) Wagner: Bacchanale from "Tannhaeuser" Wagner: "Rienzi" Overture | ||
| 1954 | October 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "II Signor Bruschino" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 94 ("Surprise") INTERMISSION Respighi: "Fountains of Rome" Wagner: Bacchanale, from "Tannhaeuser" Wagner: "Rienzi" Overture | ||
| 1954 | October 28-29 | Fritz Reiner |
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Haydn: Symphony no 94 ("Surprise")
+Strauss: Four Last Songs (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano) INTERMISSION +Strauss: Closing Scene, from "Capriccio" (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, sopr.) Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from "Götterdämmerung" | ||
| 1954 | November 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture
+Dohnanvi: Piano Concerto no 2 (Ernst von Dohnanyi) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 3 | ||
| 1954 | November 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" Overture
Brahms: Symphony no 3 INTERMISSION Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Tune (Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano) | ||
| 1954 | November 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
+Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Concerto (Andres Segovia) Roussel: "Bacchus et Ariane" Suite no 2 INTERMISSION Ravel: "Alborada del gracloso" Ravel: "Pavane for a Dead Princess" Ravel: "Bolero" | ||
| 1954 | November 13 |
Igor Buketoff |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 ("Linz") Bizet: Suite from "Carmen" Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy Ravel: Bolero | ||
| 1954 | November 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Handel: Concerto Grosso for Strings, opus 6, no 5
Ravel: "Le Tombeau de Couperin" Copland: "El Salon Mexico" INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical") **Liebermann: Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra (Sauter-Finegan Orchestra) | ||
| 1954 |
Novevember 20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Also broadcast on NBC Radio
Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" - Overture Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Roussel: "Bacchus and Ariadne" - Suite No. 2 Liebermann: Concerto for Jazz Band (Sauter-Finegan Orchestra) | ||
| 1954 | November 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Handel: Concerto Grosso for Strings, opus 6, no 5
Mozart: Aria, "L'Amero, saro costante," from "II Re Pastore" Ravel: "Le Tombeau de Couperin" (Irmgard Seefried, soprano) INTERMISSION +Hindemith: Three Songs from "Das Marienleben": Nativity of Mary, Joseph's Doubt, and Nativity of Christ (Irmgard Seefried, soprano Schubert: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1954 | November 25-26 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Arnold: "Beckus the Dandipratt" Overture
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto no 3 (Zino Francescatti) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 5 Strauss: "Don Juan" | ||
| 1954 | December 2-3 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Serenade no 13 ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik")
Haydn: Aria, "Nun Bent Die Flur," from "The Creation" (Irmgard Seefried, sopr.) Hindemith: Three Songs from "Das Marienleben" (Irmgard Seefried, sopr.) (Nativity of Mary, Joseph's Doubt, and Nativity of Christ) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
| 1954 | December 9-10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Consecration of the House" Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 20 (Rudolf Serkin) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra" | ||
| 1954 | December 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Also broadcast on NBC Radio
To mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of Orchestra Hall, Fritz Reiner conducted the same program as Theodore Thomas's concert opening the hall on 14 December 1904 Beethoven: "Consecration of the House" - Overture R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration | ||
| 1954 | December 14 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Tcherepnin: Suite, opus 87
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Rudolf Serkin) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra" | ||
| 1954 | December 15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Telecast from WGN Chicago
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 in A minor "Scottish" Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 opus 25 "Classical Symphony" | ||
| 1954 | December 16-17 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tcherepnin: Suite, opus 87
Schumann: Konzertstueck for Four Horns (Philip Farkas, Clyde Wedgwood, Wayne Barrington, Joseph Mourek) INTERMISSION Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 ("Scotch") | ||
| 1954 | December 18 |
Nicolai Malko |
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Rossini: "Semiramide" Overture
Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde" - Prelude and Liebestod Prokofiev: "The Love for Three Oranges" - Suite Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 | ||
| 1954 | December 23-24 | Fritz Reiner |
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Humperdinck: Prelude to "Hansel and Gretel"
Bach: Sinfonia (Pastorale) and Chorale? "Brich an, 0 Schoenes Morgenlicht," from "Christmas Oratorio" Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION +Suppe: "The Beautiful Galitea" Overture +Rodgers: Waltz from "Carousel" +Gould: "American Salute" | ||
| 1954 | December 28 |
Josef Krips |
Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1954 | December 30-31 |
Josef Krips |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Mozart: Symphony no 38 ("Prague") INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") | ||
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| 1955 | January 6-7 |
Bruno Walter |
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Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")
Brahms: "Double" Concerto (John Weicher, violin; Janos Starker, cello) INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") | ||
| 1955 | January 11 |
Bruno Walter |
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Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 96 ("Miracle") INTERMISSION Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll" Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") | ||
| 1955 | January 13-14 |
Bruno Walter |
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Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 96 ("Miracle") Schoenberg: "Transfigured Night" INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 8 | ||
| 1955 | January 20-21 |
Bruno Walter |
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Handel: Concerto Grosso for Strings, opus 6, no 12
INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 2 ("Resurrection") Nancy Carr, soprano; Lillian Chookasian, contralto; Northwestern University Choral Union, William Ballard, director | ||
| 1955 | January 25 |
George Schick |
+Rossini: "Journey to Rheims" Overture
+Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat (Adolph Herseth) ''Delius: "Over the Hills and Far Away" INTERMISSION Dvorak: Symphony no 8 | ||
| 1955 | January 27-28 |
George Schick |
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Rossini: "Journey to Rheims" Overture
+Manfredini: Concerto for Two Trumpets (Adolph Herseth, Rudolph Nashan) Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart INTERMISSION Dvorak: Slavonic Rhapsody no 3 +Khrennikov: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1955 | February 3-4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Handel-Wuellner: Overture in D arranged from Royal Fireworks Music
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 23 (Robert Casadesus) INTERMISSION Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" Ravel: Piano Concerto for Left Hand (Robert Casadesus) Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Wagner: "Die Götterdämmerung" - Act III Finale | ||
| 1955 | February 5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Concert at Beliot College, Beliot, Wisconin
Handel-Wuellner: Overture in D arranged from Royal Fireworks Music Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 opus 25 "Classical Symphony" Strauss: "Don Juan" INTERMISSION Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" (Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Wagner: "Die Götterdämmerung" - Act III Finale | ||
| 1955 | February 8 | Fritz Reiner |
Handel-Wuellner: Overture in D arranged from Royal Fireworks Music
Mozart: Serenade no 13 ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik") Strauss: "Don Juan" INTERMISSION Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" (Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 opus 25 "Classical Symphony" Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Rogers: Carousel (1945): Act 1: Waltz (arranged by Don Walker) Suppe - "Beautiful Galatea" Overture | ||
| 1955 | February 10-11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Kabalevsky: "Colas Breugnon" Overture
Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kije" Suite INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: "Manfred" Symphony | ||
| 1955 | February 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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Claudio Arrau
Toch: "Der Faecher" Overture Mozart: Symphony no 40 INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2 (Claudio Arrau) | ||
| 1955 | February 22 |
George Schick |
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Manfredini: Concerto for Two Trumpets (Adolph Herseth, Rudolph Nashan)
Mozart: Symphony no 40 INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2 (Claudio Arrau) | ||
| 1955 | February 24-25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Hindemith: "News of the Day" Overture
+Mohaupt: Violin Concerto (John Weicher)
INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
| 1955 | March 3-4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Glinka: "Russian and Ludmilla" Overture
Dvorak: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION world premiere - Schreiber: Concerto Grosso for Four Solo Instruments ("Artists Advisory Council Prize: Fritz Reiner...chose Schreiber's Concerto Grosso for 4 Solo Instruments, Soprano and Orchestra from 5 manuscripts selected as the best of 147 submitted from all over the world..." 2) (Barbara Gibson soprano) +Bartok: "Hungarian Sketches" Falla: Interlude and Dance, from "La Vida breve" | ||
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1955 | March 5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La Scala di Seta" Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Bartok: Hungarian Sketches Falla: Interlude and Dance, from "La Vida Breve" Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Glinka: "Ruslan and Ludmilla" Overture | ||
| 1955 | March 10-11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Walter Gieseking
Rossini: "La scala di seta" Overture Mozart: Divertimento no 17 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 ("Emperor") (Walter Gieseking) | ||
| 1955 | March 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Barber: "Prayers of Kierkegaard"
INTERMISSION +Orff: "Carmina Burana" The Concert Choir, Margaret Hillis director, Lois Marshall soprano; Leslie Chabay tenor, Morley Meredith, baritone | ||
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1955 | March 19 |
Désiré Defauw |
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Désiré Defauw
Reznicek: "Donna Diana" Overture Chausson: Symphony in Bb major opus 20 Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherezade | ||
| 1955 | March 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Barber: "Prayers of Kierkegaard"
INTERMISSION Orff: "Carmina Burana" The Concert Choir, Margaret Hillis director, Lois Marshall soprano; Leslie Chabay tenor, Morley Meredith, baritone | ||
| 1955 | March 24-25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Lukas Foss
Mozart: Symphony no 39 +Foss: Piano Concerto no 2 (Lukas Foss) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished") Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Tales from the Vienna Woods" | ||
| 1955 | March 30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert from WGN Chicago
Schumann: Symphony no 4 in D minor opus 120 Mozart: Symphony no 39 in E flat, K 543 | ||
| 1955 | March 31 - April 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern)
INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1955 | April 7-8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act I)
+Liszt-Weiner: "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"
Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration"
INTERMISSION Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 5 (Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord; Ernest Liegl, flute; John Weicher, violin) | ||
| 1955 | April 12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Also broadcast on NBC Radio
Weber: "Oberon" Overture Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 5 (Sylvia Marlowe harpsichord, Ernst Liegl flute, John Weicher violin) Mozart: Symphony no 39 INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern) | ||
| 1955 | April 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Hindemith: Prelude to "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 +Prokofiev: Cello Concerto, Op.- 58 (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION Wagner: Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices and Procession of the Mastersingers | ||
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1955 | April 16 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Wagner: "Flying Dutchman" Overture Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" - Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, and Procession of the Mastersingers | ||
| 1955 | April 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: Symphony no 1
INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 9 Frances Yeend, soprano; Carol Smith, contralto; Jan Peerce, tenor; Cesare Siepi, bass; Swedish Choral Club, Harry Carlson, director | ||
| 1955 | October 6-7 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Respighi: Passacaglia in C Minor
Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Janos Starker cello, Milton Preves viola,
John Weicher violin)
INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 | ||
| 1955 | October 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Respighi: Passacaglia in C Minor
Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Janos Starker cello, Milton Preves viola, John Weicher, violin) INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919 Version) | ||
| 1955 | October 12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert from WGN Chicago
Smetana: "The Bartered Bride" Overture Liszt: Mephisto Waltz Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
| 1955 | October 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Smetana: "The Bartered Bride" Overture +Mozart: Recitative and Aria, "In quali eccessi," from "Don Giovanni" +Mozart: Concert Aria, "C'io mi scordi" - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra INTERMISSION Wolf: "Italian Serenade" Strauss: Ariadne's Monologue, from "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Schwarzkopf) Liszt: "Mephisto" Waltz | ||
| 1955 | October 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Fidelio" Overture
+Arne Oldberg: "St. Francis of Assisi" - Louis Sudler, baritone
Schumann: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919 Version) | ||
| 1955 | October 25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Smetana: "The Bartered Bride" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Geza Anda) | ||
| 1955 | October 27-28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Geza Anda
+Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Haydn: Symphony no 102 INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Geza Anda) | ||
| 1955 | November 3-4 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
United States Debut of Carlo Maria Giulini
+Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons" (arranged Bernardino Molinari) (John Weicher, violin; Dorothy Lane, harpsichord) INTERMISSION +Pizzetti: Prelude to "Fedra" (1915) Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
| 1955 | November 8 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons" (Ed. Bernardino Molinari)
INTERMISSION Pizzetti: Prelude to "Fedra" (1915) Debussy: "La Mer" | ||
| 1955 | November 10-11 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Carlo Maria Giulini (United States Debut)
Rossini: "L'ltaliana in Algeri" Overture Haydn: Symphony no 94 ("Surprise") Debussy: "La Mer" INTERMISSION Ravel: "Mother Goose" Suite Falla: Three Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat" | ||
| 1955 | November 17-18 |
Paul Paray |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION Franck: "Psyche et Eros," from "Psyche" . Debussy: "Nuages" and "Fetes," from Three Nocturnes Dukas: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | ||
| 1955 | November 22 |
Paul Paray |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Liszt: "Les Prelude | ||
| 1955 | November 24-25 |
Paul Paray |
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Lalo: "Le Roi d'Ys"'Overture
Chausson: Symphony in B-flat INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1955 | December 1-2 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Brahms: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from "Tristan und Isolde" Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" | ||
| 1955 | December 8-9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Sowerby: Passacaglia, Interlude and Fugue Beethoven: "Fidelio". - Scena, "Abscheulicher" and Aria, "Komm Hoffnung" (Inge Borkh, soprano) Beethoven: Symphony no 2
INTERMISSION Strauss: Final Scene, from "Salome" (Inge Borkh, soprano) | ||
| 1955 | December 13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "Semiramide" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION +Mozart: Piano Concerto no 25 (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
| 1955 | December 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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Dvorak: "Carnival" Overture
Sibelius: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION +Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato (Rudolf Serkin, piano) Strauss: "Burleske" (Rudolf Serkin, piano) | ||
| 1955 | December 21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert from WGN Chicago
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide Beethoven: Symphony no 2 in D major | ||
| 1955 | December 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Hindemith: "Nobilissima Visione"
Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Suite, opus 71a INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1955 | December 27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Dvofak: "Carnival" Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 5 (Camilla Wicks) INTERMISSION +Bloch: Two Symphonic Interludes from "Macbeth" Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Suite, opus 71a | ||
| 1955 | December 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite (Toni Koves cimbalom)
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 5 (Camilla Wicks) INTERMISSION Bloch: Two Symphonic Interludes from "Macbeth" +Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody no 3 in D (Toni Koves cimbalom) | ||
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1955 | December 31 | Fritz Reiner |
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Smetana: "Bartered Bride" Overture
Kodaly: "Hary Janos" - Suite (Toni Koves cimbalom) Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 Weinberger: Polka and Fugue, from "Schwanda" Liszt: Mephisto Waltz Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture | ||
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| 1956 | January 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Fingal's Cave" Overture +Mozart: Symphony no 32 Schumann: Cello Concerto (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION +Borowski: "The Mirror" Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture | ||
| 1956 | January 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Stravinsky: "Fireworks"
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 2 (Artur Rubinstein) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1956 | January 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
Stravinsky: "Pulcinella" Suite Liszt: Piano Concerto no 1 (Artur Rubinstein) INTERMISSION Grieg: Piano Concerto (Artur Rubinstein) | ||
| 1956 | January 14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rimsky-Korsakoff: Capriccio Espagnol
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Artur Rubinstein) Shostakovich: Polka and Russian Dance, from "Age of Gold" Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Artur Rubinstein) | ||
| 1956 | January 19-20 |
Bruno Walter |
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+Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427
INTERMISSION +Bruckner: Te Deum New York Concert Choir, Margaret Hillis, director; Hilde Gueden, soprano; Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano; Leopold Simoneau, tenor; Donald Gramm, baritone | ||
| 1956 | January 24 |
Bruno Walter |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" Overture
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat (John Weicher, violin; Milton Preves, viola) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
| 1956 | January 26-27 |
Bruno Walter |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" Overture
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat (John Weicher, violin; Milton Preves, viola) Mozart: Symphony no 29 INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 41 ("Jupiter") | ||
| 1956 | February 2-3 |
Bruno Walter |
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Schumann: "Manfred" Overture
Schumann: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Brahms: "Haydn" Variations Brahms: Symphony no 3 | ||
| 1956 | February 9-10 |
Karl Boehm |
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Fritz Reiner and Karl Boehm in 1955
United States Debut of Karl Boehm Mozart: Symphony no 34 Strauss: "Don Juan" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1956 | February 14 |
Karl Boehm |
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Karl Boehm United States Debut
Richard Mohaupt (1904-1957): " Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik)" Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1956 | February 16-17 |
Karl Boehm |
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Karl Boehm United States Debut
Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture" +Mohaupt: "Stadtpfeifermusik" INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 7 | ||
| 1956 | February 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert from WGN Chicago
Beethoven: Stravinsky: Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) Tchaikovsky | ||
| 1956 | February 23-24 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Verdi: "Nabucco" Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") | ||
| 1956 | February 28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet” - Suite no 1
Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") | ||
| 1956 | March 1-2 | Fritz Reiner |
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Darius Milhaud
Respighi: "The Birds" **Milhaud: Symphony no 7 INTERMISSION Brahms: Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz) | ||
| 1956 | March 8-9 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Heiden: "Euphorion"
+Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" - Aria, "Porgi amor" (Victoria De Los Angeles, soprano) Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" - Suite no 1 INTERMISSION +Turina: Four Songs from "Canto a Sevilla" (Victoria De Los Angeles, sop.) Albeniz-Arbos: "El Puerto” and "Triana," from "Iberia" | ||
| 1956 | March 13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: "Nabucco" Overture Respighi: "The Birds"
+Ponce: "Concierto del Sur" (Andres Segovia, guitar) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1956 | March 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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Strauss: "Der Buerger als Edelmann" - Suite
Ponce: "Concierto del Sur" (Andres Segovia, guitar) INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 38 ("Prague") | ||
| 1956 | March 21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert from WGN Chicago
Mozart: Symphony no 38 ("Prague") Strauss: "Der Buerger als Edelmann" - Suite INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1956 | March 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Von Einem: Capriccio for Orchestra
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Gregor Piatigorsky) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1956 | March 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Spell, from "Parsifal"
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Northwestern University Choral Union) INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (Wilhelm Backhaus) | ||
| 1956 | March 31 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: "Nabucco" Overture
Wagner: "Parsifal" - Good Friday Spell Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Northwestern University Choral Union) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 | ||
| 1956 | April 3 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wilhelm Backhaus
Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture Strauss: "Der Burger als Edelmann" - Suite INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 - Wilhelm Backhaus | ||
| 1956 | April 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds K297b
Ray Still oboe, Clark Brody clarinet, Leonard Sharrow bassoon; Philip Farkas horn INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Michael Rabin) | ||
| 1956 | April 7 |
George Schick |
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George Schick's final concert as Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony
Chicago Vassar Alumni "Pops" Concert) Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin - Polonaise Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Gary Graffman) Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1956 | April 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Strauss: Overture to "Der Bürger als Edelmann" (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)
Strauss: "Elektra," Tragedy in One Act (Abridged) Inge Borkh soprano (Elektra) Frances Yeend soprano (Chrisothemis) Martha Lipton mezzo-soprano (Clytemnestra) Paul Schoeffler baritone (Orestes) Julius Patzak tenor (Aegisthus) Chorus from the Lyric Theatre of Chicago | ||
| 1956 |
October 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Strauss: "Sinfonia domestica" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
| 1956 | October 6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Francis Akos) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") | ||
| 1956 | October 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner") INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 6 ("Pathetique") | ||
| 1956 | October 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")
+Bach: Cantata no 210 ("Wedding Cantata"): "O holder Tag..." and "Hochteurer Mann..." (Magda Laszlo, soprano) Stravinsky: "Song of the Nightingale" INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: Songs: (Magda Laszlo, soprano) "Freundliche Vision" opus 48, no 1; "Morgen," opus 27, no 4; "Zueignung," opus 10, no 1 Tchaikovsky: "Capriccio Italien" Nos. 1 and 9 of Cantata only--see Repertory section | ||
| 1956 | October 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Charles Turner: "Encounter" Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Berl Senofsky) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
| 1956 | October 20 |
Isler Solomon |
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Mozart: "Marriage of Figaro" Overture
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 ("New World") Smetana: Vltava ("The Moldau"), from "Ma Vlast" Gluck-Mottl: Ballet Suite Rimsky-Korsakoff: Capriccio Espagnol | ||
| 1956 | October 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz:. "Le Corsaire" Overture
Bartok: Piano Concerto no 2 (Geza Anda) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Sinfonia domestica" | ||
| 1956 | October 25-26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
INTERMISSION Bartok: Piano Concerto no 2 (Geza Anda) | ||
| 1956 | November 1-2 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: "Tannhäuser"
Overture Act II Aria, "Dich, teure Halle" - Inge Borkh, soprano Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" Act III - Hans Sachs' Monologue - Paul Schoeffler, baritone Wagner: "Die Walküre" Wotan's Farewell and Magic-Fire Music - Paul Schoeffler, baritone INTERMISSION Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman" Act II - Senta's Ballad - Inge Borkh, soprano Act II - "Wie aus der Ferne längst" - Inge Borkh, soprano; Paul Schoeffler, baritone Wagner: "Die Walküre" Ride of the Valkyries | ||
| 1956 | November 8-9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 4 (John Weicher violin, Ernest Liegl
and Ralph Johnson flutes)
INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1956 | November 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony No. 35 ("Haffner")
+Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (Leonard Sharrow) Ravel: "Mother Goose" - Suite Ravel: Introduction and Allegro (Joseph Vito, harp) Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole | ||
| 1956 | November 13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 4 (John Weicher violin, Ernst Liegl and Ralph Johnson flutes)
+Mendelssohn: Scherzo, from Octet for Strings Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (Leonard Sharrow) INTERMISSION Ravel: "Mother Goose" Suite Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole" | ||
| 1956 | November 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kije" Suite
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra INTERMISSION Respighi: "Pines of Rome" | ||
| 1956 | November 17 |
Jean Morel |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Seymour Lipkin) Franck: Symphony | ||
| 1956 | November 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Debussy: "Iberia"
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 1 (Isaac Stern)
INTERMISSION +Barber: "Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance" Berlioz: "Le Corsaire" Overture | ||
| 1956 | November 27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Abu Hassan" Overture
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto no 2 (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION +Mozart: Serenade no 9 ("Posthorn") (Adolph Herseth, posthorn) | ||
| 1956 | November 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" Overture
Weber: "Der Freischuetz"' - Aria, "Wie nahte mir der Schlummer" (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano) Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") INTERMISSION Mendelssohn: Scherzo, from Octet for Strings in Eb major opus 20 Wolf: Songs: (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf) "Er ist’s," "In der Fruehe," "Schlafendes Jesuskind," "Anakreon's Grab," +"Elfenlied" Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Emperor" Waltz | ||
| 1956 | December 1 |
Isler Solomon |
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Isler Solomon
Haydn: "The Uninhabited Isle" Overture Schumann: Piano Concerto (Vera Franceschi) Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 Brahms: Variations on a theme of Haydn | ||
| 1956 | December 6-7 | Fritz Reiner |
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(Reiner conducted at the Civic Opera House)
Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" (Arr. Rimsky-Korsakoff) Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 1 (Byron Janis) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Burleske" (Byron Janis) Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" - Suite no 2 | ||
| 1956 | December 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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(Reiner conducted at the Civic Opera House)
Debussy: Iberia" Ravel: "Pavane for a Dead Princess" Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kije" Suite INTERMISSION Goldmark: Violin Concerto, (Nathan Milstein) | ||
| 1956 | December 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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(Reiner conducted at the Civic Opera House)
**Arnold: Symphony no 2 A Goldmark: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration" | ||
| 1956 | December 20-21 |
George Szell |
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(George Szell conducted at the Civic Opera House)
Weber: "Oberon" Overture Haydn: Symphony no 92 ("Oxford") INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1956 | December 27-28 |
George Szell |
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(George Szell conducted at the Medinah Temple)
Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" Overture Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION Delius: Prelude to "Irmelin" Debussy: "La Mer" | ||
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| 1957 | January 3-4 |
Karl Boehm |
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(Karl Boehm conducted at the Medinah Temple)
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
| 1957 | January 8 |
Karl Boehm |
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(Karl Boehm conducted at the Civic Opera House)
Mozart: Symphony no 40 Berg: "Wozzeck" - Three Fragments (Frances Yeend, soprano) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
| 1957 | January 10-11 |
Karl Boehm |
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(KARL BOEHM - Civic Opera House)
Mozart: Symphony no 40 Berg: "Wozzeck" - Three Fragments (Frances Yeend, soprano) INTERMISSION Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben" | ||
| 1957 | January 17-18 |
Bruno Walter |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 1 ("Titan") | ||
| 1957 | January 22 |
Bruno Walter |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
+Mozart: Symphony no 28 INTERMISSION Brahms: "A German Requiem" Brunetta Mazzolini soprano, William Warfield baritone, Northwestern University Choral Union, William Ballard director | ||
| 1957 | January 24-25 |
Bruno Walter |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
Mozart: Symphony no 25 INTERMISSION Brahms: "A German Requiem" Brunetta Mazzolini soprano, William Warfield baritone, Northwestern University Choral Union, William Ballard director | ||
| 1957 | January 31 - February 1 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Haydn: Symphony no 97
+Handel-Beecham: "The Great Elopement" Suite INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 3 Berlioz: March, from "Les Troyens" | ||
| 1957 | February 7-8 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Mozart: Symphony no 39
+Schubert: Symphony no 6 again it is hard to believe that this was the first Chicago Symphony performance of the Schubert Symphony no 6. INTERMISSION Dvorak: "The Golden Spinning Wheel" | ||
| 1957 | February 12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven; "Egmont" Overture
Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") INTERMISSION Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration" | ||
| 1957 | February 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Egmont" Overture
Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique" INTERMISSION Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" | ||
| 1957 | February 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Eugene Istomin
Ganz: "Laughter...Yet Love" Overture Weber-Berlioz: "Invitation to the Dance" +Bartok: Divertimento for Strings INTERMISSION Mozart: Piano Concerto no 9 (Eugene Istomin) | ||
| 1957 | February 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Hanson: "Elegy to the Memory of Serge Koussevitzky"
Haydn: Symphony no 103 ("Drumroll") INTERMISSION Mozart: Piano Concerto no 9 (Eugene Istomin) Weber-Berlioz: "Invitation to the Dance" | ||
| 1957 | February 28 - March 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Hanson: "Elegy to the Memory of Serge Koussevitzky"
Haydn: Symphony no 103 ("Drumroll") INTERMISSION Brahms: "Double" Concerto (John Weicher, violin; Janos Starker, cello) | ||
| 1957 | March 7-8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba, from "Solomon"
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 3 ("Pastoral") (Dorothy Krieg, soprano) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 3 (Myra Hess) | ||
| 1957 | March 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "Magic Flute" Overture
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 ("Drumroll") Weber-Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance Rimsky-Korsakoff: Dance of the Tumblers, from "The Snow Maiden" Tchaikovsky: Marche Miniature, from Suite No. 1 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier" - Waltzes | ||
| 1957 | March 12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" Overture
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 3 ("Pastoral") (Dorothy Krieg, soprano) INTERMISSION Brahms: "Double" Concerto (John Weicher, violin; Janos Starker, cello) | ||
| 1957 | March 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Janos Starker
Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture Debussy: "Nuages" and "Fetes," from Three Nocturnes Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto in A Minor (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION Delius: "In a Summer Garden" Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" | ||
| 1957 | March 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Sibelius: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION +Mozart: Divertimento no 11 Richard Strauss: Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" (arranged by Reiner) | ||
| 1957 | March 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kije" - Suite
Glazunov: Violin Concerto (Victor Aitay) Bartok: Divertimento for Strings Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos.12,13,19,21 | ||
| 1957 | March 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Rudolf Serkin)
INTERMISSION ! Josef Strauss: "Village Swallows" Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Emperor" Waltz Johann Strauss, Jr.: "The Blue Danube" Waltz +Johann Strauss, Sr.: "Radetzky" March | ||
| 1957 | March 28-29 | Fritz Reiner |
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Goldmark: "In Springtime" Overture
Rachmaninoff: "Isle of the Dead" INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2 (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
| 1957 | April 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: "I. Vespri Siciliani". Overture
Ravel:;"Vaises nobles et seritimentales" INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 6 ("Pathetique") | ||
| 1957 | April 6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Johann Strauss Jr: Morning Papers (Morgenblatter) opus 279,
Johann Strauss Jr: Emperor Waltz (Kaiser Walzer), opus 437, Johann Strauss Jr: On the Beautiful Blue Danube (An der schönen, blauen Donau), opus 314 Josef Strauss: Village Swallows Weber: Invitation to the Dance, | ||
| 1957 | April 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: "I Vespri Siciliani" Overture
Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" INTERMISSION Debussy: "Nuages" and "Fetes," from Three Nocturnes Ravel: "Vaises nobles et sentimentales" Richard Strauss: Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" (arranged by Reiner) | ||
| 1957 | April 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Riegger: "Dance Rhythms"
Stravinsky: "Petrouchka" - Suite (1947 Version) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1957 | October 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Stock: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat ("St.. Anne's")
Debussy: "La Mer" INTERMISSION Sibelius: Symphony no 5 Sibelius: "Finlandia" | ||
| 1957 | October 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Stock: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat ("St. Anne's")
Berlioz: "Queen Mab" Scherzo, from "Romeo and Juliet" Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" INTERMISSION Sibelius: Symphony no 5 Sibelius: "Finlandia" | ||
| 1957 | October 24-25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Yehudi Menuhin
Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 2 Bartok: Violin Concerto no 2 (Yehudi Menuhin) INTERMISSION Mozart: Symphony no 41 ("Jupiter”) | ||
| 1957 | October 31 - November 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: "A Faust Overture"
Schumann: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION +Eppert: "Speed" Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
| 1957 | November 2 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave | ||
| 1957 | November 7-8 | Fritz Reiner |
+Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
Schoenberg: "Transfigured Night" ; INTERMISSION Dvorak: Symphony no 9 ("From the New World") | ||
| 1957 | November 12 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Bach-Webern: Six-Part Ricercar, from "The Musical Offering"
Haydn: Symphony no 104 ("London") Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto no 1 (Rudolf Firkusny) INTERMISSION +Casella: "La Donna Serpente" - Suite no 1 Richard Strauss: Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" (arranged by Reiner) | ||
| 1957 | November 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Webern: Six-Part Ricercar, from "The Musical Offering"
***Tcherepnin: Divertimento (composed at Fritz Reiner's suggestion and dedicated to him) Franck: Symphonic Variations (Philippe Entremont, piano) INTERMISSION Falla: "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" (Philippe Entremont, piano) +Albeniz-Arbos: "Navarra" | ||
| 1957 | November 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Schumann: "Manfred" Overture
Hindemith: Violin Concerto (Joseph Fuchs) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1957 | November 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach-Cailliet: Fugue, in C Minor ("Little")
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto (Ray Still) Verdi:"La Traviata" - Prelude to Act III Puccini: "Manon Lescaut" - Intermezzo Rossini: "William Tell" Overture | ||
| 1957 | November 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Handel-Wuellner: Overture in D
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 4 (Joseph Fuchs) INTERMISSION Dvorak: Sympony no 9 ("From the New World") | ||
| 1957 | November 28-29 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Bach-Calliet: Fugue in G Minor ("Little")
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Eugene Istomin) INTERMISSION Haydn: Symphony no 104 ("London") | ||
| 1957 | December 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture Hindemith: Cello Concerto (Janos Starker) INTERMISSION Mussorgsky: Prelude to "Khovantschina" Mussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
| 1957 | December 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Tragic" Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti) INTERMISSION Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
| 1957 | December 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Tragic" Overture Brahms: Symphony no 3
INTERMISSION Brahms: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti) | ||
| 1957 | December 19-20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "The Impresario" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 ("Emperor") (Louis Kentner) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") | ||
| 1957 | December 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Handel: "Messiah"
hard to believe this is a first performance of the Messiah at a Chicago Symphony concert as indicated in the programme; perhaps this is a first "complete" performance. Adele Addison, soprano; Russell Oberlin, countertenor;. David Lloyd, tenor; Donald Gramm, bass-baritone; Apollo Musical Club Henry Veld, director; Gavin Williamson, harpsichord | ||
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| 1958 | January 2-3 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Stokowski Chicago Symphony Debut
+Bach-Stokowski: Chorale Preludes:
INTERMISSION +Szabelski: Toccata Wagner: " Die Gotterdammerung" - Act III Finale | ||
| 1958 | January 9-10 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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+Shostakovich-Stokowski: Prelude in E-Flat Minor (fr. .opus 34)
Gliere: Symphony no 3 in B minor, Op. 42 "Ilya Mourometz" - as abridged by Stokowski INTERMISSION Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet” - Three Excerpts: Romeo and Juliet, +Dance of the Young Maidens from the Antilles, + *Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb +Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake" - Suite (as arranged by Stokowski) | ||
| 1958 | January 14 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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+Bonporti: Concerto Grosso in D
Bizet: "Jeux d’enfants" Suite - Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1958 | January 16-17 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Moussorgsky: Prelude to "Khovantschina"
Dvorak: Symphony no 8
INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1958 | January 23-24 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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+Boccherini: Symphony
+Ghedini: Pezzo concertante INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 2 ("Little Russian") | ||
| 1958 | January 28 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")
Respighi: "Fountains of Rome" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1958 | January 30-31 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish")
INTERMISSION Wolf-Ferrari: "The Secret of Suzanne" Overture +Turchi: Piccolo Concerto Notturno Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" - Suite no 2 | ||
| 1958 | February 1 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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"Secret of Suzanne" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian") Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Leon Fleisher) | ||
| 1958 | February 6-7 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Emil Gilels) (Note: This was Gilels' Chicago Symphony debut. However, he had recorded this work with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony on 29 October 1955. The day after this concert on 8 February 1958, Gilels, Reiner and the Chicago Symphony recorded the Brahms Piano Concerto no 2 issued on RCA Victor LSC-2219) | ||
| 1958 | February 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 25 (Andre Tchaikowsky) INTERMISSION +Bach: Klavier Concerto no 5 in F Minor (Andre Tchaikowsky) Beethoven: Symphony no 8 | ||
| 1958 | February 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Ruy Bias" Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Andre Tchaikowsky) INTERMISSION +Mozart: "A Musical Joke" ('The Village Musicians') Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" | ||
| 1958 | February 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 36 ("Linz")
INTERMISSION Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde" (Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Richard Lewis, tenor) | ||
| 1958 | February 25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
INTERMISSION Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde" (Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Richard Lewis, tenor) | ||
| 1958 | February 27-28 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Rossini: "The Barber of Seville" Overture
(hard to believe this is indicated as a CSO premiere in the programme) Mozart: Concert Aria, "Mia speranza adorata" (Roberta Peters, soprano) Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: Songs: "Wiegenlied," +"Saeusle, Liebe Myrte," "Staendchen," +"Amor!" (Roberta Peters, soprano) Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils, from "Salome" | ||
| 1958 | March 4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Concert Columbus, Ohio
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| 1958 | March 6-7 |
Eugene Ormandy |
Eugene Ormandy conducted in Chicago and Fritz Reiner conducted in Philadelphia -
the only concert series for either at the other orchestra during Reiner's tenure
Bach-Ormandy: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1958 | March 11 |
Eugene Ormandy |
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Schuman: "Credendum"
Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 INTERMISSION Roussel: "Bacchus et Ariane" - Suite no 2 Ravel: "La Valse" | ||
| 1958 | March 13-14 |
Bruno Walter |
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Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished")
INTERMISSION Mozart: Requiem Maria Stader, soprano; Maureen Forrester, contralto; David Lloyd, tenor; Otto Edelmann, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director (Note: This marked the debut of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus.) | ||
| 1958 | March 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture
+Bartok: Piano Concerto no 3 (Geza Anda) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Janos Starker, cello; Milton Preves, viola; John Weicher, violin) | ||
| 1958 | March 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Tossy Spivakovsky) Beethoven: Symphony no 8 | ||
| 1958 | March 25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 21 (Geza Anda) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Janos Starker, cello; Milton Preves, viola; John Weicher, violin) | ||
| 1958 | March 27-28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Haydn: Symphony no 95
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major (Zadel Skolovsky) INTERMISSION Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner: Good Friday Spell, from "Parsifal" Wagner: Overture to "Rienzi" | ||
| 1958 | April 3-4 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: Requiem Mass
Leonie Rysanek, soprano; Regina Resnik, mezzo-soprano; David Lloyd, tenor; Giorgio Tozzi, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director | ||
| 1958 | April 8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Verdi: Requiem Mass
Leonie Rysanek, soprano; Regina Resnik, mezzo-soprano; David Lloyd, tenor; Giorgio Tozzi, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director | ||
| 1958 | April 10-11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Auber: "Masaniello"Overture
***Copland; Suite from "The Tender Land" Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos (Vronsky and Babin, INTERMISSION +Granados: Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Falla: Interlude and Dance from "La vida breve" Albeniz-Arbos : "Fete-Dieu a Seville" and "Triana," | ||
| 1958 | April 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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Falla: Three Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat"
Dvorak: Piano Concerto (Rudolf Firkusny) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1958 | April 19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Auber: "Masaniello" Overture
Granados: Intermezzo, from "Goyescas" Falla: Three Dances, from "The Three-Cornered Hat" Albeniz-Arbos: Navarra Albeniz-Arbos: "Fete-Dieu a Seville" & "Triana," from "Iberia" Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde" - Prelude and Liebestod Wagner: "Rienzi" Overture | ||
| 1958 | April 22 |
Walter Hendl |
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Walter Hendl's Chicago Symphony Debut - Walter Hendl was named as
Associate Conductor of the Chicago Symphony with the beginning of the
CSO 1958-1959 season
Hendl, previously conductor of the Dallas Symphony replaced Samuel Antek, scheduled, but who died of a heart attack January 28, 1958 age only 49. Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" Ibert: "Escales" INTERMISSION Albeniz-Arbos: "Navarra" | ||
| 1958 | April 24-25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
+Hovhaness: Symphony no 2 ("Mysterious Mountain") Richard Strauss: "Don Juan" INTERMISSION Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act I) Wagner: "Die Goetterdaemmerung" - Dawn and Siegfried's. Rhine Journey Wagner: "Hie Meistersinger" Act III. - Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Procession of the Mastersingers | ||
| 1958 | October 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Concert Syracuse, New York
Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3 Bartok: Suite no 1 opus 3 Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" Falla: Interlude and Dance from "La vida breve" | ||
| 1958 | October 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony Concert Rochester, New York
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| 1958 | October 23-24 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 9 Adele Addison, soprano; Regina Resnik, mezzo-soprano; Jon Vickers, tenor; Jerome Hines, bass; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director | ||
| 1958 | October 28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La gazza ladra” Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto no 1 (Isaac Stern) Rimsky-Korsakoff: Alla Marcia, from Symphony no 2 ("Antar") INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
| 1958 | October 30-31 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La scala di seta" Overture
Arne Oldberg: Dramatic Overture, "Paolo and Francesca" Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 2 (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben" . | ||
| 1958 | November 6-7 | Fritz Reiner |
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+J.C. Bach: Sinfonia for Double Orchestra, opus 18, no 1
Bartok-Weiner: Two Roumanian Dances +Randall Thompson: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Maria Tipo) | ||
| 1958 | November 8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "II Signor Bruschino" Overture
Rossini: "Barber of Seville" Overture Rossini: "La Scala di Seta" Overture Rossini: "William Tell" Overture Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 | ||
| 1958 | November 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Maria Tipo) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 3 Bartok-Weiner: Two Roumanian Dances | ||
| 1958 | November 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture
Schumann: Cello Concerto (Mihaly Virizlay) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 3 +Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes | ||
| 1958 | November 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Rossini: "La Cenerentola" Overture (another hard to believe
CSO concert premiere as indicated by the programme)
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 23 (Ania Dorfmann) Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical") INTERMISSION +Piston: Symphony no 6 | ||
| 1958 | November 25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical")
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) | ||
| 1958 | November 27-28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bartok: "Hungarian Sketches"
+Haieff: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) | ||
| 1958 | December 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Le Corsaire" Overture
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs (Lisa Della Casa, soprano) INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 4 (Lisa Della Casa, soprano) | ||
| 1958 | December 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Le Corsaire" Overture
Bartok: "Hungarian Sketches" Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto no 4 (Robert Casadesus)' INTERMISSION Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" Falla: Interlude and Dance from "La vida breve" | ||
| 1958 | December 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 38 ("Prague")
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto no 4 (Robert Casadesus) INTERMISSION +Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes ,vBorodin: Polovtsi March, from Act III of "Prince Igor" | ||
| 1958 | December 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "Don Giovanni” Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
| 1958 | December 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: "Tannhäuser" Overture
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1958 | December 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" concert first half conducted by Fritz Reiner INTERMISSION +Honegger: "A Christmas Cantata" Morley Meredith, baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; The Children's Choir of 1st Unitarian Church, Christopher Moore, director concert second half conducted by Margaret Hillis | ||
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| 1959 | January 2-3 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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(American Debut)
+Haydn: Symphony no 90 Roussel: "The Spider's Banquet" INTERMISSION Ravel: "Valses nobles et sentimentales" +Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven | ||
| 1959 | January 5 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Rosbaud - Chicago Symphony Milwaukee Wisconsin
Haydn: Symphony no 90 Roussel: "The Spider's Banquet" INTERMISSION Ravel: "Valses nobles et sentimentales" Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Beethoven | ||
| 1959 | January 8-9 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Berg: "Wozzeck" - Three Fragments (Frances Yeend, soprano)
Debussy: "La Mer" INTERMISSION Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra +Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra | ||
| 1959 | January 13 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Haydn: Symphony no 90
Debussy: "La Mer"
INTERMISSION Berg: "Wozzeck" - Three Fragments (Frances Yeend, soprano) +Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass | ||
| 1959 | January 15-16 |
Fernando Previtali |
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Fernando Previtali
Fernando Previtali's Chicago Symphony first performances Rossini: "L'Italiana in'Algeri" Overture Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 ("Scotch") INTERMISSION +Busoni: "Turandot" Suite - Excerpts Ravel: "Mother Goose" Suite Verdi: "I Vespri Siciliani" Overture | ||
| 1959 | January 22-23 |
Fernando Previtali |
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+Sammartini: Symphony no 3
Brahms: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Casella: "La Giara" - Suite Martucci: Notturno, from "Piccolo Pezzi" Verdi: "La forza del destino" Overture | ||
| 1959 | January 27 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Mendelssohn: "The Fair Melusina" Overture
+Gretry: "Zemire et Azor" Suite Haydn: Symphony no 99 INTERMISSION Franck: Symphony in D Minor | ||
| 1959 | January 29-30 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Mendelssohn: "The Fair Melusina" Overture
Gretry: "Zemire et Azor" Suite Haydn: Symphony no 99 INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 5 Liszt: Symphonic Poem no 4, "Orpheus" Sibelius: Alla Marcia, from "Karelia" Suite | ||
| 1959 | January 31 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
Suppe: "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna" Overture
Berlioz: "Damnation of Faust" - Dance of the Sylphs Saint-Saens: Omphale's Spinning Wheel Delius: Sleigh Ride Massenet: "La Vierge" - "Last Sleep of the Virgin" Massenet: Waltz of the Fairy Mozart: March, in D, K. 249 INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 3 Sibelius: Alla Marcia, from "Karelia" Suite Vidal: Gavotte Chabrier: España | ||
| 1959 | February 5-6 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Handel-Beecham: "The Faithful Shepherd" Suite
Bizet: Symphony in C INTERMISSION Berlioz: "King Lear" Overture Delius: "Walk to the Paradise Garden," from "A Village Romeo and Juliet" Debussy: Cortege and Air de Danse, from "L'Enfant prodigue" Chabrier: "Marche joyeuse" | ||
| 1959 | February 10 |
Walter Hendl |
Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 3 (Gary Graffman) INTERMISSION +Creston: Symphony no 2 Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" Suite no 2 Jascha Heifetz, composer Miklós Rózsa and Walter Hendl picture at right | ||
| 1959 | February 12-13 |
Walter Hendl |
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Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 3 (Gary Graffman) INTERMISSION - +Hindemith: "Sinfonia Serena" Respighi: "Roman Festivals" | ||
| 1959 | February 16 |
Walter Hendl |
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Hendl - Chicago Symphony Televised Concert WGN Chicago
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust: Hungarian March Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Act 2: "Voi che sapete" - Risë Stevens Rimsky-Korsakov: "Flight of the Bumblebee" Debussy: "Air de Lia" from cantata "L'Enfant prodigue" - Risë Stevens Saint-Saëns: "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" - Risë Stevens Albeniz: Iberia Book 2: Trian | ||
| 1959 | February 19-20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Glinka: "Russian and Ludmila" Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Byron Janis) INTERMISSION Bartok: Suite no 1 for Orchestra | ||
| 1959 | February 24 | Fritz Reiner |
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Kabalevsky: "Colas Breugnon" Overture
Liszt: "Totentanz" (Byron Janis, piano) INTERMISSION Bartok: Suite no 1 for Orchestra | ||
| 1959 | February 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
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-Kabalevsky: "Colas Breugnon" Overture
Moussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" Mozart: Symphony no 40 INTERMISSION Lalo: Symphonie espagnole (Henryk Szeryng, violin) (Walter Hendl conducted the Lalo only) | ||
| 1959 | March 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
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Ravel: "La Valse"
+Chausson: "Poeme de 11 amour et de la mer" - Rosalind. Elias, mezzo-soprano INTERMISSION +Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Rosalind Elias mezzo-soprano, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis director | ||
| 1959 | March 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky"
Rosalind Elias mezzo-soprano, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis director INTERMISSION Chausson: "Poeme de 1'amour et de la mer" - Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano Tchaikovsky: "Marche miniature," from Suite no 1 Tchaikovsky: "Marche slave" | ||
| 1959 | March 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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Haydn: Symphony no 101 ("Clock")
INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 3 | ||
| 1959 | March 19-20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 2 (Andre Tchaikowsky) INTERMISSION Shostakovich: Symphony no 6 | ||
| 1959 | March 24 |
Walter Hendl |
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Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 2 (Andre Tchaikowsky) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Excerpts Principal flutist Donald Peck recounted: " ... If Reiner liked a soloist ... the collaboration was a happy one ... [but in the Mozart concerto] ... during the middle of the recording session Tchaikowsky said, 'You know, Dr. Reiner, I've never played this concerto before.' ... Reiner said, 'WHAT? You've never played this, and you DARE to come here and record this with me and my orchestra?' After that, Tchaikowsky couldn't do anything right ... " 6 | ||
| 1959 | March 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
+Bartok: Viola Concerto (Milton Preves) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
| 1959 | March 28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Thomas: "Raymond" Overture
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Francesca Bernasconi) Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - excerpts | ||
| 1959 | April 2-3 | Fritz Reiner |
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Schumann: "Genoveva" Overture
+Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
| 1959 | April 4 | Fritz Reiner |
| Vivaldi: Concerto fot Piccolo, in A Minor (Walfrid Kujala)
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto (Adolph Herseth) McBride: Swing Stuff (Clark Brody, clarinet) Debussy: Danses sacree et profane (Edward Druzinsky, harp) Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Victor Aitay) | ||
| 1959 | April 9-10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Fidelio" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 100 ("Military") INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Antonio Janigro cello, Milton Preves viola, John Weicher violin) | ||
| 1959 | April 14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Schumann: "Genoveva" Overture
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances INTERMISSION Haydn: Symphony no 100 ("Military") Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
| 1959 | April 16-17 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" - Prelude to Act I
Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman" - Aria, "Engulfed in Ocean's Deepest Wave" (George London, bass-baritone) Wagner: "Die Meistersinger" Act III - Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices, and Procession of the Meistersingers INTERMISSION Wagner: "Die Walküre" - Ride of the Valkyries, Wotan's Farewell, and Magic-Fire Scene (George London, bass-baritone) Wagner: "Die Götterdämmerung" - Dawn, and Siegfried's Death Music | ||
| 1959 | April 23-24 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Handel: "Judas Maccabaeus"
INTERMISSION was after Part I Maria Stader, soprano; Russell Oberlin, countertenor; John McCollum, tenor; Kenneth Smith, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director; First Unitarian Church Children's Choir, Christopher Moore, director; Gavin Williamson, harpsichord; Irwin Fischer, organ | ||
| 1959 | April 30 - May 1 | Fritz Reiner |
Beethoven: "Coriolan" Overture Beethoven: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
| 1959 | October 15-16 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Berlioz: Dramatic Symphony, "Romeo and Juliet" - Complete (reference
as being a Chicago Symphony premiere is due to the "Complete" claim)
INTERMISSION was after the "Queen Mab" Scherzo Florence Kopleff, contralto; Charles Bressler, tenor; Kenneth Smith, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director | ||
| 1959 | October 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Stravinsky: "Mavra" (Opera buffa in one act after Pushkin)
Adele Addison, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano;
Florence Kopleff, contralto; Charles Bressler, tenor;
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director
INTERMISSION Respighi: "Fountains of Rome" Respighi: "Pines of Rome" | ||
| 1959 | October 27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Stravinsky: "Mavra" (Opera buffa in one act after Pushkin)
Adele Addison, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano;
Florence Kopleff, contralto; Charles Bressler, tenor;
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director
INTERMISSION Respighi: "Fountains of Rome" Richard Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra" | ||
| 1959 | October 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Brahms: "Double" Concerto (Sidney Harth, violin; Frank Miller, cello) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra" | ||
| 1959 | November 5-6 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Chou Wen-Chung: "Landscapes"
Bloch: "Cortege funebre," from Three Jewish Poems INTERMISSION Mahler: "Das Lied von der Erde" Maureen Forrester, contralto; Richard Lewis, tenor | ||
| 1959 | November 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Brahms: "Double" Concerto (Sidney Harth, violin; Frank Miller, cello) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1959 | November 12-13 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Bach-Stravinsky: Chorale Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her"
+Rorem: "Design for Orchestra" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
| 1959 | November 19-20 |
Walter Hendl |
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Copland: "Appalachian Spring" - Suite
Elgar: "Enigma" Variations INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Eugene Istomin) | ||
| 1959 | November 24 |
Walter Hendl |
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Reznidek: "Donna Diana" Overture
+Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra Elgar: "Enigma" Variations INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Eugene Istomin) | ||
| 1959 | November 26-27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mendelssohn: "Calm Sea and Prosperous. Voyage" Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 ("Italian") INTERMISSION Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream": Overture, Scherzo, "Ye Spotted Snakes" (Song and Chorus), Intermezzo, Nocturne, Wedding March, Finale Women's Chorus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Brenda Forbes, speaker; Marion Vincent and Geraldine Glover, sopranos | ||
| 1959 | December 3-4 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Brahms-Thomson: Eight Chorale Preludes, opus 122
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 1 (Geza Anda) INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 4 | ||
| 1959 | December 8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "Don Giovanni" Overture
Brahms-Thomson: Eight Chorale Preludes, opus 122 Schumann: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (Leonard Pennario) | ||
| 1959 | December 10-11 | Fritz Reiner |
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+Stravinsky: "Agon"
Kodaly: "Peacock" Variations INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (Leonard Pennario) | ||
| 1959 | December 17-18 | Fritz Reiner |
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Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" - Excerpts
INTERMISSION +Richard Strauss: Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon with String Orchestra and Harp (Clark Brody, clarinet; Leonard Sharrow, bassoon) Wagner: "Tannhäuser" Overture | ||
| 1959 | December 22 |
Walter Hendl |
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Schubert: "Rosamunde" Overture
+Martinu: Symphony no 6 ("Fantasies symphoniques") INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") | ||
| 1959 | December 24, 26 |
Walter Hendl |
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+William Schuman: Symphony (no 5) for Strings
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 24 (Walter Hendl cond. from piano) INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 3 ("Rhenish") | ||
| 1959 | December 31 - January 1 |
Alfred Wallenstein |
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Alfred Wallenstein
+Mozart: Symphony no 31 ("Paris") yet another hard-to-believe Chicago Symphony concert premiere as claimed in the programme. Beethoven: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" - Suite^ no 2 Johann Strauss, Jr.: "Emperor" Waltz | ||
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1960 | January 7-8 |
Igor Markevitch |
| (Chicago Symphony Debut)
Handel: Concerto Grosso in D, opus 6, no 5 (Gavin Williamson, harpsichord)
+Schubert: Symphony no 3 +Britten:. Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell INTERMISSION - Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
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1960 | January 12 |
Igor Markevitch |
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Handel: Concerto Grosso in D, opus 6, no 5 (Gavin Williamson harpsichord)
Schubert: Symphony no 3 Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell INTERMISSION Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
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1960 | January 14-15 |
Igor Markevitch |
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Sibelius: "En Saga"
Falla: Three Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat" INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 1 ("Titan") | ||
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1960 | January 21-22 |
Igor Markevitch |
+Messiaen: "Hymn" for Large Orchestra +Satie: "Parade" ballet in one act (1917) Dukas: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" INTERMISSION Berlioz: "Symphonie fantastique" | ||
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1960 | January 26 |
Walter Hendl |
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Rossini: "La Cenerentola" Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Joseph Fuchs) INTERMISSION Sibelius: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1960 | January 28-29 | Fritz Reiner |
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Richard Strauss: "Don Juan"
Haydn: Symphony no 88 INTERMISSION Brahms: Violin Concerto (Joseph Fuchs) | ||
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1960 | February 4-5 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherezade"
INTERMISSION ' Liszt: Piano Concerto no 1 (Byron Janis) Berlioz: "La Damnation de Faust" - Dance of the Will-o'-the-Wisps, Dance of the Sylphs, and "Rakoczy" March | ||
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1960 | February 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished")
Liszt: Piano Concerto no 2 (Byron Janis) INTERMISSION Kodaly: "Peacock" Variations | ||
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1960 | February 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
| (Walter Hendl conducted on 12 February)
Debussy: "La Mer" Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 1 (Henryk Szeryng) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished") | ||
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1960 | February 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Klavier Concerto no 1 (Rosalyn Tureck, piano)
Beethoven: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Bartok: "The Miraculous Mandarin" - Suite | ||
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1960 | February 23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture
Brahms: "Haydn" Variations Bartok: "The Miraculous Mandarin" - Suite INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 2 (Rosalyn Tureck) | ||
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1960 | February 25-26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture
Richard Strauss: "Dreaming by the Fireside," from "Intermezzo" Stravinsky: Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss" INTERMISSION +Bartok: Piano Concerto no 1 (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
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1960 | March 3-4 |
Sir John Barbirolli |
+Barbirolli (Barbirolli arrangement of music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book): "Elizabethan Suite" +Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1960 | March 8 |
Sir John Barbirolli |
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Barbirolli (Barbirolli arrangement of music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book):
"Elizabethan Suite"
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1960 | March 10-11 |
Sir John Barbirolli |
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Mozart: Symphony no 34
INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 9 | ||
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1960 | March 17-18 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Mendelssohn: "Fingal's Cave" Overture
+Delius: "On the River," from "Florida" Suite +Handel-Beecham: "Love in Bath" Suite INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") | ||
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1960 | March 19 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Berlioz: "Corsair" Overture
Delibes: "Le roi s'amuse" - ballet music Gounod: "Faust" ballet music Handel-Beecham: Amaryllis Suite +Delius: Intermezzo and Serenade, from "Hassan" Berlioz: "Les Troyens" - Trojan March Saint-Saens: Dance of the Priestesses and Bacchanale, from "Samson and Delilah" | ||
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1960 | March 22 |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
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Haydn: Symphony no 102
Mozart: Symphony no 38 ("Prague") INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1960 | March 24-25 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Prelude to Act I'of "Lohengrin"
+Donato: Sinfonietta no 2 Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante (Sidney Harth violin, Frank Miller cello, Ray Still oboe, Leonard Sharrow bassoon) INTERMISSION Satie-Debussy: Two "Gymnopedies" Ravel: "La Valse" | ||
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1960 | March 31 - April 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Schubert: Symphony no 5
Beethoven: Romance in F (Isaac Stern, violin) Mozart: Violin Concerto no 3 (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Johann Strauss, Jr. : "Wiener Blut" Johann Strauss, Jr. : "Roses from the South" Johann Strauss, Jr. : "Treasure” Waltz, from "The Gypsy Baron" | ||
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1960 | April 7-8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Richard Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration"
INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2 (Van Cliburn) | ||
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1960 | April 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Suppe - "Beautiful Galatea" Overture
Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante (Sidney Harth violin, Frank Miller cello, Ray Still oboe, Leonard Sharrow bassoon) Johann Strauss II: Waltz, "Artist's Life" Waltz, Johann Strauss II: "Roses from the South" Waltz, Johann Strauss II: "Vienna Life" waltz, Johann Strauss II: "Treasure Waltz," from "Gypsy Baron" Josef Strauss: Waltz, "Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust" | ||
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1960 | April 12 | Fritz Reiner |
Beethoven: Symphony no 1 Schumann: Piano Concerto (Van Cliburn) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration" | ||
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1960 | April 14-15 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Spell, from "Parsifal"
INTERMISSION Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto no 2 (Frank Miller) Dohnanyi: Suite for Orchestra | ||
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1960 | April 21-22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "A German Requiem"
PAUSE after Movement 3 Adele Addison soprano, William Warfield baritone, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis Director | ||
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1960 |
September 26 | Fritz Reiner |
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Reiner - Chicago Symphony televised concert - WGM Chicago
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture (Le carnaval romain overture) opus 9 Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (1839): Romeo Alone, Festival at the Capulets | ||
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1960 | October 13-14 |
Walter Hendl |
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Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger"
Schumann: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 | ||
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1960 | October 15 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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Fritz Reiner was to have conducted this concert and the recording
with Sviatoslav Richter which followed
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 Mozart: Symphony No. 40 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter) | ||
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1960 | October 20-21 |
Walter Hendl |
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Stravinsky: "Song of the Nightingale"
MacDowell: Piano Concerto no 2 (Van Cliburn) INTERMISSION ; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (Van Cliburn) Ravel: "Daphnis et Chloe" Suite no 2 | ||
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1960 | October 25 |
Antonio Votto |
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Antonio Votto Chicago Symphony Debut
Haydn: Symphony no 104 ("London") Mozart: Piano Concerto no 20 (Guiomar Novaes) INTERMISSION Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Mussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
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1960 | October 27-28 |
Antonio Votto |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 20 (Guiomar Novaes) INTERMISSION Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" Debussy: "La Mer" | ||
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1960 | November 3-4 |
Robert Shaw |
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Robert Shaw Chicago Symphony Debut
+Beethoven: "Missa Solemnis" - Complete (the claim of first Chicago Symphony performance is due to the "Complete" claim in the programme) Adele Addison, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano; Richard Lewis, tenor; Eberhard Waechter, baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director | ||
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1960 | November 8 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Handel: Concerto Grosso: in B-flat, Opus 3, no 1
Mozart: Symphony no 34 INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Der Buerger als Edelmann" - Suite Richard Strauss: "Aus Italien" - Finale | ||
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1960 | November 10-11 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Schumann: Symphony no 4
INTERMISSION Debussy: "Gigues" and "Rondes de printemps," from "Images" Roussel: Suite in F | ||
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1960 | November 17-18 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Schoenberg: "Accompaniment to a Cinema Scene"
+Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements INTERMISSION Haydn: Symphony no 102 Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 2 | ||
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1960 | November 22 |
Walter Hendl |
Respighi: "The Birds" +Hindemith: "Philharmonic" Concerto (Variations for Orchestra) INTERMISSION Mahler: "Songs of a Wayfarer" (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone) Falla: Three Dances from "The Three-Cornered Hat" | ||
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1960 | November 24-25 |
Walter Hendl |
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+Riegger: Symphony no 4
**Henze: Five Neopolitan Songs (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone) INTERMISSION Bach: Suite no 2 (Donald Peck, flute; Gavin Williamson, harpsichord) Hindemith: "Philharmonic" Concerto (Variations for Orchestra) | ||
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1960 | December 1-2 |
Paul Kletzki |
Paul Kletzki'a Chicago Symphony Debut Beethoven: "Egmont" Overture Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Leonid Kogan) INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 3 | ||
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1960 | December 8-9 |
Walter Hendl |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
+Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Antonio Janigro) | ||
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1960 | December 13 |
Walter Hendl |
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Brahms: "Tragic" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 2 (Malcolm Frager) INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") | ||
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1960 | December 15-16 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Fritz Reiner had suffered a major heart attack on 7 October 1960, and Stokowski on short notice agreed to conduct this concert scheduled for Reiner Smetana: "The Bartered Bride" Overture Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 1 - Malcolm Frager piano Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite - Janos Hosszu, cimbalom INTERMISSION Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in d minor, opus 47 (1937) | ||
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1960 | December 27 |
Pierre Monteux |
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Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")
Creston: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1960 | December 29-30 |
Pierre Monteux |
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Mozart: Symphony no 35 ("Haffner")
Creston: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1961 | January 5-6 |
Pierre Monteux |
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Cherubini: "Anacreon" Overture
Franck: Symphony in D Minor INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "Petrouchka" (Original Version) (Mary Sauer, piano) | ||
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1961 | January 12-13 |
Andre Cluytens |
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Andre Cluytens Chicago Symphony Debut in regular subscription series
Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Death and Transfiguration" Roussel: "Bacchus et Ariane" Suite no 2 | ||
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1961 | January 19-20 |
Andre Cluytens |
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Haydn: Symphony no 96 ("Miracle")
INTERMISSION Shostakovich: Symphony no 11 ("1905") | ||
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1961 | January 10 |
Andre Cluytens |
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Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica")
INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Juan" Debussy: "Iberia" | ||
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1961 | January 24 |
Andre Cluytens |
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Beethoven: Symphony no 4
INTERMISSION Milhaud: "La Creation du Monde" Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) | ||
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1961 | January 26-27 |
Andre Cluytens |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Milhaud: "La Creation du Monde" INTERMISSION Dvorak: Symphony no 9 ("From the New World") | ||
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1961 | January 28 |
Margaret Hillis |
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J.S. Bach: Motet, "Jesu, meine Freude"
Poulenc: Mass in G Mendelssohn: "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" Chicago Symphony Chorus, Ellen Stuart mezzo-soprano, Walter Carringer tenor | ||
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1961 | February 2-3 |
Walter Hendl |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 ("Scotch") INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Robert La Marchina cello, Milton Preves viola; Sidney Harth violin) | ||
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1961 | February 9-10 |
Walter Hendl |
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Schumann: "Manfred" Overture
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber INTERMISSION Brahms: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) | ||
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1961 | February 14 |
Eleazar de Carvalho |
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+Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony no 1
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 24 (Dimitri Bashkirov) INTERMISSION Falla: "El amor brujo" - Suite Albeniz-Arbos: "Evocation," "El Puerto," "Fete-Dieu a Seville" "Triana," from "Iberia" | ||
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1961 | February 16-17 |
Eleazar de Carvalho |
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Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony no 1
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 24 (Dimitri Bashkirov) INTERMISSION Sibelius: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1961 | February 23-24 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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+Richard Strauss: Interludes from "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (arrangement by Leinsdorf)
Bruch: Violin Concerto no 1 (Sidney Harth) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") | ||
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1961 | February 28 |
Walter Hendl |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 3 ("Scotch") INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Don Quixote" (Robert La Marchina cello, Milton Preves viola, Sidney Harth violin) | ||
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1961 | March 2-3 |
Walter Hendl |
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Bartok: Piano Concerto no 3 (Annie Fischer) INTERMISSION I Brahms: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1961 | March 9-10 |
William Steinberg |
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Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 ("Italian")
Brahms: "Haydn" Variations INTERMISSION Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" Wagner: "Tannhäuser" Overture | ||
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1961 | March 14 |
William Steinberg |
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Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical")
Brahms: "Haydn" Variations INTERMISSION Hindemith: Symphony, "Mathis der Maler" Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1961 | March 16-17 |
William Steinberg |
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Schubert: Symphony no 2
INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 8 | ||
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1961 | March 23-24 |
Walter Hendl |
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Walton: "Portsmouth Point" Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Jacob Lateiner) INTERMISSION Schoenberg: "Transfigured Night" Ravel: "La Valse" | ||
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1961 | March 28 |
Walter Hendl |
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Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Jacob Lateiner) INTERMISSION Barber: Essay for Orchestra (no 1) Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber | ||
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1961 | March 30-31 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: Symphony no 39
Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll" INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") | ||
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1961 | April 6-7 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La scala di seta" Overture
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 3 (Leonard Pennario) INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 5 | ||
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1961 | April 11 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "La scala di seta" Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto no 3 (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") | ||
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1961 | April 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "Les Petits Riens" Overture
Mozart: Symphony no 31 ("Paris") +Weiner: Pastorale, Fantasy and Fugue INTERMISSION Bartok: Violin Concerto no 2 (Isaac Stern) | ||
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1961 | April 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
Dvorak: Symphony no 8 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 ("Emperor") (Eugene Istomin) | ||
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1961 | April 27-28 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: Symphony no 1
INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 9 Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Florence Kopleff, contralto; John McCollum, tenor; Donald Gramm, bass-baritone | ||
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1961 | October 12-13 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Bach-Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Brahms: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION +Tcherepnin: "Georgiana" Suite Rimsky-Korsakov: "Capriccio Espagnol" | ||
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1961 | October 19-20 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger"
+Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante (Janos Starker, cello) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 8 Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1961 | October 21 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 6 ("Pathetique")
INTERMISSION Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet" - Excerpts: Montagues and Capulets; +Juliet, the Young Maiden; Masks; +Romeo and Juliet before Parting Death of Tybalt Wagner: Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" | ||
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1961 | October 26-27 |
Andre Cluytens |
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+Honegger: Symphony no 3 ("Liturgique")
INTERMISSION Ravel: "La Valse" Berlioz: "Harold in Italy" (Milton Preves viola) | ||
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1961 | November 2-3 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 4 (Sidney Harth violin, Donald Peck
and Ralph Johnson flutes)
Mozart: Symphony no 40 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti) | ||
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1961 | November 4 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Mozart: Symphony no 40
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti) INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 8 ("Unfinished") | ||
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1961 | November 9-10 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Haydn: Symphony no 95
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 23 (Robert Casadesus) INTERMISSION Franck: Symphonic Variations (Robert Casadesus, piano) Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" | ||
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1961 | November 11 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Andrea Gabrielli (arranged by Giorgio Federico Ghedini):
"Aria della Battaglia," for Wind Instruments
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 23 (Robert Casadesus') INTERMISSION Falla: "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" (Robert Casadesus, piano) Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" | ||
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1961 | November 16-17 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Ravel "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
Roussel: Symphony no 3 INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (John Browning) | ||
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1961 | November 23-24 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures" of Prometheus" Overture
Dvorak: Violin Concerto (Sidney Harth) INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 6 | ||
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1961 | November 25 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
Dvorak: Violin Concerto (Sidney Harth) INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 6 | ||
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1961 | November 30 - December 1 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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A. Gabrieli-Ghedini: "Aria della Battaglia," for Wind Instruments
+Schubert: Symphony no 4 ("Tragic") again it is hard to believe that this performance of the Schubert 4th was the first Chicago Symphony performance as stated in the programme. INTERMISSION Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra +Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra | ||
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1961 | December 7-8 |
George Szell |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION . Brahms: Violin Concerto (Erica Morini) | ||
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1961 | December 9 |
George Szell |
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Beethoven; "Leonore" Overture no 3
Beethoven: Symphony no 6 ("Pastorale") INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 5 | ||
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1961 | December 14-15 |
George Szell |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
+Walton: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1961 | December 16 |
Margaret Hillis |
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J.S. Bach: Magnificat
Haydn: "Lord Nelson" Mass Maria Ferriero soprano (in Bach only), Teresa Orantes soprano (in Haydn only), Lili Chookasian mezzo-soprano, David Paige tenor, Sherill Milnes baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus | ||
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1961 | December 21-22 |
George Szell |
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Haydn: Symphony no 92 ("Oxford")
Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") INTERMISSION Mozart: Piano Concerto no 17 (Artur Rubinstein) | ||
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1961 | December 23 |
George Szell |
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Haydn: Symphony no 92 ("Oxford")
Schumann: Symphony no 1 ("Spring") INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Artur Rubinstein) | ||
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1962 | January 4-5 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Mussorgsky: "A Night on Bald Mountain" (Stokowski/Rimsky-Korsakov)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no 1 (Byron Janis) INTERMISSION Wagner: "Die Götterdämmerung" - Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Death Music, and Act III Finale | ||
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1962 | January 11-12 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 3 ("Eroica") INTERMISSION +Khrennikoff: "Much Ado About Nothing" - Incidental Music Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" | ||
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1962 | January 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Richard Strauss: "Sinfonia domestica"
INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5 ("Emperor") (Rudolf Serkin) | ||
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1962 | January 20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Mozart: "Don Giovanni" Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto no 21 (Rudolf Serkin) INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Sinfonia domestica" | ||
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1962 | January 25, 26, 27 | Fritz Reiner |
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Vivaldi: "The Four Seasons" (Sidney Harth violin, Mary Sauer harpsichord)
INTERMISSION Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 3 (Emil Gilels) | ||
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1962 | February 1-2 |
Walter Hendl |
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Mozart: Symphony no 29
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (Erick Friedman, violin) Stravinsky: Symphony in C INTERMISSION Paganini: Violin Concerto no 1 (Erick Friedman) | ||
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1962 | February 8-9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Richard Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra"
INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Dreaming by the Fireside," from "Intermezzo" Richard Strauss: "Dance of the Seven Veils," from "Salome" Richard Strauss: Final Scene, from "Salome" (Lisa Della Casa, soprano) | ||
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1962 | February 10 | Fritz Reiner |
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Richard Strauss: "Also sprach Zarathustra"
INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Dreaming by the Fireside," from "Intermezzo" Richard Strauss: "Dance of the Seven Veils," from "Salome" Richard Strauss: Final Scene, from "Salome" (Lisa Della Casa, soprano) | ||
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1962 | February 15-16 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Brahms: Symphony no 1
INTERMISSION +Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director) | ||
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1962 | February 22-23 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Haydn: Symphony no 104 ("London")
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 1 (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from "Tristan and Isolde" | ||
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1962 | February 24 |
Carlo Maria Giulini |
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Haydn: Symphony no 104 ("London")
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no 1 (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Britten: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from "Tristan and Isolde" | ||
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1962 | March 1-2 |
Jean Martinon |
| (Chicago Symphony Downtown Debut)
Mozart: Symphony No-! 51 ("Jupiter")
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION +Bartok: Rhapsody no 1 (Isaac Stern, violin) Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole" | ||
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1962 | March 3 |
Jean Martinon |
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Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Overture, Nocturne,
Scherzo and Wedding March
+Mozart: Violin Concerto no 1 (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Bartok: Rhapsody no 1 (Isaac Stern, violin) Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" Dukas: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | ||
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1962 | March 8-9 |
Jean Martinon |
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Rossini: "La scala di. seta" Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4" ("Italian") INTERMISSION Martin: Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and String Orchestra Debussy: "La Mer" | ||
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1962 | March 15-16 |
Jean Martinon |
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+Handel: "Berenice" Overture
Beethoven: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION +Martinon: Symphony no 2 ("Hymne a la Vie") Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) | ||
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1962 | March 22-23 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Le Corsaire" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Igor Oistrakh) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
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1962 | March 29-30 | Fritz Reiner |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Brahms: Symphony no 3 INTERMISSION Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no 2 (Van Cliburn) | ||
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1962 | April 5-6 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" - Excerpts:
Overture, Introduction, Adagio - Andante quasi Allegretto, Grave, Allegro con brio, Adagio - Allegro Molto, Allegro, Andantino - Adagio - Allegro, Finale: Allegretto INTERMISSION +Shostakovich: Symphony no 10 | ||
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1962 | April 7 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" - Excerpts:
Overture, Introduction, Adagio - Andante quasi Allegretto, Grave, Allegro con brio, Adagio - Allegro Molto, Allegro, Andantino - Adagio - Allegro, Finale: Allegretto INTERMISSION Shostakovich: Symphony no 10 | ||
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1962 | April 12-13 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
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+Mozart: Divertimento no 7
Schumann: Cello Concerto (Antonio Janigro) INTERMISSION Brahms-Schoenberg: Piano Quartet no 1 | ||
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1962 | April 19-20 |
Walter Hendl |
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Bach-Respighi: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
+Mennin: Symphony no 6 INTERMISSION Britten: "Peter Grimes" - Interludes: +Passacaglia, Dawn, Sunday Morning, +Moonlight, Storm | ||
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1962 | April 26-27 |
Fritz Reiner |
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+Handel: "Israel in Egypt"
INTERMISSION was after Part I: Exodus Phyllis Curtin soprano, Carol Smith contralto, Richard Lewis tenor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis director Fritz Reiner's last concert as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony | ||
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1962 | October 4-5 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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+Bach-Stokowski: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
(first Chicago performance of the Stokowski transcription; the Stock transcription was previously performed) Beethoven: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Shostakovich-Stokowski:Prelude in E-Flat Minor (from opus 34) Gliere: Symphony no 3 ("Ilya Mourometz") arranged and abridged by Stokowski | ||
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1962 | October 6 |
Leopold Stokowski |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso" Gliere: Symphony no 3 ("Ilya Mourometz") (arranged and abridged by Stokowski) | ||
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1962 | October 11-12 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Schubert: ’"'Symphony No8 "Unfinished")
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from "Tristan and Isolde" INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 1 | ||
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1962 | October 18-19 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Honegger: Symphony no 2, for Strings and Trumpet
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Wanda Wilkomirska) INTERMISSION Sibelius: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1962 | October 20 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Honegger: Symphony no 2, for Strings and Trumpet
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto no 4 (Robert Casadesus) INTERMISSION Ravel: Piano Concerto for Left Hand (Robert Casadesus) Debussy: "La Mer" | ||
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1962 | October 25-26 |
Eleazar de Carvalho |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 3
Beethoven: Symphony no 1 INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "Petrouchka" - Suite (1947) | ||
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1962 | November 1-2 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" Overture
Mozart: Serenade no 9 ("Posthorn") (Adolph Herseth, posthorn) INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (Byron Janis) Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1962 | November 3 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Mozart: "The Magic Flute" - Overture
Mozart: Serenade no 9 ("Posthorn") (Adolph Herseth posthorn) INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (Byron Janis) Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" | ||
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1962 | November 8-9 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Rossini: Sonata for Two Violins, Cello and Contrabass (Arr. Casella)
Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso, opus 3, no 11 Respighi: "The Birds" INTERMISSION Schumann: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1962 | November 15-16 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Handel: "Agrippina" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 97 INTERMISSION Khachaturian: Piano Concerto (Leonard Pennario) Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" | ||
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1962 | November 17 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Handel: "Agrippini" Overture
Haydn: Symphony no 97 INTERMISSION Khachaturian: Piano Concerto (Leonard Pennario) Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" | ||
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1962 | November 22-23 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Brahms Symphony No 3
INTERMISSION Stravinsky: "Le Sacre du printemps" (Original Version) | ||
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1962 | November 29-30 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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+Jean-Fery Rebel: 'The Elements" - Ballet Suite (1737)
+Debussy: "Jeux" INTERMISSION +Faure: Requiem Adele Addison, soprano; John Reardon, baritone; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis, director | ||
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1962 | December 6-7 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Schumann: Piano Concerto (Eugene Istomin)
INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 9 | ||
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1962 | December 8 |
Hans Rosbaud |
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Schumann: Piano Concerto (Eugene Istomin)
INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 9 | ||
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1962 | December 13-14 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Leonore" Overture no 3
Prokofiev: "Lieutenant Kije" Suite +Bartok: "Deux Images," opus 10 INTERMISSION Brahms: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1962 | December 20-21 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Roman Carnival" Overture
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto no 3 (Zino Francescatti) INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 4 | ||
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1962 | December 22 | Fritz Reiner |
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Beethoven: "Egmont"Overture
Beethbven: Symphony no 4 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Zino Francescatti) | ||
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1963 | January 3-4 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Brahms: "Haydn" Variations
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from an Exhibition" | ||
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1963 | January 5 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Weber: "Oberon" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Nathan Milstein) INTERMISSION Moussorgsky-Ravel: "Pictures from-an Exhibition" | ||
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1963 | January 10-11 |
Paul Kletzki |
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Mozart: Symphony no 39
INTERMISSION Mahler: Symphony no 1 (played in Memory of Hans Rosbaud) | ||
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1963 | January 17-18 |
Walter Hendl |
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Beethoven: "The Creatures of Prometheus" Overture
+Piston: Symphony no 7 Bloch: "Schelomo" (Frank Miller cello) INTERMISSION Dvorak: Symphony no 7 | ||
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1963 | January 24-25 |
Josef Krips |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical") Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) | ||
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1963 | January 26 |
Josef Krips |
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Weber: "Der Freischuetz" Overture
Brahms: Violin Concerto (Isaac Stern) INTERMISSION Prokofiev: Symphony no 1 ("Classical") Stravinsky: "The Firebird" - Suite (1919) | ||
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1963 | January 31 - February 1 |
Josef Krips |
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Mozart: Symphony no 4l (Jupiter)
Webern: Passacaglia, opus 1 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Symphony no 7 in A, opus 92 | ||
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1963 | February 7-8 |
Josef Krips |
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Walton: "Scapino," A Comedy Overture
Schuman: Symphony no 3 INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") | ||
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1963 | February 9 |
Josef Krips |
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Walton: "Scapino," A Comedy Overture
Schuman: Symphony no 3 INTERMISSION Schubert: Symphony no 9 ("Great") | ||
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1963 | February 14-15 |
Charles Munch |
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Faure: "Pelleas et Mdlisande" - Suite
Ravel: "Vaises nobles et sentimentales" and "La Valse" (played without pause) INTERMISSION Saint-Saens: Symphony no 3 | ||
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1963 | February 21-22 |
Charles Munch |
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Rameau: "Dardanus" Suite (Arr. D'Indy)
Debussy: "La Mer" INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (Hans Richter-Haaser) | ||
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1963 | February 23 |
Charles Munch |
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Rameau: "Dardanus" Suite (arranged by D'Indy)
Ravel: "Vaises nobles et sentimentales" and "La Valse" (played without pause) INTERMISSION Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 (Hans Richter-Haaser) | ||
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1963 | February 28 - March 1 | Fritz Reiner |
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Berlioz: "Beatrice and Benedict" Overture
+Berlioz: "Nuits d'ete" (first complete Chicago Symphony performance) (Leontyne Price, soprano) INTERMISSION Granados: Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Falla: "El amor brujo” (Leontyne Price, soprano) Albeniz-Arbos: "Triana," from "Iberia" | ||
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1963 | March 7-8 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 (John Weicher violin, Donald Peck flute,
Ray Still oboe, Adolph Herseth trumpet)
Haydn: Symphony no 101 ("Clock") INTERMISSION Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act I) Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act III) Wagner: Overture to "Tannhaeuser" | ||
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1963 | March 9 | Fritz Reiner |
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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 (John Weicher violin, Donald Peck flute,
Ray Still oboe, Adolph Herseth trumpet)
Haydn: Symphony no 101 ("Clock") INTERMISSION Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act I) Wagner: Prelude to "Lohengrin" (Act III) Wagner: Overture to "Tannhaeuser" | ||
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1963 | March 14-15 |
William Steinberg |
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+Lopatnikoff : "Festival" Overture
Mozart: Symphony no 36 ("Linz") INTERMISSION Tchdikovsky: "Manfred" Symphony | ||
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1963 | March 21-22 |
William Steinberg |
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Bach: Mass in B Minor
INTERMISSION was after Part II: Gloria Frances Yeend soprano, Shirley Verrett mezzo-soprano, Charles Bressler tenor, Ara Berberian bass; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis director | ||
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1963 | March 23 |
William Steinberg |
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Bach: Mass in B Minor
INTERMISSION was after Part II: Gloria Frances Yeend soprano, Shirley Verrett mezzo-soprano, Charles Bressler tenor, Ara Berberian bass; Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Margaret Hillis director | ||
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1963 | March 28-29 |
Paul Hindemith |
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Brahms: "Academic Festival" Overture
Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass INTERMISSION Bruckner: Symphony no 7 | ||
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1963 | April 4-5 |
Paul Hindemith |
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Schumann: "Manfred" Overture
Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven INTERMISSION Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll") +Hindemith: Sinfonietta in E (1950) | ||
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1963 | April 6 |
Paul Hindemith |
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Schumann: "Manfred" Overture
Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven INTERMISSION Beethoven: Grosse Fuge Hindemith: "Nobilissima Visione" | ||
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1963 | April 11-12 | Fritz Reiner |
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Wagner: Good Friday Spell, from "Parsifal"
Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp (Donald Peck flute, Edward Druzinsky harp) INTERMISSION ***Robert Russell Bennett: Symphony (dedicated to Fritz Reiner) Weber: "Euryanthe" Overture | ||
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1963 | April 18-19 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "Semiramide" Overture
Brahms: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (vasn Cliburn) | ||
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1963 | April 20 | Fritz Reiner |
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Rossini: "Semiramide" Overture
Brahms: Symphony no 2 INTERMISSION Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 4 (Van Cliburn) Fritz Reiner's final concert with the Chicago Symphony | ||
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1963 | April 25-26 |
Walter Hendl |
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Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 1 (Leon Fleisher) INTERMISSION Rachmaninoff: Symphony no 2 | ||
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1963 |
May 2-3 |
Walter Hendl |
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Fritz Reiner too ill to conduct.
Mendelssohn: "Fingal's Cave" Overture +Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (Clark Brody) another surprising first concert performance by the Chicago Symphony INTERMISSION Richard Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben" | ||
| Fritz Reiner was was scheduled to conduct the concluding concert of the Chicago Symphony 1962-1963 season on 3 May 1963, but was too ill to conduct; he died in New York City six months later on 15 November 1963. | ||
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1 Fritz Reiner Society, Stephen C. Hillyer, President. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Subscription Concerts 1953-1963. December, 1981.
2 page 16. Chicago Musical Patron is Visitor in Elyria. Elyria Chronicle Telegram. Elyria, Ohio. January 5, 1955.
6 Peck, Donald. "The Right Place, The Right Time." Indiana University Press. Bloomington, Indiana. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34914-9..
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