Archives
Since 1913, the RSO has brought uninterrupted exceptional classical music to Berks County. This online archive shows every classical concert given by the RSO. Several previously unknown concerts have been added to the First, Third, Seventh and Ninth Seasons.
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Harry Fahrbach
First Season [1913-1914]
This concert was repeated on March 1, 1914.
November 30, 1913
Overture from the Opera Ilka
Albert Franz Doppler
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Serenade for Strings No. 2, in F major, Op. 63
Robert Volkmann
Suite from “Nutcracker”, Op. 71a
Piotr Iliych Tchaikovsky
December 28, 1913
Overture from the Opera Oberon, König der Elfen
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Morgenlich leuchte” from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
“Walther’s Prize Song”
Richard Wagner
[arr., August Wilhelmj]
Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 12
Schnecker
Frank Anthony Nicolletta, harp
Scènes pittoresques,
Orchestral Suite No. 4
Jules Massenet
January 25, 1914
Overture from the opera “The Magic Flute”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vineta, Symphonic Poem
Hugo Kahn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
Meditation from the opera “Thais”
Jules Massenet
Siguard Jorsalfar Suite
Edvard Grieg
February 22, 1914
The Star-Spangled Banner
attr. John Stafford Smith
Ouverture de Phèdre,
from the incidental music after Racine
Jules Massenet
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “The Great”
Franz Schubert
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Huldigungsmarsch
Richard Wagner
[completed by Joachim Raff]
Second Season [1914-1915]
November 15, 1914
Ruy Blas, Concert Overture after Hugo, Op. 95
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang Aamdeus Mozart
Vineta, Symphonic Poem
Hugo Kaun
Ballet Music from the Opera Feramors
Anton Rubinstein
January 3, 1915
Coriolan, Concert Overture after Collin, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95,
“From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
Abend im Hockgebirge, for Oboe, Horn, and Strings
[arrangement of Lyric Piece, Op. 68, No. 4]
Edvard Grieg
Am der Wiege, for String Orchestra
[arrangement of Lyric Piece, Op. 68, No. 5]
Edvard Grieg
L’arlésienne, Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
[orchd., Ernest Guiraud]
February 7, 1915
Hamlet, Concert Overture after Shakespeare, Op. 37
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish” Robert Schumann
Ballet égyptien, Op. 12
Alexandre Luigini
“Huldigungsmarsch”
from Sigurd Jolsalfar Suite, Op. 56, No. 3
Edvard Grieg
April 11, 1915
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Edvard Grieg
Suite from the incidental music to Rosamunde,
Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
Overture from the Opera Oberon,
König der Elfen
Carl Maria von Weber
April 25, 1915
Hamlet, Concert Overture after Shakespeare, Op. 37
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
L’arlésienne, Suite No. 1
Georges Bizet
Ballet Music from the Opera Feramors
Anton Rubinstein
Third Season [1915-1916]
November 14, 1915
Overture from the Incidental Music to
Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
Jeux d’enfants,Suite, Op. 22
Georges Bizet
Dancesfrom the Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s Henry VIII
Sir Edward German
December 19, 1915
Overture from the opera “The Water Carrier”
Luigi Cherubini
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2
Edvard Grieg
Suite No. 1 from “La Source”
Leo Delibes
Symphony No. 100 in G major, HobI:100, “Military”
Franz Joseph Haydn
January 30, 1916
“Aus Aller Herren Lander” ( From Foreign Lands) Orchestral Suite, Op. 23
Moritz Moszkowski
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture from the opera “Der Freischutz”
Carl Maria von Weber
March 5, 1916
Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 “From the New World”
Antonin Dvořák
“Thy Name”
Mary Knight Wood
“Morgen Hymne”
Georg Henschel
Mrs. C. Raymond Van Reed, mezzo soprano
Edith Kraemer, pianist
“Mon couer s’ouvre à ta voix” from “Samson and Delilah”
Camille Saint-säens
Mrs. Van Reed and orchestra
Intermezzo No. 2 from the opera “Jewels of the Madonna”
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Suite No. 4, Scènes Pittoresque
Jules Massenet
Fourth Season [1916-1917]
November 12, 1916
Nachklänge von Ossian,Concert Overture, Op. 1
Niels Gade
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Ludwig von Beethoven
“Ahfors’è e lui quest’anima”from La Traviata
Gertrude E. Dunkleberger,soprano
Giuseppe Verdi
Four Norwegian Dances, Op. 35
Edvard Grieg
“The Star”
Rogers (Bernard?)
“I Came with a Song”
Frank La Forge
“Nightingale has a Lyreof Gold”
Whelplay
Gertrude E. Dunkleberger, soprano
Rene W. Irwin, accompanist
Entry March of the Boyars
Johan Halvorsen
December 31, 1916
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 44
Robert Volkmann
Concerto forViolin and Orchestra No. 1
in G Minor, Op. 26 Max Bruch
Jules Falk, violin
Suitefrom the Ballet Coppélia
Léo Delibes
“Indian Lament” from Sonatina in G MajorforViolin and Piano, Op. 100
Antonín Dvořák
“Vogelals Prophet” (“Bird as Prophet”) from Waldszenen,
Op. 82, No. 7
Robert Schumann
[arr., Leopold. Auer]
Scénesde la Csárda
Jules Falk, violin
Jenö Hubay
Jubel-Ouvertüre,Op. 59
Carl Maria von Weber
January 21, 1917
Overture from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “The Great”
Franz Schubert
“La Gitana”
Alphonse Hasselmans
“Priere”
Alphonse Hasselmans
Frank Anthony Nicolletta, Harp
Ausaller Herren Länder, Orchestral Suite, Op. 23 Moritz Moszkowski
February 18, 1917
“Grand Fantasie” from the Opera Faust
Charles Gounod
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 16
Edvard Grieg
Grace Hollenback, piano
“Morgenlich leuchte” from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,
“Walther’s Prize Song”
Richard Wagner (arr. Wilhelmj)
Dances from the Incidental Music for Neil Gwyn
Sir Edward German
Rhapsody in B Minor, Op. 79, No. 1
Johannes Brahms
Etude in C-sharp Minor, [Op. 10, No. 4 or Op. 25, No. 7]
Frédéric Chopin
“Liebestod” from the Opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner [trans., Franz Liszt]
Grace Hollenback, piano
Fifth Season[1917-1918]
October 28, 1917
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90,“Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Charmant Oiseau” from Le Perle du Brésil
Félicien David
Franceska Kasper Lawson, soprano
Gile J. Willson, flute obbligato
Devantla Madonne, Symphonic Poem
Jules Massenet
Praeludium for Small Orchestra
Armas Järnefelt
Danse macabre, Symphonic Poem, Op.40
Camille Saint-Saëns
“Spring”
Sir George Henschel
“My Lovely Cecilia”
Trad., Old English
“Swiss Echo Song” (“Schweizer Echolied”).
Karl Anton Florian Eckert
Franceska Kasper Lawson,soprano
Elsie Hansen,accompanist
Overture from the Opera LeRoi d’Ys
Edouard Lalo
December 9, 1917
Lyric Suite, Op. 54
Edvard Grieg
Caprice for Violin and Orchestra
Ernest Guiraud
Dr. Thaddeus Rich, violin
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op.55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
Air
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ronde des lutins
Antonio Bazzini
Dr. Thaddeus Rich,violin
Ouverture triomphale
Anton Rubinstein
January 20, 1918
As You Like It,
Concert Overture after Shakespeare
John Knowles Paine
Variations symphoniques
for Violincello and Orchestra, Op. 23
Léon Boëllmann
Victor de Gomez, violoncello
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 44
Robert Volkmann
“Adagio”
Francesco (Giuseppe) Pollini
“Gavotte”
Perrin
“L’Arlequin”
David Popper
Victor de Gomez, violoncello
John Tomney, accompanist
“Andante cantabile” from the First String Quartet,Op. 11
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[arr. for cello and strings]
Victor de Gomez, violoncello
Ballet Music from the Opera Feramors
Anton Rubinstein
March 3, 1918
Carnival, Concert Overture, Op. 41
Koehn
“O du mein holder Abendstern” from Tannhäuser,
“O Star of Eve”
Horatio Connell, baritone
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Huntsmen, Rest” {perhaps “Jägers Abendlied” D. 215}
Franz Schubert
“In Questa Tomba Oscura” WoO133
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Meet Me by Moonlight”
Trad., Old English
Horatio Connell, baritone
John Tomney, accompanist
“Dance bacchanale”
from the Opera Samsom et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns
Indian Dances
Charles Sanford Skilton
Sixth Season [1918-1919]
December 29, 1918
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 , “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, Op.26
Sara Lemer, violin
Max Bruch
Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46
Edvard Grieg
“Ave Maria” D. 839
Franz Schubert
[arr., August Wilhelmj]
Waltz in A major
Johannes Brahms
Lullaby
Max Reger
Tambourin Chinois
Fritz Kreisler
Sara Lemer, violin
Edith M. Kramer, accompanist
Ouverture de Phèdre,
from the incidental music after Racine
Jules Massenet
February 2, 1919
Overture from the Opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
Chester Wittell, piano
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish”
Robert Schumann
Fantasie-impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66
Frédéric Chopin
Prelude
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz
Frédéric Chopin
Chester Wittell, piano
Entry March of the Boyars
Johan Halvorsen
March 9, 1919
Hamlet. Concert Overture after Shakespeare, Op. 37
Niels Gade
“Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre—Toréador, en garde!”
(“Toreador Song”) from the opera Carmen
Georges Bizet
Otto Goritz, baritone
Ländliche Hochzeit, symphonic poem, Opus. 26,
“Rustic Wedding”
Karl Goldmark
“Si può?” from the opera Pagliacci, “Prologue”
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Der Wanderer, {D.493[?] or 649[?]}
Franz Schubert
Otto Goritz, baritone
Arthur Arndt, accompanist
“Intermezzo” from the opera
I gioielli della Madonna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
“Danse Circassienne”
From the Ballet “La Source”
Léo Delibes
Seventh Season [1919-1920]
November 9, 1919
Overture from the Incidental Music for Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
Camille Saint-säens
May Mukle, cello
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op.56, “Scottish
Felix Mendelssohn
Litany
Franz Schubert
Nautilus
Edward MacDowell, arr. Mukle
Elfen Dance
David Popper
Miss Mukle, cello
Russell F. Heilig, piano
Dances from The Incidental Music for Nell Gwyn
Sir Edward German
December 28, 1919
Overture from the Opera Le Roi d’Ys
Edouard Lalo
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
Camille Saint-Saëns
D. Hendrik Ezerman, piano
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Scherzo in E-flat Minor, Opus 4
Johannes Brahms
Berceuse in D-flat Major, Opus 57
Frédéric Chopin
{Hungarian [?]} Rhapsody No. 12
Franz Liszt
D. Hendrik Ezerman, piano
Slavonic March, Opus 31
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 25, 1920
Overture from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 31
Henri Vieuxtemps
Dr. Thaddeus Rich, violin
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sérénade espagnole
Cécile Chaminade
Waltz
Alexander Glazunov
[arr., Thaddeus Rich]
“Perpetual Motion”
Hubert Ries
Dr. Thaddeus Rich, violin
Russell F. Heilig, accompanist
L’arlésienne, Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
[orchestrated by Ernest Guiraud]
February 29, 1920
Overture from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise, Op. 26
Franz Karl Doppler
John Wummer, flute
“Celeste Aida” Scene and Romanza from the Opera Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Paul Althouse, tenor
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Antonin Dvořák
“The Blind Ploughman”
Clark
“Duna”
McGill
“Do Not Go My Love”
Richard Hageman
“The Supreme Adventure”
Ward/Stephens
Paul Althouse, tenor
Charles Baker, accompanist
Shepherd’s Hey
Percy Grainger
Eighth Season [1920-1921]
November 28, 1920
Overture from incidental music to Racine’s
play Athalie, Op. 74
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in G Minor, Opus 26
Max Bruch
Josef Stopak, violin
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67,“Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Song of India” (“Chanson Indoue”) from the Opera Sadko
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[arr., Fritz Kreisler]
Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Giuseppe Tartini
[arr., Fritz Kreisler]
“Orientale” from the suite Kaleidoscope, Op. 50, No. 9
César Cui
Scherzo-Tarentelle in G Minor, Op. 16
Henryk Wieniawski
Josef Stopak, violin
Rudolph Gruen, accompanist
Phaéton,symphonic poem, Op. 39
Camille Saint-Saëns
January 2, 1921
Overture from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“C’estdes contebandiers—Je dis que rien ne
m’épouvante” from Carmen,“Micaëla’s Aria”
Georges Bizet
Marie Sundelius, soprano
Ländliche Hochzeit, symphonic poem,
Op. 26, “Rustic Wedding”
Karl Goldmark
“Songs My Mother Taught Me”
from Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, No. 4
Antonín Dvořák
“Damon”
Strange
“The Bird”
Fiske
“Good Morning” Op. 21, No. 2
Edvard Grieg
“A Dream” Op. 48, No. 6Edvard Grieg
Marie Sundelius, soprano
Mary Well Capewell,accompanist
Carnival,Concert Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
February 6, 1921
Overture from the Opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5
in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ethel Newcomb, piano
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Frédéric Chopin
Études d’exécution transcendante d’après,
No. 3, “La Campanella”
Franz Liszt
An Artist’s Life, Concert Paraphrase
Johann Strauss, Jr.
[arr., Schuett]
Ethel Newcomb, piano
Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite, Op. 56
Edvard Grieg
March 13, 1921
Symphony No. 100 in G major,
Hob. I:100, “Military”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Concerto for ‘Cello and Orchestra No. 2, Op. 30
Victor Herbert
Hans Kronold, ‘cello
Sakuntala, concert overture, Op. 13
Karl Goldmark
Kol Nidrei
Max Bruch
{Ungarische?} Rhapsodie
David Popper
Chanson Neapolitain {?}
Cassela {Alfredo Casella [?]}
Hans Kronold, ‘cello
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F minor
Franz Liszt
Ninth Season [1921-1922]
December 4, 1921
Ouverture de Phèdre from the Incidental Music after Racine
Jules Massenet
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Thelma Given, violin
Symphony in 4 A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Aus Aller Herren Lander” (From Foreign Lands) Orchestral Suite, Op. 23
Moritz Moszkowski
January 22, 1922
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Un di all’ assurro sapzio”
from the Opera Andrea Chénier
Umberto Giordano
Nicola Zerola, tenor
Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55
Edvard Grieg
“Thank God for a Garden”
Del Riego
“Mother Mine, What Must She Know”
Nutile
“O Paradis” from the Opera L’africaine
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Nicola Zerola, tenor
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Ouverture triomphale, Op. 43
Anton Rubinstein
February 26, 1922
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759,“Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
Winifred Byrd, piano
Edvard Grieg
Danse macabre, symphonic poem, Op.40
Camille Saint-Saëns
“Vogel als Prophet” (“Bird as Prophet”)
from Waldszenen, Op. 82, No. 7
Robert Schumann
Etude heroique
Theodor Leschetizsky
“Improvisation”
from Twelve Virtuoso Studies,Op. 46, No. 4
Edward MacDowell
Étuded’exécution transcendante d’après,No. 3,
“La Campanella”
Franz Liszt
Winifred Byrd, piano
Carnival, Concert Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
March 26, 1922
Symphony in D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
“C’est des contebandiers—Je dis que rien ne
m’épouvante” from Carmen, “Micaëla’s Aria”
Georges Bizet
Mary Mellish, soprano
Nutcracker Suite, Opus 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Serenade”
Richard Strauss
“A May Day Carol”
Deems Taylor
“Pierrot”
Watts
Mary Mellish, soprano
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Sakuntala, Concert Overture, Op. 13
Karl Goldmark
Tenth Season [1922-1923]
December 3, 1922
Hamlet,Concert Overture after Shakespeare, Op. 37
Neils Gade
Totentanz forPiano and Orchestra, Danse macabre
Franz Liszt
Willy Richter, piano
Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 44
Robert Volkmann
Sonetto104 del Petrarca
Franz Liszt
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53
WillyRichter, piano
Frédéric Chopin
“Fête bohème” from Scènespittoresques
Jules Massenet
January 21, 1923
Coriolan,Concert Overture after Collins, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Salome’s Aria” (“Charme desjours passes” [?])
from the Opera Hérodiade
Jules Massenet
Amy J. Brumbach, soprano
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944,“The Great”
Franz Schubert
“Bird of the Wilderness”
Horsman
“Nachtlied” (“Der Mond kommtstill gegangen”)
Robert Franz
“Love Song”
Amy J. Brumbach, soprano
Flegier
PeerGynt Suite, No. 1, Op. 46
Edvard Grieg
February 25, 1923
Jubel-Ouvertüre,Op. 58
Carl Maria von Weber
Fantasia {Fantasietta}
Eleanor Josephine Nicolletta, harp
Théodore Dubois
Symphony No. 1, Op. 4
Johan Svendsen
“Recollections”
Reynaldo Hahn
[arr., Eleanor Nicolletta]
Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 12
EleanorJosephine Nicolletta, harp
Schuecher
“Minuet” and “Farandole” from L’arlésienne,Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
[orchd., Ernest Guiraud]
March 25, 1923
Overture from the Incidental Music
for Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
Ballade et polonaise, Op. 38
Florence Haenle, violin
Henri Vieuxtemps
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
From the Canebrake, Op. 5, No. 1
Samuel Gardner
“Romance” from Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22
Henryk Wieniawski
“Spanish Dance” Op. 26, No. 8
Pablo de Sarasate
Florence Haenle, violin
Russell Heilig, accompanist
“Air” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068,
“Air on a G String”
Johann S. Bach
Shepherd’s Hey
Percy Grainger
Walter Pfeiffer
Eleventh Season [1923-1924]
January 20, 1924
Overture from the Opera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
“O zitt’re nicht, mein lieber Sohn!”
from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Marie Ivogun, soprano
Symphony No. 3
in E-flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Alfin son tua—Spargi d’amaro pianto”
from Lucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
Marie Ivogun, soprano
American Fantasia
Victor Herbert
February 24, 1924
Overture from the opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 100
in G Major, Hob. I: 100, “Military”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Minor
Henri Vieuxtemps
Hans Nix, violin
Finlandia, tone poem, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius
Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2 in C-sharp Minor
Franz Liszt
March 30, 1924
Carnival Overture
Keehn
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra
(Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Tunes)
Franz Liszt
Russell Heilig, piano
Two Intermezzi from
the Opera I gioielli della Madonna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ballet Music from the Opera La Gioconda
Amilcare Ponchielli
Twelfth Season [1924-1925]
November 2, 1924
LeonoreOverture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Dich theure Halle grüss’ ichwieder”
from the Opera Tannhäuser,“Elizabeth’s Greeting”Richard Wagner
Marie Tiffany, soprano
Symphony No. 9
in E Minor, Op. 95, “from the New World”
Antonin Dvořák
“My Lovely Celia”
Monro
“Nightingale Lane”
John Barnett
“Heartsease”
Gena Branscombe
Marie Tiffany,soprano
Russell Heilig,accompanist
SlavonicMarch, Op. 31
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 14, 1924
Overture from the Opera Mignon
Ambroise Thomas
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2
in G Minor, Op. 22
Camille Saint-Saëns
Gertrude Sternbergh, piano
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem after Lamartine Franz Liszt
February 13, 1925
Sakuntala,Concert Overture, Op. 13
Karl Goldmark
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2
in D Minor, Op. 44
Max Bruch
Otto Wittich, violin
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90,“Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Ballet of the Sylphs” and“Rákóczy March”
from the Cantata La Damnation deFaust, Op. 24Hector Berlioz
March 29, 1925
Prelude from the Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
Johannes Brahms
Iris Trio
Willy Richter, piano
Hans Nix. violin
John Meyer, violoncello
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thirteenth Season [1925-1926]
November 8, 1925
LeCarnaval romain, concertoverture, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
“Ah fors’è lui quest’anime”
from the Opera La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Inga Julievna, soprano
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67,“Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“ILove Thee” Op. 5, No. 3
Edvard Grieg
“When I was Seventeen”
Old Swedish Folksong
“Norwegian Echo Song”
Waldemar Thrane
Inga Julievna,soprano
Capriccioespagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
December 20, 1925
Overture from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Violin Concerto No. 8
in A Minor, Op. 47, “in Form einer Gesangszene”Ludwig Spohr
Paul Meyer, violin
LändlicheHochzeit, Symphonic Poem, Op.26,
“Rustic Wedding”
Karl Goldmark
HejreKati, Op. 32
Jenö Hubay
Paul Meyer, violin
NutcrackerSuite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 7, 1926
Introduction to Act III from theOpera LohengrinRichard Wagner
“Lohengrin’s Narrative” fromthe Opera LohengrinRichard Wagner
Rudolph Laubenthal, tenor
“Walkürenritt” from the Opera Die Walküre,
“The Ride of the Valkyries”
Richard Wagner
“Magic Fire Music” from the OperaDie Walküre
Richard Wagner
“Morgenlich leuchtend” from DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg, “Walther’sPrize Song”
Richard Wagner
Rudolph Laubenthal, tenor
Overture from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
March 14, 1926
Overture from the Opera Le nozzi di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5
in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Elly Ney, piano
Danse macabre, symphonic poem, Op. 40
Camille Saint-Saëns
Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57
Frédéric Chopin
Bolero in C Major/A Major, Op. 19,
“Souvenir d’Andalousie”
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53, “Héroique” Frédéric Chopin
Elly Ney, piano
Overture solennelle “1812”, Op. 49,
“1812 Overture”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Fourteenth Season [1926-1927]
November 14,1926
Overture from the Opera Der fliegende Holländer Richard Wagner
“Pace, pace mioDio” from the Opera La forza del destino
Giuseppe Verdi
Phardie Wells, soprano
Symphony No. 2 in DMajor, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Rècitative etair de Lia” from the scène lyrique L’enfant prodigue
Claude Debussy
LePapillon
Félix Fourdrain
Phardie Wells,soprano
CapriccioItalien, Op. 45
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 12,1926
Carnaval in Paris
Johan Svendsen
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
Arthur Hartmann, violin
AlgerianSuite
Chester Wittell
Nocturne in C-sharpMinor, Op. 19, No. 1
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[arr., Arthur Hartmann]
Minuet
Franz Joseph Haydn
[arr., Arthur Hartmann]
“Flight of theBumblebee”
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[arr., Arthur Hartmann]
ArthurHartmann, violin
ChesterWittell, accompanist
Aufforderung zumTanze, Op. 65, “Invitation to the Dance”
Carl Maria von Weber
[orchesd., Felix Weingartner]
February 6, 1927
Overture from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 59 Klughart
John Meyer, cello
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “The Great”
Franz Schubert
“Cantabile,” Op. 14
Coltermann
“Minuetto,” Op. 33
Hugo Becker
“Träumerei” {Op. 15, No. 7 [?]}
Robert Schumann
Elfentanz, Op. 39
David Popper
John Meyer, cello
Willy Richter, accompanist
“Danse bacchanale” from the Opera Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns
March 6, 1927
Coriolan, Concert Overture after Collin, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3
in E-flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
Edvard Grieg
Gertrude Sternbergh, piano
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F Minor
Franz Liszt
Fifteenth Season [1927-1928]
November 13, 1927
Overture from theOpera The Bartered Bride
BedřichSmetana
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
Oscar Ziegler,piano
Symphony No. 3 in AMinor, Op. 53, “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Rhapsodie” Op.119, No. 4
Johannes Brahms
Étude deconcert No. 3 in D-flatMajor, “Un sospiro”
Franz Liszt
“Man Lebt NurEinmal” Valse-Caprice
Johann Strauss
[arr., Carl Tausig]
OscarZiegler, piano
CaucasianSketches
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
December 4, 1927
Prelude from theOpera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“Blick ich umherin diesem edlen Kreise” from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
“O du mein holderAbendstern” from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Carl Schlegel, tenor
“Entrance of theGods into Valhalla” from the Opera DasRheingold
Richard Wagner
“ForestMurmurs” from the Opera Siegfried
Richard Wagner
“Siegfried’sRhine Journey” from the Opera Götterdämmerung
Richard Wagner
“Vorspiel undLiebestod” from the Opera Tristanund Isolde
Richard Wagner
“Wahn! Wahn! ÜberallWahn!” from Die Meistersingervon Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Carl Schlegel,tenor
Overture from theOpera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
January 22, 1928
Overture from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Michal Press, violin
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 26, 1928
Overture to the Incidental Music from Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
“Die Allmacht” D. 852
Franz Schubert
“Du bist die Ruh” D. 776
Franz Schubert
Leonora Corona, soprano
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
“Casta Diva” from Norma
Vincenzo Bellini
Leonora Corona, soprano
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sixteenth Season [1928-1929]
November 18,1928
Overture from theIncidental Music for Goethe’s drama Egmont,Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Ozean duUngeheuer” from Oberon, Königder Elfen
Carl Maria von Weber
Gertrude Kappel, soprano
Variations on aTheme of Haydn, Op. 56a, “St. Anthony Variations”
Johannes Brahms
“DerLindenbaum” from Winterreise,D. 911, No. 5
Franz Schubert
“Doppelgänger”from Schwanengesang, D. 957, No. 13
Franz Schubert
“ImHerbst” Op. 17, No. 6
Robert Franz
Gertrude Kappel,soprano
Russell Heilig,accompanist
Symphony No. 6 in BMinor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 9, 1928
EinSommernachstraum, concertoverture after Shakespeare, Op. 21
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 7 in AMajor, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 22
Henryk Wieniawski
Socrate Barozzi, violin
AkademischeFestouvertüre, Op. 80, “Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Jaunary 20, 1929
Overture from theOpera Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Marion Rapp, piano
Symphony in DMinor, Op. 48
César Franck
February 10, 1929
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Good Friday Music” from the Opera Parsifal
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D Minor
Edouard Lalo
Willem Durieux, cello
Tod und Verklärung, Tone Poem for Large Orchestra, Op. 24,
“Death and Transfiguration”
Richard Strauss
Seventeenth Season [1929-1930]
November 10, 1929
Overture from the Opera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jacques Jolas, piano
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53
Frédéric Chopin
Jacques Jolas, piano
Donau-Walzer, Op. 314, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
December 1, 1929
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish
Robert Schumann
“My Heart is Weary” from the Opera Nadezhda
Arthur Thomas
Gertrude Forster, contralto
L’arlésienne, Suite No. 1
Georges Bizet
“Oh That It Were So”
Frank Bridge
“Songs That My Mother Taught Me” from Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, No. 4
Antonín Dvořák
“Blackbird Song”
Cyril Scott
Gertrude Forster, contralto
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 2, 1930
Overture from the Opera Fidelio, Op. 72c
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Josef Stopak, violin
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
España, Symphonic Rhapsody
Emmanuel Chabrier
February 23, 1930
Die Hebriden, Concert Overture, Op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Depuis le Jour” from the Opera Louise
Gustave Charpentier
Marie Sundelius, soprano
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Deux danses, for Harp and Strings, “Danse sacrée” and “Danse profane”
Claude Debussy
“Sleep that Flits on Baby’s Eyes”
John Alden Carpenter
“Ständchen” Op. 17, No. 2
Richard Strauss
“Life and Death”
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Marie Sundelius, soprano
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Overture from the Opera
Tannhäuser
Eighteenth Season [1930-1931]
November 23, 1930
Leonore Overture, No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations symphoniques for Piano and Orchestra
César Franck
John Erskine, piano
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 55, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Etude in A-flat Major
Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1
Frédéric Chopin
John Erskine, piano
“Venusberg Music” from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
December 14, 1930
Overture from the Opera Gwendoline
Emmanuel Chabrier
“Ah, Rendimi” from the Opera Mitrane
{Luigi [?]} Rossi
Celia Branz, contralto
Suite No. 2 for Orchestra, Op. 48, Indian Suite
Edward MacDowell
“Von ewiger Liebe” Op. 43, No. 1
Johannes Brahms
“Mausfallen Sprüchlein” from Sechs Lieder für eine Frauen Stimme
Hugo Wolf
“Night” Brown
“Clorinda”
Morgan
Celia Branz, contralto
Vltava, Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “The Moldou”
Bedřich Smetana
January 25, 1931
Ruy Blas, Concert Overture after Hugo, Op. 95
Felix Mendelssohn
Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Hans Kindler, cello
Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Prelude”
Frédéric Chopin
“Habanera”
Maurice Ravel
{arrd., “Habenera” from Rapsodie espagnole [?]}
“Flight of the Bumblebee” from the Opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Tarantella”
Alfredo Carlo Piatti
Hans Kindler, cello
Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald, Op. 325, “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
February 22, 1931
American Fantasia {Pan-Americana?}
Victor Herbert
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
in G Minor, Op. 26
Max Bruch
Yelly D’Aranyi, violin
A Night on Bare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
[arr. and orchesd., Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]
“Arietta”
Giovanni Pergolesi
[arr., Adila Fachiri]
“Passepied”
Léo Delibes
[arr., {Louis [?]} Gruenberg]
“Hungarian Dance”
Johannes Brahms
[arr., Joseph Joachim]
“Spanish Dance”
Pablo de Sarasate
Yelly D’Aranyi, violin
Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Hans Kindler
Nineteenth Season [1931-1932]
January 10, 1932
Overture from the Opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Three Dutch Tunes of the Sixteenth Century
Arranged Hans Kindler
Overture from the Opera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
February 7, 1932
Overture from the Opera Le nozzi di Figaro, K. 492
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “from the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
“Chanson Russe” [?]
Modest Mussorgsky
Valse triste, Op. 44
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia, Tone Poem, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius
April 3, 1932
Overture from the Incidental Music for Goethe’s drama Egmont, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Prelude from the Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Twentieth Season [1932-1933]
December 4, 1932
Concerto for Organin G Major [First Mvmt.], BWV 592
Johann Sebastian Bach
{arr., [?]}
Symphony No. 8 in BMinor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
L’arlésienne,SuiteNo. 1
Georges Bizet
Symphonieespagnole, Op. 21
Edouard Lalo
George Ockner, violin
BoléroMaurice Ravel
January 15, 1933
Overture from theOpera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
“Largo alfactotum” from the Opera IlBarbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini
Herman Miller, baritone
Symphony No. 1 in CMajor, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
“War”
{Bernard [?]} Rogers
“Romance” fromthe Opera Ariodant
Etienne-Nicolas Mehul
“Nonebut the Lonely Heart”Op. 6, No. 6, “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
HermanMiller, baritone
RalphFisher, accompanist
“Entrance of theLittle Fauns”
Gabriel Pierné
“AndanteCantabile” from the String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Polonaise”from the Opera Eugene Onegin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 12, 1933
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Orchestral Interlude from Act 1of the Opera
Das Rheingold, “Träume”
Richard Wagner
“Weiche, Wotan, Weiche” from the Opera Das Rheingold, “Erda’s Warning”
Richard Wagner
Rose Bampton, soprano
Prelude to Act III of the Opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
“Entrance of the Gods into Vahalla” from the Opera Das Rheingold
Richard Wagner
“Meine Liebe ist grün” Op. 63, No. 5
Johannes Brahms
“Die Mainacht” Op. 43, No. 2
Johannes Brahms
“Von ewiger Liebe” Op. 43, No. 1
Johannes Brahms
Rose Bampton, soprano
Willy Richter, accompanist
Overture from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
March 26, 1933
Overture and Ballet Music from Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
“Marche Militaire”
Franz Schubert
{arr. from piano duet [?]}
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Gertrude Sternbergh, piano
Les Préludes, after Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques
Franz Liszt
Twenty-first Season [1933-1934]
January 14, 1934
Overture from the Opera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Alice de Cevee, piano
Symphony in D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
February 18, 1934
Cassation No. 1 in G Major, K. 63
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Gloria Perkins, violin
“Dream Pantomime” from the Opera Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
“Moment Musicaux”
Franz Schubert
{arr., of piano work [?]}
“Polonaise” from the Suite from the Opera Christmas Eve
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
March 18, 1934
Prelude from the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
150th Psalm
César Franck
“Scene and Prayer” from the Opera Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
Reading Madrigal Society
Francesca di Rimini, Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Kyrie eleison
{Franz Xaver?} Richter
“O, Praise Ye God” [?]
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Planting Flax”
Alexander Gretchaninov
Reading Madrigal Society
Wein, Weib, Gesang, Op. 333, “Wine, Women and Song”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
April 22, 1934
Akademische Festouvertüre, Op. 80, “Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
“Feldeinsamkeit” Op. 86, No. 2
Johannes Brahms
“Minnelied” Op. 71, No. 5
Johannes Brahms
“Sonntag” Op. 47, No. 3
Johannes Brahms
William E. Maier, baritone
Erma Kramer, accompanist
Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D Major
Johannes Brahms
[orchesd., Albert Parlow]
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor
Johannes Brahms
[orchesd., Albert Parlow]
Seigfried Idyll
Richard Wagner
“Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind!” from the Opera Die Walküre, “Wotan’s Farewell”
Richard Wagner
William E. Maier, baritone
“Magic Fire Music” from the Opera Die Walküre
Richard Wagner
Overture from the Opera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
Twenty-second Season [1934-1935]
December 9, 1934
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
Elizabeth Zug, piano
“Hungarian March” from the Cantata La Damnation de Faust, “Rákóczy March”
Hector Berlioz
January 20, 1935
Coriolan, Concert Overture after Collin, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Stephen Hero, violin
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Finlandia, Tone Poem, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius
March 3, 1935
Overture from the Opera Iphigénie en Aulide
Christoph W. Gluck
“Sommi Dei” from the Opera Radamisto
George Frideric Handel
“Bel Piacere è godere fido amor!” from the Opera Agrippina
George Frideric Handel
Irra Petina, mezzo-soprano
Sinfonia No. 3 in C Major, Wq 182/3, “Hamburg Sinfonia No. 3”
Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach
“Intermezzo” from the Opera Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorsky
“L’amour est un oixeau rebelle” from the Opera Carmen, “Habanera”
Georges Bizet
Irra Petina, mezzo-soprano
I pini di Roma, Symphonic Poem in Four Movements
Ottorino Respighi
April 7, 1935
Carnival, Concert Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
Concerto for Contrabass and Orchestra
Domenico Dragonetti
Anton Torello, contrabass
“Vltava,” Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, ”The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“Grave” John Eccles
“Gavotte”
Lorenzitti {Paolo Lorenzani [?]}
“Polka-caprice”
Anton Torello
Anton Torello, contrabass
Russell Heilig, accompanist
Overture solennelle “1812,” Op. 49, “1812 Overture”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Twenty-third Season [1935-1936]
November 24,1935
Overture from theIncidental Music for Goethe’s drama Egmont,Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in CMinor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 2 in D Minor
Henryk Wieniawski
Gloria Perkins, violin
Frühlingsstimmen,
Johann Strauss, Jr.
January 26, 1936
Overture from theOpera Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
[arr., Hans Kindler]
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rosalyn Tureck, piano
“Intermezzi”from the Opera Igioielli della Madonna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
“Triana” from Iberia
Isaac Albéniz
Etude in A-flatMajor, Op. posth.
Frédéric Chopin
Études d’exécutiontranscenante d’aprèsPaganiniNo. 3,
”La campanella”
Franz Liszt
[arr., Ferruccio Busoni]
RosalynTureck, piano
“PolovtsianDances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
February 23, 1936
Overture from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
“Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn!” from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Wahnmonologue”
Richard Wagner
Friedrich Schorr, baritone
“Dance of the Apprentices” from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
“Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla” from the Opera Das Rheingold
Richard Wagner
“Magic Fire Music” from the Opera Die Walküre
Richard Wagner
“Ride of the Valkyries” from the Opera Die Walküre
Richard Wagner
March 29, 1936
Overture from the Opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Otto Nicolai
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
Carl Friedberg, piano
“Dance of the Comedians” from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
“Berceuse” and “Finale” from The Firebird Suite
Igor Stravinsky
PeerGynt SuiteNo. 1, Op. 46
Edvard Grieg
Twenty-fourth Season [1936-1937]
November 22, 1936
Carnival, Concert Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
“Ozean du Ungeheuer!” (“Ocean, thou Mighty Monster”)
from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Vera Covert, soprano
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
“Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” from the Opera Götterdämmerung
Richard Wagner
“Einsam in trüben Tagen” from the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
Vera Covert, soprano
Overture from the Opera Die fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
December 20, 1936
“Ouverture” from Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Fisher, flute
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Chester Wittell
Chester Wittell, piano
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D Minor
Johannes Brahms
[orchesd., Andreas Hallén]
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 7, 1937
Overture from the Opera Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Max Bruch
Iso Briselli, violin
Künstlerleben, Waltz, Op. 316, “Artist’s Life”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Twenty-fifth Season [1937-1938]
November 7, 1937
Overture form theOpera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Jose Iturbi,piano
“Vltava,”Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
HungarianFantasia for Piano andOrchestra, (Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes)
Franz Liszt
Jose Iturbi,piano
“RitualFire Dance” from Elamor brujo
Jose Iturbi,piano
Waltzesfrom DerRosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
January 16, 1938
Overture from theOpera Il segreto di Susanna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
“Winterstürmewichen dem Wonnemond” from the Opera DieWalküre, “Songof Spring”
Richard Wagner
“Nothung! Nothung!Neidliches Schwert” from the Opera Siegfried,“Forging Song” or “Sword Song”
Richard Wagner
Paul Althouse,tenor
Symphony in D Minor
César Franck
SiegfriedIdyll
Richard Wagner
“Mein lieberSchwan!” from the Opera Lohengrin,
“Lohengrin’s Farewell”
Richard Wagner
Paul Althouse,tenor
Overture from theOpera Die fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
February 13,1938
NutcrackerSuite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mischa Elman,violin
Symphony No. 4 in FMinor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 20, 1938
“Herzlich tut mich verlangen,” Organ Prelude Organ Prelude, BWV 727
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Lucien Cailliet]
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra in F Major, K. 242
Wolfgang A. Mozart
G. Clymer Brooke, piano
Miriam Weiss Heisler, piano
Gertrude Sternbergh, piano
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Twenty-sixth Season [1938-1939]
November 20,1938
Ouverturesolennelle, Op. 73
Alexander Glazunov
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Orlando Parera,violin
Symphony No. 7 in AMajor, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
January 22, 1939
“Toccata”
Girolamo Frescobaldi
“V’adoro pupille”(“Es blaut die Nacht”) from the Opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto,
George Frideric Handel
“Che farò senzaEuridice!” (“Ach ich habe sie verloren”)
from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph W. Gluck
Gertrude Ritzinger,soprano
Symphony No. 4 in AMajor, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
“Feldeinsamkeit,”Op. 86, No. 2
Johannes Brahms
“SapphischeOde,” Op. 94, No. 4
Johannes Brahms
“Von ewiger Liebe,”Op. 43, No. 1
Johannes Brahms
GertrudeRitzinger, soprano
GiuseppeBamboscher, accompanist
“Clair de lune”from Suite bergamasque
Claude Debussy
[arr., Alfred Reed or Hubert Mouton]
Badinerie in FMajor
Arcangelo Corelli
España,Symphonic Rhapsody
Emmanuel Chabrier
February 19,1939
Overture from theOpera Ruslan and Lyudmila
Mikhail Glinka
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
WalterGieseking, piano
DonJuan, Tone Poem for LargeOrchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
Three Dances fromthe Incidental Music for Hugo’s LeRoi s’amuse {?}
Léo Delibes
“Dance of theBuffoons” from the Opera The SnowMaiden
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
April 23, 1939
Overture from the Incidental Music for Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D. 797
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
Variations symphoniques for Piano and Orchestra
César Franck
Percy Grainger, pianist
“Polka and Fugue” from the Opera Schwanda the Bagpiper
Jaromir Weinberger
Twenty-seventh Season [1939-1940]
November 26,1939
Overture from theOpera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 41 inC Major, K. 551
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6
Niccolò Paganini
Ossy Renardy,violin
“Dawn” and“Jubilee” from String Quartet on Negro Themes
Clarence Cameron White
[arr., unknown]
January 14, 1940
“Komm süsser Tod,”Hymn, BWV 478
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Leopold Stokowski]
Concerto for OrganNo. 1 in G Major [First Mvmt.], BWV 592
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., unknown]
Symphony No. 1 in GMinor
Vasili Kalinnikov
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271, “Jeunehomme”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Guiomar Novaes,piano
Polonaise No. 3 inA Major, Op. 40, No. 1, “Military”
Frédéric Chopin
[arr., Alexander Glazunov]
March 10, 1940
Leonore Overture {No. 3, Op. 72b [?]}
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Il est doux, ilest bon” from the Opera Hérodiade
Jules Massenet
Marjorie Lawrence,soprano
Ballet Suite No. 1
Christoph W. Gluck
[collected and arr., Felix Mottl]
EnchantedLake
Anatoli Liadov
“Starke Scheiteschichtet mir dort” from the Opera
Götterdämmerung,“Immolation Scene”
Richard Wagner
Marjorie Lawrence,soprano
April 21, 1940
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39, No. 7 {16[?]}
Johannes Brahms
[arr., Felix Guenther]
Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15
Johannes Brahms
[arr., Felix Guenther]
“Polka” from the ballet The Age of Gold
Dmitri Shostakovich
Orchestral Interlude from Act 1 of the Opera Das Rheingold, “Träume”
Richard Wagner
Prelude from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Andre Polah
Twenty-eighth Season [1940-1941]
December 1, 1940
Overture from theOpera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
“La fleur que tum’avais jetté” from the Opera Carmen,“Flower Song”
Georges Bizet
Giovanni Martinelli,tenor
Symphony No. 4 in EMinor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
“Scherzo” fromthe Incidental Music for Shakespeare’s play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Op. 61, No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn
“O Paradis”from the Opera L’africaine
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giovanni Martinelli,tenor
LesPréludes, after Lamartine’s Méditationspoétiques
Franz Liszt
January 5, 1941
Overture from theOpera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini
Symphony No. 92 inG Major, Hob I: 92, “Oxford”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Concerto No. 1 forPiano and Orchestra in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rosalyn Tureck,pianist
Overture from theOpera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
February 23,1941
“Chaconne” fromPartita No. 2 for Solo Violin, BWV 1004, No. 5
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Andre Colah]
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mischa Mischahoff,violin
Symphony No. 6 in BMinor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 30, 1941
Die Hebriden, Concert Overture, Op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
From Childhood, Suite for Harp and Orchestra
Harl McDonald
Edna Phillips, harpist [dedicatee]
[Note: Eugene Ormandy gave it its first full performance in Philadelphia on January 17, 1941 with Edna Phillips at the harp]
Prélude à l’Aprés-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
Künstlerleben, Op. 316, “Artist’s Life”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Saul Caston
Twenty-ninth Season [1941-1942]
November 30,1941
Overture from theIncidental Music for Goethe’s drama Egmont,Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Adolph Busch,violin
Symphony in DMinor, Op. 48
César Franck
January 4, 1942
Overture from theOpera Ruslan and Lyudmila
Mikhail Glinka
“Monologue” and“Hallucination Scene” from the Opera BorisGodunov
Modest Mussorgsky
Alexander Kipnis,bass-baritone
Romeoand Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite,Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Excerpts from theOpera Boris Godunov
Modest Mussorgsky
Alexander Kipnis,bass-baritone
“PolovtsianDances” from the Opera PrinceIgor
Alexander Borodin
February 15,1942
AkademischeFestouvertüre, Op. 80, “Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Elizabeth Zug,piano
Symphony No. 3, TragicCycle for Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra
Harl McDonald
Selma Amansky,soprano
Choral Societyof the University of Pennsylvania
March 22, 1942
Leonore Overture, No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 56, “Triple Concerto”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Edith Braun, piano
Lea Luboshutz, violin
Elsa Hilger, cello
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
“Neue Pizzicato-Polka” from the Operetta Fürstin Ninetta, Op. 449
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Thirtieth Season [1942-1943]
November 29, 1942
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2
Franz Joseph Haydn
Elsa Hilger, cello
“Entrance of the Gods into Vahalla” from the Opera Das Rheingold
Richard Wagner
España, Symphonic Rhapsody
Emmanuel Chabrier
January 10, 1943
“Elegie” and “Waltz” from the Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra, Op. 48
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Carroll Glenn, violin
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 14, 1943
“Von Himmel Hoch, ” Organ Prelude, BWV 738
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” Chorale from Cantata No. 140, BWV 140
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rudolph Ganz, piano
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
March 14, 1943
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel
Peter and the Wolf, Symphonic Fairy Tale, Op. 67
Sergei Prokofiev
Mary van Doren, narrator
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in A Minor
Franz Liszt
Thirty-first Season [1943-1944]
November 28, 1943
Prelude from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
Edvard Grieg
Ray Lev, piano
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
January 9, 1944
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Bronislaw Huberman, violin
Pavane, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré
Finlandia, Tone Poem, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius
February 13, 1944
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Keyboard and Strings No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A Major
Franz Liszt
José Echaniz, piano
“Intermezzo” and “Dance” from the Lyric Drama La vida breve
Manuel de Falla
March 26, 1944
Alexander Hilsberg, Guest Conductor
Overture from the Opera Die fliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner
“Prelude and Liebestod” from the Opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
Le carnaval romain, Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Selections from the Operetta Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Donau-Walzer, Op. 314, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Thirty-second Season [1944-1945]
November 12,1944
Overture from theOpera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 2 in DMajor, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
WilliamKapell, piano
December 10,1944
Eight RussianFolk Songs
Anatoli Liadov
Kamarinskaya,Fantasy, “Russian Scherzo”
Mikhail Glinka
A Night on theBare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
[arr. and reorchd., Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]
Capriccioespagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
RomanticSymphony
Chester Wittell
January 20, 1945
Symphony No. 1 in CMajor, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Deh! vieni allafenestra” from the Opera DonGiovanni
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Eri tu chemacchiavi quell’anima” from the Opera Unballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Conrad Thibault,baritone
Préludeà l’Aprés-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
“Visionfugitive” from the Opera Hérodiade
Jules Massenet
“Votre toast”from the Opera Carmen, “Toreador’sSong”
Georges Bizet
Conrad Thibault,baritone
Excerpts from theCantata La Damnation de Faust,Op. 24
Hector Berlioz
March 11, 1945
Alexander Hilsberg, Guest Conductor
Overture from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Witold Malcuzynski, piano
Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
Night Soliloquy for Flute, Piano, and Strings
Kent Kennan
Les Préludes, after Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques
Franz Liszt
Alexander Hilsberg
Thirty-third Season [1945-1946]
November 25, 1945
Suite for Strings, arranged from the 12 Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, Op. 5
Arcangelo Corelli
[arr., Ettore Pinelli]
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Robert Kitain, violin
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
January 20, 1946
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Muriel Kerr, piano
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 3, 1946
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
From the Lips of Memnon, Oriental Fantasy Overture
Chester Wittell
“Komm süsser Tod,” Hymn, BWV 478
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Charles O’Connell]
“Scherzo” and “Nocturne” from the Incidental Music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
Felix Mendelssohn
“Allegro vivace a movimento perpetuo,” Op. 11, “Moto perpetuo”
Niccolò Paganini
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, ”Tales from the Vienna Woods”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
March 24, 1946
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Joseph Battista, piano
Thirty-fourth Season [1946-1947]
November 24, 1946
Leonore Overture, No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Tossy Spivakovsky, violin
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
January 12, 1947
Overture from the Opera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
Edvard Grieg
Gertrude Sternbergh, piano
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 2, 1947
Symphony in D Minor
César Franck
Prélude à l’Aprés-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
“In the Village” from Caucasian Sketches Op. 10, No. 2
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
“Prelude” from Partita No. 3 for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1006, No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., unknown]
Kaiser-Waltzer, Op. 437, “Emperor Waltz”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
March 16, 1947
Suite from The Water Music
George Frideric Handel
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Shura Cherkassky, piano
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thirty-Fifth Season [1947-1948]
November 23, 1947
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Leo Weiner]
Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
Gary Graffman, pianist
January 11, 1948
SymphonyNo. 1, Op. 25, Classical
Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2
Franz Joseph Haydn
Samuel Mayes, cello
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
March 14, 1948
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
“People’s Festival” from the Opera Colas Breugnon
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Two Dances from the Ballet Gayaneh
Aram Khachaturian
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
April 18, 1948
Le carnival Romain, Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jacob Lateiner, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thirty-sixth Season [1948-1949]
November 28, 1948
Overture from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Claudette Sorel, pianist
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
January 16, 1949
Overture from the Ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43, “The Creatures of Prometheus”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Stephen Hero, violinist
February 27, 1949
Coriolan, Concert Overture after Collin, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Menahem Pressler, pianist
April 3, 1949
Overture from the Opera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Five Russian Pieces
Louis Gesensway
“Adagietto” from L’arlésienne Suite No. 1
Georges Bizet
“Farandole” from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
[orchesd., Ernest Guiraud
“The Swan” from Le carnaval des animaux, Op. 65, No. 13
Camille Saint-Saëns
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Thirty-seventh Season [1949-1950]
November 27,1949
Overture from theOpera L’italiana in Algeri
Gioacchino Rossini
Concerto No. 4 forPiano and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 70
Anton Rubinstein
Gertrude Sternbergh,pianist
Symphony No. 3 in FMajor, Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
January 29, 1950
Overture from theOpera Benvenuto Cellini,Op. 23
Hector Berlioz
Symphony No. 2 inB-flat Major, D. 125
Franz Schubert
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Soulima Stravinsky,pianist
DonJuan, Tone Poem for LargeOrchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
March 12, 1950
Overture from theBallet Die Geschöpfe desPrometheus, Op. 43, “The Creatures of Prometheus”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in CMinor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
SzymonGoldberg, violinist
April 23, 1950
Prelude from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
“Wahn, Wahn, Überall Wahn” from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Wahnmonologue”
Richard Wagner
“Was duftet doch der Flieder” from the Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, “Fliedermonologue”
Richard Wagner
Jan Gbur, baritone
Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
Overture from the Operetta Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Pizzicato Polka, Op. 234
Josef (and Johann, Jr.) Strauss
Perpetuum mobile, A Musical Joke, Op. 257
Johann Strauss, Jr.
“Schatz-Waltzer” from the Operetta Der Zigeunerbaron, Op. 418, “My Darling”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Thirty-eighth Season [1950-1951]
October 15, 1950
Overture from the Incidental Music for Byron’s Play Manfred, Op. 115
Robert Schumann
Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
Zino Francescatti, violinist
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
December 10, 1950
Overture from the Opera The Voyevode, Op. 3
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mildred Whitehill Richter, pianist
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 28, 1951
Le carnival romain, Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9, “Roman Carnival”
Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Abba Bogin, pianist
Symphony in D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
April 8, 1951
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050
Johann Sebastian Bach
Alexander Hilsberg, violinist
William Kincaid, flutist
Gertrude Sternbergh, pianist
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“The Mission,” Nocturne for Orchestra from San Juan Capistrano
Harl McDonald
Vltava, Symphonic Poem from Má vlast, “The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
Thirty-ninth Season [1951-1952]
October 21, 1951
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
Rosalyn Tureck, pianist
November 25, 1951
[Vladimir Bakaleinikoff, guest conductor]
Prelude from the Opera Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Frances Magnes, violinist
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, Classical
Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 13, 1952
Overture from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Frédéric Chopin
Eloise Polk, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
March 23, 1952
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485
Franz Schubert
“Introduction and Allegro” for Harp and Orchestra
Maurice Ravel
Excerpts from Suite From Childhood for Harp and Orchestra
Harl McDonald
Edna Phillips, harpist
Suite No. [?] from Façade
Sir William Walton
“Three Dance Variations” from the Ballet Fancy Free
Leonard Bernstein
G’schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325, “Tales from the Vienna Woods”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Fortieth Symphony [1952-1953]
October 19, 1952
LeonoreOverture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastorale
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Anshel Brusilow, violinist
January 4, 1953
Overture from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Susan Starr, pianist
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Hector Berlioz
March 15, 1953
Academiche Festouvertüre, Op. 80, “Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra No. 1 in in A Minor, Op. 33
Camille Saint-Saëns
Variations on a Roccoco Theme for Violincello and Orchestra, Op. 33
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Leonard Rose, cellist
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
April 19, 1953
Overture to an Italian Comedy
Arthur Benjamin
Homage, Op. 41
Paul Creston
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sinfonia concertante, K. 297b
Wolfgang A. Mozart
John DeLancie, oboist
Anthony Gigliotti, clarinettist
Sol Schoenbach, bassoonist
Mason Jones, hornist
Donau-Waltzer, Op. 314, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Forty-first Season [1953-1954]
October 18, 1953
Concerto Grosso in D minor, RV [?]
Antonio Vivaldi
[arr., J. S. Bach {?}]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ignace Hilsberg, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 27, 1953
Prelude from the Opera Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky
Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21
Eduoard Lalo
Aaron Rosand, violinist
March 21, 1954
Overture from the Incidental Music for Goethe’s drama Egmont, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Judith Jaimes, pianist
Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120
Robert Schumann
April 25, 1954
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Max Bruch
Nathan Goldstein, violinist
“Nuages” and “Fêtes” from Nocturnes
Claude Debussy
Excerpts from the Cantata La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Hector Berlioz
Forty-second Season [1954-1955]
October 3, 1954
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Leo Weiner]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jerome Lowenthal, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
November 21, 1954
Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, “Prague”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Henri Aubert, vioinist
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Polovtsian Dances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
January 15, 1955
Overture from the Opera Béatrice and Bénédict
Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Gertrude Sternburgh, pianist
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
April 17, 1955
Overture from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major, Hob I:102
Franz Joseph Haydn
“Einsam in trüben Tagen” from the Opera Lohengrin, “Elsa’s Dream”
Richard Wagner
“Dich teure Halle grüss ich wieder” from the Opera Lohengrin, “Elisabeth’s Greeting”
Richard Wagner
“Let My Song Fill Your Heart”
Ernest Charles
“A Dream,” Op. 48, No. 6
Edvard Grieg
“Chère Nuit”
Alfred Bachelet
Eileen Farrell, soprano
Der Rosenkavelier Suite
Richard Strauss
Forty-third Season [1955-1956]
October 16, 1955
AcademischeFestouverture, Op. 80,“Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orhestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maryan Filar,pianist
Symphony No. 1 in EMinor, Op. 39
Jean Sibelius
November 27,1955
Overture from theOpera Fidelio, Op. 72c
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 inB-flat Major, Op. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Michael Tree,violinist
January 15, 1956
Symphony No. 35 inD Major, K. 385, “Haffner”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Seven PopularSpanish Songs
Manuel de Falla
Louise Parker,contralto
“Che faro senzaEuridice!” from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph W. Gluck
“Près desramparts de Séville” from the Opera Carmen,“Sequidillla”
Georges Bizet
“L’amour est unoiseau rebelled,” from the Opera Carmen“Habanera”
Georges Bizet
Louise Parker,contralto
Picturesat an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
[orchesd., Maurice Ravel]
March 18, 1956
Le carnival romain, Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9, “Roman Carnival”
Hector Berlioz
Symphony in D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
Vltava, Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
“Air” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1067, No. 2, “Air on the G String”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11, No. 1
Georges Enescu
Forty-fourth Season [1956-1957]
October 28, 1956
Overture from the Opera Ruslan and Lyudmilla
Mikhail Glinka
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
Philippe Entremont, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
December 30, 1956
Overture from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Oscar Shumsky, violinist
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Antonín Dvořák
February 10, 1957
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Leopold Stokowski]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Eileen Flissler, pianist
Don Juan, Tone Poem for Large Orchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
Boléro, Ballet
Maurice Ravel
April 7, 1957
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Vltava, Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
Perpertuum Mobile, A Musical Joke, Op. 257
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Pizzicato Polka, Op. 234
Josef (and Johann, Jr.) Strauss
Hungarian Dance, No. 1 in G Minor
Johannes Brahms
An American in Paris, Tone Poem
George Gershwin
Forty-fifth Season [1957-1958]
October 13, 1957
Prelude from theOpera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 4 in EMinor, Op. 93
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
Seymour Lipkin,pianist
December 29,1957
Louis Vyner, Guest Conductor
Overture from theOpera Die Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony in C Major
Georges Bizet
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
Ludwig van Beethoven
José Kahan,pianist
“Galop” fromthe Masquerade Suite
Aram Khachaturian
HungarianRhapsody, No. 2 in C-sharpMinor
Franz Liszt
[arr., Albert Franz Doppler and Karl Müller-Berghaus]
March 9, 1958
Overture from theOpera La gazza ladra
Gioachino Rossini
Adagiofor Strings
Samuel Barber
Symphonieespagnole for Violin andOrchestra, Op. 21
Edouardo Lalo
Julian Olevsky,violin
OMagnum Mysterium
Tomás Luis de Victoria
[arr., Louis Vyner]
“Good FridaySpell” from the Opera Parsifal
Richard Wagner
RussianEaster Overture,Op. 36
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
April 20, 1958
Louis Vyner, Guest Conductor
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Pre-Classic Suite for Orchestra, Op. 71
Paul Creston
Algerian Suite
Chester Wittell
Aufforderung zum Tanze, Op. 65, “Invitation to the Dance”
Carl Maria von Weber
[orchesd., Hector Berlioz as “Invitation à la valse”]
Danse macabre, Symphonic Poem, Op. 40
Camille Saint-Saëns
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Forty-sixth Season [1958-1959]
October 5, 1958
Overture from the Opera Colas Breugnon
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
Lee Luvisi, pianist
December 14, 1958
Overture from the Ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201/186a
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Excerpts from the Ballet Romeo and Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Anton Kuerti, pianist
February 1, 1959
Louis Vyner, Guest Conductor
Overture from the Opera Il segreto di Susanna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra No. 2 in D Major, Hob VIIb:2
Franz Joseph Haydn
Elsa Hilger, cellist
Dances from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
April 26, 1959
Die Hebrides, Concert Overture, Op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Norman Carol, violinist
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Forty-seventh Season [1959-1960]
October 11, 1959
Overture from the Opera Benvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
La valse, Choreographic Poem
Maurice Ravel
November 29, 1959
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, Classical
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Medelssohn
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninov
Susan Starr, pianist
January 10, 1960
Overture from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Zvi Zeitlin, violinist
Symphony Cévenole (sur un chant montagnard français), for Orchestra and Piano, Op. 25
Vincent D’Indy
Susan Starr, piano
March 20, 1960
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
George Frideric Handel
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jean Casadesus, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Forty-eighth Season [1960-1961]
October 16, 1960
Alexander Hilsberg, Conductor
Overture from the Opera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47
Jean Sibelius
William de Pasquale, violinist
El Amor brujo, Ballet
Manuel de Falla
La mer, Symphonic Sketches
Claude Debussy
November 27, 1960
Louis Vyner, Conductor
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, “Haffner”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Alborado del gracioso
Maurice Ravel
“The Swan of Tuonela,” Legend from Lemminkäinen, Op. 22, No. 3
Jean Sibelius
Pini di Roma, Symphonic Poem in Four Movements
Ottorino Respighi
March 5, 1961
Louis Vyner, Conductor
Overture from the Opera Die Entfürung aus dem Serail
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
Ludwig van Beethoven
Peter Serkin, pianist
Symphony in D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
April 23, 1961
Louis Vyner and Dr. Arthur E. Jones Conductors
Prelude from Act III of the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
“Polovtsian Dances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
Schicksalslied for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 54
Johannes Brahms
Reading Choral Society, Dr. Arthur E. Jones, conductor
Gloria in D Major, RV 589
Antonio Vivaldi
Rosalind Hupp, soprano
Suzanne der Derian, contralto
Reading Choral Society
Louis Vyner
Forty-ninth Season [1961-1962]
October 22, 1961
Ruy Blas, Concert Overture after Hugo, Op. 95
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 88 in G Major, Hob. I:88
Franz Joseph Haydn
Rhapsody in Blue, for Piano and Orchestra
George Gershwin
[orchesd., Ferde Grofé]
Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist
Excerpts from the Háry János Suite
Zoltán Kodály
November 19, 1961
Seymour Lipkin, Guest conductor
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
L’Horloge de Flore, Suite for Oboe and Orchestra
Jean Françaix
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Seymour Lipkin, guest conductor
January 7, 1962
William Smith, Guest conductor
Overture from the Opera Le nozze de Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Hidetaro Suzuki, violinist
Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner
Tzigane, Concert Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra
Maurice Ravel
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
William Smith, guest conductor
March 25, 1962
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
Barry Farber, pianist
Madamoselle Angot Suite
Charles Lococq
[orchesd., Richard Mohaupt]
Fiftieth Season [1962-1963]
October 21, 1962
Overture from the Opera Ruslan and Lyudmilla
Mikhail Glinka
Louis Vyner, Conducting
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Henry C. Smith, Conducting
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Henry C. Smith, Conducting
Susan Starr, pianist
December 2, 1962
Howard Hanson, Guest Conductor
Mosaics Howard Hanson
Kikimora, Op. 63
Anatoli Liadov
Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
Camille Saint-Saëns
Lorna Munroe, cellist
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, Romantic
Howard Hanson
January 6, 1963
Saul Caston, Guest Conductor
Overture from the Opera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
Camille Saint-Saëns
Gertrude Sternbergh, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
March 17, 1963
Louis Vyner, Conductor
Coriolan, Overture for Collin’s Play, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano, Violin and Violincello and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 56
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist
David Medison, violinist
Harry Gorodetzer, violincellist
Masquerade Suite
Aram Khachaturian
Les Préludes, after Lamartine’s “Méditations poétiques”
Franz Liszt
Fifty-first Season [1963-1964]
October 6, 1963
Toccata and Fuguein D Minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach
[orchesd., Louis Vyner]
Symphony No. 4 in AMajor, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Jascha Brodsky,violinist
Firebird,Concert Suite No. 2
Igor Stravinsky
November 17,1963
Symphony No. 1 in CMinor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
“Giunse alfin ilmomento,” Recitative and Aria from the Opera Lenozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Bachianasbrasileiras No. 5 for Voiceand Eight Cellos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
“Tutte le festeal tempio,” Aria from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ah fors’è luiquest’anima,” Recitative and Aria from the Opera LaTraviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Benita Valente,soprano
TheComedians, Orchestral Suite
Dmitri Kabalevsky
España,Rhapsody for Orchestra
Emmanuel Chabrier
January 19, 1964
Overture from theIncidental Music for Goethe’s drama, Egmont,Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Adagiofor Strings
Samuel Barber
ALincoln Portrait Aaron Copland
William E. Maier,narrator
“Introduction andMarch” from the Opera TheGolden Cockerel
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Three DanceVariations” from Fancy Free
Leonard Bernstein
Picturesat an Exhibition
Modest Moussorgsky
[orchesd., Maurice Ravel]
February 9, 1964
Overture from the Opera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
Vasili Kalinnikov
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
André Watts, pianist
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Fifty-second Season [1964-1965]
October 4, 1964
AcademischeFestivalouvertüre, Op. 80,“Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in DMajor, Op. 25, Classical
Sergei Prokofiev
“Nuages” and“Fêtes” from Nocturnes
Claude Debussy
“Mentre ti lascio,o figlia,” Concert Aria, K. 513
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“I Have Attainedthe Highest Power” from the OperaBoris Godunov, “Boris’ Monologue”
Modest Mussorgsky
“HallucinationScene” from the Opera BorisGodunov
Modest Mussorgsky
“Farewell, MySon, I am Dying” from the OperaBoris Godunov, “Boris’ Death”
Modest Mussorgsky
McHenry Boatwright,baritone
Rumanian RhapsodyNo. 1 in A Major, Op 11, No. 1
Georges Enescu
November 22,1964
Lecarnival romain,Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Symphony No. 9 in EMinor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23
Edward A. MacDowell
Allison Lee,pianist
L’ApprentiSorcier
Paul Dukas
January 17, 1965
OMagnum Mysterium
Tomás Luis de Victoria
[orchesd., Louis Vyner]
“Preludeund Liebestod” from Tristanund Isolde
Richard Wagner
[arr., Engelbert Humperdinck]
Concerto forViolincello and Orchestra No. 9 in B-flat Major
Luigi Boccherini
Harold Gorodetzer,violincellist
DonJuan, Tone Poem for LargeOrchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
“Vltava,”Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “TheMoldau”
Bedřich Smetana
March 7, 1965
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
Young Uch Kim, violinist
“Polka and Fugue” from the Opera Schwanda the Bagpiper
Jaromir Weinberger
Fifty-third Season [1965-1966]
October 10, 1965
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Sergiu Luca, violinist
Prelude from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
November 21, 1965
Overture from the Opera Die Entfürung aus dem Serail
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Scherzo” from Eine Sommernachstraum, Op. 61, No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn
Seven Rumanian Folk Dances
Béla Bartók
Cinderella Suite No. 1, Op. 107
Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
André Watts, pianist
January 9, 1966
Overture from the Opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
Suite from Water Music
George Frideric Handel
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 in D Major, K. 314
Wolfgang A. Mozart
John Wummer, flutist
Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
March 20, 1966
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 36
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 364
Wolfgang A. Mozart
William de Pasquale, violinist
Joseph de Pasquale, violist
Madamoselle Angot Suite
Charles Lococq
[orchesd., Richard Mohaupt]
Fifty-fourth Season [1966-1967]
October 9, 1966
Symphony No. 5 in EMinor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Max Bruch
Melvin Ritter,violinst
TheIncredible Flutist,Ballet
Walter Piston
November 6, 1966
Overture from theOpera Il segreto di Suzanna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
“Intermezzo”from Act IV of the Opera Vanessa
Samuel Barber
Symphony in DMinor, Op. 48
Cesár Franck
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
John Browning,piano
January 22, 1967
Overture from theOpera Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
Symphony No. 7 in AMajor, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Care selve,care, care selve” from the Opera Atalanta
George Frederic Handel
“Voi, che sapeteche cosa è amor” from the Opera Lenozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Ah fors’è luiquest’anima” from the Opera LaTraviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Benita Valente,soprano
Ariosofor Strings
Peter Mennin
“Polka,”“Furiant” and “Dance of the Comedians” from the Opera TheBartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
March 12, 1967
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
“No, Oh Dio,” Aria
George Frederic Handel
“Say to Irene” from the Opera Atalanta
George Frederic Handel
“Lunge da Lei” and “Dei miei bollenti spiriti” from La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Jan Peerce, tenor
“Dance of the Apprentices” and “Entrance of the Masters”
from the Opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
“Acadian Songs and Dances” from the Film Music for Louisiana Story
Virgil Thomson
“Dance of the Buffoons” from the Opera The Snow Maiden
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Tombe degl’avi miei” from the Opera Lucia di Lammermoor, “Tomb Scene and Finale”
Gaetano Donizetti
“Lamento di Federico” from the Opera L’Alresiana
Francesco Cilèa
“Addio alla madre” from the Opera Cavelleria Rusiticana
Pietro Mascagni
Jan Peerce, tenor
April 16, 1967
Simple Symphony, Op. 4
Benjamin Britten
Suite from the Ballet Swan Lake
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 46, No. 2
Antonín Dvořák
Suite from the Ballet Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 23
Edward MacDowell
André Watts, piano
Fifty-fifth Season [1967-1968]
October 22, 1967
Overture from theOpera Euryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 5 in CMinor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Conciertode Aranjuéz for Guitar andOrchestra
Joaquín Rodrigo
Re de la Torre, guitarist
“PolovtsianDances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
November 19,1967
Overture from theMusical Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Vocalisefor Orchestra, Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 4 in DMinor, Op. 120
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
LorinHollander, pianist
January 21, 1968
Overture from theOpera Le Nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto Grosso inG Minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Francesco Geminiani
Symphony No. 3 in FMajor, Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
TheUnanswered Question,Contemplation No. 1 for Orchestra
Charles Ives
Romeoand Juliet, Suite No. 1, Op.64bis
Sergei Prokofiev
TillEulenspiegels lustige Streiche,Symphonic Poem, Op. 28
Richard Strauss
February 18,1968
Toccata and Fuguein D Minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Louis Vyner]
Symphony No. 6 in DMajor, Op. 60
Antonín Dvořák
[First and Third Movements]
España,Rhapsody for Orchestra
Emmanuel Chabrier
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev
LeonardPennario, pianist
March 31, 1968
Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 88 in G Major, Hob. I:88
Franz Joseph Haydn
Künstlerleben, Op. 316, “Artists’ Life”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Jamie Laredo, violinist
Fifty-sixth Season [1968-1969]
September 29, 1968
Overture from theOpera Ruslan and Lyudmilla
Mikhail Glinka
Symphony No. 40 inG Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Ombra mai fù divegetabile” from the Opera Serse
George Frideric Handel
“Sound analarm!” from the Oratorio JudasMaccabaeus
George Frideric Handel
“In fernemLand” from the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“La fleur que tum’avais jetée” from the Opera Carmen,“Flower Song”
Georges Bizet
“Celeste Aida”from the Opera Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Brian Sullivan,tenor
Rumanian RhapsodyNo. 1 in A Minor, Op. 11, No. 1
Georges Enesco
October 27, 1968
Overture from theOpera Donna Diana
Emil N. von Rezniček
Préludeà L’après-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
HáryJános, Suite
Zoltán Kodály
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
AnthonyDiBonaventura, pianist
January 12, 1969
RuyBlas, Overture from theIncidental Music for Hugo’s Play, Op. 95
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 1 in GMinor
Vasily Kalinnikov
“The RoseAdagio” from the Ballet SleepingBeauty
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Katharyn Horne andthe Men of the Manhattan Festival Ballet
“Waltz” fromthe Ballet Sleeping Beauty
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Pas de deux”from the Ballet The Nutcracker
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eileen Jones andThomas Enckell, dancers
Soiréesmusicales, Op. 9, “RossiniSuite No. 1”
Benjamin Britten
KatharynHorne and Ron Sequoio, dancers
February 9, 1969
Overture from the Opera Le Nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninov
André Watts, pianist
March 16, 1969
Italian Overture
Chester Wittell
Concerto for Violin, Violincello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 102, “Double Concerto”
Johannes Brahms
Morris Schulik, violinist
Harry Gorodetzer, violincellist
Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain
Alan Hovhaness
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Fifty-seventh Season [1969-1970]
September 28, 1969
La carnaval romain, Ouverturecaractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Symphony in C Major
Georges Bizet
Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Orchestra, Op. 128
Alan Hovhaness
Concertofor Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op.73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
MalcolmFraser, pianist
November 2, 1969
SymphonyNo. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70
Antonín Dvořák
Vorrei spiegarti, oh Dio,Concert Aria, K. 418
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben” from the Singspiel Zaide
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Bachianas brasileiras No.5 for Soprano and Eight Cellos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
“O mio babbino caro” from the Opera GianniSchicchi
Giacomo Puccini
Benita Valente, soprano
Les préludes, afterLamartine’s Méditations poétiques
Franz Liszt
December 14, 1969
Die Hebriden, Concert Overture,Op. 26, “Fingal’s Cave”
Felix Mendelssohn
L’arlésienne Suite, No. 2
Georges Bizet
Firebird,Concert Suite No. 2
Igor Stravinsky
Concertofor Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6
Niccoló Paganini
Franco Gulli, violinist
February 1, 1970
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 [Fourth Movement]
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Claire de lune
Claude Debussy
[orchesd., Louis Vyner]
Spielerei
Carl Stix
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
“Tarantella,” “Mazurka” and “Can-Can” from the Ballet Laboutique fantasque
Gioachino Rossini
[arr., Ottorino Respighi]
“Che gelida manina” from the Opera La bohème
Giacomo Puccini
“Questao quella” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ladonna è mobile” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
TheKing and I
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II
[arr.,Robert Russell Bennett]
KennethRiegel, tenor
“Danceof the Comedians” from the Opera TheBartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Annen-Polka,Op. 117
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Tritsch-TratschPolka,Op. 214, “Chit-Chat Polka”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
“Lovein My Heart” from the Operetta Dielustige Witwe
Franz Lehár
Wien,du Stadt meiner Träume
RudolfSieczynski
KennethRiegel, tenor
Ouverturesolennelle “1812,” Op.49, “1812 Overture”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 22, 1970
Overture from the Opera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria von Weber
“The Swan of Tuonela,” Legend from the Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22, No. 1
Jean Sibelius
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pas de Quatre, Divertissement
Cesare Pugni
Rita Brosh, Irene Strickler, Eileen Jones, and Peggy Florin, dancers
Blomsterfesten i Genzano
Gustav Helsted
Diana Byer, James DeBolt, dancers
“Pas de deux” from the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty “The Blue Bird and Princess Florine”
Piotr Iyich Tchaikovsky
Eileen Jones, Michael Falotico, dancers
Manhatten Festival Ballet Ensemble
April 12, 1970
Overture from the Incidental Music to Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Vltava” Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast, “The Moldau”
Bedrich Smetana
New York Profiles
Norman Dello Joio
El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No. 2
Manuel de Falla
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2
in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
John Browning, pianist
Fifty-eighth Season [1970-1971]
October11, 1970
FestiveOverture, Op.96
Dmitri Shostakovich
SymphonyNo. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, “Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concertofor Flute, Harp and Orchestra in C Major, K. 299
Wolfgang A. Mozart
RayKauffman,flutist
MarilynCostello, harpist
“Valse”and “Rhythm” from Four Centuries Suite
Eric Coates
November 1, 1970
DanceOverture
Paul Creston
SymphonyNo. 1 in D Major, “Titan” [Second and Third Movements]
Gustav Mahler
“RittenhouseSquare” from Four Squares ofPhiladelphia
Louis Gesensway
“Nonpiù endrai” from the Opera LeNozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Madamina!Il catalogo è questo” from the Opera DonGiovanni, “Catalog Aria”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Diebeiden Grenadiere,” Op. 49, No. 1
Robert Schumann
“Vousqui faites l’endormie” from the Opera Faust,“Mephistopheles’ Serenade”
Charles Gounod
“Farewell,my Son, I am Dying” from the Opera BorisGodunov, “Boris’ Death”
Modest Mussorgsky
JeromeHines, bass
Prelude from the Opera DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
December 13, 1970
SymphonyNo. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
Preludefrom the Opera Irmelin
Frederick Delius
“Voi,che sapete che cosa è amor” from the Opera LeNozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Nonsò più cosa son” from the Opera LeNozze di Figaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Adieu,fôrets” from the Opera TheMaid of Orléans (Jeanned’Arc), “Joan’s Aria”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Moncoeur s’ouvre à ta voix” from the Opera Samsonet Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns
“L’amourest un oiseau rebelle” from the Opera Carmen,“Habanera”
Georges Bizet
“Lestringles des sistres tintaient” from the Opera Carmen,“Gypsy Song”
Georges Bizet
MildredMiller, mezzo-soprano
NutcrackerSuite, Op.71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 10, 1971
Preludefrom the Opera Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky
SymphonyNo. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “from the New World”
Antonín Dvořak
Concertofor Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 32
Franz Xaver Scharwenka
EarlWild, pianist
February 21, 1971
Overture from the Opera La gazza ladra
Gioachino Rossini
“Allegro molto vivace” from Symphony No. 6 in B Minor
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Siciliana” and “Vava il vino” from the opera Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
“Salut! demeure chaste et pure” from the opera Faust
Charles Gounod
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Madamoselle Angot Suite
Charles Lococq
[orchesd., Richard Mohaupt]
“Furiant” from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Donau-Walzer, Op. 314, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume
Rudolf Sieczynski
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
The Lord’s Prayer
Albert Hay Malotte
“Polovtsian Dances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
Battle Hymn of the Republic
William Steffe/Julia Ward Howe
[arr., Peter J. Wilhousky]
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Reading Choral Society; Dr. Peter LaManna, director
March 28, 1971
Overture from the Opera Il segreto di Susanna
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, “Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninov
Gertrude Sternbergh, pianist
Fifty-ninth Season [1971-1972]
October 10, 1971
Overtureafter Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, Op. 5
Samuel Barber
Symphonyin D Minor, Op. 48
César Franck
Concertofor Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Frédéric Chopin
SusanStarr, pianist
November 7, 1971
Carnival,Concert Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
TheHoly City,Op. 218
Alan Hovhaness
SymphonyNo. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Ludwing van Beethoven
Conciertoandaluz forFour Guitars and Orchestra
Joaquín Rodrigo
TheRomeros, guitarists
December 12, 1971
Overturefrom the Opera Guillaume Tell,“William Tell”
Giachino Rossini
Suitefrom The Plough that Broke thePlains
Virgil Thomson
“JamaicanRumba” from Two JamaicanPieces
Arthur Benjamin
DonJuan, TonePoem for Large Orchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
“Waltzof the Flowers” from the Ballet TheNutcracker, Op. 71
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SandraBalestracci, Ellen Glemby, Chester Roberts, Dennis Seeto,dancers
“Pasde Dauz” fromthe Ballet Le Corsair
Riccardo Drigo
RoseMarie Menes, Conrad Ludlow, dancers
“Danceof the Mirlitons (Flutes)” and “Trépak” from the Ballet TheNutcracker, Op. 71
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antichedanze ed arie per liuto,Set I “Ancient Airs and Dances”
Ottorino Respighi
SandraBalestracci, Rose Marie Menes, Ellen Glemby, Chester Roberts, JohnFogarty, Dennis Seeto, with guest artist Conrad Ludlow,dancers[Ballet Brio]
January 16, 1972
Overture from the Singspiel Die Entfürung aus dem Serail
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Air” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068, “Air on a G String”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120
Robert Schumann
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ruggiero Ricci, violinist
March 12, 1972
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
“Nuages” and “Fêtes” from Nocturnes
Claude Debussy
Symphony No. 2 in B Minor
Alexander Borodin
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Jerome Lowenthal, pianist
April 16, 1972
Suite from Water Music
George Frideric Handel
[arr., Eugene Ormandy]
Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60
Sergei Prokofiev
“Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön” from the Opera Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erder,” “Von der Jugend” and “Der Trunkene im Frühling” from Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
“Polka and Fugue” from the Opera Schwanda the Bagpiper
Jaromir Weinberger
Sixtieth Season [1972-1973]
September 24, 1972
Prelude from Act IIIof the Opera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“Prelude undLiebestod”
from the Opera Tristan undIsolde
Richard Wagner
[arr., by Engelbert Humperdinck]
Symphony No. 8 in BMinor, D. 759, “Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
“Non sò più cosason”
from the Opera Le nozze diFigaro
Wolfgang A. Mozart
“Sì.Mi chiamano Mimì” from the Opera Labohème
Giacomo Puccini
“Piangea cantando”[“Willow Song”] and
“Ave Maria” from the Opera Otello
Giuseppi Verdi
“Caro nome” fromthe Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppi Verdi
Benita Valente,soprano
DerRosenkavalierSuite
Richard Strauss
October 29, 1972
Overture From theOpera Carmen
Georges Bizet
Ballet Music from theOpera Faust
Charles Gounod
TheComediansSuite, Op. 26
Dmitri Kabalevsky
“Waltz,”“Mazurka” and “Galop” from the
Incidental Music for Lermontov’s Masquerade
Aram Khachaturian
CarminaBurana,Scenic Cantata
Carl Orff
TheReading Choral Society;Peter LaManna, director
December 10, 1972
APennsylvania Overture
Louis Gesensway
Symphony No. 1 in EMinor, Op. 39
Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1
in D Minor , Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
JohnBrowning,pianist
January 21, 1973
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Faint Echo of My Youth,” from the Opera
Eugene Onegin, “Lenski’s Aria”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Epigraph for Orchestra
Norman Dello Joio
“De mon amie, fleur endormie” from the Opera
Les pêcheurs de perles, “Nadir’s Romance”
Georges Bizet
“Pourquoi me réveiller?”
from the Opea Werther
Jules Massanet
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
“Ritual Fire Dance” from the Ballet El Amor brujo
Manuel de Falla
“Questa o quella” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ella mi fù rapita” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
March 4, 1973
32 Variations on an Original Theme
in C Minor for Piano, WoO 80
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor,
Op. 23
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
André Watts, pianist
Lincoln Portrait for Speaker and Orchestra
Aaron Copland
André Watts, speaker
Totentanz for Piano and Orchestra
Franz Liszt
André Watts, pianist
March 25. 1973
New England Triptych, Three Pieces
after William Billings for Orchestra
William Schuman
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Franco Gulli, violinist
Sixty-first Season [1973-1974]
October 14, 1973
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op.64
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto No. 4 in Eflat Major
for Horn and Orchestra, K495
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nolan Miller,hornist
ChichesterPsalms
for High Voice, Chorus and Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein
{?}, [countertenor]
ReadingChoral Society; Dr. Peter LaManna,conducting
November 18, 1973
Symphony No. 1 in CMinor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for TwoPianos and Orchestra in D MinorFrancis Poulenc
DieFledermaus,arr. for two pianos and orchestraJohann Strauss, Jr.
[arranged by Pierre Luboshutz]
Jeffrey and Ronald Marlowe, pianists
December 9, 1973
A Night on theBare Mountain
Modest Moussorgsky
[arr. and orchesd.,Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47
Jean Sibelius
Daniel Heifetz, violin
“Arab Village”
from Seven Studies on Themes ofPaul Klee
Gunther Schuller
“Dance of theBuffoons”
from the Opera The Snow Maiden
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Fantasiaon Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughan Williams
[arranged by Ralph Greaves]
Soiréesmusicales,Op. 9, “Rossini Suite No. 1”Benjamin Britten
January 20, 1974
Musicfor the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
George Frideric Handel
[arr., Sir Hamilton Harty]
Toccata and Fugue inD Minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach
[arr., Louis Vyner]
Symphony No. 104
in D Major, Hob. I:104, “London”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Boléro,Ballet
Maurice Ravel
Luis Montero, ElenaSantana, Luis Porcel,
Pablo Rodarte, Maira Miranda, Esther,dancers
LaVida breve,Lyric Drama Manuel de Falla
Jose Molina,dancer
“Dance of theComedians”
from the Opera The BarteredBride
Bedřich Smetana
{Popular Number}
The Romeros
Jose Molina withAntonio Villanaeva,
Beltran Espinosa, Jesus de Araceli,dancers
España,Symphonic Rhapsody
Emmanuel Chabrier
JoseMolina and Company; Jose Molina, Bailes Espanoles
February 17, 1974
Overture from theRadio Opera
The Old Maid and the Thief
Gian Carlo Menotti
TriploConcerto a Tre
Gian Carlo Menotti
Charles Rex, violin
Juan Wolfgang Granat, viola
Saumuel Belenko,violincello
Randy Cook, oboe
Ignatius Gennusa, clarinet
Kathleen White, bassoon
Mary Elizabeth Gale, harp
Peter Orth, piano
Alan Abel, percussion
CinderellaSuite No. 1, Op. 107
Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2
in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Byron Janis, piano
March 17, 1974
Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 2, Op. 132, Mysterious Mountain
Alan Hovhaness
Excerpts from the Ballet
The Swan Lake, Op. 20
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Una furtiva lagrima”
from the Opera L’elisir d’amore
Gaetano Donizetti
“Ecco, ridente in cielo”
from the Opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini
“Un’ aura amorosa”
from the Opera Così fan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Sie meco avverso il fato”
from the Opera Il Templario
Otto Nicolai
“Per quella dolce immagine”
from the Opera Il Templario
Otto Nicolai
Bruce Brewer, tenor
Prelude from the Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Sixty-second Season [1974-1975]
September 22, 1974
Ray Kauffman,guest conductor
Symphony No. 4 in FMinor, Op. 36
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 25
in C Major, K. 503
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1
in E-flat Major, “Triangle”
Franz Liszt
Misha Dichter, pianist
October 27, 1974
AkademischeFestouvertüre,Op. 80,
“Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Variationson “America”
Charles Ives
[orchesd., William Schuman]
MerryMount Suite,
from the Opera “The Merry Mount”
Howard Hanson
“Alleluia” fromthe Motet
Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Una voce poco fa”from Il Barbiere di SivigliaGioachino Rossini
“Regnava nelsilenzio” and “Quando rapito in estasi”
from the Opera Lucia di Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
“Caro nome” fromthe Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Bella Rudenko,soprano
“PolovtsianDances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
November 24, 1974
Overture from theOpera Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 1 in GMinor
Vasili Kalinnikov
Symphonyof Psalms forChorus and Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
TheReading Choral Society;Dr. Peter LaManna, director
January 19, 1975
Overture from the OperaIl Barbiere di Siviglia
Giacomo Rossini
Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Farandole” from L’arlésienne Suite, No. 2
Georges Bizet
Schelomo, Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello with Orchestra
Ernest Bloch
Christine Walevska, cellist
“Walkürenritt” from the Opera Die Walküre,
“Ride of the Valkyries”
Richard Wagner
March 16, 1975
Overture from the OperaEuryanthe
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No.88 in G Major, Hob. I:88
Franz Joseph Haydn
Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11, No. 1
Georges Enesco
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Geoffrey Michaels, violinist
April 13, 1975
Overture from the Incidental Music to
Goethe’s Drama Egmont
Ludwig van Beethoven
Don Juan, Tone Poem for Large Orchestra, Op. 20 Richard Strauss
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major Maurice Ravel
Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra,
“Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Tunes”
Franz Liszt
Jorge Bolet, pianist
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sixty-third Season [1975-1976]
September 13, 1975
Symphony No. 8 in FMajor, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2
in D Minor, Op. 23
Edward MacDowell
André Watts,pianist
SimpleSymphony, Op.4
Benjamin Britten
Rhapsodyin Blue forPiano and Orchestra
George Gershwin
[orchesd., Ferde Grofé]
André Watts, pianist
October 19, 1975
Concerto Grosso in GMajor, Op. 6, No. 1
George Frideric Handel
TheHoly City,Op. 218
Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No.2 in DMajor, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 13 in GMajor, K. 525,
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang AmadeusMozart
Leboeuf sur le toit,Op. 58
Darius Milhaud
ClaudeKipnis Mime Theatre
January 11, 1976
Fantasiaon a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph VaughanWilliams
Picturesat an Exhibition
Modest Moussorgsky
[orchesd., LeopoldStokowski]
“Ah! per sempre”from the Opera I puritaniVincenzo Bellini
“Per me giunto”from the Opera Don Carlo
Giuseppe Verdi
John Darrenkamp, baritone
“Battle Hymnof the Republic”
William Steffe
[arr., Peter J. Wilhousky]
The Reading MadrichorChamber Choir; Donald Reber,director
Balladfor Americansfor Baritone Solo,
Mixed Chorus and Orchestra
Earl Robinson
[John LaTouche, lyrics]
JohnDarren Kamp,baritone
The Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber, director
February 22, 1976
Songs of the Tulpehocken
Stephen Douglas Burton
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Stephen Bouglas Burton, conductor
World Première
March 7, 1976
Serenade No. 8 in D Major, K. 286,
Notturno
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Henry Gass, Wes Fisher, Ray Kauffman, assisting conductors
Desolate City
Richard Yardumian
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian
James Grasek, violin
Suite from the Opera The Golden Cockerel
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
March 28, 1976
Victor Borge, Guest Conductor
“Main Title” from the Film Music
for Captain Blood
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Songs of Kurt Weill
Kurt Weill
[arr., Victor Borge]
Victor Borge, piano
Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninov
Victor Borge, piano
“Regnava nel silenzio”
from the Opera Lucia di Lammmermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
“Je veux vivre,” from the Opera Roméo et Juliette
Charles Gounod
Marilyn Mulvey, soprano
Triumphal March in E-flat Major, Op. 40
Alexander Glazanov
Sidney Rothstein
Sixty-fourth Season [1976-1977]
September 18, 1976
Louis Vyner, Conductor
Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6. No. 4
Georg Frederic Handel
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op.55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
“The Man I Love” from the ballet Who Cares?
George Gershwin
[originally for the Musical Lady,be Good]
“Embraceable You”
George Gershwin
[originally for the unproduced Musical Eastis West]
Dances from Opera TheBartered Bride
BedřichSmetana
“Andante” fromString Symphony No.9 in C Major
Felix Mendelssohn
“Allegro” and“Pas de deux”
from the Ballet Stars andStripes
John Philip Sousa
[orchesd., Hershey Kay]
October 10, 1976
Sidney Rothstein, Conductor
Overture from theBallet
Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Firebird,Concert Suite No. 2
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto No.3 forPiano and Orchestra
in D Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninoff
PeterOrth, pianist
November 21, 1976
Sidney Rothstein, Conductor
“Prelude undLiebestod”
from the Opera Tristan undIsolde
Richard Wagner
arr., Engelbert Humperdinck]
Vier letzte Lieder
Richard Strauss
“O, Moon High Up inthe Deep, Deep Sky”
from the Opera Rusalka, “OSilver Moon”
Antonín Dvořák
“Ernani! Ernani,involami” from the Opera Ernani
Giuseppe Verdi
Mary Costa,soprano
Variationson a Theme by Haydn,Op. 56aJohannes Brahms
January 16, 1977
Sidney Rothstein, Conductor
Helios,Concert Overture, Op. 17
Carl Nielsen
“Iberia” from Images
Claude Debussy
Concerto for Celloand Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 104
Antonín Dvořák
Leonard Rose, violincellist
March 6, 1977
Sidney Rothstein, Conductor
Tragische Ouvertüre, Op. 81, “Tragic Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1, Op.9
Samuel Barber
Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
in F Minor Op. 21
Frédéric Chopin
Witold Malcuzynski, pianist
Sixty-fifth Season [1977-1978]
October 1, 1977
Akademische Festouvertüre, Op. 80,
“Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 1 in CMinor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1
in D Minor, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
GaryGraffman,pianist
December 11, 1977
Knoxville:Summer of 1915,
for Soprano and Orchestra Op. 24
Samuel Barber
“Vorreispiegarti, oh Dio”
Concert Aria, K.418
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Alleluia” fromthe Motet
Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kathleen Battle,soprano
Symphony No. 7 in EMajor, “Lyric”
Anton Bruckner
January 8, 1978
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No. 1
in A Minor, Op.99
Dmitri Shostakovitch
Charles Rex,violinist
Symphony No. 6
in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 29, 1978
Suite No. 1 for SmallOrchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Suite No. 2 for SmallOrchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Capricciobrilliant forPiano and Orchestra
in B Minor, Op. 22
Felix Mendelssohn
Deborah Dundore,pianist
Symphony No. 1,“Titan”
Gustav Mahler
March 5, 1978
RichardHayman, guestconductor
Selections from theMusical West Side StoryLeonard Bernstein
“I Feel Pretty”
“Maria”
“Something’s Comin’”
“Tonight”
“One Hand, One Heart”
“Cool”
“America”
Theme from the Film Onthe Waterfront
Leonard Bernstein
“The Best of BurtBacharach”
Burt Bacharach
“Raindrops KeepFalling on My Head
“Do You Know the Way to San José”
“I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”
[arr., Richard Hayman]
Selections from theMusical Man of La ManchaMitch Leigh
[lyrics., Joe Darion]
“Man of La Mancha”
“Dulcinea”
“Aldonza, Golden Helmet of Mambrino”
“I’m Only Thinking of Him”
“Knight of the Woeful Countenance”
“To Each His Dulcinea”
“The Impossible Dream”
“Chiapanecas,”“The Clap Hands Song”
Traditional
[arr., Richard Hayman]
“The Best of theBeatles”
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
“Michelle”
“Hey Jude”
“Yellow Submarine”
[arr., Richard Hayman]
April 15, 1978
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, “Choral”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Doralene Davis, soprano
Josephine Mozzani, mezzo
William Yeats, tenor
William Murphy, bass-baritone
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Reading Madrchor Choir; Donald Reber, director
Sixty-sixth Season [1978-1979]
September 24, 1978
The Unanswered Question, Contemplation No. 1
Charles Ives
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra in G Major
Maurice Ravel
John Browning, pianist
Symphoniefantastique,Op. 14
Hector Berlioz
December 10, 1978
ChoralFanfare for Christmas
Ron Nelson
The Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
The Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber,director
“Pastorale” fromConcerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8, “Christmas Concerto”
Arcangelo Corelli
“The Many Moods ofChristmas”
[arr., Robert Shaw and Robert Russell Bennett]
Overture from theOpera Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
“Trépak”[Russian Dance] and “Waltz of the Flowers”
from the Ballet The Nutcracker
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Rudolf theRed-Nosed Reindeer”
Johnny Marks
[arr., Morton Gould]
“Parade of theWooden Soldiers”
Leon Jessel
[arr., Morton Gould]
SleighRide
Leroy Anderson
AChristmas Festival
Leroy Anderson
January 14, 1979
Mamère l’oye Suite, “Mother Goose Suite”
Maurice Ravel
Concerto for Violin,Cello, and Orchestra
in A Minor, Op. 102, “Double Concerto”
Johannes Brahms
Charles Rex, violinist;Christopher Rex, cellist
Symphony No. 3 in AMinor, Op. 56, “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
February 11, 1979
“Overture” and “Allegro” from La sultane
François Couperin
[arr., Darius Milhaud]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Natalie Hinderas, pianist
Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartók
March 11, 1979
Passacaglia, Op. 1
Anton Webern
Concierto de Aranjuéz
Joaquin Rodrigo
Nicanor Zabaleta, harpist
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, “Organ”
Camille Saint-Saëns
Bruce Bengston, organist
April 8, 1979
James Paul, guest conductor
Overture from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Madamina! Il catalogo è questo”
from the Opera Don Giovanni,
“Catalougue Aria”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Infelice! E tuo credevi” from the Opera Ernani
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ella giammai m’amò” from the Opera Don Carlo
Giuseppe Verdi
“Son lo spirito che nega” from the Opera Mefistofele
Arrigo Boito
“Ecco il mondo” from Mefistofele
Arrigo Boito
Ara Berberian, bass
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
May 12, 1979
Symphony No.2, “Resurrection”
Gustav Mahler
Doralene Davis, soprano; Josephine Mozzani, mezzo-soprano
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber, director
Sixty-seventh Season [1979-1980]
October 14, 1979
LeonoreOverture No.1, Op. 138
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Guitarand Orchestra in E Major
Antonio Vivaldi
[transcribed from the Violin Concerto, Op. 3, No. 12]
Concerto for Guitarand Orchestra
Hector Villa-Lobos
Carlos Barbosa-Lima,guitarist
Mathisder MalerSymphony
Paul Hindemith
November 4, 1979
Overture from theOpera
La clemenza di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Keyboardand Strings No. 1
in D Minor, BWV 1052
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 19
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rosalyn Tureck, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in CMajor, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
December 16, 1979
Canon for Strings
Johann Pachelbel
Variazionidi clarinetto
for Clarinetand Small Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini
Stuart Newbold, clarinetist
Magnificat, BWV243
Johann Sebastian Bach
Nancy Nicks Bucklin, soprano; Robyn Bauman, alto;
John Perella, tenor; Brian Phipps, bass
Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber,conducting
Hawaiian Chant
Lokalia Montgomery
Thomas (Ramaki) Kanahele,chanter
Cantiquede Noel,“Oh Holy Night”
Adolphe Adam
“Pua Lilia”
Alfred Unauna Alohikea
[arr., L. Krause]
Jimmy Kaina, vocalist
“Paoakalani”
Queen Lydia Liliuokalani
[arr., L. Krause]
“Maui Waltz” RobertHelson
Sheron Leihuanani Bissen [Miss Hawaii], vocalist
“Paulani”
John H. B. Enos
“KeKali Ne Au”
Charles King
Jimmy Kaina, SheronLeihuanani Bissen, vocalist
Musicians and Dancersfrom Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines
“I Am Hawaii”
Elmer Bernstein
[lyrics, Mack David]
Jimmy Kaina, Sheron Leihuanani Bissen, vocalists
“The Snows of MaunaKea”
Jay Larrin
Jimmy Kaina, vocalist
“Silent Night”
Franz Gruber
“Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”
Lewis H. Redner
“Jingle Bells”
James Lord Pierpont
“Mele Kalikimaka”
R. Alex Anderson
[arr., Charles Bud Dant]
“Hawaii Aloha”
Reverend Lorenzo Lyons
[arr., L. Krause]
“Aloha Oe”
Queen Lydia Liliuokalani
[arr., L. Krause]
January 13, 1980
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride Bedřich Smetana
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
in D Major, Op. 6
Niccolò Paganini
James Graseck, violinist
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op 35
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
February 17, 1980
Overture from the Opera Rienzi
Richard Wagner
Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
Alberto Ginastera
Carmina Burana, Scenic Cantata
Carl Orff
Irma Landucci, soprano; {???}, tenor;
William Murphy, bass-baritone
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber, director
March 16, 1980
Serenade in E-flat Major for Thirteen Winds, Op. 7
Richard Strauss
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
in E Minor, Op. 11
Frédéric Chopin
Garrick Ohlson, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100
Sergei Prokofiev
April 13, 1980
Eric Knight, guest conductor
Americana Overture
Eric Knight
“Lady of Spain”
Tolchard Evans
[Errel Reavers, lyrics; arr., Knight]
“Méditation” from the Opera Thaïs
Jules Massenet
Concerto for Trumpet and Band No. 1
Floyd E. Werle
Dave Stahl, trumpet
“Eric Knight’s Tribute to Arthur Fiedler”
[arr., Eric Knight]
Sixty-eighth Season [1980-1981]
October 10, 1980
Fanfarefor the Common Man
Aaron Copland
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Barry Farber, piano
Symphony No. 2 in EMinor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
November 9, 1980
Fugue in G Minor,BWV578, “The Little G Minor Fugue”
Johann Sebastian Bach
[orchesd., Leopold Stokowski]
Symphony No. 22 inE-flat Major, Hob. I:22, “Philosopher”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Haroldin Italy, Op.16
Hector Berlioz
Jospeh DePasquale, violist
December 14,1980
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Gian Carlo Menotti
Reed Hoover, Amahl
Deanna Wetherhold, His Mother
John Perella, King Kaspar
Warren Ottey, King Melchior
Brian Gibson; King Baithazar
Barry E. Long, The Page
Berks Grand Opera; RolandFiore, music director
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lindsay Benson, baritone; The New Swingle Singers II
“Schedrifika”
Traditional
“Pastores aBelen”
Traditional
“O du Fröhliche”
Traditional
“We Three Kings”
John H. Hopkins, Jr.
“The Holly and theIvy”
Traditional
“Jingle Bells”
Traditional
Sonata in G Major, K.13
Domenico Scarlatti
“Clair de Lune”
Claude Debussy
“Flight of theBumble-Bee”
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“Countrydances”
Traditional
[all selections arr., Ward Swingle]
The New Swingle Singers II {acapella}
The Many Moods of Christmas, Suite I
[arranged by Robert Shawand Robert Russell Bennett]
“Good ChristianMen, Rejoice”
Traditional
“Silent Night”
Franz Gruber
“Patapan”
Traditional
“O Come, AllYe Faithful”
Traditional
The New Swingle Singers II
January 11, 1981
PeerGynt, SuiteNo. 1, Op. 46
Edvard Grieg
Kindertotenlieder
Gustav Mahler
Beverly Wolff, mezzo-soprano
Symphony No. 2, Op.16, “The Four Temperaments”
Carl Nielsen
February 15, 1981
Siegfried Idyll
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K488
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lili Kraus, pianist
Excerpts from theBallet Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
March 8, 1981
Preludefrom the Opera DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Préludeà L’après-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
Pinidi Roma,Symphonic Poem, “Pines of Rome”
Ottorino Respighi
Symphony No. 2 in DMajor, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
April 12. 1981
Richard Hayman,guest conductor
“Magnificent Music from Stage and Screen” featuring numbers from:
Wildcat
Superman
Annie
Music Man
No, No Nanette
The Sting
Chorus Line
The Godfather
Ain’t Misbehavin’
The Graduate
That’s Entertainment
Sixty-ninth Season [1981-1982]
October 4, 1981
Overture from the OperaBenvenuto Cellini
Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Abbey Simon, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47
Dmitri Shostakovich
November 8, 1981
Excerpts from Ein Sommernachtstraum, Op. 61
Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 1 in D Major, K. 412
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
Thea Musgrave
Barry Tuckwell, hornist
Sinfonische Metamorphosen nach
Themen von Carl Maria von Weber
Paul Hindemith
December 20, 1981
“Pastorale” from Concerto grosso per il santissimo natale
Francesco Manfredini
Serenade of Carols
Morton Gould
“Chorale Prelude on Silent Night” from Die Natali, Op. 37
Samuel Barber
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor, Op. 28
Camille Saint-Saëns
Bertram Greenspan, violinist
The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Craig Collins, magical effects
“A Medley of Well Known Carols”
[arranged by Arthur Harris]
January 10, 1982
Overture from the Comical Farce La scala di seta
Gioachino Rossini
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Aaron Rosand, violinist
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February 14, 1982
Sinfonietta
WaIter Piston
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 1 in G Major, K. 313
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Night Soliloquy, for Flute and Strings Kent Kennan
Eugenia Zukerman, flutist
Symphony No. 104
in D Major, Hob. I:104, “London”
Franz Joseph Haydn
March 7, 1982
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.4
Gustav Mahler
Marianne Casiello, soprano
April 18, 1982
Henry Gass, guest conductor
Overture from the Musical Girl Crazy
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess, Concert Suite
George Gershwin
“Summertime”
“A Woman is a Sometime Thing”
“Gone, Cone, Cone”
“Overflow”
“My Man’s Cone Now”
“Leavin’ fo’ the Promis’ Land”
“I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’”
“Bess, You Is My Woman Now”
“Oh, I Can’t Sit Down”
“I Ain’t Got No Shame”
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”
“There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
“Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way”
LillieFoster, soprano; Brian Gibson, baritone
Berks Madrichor Chamber Ensemble; Donald Reber, director
“A Gershwin Look at Love,”
A Medley of Popular Tunes
George Gershwin
[arranged by Henry A. Gass]
“The Pain of It”
“Someone to Watch over Me”
“But Not for Me”
The Man I Love”
“O’ Lady Be Cood”
“The Glow of It”
“Love Walked In”
“Love Is Here to Stay”
“I’ve Got a Crush on You”
“Embraceable You”
“The Joy of It”
“‘S Wonderful”
“They Can’t Take That Away from Me”
“Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”
“Who Cares?”
Seventieth Season [1982-1983]
October 10, 1982
Anniversary Overture
Malcolm Arnold
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Peter Orth,pianist
Symphoniefantastique,Op. 14
Hector Berlioz
February 14, 1983
(moved from February 13 due to snow)
“Prelude undLiebestod” from the Opera Tristanund Isolde
Richard Wagner
[arr., Engelbert Humperdinck]
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra, Op. 14
Samuel Barber
Ani Kavafian, violinist
Symphony No. 4 in Dminor, Op.120
Robert Schumann
December 19, 1982
Overture from theOperetta Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss, Jr.
EinMusikalischer Spass,K. 522, “A Musical Joke”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Suite from the BalletThe Bolt, Op. 27a, “BalletSuite No. 5”
Dimitri Shostakovich
Divertissement,Suite from the Incidental Music
to Le Chapeau de pailled’Italie
Jacques Ibert
Kindersinfonie,“Toy Symphony”
Leopold Mozart
Suite from the BalletThe Incredible Flutist
Walter Piston
ChristmasKaleidoscope
Hugo Vianello
January 16, 1983
Symphony No. 3 in FMajor, Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2
in B-flat Major, Op. 83
Johonnes Brahms
JohnBrowning,soloist
February 13, 1983
Im Sommerwind, Idyll for Large Orchestra after Wille’s Poem
Anton Webern
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Bert Greenspan, violinist
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Aaron Copland
Ignatius Cennusa, clarinetist
Pini di Roma, Symphonic Poem, “Pines of Rome”
Ottorino Respighi
March 27, 1983
“Alleluia” from the Motet Exsultate, jubilate, K.165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Großmächtige Prinzessin” from the Opera
Ariadne auf Naxos, “Zerbinetta’s Aria”
Richard Strauss
Kathleen Battle, soprano
Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, “Wagner”
Anton Bruckner
April 17, 1983
“Madamina! Il catalogo è questo”
from the Opera Don Giovanni,
“Catalogue Aria”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Non più andrai” from the Opera Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jerome Hines, bass
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Carolina Do’van Dougherty, soprano; Betty Leslie Weik, alto
John Perella, tenor; Jerome Hines, bass
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Reading Madrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber, director
Seventy-first Season [1983-1984]
September 18. 1983
Skitch Henderson, guest conductor
Festive March
Victor Herbert
Seaway March
Richard Rodgers
Concerto for Petite Percussion
Morton Gould
Robert “Bobby” Rosengarden,percussionist
“A Tribute to Irving Berlin”
[arr., Skitch Henderson]
October 9, 1983
LeonoreOverture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in D Minor, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev
Tedd Joselson, pianist
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
November 6, 1983
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Charles Rex, violin
Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45, “A German Requiem”
Johannes Brahms
Jean Bradel, soprano; BrianGibson, bass
Reading Choral Society; GailPoch, director
December 18, 1983
Henry Gass; Gail Poch,guest conductors
Songsand Cantillations
Curtis Curtis-Smith
[première performance]
Conciertode Aranjuéz for Guitar andOrchestra
Joaquín Rodrigo
Michael Lorimer, guitar
“Christmas Portion” (Part I)
from the Oratorio MessiahGeorge Frideric Handel
Jean Bradel, soprano; BettyLeslie Weik, alto;
Brian Meneely, tenor; BrianGibson, bass.
Reading Choral Society; GailPoch, director
January 22, 1984
Symphony No. 21 in F-sharp Minor, Op.51,
Symphonie fantaisie
Nicolai Miaskowsky
Rhapsodyon a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ana Maria Vera, pianist
Grand Canyon Suite
Ferde Grofé
February 12, 1984
Sinfoniafrom the Singspiel DerSchauspieldirektor, K. 486
Wolfgang Amadus Mozart
Concerto for Violoncello andOrchestra in A Minor, Op.129
Robert Schumann
Nathaniel Rosen, violoncellist
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 44
Sergei Rachmaninoff
March 11, 1984
EnSaga, Tone Poem, Op. 9
Jean Sibelius
MelorhythmicDramas
Carlos Surinach
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74,
Pathétique
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
April 8, 1984
Overture from the Opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Otto Nicolai
“Deep in My Heart” from the Operetta The Student Prince
Sigmund Romberg
“Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from the Operetta Das Land des Lächelns
Franz Lehár
“Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss!” from the Opera Guiditta
Franz Lehár
“One Alone” from the Operetta The Desert Song Sigmund Romberg
“Lover Come Back to Me” from the Operetta The New Moon
Sigmund Romberg
“Da geh’ ich zu Maxim” from the Operetta Die lustige Witwe
Franz Lehár
“Vilja, o Vilja, ein Waldmägdelein” from Die lustige Witwe
Franz Lehár
“Die lustige Witwe Waltz” from the Operetta Die lustige Witwe
Franz Lehár
Barbara Meister and David Bender, soloists
Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Richard Strauss
Prologue from the Musical West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
“Where is The Life That Late I Led?” from the Musical Kiss Me, Kate
Cole Porter
“My Heart Belongs to Daddy” from the Musical Red, Hot and Blue
Cole Porter
“C’est Magnifique” from the Musical Can-Can
Cole Porter
“Bench Scene” from from the Musical Carousel
Richad Rodgers
Medley from the Musical Showboat
Jerome Kern
Barbara Meister and David Bender, soloists
Seventy-second Season [1984-1985]
September 16, 1984
Overture from the Operetta Candide
Leonard Bernstein
“Marche militaire française”from Suite algérienne,
Op. 60, No. 4
Camille Saint-Saëns
Henry Gass, associate conductor,conducting
TheSax Chronicles
Harry Freedman
Ententefor Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra
Gerry Mulligan
K-4Pacific
Gerry Mulligan
“Please Don’t Talk About Me WhenI’m Gone”
Sam H. Stept
Plus Various Selections
TheGerry Mulligan Quartet:Gerry Mulligan, saxophone; BillMays, piano; Frank Luther,contrabass; Richard Derosa,drums
Gerry Mulligan, conducting
October 14, 1984
FestiveOverture, Op. 96
Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in F Major, Opus 103, “Egyptian”
Camille Saint-Saëns
Lorin Hollander, piano
Daphnisand Chloé, Ballet SuitesNos. 1 and 2
Maurice Ravel
November 18, 1984
Overture from the Opera Cosìfan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Potpourrifor Viola and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 94
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Joseph de Pasquale,violist
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Franco Gulli, violinist
Sinfonia concertante for Violin,Viola and Orchestra
in E-flat Major, K. 364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franco Gulli, violinist;Joseph de Pasquale, violist
January 27, 1985
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in D minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninov
Leon Bates, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
February 17, 1985
Overture from the Opera Ruslanand Lyudmila
Mikhail Glinka
Voiceof the Phoenix for Koto andOrchestra
Neil McKay
[première performance]
Ricardo D. Trimillos, kotoist
Fugue for Eighteen Violins ArcadyDubensky
Symphony No. 4, “Sinfonía románitica”
Carlos Chávez
March 10, 1985
Romeoand Juliet, Fantasy Overturefor Soprano, Tenor and Orchestra
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[arr., Sergei Taneyev]
Jean Bradel, soprano; BrianMeneeley, tenor
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in D Minor, Op. 22
Henryk Wieniawski
Sherry Kloss, violinist
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, Romantic
Howard Hanson
April 14, 1985
Selections from the Musical South Pacific
Richard Rodgers
[arr., Robert Russell Bennett]
“Opening Pule,” Chant
Traditional
Mahina Bailey and Kehi Chang, chanters
“Kaulilua Ike Anu O Waialeale,” hula
Traditional
“Kawaika,” hula
Traditional
The Mahina Halau, hula dancers
“Ko Maka Palu Palu”
J.K. Aea
“Pualila”
Alfred Alohikea
Jimmy Kaina, soloist
“Paokalani”
Queen Lydia Liuookalani
“Akaka Falls”
Helen Parker
[arranged by L. Krause]
“Aoia”
John Almeida
“E Maliu Maie”
Ermigarde Aluli
Nina Kealiiwahamana, Jimmy Kaina, soloists
Seventy-third Season [1985-1986]
September 15, 1985
Richard Hayman, guest conducting“Pop Goes Country”
“Hullaballoo,” A Country Western Medley
“Bonaparte’s Retreat”
“Tennessee Waltz”
“Cold, Cold Heart”
“Jambalaya”
[arr., Richard Hayman]
“Orange Blossom Special”
[arranged by RichardHayman]
“Alabama Jubilee”
George L. Cobb and Jack Yellen
“Shenandoah”
Traditional
[arranged by Richard Hayman]
“High Noon”
Dimitri Tiomkin
“Roses from the South,”
Medley
“Mexicali Rose”
Jack Tenney and Helen Stone
“San Antonio Rose”
James Robert Wills
“Yellow Rose of Texas”
Traditional
[arranged by Richard Hayman]
“Streets of Laredo”
Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
[arr., Richard Hayman]
A Medley of Country Western Favorites arranged by Richard Hayman
“Hill Country Theme” from LyndonJohnson’s Texas
Glenn Paxton
“Wichita Lineman”
Jim Webb
“By the Time I Get to Phoenix”
Jim Webb
“Kentucky Waltz”
Bill Monroe
“Tennessee Waltz”
Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King
“Tennessee Toreador”
Amerigo Marino
“King of the Road”
Roger Miller
“Gotta Travel On”
Johnny Clayton
October 13, 1985
Essayfor Orchestra, No. 2, Op. 17
Samuel Barber
AppalachianSpring
Aaron Copland
Concertoin F for Piano and Orchestra
George Gershwin
Susan Starr, piano
November 17, 1985
Oberturapara el Fausto Criollo
Alberto Ginastera
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in G minor, Op. 63
Sergei Prokofiev
Peter Zazofsky, violin
Symphony No. 2 in G Major, “ALondon Symphony”
Ralph Vaughan Williams
December 15, 1985
Overture from the Operetta Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss
“Questa o quella” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
Prelude from the Opera LaTraviata
Giuseppe Verdi
“Libiamo, ne’lieti calici” fromthe Opera La Traviata,“Toasting Song”
Giuseppe Verdi
Victoria Schneider, soprano; KennethRiegel, tenor
“Ah, fors’è lui quest’anima”from the Opera La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Victoria Schneider, soprano
“Je suis seul!” from the Opera Manon
Jules Massenet
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
“Toi! Vous!” from the Opera Manon
Jules Massenet
Victoria Schneider, soprano;Kenneth Riegel, tenor
“Il était une fois à la courd’Eisenach” from the Opera LesContes d’Hoffmann, “The Legend of Kleinsach”
Jacques Offenbach
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
“C’est une chanson d’amour”from the Opera Les Contesd’Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach
Kenneth Riegel, tenor;Victoria Schneider,soprano
“Chacun le sait” from the Opera LaFille du Regiment
Gaetano Donizetti
Victoria Schneider, soprano
“Wein,Wein nur du allein”
Rudolph Sieczynski
Kenneth Riegel, tenor
“Mein Herr Marquis” from theOperetta Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss
Victoria Schneider, soprano
“Christmas Kaleidoscope”
Hugo Vianello
“Holiday Sing-a-long”
“Hava nagilah”
Israeli, Tradional
“Jingle Bells”
American, Traditional
“O Tannenbaum”
German, Traditional
“Deck the Halls”
Welsh, Traditional
January 19, 1986
Lebaiser de la fée, Ballet,“The Fairy’s Kiss”
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Violin, Violoncello andOrchestra
in A Minor, Op. 102
Johannes Brahms
Charles Rex, violin; ChristopherRex, violoncello
February 16, 1986
Psyché,Symphonic Poem
César Franck
Leroi David, Psaumesymphonique, “King David”
Arthur Honegger
Frank Runyeon, narrator
Marjorie Pierce, soprano
Dail Mahood Richie, alto
Brian Meneely, tenor
Mildred Ice as the Witch of Endor
Reading Choral Society; GailPoch, director
Reading Madrichor;Donald Reber, director
March 9, 1986
Divertimento for Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein
Gliuccelli, Suite, “TheBirds”
Ottorino Respighi
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven
April 6, 1986
“Belle of the Ball”
Leroy Anderson
“Plink, Plank, Plunk”
Leroy Anderson
“Serenata”
Leroy Anderson
“I Don’t Know How To Love Him”
Andrew Lloyd Webber
“If”
David Gates
Earl Rose Trio: Earl Rose, pianist; Ron Raffio, bass;
Darryl Pellegrini, percussion
“I Want To Share Today With You”
Earl Rose
“Ain’t Misbehavin’”
Thomas “Fats” Waller
“Morning Has Broken”
Traditional Gaelic
[arr., Earl Rose]
“Duke Ellington Medley”
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Earl Rose Trio; Earl Rose, conducting
“Slaughter on Tenth Avenue”
Richard Rodgers
“Could It Be Magic?”
Barry Manilow
“Never Gonna Fall In Love Again”
Eric Carmen
Earl Rose Trio
“But Not For Me”
George Gershwin
“Mine”
George Gershwin
“Love Theme In Search of A Motion Picture” Earl Rose
Earl Rose Trio; Earl Rose, conducting
“Right From The Heart”
Earl Rose
“Someone, Somewhere”
Earl Rose
Earl Rose Trio
Seventy-fourth Season [1986-1987]
October 5, 1986
Le carnaval romain, Ouverturecaractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
ScottishFantasy, for Violin andOrchestra with Harp, Op. 46
Max Bruch
Aaron Rosand,violin
Serenade No. 1 in DMajor, Op.11
Johannes Brahms
October 24, 1986
“Strike-up theBand”
George Gershwin
“An American InParis”
George Gershwin
“Rhapsody InBlue”
George Gershwin
Four Songs ForPiano & Orchestra
George Gershwin
Medley George Gershwin
[arr., Peter Nero]
Peter Nero, conducting, piano
PeterNero Trio: PeterNero, piano; Richard Nanista, bass;
Steve Timperton, drums
November 9, 1986
Coriolan,Concert Overture for Collins’ Play, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ivan Moravec,piano
Symphony No. 8 in FMajor, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
December 14,1986
Prelude from Operathe Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
Concerto for Oboeand Strings in A Minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Richard Woodhams,oboe
“A ChristmasFestival”
Leroy Anderson
Fantasiaon Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughan Williams
[arr., Ralph Greaves]
“The ChristmasSong”
Mel Torme and Robert Wells
“Waltz of theFlowers” from the ballet TheNutcracker
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
G.A.G.E.,A Christmas Story
Seymour Barab
Karen A. Miller, narrator
January 18, 1987
Ma mère l’oye, ballet suite,“Mother Goose Suite”
Maurice Ravel
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Max Bruch
Glenn Dicterow,violin
Symphony No. 2 in Eminor
Randall Thompson
February 8, 1987
“Stabat Mater,”for Chorus and Orchestra from Quattropezzi sacri
Giuseppe Verdi
Reading ChoralSociety; Gail Poch, director
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra
Kamran Ince
[première performance]
Kamran Ince, piano
Symphony No. 8 in GMajor, Op. 88, “English”
Antonín Dvořák
March 8, 1987
Overture from theOpera Der Freischütz
Carl Maria Von Weber
Todund Verklärung, Tone Poem,Op. 24, “Death and Transfiguration”
Richard Strauss
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
BarbaraNissman, piano
April 5, 1987
“Dance of the Fairies” and “Panorama Waltz” from the Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marcantonio Barone, piano
“March” from the Ballet The Nutcracker, Op. 71a, No. 2
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sandy Graffius, guest conducting (Magic Baton Winner)
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ouverture solennelle “1812”, Op. 49, “1812 Overture”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Seventy-fifth Season [1987-1988]
October 11, 1987
“Lesginka” fromthe Ballet Gayaneh
Aram Khachaturian
Romance for Violinand Orchestra No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franco Gulli,violin
Introductionand Rondo Capriccioso in AMinor, Op. 28
Camille Saint-Saëns
Aaron Rosand,violin
“Finale” from Potpourrifor Viola and Orchestra in G Minor, Op. 94
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Joseph de Pasquale,viola
Zigeunerweisenfor Violin and Orchestra, Op. 20
Pablo de Sarasate
Charles Rex,violin
CapriccioBrilliant for Piano andOrchestra in B minor, Op. 22
Felix Mendelssohn
Susan Starr,piano
“Finale” fromConcerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1043
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aaron Rosand andCharles Rex, violins
“Presto” fromSinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franco Gulli,violin; Joseph de Pasquale,viola
GalaFinale for Soloists and Orchestra
Henry Gass
Dances from theBallet El sombrero de tres picos
Manuel de Falla
November 1, 1987
Overture from theOpera Oberon
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70
Anton Rubinstein
Earl Wild,piano
PicturesAt An Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
[orchesd., Maurice Ravel]
November 22, 1987
Scenes of the Mind
Frank Siekmann
[première performance; Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franco Gulli,violin
Symphony No. 9 in CMajor, D. 944, “The Great”
Franz Schubert
December 13,1987
Overture
Ronald P. Citron
[première performance;Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 8, No. 6, “Christmas Concerto”
Giuseppe Torelli
Carolsfor Percussion and Orchestra
Henry Gass
[première performance]
Symphony No. 4 in AMajor, Op. 90, “The Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
“ChristmasAnthology”
“ChristmasCarol”
“Have Yourself aMerry Little Christmas”
“We Wish You aMerry Christmas”
“Figgi Pudding”
“Veni Emmanuel”
“Fir Tree Carol
“Unto Us a ChildIs Born”
“Christ ChurchCarol”
[arr., NeilRichardson]
The New SwingleSingers II
Christmas Medley
[arr., NeilRichardson]
The New SwingleSingers II {a cappella}
“TheMany Moods of Christmas,” Suite No. 1
[arranged by Robert Shaw and Robert Russell Bennett]
TheNew Swingle Singers II
January 17, 1988
Celebrationon 75
Henry Gass
[première performance; Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
Pelleasund Melisande, SymphonicPoem, Op. 5
Arnold Schoenberg
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
TeddJoselson, piano
February 14,1988
Dialoguefor Orchestra
LeRoy Hinkle
[première performance; Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
DieWeihe des Hauses, ConcertOverture Op. 124
Ludwig van Beethoven
Principalsfor Principal Strings and Orchestra
André Previn
Symphony No. 3 in Cminor, Op. 78, “Organ”
Camille Saint-Saëns
BruceBengtson, Organ
March 6, 1988
CeremonialPrelude
Erwin Chandler
[première performance; Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
GrandeOuverture des Francs-Juges,Op. 3, “Judges of the Secret Court”
Hector Berlioz
Piano Concerto in GMajor
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in DMajor for the Left Hand
Maurice Ravel
John Browning,piano
“Iberia” from Imagesfor Orchestra
Claude Debussy
March 26, 1988
LouisVyner Memorium
Piano Sonata No 58in C Major, Hob. XVI:48
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No. 12in F Major, K. 332
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wanderer-Fantasiein C Major, D. 760
Franz Schubert
Klavierstücke, Op.119
Johannes Brahms
HungarianDances, WoO 1
Johannes Brahms
No. 6 in D Major
No. 7 in A Major
No. 8 in A Minor
No. 9 in E Minor
No. 3 in F Major
No. 2 in D Minor
[arr. for piano solo]
André Watts, piano
April 10, 1988
Overture from the Operetta Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde
Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Gustav Mahler
Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Jean Sibelius
Seventy-sixth Season [1988-1989]
October 16, 1988
Prelude from the Opera DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
Francescada Rimini, Fantasy afterDante, Op. 32
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Werner Klemperer, narrator
Symphony No. 2 in DMajor, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
November 13,1988
Symphony No. 36 inC Major, K. 425
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Dieheil’gen drei Kön’ge aus Morgenland,” Op. 56, No. 6
Richard Strauss
“Wiegenlied,”Op. 41, No. 1
Richard Strauss
“IchWollt ein Sträusslein binden, Op. 68, No. 2
Richard Strauss
“Muttertändelei,”Op. 43, No. 2
Richard Strauss
“Amore,” Op.68, No. 5
Richard Strauss
Stephanie Myszak,soprano
KleineDreigroschenmusik,Suite from Die Dreigroschenoperfor Wind Orchestra
Kurt Weill
ElSalón México
Aaron Copland
December 18,1988
ShortSymphony
Sam Dennison
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra in D minor, Op. 47
Jean Sibelius
Charles Rex,violin
InPraise of Mary
Geoffrey Bush
Elizabeth Hinkle,soprano
AFestival of Carols
“The WassailCarol”
“Born is Jesus,the Infant King”
“O Come, O ComeEmmanuel”
“The Holly andthe Ivy”
“God Rest YeMerry Gentlemen”
“We Wish You aMerry Christmas”
[arr., Randal AlanBass]
ReadingMadrichor Chamber Choir; Donald Reber,director
January 22, 1989
Overture from theOpera L’italiana in Algeri
Gioachino Rossini
Suite No. 2 in Gminor, Op. 64a
Hermann Ambrosius
DonJuan, Tone Poem for LargeOrchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
Symphony in C Major
Georges Bizet
Capriccioespagnol, Op 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
February 12, 1989
Louis Lane, guest conducting
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph Willibald Gluck
“Prelude und Liebestod” from the Opera Tristan and Isolde
Richard Wagner
[arranged by Engelbert Humperdinck]
Dancers Tina Davidson
Pelléas et Mélisande, Incidental Music after Maeterlinck, Op. 80
Gabriel Fauré
Daphnis et Chloé, Ballet Suite No. 2
Maurice Ravel
March 5, 1989
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for Trumpet and Strings in D Major
Giuseppi Tartini
Barbara Sauer Prugh, trumpet
Concerto for Bassoon and Strings in A minor, RV {497-9, 500 ?}
Antonio Vivaldi
Holly Blake Timmons, bassoon
Le sacre du printemps, Ballet
Igor Stravinsky
April 16, 1989
Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninov
[arr. for orchestra by the composer]
Diversions on a Theme for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra, Op.21
Benjamin Britten
Gary Graffman, piano
Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Seventy-seventh Season [1989-1990]
October 21, 1989
FestiveOverture, Op. 96
Dmitri Shostakovitch
Concerto for Violinand Orchestra No.3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
Norman Carol,violin
Symphony No. 5 in EMinor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 11,1989
Vltava,Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast,“The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
Concerto for Pianoand Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 54
Robert Schumann
Marylene Dosse,piano
Lespréludes, Symphonic Poemafter Lamartine’ Méditationspoétiques
Franz Liszt
Onthe Waterfront, Suite fromthe Film Music
Leonard Bernstein
December 16,1989
Symphony No. 38 inD Major, K. 504, “Prague”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“ChristmasPortion” (Part I) from the Oratorio Messiah
George Frideric Handel
AndreaBroido, soprano
MariettaSimpson, mezzo-soprano
DavidR. Richie, III,tenor
DavidWarden,bass
ReadingChoral Society; GailPoch, director
January 20, 1990
Suite No. 1 forSmall Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Suite No. 2 forSmall Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Violaand Orchestra in B Minor
Henri Casadesus
[falsely attributed to George Frideric Handel]
Joseph de Pasquale,viola
Symphony No.3 inE-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
February 10, 1990
Symphony No.2, “Age of Anxiety”
Leonard Bernstein
Jerome Lowenthal, piano
Symphony No.2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
March 3, 1990
Tragische Ouvertüre, Op. 81, “Tragic Overture”
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra
Hector Villa-Lobos
Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica
A Grand, Grand, Festive Overture
Malcolm Arnold
Pervertimento for Strings, Bagpipe Solo, Bicycle, and Balloons
P.D.Q. Bach
Philip Townsend, bagpipe
“Hungarian March” from the Cantata La damnation de Faust
Hector Berlioz
Dr. Ellis Friedman, M.D., guest conductor
Overture from the Opera Guillaume Tell, “William Tell”
Gioachino Rossini
Sandy Graffius, guest conductor
Boléro, Ballet
Maurice Ravel
Members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
April 21, 1990
Akademische Festouvertüre, Op.80, “Academic Festival Overture”
Johannes Brahms
The Firebird, Concert Suite No. 2
Igor Stravinsky
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Sergei Rachmaninov
Overture from the Operetta Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Seventy-eighth Season [1990-1991]
September 15, 1990
PeterNero Trio:Peter Nero, piano; RichardNanista, bass;
Steve Pemberton, drums
Peter Nero, conducting
October 20, 1990
Prelude from Act III of theOpera Lohengrin
Richard Wagner
“Adagio cantabile” from SymphonyNo. 2
Charles Ives
Billythe Kid, Ballet
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
November 10, 1990
Overture from the Opera Ruslanand Lyudmila
Mikhail Glinka
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharpMinor, Op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninov
William Wolfram,piano
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 15, 1990
Canzona for Brass Choir
Giovanni Gabrieli
Kolnidrei for Cello andOrchestra, Op. 47
Max Bruch
Ulrich Boeckheler,cello
Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello andOrchestra in C Major,
Op. 56, ”Triple Concerto”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Susan Starr, piano; Eliot Chapo,violin;
Ulrich Boeckheler, cello
AChristmas Festival
Leroy Anderson
January 19, 1991
Overture from the Opera DonGiovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Il mio tesoro intanto”
from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
KennethRiegel, tenor
“Crudele! Ah nò, mio bene” and“Mà qual mai s’offre, oh Dei”
from the Opera Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
FayeRobinson, soprano; KennethRiegel, tenor
“Vissi d’arte” from the Opera Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
FayeRobinson, soprano
“Donna non vidi mai” from theOpera Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini
Kenneth Riegel,tenor
“Vogliatemi bene” from the Opera Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
FayeRobinson, soprano; KennethRiegel, tenor
“Bacchanale” from the Opera Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns
“Intermezzo” from the Opera Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni
“Obéissons quand leur voix appelle”from the Opera Manon,“Gavotte”
Jules Massanet
FayeRobinson, soprano
“Ah! fuyez, douce image” from theOpera Manon
Jules Massanet
KennethRiegel, tenor
“Toi! Vous!” from the Opera Manon
Jules Massenet
FayeRobinson, soprano
KennethRiegel, tenor
February 9, 1991
Adagio for StringsSamuel Barber
Concerto for Flautino [Piccolo] andStrings in C Major, RV 443
Antonio Vivaldi
Kimberly Reighley-Wells, piccolo
Ciacconafor Violin and Orchestra
Giovanni Battista Vitali
Bertram Greenspan,violin
“Wotan’s Farewell” and “MagicFire Music”
from the Opera Die Walküre
Richard Wagner
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67,“Fate”
Ludwig van Beethoven
March 2, 1991
Overture from the Ballet
Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Opus 47
Dmitri Shostakovich
April 20, 1991
“Building the Barn” from the Movie Witness
Maurice Jarré
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Isabella Lippi, violin
Symphony No. 21 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 51, Symphonie Ballade
Nicolai Miaskovsky
Pini di Roma, Symphonic Poem, “Pines of Rome”
Ottorino Respighi
Seventy-ninth Season [1991-1992]
October 19, 1991
Fanfarefor the Common Man
Aaron Copland
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5, in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Andre-Michel Schub, piano
Fanfarefor the Uncommon Woman No. 1
Joan Tower
ThePoem of Ecstasy, Op. 54,“Symphony No. 4”
Alexander Scriabin
November 9, 1991
“Vyšehrad,” Symphonic Poem from Má Vlast
BedřichSmetana
Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra
David Ott
Steven Honigberg, and David Teie, cellos
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
December 21, 1991
HáryJános Suite
Zoltán Kodály
Lawrence Kaptain, cimbalom
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra inA minor, Op. 82
Alexander Glazunov
Stephanie Chase, violin
January 18, 1992
Symphony No. 6
Gustav Mahler
February 8, 1992
Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in GMajor, BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach
GamesIV for Violin and Strings
Sabin Pautza
Lenuta Ciulei-Atanasiu, violin
“Adagietto” for Strings and Harp,from Symphony No. 5
Gustav Mahler
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op.48
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 7, 1992
Overture from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Gli uccelli, Suite for Small Orchestra, “The Birds”
Ottorino Respighi
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish”
Robert Schumann
April 11, 1992
Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Opus 80
”Choral Fantasy”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Lydia Artymiw, piano
Kay Miller, soprano
Beth Harf, soprano
Sharon Westley, contralto
Roy Hinkle, tenor
Robert Reeser, tenor
Leleand Wesner, bass
Reading Madrichor; Donald Reber, director
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” Ludwig van Beethoven
Kim Kronenberg, soprano
Gwendolyn Lentz, mezzo-soprano
Valentin Fernandez-Bultrago, tenor
Edward Crafts, bass
Reading Madrichor; Donald Reber, director
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Eightieth Season [1992-1993]
September 26, 1992
GreetingsPrelude
Igor Stravinsky
“Andantino” from Sonata No. 5 inE-Flat Major for Strings
Gioachino Rossini
Variazionidi clarinetto for Clarinetand Small Orchestra
Gioachino Rossini
Stuart Best, clarinet
Overture from the Opera “IIsignor Bruschino”
Gioachino Rossini
Laboutique fantasque, Ballet,“The Fantastic Toy Shop”
Gioachino Rossini
[arr., Ottorino Respighi]
Overture from the Opera LaCenerentola
Gioachino Rossini
“Signor, una parola,” Quintetfrom the Opera La Cenerentola
Gioachino Rossini
Gwendolyn Lentz, mezzo-soprano
David Lowe, tenor
Marc Berman, bass-baritone
Lawrence Indik, bass
Robert Violette, bass
Overture from theOpera Guillaume Tell,“William Tell Overture”
Gioachino Rossini
October 17, 1992
AnniversaryOverture
Malcolm Arnold
Overture from the Opera Derfliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
David Ott
[première performance]
Charles Rex, violin
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 9
Ludwig van Beethoven
November 14, 1992
ABirthday Bouquet
Jacob Druckman
“Villanelle,” “Absence” and“L’île inconnue” from Lesnuits d’été
Hector Berlioz
Exsultate,jubilate,Motet, K. 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Gustav Mahler
Benita Valente, soprano
January 9, 1993
Birthday Flourish No. 1 for Brass Quintet
Elliot Carter
Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Mary Berk, flute
Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra in E Major
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Douglas Mapp, double bass
Ein Heldenleben, Tone Poem, Op. 40
Richard Strauss
Bertram Greenspan, violin
February 13, 1993
Birthday Flourish No. 2 for Trumpets
Elliot Carter
Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44
Antonín Dvořák
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K191
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Holly Blake Timmons, bassoon
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Johannes Brahms
March 13, 1993
Overture from the Incidental Music to Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franco Gulli, violinist
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Ludwig van Beethoven
April 17, 1993
HappyAnniversary
Aaron Copland
Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune
Claude Debussy
A Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
[reorchesd. and arr., Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]
L’Aprenti Sorcier Paul Dukas
Ma mère l’oye, Ballet, “Mother Goose Suite”
Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
[orchesd., Maurice Ravel]
Eighty-first Season [1993-1994]
October 16, 1993
Vocalise,Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninov
[arr. for orchestra by composer]
Suite No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 43
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in A Minor, Op. 99
Dmitri Shostakovitch
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
November 13, 1993
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninov
Santiago Rodriguez, piano
January 15, 1994
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759,“Unfinished”
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 1
John Corigliano
March 19, 1994
Notturno,Op. 70
Giuseppe Martucci
Concerto for String Quartet andOrchestra in A Minor, Op. 131
Louis Spohr
Mendelssohn String Quartet
Duetfor Solo Conductor
Anonymous
DonJuan, Tone Poem for LargeOrchestra, Op. 20
Richard Strauss
Capriccioespagnol, Op. 34
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
April 16, 1994
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major, K. 16
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wellingtons Sieg, Op. 91, “Wellington’s Victory”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Polovtsian Dances” from the Opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director
Reading Madrichor; Donald Reber, director
May 23, 1994
(moved from February 12, 1994 due to snow)
Overture from the Opera LeNozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Danses sacrée et profane, for Harp and Strings
Claude Debussy
Jane Kauffman Brye, harp
Sérénaded’hiver, for Voices andOrchestra
Camille Saint-Saëns
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus; Donald Hinkle, director
Symphony No. 92 in G Major, Hob.I:92, “Oxford”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Eighty-second Season [1994-1995]
October 15, 1994
The Chairman Dances, Foxtrot forOrchestra
John Adams
Pulcinella,Suite for Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony No. 15 in A Major, op 141
Dmitri Shostakovitch
November 12, 1994
Concerto for Keyboard and Strings No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Johann Sebastian Bach
Seung-Un Ha, pianist
Symphony No. 9
Gustav Mahler
January 14, 1995
Max Bragado-Darman,guest conducting
Danzas del ballet Estancia,Op. 8a
Alberto Ginastera
Tres viejos aires de danza
Joaquin Rodrigo
Sheherazade,Symphonic Suite, Op. 35
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Bertram Greenspan, concertmaster, violinist
February 11, 1995
“Sicilienne” from Pelléas et Mélisande,Op. 80, No. 3
Gabriel Faure
Concerto for Violin, Oboe and Stringsin C Minor, BWV 1060
Johann Sebastian Bach
[after the Concerto for Two Keyboardsand Strings
in C Minor, BWV 1060]
Lenuta Cuilei-Atanasiu, violin;Terence Belzer, oboe
TheTelephone, Comic Opera in OneAct
Gian Carlo Menotti
Cheryl Markofski, soprano;Lawrence Indik, baritone
“Stardust”
Hoagy Charmichael
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestrain E flat Major, K. 365
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Claude Frank and LilianKallir, pianos
March 18, 1995
“Lesginka” from the Ballet Gayaneh
Aram Khachaturian
Tap Dance Concerto
Morton Gould
Dean Diggins, dancer
El sombrero de tres picos, Suite No. 2
Manuel de Falla
“Symphonic Dances” from the Musical West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
April 22, 1995
Overture in C Major
Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra with Harp, Op. 46
Max Bruch
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin
Eighty-third Season [1995-1996]
September 23, 1995
“Rodriguez Returns”
Special Non-Subscription Concert
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninov
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Santiago Rodriguez, piano
October 14, 1995
Overture from the Opera Ilmatrimonio segreto
Domenico Cimarosa
Symphony No. 31 in D Major, Hob.I:31, “Hornsignal”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra inD Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms
Aaron Rosand, violin
November 18, 1995
Preludiosinfonico in A Major
Giacomo Puccini
Act III from the Opera Labohème
Giacomo Puccini
Kim Kronenberg Russell,Mimi; Susan Whitenack,Musetta;
Gary Pate, Rodolfo; DonSheasley, Marcello;
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch,director
“Kyrie” from Messadi Gloria
Giacomo Puccini
Reading Choral Society; Gail Poch, director;
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus; Donald Hinkle, director
“O mio babbino caro” from theOpera Gianni Schicchi
Giacomo Puccini
Susan Whitenack, Lauretta
“Vogliate mi bene” from the OperaMadama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Kim Kronenberg Russell,Butterfly;
Gary Pate, Lt. B. F.Pinkerton
“Nulla!Silenzio!” from the Opera IltabarroGiacomo Puccini
Don Sheasley, Michele
“Mia gelosa” from the Opera Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
“Vissi d’arte” from the Opera Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
“Te Deum” from the Opera Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
KimKronenberg Russell, FloriaTosca;
Gary Pate, Mario Cavaradossi;Don Sheasley, Scarpia;
Berks Choral Society, Clergyand Parishioners;
Berks Classical Children’sChorus, Altar Boys and Children
February 10, 1996
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in D Minor, Op. 15
Johannes Brahms
Matthew Bengtson, pianist
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Opus 73
Johannes Brahms
March 16, 1996
“Intermezzo” from the Opera Goyescas
Enrique Granados
Tangazo
Astor Piazzolla
Straighton ‘til Morning
Evan Solot
[Reading Symphony Orchestra commission in cooperation with theDelaware Symphony Orchestra]
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
April 20, 1996
[Tribute to Miss Gertrude Sternbergh]
Overture from the Opera DieZauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in G Major
Maurice Ravel
John Browning, pianist
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
May 23, 1996
Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Suite from the incidental music toShakespeare’s EinSommernachtstraum
Felix Mendelssohn
“Overture”
“Scherzo”
“Intermezzo”
“Nocturne”
“Wedding March”
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
Eighty-fourth Season [1996-1997]
October 26, 1996
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Peter Orth, piano
ThePlanets, Orchestral Suite,Op. 32
Gustav Holst
November 23, 1996
Symphony No. 6 in DMajor, Hob. I:6, Le matin
Franz Joseph Haydn
Concerto forVioloncello and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
Camille Saint-Saëns
Warren Samples, violoncello
Symphony No. 9 in EMinor, Op. 95, “from the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
January 11, 1997
Symphony No. 6 in FMajor, Op. 68, Pastoral
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in DMinor, Op. 107 “Reformation”
Felix Mendelssohn
February 15, 1997
Helios,Concert Overture, Op. 17
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No. 2, Op.30, Romantic
Howard Hanson
Concerto forClarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stuart Best, clarinet
LaMer, Three Symphonic Sketches
Claude Debussy
March 15, 1997
LaCréation du monde,Op. 81
Darius Milhaud
AZoo Called Earth for narratorand orchestra
Peter Schickele
“Alien Narrator”(prerecorded tape provided by composer)
Todund Verklärung, Tone Poemfor Large Orchestra, Op. 24
Richard Strauss
April 19, 1997
[Tribute to Dr. Charles A. Carabello]
Le Quattro Stagioni, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 1, La primavera
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 2, L’estate
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 3, L’autunno
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 4, L’inverno
Leor Maltinski, violin
Overture from the Opera La forza del destino
Giuseppe Verdi
“Prologue in Heaven” from the Opera Mefistofele
Arrigo Boito
Stephen Markuson, bass-baritone;
Reading Choral Society, Gail Poch, director;
Berk’s Classical Children’s Chorus, Donald Hinkle, director
Eighty-fifth Season [1997-1998]
October 25, 1997
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 inB Minor, Op. 7, La campanella
Niccolò Paganini
Juliette Kang,violin
Eine Alpensinfonie,Op. 64, “An Alpine Symphony”
Richard Strauss
November 22, 1997
Akademische Festouvertüre, Op. 80,
“Academic Festival Overture” Johannes Brahms
Czech Suite in D Major, Op. 39
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
January 10, 1998
Overture from the Opera Axur, Re d’Ormus Antonio Salieri
Vorrei spiegarti, oh Dio, K. 418
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
No, no, che non sei capace, K. 419
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Elizabeth Parcells, soprano
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “Great” Franz Schubert
February 14, 1998
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Lincoln Portrait for Speaker and Orchestra Aaron Copland
Pattée Miller, narrator
Alexander Nevsky, Cantata, Op. 78
Sergei Prokofiev
Suzanne DuPlantis,mezzo-soprano;
Reading Choral Society, David DeVenney, director
March 14, 1998
Fanfareof Celebration
David Ott
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 inD Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninov
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Concerto for Orchestra Béla Bartók
April 4, 1998
Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
Samuel Barber
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Hector Berlioz
Eighty-sixth Season [1998-1999]
October 3, 1998
“Celebrate Our Town”A Concert Commemorating Reading’s 250thAnniversary [SpecialNon-Subscription Concert]
Preludefrom the Opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Richard Wagner
“O trenzinho do caipira” from Bachianasbrasilerias No. 2,
“The Little Train of the Caipira”
Heitor Villa-Lobos
“Vltava” Symphonic Poem from MáVlast, “The Moldou”
Bredrich Smetana
Anthemof Peace
Mack Wilberg
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus;
James K. Wilson, choraledirector, conducting
Thereis a Morn Unseen
Emma Lou Diemer
Annie Sallade,soprano; Reading Choral Society;
David DeVenney, musicdirector, conducting
ASymphony of Celebration forMixed Chorus,
Children’s Chorus, Community Chorus and Orchestra
David Finko
[première performance; Reading Symphony Orchestra commission]
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus; JamesK. Wilson, director
Reading Choral Society; DavidDeVenney, director
October 24, 1998
Fanfare from the Ballet LePéri
Paul Dukas
“Celebration” from Tropicalia
Roberto Sierra
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in D Minor, Op. 44
Max Bruch
Kenneth Cox, violinist
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78,“Organ”
Camille Saint-Saëns
Bruce Brengtson, organ
November 21, 1998
Fanfare
John Davison
Celebration
Benjamin Lees
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3
in C Major, Op. 26Sergei Prokofiev
Seung-Un Ha,piano
Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
Robert Schumann
January 9, 1999
Celebration Overture
Sy Brandon
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Op.37
Miklós Rózsa
Roberto Diaz,viola
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
February 13, 1999
Brass Fanfare
Anonymous
Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297,“Paris”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Schweiget stille, plaudert nicht,”
Canata No. 211, BWV 211, “Coffee”
Johann Sebastian Bach
Julianne Baird, Lieschen;Gregory Mercer, narrator;
Judd Ernster, Schlendrian
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90,“Italian”
Felix Mendelssohn
March 13, 1999
ToccataFanfare
Giovanni Battista Martini
[arr., Barbara Prugh]
Lacarnaval romain, Ouverturecaractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Odeto Music
Malcolm Williamson
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus; Donald Hinkle, director
TheWand of Youth, Suite No. 1,Op. 1a
Sir Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
April 17, 1999
“A French Hunting Call” from the 18th Century
[arr., Osborne]
Barbara Prugh, trumpet
Overture from the Opera The Merry Wives of Windsor
Otto Nocolai
“Che gelida manina” from the Opera La bohéme
Giacomo Puccini
“M’appari tutt’amor” from the Opera Martha
Friedrich von Flotow
“O paradis” from the Opera L’africaine
Giacomo Meyerbeer
“E la solita storia”
from the Opera L’Arlesiana, “Frederico’s Lament”
Francesco Cilèa
“Nessun dorma” from the Opera Turandot
Giacomo Puccini
“La donna è mobile” from the Opera Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Frank Tenaglia, tenor
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”
Gustav Mahler
Eighty-seventh Season [1999-2000]
September 25 and 26, 1999
Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite from Musicfor Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
David Diamond
“Overture”
“Balcony Scene”
“Romeo and Friar Laurence”
Suite from the Symphonie dramatique
Roméo et JulietteHector Berlioz
“Roméo Alone”
“Sadness”
“Distant Sounds of Music and Dancing”
“Festivities in the Capulet’s Palace
“Love Scene”
Suite from the Ballet Romeoand Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev
“Montagues and Capulets”
“Masks”
“The Death of Tybalt”
October 23 and 24, 1999
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in C Minor
Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin, Cello andOrchestra in A Minor, Op. 102, “Double Concerto”
Johannes Brahms
Carmit Zori,violin; Hai-Yi Ni, cello
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
Santiago Rodriguez, piano
November 20 and 21, 1999
Prelude from the Opera Hänselund Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
DerRosenklavier Suite
Richard Strauss
LiebesliederWaltzes,Op. 52
Johannes Brahms
[arr.for strings, Friedrich Hermann]
TilEulenspiegels lustige Streiche,Symphonic Poem, Op. 28
Richard Strauss
January 15 and 16, 2000
Symphony for Double Orchestra in E-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 1
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 22 in E-flat Major, Hob I:22, “The Philosopher”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Tzigane, Rhapsodie de concert
Maurice Ravel
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin
Concerto for Viola, Strings and Basso Continuo in G Major: TWV 51:G9
Georg Phillipp Telemann
Roberto Diaz, viola
Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Arthur Benjamin
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin; Roberto Diaz, viola
February 12 and 13, 2000
“Finale” from Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17, “Little Russian”
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra; Peter J. Brye, director
Psyché, Poème symphonique
César Franck
La Valse, Poème choréographique
Maurice Ravel
Pelléas et Mélisande, Suite, Op. 80
Gabriel Fauré
Tristan und Isolde, A Symphonic Synthesis
Richard Wagner
[arr., Leopold Stokowski]
March 11 and 12, 2000
Overture to Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea, Op. 136
Robert Schumann
Slavonic Dance No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 46, No. 2
Antonín Dvořák
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Peter Rubins, horn
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Jean Sibelius
Eighty-eighth Season [2000-2001]
September 23 and 24, 2000
Overture from the Opera Diefliegende Holländer
Richard Wagner
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.3 in C Minor, Op. 37
Ludwig van Beethoven
Marcantonio Barone, piano
A Survivor from Warsaw for Narrator,Men’s Chorus and
Orchestra, Op. 46
Arnold Schoenberg
Severin Fayerman, narrator
Men of the Reading Choral Society; David DeVenney, director
“Finale” from Symphony No. 3
Gustav Mahler
October 14 and 15, 2000
“Fanfare” from the Ballet LaPéri
Paul Dukas
CarmenSuite after Georges Bizet’sOpera
for Strings and Percussion
Rodion Shchedrin
Shéhérazadefor Soprano and Orchestra
Maurice Ravel
Elizabeth Parcells, soprano
Rapsodieespagnole
Maurice Ravel
November 18 and 19, 2000
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in GMajor, BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach
Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn
[première performance]
Charles Rex, violin
Musicfor a Great City
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
January 20 and 21, 2001
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op.6
Niccoló Paganini
Stephanie Jeong, violin
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op.55, Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
February 10 and 11, 2001
“Farandole” from L’arlésienne Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra; Peter J. Brye, director
Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach
[orchesd., Leopold Stokowski]
with senior members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Le sacre du printemps, Ballet
Igor Stravinsky
March 10 and 11, 2001
The Unanswered Question, Contemplation No. 1
Charles Ives
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
in F-sharp Minor, Op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninov
Emi Nakajima, piano
Ein Heldenleben, Tone Poem, Op. 40
Richard Strauss
Bertram Greenspan, concertmaster, violin
Eighty-ninth Season [2001-2002]
October 6 and 7, 2001
Die Weihe des Hauses, ConcertOverture, Op. 124
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto in AMinor, Op. 16
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto No. 2in F Major, Op. 102
Dmitri Shostakovich
Simon Mulligan, piano
Pinidi Roma, Symphonic Poem
Ottorino Respighi
November 17 and18, 2001
“In Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Giuseppe Verdi
Overture from the Opera Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi
“Va pensiero”from the Opera Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi
Reading Choral Society; DavidDeVenney, director
“Quando le sere alplacido” from the Opera Luisa Miller
Giuseppe Verdi
Perry Price, Rodolfo
“Libiamo,ne’lieti calici” from the Opera LaTraviata, “Toasting Song”
Giuseppe Verdi
Heather Thompson, Violetta;Perry Price, Alfredo
Reading Choral Society; DavidDeVenney, director
“Un dì, felice”from the Opera La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Heather Thompson, Violetta;Perry Price, Alfredo
“Vedi! Le foschenotturne spoglie” from the Opera IlTrovatore, “Anvil Chorus”
Giuseppe Verdi
Reading Choral Society; DavidDeVenney, conducting
Prelude from theOpera Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
“Ecco l’orrdocampo” from the Opera Un balloin maschera
Giuseppe Verdi
Heather Thompson, Amelia
“Teco io stò”from the Opera Un ballo inmaschera, “Love Duet”
Giuseppe Verdi
Heather Thompson, Amelia; PerryPrice, Riccardo
Overture from theOpera La forza del destino
Giuseppe Verdi
“Nothung!Neidliches Schwert!” from the Opera Seigfried
Richard Wagner
PerryPrice, Siegfried
“Fleigtheim, ihr Raben!” from the Opera Götterdämmerung
Richard Wagner
Heather Thompson,Brünnhilde
Prelude from theOpera Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
“TriumphalScene” from the Opera Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Reading Choral Society; David DeVenney,director
January 12 and13, 2002
Symphony in B-flatMajor, Op. 18, No. 2 {?}
Johann Christian Bach
Symphony No. 1 in CMajor, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sarah Hatsuko Hicks,assistant conductor, conducting
Concerto for Celloand Orchestra No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1
Franz Joseph Haydn
Douglas McNames, principalcellist, cello
Symphony No. 41 in CMajor, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
February 9 and 10, 2002
“The Great Lover”
from the Musical Comedy On the Town
Leonard Bernstein
Rag-Time for Eleven Instruments
Igor Stravinsky
Tahiti Trot, after Vincent Youmans’ “Tea for Two,” Op. 16
Dmitri Shostakovich
“Five O’clock Fox Trot” from the Fantasie lyrique
L’Enfant et les sortilèges
Maurice Ravel
Excerpts from Suite for Chamber Orchestra
and Jazz Piano Trio
Claude Bolling
“Gracieuse”
“Aria”
“Enjouée”
Synchronicity for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra
Paul Nash
[première performance]
The Western Jazz Quartet
An American in Paris, Tone Poem
George Gershwin
March 9 and 10, 2002
Symphony No. 2 in G Major
Frederick the Great
Le Quattro Stagioni, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 1, La primavera
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 2, L’estate
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 3, L’autunno
Concerto for Violin, Strings and Bass Continuo No. 4, L’inverno
Charles Castleman, violin
Symphony No. 101 in D Major, “The Clock”
Franz Joseph Haydn
April 6 and 7, 2002
“Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra; Peter J. Brye, director
Overture from the Opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Gioachino Rossini
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
Matthew Bengtson, piano
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninov
Ninetieth Season [2002-2003]
September 28, 2002
Capriccio bohémian, Op. 12 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21
in C Major, K. 467, “Elvira Madigan” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rui Shi, piano
Grand Canyon Suite Ferde Grofé
October 19, 2002
Overture from the Ballet
Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43,
“The Creatures of Prometheus” Ludwig van Beethoven
Scottish Fantasy for Violin
with Orchestra and Harp, Op. 46,
Fantasie unter freier Benutzung
schottisher Volksmelodieen Max Bruch
Christopher Lee, Concertmaster
Symphony No. 6
in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 23, 2002
Robert Franz, guest conductor
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Samuel Barber
Harmonic Rhythm,
Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra Russell Peck
Matthew Strauss, Timapani
Huapango for Orchestra José Pablo Moncayo
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
January 11, 2003
Overture from the Opera Semiramide Gioachino Rossini
Gli uccelli, Suite for Orchestra Ottorino Respighi
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 Johannes Brahms
February 15, 2003
Grand Overture No. 3 for Double Orchestra
in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 Johann Christian Bach
Andrew Grams, Assistant Conductor, conducting
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola
and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 364 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin
Roberto Diaz, viola
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485 Franz Schubert
March 8, 2003
Overture from the Opera Fidelio, Op. 72c Ludwig van Beethoven
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter J. Brye, Music Director, conducting
“Danse bacchanale”
from the Opera Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saëns
Reading Symphony Orchestra
with senior members of the
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter J. Brye, conducting
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5
in F Major, Op. 103, “Egyptian” Camille Saint-Saëns
Santiago Rodriguez, piano
Andrew Grams, Assistant Conductor, conducting
Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Andrew Grams, Assistant Conductor, conducting
Ninety-First Season [2003-2004]
September 20, 2003
Le Corsaire, Concert Overture,
after Fenimore Cooper and Byron, Opus 21 Hector Berlioz
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Opus 35 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Aaron Rosand, violin
Symphonie fantastique, Opus 14a Hector Berlioz
October 25, 2003
Overture from the Opera L’Italiana in Algeri Gioachino Rossini
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 Camille Saint-Saëns
Pauline Yang, piano
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92 Ludwig van Beethoven
November 22, 2003
Divertimento for Orchestra Leonard Bernstein
Double Concerto for Two Trumpets Harold Farberman
Marvin Stamm and Neil Balm, trumpets
Jazz Fantasy on the Name B-A-C-H Stephen Prutsman
Stephen Prutsman, composer, piano
Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, “Naughty Limericks” Rodion Shchedrin
January 17, 2004
Overture from the Opera Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Adagio” in E Major, K. 261 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christopher Collins Lee, Concertmaster, violin
[featuring a Guaneri violin once owned by Leopold Mozart]
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3
in G Major, K. 216 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christopher Collins Lee, Concertmaster, violin
[featuring a Guaneri violin once owned by Leopold Mozart]
Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
February 14, 2004
“Prelude” from the Incidental Music for Pelléas et Mélisande,
after Maeterlinck, Op. 80, No. 1 Gabriel Fauré
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, RSYO Music Director, conducting
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture George Gershwin
[arranged by Robert Russell Bennett]
Rhapsody in Blue for Piano and Orchestra George Gershwin
[orchestrated by Ferde Grofé]
Lorin Hollander, piano
“Variation No. 18” from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
for Piano and Orchestra Sergei Rachmaninoff
Lorin Hollander, piano
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[arranged for soprano, tenor and orchestra by Sergei Taneyev]
Laura Heims, soprano
Brian Register, tenor
“Fra gli amplessi” from Così fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Laura Heimes, soprano
Brian Register, tenor
“Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from the operetta
Das Land des Lachelns Franz Lehár
Brian Register, tenor
Lorin Hollander, piano
“Deh vieni, non tardar, o gioja bella” from the opera
Le nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Laura Heimes, soprano
Lorin Hollander, piano
Irish Tune from County Derry Percy Grainger
Lorin Hollander, piano
Boléro Maurice Ravel
March 6, 2004
Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G Minor, Op. 46, No. 8 Antonín Dvořák
[joined by juniors and seniors of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra]
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64 Felix Mendelssohn
Ayako Yoshida, violin
Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra Georges Bizet
[arranged by Franz Waxman]
Ayako Yoshida, violin
“Variations of Aegina” from the Ballet Spartacus Aram Khachaturian
Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky
[orchestrated by Maurice Ravel]
Ninety-Second Season [2004-2005]
October 9, 2004
Symphony No. 83 in G Minor, Hob. II:88, “The Hen”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125, “Choral”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Janice Chandler Eteme, soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano
Brian Register, tenor
Dean Elzinga, bass-baritone
The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, chorus
November 20, 2004
“Dance of the Tumblers” from the OperaThe Snow Maiden
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, conductor
Danses sacrée et profane
Claude Debussy
Wendy Lucas, harp
Suite from the Ballet Ma mere l’oye, “Sleeping Beauty”
Maurice Ravel
River Tina Davidson
World Première of a work commissioned for the Reading Symphony Orchestra by the Reading Public Museum in honor of its 100th anniversary
The Yellow River Concerto
Xinghai Xian, Wanghua Chu, Zhuang Liu, Lihong Sheng, Chenzong Yin
Michelle Kim, piano
February 12, 2005
“Moon River” from the Movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Henry Mancini
“Stardust”
Hoagy Charmichael
Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra in D Minor
Felix Mendelssohn
Christopher Collins Lee, concertmaster
Elena Baksht, piano
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
March 5, 2005
Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 39
Ferruccio Busoni
Marc-André Hamelin
Men of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, chorus
April 9, 2005
“Hungarian March” from La damnation de Faust
Hector Berlioz
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, conductor
Festive Overture, Op. 96
Dmitri Shostakovich
Ringgold Band
James Siedel, conductor
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Juniors and Seniors
Suite from the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Megan Maslar and Karen Fetterman, dancers
CarolEnnis, Founding Director; Tenna Deemer, Artistic Director
“Stabat mater dolorosa” from Stabat Mater
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
“Inflammatus et accensus” from Stabat Mater
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
“Quando corpus morietur” from Stabat Mater
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus
Jennifer Adam, conductor
Concerto for Trumpet
Henri Tomasi
Frank Ferraro, Jr., trumpet
Ouverture solennelle “1812”, Op. 49, “1812 Overture”
Piotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky
Ringgold Band
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Seniors
Ninety-Third Season [2005-2006]
October 8th, 2005
“Building the Barn” from Witness
Maurice Jarre
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104
Antonín Dvořák
Douglas McNames, violoncello
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 19th, 2005
Joana Carneiro, conducting
Lullaby for Strings
George Gershwin
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
Samuel Barber
Christopher Collins Lee, concertmaster, soloist
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Johannes Brahms
January 21st, 2006
Steven Hackman, Assistant Conductor, conducting
Overture from the Opera La clemenza di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Non, più di fiori vaghe catene,”
Rondò from the Opera La clemenza di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francine Black, soprano
Neil Hoffman, basset horn
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Major, K. 622
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Janine Thomas, clarinet
Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
February 11th, 2006
Markand Thakar, conducting
“Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
Junior and Senior members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
“Prelude und Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
[arr., Engelbert Humperdinck]
“Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
Antonín Dvořák
March 4th, 2006
Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, “Tragic”
Gustav Mahler
April 8th, 2006
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Organ, Oboe and Strings
George Frideric Handel
Bruce P. Bengtson, organ
“Jupiter” from The Planets, Op. 32
Gustav Holst
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Ein Heldenleben, Tone Poem, Op. 40
Richard Strauss
Christopher Collins Lee, concertmaster, violin solo
Guest Conductors
Ninety-Fourth Season [2006-2007]
“Simply the Best”
October 7th, 2006
Federico Cortese, conducting
Introduction from the Opera Khovanschina Modest Mussorgsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47 Jean Sibelius
Nicolas Kendall, violin
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 Ludwig van Beethoven
November 18th, 2006
“Mother Ginger” from the Ballet The Nutcracker,
“Mother Gigogne and the Clowns” Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra
Richard Ney, conducting
Robert Franz, conducting
Seven Passages Behzad Ranjbaran
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in E-flat Major Franz Liszt
Vitalij Kuprij, piano
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 Dmitri Shostakovich
January 20th, 2007
Andrew Constantine, conducting
“Carnival,” Concert Overture, Op. 92 Antonín Dvořák
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Richard Strauss
Liang Wang, oboe
Joyeuse March Emmanuel Chabrier
performed with RSYO Junior and Senior Members
Sospiri, Op. 70 Sir Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, “Enigma” Sir Edward Elgar
February 10th, 2007
Emil de Cou, conducting
Overture from the Incidental Music for
Goethe’s “Egmont,” Op. 84 Ludwig van Beethoven
“Como scoglio immoto occhi”
from the Opera Cosí fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jessica Jones, soprano
“Aprite un po quegli occhi”
from the Opera Le nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dean Elzinga, bass
“La ci daren la mano” from the Opera Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jessica Jones, soprano; Dean Elzinga, bass
“Leonore Overture No. 3”, Op. 72b Ludwig van Beethoven
“Ha, velch ein Augenblick” from the Opera Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven
Dean Elzinga, bass
“Abscheulicher” from the Opera Fidelio Ludwig van Beethoven
Jessica Jones, soprano
“Walkürenritt” from the Opera Die Walküre Richard Wagner
“Wotans Abschied” from the Opera Die Walküre Richard Wagner
“Siegfried Surmounts the Magic Fire and Beholds Brunnhilde,”
Orchestral Interlude from Act III of the Opera Siegfried Richard Wagner
“Dawn and the Rhine Journey,” Introduction from the
Prologue of the Opera Die Götterdämmerung Richard Wagner
“Siegfrieds Trauermusik” from the Opera Die Götterdämmerung Richard Wagner
“Feuermusik und Schluß” from the Opera Die Götterdämmerung Richard Wagner
March 10th, 2007
Karen Lynn Deal, conducting
Overture from the Opera Die nozze di Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Roberto Plano, piano
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World,” Opus 95 Antonín Dvořák
April 14th, 2007
“Farandole” from L’arlésienne Suite No. 2 Georges Bizet
[orchestrated, Ernest Guiraud]
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, conducting
Paul Haas, conducting
Songs the Plants Taught Us Joshua Penman
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 85 Sir Edward Elgar
Efe Baltacigil, cello
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Andrew Constantine
Ninety-Fifth Season [2007 – 2008]
“The New Era”
(Andrew Constantine’s First Season as Music Director)
October 6th, 2007
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Yuja Wang, piano
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 Sergei Rachmaninoff
November 17th, 2007
Themes from the “New World Symphony” Antonín Dvořák
[arr., Carrie Lane Gruselle]
Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra
Richard Ney, conductor
Symphony No. 6 in E Minor Ralph Vaughan Williams
Prélude á L’après-midi d’un faune Claude Debussy
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 Max Bruch
Christopher Collins Lee, violin
January 19th, 2008
St. Paul’s Suite, for String Orchestra, Op. 29, No. 2 Gustav Holst
Concerto for Organ, String Orchestra and Timpani in G Minor Francis Poulenc
Rändel Wolfe, organ
Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22 Antonín Dvořák
February 16th, 2008
Night on Bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky
[arr. and orchd., Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Jonathan Carney, violin
Slavonic Dance No. 6 in D Major, Op. 46, No. 6 Antonín Dvořák
Junior and Senior Members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Appalachian Spring, “Ballet for Martha,”
Suite for Orchestra Aaron Copland
March 15th, 2008
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical” Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1
in A Minor, Op. 33 Camille Saint-Saëns
Yumi Kendall, violoncello
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
April 12th, 2008
Tragische Ouvertüre, Op. 81, “Tragic Overture” Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Béla Bartók
[cmpltd, Tibor Serly]
Roberto Díaz, viola
The Cowboy OvertureJohn Williams
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, Youth Orchestras Music Director, conducting
Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10 Dmitri Shostakovich
Ninety-sixth Season [2008-2009]
October 4, 2008
Coriolan, Concert Overture after Collin, Op. 62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Elena Urioste, violin
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
November 15, 2008
Polovtsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin
Hell’s Angels for Bassoon Quartet and Orchestra
Michael Dougherty
Valerie Trollinger Flohr, Gail Ober, Michael Pedrazzini, bassoons; Darryl Hartshorne, contrabassoon
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Harry Gregson Williams (arr. Larry Moore)
Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra, Richard Ney, Conductor
Petrushka, Ballet in Four Tableaux
Igor Stravinsky
January 17, 2009
Hamburg Symphony No. 4 in A Major
C.P.E. Bach
Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alon Goldstein, piano
Symphony No. 3, Op. 53, “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
March 14, 2009
Farandole from “L’arlesienne” Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
RSYO Philharmonia, Brian Mishler, conductor
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel
Rainbow Body
Christopher Theofanidis
Dr. Mario Livio, speaker
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Ludwig van Beethoven
April 18, 2009
Sarka from Má Vlast
Bedѓich Smetena
The Wood Dove
Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”: Movement 4
Piotyr Illyich Tchaikovsky
Joined by the RSYO Sinfonia, Peter Brye Conducting
Suite from “The Cunning Little Vixen”
Leoš Janáček
Jon Spelman, storyteller
The Moldau from Má Vlast
Bedѓich Smetena
May 16, 2009
Suite from “Hary Janos”
Zoltán Kodály
Carmina Burana, Scenic Cantata
Carl Orff
Leon Williams, baritone
Ilana Davidson, soprano
Christopher Pfund, tenor
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Tom Hall director
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus, Jennifer Adam and Jodi Rineheimer, directors
Ninety-seventh Season [2009-2010]
October 3, 2009
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Edward Elgar
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 141
Antonin Dvořák
November 14, 2009
Simple Symphony
Benjamin Britten
Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Phillip Glass
Steven Weiser and Jonathan Haas, timpani
Chanson de Matin
Edward Elgar
Sandy Solmon, Golden Baton Conductor
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Hector Berlioz
January 23, 2010
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
Gerald Finzi
Janine Thomas, clarinet
Russian Sailor’s Dance from “The Red Poppy”
Reinhold Glière
Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra, Richard Ney, Conductor
Serenade for Strings in E flat Op. 6
Josef Suk
March 6, 2010
Marche Militaire Francaise from “The Algerian Suite”
Camille Saint-Saëns
RSYO Philharmonia, Brian Mishler, Conductor
La carnaval romain, Ouverture caractéristique, Op. 9
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 21
Eduardo Lalo
Christopher Collins Lee, violin
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Jean Sibelius
April 10, 2010
Petite Suite, Op. 22 “Jeux d’enfants “
Georges Bizet
Concerto Champêtre for Harpsichord
Francis Poulenc
Matthew Bengtson, harpsichord
Overture from the Opera “Fidelio”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joined by the RSYO Sinfonia, Peter Brye, Conducting
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
May 15, 2010
Capriccio italien, Op. 45
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
An American in Paris Tone Poem
George Gershwin
Fontane di Roma
Ottorino Respighi
Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40
Edward Elgar
Ninety-ninth Season [2011-2012]
October 15, 2011
Overture from the Opera “Euryanthe”, Op. 81
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64
Felix Mendelssohn
Chloë Hanslip, Violin
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
Johannes Brahms
November 12, 2011
Overture from the Opera “William Tell”
Giachino Rossini
Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra in E-flat Major, Op. 109
Alexander Glazunov
Gary Louie, Saxophone
Prelude from the Opera “La Traviata”
Giuseppe Verdi
Golden Baton Winner David Richie, Conductor
Fantasy on Themes from “Carmen” for Saxophone and Orchestra
Georges Bizet, arranged by Gary Louie, orchestrated by Alan Baylock
Gary Louie, Saxophone
Spanish Dance No. 1 from “La Vida Breve”
Manuel de Falla
With Juniors and Seniors of the RSYO
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Ludwig van Beethoven
December 10, 2011
Messiah, an Oratorio in Three Parts
George Frideric Handel
Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano
Jan Wilson, Mezzo-Soprano
Duane Moody, Tenor
Robert Cantrell, Bass
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Tom Hall, Director
February 11, 2012
Sidereus
Osvaldo Golijov
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 129
Robert Schumann
Joshua Roman, Cello
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, “Romantic”
Howard Hanson
March 17, 2012
Overture from the Opera “The Magic Flute”
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra in B Minor, Op. 61
Camille Saint-Saëns
David Kim, Violin
Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 52
Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste (Encore)
Jean Sibelius
May 19, 2012
Buckaroo Holiday and Hoe-Down from the Ballet Rodeo
Aaron Copland
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30
Sergei Prokofiev
Matthew Bengtson, Piano
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
One-Hundredth Season [2012-2013]
October 13, 2012
Overture from the Opera Oberon, König der Elfen
Carl Maria von Weber
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninov
Fabio Bidini, piano
November 17, 2012
Overture after Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, Op. 5
Samuel Barber
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C Major, K. 314 (285d)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Liang Wang, oboe
Arioso from Sinfonia BWV 156
Johann Sebastian Bach
Liang Wang, Oboe
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, “Enigma”
Sir Edward Elgar
February 23, 2013
“Nuages” and “Fêtes” from Three Nocturnes
Claude Debussy
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 28
Karl Goldmark
Christopher Collins Lee, violin
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Dmitri Shostakovich
March 23, 2013
Hamlet, Concert Overture after Shakespeare, Op. 37
Niels Gade
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor
Edvard Grieg
William Wolfram, piano
Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Antonin Dvořák
April 20, 2013
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Frederick Delius
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Johannes Brahms
Midori, violin
Symphony No. 3 in A minor “Scottish”
Felix Mendelssohn
May 11, 2013
Symphony No. 100 in G Major, “Military”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125, “Choral”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Denise Ritter Bernardini, Soprano; Rebekah Ambrosini, Contralto;
Don Bernardini, Tenor; Keith Brautigam, Baritone
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Tom Hall, Director
One-Hundredth and First Season [2013-2014]
October 19, 2013
Hosannas of the Second Heaven
Theodore Wiprud
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
David Kim, Violin
Jonathan Carney, Viola
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
Antonin Dvorak
November 16, 2013
Overture to William Tell
Rossini
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Juniors and Seniors joining RSO
Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (K. 186a)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50
Paul Hindemith
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
Johannes Brahms
February 22, 2014
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Peter Tchaikovsky
Trombone Concerto
Nino Rota
Bradley Ward, Trombone
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Ludwig Van Beethoven
March 22, 2014
Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46
Max Bruch
Nigel Armstrong, Violin
Capricco Espagnole
Rimsky Korsakov-Dackow
April 26, 2014
Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla
Mikhail Glinka
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev
Terrence Wilson, Piano
Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
Gioachino Rossini
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Peter Brye, Conductor
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathetique”
Peter Tchaikovsky
May 31, 2014
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a
Benjamin Britten
Suite from Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
James Westwater’s, “A Love for the Land
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms
One-Hundredth and Second Season [2014-2015]
October 11, 2014
Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No.1
Ottorino Resphighi
Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 102
Johannes Brahms
Timothy Lees, Violin
Ilya Finkelshteyn, Cello
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 8, 2014
Guest conductor: Jonathan Carney
Beethoven: REVEALED, excerpts from:
Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20 (Menuetto), 3rd mvt.
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, “Eroica”, 2nd mvt.
String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Razumovsky”, 3rd mvt.
Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D major, Op. 25, 1st mvt.
Für Elise for Piano, WoO 59
German Dance No. 3, WoO 8
Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20, 5th mvt.
Sonata in c-sharp minor for Piano, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”, 1st mvt.
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, 1st mvt.
Equale No. 1 for Four Trombones, WoO 30
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, “Pastoral” (Finale: Shepherd’s Song)
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven
January 17, 2015
Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297 (K. 300a), “Paris”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Theme from Romeo & Juliet
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reading Symphony Junior String Orchestra prelude performance | Conductor Brian Mishler
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March 7, 2015
Overture to Aristophanes’ Comedy
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending, Romace for Violin and Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Christopher Collins Lee, Violin
Grand Duo Concertante for Violin, Double Bass and Orchestra in A minor
Giovanni Bottesini
Christopher Collins Lee, Violin
Douglas Mapp, Bass
Finale from Symphony No. 2, Op. 17 “Little Russian”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Performance | Peter Brye, Conducting
Symphony in D minor
César Franck
April 25, 2015
Starburst
Jonathan Leshnoff
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fabio Bidini, Piano
Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
Hector Berlioz
May 16, 2015
Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22
Antonín Dvořák
The Secret Agent: Three Pieces
Philip Glass
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Gustav Mahler
One-Hundredth and Third Season [2015-2016]
October 10, 2015
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ilya Yakushev, Piano
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Sergei Rachmaninoff
November 7, 2015
Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
Leonard Bernstein
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Samuel Barber
Janice Chandler-Eteme, Soprano
In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
Edward Elgear
Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
January 30, 2016
Helios Overture, Op. 17
Carl Nielsen
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Vadim Gluzman, Violin
1812 Overture
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reading Symphony Junior Strings Orchestra | Brian Mishler, conductor
Suite from The Firebird (1919 Verison)
Igor Stravinsky
March 5, 2016
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical”
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Joyce Wang, Piano
Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Leopold Stokowski
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Georges Bizet
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Prelude Performance | Peter Brye, Music Director
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 107, “Reformation”
Felix Mendelssohn
April 2, 2016
From Holberg’s Time, Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 40
Edvard Grieg
Konzertsück for Four Horns and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 86
Robert Schumann
The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 12
Felix Mendelssohn
James Rester, French Horn
Kenneth Bell, French Horn
John DeVivo, French Horn
Albert Houde, French Horn
Side-by-side Performance with the 11th and 12th Grade Members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven
May 7, 2016
Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Antonín Dvořák
Hiawatha Melodrama
Antonín Dvořák
Kevin Deas, Bass-Baritone
Joel Gori, Narrator
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Antonín Dvořák
One-Hundredth and Forth Season [2016-2017]
September 24, 2016
William Wolfram, Piano
Reading Choral Society Women’s Chorus | Graham Bier, Director
Female Members of Berks Youth Chorus MasterSingers | Christopher Hoster, Director
Polonaise from Eugene Onégin, Op. 24
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchetra, Op. 43
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Plants, Op. 32
Gustav Holst
October 29, 2016
Peter Minkler, Viola
Baltimore Choral Arts Society | Tom Hall, Music Director
Tragic Overture, Op. 81
Johannes Brahms
Dark Bells for Viola, Chorus, and Orchestra
Jonathan Leshnoff
Flos Campi, Suite Solo Viola, Chorus, and Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Schicksalslied for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 54
Johannes Brahms
December 3, 2016
Jason Vieaux, Guitar
Slavonic Rhapsody in A-flat Major, Op. 45, No. 3
Antonín Dvořák
Living Language, Concerto for Guitar (East Coast Premiere)
Dan Visconti
Guitar Concerto in D major, RV. 93
Antonio Vivaldi
Danse Bacchanale from Samson and Delila, Op. 47.
Camille Saint-Saëns
Side-by-side Performance with the 11th and 12th Grade Members of the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
January 14, 2017
Yevgeny Faniuk, Flute
Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, “Haffner”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegretto Grazioso from Symphony No. 8
Antonín Dvořák
Reading Symphony Junior Strings Orchestra Performance | Brian Mishler, conductor
Suite No. 4, Op. 61, “Mozartiana”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March 4, 2017
Fabio Bidini, Piano
Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker, Violin
Andrew Shulman, Cello
Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 138
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven
Festive Overture, Op. 96
DmitriShostakovich
Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra Prelude Performance | Christopher Cinquini, Conductor
Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 56, “Triple Concerto”
Ludwig van Beethoven
April 29, 2017
Lianne Coble, Soprano
Patricia Risley, Mezzo-Soprano
Reading Choral Society Women’s Chorus – Graham Bier, Director
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre
Jenna Kuerzi and William LeDent, Actors
Suite No. 1 from The Tempest, Op. 109, No. 2
Jean Sibelius
Suite from Prospero’s Books
“A Synthesis”
Michael Nyman
Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opp. 21 and 61
Felix Mendelssohn
One-Hundredth and Fifth Season [2017-2018]
October 14, 2017
Julie Albers, Cello
Leonore Overture No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Concerto
Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 5
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 11, 2017
Eric Wyrick, Violin
Andre Gaskins, Cello
Overture to Donna Diana
Emil von Reznicek
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello & Orchestra
Miklós Rózsa
Mother Goose Suite
Maurice Ravel
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Richard Strauss
January 27, 2018
Orion Weiss, Piano
Overture to Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March 3, 2018
Christopher Collins Lee, Violin
Eliezer Gutman, Violin
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No. 5
Jean Sibelius
April 14, 2018
Simon Mulligan, Piano
Kevin Deas, Bass-Baritone
Julie-Ann Whitely Green, Soprano
An American in Paris
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: A Concert of Songs
George Gershwin
May 5, 2018
Ilya Yakushev, Piano
Capriccio Italien
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
One-Hundredth and Sixth Season [2018-2019]
September 22, 2018
Matthew Trusler, Violin
Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
Violin Concerto No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev
Scheherazade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
October 20, 2018
RSO String Quartet
Egmont Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Joel Puckett
Symphony No. 2
Jean Sibelius
December 1, 2018
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
Candide Overture
Leonard Bernstein
Danse Macabre
Camille Saint-Saëns
Montagues and Capulets
Sergei Prokofiev
Nimrod
Edward Elgar
The Moldau
Bedřich Smetana
Marriage of Figaro Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Johann Sebastian Bach, Leopold Stokowski
Adagio from Spartacus
Aram Khachaturian
Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner
January 26, 2019
Julio Elizalde, Piano
Fratres
Arvo Pärt
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
March 9, 2019
The Banks of Green Willow
George Butterworth
Interlude No. 2
Philip Glass
Interlude No. 1 from “the CIVIL warS – Rome Section” – Before the Storm
Philip Glass
Lincoln Portrait – The Eternal Struggle
Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 5 in D Major
Ralph Vaughan Williams
May 4, 2019
Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
One-Hundredth and Seventh Season [2019-2020]
September 21, 2019
Adam Golka, Piano
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Richard Strauss
Piano Concerto
Sergei Rachmaninoff
October 26, 2019
Eric Wyrick, Violin
Symphony No. 83 The Hen
Joseph Haydn
Four Inconoclastic Episodes
Steven Mackey
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor Op. 74 Pathetique
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
December 7, 2019
Brett Deubner, Viola
Tam O'Shanter
George Whitefield Chadwick
Viola Concerto
Richard Danielpour
Symphony No. 3 Eroica
Ludwig van Beethoven
January 25, 2020
Alessio Bax & Lucille Chung, Piano
Concerto for Two Pianos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Four Hands
Alfred Schnittke
Symphony No. 36
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
March 7, 2020
Made in America
Joan Tower
Blue Cathedral
Jennifer Higdon
Symphony No. 5 op. 47 in D Minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
One-Hundredth and Eighth Season [2020-2021]
April 17, 2021
Stewart Goodyear, Piano
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
Chamber Dance
Joan Tower
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Opus 58
Ludwig van Beethoven
May 15, 2021
Caleb Young, Guest Conductor
Hai-Ye Ni, Cello
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 92 in G Major "Oxford"
Joseph Haydn
Rococo Variations
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
One-Hundredth and Nineth Season [2021-2022]
September 17, 2021
Renée Fleming, Soprano
Four Last Songs
Richard Strauss
Other Selections
November 13, 2021
Pinchas Zukerman, Violin
Amanda Forsyth, Cello
Kol Nidrei
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1
Max Bruch
Mahler - Symphony No. 1
Gustav Mahler
January 22, 2022
Orli Shaham, Piano
Inner Demons
Stacy Garrop
Piano Concerto No. 20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 104 "London"
Joseph Haydn
March 12, 2022
Philippe Schartz, Trumpet
Suppe - Light Cavalry Overture
Franz von Suppé
Trumpet Concerto
Alexander Arutiunian
La Mer
Claude Debussy
Bolero
Maurice Ravel
April 9, 2022
Paul Huang, Violin
Reading Theater Project
Falstaff
Edward Elgar
Dvorak - Violin Concerto
Antonín Dvořák
May 21, 2022
Reading Choral Society
Jennifer Forni, Soprano
Audrey Babcock, Mezzo-Soprano
John Matthew Myers, Tenor
Joshua Jeremiah, Bass
Requiem
Giuseppe Verdi
One-Hundredth and Tenth Season [2022-2023]
September 24, 2022
Jon Kimura Parker, Piano
La Forza del Destino Overture
Giuseppi VerdiPiano Concerto No. 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 7
Ludwig van Beethoven
November 5, 2022
Lisa Pegher, Percussion
La Gazza Ladra Overture
Gioachino Rossini
Concerto for Percussion
Joseph Schwantner
The Planets
Gustav Holst
January 21, 2023
Kella Wakao, Violin
Symphony No. 40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi
March 4, 2023
Terrence Wilson, Piano
This Midnight Hour
Anna Clyne
Piano Concerto in G
Maurice Ravel
Symphony No. 4
Johannes Brahms
April 1, 2023
Zlatomir Fung, Cello
Maskerade Overture
Carl Mielsen
Cello Concerto
Édouard Lalo
A London Symphony
Ralph Vaughan Williams
May 20, 2023
JP Jofre, Bandoneon
Eric Wyrick, Violin
Estancia, Four Dances
Alberto Ginastera
Bandoneon Concerto
Astor Piazzolla
Concerto for Bandoneon and Violin
JP Jofre
Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2
Manuel de Falla
One-Hundredth and Eleventh Season [2023-2024]
September 23, 2023
Garrick Ohlsson, Piano
Piano Concerto No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 4
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November 4, 2023
Thomas Mesa, Cello
Cello Concerto
Antonín Dvořák
Romeo and Juliet
Sergei Prokofiev
January 27, 2024
Holly Mulcahy, Violin
Petite Suite de Concert
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The Rose of Sonora
George S. Clinton
Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
February 24, 2024
Ana Vidovic, Guitar
Impressions for Strings
Clarice Assad
Concierto de Aranjuez
Joaquín Rodrigo
Scottish Symphony
Felix Mendelssohn
March 23, 2024
Jennifer Koh, Violin
Essay No. 1 for Orchestra
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius
Symphony 6 "Pastoral"
Ludwig van Beethoven
May 11, 2024
Michelle Cann, Piano
Piano Concerto No. 1
Frédéric Chopin
Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz