New York Philharmonic 1961 - 1962 Leonard Bernstein, Music Director Carnegie Hall
One Hundred Twentieth Season New York Philharmonic 1961 - 1962 Leonard Bernstein, music director Carnegie Hall Saturday Evening, April 14, 1962, at 8:30 6439th, 6440th Concerts Sunday Afternoon, April 15, 1962, at 3:00 LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Conductor ISAAC STERN, Violinist THE MIDDLE-EUROPE TRADITION—PROGRAM III MOZART Adagio and Rondo from Serenade No. 10, for Thirteen Woodwinds, B-flat major, K. 361 MOZART Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra, B-f)at major, K. 207 Allegro moderato Adagio Presto ISAAC STERN BARTOK Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra Moderato — Allegro moderato ISAAC STERN INTERMISSION DVORAK Symphony No. 5, "From the New World," E minor, Opus 95 Adagio — Allegro molto Largo Scherzo: Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco Steinway Piano Columbia Records NOTES ON THE PROGRAMS By EDWARD DOWNES Notes on the programs may not be printed in their entirety without the written consent of the Philharmonic; excerpts from the notes may be quoted if due acknowledg ment is given to the author and to the Philharmonic. Adagio and Rondo from Serenade No. 10, for Thirteen Woodwinds, B-flat major, K. 361 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (Born January 27, 1756, Salzburg; died December 5, 1791, Vienna) Mozart confessed to his father that both he and his bride, Constanze, wept at the ceremony in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, on August 4, 1782, and that the witnesses and even the priest were so moved that they all wept too. Afterwards they were merry at the wedding breakfast or rather souper, as Mozart called it, given them by the Baroness von Wald- stadten.
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