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Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22] at 65th Street Impromptu in G flat I Cbof in 3 1st & Sixth Ave . Two Mazurkas 2 Sonata in B flat, Op. 35 Grave, doppio movimento Scherzo Marche Funebre Presto

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TOWN HALL TOWN HALL Monday Evening, MARCH 15 Thursday Evening, MARCH 18 at 8:30 o'clock at 8:30 o'clock Toni and Rosi First New York Appearance GRUNSCHLAG VICTOR SCHOLER Duo-Pianists The Distinguished Danish Pianist (Steinwav Pianos) (Baldwin)

TOWN HALL CARNEGIE HALL Tuesday Afternoon, MARCH 16 Friday Evening, MARCH 19 at 3:00 o'clock at 8:30 o'clock HELEN PHILLIPS Only New York Recital This Season Soprano PIATIGORSKY PAUL BREISACH at the Steinway at the Baldwin (Columbia and Victor Records) TOWN HALL Wednesday Evening, MARCH 17 TOWN HALL at 8:30 o'clock Sunday Afternoon, MARCH 21 The Distinguished Pianist at 3:00 o'clock ■JAN CHERNIAVSKY Beveridge WEBSTER (Steinway) Pianist (Steinway) Weber, Bartók, Stravinsky, Debussy TOWN HALL Beethoven "Hammerklavier" Sonata Wednesday Afternoon, MARCH 17 at 3:00 o'clock Wednesday Evening, MARCH 24 at 8:30 o'clock First New York Recital by the First CARNEGIE HALL Concert Argentine Pianist JUANA SANDOVAL Leading Tenor, Metropolitan (Steinway) TAGLIAVINI ETHEL EVANS at the Knabe CARNEGIE HALL Sunday Evening, MARCH 21 at 8:30 o'clock TIMES HALL Tuesday Evening, MARCH 23 The Great Swedish Tenor at 8:30 o'clock

JUSSI LAURENCE BJOEREINfi STEINHARDT JAMES QUILLIAN at the Steinway Violinist

(Victor Records) LEOPOLD MITTMAN at the Steinway

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. ... Oratorio Society of New York ALFRED GREENFIELD. Conductor SEVENTY-FIFTH SEASON ■ 1 ADET CARNEGIE HALL Tuesday Evening, March 23rd, 1948 1 BACH One of ’s Finer Cognacs Distinguished in Flavor and Bouquet B MINOR MASS 1 fesJ 84 Proof (uncut) International Distributors, New York 22, N. Y.

Soloists: RUTH DIEHL...... Soprano LYDIA SUMMERS . . . . Contralto HAROLD HAUGH...... Tenor THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY ARTHUR KENT .... Bass-Baritone HUGH PORTER...... Organ OF NEW YORK HARRISON POTTER, Piano-Harpsichord 1947 — 104th Season — 1948 Orchestra of fifty

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CELEBRATING THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK In his book, Alar/c For All of Us, the STADIUM CONCERTS Inc. distinguished conductor presents the full Gala Season 1948 • JUNE 14-AUGUST 7 • 31st Year scope of music as he sees it and helps ------SUBSCRIBE AND SA VE------demolish the barriers of awe that so BOOK OF 10 TICKETS tflQ nn Tickets good for all performances many have erected against its free en­ IN RESERVED SECTION *IO.UU and Transferable. joyment. Mr. Stokowski clearly explains (regular price $20.00) the technical aspects of music, discusses Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Sat. BOOK OF 10 TICKETS nn its form, its content, and its magic. IN FIELD SECTION ’’IZ.UU Nights at Lewisohn Stadium (regular price $14.00) of College of City of New York. $2.50 at all bookstores FAMOUS SOLOISTS • BALLET THEATRE • OPERA "TOSCA" Conductors including MITROPOULOS, MONTEUX, REINER, SCHWIEGER, SMALLENS SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Publishers Make Reservations at STADIUM CONCERTS: 20 West 57fh St., N. Y. 19 12 CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM

CARNEGIE HALL Wednesday Evening, MARCH 31 at 8:30 o'clock MOZART Great MassinC Minor Schola Can+orum

HUGH ROSS Conductor

Assisted by GENEVIEVE ROWE, Soprano SUZANNE STEN, Mezzo-Soprano ANDREW McKINLEY, Tenor ALDEN EDKINS, Bass and Members of THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK

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CARNEGIE HALL Sunday Evening, MARCH 21 at 8:30 o'clock Painting of Piatigorsky by Wayman Adams, which took first prize at a Carnegie Institute Exhibit and which has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Great Swedish Tenor Gregor Piatigorsky gives his annual New York recital on Friday evening, March JUSSI 19, at Carnegie Hall. Ralph Berkowitz will be at the piano. Now on his usual sold-out tour, the ’cellist opened the month of March in Mexico to be followed, before coming to Carnegie, by a group of Texas concerts including appearances with the Dallas Symphony in Dallas and Fort Worth and with the San Antonio Symphony. On March 27 he plays in Chicago, on the 30th in Buffalo, and on April 1 in Washington, D. C. His last date is at Columbia Uni­ BJOERLING versity on April 3, when he will give the premiere of the Hindemith Sonata in E major. This summer Piatigorsky will be on the faculty of the Berkshire Music Festival, JAMES QUILLIAN at the in charge of , after which he goes abroad for a tour which opens at the Edinburgh Festival. Later he fills engagements in Scandinavia, Steinway , Holland and France and ends his tour playing at Albert Hall on November 19 under Sargent. 1948-49 marks the twentieth American anniversary tour of Piatigorsky whom (Victor Records) Koussevitzky has called “the greatest 'cellist of our day”. CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM 13

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TOWN HALL TOWN HALL Thursday Evening, MARCH 25, at 8:30 o clock Monday Evening, APRIL 5, at 8:30 o'clock "A great violinist."—Chicago Tribune George Neikrug 'Cellist ERICH ITOR KAHN at the Steinway

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TIMES HALL "Solid musicianship."—New York Times Thursday Evening, MARCH 25, at 8:30 o'clock

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TOWN HALL TOWN HALL Sunday Afternoon, MARCH 21, at 5:30 o'clock Monday Evening, APRIL 19, at 8:30 o'clock Roderick Pinkerton Tenor Sophia Melvin Pianist (Steinway) LEON POMMERS at the Baldwin New York Debut

Sunday Afternoon, FEBRUARY 20, 1949 "A brilliant talent highly developed." at 3:00 o'clock —Washington Star.

Thursday Evening, MARCH 3, 1949, at 8:30 o'clock

Lotte Lehmann TIMES HALL Soprano Monday Evening, APRIL 26, at 8:30 o'clock at the Piano Steinway Piano RCA Victor & Single Seats $3.60, $3.00, $2.40, $1.80 Rena Greene Mail orders only to Town Hall Box Office Seats assigned in order of receipt Pianist (Steinway) CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM

ilillllllllllllillHllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilliiiniiiiii THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF N.Y. Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Metro­ CARNEGIE HALL politan Opera soprano Bidu Sayao, Saturday Evening, MARCH 20 mezzo-soprano Jane Hobson, pianist at 8:45 o'clock Menahem Pressler, the women's chorus of the Westminster Choir, of which John Finley Williamson is director, and the entire Philharmonic-Symphonv Or­ chestra will contribute their services to a gala program at Carnegie Hall on Sat­ urday evening, March 20th, for the Pen­ Under the direction of sion Fund of the Philharmonic-Sym­ phony Society, announces Mrs. John T. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI Pratt, chairman of the benefit concert. with This is the only musical event this sea­ son for the Pension Fund. Bidu Sayao

The program will include Debussy's Jane Hobson "La Damoiselle Elue” in which Mme. Sayao and Miss Hobson will be soloists Menahem Pressler with the women’s chorus of the West­ minster Choir; and young Pressler will The Westminster Choir play Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Tickets: Boxes—1st tier $72.00; 2nd tier $48.00 (single seats $6.00 In volunteering to sing the part of the each). Parquet: $7.20 and $4.80. Blessed Damozel in the Rossetti poem, Dress Circle: $3.60. Balcony: $2.40 Bidu Sayao says she is paying a debt of and $1.80. long standing to the society. It was in (Prices include 20% Federal Tax) this Debussy work, with the Philhar­ monic under Toscanini, that she made her New York orchestral debut in 1936, the year before she went to the Metro­ politan. This was the Society's first per­ formance of “La Damoiselle Elue" ; the Stokowski performance is the second. HALL JOHNSON Will Conduct an Jane Hobson, who makes her Phil­ INTERRACIAL CHORUS harmonic debut as the mezzo-soprano narrator, was born in Murray, Nebraska. of 500 VOICES She started her musical career as a pi­ Brilliant New Solo Voices — Striking anist, studying first in France under Ca­ Instrumental Effects mille Decreus and Robert Casadesus at the American Conservatory at Fontaine­ in his Soul Stirring Cantata entitled bleau, later at the Cincinnati Conserva­ tory under Severin Eisenberger. On the advice of musical experts she gave up her piano career to concentrate on her voice. She won a fellowship to Juilliard SON OF MAN The Moving, Human Story of the Christ where she studied under Evan Evans from 1942 to 1946. In January, 1946, JUANO HERNANDEZ, Narrator she gave a Town Hall recital as winner CARL R. DITON, Organist of the Naumburg Award. She is now studying with Margarete Matzenauer. CARNEGIE HALL GOOD FRIDAY EVENING Menahem Pressler is the 19-year-old Palestinian pianist who played earlier MARCH 26th this season with the Philadelphia Or­ Performance begins at I 1:30 o'clock chestra—a performance which won him Doors open at 11:00 P. M. a contract as soloist with that organiza­ Tickets at Box Office: $3.60, $2.40, tion for the next three years—and who, $1.80, $1.20 (Including Tax) in the autumn of 1946 won the interna­ tional Debussy prize in San Francisco. Sponsored by The Interdenominational Ministers Alliance of Greater New York and Vicinity Proceeds to be devoted to the Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllll' Scholarship Fund of the Festival Chorus llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll