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FLOOR (A&S Brooklyn store) The place Lukas Foss is principal conductor of both the Jerusalem to come... Symphony and the Brooklyn Philharmonia. He also serves as co-director of the Buffalo Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, which presents the series for low-cost, "Evenings for New Music" in Buffalo and New York. Previously Foss had succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as high-quality professor of composition at UCLA, a position he held for ten years.

family protection! Foss also served for two years as director of the summer festival concerts held in Lincoln Center by the New York Philharmonic, and he conceived and conducted the historic Stravinsky Festival of 1966. He has conducted many of the major orchestras in The the United States, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leningrad Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, Williamsburgh 1 and the Tokyo Symphony.

Savings His compositions have won numerous prizes, awards and commissions, most recently the Ditson Award Bank of Columbia University. He has attracted much at- Incorporated 1851 tention to his recent series of "Marathon" concerts now an annual feature of The Brooklyn Philharmonia, Brooklyn Offices: the Los Angeles Philharmonic's summer schedule, the Spoleto Festival, and the Jerusalem 1 Hanson Place at Flathush Ave., Symphony Brooklyn, N.Y. 11243 Orchestra. Broadway at Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211 86th St. and 23rd Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11214 New Lots and Pennsylvania Ayes., Brooklyn N.Y. 11207

Nassau Offices: Hempstead Turnpike at Center Lane, The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra was founded in Levittown, N.Y. 11756 1936 with the establishment of the 682 Dogwood Ave., Franklin Square, N.Y. 11010 broadcasting station "Kol Yerushalayim" (The Voice of Israel) and has performed many contemporary works, most of Queens Offices: which have been commissioned for the orchestra, 63rd Drive at Saunders St., Rego Park, N.Y. 11374 providing special opportunities for Israeli composers. 136-65 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, N.Y. 11354 Their weekly concerts in Jerusalem have long been 107-15 Continental Ave.. Forest Hills N.Y. 11375 recognized as an important element of Jerusalem's musical life. Manhattan Offices: 74 Wall St. at Pearl St. New York, N.Y. 10005 r. The orchestra has 80 members of which 22 are recent 345 East 86th St., New York, N.Y. 10028 Iq immigrants from the Soviet Union, 5 are Roumanian, and 12 C. are from the United States and Canada. Half of the latter are women. All of the Americans have varying musical degrees from Curtis, Peabody, and Juilliard.

Inquire about The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra made its intro- ductory tour of Europe at the beginning of the 1974- 75 concert season and immediately established Savings Bank itself as a major, internationally recognized orchestra. This current American visit in 1975 will constitute the second international tour for the orchestra, to Life Insurance be followed by a return, more extensive European tour in 1976. The orchestra will make a number of commercial recordings for Vox and Hed Artzi record at any office companies later in the year. Recordings of the Jer- usalem Symphony Orchestra are already being without broadcast regularly in many parts of the world. obligation! Copland and Lukas Foss), and in Electronic music at Columbia Sinfonia Salomon Rossi (circa 1570 to 1630) University. The idea of the "Drama" in this composition is the character- to his name or signed Salomon Rossi proudly added "Ebreo" ization of the troubles and struggles which man has to undergo court of Mantua, Italy, where he in Hebrew. He served the voluntarily and involuntarily. Sometimes, the struggle is with his music. After the Austrian invasion published 13 volumes of his environment, and sometimes-with himself. It may happen his orchestra and his famous about 1630, all trace of Rossi, that precisely under the pressure of his surroundings and the lost. violin school (the first in Italy) was struggle within himself, he will feel strong and mighty, whereas hours of quiet and peace of mind may bring out feelings of psalms and 4 books of His compositions include Hebrew isolation. Sinfonie, gagliarde and sonate, probably for string instruments. examples of instrumental varia- These are among the earliest The composition is in one movement, divided into several sub- and popular Italian tunes which tions (on Synagogue tunes sections. These sections are separated from each other by a subsequently became Synagogue tunes). "sound curtain" produced by the strings.

adapted a few of these short 4-part I have assembled and The "characters" of the drama are presented by several motifs, is heard in its entirety with two compositions. Every piece derived from the basic tone-row which appears at the beginning the last (5th) movement I used a part of a exceptions: For of the work as first "curtain". These "characters" barely change strings, followed by a complete Sinfonia as an introduction for in the course of the work, as far as their structure as a "motif" Rossi calls "Sonata" and added a few bars of fugal piece which is concerned. Those changes they do undergo are more in the another Sinfonia as a coda. nature of changed "situations" which show them in different light every time. Moments of crisis produce some kind of dis- The hardest task was to avoid "orchestration" in favour of a integration of sonorities. The work concludes in a quiet, kind of "assigning for groups of instruments", as a Renaissance questioning atmosphere. composer would have done. Meditations on a Drama has received the ACUM (The Israel An adaptation is either homage or exploitation. Whatever mine Copyright Society) Prize for 1966. I may be, I hope it reveals the delight take in Rossi's notes. -Lukas Foss -Lukas Foss

Symphony No. 7 in A, Ludwig van Beethoven Op. 92 '(1770-1827)

Like every successful composer, Beethoven had his "hits", Nigun Ernest Bloch pieces loved by the public not wisely but too well. Such was for Violin and Orchestra (1880-1959) the case with the Allegretto second movement of the Seventh Symphony. At its first performance on December 8,1813, the Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva on July 24,1880. His father, second movement was encored immediately. After that, it was a clock merchant, hoped that his son would enter business but became such a favorite that, to Beethoven's dismay, it voiced no objection when Ernest chose music instead. His sometimes substituted for the slow movements of the Fourth first compositions were completed when he was 16. He studied and Eighth Symphonies! Unbearable practice this, to send the in Germany and France and later taught composition at the natural child off to foster homes to have it admired as if it Geneva Conservatory. In 1916 he moved to the U.S.A. where were a beautiful orphan not having a family of its own. he became Director of the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1925 he resigned in order to devote his entire time to com- And consider the family it comes from. A spacious introduc- position. For the rest of his life, Bloch lived in Agate Beach, tion, almost a movement in itself, leads to a Vivace born of a in and oboes which is Oregon, in a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean. bumptious rhythmic figure set up flutes virtually omnipresent throughout the movement. After a wind rhy- Bloch was exceptionally prolific as a composer, particularly chord, low strings intone the movement's characteristic a simple during his last ten years. He frequently conducted his own thm-a long, two shorts, two longs-in resolutely but works. In his music, Bloch combined impressionistic or roman- minor-mode march tune. This light non-melody persists tic writing with intensity of expression, rhythmic vigor, and is soon made to relinquish its prominence by the violas and vivid harmonic colors. cellos, which have a poignant song to sing. A turn to major brings that "smile through tears" that was to become a Roman- pro- Nigun was composed in 1923, during Bloch's "Jewish" period, tic mannerism; but here it is not long-lived. The solemn which extended from about 1910 to 1935. Bloch adopted in- cession returns, as does the smile, while the orchestra swells tervals, patterns, and colors found in Jewish music. -His was to a magnificent, hammering climax. music that interpreted the Jewish soul, "the complex, agitated the Bible." is three parts whimsy, two parts tongue-in-cheek, soul," as he put it, "that I feel vibrating throughout The Scherzo all of it borne along with incomparable energy-sudden outbursts of fortissimo, equally sudden retreats to pianissimo. The contrasting Trio occurs twice and tries to be heard a third time but is swept out by five emphatic strokes of the full orchestra.

In the Finale, Beethoven unleashes the demonic thrust which, Meditations for a Drama Tzvi Avni by sheer will, he has kept in check until now. Furious vigor propels the entire movement, yet, marvelous to say, the com- Tzvi Avni was born in 1927 and studied in Tel Aviv with Abel poser manages to contain this -tumult within a recognizable Ehrlich and Paul Ben-Haim, as well as Mordecai Seter, under classical form. There is emphatically more to this symphony whose direction he graduated from the Academy of Music. than a "hit" second movement. Subsequently he furthered his studies in the United States ira the fields of composition (at Tanglewood, with Aaron -From notes of the Los Angeles Philharmonic _II The Brooklyn Philharmonia im- Patrons High Winds Fund, Inc. Mr. Max L. Koeppel eamperdown Surdna Foundation We're Donors fast Elm Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Chase Manhattan Bank becoming a First National City Bank of N.Y. Heckscher Foundation Stanley H. 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Safian Seafarer's International Union Mary Lo Shahawy St. John's University Mr. Leonard Taubenblatt Mr. William Walker Dr. Bernard Wasserman Mr. Murray Weinstein Officers Of The Brooklyn Philharmonia Max L. Koeppel, President Bernard S. Barr, Vice President Stanley H. Kaplan, Vice-President Eugene J. Sack, Vice-President Daniel S. Schwartz, Vice-President Joseph Scorcia, Vice-President Melvin Moore, Secretary Morris Kirsch, Treasurer The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Honorary Chairmen Lukas Foss, Chief Conductor and Musical Advisor Hon. Abraham Beame Hon. Sebastian Leone Yehudi Fickler, Director Board Of Directors Michael A. Armstrong Bernard S. Barr Mrs. Bernard S. Barr Mrs. Sidney Bershatsky Julius Bloom Mrs. William Bloom Exclusive tour management: Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill William Ehrlinger Paragon International Presentations, Inc., Sherman Pitluck, Gen. Mgr. 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