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COMMUNITY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES Moss and Hayman, Directors MYRA HESS April 11 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN April 13 contents April 1959 MYRA HESS April 11..................................... Pages 7-13 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN April 13..................................... Pages 18-21 WHO’S WHO Myra Hess......................................... 14 Artur Rubinstein ............................. 23 FIRE NOTICE: Look around now, choose the nearest exit to your seat, and in case of disturbance of any kind, to avoid the dangers of panic, WALK (do not run) to that exit. SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED in the foyer of this theatre by order of the Los Angeles Fire Department. ______________ JOHN F. HUBER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 1149 North McCadden Place • Hollywood 38 • Hollywood 2-6961 Advertising Sales Representatives for THE PLAYGOER • SYMPHONY MAGAZINE • MUSIC MAGAZINE HOLLYWOOD BOWL MAGAZINE • GREEK THEATRE MAGAZINE JOHN F. HUBER, Publisher; DOUGLAS CRANE and MARY L. LACY, Associate Publishers and Editors; JANE MARSHALL, Executive Secretary; KAY SIMS, Art Assistant; HELENE REILLY, Editorial Assistant; BARBARA HUBER, Shopwindows Editor; FRED WILLIAM CARTER, Photographer; PARKER & PARKER, Auditors; RUTH L. WAGNER, Comptroller; FREDERICK HANAU STERN, D. A. CAMPBELL, IRWIN FRIES, Advertising Sales Representatives; RAY ROVIN, Magazine Sales. Eastern Representative: NATIONAL THEATRE & CONCERT MAGAZINE, 258 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. Saturday Evening, April 11, 1959 at 8:30 COMMUNITY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION Moss and Hayman, Directors presents MYRA HESS pianist PROGRAM Group I. Prelude and Fugue in E Major, Book II, No. 9........................... Bach Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, Book II, No. 24......................... Bach Toccata in D Major .................................................................................Bach LAST ACT—C. C. Brown’s World Famous Hot Fudge Sundaes. LOCATION—7007 Hollywood Blvd.—/é Block West of Chinese Theatre. NOW OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT — CLOSED SUNDAYS MUSIC MAGAZINE • Page 7 promise her anything but give her ARPEGELANVIN PARFUMS-THE BEST PARIS HAS TO OFFER MYRA HESS • Continued Group II. Sonata in C Minor, K. 457 ..............................................................Mozart Molto allegro Adagio Allegro assai INTERMISSION MUSIC MAGAZINE Page 9 MYRA HESS • Continued Group III. Sonata in A Major, Op. 120 Schubert Allegro moderato Andante Allegro for Ice Cream - Where else? next time, park in the BILTMORE GARAGE SPECIAL EVENING | C A _ THEATRE PARKING ) JUC regular parking: 2 hrs., 50« 25c an hour your easiest thereafter street from the FREEWAY GRAND AVE.* or WILSHIRE MUSIC MAGAZINE Page 11 MAE GILBERT REESE , PIANIST Teacher of Now on second successful concert JOANNA HODGES tour of Western Europe. Winner of 1959 Young Artist WILLIAM PHEMISTER Contest of U.C.L.A. Pianist of Westwood Trio, winner of first ELIZABETH MOTLEY p ace, with special commendation, in Co eman Concert Competition. STUDIO: 857 South Rimpau, Los Angeles . WE. 4-4272 MYRA HESS • Continued Group IV. Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 110.............................................. Beethoven Moderato cantabile molto espressivo Allegro molto Adagio ma non troppo — Arioso dolente — Fuga — Tempo del'Arioso Tempo della Fuga Angel, Capitol (EMI), and Columbia Records Steinway Piano .....................................................Courtesy of Penny-Owsley Music Co. Exclusive Representation: The FRIEDBERG MANAGEMENT, Inc. 113 West 57 Street , New York 19, N. Y. MUSIC MAGAZINE • Page 13 but also self-conscious about spending the rest of her life with a title. Although she always has dressed con servatively on the concert platform, she is by no means addicted to black or lace in her everday costume. She loves good company and is witty and direct. She can tell fascinating stories of eve nings in London at Paul and Muriel Draper s home, when Chaliapin turned pages for Artur Rubinstein, and half a dozen other renowned artists enjoyed an atmosphere of complete relaxation and high spirits. Nor does she fail to sense this love of life in music. “You must hear the cork come out of the One of the most beloved of all musi bottle in Mozart,” she explains, in de cal artists in our generation, Dame Myra scribing her sense of exhilaration at the Hess continues to win warm praise for miraculous vitality of his piano con her performances. Since 1922 she has certos. been a familiar figure on American con cert stages. While Dame Myra’s repertory is large, and includes Scarlatti, Franck, Schu She was born in Hampstead, England, mann, Chopin, and Debussy, she con and educated at the Guildhall School of centrates on Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Music. She became an associate of the and Brahms. At 18 she dared to un Royal Academy of Music in her 12th dertake an all-Beethoven program, which year and a Fellow when she was but 17. was then much bolder than it seems now. That same year she made her debut with Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Dame Myra refuses to look at herself Philharmonic. Tobias Matthay was her as a musical institution. She is still teacher for many years and a major in working, and when someone mentions fluence throughout her life. what she has accomplished she is apt to reply, “I am just beginning to be When King George VI conferred able to do what I want to do.” This the Order of the British Empire upon attitude explains the remarkable fresh her, with the title of Dame, she con ness and immediacy of her perform fessed that she was touched by the honor ances. MUSIC MAGAZINE Page 14 Monday Evening, April 13, 1959 at 8:30 A COMMUNITY CIVIC MUSIC ASSN. ATTRACTION Prof. VLADO KOLITSCH Moss and Hayman, Directors Faculty member, I. A. Conservatory of Music S. HUROK FREE SCHOLARSHIPS presents . TWO FULL SCHOLARSHIPS (Valued at $1000 each) ARTUR RUBINSTEIN . TWO HALF SCHOLARSHIPS . FOUR PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS (Valued at $250 each) All-Chopin Program STUDIO: 1717 No. Vine St., Hollywood 28 • Telephones FAcultyTl921 or ^0*5-9500 PROGRAM Sonata in B Minor, Opus 58 Group I. 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And, despite the frequency of his ap pearances here and in Europe, his re ceptions inevitably amount to an ova tion. Rubinstein has managed to find time to record for numerous films. His first such engagement was putting the Rach Artur Rubinstein had already enjoyed maninoff Second Concerto on the sound what amounts to a career in music when track of Republic’s “I’ve Always Loved he first came to America in 1906. He You.” He played on the screen for the was then a stripling of only 16, but first time when he was seen and heard already a specialist in Chopin, Beetho in the star-studded production “Carnegie ven, Brahms, and Liszt. His first Ameri Hall.” In 1950 he became associated can appearance was in Philadelphia with with a group of artists interested in the Philadelphia Orchestra at the begin bringing good music to neighborhood ning of the tour, and his New York cinema houses. This was accomplished debut was at Carnegie Hall with the with the unforgettable full length fea same orchestra under the direction of ture, “Of Men and Music,” starring Fritz Scheel. Rubinstein, Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and During his first tour here, which Peerce. lasted three months, he gave 75 concerts. A red carnation in his lapel, his ex Although he played brilliantly on occa pressive hands waving a Havana cigar, sion, the critics picked out points that his features animated in the manner of gave young Artur pause for reflection.