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THE TOWN HALL ENDOWMENT SERIES THE d'apres A. M. CASSANDRE 'l ~ mUSIC DF ALL PUBLISHERS . LL 9th Season 1938-1939 JOSE F ~ Carnegie Hall, Mon. Eve., Jan. 9 HOURS IN THE SADDLE ANO ROSALYNTURECKPIANIST JOSEPH SZIGETI HOFMANN a Dubonnet Cocktoil before you dine. "JEUNES FILLES AU JARDIN" Winner of "The Town Hall Young Artist Award" What a grond way to stort o meol. (Mompou-Szigeli), and lhe other for the Season of I937-1938 RECITAL This greot French oppetizer, mede of lranscriplions of Mr. Szigeti PRO G R A ~I fine wines deftly blended, is neither published by- 1. too sweet nor too dry. lt's delicious! Partita, E minar (lly Request) ...... J. S. Bach CARNEGIE HALL TI. Variations on a Theme "God Save The King" ...... Beetltoven Sunday Eve., March 26, 1939, at 8:30 Sonata, Opus 2. F sharp minar ...... Brahms UI. CARl Prelude. Tango, Fugue ...... Pa~tl Nordoff DUBONNET ~I~CUlR ~ Hntnorous l\farch ...... , . . . Sibelius • APERITIF WINE-ALCOHOL 18% BY VOLUME-COPR. 1938, SCHENLEY IMPORT CORP., N. Y. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir ...... lJelmssy 119 W.57TH ST.oR 7TH ST.E 4TH nvE. La danse de Puck ...... Debussy Canto Flamenco from "Pochades Andalouses" ...... lufante Tickets NOW on sal e at Box Office: Danse Gitane from "Pochades Andalouses" ...... Infante Fledermaus ...... Strauss-Godowsky Dancing Really is Fun Steiwway P1'a no Balcony $1.65; Dress Circle $2.20; Personalized Lessons in TOWN HAI.L Parquet $2.75; Box seats $2.20 & $3.30 Wednesday Evening, January 11th, ai 8:30 j Wa!tz - Fox Trot - Tango COnly New York Recital This Season) (Tax included) T cHAIKOVSKY ...... Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 Rumba Snccecding Endntl'meut Srries Et•erlls Will Featttre : I. Andante sostenuto. Moderato con amma Advisory lessons no charge Richard Hara1d • in movimento di Valse or obligation TAUBER KREUTZBERG II. Andantino in modo di canzona Lyric Tenor-Jan. 25 Dancer-March MORRIS Steinway Piano Jascha Walter III. Scherzo: P izzicato ostinato: Allegro STUD!b OF SOCIAL DANCTNG 152 WEST 57 STREET HEIFETZ GIESEKING IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco Violinist-Feb. 15 Pianist-March 15 Management Richard Copley PIANOS bought, sold, rented Soloist Phonograph Records JESÜS MARÍA SANROMA bought and so1d ERNEST DAVIS 158 W. 56th St .. opposite stage entrance Steinway Piano Carnegie Hall C01umbus 5-7353 TOWN HALL Fortieth Anniversary Concert Remaining Concerts CARNEGIE HALL JAN~ 9. FEB. 6, Evenings Saturday Aft., January 14, at 2:30 MUSICAL ART QUARTEl Josef and Resina Tracing lhe developmenl oi string quartel music LHEVINNE from lhe ear1y 18th century lo lhe presenl time assisted by the Juilliard Orchestra Conductors Fifth Concer! Jan. 9 - Austrian Program Albert Stoessel and Ernest Hutcheson Distinctiye Eye Glasses & Spectacles Tickets: $3, $2.50, $2, $r.65, $r.ro, TOWN HALL Now at Box Office Season 1938-39 - Second Sonata Series Baldwin Pianos er.Jl~~,Jn~. Monday Evening, February 27 cocktaíls, maestro, please! ~.,~PTICIANS Saturday Aftemoon, March 11 TOWN HALL Schrafft's serve only quality liquors, of course, but Tuesday Evening. March 28 7 EAST 48th STREET, N. Y. Sundcry Cvc .. January 15, a: 8:30 that's only half the story. Your cocktails are pre­ ADOLF RUDOLF pared by masters of that fine art!. .. lce cream (Just East of Fifth Ave.) sodas at their finest, too-and luncheon, dinner Opera Glasses, Oxfords BUSCH and SERKIN Ania DORFMANN and supper. Come before and after the concert! ,Lorgnettes, Binoculars, VIOLINIST PIANIST Field Glasses, Thermometers, "Music Making o! the Highest Order." PIANIST Kodaks, Projectors -New York Herald Tribune and Supplies Steinway Piano Steinway Piano ScltRAFFT's Established I 842 Tickets now on sole at Box Office 220 WEST 57TH STREET 96 years of dependable service 10 CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM ~OL.VMI/A (ê.ONC.FATS ((;OAPOHAT/ONof c·ARN EGIE HALL PROGRAM

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SECOND AND LAST RECITAL Back to CARNEGIE HALL CARNEGIE HALL Monday Eve.. March 6, 1939 About the Hall Blll'l011 Cay Programme For Special Boston Symphony Concert Even today, refinements in acoustics are obtained 110IIllES only through trial and error. It is therefore amazing In Person •sAiw•ys TRAVELOGUES that results which defy imitation were obtained at EVERYTHING NEW! Carnegie Hall in r891, before the advent of radio and WITH COLOR ANO MOTION PICTURES of sophistication in acoustics. - TWO COURSES EXACTLY ALIKE - Acoustical experts over the years have studied every SUNDAY EVENINGS at 8:30 detail of the building. They' have spent hours in the 5 MONDAY MATINEES at 2:30

main auditorium in Carnegie Hall and in the Car· JAN. 15-16 WEST INDIES ~I CRUISING C~R~BBEAN negie Chamber Music Hall taking measurements of JAN. 22-23 wEsr INDIEs #2 ALON~pl~rsH MAIN walls and ceilings, gauging angles of the proscenium ~rches, analyzing materiais used in upholstery and in JAN. 29-30 Glorious NORWAY FROMM~~~~~ i~J decoration. Yet no exact formula has been derived FEB. 5-6 Beautiful SWEDEN JEMTL~~~T~E~ 6~E SCANIA from their figures to explain the astounding results. FEB. 12-13 The New IRELAND MOTOR~~~ 6~R~~;A~ Preserving the perfection of the acoustics of these FLAGSTAD MAIL ORDERS NOW halls is a trust which entails more difficulties than can Course Tickets (on Sale at Box Office Dec. 27th) Sundoy Eve. Serias: $8 .80, $6.60, $4.40, $3.30, lncl. To x easily be imagined. Careful scrutiny is given all ma­ Mondoy Mot. Serias: $6.60, $4.40, $3.30, ln c l. Tax. EDWIN McARTHUR at the piano teriais and quantities used in redecoration and altera­ Single Tickets (on Sole ot Box Office Jan. 9th) Sundey Eve. Series: $2 .20, $1 .65, $1 .lO, 85c, lncl. Ta x Joseph Haydn tion, so as to make them identical with the substances Mondey Mot. Series: $1.65, $1.10, 85c, 40c, lncl. Tox Tickets Now on Sale at the The Boston Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, replaced. Back to-CARNEGIE HALL-Everything New! Box Office Serge Koussevitzky, will lay aside their more serious Carnegie's perfectior, in acoustics gives the box office purposes for an evening, and present a programrne on an unusual problem. Most of the subscribers to sea­ Wednesday, February 8, quite unprecedented in their scn tickets insist on having the very same seats year CARNEGIE HALL long record of concerts in New York. The "Concert after year. Mrs. Vincent Astor, for one, prefers to sit Tuesday Eve.. January 10 WILLMORE & POWERS Extraordinaire", as it is called, is to be devoted to the in the parquet, and Mr. Arthur Judson has chosen at 8:45 present Pension Fund of the orchestra. the same box in the first tier for many years. Mr. LaGuardia, when elected Mayor, Aatly refused to TRIO OF A feature of the programme will be a performance transfer his season tickets for the Philharmonic from Only New York Recital NEW YORK of Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony, on a special stage the dress circle to a box saying, "I have the best seats this Season set, by the Orchestra and Serge Koussevitzky in eight­ Friedberg Karpilowsky in the house." When , as regular Piano Vi o !in eenth century costume. Serge Prokofieff's orchestral conductor of the Philadelphia, heard his orchestra Sa1mond fairy tale, "Peter and the Wolf", in which the various under the baton of a guest, he was always to be found 'Cello characters of the story are depicted by different instru­ in the balcony. SERKIN Final Concert ments in the orchestra, will be performed-Richard PIANIST Saturday Evening, January 7, at 8:30 Hale acting as narrator. This will be the first perfor­ One artist, after a recent recital, was heard to com­ at TOWN HALL mance in New York of Prokofieff's piece. The second plain: "There is only one thing Wrong with Carnegie "A distinguished addition to the grow­ Hall; I am sure they can hem me puffing, up in the ing field of chamber music.''-N. Y. Times part of the programme will present the growth of the top balcony!" Tickets $1.10 to $2.75 PROGRAM waltz from the earliest Viennese days of Joseph Lanner NOW on sale at Box Office to its most elaborare symphonic development. Dr. RoBERT E. SIMON, ]R. JoHN J. ToTTEN r. Piano Quartet in G minor ...... Mozart 2 . Trio in B flat major, Opus 97 Beethoven Koussevitzky will perform Lanner's Waltzes, "Die President Ho.use Manager Intermission Schi:inbrunner"; Johann Strauss' "Vienna Blood", and EuGENE D. MoLYNEAu.: \1ARY KEMPER GuNN 3· Piano Quartet in G minor, Opus 25 "Voices of Spring"; the "Valse Triste", by Sibelius; Vice-President Booking Manager (Steinway Piano) Bralzms Viola - Lillian Fuchs and Ravel's Choreographic Poem, "La Valse."

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BUFFET is located on second tier box floor. Open before, during and after each concert. --+- ELEVATORS to Dress Circle and Balcony in Studio Entrance 154 W. 57th Street. DRESS CIRCLE EXITS PARQUET EXITS Nos. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, SMOKING is permitted only in the Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, biT 47, to 57th St. Art Gallery off the east corri dor of 12, 13, 14 , to 57th St. No. 42, to 7th Ave. Nos. 7, 8, 9, to 7th Ave. i main floor, and in the Buffet on the (XIl second tier box floor.

TELEPHONES are located in en­ trance lobby, at right of parquet near 7th Avenue exit, and on west. side of Dress Circle.

LOST ANO FOUND articles at House Manager's Office, 56th St, entrance. -+- PHYSICIANS and other patrons expecting telephone calls will please leave seat number at House The Frank Chapmans at the Lido Powdering up at a Lily Pons With Robert W. Miller, President Manager's Office. party in Connecticut of the San Francisco Opera

EAR-PHONES-A few seats have been wired for the hard-of-hear­ ing. For information, see the A CELEBRITY MAKES A DEBUT House Manager. Gladys Swarthout's nine year association with the Metropolitan Opera, her five sound films, her numerous broadcasts over nationwide hookups have es­ tablished her as one of the most popular and important young singers

FIRST TIER OF BOXES, EXITS BALCONY EXITS now before the public. Y et oddly enough, her appearance at Carnegie Hall Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18 , 19, 20, 21 Nos. 33, 34, 35 36, to 57th St. Saturday evening January 21 will be in the nature of a debut. It will be her 37, 38 , 40, 41 No. 46 to 56th St. and 7th Ave. to 57th Street first public recital in New York, though she has been heard in recital in No. 39 to 7th Ave. practically every state and every large city in the country and has appeared in several of the musicale series held at hotels in this city. Noted for her distinc­ SECO NO TIER OF BOXES, EXITS Nos. 22, 23, 24, 27, 48 to 57th St. tion in dress, American designers have twice voted Miss Swarthout one of the No. 49 to 56th St. and 7th Ave. ten best dressed women in the United States.

The Chapmans at Nassau A radio-film-opera star relaxes