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Daggett M. Lee, Series Manager Concert Calendar Books to suit every taste. Quality stationery, greeting WOOLSEY HALL CONCERT SERIES cards, novelty gift items. Auspices School of Music - Yale University SEASON 1959-1960 THE CHANNEL BOOKSHOP, inc. 37 Whitney Ave. LOcust 2-6882 Seven Evening Concerts at 8:30 Free Parking at Audubon & Whitney Tuesday, October 20, 1959 BRING THIS AD IN FOR SURPRISE GIFT. YEHUDI and HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN In joint recital for violin and piano Tuesday, November 17, 1959 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA YALE ALUMNI Charles Munch, Conductor ARE STILL ELIGIBLE FOR CO-OP Tuesday, December 1, 1959 MEMBERSHIP. SAVE MORE THAN LUCERNE FESTIVAL STRINGS from Switzerland 10% ON YOUR PURCHASES BY Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Violin Soloist JOINING NOW. Tuesday, January 12, 1960 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist YALE CO-OP 300 YORK STREET Monday, February 1, 1960 ROBERT SHAW CHORALE and ORCHESTRA Bach’s B Minor Mass Tuesday, March 22, 1960 “Z choose such BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA qualities as would Charles Munch, Conductor wear well” Friday, April 8, 1960 COUnTRY' LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA from Paris Oliver Goldsmith Igor Markevitch, Conductor CLOTHES 3584 Whitney Ave., Mt. Carmel TICKET OFFICE IN THE Opposite Sleeping Giant LOOMIS TEMPLE of MUSIC Telephone CHestnut 8-2767 101 ORANGE STREET PAUL H. HENKEL • ■ • WHLM YOU Interiors, Inc. OBROHRm siLveRmnn Interior Decorating insurance agency Draperies — Upholstered Furniture Slipcovers — Venetian Blinds iniAtSeHMCv Carpets — Fine Fabrics Available MS Ch.reh st. UN S-4IH 316 Elm St. MAin 4-9433 • INSURANCE ■ New Haven 11, Conn. Page Three Qoncert (Calendar The School of Music — Yale University CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES SEASON 1959-60 Five Evening Concerts at 8:30 P.M. SPRAGUE MEMORIAL HALL (College and Wall Streets) Monday, October 12 VEGH QUARTET Tuesday, November 3 JUILLIARD QUARTET Tuesday, January 5 NETHERLANDS QUARTET Tuesday, February 9 PHILADELPHIA WOODWIND QUINTET Tuesday, March 8 BERKSHIRE QUARTET YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY RECITALS 1959-60 All events are open to the public without charge except as indicated. Sprague Memorial Hall (8:30 p.m.) Aldo Parisot, Violoncello, October 6 Blake Stern, Tenor, November 10 * Bruce Simonds, Piano, December 8 Ensemble Program, January 26 John Barrows, Horn Robert Bloom, Oboe Robert Nagel, Trumpet ARRANGEMENT OF EXITS Phyllis Rappeport, Piano Donald Currier, Piano, March 1 Please look about you and deter mine which one of the exits indi Battell Chapel (4 p.m.) cated on these diagrams is nearest Finn Videro, Organ to your seat. In case of emergency, Nov. 8, Dec. 6, Feb. 21, Mar. 20 walk to it, do not run. Woolsey Hall, (4 p.m.) This exit is also available for your Charles Krigbaum, Organ, Dec. 17 use at the close of this event. Finn Videro, Organ, Jan. 10 * Admission charge Page Four peregrinations, which have since covered more than TONIGHT’S ARTIST DIVIDEND CHECKS two million miles and have taken him to every for a country in the world except Tibet. In 1946, the "SECOND INCOME" most international of all living artists, Rubinstein through became a U. S. citizen. He is prouder of the simple INVESTMENTS document that officially makes him an American any of the many decorations and citations he Chas. W. Scranton & Co. has received from universities and governments. Members New York Slock Exchange Wherever Rubinstein plays, his concerts evoke unparalleled demonstrations. His appearances in 209 CHURCH STREET Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Dallas, Chicago have set NEW HAVEN MAin 4-0171 “The last of the great romantic performers in an all-time record. In Rome, box-office lines have Bridgeport Waterbury the tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein . the formed at midnight before the morning tickets Danbury New London best living pianist ... a great artist with the broad were put on sale. Two years ago, his extraordinary est popular following of any front-rank musician series of five concerto concerts in Carnegie Hall in in the world”—so Time Magazine recently de the space of thirteen days, sold out long in advance. scribed Artur Rubinstein, who is giving the fourth His RCA Victor records have sold by the millions grace b. ¡ameson concert of the current Woolsey Hall Series tonight. ail over the world. Custom ^Millinery Born in Lodz, Poland, son of a hand-loom man Mr. Rubinstein has two homes—a house in Paris ufacturer, Rubinstein first displayed signs of musi and an apartment in Manhattan, and after the last XKI5O cal talent at the age of three. At six, he already 152 Temple St. Room 410 concert on his itinerary he rushes to one of them to had performed at a charity concert in Warsaw. At Elevator Service spend as much lime as he can with his family. eleven, young Artur made his formal debut in Ber lin under the baton of the venerable Joachim, who Said Howard Taubman in the New York Times had assumed responsibility for Artur’s musical fu recently. “Artur Rubinstein belongs to the grand ture. By the time Rubinstein was fifteen, his repu line of pianists. In an era of violence and neuroti THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SPORTS tation had spread throughout Europe and he had CAR. The XK-150 series represents a unique cism, he is a shining example of the civilized uni blend of excitement and luxury best ap earned the praise of Saint-Saëns, Paderewski and preciated on the open road. Convertible, Max Bruch. Two years later, in 1906, he paid his versal man. Although he is a naturalized Ameri hardtop coupe and roadster models. first visit to America, where he gave 75 concerts in can, he is a citizen of the world. His passport is not Your Authorized Dealer three months. only music but also his wide culture, his relish for Brown & Thomas Rubinstein returned to Europe to begin his global humanity, his capacity for understanding and IMPORTS, INC. 266 Whalley Ave. • New Haven 11, Conn. (Continued on page 7) laughter.” Page Six Page Seven LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA of PARIS, DIRECTED by IGOR MARKEVITCH, for integrity in music MAKING FIRST AMERICAN VISIT The famed Lamoureux Orchestra of Paris, which STROMBERG-CARLSON makes its first American visit during March and April, will be one of the important concerts of the high fidelity and high fidelity Woolsey Hall Series when it comes on Friday, stereo systems April 8. Although Tuesday is the usual concert night for Woolsey Series events, it was necessary to schedule a Friday in this instance because of the free consultation service compact touring schedule of the big French or chestra. Otherwise New Haven could not have been included on the long-sold-out six-week tour. DAVE JOSLOW AUDIO, Inc. (Located at Cutler's Record Shop) Founded in 1881 by Charles Lamoureux, the orchestra has grown to be one of the most treasured SPruce 7-5421 institutions in the musical life of France. The Lam 33 BROADWAY NEW HAVEN, CONN. oureux is under the direction of the brilliant con ductor Igor Markevitch. The initial public excitement engendered by the Lamoureux’s daring presentation of Wagner operas in concert version in the Paris of the ’80’s has con tinued without interruption since that time. Lohen KIMBALL grin, in 1887, provoked scandals and the perform ances had to be suspended “because of the uproars which they produced in the hall and in the street”. PIANOS • ORGANS Eventually the French accepted the Wagnerian departure from the more formal French music of Teaching • Sales • Service the time, and, encouraged by the Lamoureux, new composers created excitement of their own. Now a French musical landmark, the orchestra I gave world-premieres to such musical masterpieces as Dukas’ Sorcerer s Apprentice and La Peri, De bussy’s La Mer, Three Nocturnes, Martyrdom of St. Farley-Pierce Sebastian and Petite Suite, Ravel’s La False and Bolero and notable works of Saint-Saëns, D’lndy 71 Whitney Ave. Post Road and Roussel. And, since Markevitch took the baton, New Haven Westport MA 4-3771 CL 9-1694 the Lamoureux Foundation has been created to (Continued on page 11) Page Eight LAMOUREUX ORCHESTRA OF PARIS (Continued from page 8) commission a new symphonic work each year, in WOOLSEY HALL suring the continuation of their noted “excitement”. One reason for the necessity of the perpetual mu sical excitement of the Lamoureux is very under standable to Americans: competition. Paris has Sunday Afternoon three noted symphony orchestras—the Lamoureux, February 7, 1960 the Colonne, and the Pasdeloup. The three orches At 4:00 P.M. tras are in open competition for the concert goer’s franc. The competition is so “open” that they tra ditionally begin their concert seasons on the same Sunday, and at the same hour, five-forty-five. Return after four years The acquisition of Igor Markevitch has given the of the famous Lamoureux a great edge on the competition. Con sidered one of Europe’s top conductors, described by Esquire as “one of music’s strong men”, Marke- St. Olaf vitch’s reputation is firmly built on almost thirty years of musical experience. Of the Paris opening, Choir said The New Yorker, “Markevitch’s vigor, rhythm, precision, pace, crescendos, and musical intelli of Northfield, Minnesota gence made the Lamoureux’s opening program an exciting pleasure”. OLAF C. CHRISTIANSEN, Director Mr. Markevitch made his American debut in 1955 with the Boston Symphony. He has since appeared as guest conductor with most of the Sponsored by the American orchestras; in Philadelphia, San Fran NEW HAVEN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES cisco, New York, Cleveland and St. Louis. The and the Philadelphia and Washington critics were amazed YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC at the exciting “new sound” of the familiar Phila delphia Orchestra after only one week with Mar Prices: $1.80 and $1.20 kevitch.

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