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V A SERVICE OF THE RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA / Carnegie Hall Announcements MARCH Tuesday Eve. Mar. 12—Fritz Kreisler, Violinist Wed. Eve. Mar. 13—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Thurs. Eve. Mar. 14—Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday Aft. Mar. 15—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Sat. Aft. Mar. 16—Boston Symphony Orchestra Saturday Eve. Mar. 16—Concert—Under the auspices of New York Schools of Music Sunday Aft. Mar. 17—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Sunday Aft. Mar. 17—New Friends of Music Sunday Eve. Mar. 17—"Evening of Premieres” — Ex­ cerpts from new operas Monday Eve. Mar. 18—National Orchestral Association Tuesday Eve. Mar. 19—Philadelphia Orchestra with Stokowski Wed. Aft. Mar. 20—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Thurs. Eve. Mar. 21—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Saturday Eve. Mar. 23—Workmen’s Circle Chorus Sunday Aft. Mar. 24—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Sunday Eve. Mar. 24—Marian Anderson Monday Eve. Mar. 25—Finnish Benefit Concert Tuesday Eve. Mar. 26—Italian Welfare League Benefit Concert Thurs. Eve. Mar. 28—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Friday Aft. Mar. 29—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Saturday Aft. Mar. 30—National Orchestral Association Saturday Eve. Mar. 30—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Sunday Aft. Mar. 31—Philharmonic-Symphony Society CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM SEASON 1939-1940 FIRE NOTICE—Look around now and choose the nearest exit to your seat. In case of fire walk (not run) to that Exit. Do not try to beat your neighbor to the street. John J. McElligott, Fire Commissioner CARNEGIE HALL Monday Evening, March 11th, at 8:30 o’clock Seventh Event — Hurok Carnegie Hall Series S. HUROK Presents ARTUR RUBINSTEIN

Program I. Chaconne ...... Bach-Busoni Sonata, op. 81a, e flat...... Beethoven . Farewell: Adagio—Allegro Absence: Andante expressivo Return: Vivacissimamente

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Two Sonatas ...... Scarlalti Sonata in E-flat major, Opus 31, No. 3...... Beethoven Sonata in B-flat minor, Opus 35...... Chopin Two Mazurkas ...... Chopin E minor, Opus 41 C-sharp minor, Opus 41 Scarbo ...... Ravel Sonetto del Petrarca, No. 104 -> Au bord d’une source I...... Liszt Feux Follets (Etude) Orage J

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Intermezzo, op. 118 Capriccio, op. 26 w ...... Brahms Rhapsody, op. 119

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II. Four Mazurkas, op. SI...... K. Szymanowski (Dedicated to Mr. Rubinstein)

Polka ...... Shostakovich (From the ballet “The Golden Age”)

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CARNEGIE HALL TOWN HALL Wednesday Eve., APRIL 17th, at 8:45 o'clock Thursday, March 14, 3 p.m. SCHOLA CANTORUM ALL-STRAVINSKYCONCER1 HUGH ROSS, Conductor auspices of the Committee for Relief in Allied Countries MRS. ROBERT WOODS BLISS, Chairman PROGRAM OF Featuring the First New York Performance of the Dumbarton Oaks SOUTH AMERICAN MUSIC Concerto by Sinfonia Biblica ...... Castro IGOR STRAVINSKY Maracatu ...... t...... Mignone played by Musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Composer conducting Choros No. 10...... Villa-Lobos Other Stravinsky Works-. Histoire du Soldat; Octuor (an octette for wind instruments) and Two Piano Concerto • to be played by the Composer and Adele Marcus. Tickets on Sale at Burden-Littell Bureau, Bonwit Tellers, Chorus of 200 — Distinguished Soloists Fifth Avenue at 56th Street. Telephone: ELdorado 5-6800 85 members of the Prices-. Boxes, seating 6—$75.00; Orchestra—$5.00, $3.00 and $2.50; Balcony—$1.50 and $1.00 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Proceeds to be divided between general relief work and relief of musicians and their families in allied countries.

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Last Recital This Season TOWN HALL KREISLER Wednesday Eve., March 20th, at 8:30 o'clock CARNEGIE HALL Tuesday Evening, March 12 Tickets NOW at Box Office louis KAUFMAN Steinway Piano VIOLINIST With the Distinguished Assistance of LIZA ELMAN at the Piano

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Vision fugitive ...... Prokofieff Suggestion diabolique J

Barcarolle, op. 60 .Chopin Nocturne, c sharp minor Polonaise, a flat, op. 53

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Final Event in the HUROK CARNEGIE HALL SERIES Tues. Eve., April 2—Mischa Elman 1939 Ninety-eighth Season 1940 THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK CARNEGIE HALL JOHN BARBIROLLI, Conductor • Wednesday Evening, March 13, at 8:45 Friday Afternoon, March 15, at 2:30 BYRD...... Suite (Transcribed for Orchestra by Gordon Jacob) MOZART...... Symphony No. 41, in C major ("Jupiter”) BERLIOZ ...... Fantastic Symphony

Sunday Afternoon, March 17, at 3:00 Assisting Artists'. ROSALYN TURECK, Pianist - SIMEON BELLISON, Clarinetist VIVALDI-VENE...... Concerto in A minor {First performance) BEETHOVEN...... Piano Concerto in E-flat major ("Emperor”) BIZET...... Suite from "L’Arlesienne” MOZART...... Concerto Rondo for Clarinet and Orchestra {Arranged by Simeon Bellison) {First performance) WAGNER...... Prelude to "Die Meistersinger”

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Victor Records CARNEGIE HAI P. PROGRAM 8 ; An Innovation... i A distinct innovation among March musical offer About the Hall ings is "An Evening of Premieres,” an operatic con cert at Carnegie Hall, March 17, which will giv< In the drab days of March, it is a joy to look for­ music lovers an opportunity to "preview” three nev ward to Spring and with it the concerts of the New American operatic works. These are "Ramuntcho,’ Friends of Music at Carnegie Hall. a new Basque opera by Deems Taylor, distinguished music critic and radio commentator, whose previous The series was inaugurated last year with programs two operas, "The King’s Henchman” and "Peter featuring hitherto unknown compositions of Haydn Ibbetson,” were presented at the Metropolitan; which had been discovered and edited by Dr. Albert "Thorwald,” a first opera on a Viking theme by Einstein. This year the New Friends will give four William B. Dinsmore; and "Beauty and the Beast,” Vittorio Giannini’s one-act opera written for radio Carnegie Hall concerts, the first three under the presentation, but not previously heard in concert or baton of Fritz Stiedry and the last directed by Paul on the opera stage. Boepple, conductor of the Dessoff Choirs. Ira Hirsch­ A cast of distinguished artists, all American citi­ mann, founder of the New Friends of Music, has zens, and all but one native born, have volunteered announced that Arthur Schnabel will be the soloist their services for the presentation of the operas, and in two Mozart concerti on each of the first two pro­ the orchestral part of the program will be presented by 70 members of the New York Philharmonic-Sym­ grams, and Joseph Szigeti will perform Mozart’s D phony Orchestra. With all boxes already sold, and a major violin concerto in the third concert. substantial subscription list, the concert promises to The orchestra’s policy of offering programs of sel­ achieve all the brilliance with which audiences are accustomed to associate operatic premieres in an dom-heard music is continued this year with the actual opera setting. performance of Handel’s oratorio, Israel in Egypt, Orchestral music only from Mr. Taylor’s opera will to be presented jointly with the Dessoff Choirs. The be given, the selections chosen being the Introduction oratorio is unusual, in that nine-tenths of it is choral, and Ballet Music of Act III, which portrays a Satur­ painting in the broad manner of Handel vivid pic­ day evening fiesta in a Basque Village. Mr. Dins­ more’s opera is a highly dramatic work, with much tures of the plagues and other tribulations which beset sword play, in which the unhappy love affair of the the Jews in their exodus from Egypt. At first it had hero and heroine parallels the struggle between litde success. The public in Handel’s day regarded Christianity and paganism for the domination of choral compositions merely as incidental music leading the Scandinavian countries, and an hour’s selection up to arias, preferably florid. It was only after Handel’s has been made from the more lyrical parts of the death that Israel in Egypt came to be regarded as score. Mr. Giannini’s one-act opera, originally writ­ ten for the Columbia Workshop and radio-premiered perhaps his most magnificent work. over the Columbia Broadcasting System network, will The management of the New Friends of Music, be given in full. Robert Simon, music critic of the since the debut of the orchestra, has maintained the New Yorker, was Mr. Giannini’s librettist; Mr. Tay­ lor wrote both libretto and score of "Ramuntcho” practice of offering its concerts to the public at which is based on a Pierre Loti novel of the same popular prices. Tickets for the series of four con­ name, while Miss Marion Hazard of the Yale Work­ certs range from $3 to $10 and single admissions shop was librettist for "Thorwald.” are correspondingly low. This young orchestra has al­ The concert will give New York people their fourth ready attained a wide reputation for consistently ex­ opportunity to enjoy the conducting of Josef Blant, cellent performances. It is interesting to note that the who made his American debut last summer in one of the Stadium concerts. Mr. Blant, Viennese born, average age of its members is twenty-six; 65% are has conducted in many of the leading European American-born and American-trained; and three of opera houses. its five women members hold first desk positions. Members of the cast for the operatic performances will be Emma Beldan, Germaine Bruyere and Loretta Athola, sopranos; Pauline Pierce and Erika Zaranova, mezzo sopranos; Ivan Ivantzoff, Brooks Dunbar and John J. Totten Robert E. Simon, Jr. William Horne, tenors; and Wilbur Evans and An­ President House Manager thony Scott, baritones. Eugene D. Molyneaux Mary Kemper Gunn The concert is under the sponsorship of a civic committee headed by Mrs. Frederick Steinway, and Vice-President Booking Manager is frankly characterized by its sponsors as a "trial balloon.” If successful many more such concerts may be in store. R< salyn Tureck's coming performance of Beethoven’s "Emperor” Concerto with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Sunday af* ternfion, March 17th, marks this pianist’s first appearance with the Philharmonic. In invit- ing/Miss Tureck to play the Beethoven Con­ certo, John Barbirolli confirms critical opinion thiit the young pianist’s accomplishments are .,ot confined to Bach alone. Before she was 22, Miss Tureck had al­ ready established herself as a brilliant inter­ preter of Bach, a reputation based on the prodigious feat of presenting a series of six Bach recitals at Town Hall. Her amazing repertoire—including all the 48 Preludes and Fugues—brought her not only the instant acclaim of New York’s professional music critics but the coveted Town Hall Endowment Series Award. At the ceremony attending this presentation, Mrs. Theodore Steinway said: ". . . this is the first time a woman pianist has ever done this anywhere in the world.” In the following year, 1938, Miss Tureck again did the unpredictable. With an assured position as a Bach specialist, she turned away from the temptation of a second successful cycle and toured the country with a repertoire of Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky and Scriabin, ac­ cumulating fresh laurels wherever she per­ formed the works of these masters. The 1940 season of concerts which will again In October 1935 Miss Tureck made her formal carry her to audiences throughout America, begins concert debut at Town Hall. Today, at 25, critics auspiciously with Sunday afternoon’s Carnegie Hall concede her a "lavishly gifted pianist”. . ."upon the debut as an interpreter of Beethoven. Of the con­ plane of Myra Hess and similar immortals”. . ."a certo, she says: "My relationship with the 'Emperor’ fully matured artist”. has a curious history. Four years ago, I could hardly Touring the country has given Miss Tureck some listen to Beethoven in the key of E flat major. definite opinions on the subject of a "musical It seemed wooden and square—but as I began play­ America.” She says: "Musically speaking, we Ameri­ ing the 'Emperor’, the content of the composition cans have really begun to stand on our own feet. We far out-shadowed the particular key it happened to are entitled to it. Certainly our own symphony or­ be in. It seems to me, now, a superb blending of chestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra and piano.” , Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia Symphony organi­ Rosalyn Tureck was born in Chicago of Turkish zations are as fine as anything Europe can offer. The and Russian parents. Her colorful ancestry is reflected opportunity for hearing the world’s musical geniuses in her warm and exotic musical temperament. When right here at home is unequaled anywhere. Because only 4 years old the pianist was making music Americans have shown such a tremendous eagerness on several instruments; at 8 she gave two piano to hear the best available music, instrumentalists and recitals at the Lyon and Healy Hall in Chicago, and singers alike cannot afford to overlook the immense at the age of 13 she was awarded first prize in the potential following in this land. Grand Chicago Piano Playing Tournament. Next "I think that the days when younger musicians came a fellowship in the Juilliard Graduate School scurried off to Europe in order to complete their of Music in New York and the rare experience of studies are decidedly over. Many of my older con­ living in the home of her teacher, Madame Olga temporaries have voiced the opinion that, in many Samaroff Stokowski. Before she had left her ’teens cases, European study is needless. What in the way behind her, she had won two further honors; the $1,000 award of the National Federation of Music of better training can a young artist secure than the Clubs and the highly prized Schubert Memorial excellent teachers, and teaching facilities, available Award. right here in our own backyard?”