The CLEVELAND CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY
presents
IN ITS FINAL CONCERT OF THE CURRENT SEASON WILLIAM PRIMROSE, violist
Program: W. F. Bach, Beethoven, Hindemith, Brahms
8:30 P. M., TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1955
ALLEN MEDICAL LIBRARY
Tickets: $2.50—Severance Hall, Burrows ★ ★ ★
Announcing The Society’s 1955-1956 Season of Seven Tuesday Evening Concerts
SERIES A SERIES B $8.75 $8.75 Oct. 25: Mannes-Gimpel-Silva Nov. 25: George Szell, piano and (Piano) Trio Arthur Grumiaux, violin Feb. 21: Budapest String Quartet with Jan. 10: Curtis String Quartet with . Abraham Skernick, assisting Marc Lifschey, assisting oboist violist *March 20: Virtuosi di Roma Feb. 14: Hungarian String Quartet April 3: Pasquier String Trio ♦March 20: Virtuosi di Roma ^Included in both series SEASON SUBSCRIPTION (7 CONCERTS) $13.75 ★ ★ ★ Tickets for the season and Series A or B may be ordered now at Severance Hall Box Office. THE CLEVELAND CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA GEORGE SZELL, Conductor
FIRST PROGRAM
Thursday Evening, March 31, 1955, at 8:30 O’clock
Funeral Music, K. 477 Mozart
In Memoriam CARL J. VOSBURGH Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra 1933-1955
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Andante ; Allegro con anima Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza Valse: Allegro moderato Finale : Andante maestoso ; Allegro vivace
INTERMISSION > Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso ; Allegro con spirito Andantino semplice Allegro con fuoco
Assisting Artist: ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
STEINWAY PIANO COLUMBIA RECORDS
Notice to Thursday Evening Concert-Goers: Remaining Tickets for the Saturday Evening Concert will be Available at the Box Office During the Intermission at Tonight’s Concert. See Program on Page 5. 3 THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA GEORGE SZELL, Conductor
SECOND PROGRAM
Saturday Evening, April 2, 1955, at 8:30 O'clock
Funeral Music, K. 477 Mozart
In Memoriam CARL J. VOSBURGH Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra 1933-1955
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Allegro giocoso Allegro energico e passionato
intermission > Brahms
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 Maestoso Adagio Rondo : Allegro non troppo
Assisting Artist: ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
STEINWAY PIANO COLUMBIA RECORDS ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
artur Rubinstein was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1890. The youngest of 2Y seven children, he displayed musical talent at the age of three, and was developed as an infant prodigy. While still a very small child, he was taken to Berlin, where he played for Joseph Joachim. Joachim was much impressed with the boy, and sent him to Heinrich Barth for a full course of piano study. He also received instruction in composition and harmony from Max Bruch and Robert Kahn. He made his first public appearance in Berlin at the age of eleven, play ing a concerto of Mozart with Joachim conducting. His remarkable career as a traveling virtuoso, which has taken him to many countries, dates from this occasion. He first visited the United States in 1906. In recent years he has made this country his home. His first appearance with the Cleveland Orchestra was on November 25, 1937, when he performed the Brahms Concerto No. 2 in B fiat major. On January 12, 1939, he played the Tchaikovsky B fiat minor Concerto with the Orchestra; on February 22, 1940, Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto; on Janu ary 29, 1942, Chopin’s Concerto in E minor and Szymanowski’s Symphony Concertante; on April 1, 1943, the Concerto No. 2 in C minor of Rachmaninoff (in a memorial performance); on December 2, 1943, Brahms’ Concerto in B flat major; on November 9, 1944, Mozart’s Concerto in A major (K. 488) and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; on January 23, 1947, Brahms’ Concerto in B fiat major; on March 24, 1949, Tchaikovsky’s Con certo in B flat minor; and on April 9, 1953, Brahms’ Concerto in B fiat major.
Closing Twilight Concert THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA RUDOLPH RINGWALL Conducting This Sunday Afternoon, April 3, 1955, at 4:30 O'clock SEVERANCE HALL
REQUEST PROGRAM Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro” Mozart First Movement from the “Unfinished” Symphony Schubert “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” Debussy Waltzes, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” Strauss INTERMISSION “Rhapsody in Blue” Gershwin Solo Piano: EUNICE PODIS “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” Grieg from the Incidental Music to “Peer Gynt” Selections from “Show Boat” Kern Encores “A. Musical Snuff Box”—Liadov “Ride of the Valkyries”—Wagner
Tickets for all concerts are available at Severance Hall and Burrows at $.75 and $1.00. Mail orders to Severance Hall, Cleveland 6, Ohio. THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA GEORGE SZELL, Conductor
NEXT SYMPHONY PROGRAM
Thursday Evening, April 7, 1955, at 8:30 O'clock Saturday Evening, April 9, 1955, at 8:30 O'clock
Prelude to “Parsifal” Wagner
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Schumann “Rhenish,” Op. 97 Lebhaft Sehr mässig Nicht schnell Feierlich Lebhaft
INTERMISSION
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in Beethoven D major, Op. 61 Allegro ma non troppo Larghetto Rondo: Allegro
Assisting Artist: JOSEPH SZIGETI
Tickets for all concerts are on sale at Severance Hall and Burrows, 419 Euclid Avenue (and may be ordered at all Burrows stores).
Scores, recordings, and information about the music on these programs are available in the Music Division of the Cleveland Public Library. 7