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► SIXTY ’ SEASON FOURTH Obliò .Sywipnonbj VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN, Conductor January 15-16, 1944 TENTH SYMPHONY CONCERTS 1943-1944 KIEL AUDITORIUM SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL SEASON 1943-1944 VLADIMIR GOLSCHMANN, Conductor Harry Farbman, Assistant Conductor FIRST VIOLINS BASS CLARINET Harry Farbman, Carlos E. Camacho Concertmaster Max Tartasky BASSOONS Irvin Rosen Emil Hebert, Joseph Bakalor Principal Arthur Baron Henry Cunnington Rex Clark John E. Ferrell ★Norman Herzberg Marcella Conforto Gizella Ehrenwerth CONTRA BASSOON Isadore Grossman Jacob Levine John E. Ferrell Laszlo Nagy HORNS David J. Rizzo Edward Murphy, David Salomon Principal Meyer Schumitzky Joseph Vegna ★Jacob Krachmalnick Robert L. Gustat Pellegrino Lecce DOUBLE BASSES SECOND VIOLINS ★John Dolan Vincent Grimaldi, ★Herman Dorfman Louis Druzinsky, Principal ★Vincent Rap ini Principal Michael Siegel Paul Schreiber Karl P. Auer TRUMPETS Louis Etzkow Salvatore Campione Samuel G. Krauss, Sol Kranzberg Earl Hyna Principal Meyer Lipsitz June Rotenberg Joseph Gustat Rudolph Magin ★David Koch Frank Miller Carl Nagel ★John B. Rose John Hartl Joseph F. Oswald, Jr. Simon Poles HARP TROMBONES Jerome D. Rosen Graziella Pampari ★Eugene Campione Louis Palladino, ★Irwin Eisenberg Principal FLUTES Edward C. Oventrop VIOLAS Laurent Torno, Clifford W. Kirsch Principal Herbert Van Den Burg, John F. Kiburz, Jr. TUBA Principal Emil J. Niosi John Bambridge Alvin Dinkin Stellario Giacobbe PICCOLO TYMPANI John Hartl Emil J. Niosi William Ehrlich Victor Hugo Paul Powell OBOES PERCUSSION Walter Riediger Erich Silberstein Lois Wann, Elmer Gesner Principal David J. Rizzo Joseph Antonucci VIOLONCELLOS Alfred H. Hicks PIANO AND CELESTA Max Steindel, ENGLISH HORN Joseph F. Oswald, Jr. Principal Pasquale De Conto Alfred H. Hicks LIBRARIANS Aaron Bodenhorn Igor Geffen CLARINETS Elmer Gesner Antonio La Marchina Rocco M. Zottarelle, Clarence L. Gesner Carl Rossow Principal Domenick Sottile Clarence L. Gesner PERSONNEL MANAGER Carl Steppi Carlos E. Camacho Max Steindel ★In the service of the United States — 227 — SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY SOCIETY Sixty-fourth Season, 1943-1944 PRESIDENT ★Oscar Johnson HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS L. Warrington Baldwin Mrs. John T. Davis, Jr. Alex T. Primm, Jr. Hon. Aloys P. Kaufmann Mrs. Irene W. Johnson Joseph Pulitzer Adolphus Busch, III J. D. Wooster Lambert E. Lansing Ray Mrs. Theron E. Catlin Mrs. E. T. Mallinckrodt, Jr. Charles Wiggins Dr. Malvern B. Clopton George D. Markham Mrs. F. E. Woodruff ACTIVE VICE-PRESIDENTS Leicester B. Faust Mrs. Charles M. Rice George Spearl Morton J. May Oliver F. Richards Charles H. Stix TREASURER Edwin J. Spiegel DIRECTORS Mrs. Clifford W. Gaylord, Chairman Mrs. William Dee Becker Dr. F. A. Goetsch Dr. William McClellan Mrs. Adolphus Busch, III Mrs. M. A. Goldstein Mrs. John P. Meyer Clark M. Clifford W. L. Hemingway William S. Milius Russell L. Dearmont Mrs. James Lee Johnson Thomas C. Noel Joseph Desloge Leigh M. Kagy Mrs. T. M. Sayman Leo C. Fuller Archie Lee *Mrs. Robert W. Otto *Ex Officio BOARD OF CONTROL Mrs. Louis P. Aloe Philip J. Hickey Henry V. Putzel ★Howard F. Baer Marvin J. Holderness Mrs. T. Edward Rassieur Mrs. J. Eugene Baker Howard V. E. Hunter Wallace Renard Mrs. Willard Bartlett Charles M. Huttig Adolph Rosenberg Mrs. James C. Bassford Albert M. Keller William T. Rossell Mrs. Paul Brown Mrs. J. F. Schlafly Mrs. Henry Bry Mrs. Charles Lamy Mrs. Alfred L. Shapleigh Mrs. E. G. Burkham Miss Martha Love Miss Eunice Smith David R. Calhoun, Jr. Mrs. Frank M. Mayfield Mrs. J. Sheppard Smith Warren T. Chandler ★Milton C. Mendie Mrs. David R. Sparks Mrs. S. D. Conant Mrs. Louis T. Meyer Mrs. Sadie Stix Mrs. Henry M. Cook Juan Monasterio John B. Strauch Mrs. B. B. Culver Charles H. Morrill John C. Tobin ★Vietor Davis Mrs. James Nelson, Jr. Mrs. Mahlon B. Wallace, Jr. Irving Edison ★Isaac C. Orr Mrs. Henry Whittemore Mrs. Leicester Faust Raymond W. Peters David P. Wohl Mrs. Russell E. Gardner, Jr. S. Towner Phelan Mrs. Arthur E. Wright Archbishop John J. Glennon Mrs. Edward G. Platt Howard I. Young K. Myron Hickey ★Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY William Zalken EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Clifford W. Gaylord, Leo Fuller Dr. William McClellan Chairman Mrs. M. A. Goldstein Edwin J. Spiegel Clark Clifford FINANCE COMMITTEE Dr. William McClellan, W. L. Hemingway Edwin J. Spiegel, Chairman Thomas C. Noel Ex Officio PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE Leo C. Fuller, Chairman Mrs. T. M. Sayman George Spearl MUSIC COMMITTEE Mrs. M. A. Goldstein, Archie Lee Thomas B. Sherman, Chairman Mrs. John P. Meyer Ex Officio MAINTENANCE FUND COMMITTEE Clark Clifford, Chairman Joseph Desloge Mrs. James Lee Johnson ★In the service of the United States — 229 — V1-* Setting by Pahlmann of Lord & Taylor, 5 th Avenue, New York SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY “The Baldwin is Perfection" ALEC TEMPLETON JOSEF LHEVINNE “The Baldwin is £ a “The Baldwin is a my choice" ^Lialbroin “ TODAY’S GREAT PIANO The piano which is used by top ranking musicians to whom the best is a vital necessity. The piano whose golden tone and light, responsive action imparts color and charm to the simplest melodies and inspires the amateur pianist to more, ambitious attainments. This is the Baldwin. And the Baldwin is easy to own. We will gladly arrange conven ient terms which will fit comfortably into your budget. BALDWIN PIANOS 916 OLIVE STREET OPEN EVENINGS Baldwin • Acrosonic * Hamilton • Howard • Monarch TENTH SYMPHONY CONCERTS Saturday Evening, January 15, at 8:30 Sunday Afternoon, January 16, at 3:30 ♦ ALL RACHMANINOFF PROGRAM Soloist —ARTUR RUBINSTEIN —Pianist RACHMANINOFF "Die Toteninsel" ("The Island of the Dead"), Symphonic Poem; after the Picture of Arnold Bocklin, Op. 29 RACHMANINOFF Rapsodie on a Theme of Paganini, for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 43 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist INTERMISSION RACHMANINOFF Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 18 MODERATO ADAGIO SOSTENUTO ALLEGRO SCHERZANDO ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist Mr. Rubinstein Plays the Steinway ♦ IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO LADIES! You are urged to remove your hats as a courtesy to those sitting behind you. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. NEXT WEEK — Thursday night, Jan. 20, a glorious "Pop" Concert. See Page 247 for details. Saturday night, Jan. 22, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23, another pair of sensational subscription concerts. Popular ANDRE KOSTELANETZ will appear as guest conductor and RAYA GRABOUSOVA, world's greatest woman 'cellist, will be soloist. See Page 245. — 231 — THE SYMPHONY SCORE By BATEMAN EDWARDS SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF (Born at Oneg in Novgorod, April 1, 1873; died at Beverly Hills, California, March 28,1943) It is appropriate that, before a year has elapsed since Rachmaninoff’s death, some of his major works should be given a sort of commemorative performance in this country where he had made his home for the last quarter of a century. With certain famous exceptions, however, the United States knows him less as the belated romantic composer than as the indisputably great pianist whose yearly appearances were triumphal occasions. As a composer, Rachmaninoff’s relatively limited output shows a truly re markable homogeneity of inspiration, impression, and harmonic and melodic invention. Unlike the majority of musicians, the peculiar qualities of his style seem to have been fixed at the outset, and his vision of the world apparently underwent no development or modification during the Biblical span of his life. That this is so is probably due to one event in his life: his early association with Tschaikowsky and his unwavering admiration for him. When, as a boy of twelve, Rachmaninoff entered the Moscow Conservatory, he lived at the home of his teacher, Nikolai Svereff, with whom Tschaikowsky was on intimate terms. Ill NORTH FOURTH ST. ST. LOUIS, 2, MO. CENTRAL 4050 — 233 — Tschaikowsky died in 1893, but Rachmaninoff had been so thoroughly impregnated, during his formative years, by the Muscovite admiration for the great man, that he remained faithful to that adoration all his life. Everything, besides, in Moscow conspired to influence an easily-led youngster who, unlike his fellow pupil, Scriabin, lacked the force of will to drive on to a more completely personal expression. The Moscow Conservatory, under the direction of the conservative Nikolai Rubinstein, was definitely backward com pared to the cosmopolitan St. Petersburg, where the greater genius of Moussorg- sky and Rimsky-Korsakoff held sway. Disregarding or scorning the progress of music in the rest of Europe, reactionary Moscow clung tenaciously to the ideals of Tschaikowsky. But even before the death of Tschaikowsky, Rachmaninoff, at the age of nineteen, had achieved a fame, shortly to become world-wide, with the publication of his Opus 3, five pieces for piano, the second of which was the Prelude , in C-sharp Minor. I am afraid satiety has dealt unfairly with the celebrated Prelude, and the composer’s own later reluctance to play it has helped to justify the scorn it is now fashionable to heap on this unfortunate composition. Basically, however, the piece is not inferior to' Rachmaninoff’s later works, nor is it any less character istic, to consider only his choice of a minor key, of the temperament of an author all of whose major works are likewise in the minor. At any rate, the Prelude kessle^ a ooie bjoLir bbnri ^rom a Jumer . ^Jxeiibr S ! ^or Uorty-ieuen the ^J4oiA,ie op Specialty, Quality SUPS! ALEX F. KESSLER, Furrier, 1008 Locust Street, 1 — 235 — brought to Rachmaninoff the occasion for an engagement in England in 1898, to appear as pianist with the London Philharmonic, and the concert, which of course included the famous piece, was a tremendous success. On his return to Moscow, Rachmaninoff’s health took a turn for the worse. His Second Symphony, composed in 1895, had been a dismal failure, and this lack of success, although elegantly offset by the London triumph, seems to have affected his mind. So we have the unnatural and somewhat ridiculous spectacle of a young man, still in his twenties, affected by a sort of lethargy, avoiding human companionship, and passing most of his time stretched out in a somnolent indolence.