THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE of ARTS and SCIENCES the Institute Bulletin REVISED LISTING for the SEASON 1945-1946
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BULLETIN OCTOBER 19 4 5 · JosE: GRECO, C EL EB RAT ED SrAN ISII D ANCER O pe>1i >1 g il;e Major Co >~ cer l Se ries wit h 1-lis Co 111 pa " y THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Institute Bulletin REVISED LISTING FOR THE SEASON 1945-1946 TE TUESDAY* EVENINGS VOL. XLIX, NO. I OPERA HOUSE of the BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC October* 30 CO NTEN T S .JOSE GRECO AND COMPANY DANCES AND MUSIC OF SPAI Major Concert Series 2 :November 20 Frontispiece : "Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn" 4 CLAUDIO ARRAU Institute Opens 122nd Season 5 Decemb~r 4 YEHUDI MENUBIN Concert and Dance Varieties 6-7 Changes in th e Major Serie 8 December 18 FREDELL LACK Musical Event of the Month 9 AMERICAN ARTISTS AWARD 1945 1 Debate on German Democracy 10 January 8 The Literature of Democracy 10 PAUL ROBESON Boston Symphony Orchestra ll January 22 ll-26 FIRST PIANO QUARTET Program Supplement Potpourri 18-19 1ebruary 5 RUDOLF SERKIN Travel Lectures - 27 1ebruary 19 Other Lectures 28-29 THE TIIEATER OF CHARLES WEIDMAN Entertainment 30 ASSISTED BY H IS DANCE COMPANY Science Notes 31 :March 12 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 32 NATHAN MILSTEIN The Brooklyn Museum 33 :March 26 The Brooklyn Public Library 34 SALVATORE BACCALONI AND COMPANY Departments of the Institute 35 FAMOUS COMEDY SCENES FROM OPERA .April 9 MARJORIE LAWRENCE DEPARTMENT O F EDUCATION SUBSCRIP* TION THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Institute Members : $9, $10.80, $12.60, $14.40. ACADEl\IY 01· MUSIC. 30 LAFAYETTE AVE .. BROOKLY:-1 17, N.Y. STERLI NG 3-6700 Others: $13.80, $15.60, $17.40, $19.20. Tax Included. Membership Dues in the Departmen t of Education a r e Ten D ollars a Year. PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH THE INSTITUTE BOX OFFICE DoNALD G. C. Sr 'CLAIR, Chairman, Governing Committee. Juuus BLOOM, Director. 3 INSTITUTE OPENS l22nd SEASON GOVERNOR DEWEY WILL- GIVE ADDRESS ON INSTITUTE'S ROLE IN PEACE. MUSICAL PROGRAM SALUTES ALLIES. ADRIAN VAN SINDEREN WILL BE CHAIRMAN OF EVENING OF THE MANY TRADITIONS THE INSTITUTE HAS sions. The Governor will also make special note established over its long history, that of of the role that the Institute itself has played for Opening Night is one of the most welcome and more than a century. He will be introduced by enjoyable. It is marked by a festive air, good Adrian Van Sinderen, President of the Institute, music, important addresses, and a general sense who will be acting as chairman of the evening. of the anticipation of good things to come. A varied and stimulating program of music The opening program for 1945-1946, which will complete the ceremonies. Preceding Mr. takes place in the Opera House on Wednesday Dewey's address, a salute to our Allies overseas evening, October 17, will be just such an occa will be played by June and Iris Yaysnoff, duo sion. However, it will stand out from other pianists. They will perform works representa opening nights in at least one major respect, for tive of Great Britain, Russia, China, France, and it will provide the Institute with its first oppor other lands, and will conclude with their stirring tunity before the assembled membership to hail marching songs. The Yaysnoff sisters are them the conclusion of war and to express the objec selves a composite of the United Nations, for tives of peace. they were born in England of a Russian father Wars are no novelty to the Institute, which and a French-Polish mother. They received is beginning its 122nd year of service to the their musical training on the Continent and, be people of Brooklyn. The Institute has lived fore settling in this country, toured the world. through five great conflicts involving our nation They bring to their playing not only consummate and has witnessed the joy that swept the people artistry but a repertory of works that includes upon their termination. The peace that faces more than four hundred of their own transcrip us now is different. It comes upon the heels tions and over fifty original compositions. of the worst man-made devastation the earth has The evening will conclude with a salute, in experienced and poses an inescapable chal another medium, to the Americas. Rousing songs lenge for all men: either they ensure the hard of Canada, Latin America, and the United States won peace or they suffer the direst of conse will be presented by the American Troubadours, quences. a .new choral group under the direction of John This year's opening night at the Institute will De Merchant. In the short period of time that be a festive one, even more so than in the past it has performed publicly, this group has won the because it celebrates a major victory for hu most fervent of praise. No music identified with manity. It will also serve another function, re the Americas is alien to the scope of the Trou PORTRAIT OF FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN minding us of the vigilance free men must keep, badours, who sing folk ballads and sophisticated oil pai11ti11g by a vigilance that can be best taught and main modern rhythms with equal ease and enjoyment. tained through the educational institutions of a ALESSANDRO LONGHI (1733-1813) Members of the ensemble are Mary Edwards, democracy. soprano; Jimme Jean Haward, mezzo-soprano; This note will be sounded by the distinguished Alan Werner, tenor; and Mr. De Merchant, FIR ST IN A SERIES OF REPRODUCTIONS OF ART WORKS ON MUSICAL guest of the evening, Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, baritone. Graham Forbes, well known popular pianist, will assist and will also provide solo SUBJECTS DRAWN FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM Governor of the State of New York. In a brief address, Mr. Dewey will discuss the role educa inter! udes. tion must play in the years ahead, especially Bef.ore the official program of the evening be adult and community education of the type fos gins, a preliminary organ recital will be given by tered by the Institute through its various divi- Rpbert Leech Bedell. 4 5 INSTITUTE OFFERS NEW SERIES: MUSICAL EVENTS OF THE MONTH A LIVELY PANORAMA OF MUSIC, DANCE, AND larly known as the Foxhole Ballet, the group Chamber Music Society mally and recorded music will be played as il drama, called "Concert and Dance Varie toured the battlefront areas for more than six A series of four unusual concerts will be given lustration. This year, however, the series will ties," is the Institute's newest subscription series. months and were a huge success wherever they during 1945-1946 by the Brooklyn Chamber run throughout the season, thanks to its grow Celebrated artists drawn from each of these went. Their appearance at the Institute will be Music Society, which ushers in its eighth cor1- ing popularity with Institute members. The fields will be featured in five colorful productions one of their first in the United States, coming secutive season under the guidance of irs foun first eight sessions, beginning October 26, will held monthly and designed to appeal to every shortly after the company returns from over der, Carl H . Tollefsen. The group will foi_Jow deal with " Conventions in Opera." member of the family. The stress will definitely seas. Their program abounds in color and its established policy of presenting both the fa be on entertainment. The performers will in variety, running the gamut from the more tradi miliar and lesser-known works of the past mas American Artists Series elude artists who are being called back to the tional ballet to gay modern dances. It will in ters together with outstanding compositions by Ten recitals will be presented in the American Institute by popular request and others whose clude, among others, the Czechoslovakian "Har our contemporaries. Artists Series for 1945-1946. Each of the solo appearance here has long been desired. The vest Night" to the music· of Dvorak, a lively ·The first concert will be held on Tuesday eve ists will be a singer or instrumentalist of excep curtain wi ll rise on the new series on Tuesday "Circus" to the rollicking melodies of the Gay ning, October 23. The program will open with tional ability who shows promise of ranking evening, November 13. N ineties, and "The Man I Love," danced to a chamber wo.rk celebrated for its exquisite with the better known virtuosos of our time. Gusty Eli zabethan ballads and haunting sea Gershwin's music. The director of the Foxhole melody, the Trio in D minor, Opus 49, by Men This fact alone should create wide interest among chanties of the wandering troubadour will hold Ballet, Grant Mouradoff, was formerly a leading delssohn. The contemporary note will be heard Institute members, many of whom have found the spotlight in the first program. Richard Dyer soloist with the Ball et Russe de Monte Carlo. in the second number when Youry Bilstin, Rus the series a rewarding musical experience in the Bennet, the "Twentieth Century Minstrel," who When a tap dancer and harmonica player sian-American composer and first 'cellist of the past. The participating soloist who gives the has delighted audiences in many of the great interpret the classics in joint recital, it would Society, plays his own " Caucasian Songs and outstanding performance during the current sea concert halls of America, brings the finesse and seem that almost anything could. happen. But Dances," based on themes he heard in his native son will receive the American Artists Award for modern techniques of today to hi s singing of when the dancer is Paul Draper, master of the countryside as a boy.