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Witold Malcuzynski, soloist with the New York Phil­ harmonic under Mitropoulos on February 16-17-19 play­ IRA HIRSCHMANN ing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1914. After graduating from the Conservatory in his native Warsaw, Malcuzynski went to présents Switzerland to study with Paderewski, later winning the Grand Award of the last pre-war International Chopin V Karl Ulrich Competition in Warsaw. After his well-received Paris debut at the outbreak of World War II, he fled occupied France and made his way through Portugal to South America. After his successful first South American tour, he made his New York debut in 1942, playing with the New York Philhar­ SCHNABEL monic-Symphony for the first time in 1944. Malcuzynski has been honored with many decorations, among which is the Polonia Restitu, the highest Polish award for cultural achievement. TOWN HALL • LEONARD SHURE, Pianist Sun. Eve., Feb. 19th, 8:30 p.m. When Leonard Shure returned to America aften ten years in Europe, his European triumphs were im­ BEETHOVEN mediately duplicated. Dr. Kousse- vitzky expressed his enthusiasm with SCHUBERT an invitation to Leonard Shure to MOZART be THE FIRST SOLOIST AT THE BERK­ CHOPIN SHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL, FOLLOWED BY SIX APPEARANCES WITH THE BOSTON LISZT SYMPHONY IN BOSTON AND NEW YORK. Two facts attest Leonard Shure’s Steinway Piano musical stature. He is known as the DAVID W. RUBIN “Musician’s Pianist,” and secondly, when conductors are faced with last ARTISTS MANAGEMENT minute cancellations, they know that Shure as a replacement not only means no refunds at the box OFFICE, BUT INSTANT ACCLAIM BY THE AUDIENCE AND CRITICS. Columbia ¿[rtists Management im. ■'

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For Ticket Information and Program See Advance Heralds in Lobby Rack 15 ORATORIO SOCIETY OF N. Y. THE PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY SOCIETY WILLIAM STRICKLAND OF NEW YORK Musical Director 1955 — 114+h Season — 1956 CARNEGIE HALL DIMITRI MITROPOULOS Wed. Eve., February 29, 1956 Musical Director at eight-thirty o'clock

Henry Cowell ". . . if He please Symphony of Psalms Under the direction of Samuel Barber "Knoxville, Summer 1915" DIMITRI MITROPOULOS Anton Dvorak Te De.+m THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Thursday Evening, February 23, at 8:45 o’clock OF THE SOCIETY Friday Afternoon, February 24, at 2:30 o’clock Assisted by SYLVIA STAHLMAN, Soprano BACH-MITROPOULOS Fantasia and Fugue in G minor ROBERT DEAN. Baritone KIRCHNER Piano Concerto (1st performance anywhere) The Boy Choristers of The Cathedral of St. John The Composer at the Piano the Divine and St. Thomas Church STRAUSS...... “Alpine” Symphony, in One Movement WILLIAM STRICKLAND, Conducting

Parquet $3, Dress Circle $2, Balcony $1 Saturday Evening, February 25, at 8:15 o’clock and $.75 Boxes (8 seats) $24, $20 Soloist: ISAAC STERN, Violinist Full details will be mailed on request. LISZT Symphonic Poem, ‘‘Les Preludes” PROKOFIEFF Violin Concerto No. 1, I) major, Opus 19 THE ORATORIO SOCIETY OF N. Y. Isaac Stern 1202 Steinway Hall, 113 West 57 St. LIEBERMANN ‘ Music," after Three Poems of Baudelaire, New York 19, N. Y. for Narrator and Orchestra (1st performance in America) (Telephone: Circle 7-4199) Narrator: Vera Zorina KODALY...... Suite, “Hary Janos” For particulars of membership in the Chorus please write or telephone. • RECORD HUNTER PREVIEWS NEW STORE George Seaman, The Record Hunter, chose the birthday of Mozart, January 27th, for the preview of the RECORD HUNTER’S new Fifth Avenue Store. Located at 507 Fifth Avenue, two doors north of 42nd Street, the Shop is CARNEGIE HALL the sixth in the unique RECORD HUNTER group and is now open to the public. Friday Eve., MARCH 9 at 8:30 The preview brought together an assemblage of musicians, actors and writers to view these new quarters which were planned especially for the the First Time in Its History RECORD HUNTER who handles nothing but records from all parts of the For world. Awards were made to Fritz Kreisler, . Vladimir Horowitz The and Benny Goodman for their contributions to recording history.

• SALZBURG TO VISIT U.S. Mozarteum Orchestra Everv year thousands of Americans so to Salzburg to hear Mozart’s music. Tn 1956. the Mozart bi-centennial year. Salzburg comes to America! The very core of the renowned Salzburg festivals. THE MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA, ol Salzburg arrives in the United States on March 5 and plays in Carnegie Hall on Friday evenins, March 9. comes to America to celebrate the The Mozarteum Orchestra is the father and mother of the Salzburg festivals. Tt plaved at the very first Mozart Festival ever ci ven in 1842, one year after the Mozart Bi-centennial Mozarteum was founded under the sponsorship of the comnoser’s widow, Konstnnze. and his two sons. Wolfgang Amadeus and Carl. Wolfgang con­ with ducted the orchestra. Everv year until the formal organization in 1920 of the Salzburg Music Festival. The Mozarteum was the guiding figure in the annual ERNST MAERZENDORFER Mozart Festivals. Since then it has relinquished its responsibility in finance Conductor and management hot continues to be the pivot for all the festival activities. Until 1932 the Mozarteum Orchestra staved in Salzburg. That year a show tour took it to Prague. Its enthusiastic reception convinced the directors of EMMY LOOSE Tl'e Mozarteum the Orchestra must be permitted to play outside of Salzburg. Soprano S’nce then they have made annual tours and participated in every major State Opera festival in Europe. The virtuosi members of the Orchestra are all aradnates of The Mozarteum. Its conductor-music director, Ernst MAERZENDORFER, came from The RALPH HERBERT Mozarteum too and, after great success in Europe and South America, was Baritone invited to take over the Orchestra in 1953. EMMY LOOSE, soprano of the and RALPH HER­ BERT, baritone of the Metropolitan and San Francisco Opera Companies, are the distinguished soloists in, of course, an all-Mozart program. 16

CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCEMENTS Main Hall — February, 1956 Carnegie Recital Hall — February, 1956 Thurs. Eve., Feb. 2 at 8:30—Frank Cooke, Sat. Aft., Feb. 18 at 5:30—W. N. Y. C.—American Music Sat. Aft., Feb. 4 at 2:15—Junior Theatre Festival Sat. Eve., Feb. 4 at 8:30—Sam Glaser presents song recitol Sat. Eve., Feb. 18 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Sun. Aft., Feb. 5 at 2:30—Claudia Lyon "Amor Musical" of New York Ensemble Sun. Morn., Feb. 19 at 11—Church of the Truth, Dr. Ervin Sun. Aft., Feb. 5 at 5:30— Pollak—Piano Recital Seale Sun. Eve., Feb. 5 at 8:30—Irene Gabriel—Dance Recital Sun. Aft., Feb. 19 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Mon. Eve., Feb. 6 at 8:30—Walter Legaviec — Chamber of New York Music Concert Sun. Eve., Feb. 19 at 8:30—Arthur Rubinstein, Pianist Sat. Eve., Feb. 11 at 8:30—Jewish Writers Club—Poetry and Mon. Eve., Feb. 20 at 9—Telephone Hour Broadcast Song Recital Tues. Eve., Feb. 21 at 8:30—Philadelphia Orchestra Sun. Aft., Feb. 12 a* 5:30—Ruth and Richard Whitfield— Wed. Noon, Feb. 22 at 12—Church of the Truth, Dr. Ervin Song Recital Seale Sun. Eve., Feb. 12 at 8:30—Capital Opera Players Wed. Aft., Feb. 22 at 2:30—Missionary Training Institute Mon. Aft., Feb. 13 at 2:15—Junior Theatre—Little Men Wed. Eve., Feb. 22 at 8:30—Patriotic Meeting and Concert Sat. Aft., Feb. 18 at 2:30—Junior Theatre—Little Men commemorating Washington's Birthday Sun. Aft., Feb. 19 at 5:30—Can Friedberg Foundation— Thurs. Eve., Feb. 23 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Concert of New York Sun. Eve., Feb. 19 at 8:30—Arnita Ferguson—Song Recital Fri. Aft., Feb. 24 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Mon. Eve., Feb. 20 at 8:30—Sandor Balint—Violin Recital of New York Wed. Aft., Feb. 22 at 2:30—Junior Theatre—Little Men Fri. Eve., Feb. 24 at 8:30—Leonard Shure, Concert Sun. Aft., Feb. 26 at 2:30—Victoria School of Musical Arts, Sat. Eve., Feb. 25 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Inc.—Recital of New York Sun. Aft., Feb. 26 at 5:30—Helen Haley—Vocal Recital Sun. Morn., Feb. 26 at 11—Church of the Truth, Dr. Ervin Seale Sun. Aft., Feb. 26 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony Society Carnegie Rose Room — Lounge of New York Friday Morning—at 11:00 A.M. in the Carnegie Rose Room, Sun. Eve., Feb. 26 at 8:30—Film Showing— "Philharmonic Forecasts" — Lectures by MARION Mon. Eve., Feb. 27 at 9—Telephone Hour Broadcast ROUS ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 National Artists Corp. ±

fuiST AMERICAN APPEARANCE .... ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY CARNEGIE HALL Sunday Evening, February 26 at 8 sharp JAN R. MAXWELL presents in honor of the Bi-Centenary of the birth of

A Film Presentation in Color of a Production DON GIOVANNI WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER, Conductor with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chorus and Rallet of the Vienna State Opera ALL STAR CAST including Cesare Siepi, Lisa Della Casa, Elizabeth Grummer, Erna Berger, Otto Edelmann, Deszo Ernster, Anton Dermota, Walter Berry Stage Production by Film Introduction by Yehudi Menuhin Produced and directed by for Harmony Films Ltd. Tickets $1.15, 1.75, 2.30, 2.75 & 3.45 Now on Sale at Carnegie Hall Box Office f'olutnljia Artists MiimiueinentHu ad. •/ FX •/ PRESENTS

TOWN HALL TOWN HALL TOWN HALL Sun. Aft., Feb. 19 at 5:30 Sun. Aft., Feb. 26 at 5:30 Fri. Eve.. Feb. 17, at 8:30 CHARLOTTE RUSSELL HOLLOMAN SOPRANO STEVENSON PIANIST THEODORE LOWELL FARR at the Steinway (Baldwin) TOWN HALL TOWN HALL LETTVIN Mon. Eve., Feb. 20, at 8:30 Sun. Eve., Feb. 26 at 8:30 TUCSON ARIZONA PIANIST WALTER BOYS CHORUS EDUARDO CASO, Founder-Director BREWUS VIOLINIST Alfred del Moral, Accompanist Baldwin Piano LEOPOLD MITTMAN at the Baldwin Steinway Piano For Ticket Information and Program See Advance Heralds in Lobby Rack

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ELEVATORS to Dress Circle and Balcony in studio THE MANAGEMENT IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for entrances at 154 West 57th St. and 881 Seventh Av. personal apparel or property of patrons, unless SMOKING is permitted only in the Gallery Bar, properly checked. Patrons are advised to take in the Buffet. Smoking and lighting of matches coats and wraps with them whenever they leave are forbidden in any other part of premises. MEN'S REST ROOMS at Exits 12, 23 and 30. TELEPHONES are located in entrance lobby, at right of parquet near Seventh Avenue exit, west LADIES' REST ROOMS at Exits 12, 19. 24, 31 and side of Second Tier; at the Dress Circle and Rear Right of Balcony.

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TOWN HALL • FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 2nd at 8:30 NADYNE BREWER SOPRANO

LUCY BROWN at the Piano Steinway Piano

TOWN HALL • TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13 at 8:30 THELMA HUGHES PIANIST

Program: Bach-D'Albert, Scarlatti, Schumann, Scriabin, Medtner and Liapounow.

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CARNEGIE HALL ANNOUNCEMENTS Tues. Eve., Feb. 28 at 8:30—Benefit Concert for Queens Sat. Eve., March 10 at 8:30—Gershwin Memorial Foundation Fund for Greek Orphans of B’Nai B'Rith—Concert Wed. Eve., Feb. 29 at 8:30—Oratorio Society of New York Sun. Morn., March 11 at 11—Church of the Truth— MARCH Dr. Ervin Seale Sun. Aft., March 11 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Main Hall—March, 1956 ciety of New York Sun. Eve., March 11 at 8:30—Vytautas Bacevicius, Piano Thurs. Eve., March 1 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ ciety of New York Recital Fri. Aft., March 2 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Mon. Eve., March 12 at 9—Telephone Hour Broadcast ciety of New York Tues. Eve., March 13 at 8:30—Philadelphia Orchestra Sat. Eve., March 3 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Wed. Aft., March 14 at 12:15—Church of the Truth- ciety of New York Dr. Ervin Seale Sun. Morn., March 4 at 11—Church of the Truth— Wed. Eve., March 14 at 8:30—Sir Thomas Beecahm and Dr. Ervin Seale Cesare Siepi, Baritone Sun. Aft., March 4 at 2:30—Philharmoinc-Symphony So­ Thurs. Eve., March 15 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ ciety of New York ciety of New York Mon. Eve., March 5 at 9—Telephone Hour Broadcast Fri. Eve., March 16 at 8:30—Friedrich Guida, Piano Recital Tues. Eve., March 6 at 8:45—Philharmonic Pension Fund Sat. Aft., March 17 at 5:30—Carmel Quinn, Irish Singer Concert Sat. Eve., March 17 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Wed. Aft., March 7 at 12:15—Church of the Truth— ciety of New York Dr. Ervin Seale Sat. Midnight, March 17 at 12—Kahl Music, Inc.—Jazz Wed. Eve., March 7 at 8:30—Symphony of the Air, Concert Concert Thurs. Eve., March 8 at 8:45—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Sun. Morn., March 18 at 11—Church of the Truth__ ciety of New York Dr. Ervin Seale Fri. Aft., March 9 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ Sun. Aft., March 18 at 2:30—Philharmonic-Symphony So­ ciety of New York ciety of New York Fri. Eve., March 9 at 8:30^-Mozarteum Orchestra of Salz- Sun. Eve., March 18 at 8:30—Roger Wagner Chorale Mon. Morn., March 19 at 9—Telephone Hour Broadcast Sat. Morn., March 10 at 11—Philharmonic Children's Con- Tues. Eve., March 20 at 8:30—National Orchestral Asso­ ciation