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Mar. 17-18-19-20 ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, Conductor FRITZ REINER, Conductor ANDRE PREVIN, Pianist RUDOLF SERKIN, Pianist HANDEL-HARTY Water Music Suite STRAVINSKY Divertimento from “Le Baiser GERSHWIN Piano Concerto de la Fée” COPLAND Excerpts from “Rodeo” BARTOK Piano Concerto No; 1 (except Sun.) SIBELIUS Swan of Tuonela (Mozart C Major Concerto, K. 467, on Sunday) RAVEL Bolero MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition 9 CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM-SEASON 1959-1960 Sunday afternoon, February 14th, 1960 at 5:30 o’clock JULIEN BRYAN Presents in Person POLAND As it was As it is Photographed by Julien Bryan, Jules Bucher (1936 section), Vladyslav Forbert (1958), Roman Wionczek (1959) Management: Walter Everest New York Publicity: William Doherty Original .Score: Jerzy Fitelberg (1936 film) Editing: Eugene Cenkalski and Seymour Hymowitz PROGRAM Part 1—Peacetime Poland—1936 This remarkable historical document was taken in black and white film in 1936 by Julien Bryan and Jules Bucher, his assistant. It truly belongs in the Archives of Poland since no other such documentary film has survived the wartime destruction. FOR A CAREER IN MUSIC OR A LIFETIME OF ENJOYMENT IN YOUR HOME Steinway is the choice of the vast majority of concert artists and musical organi­ zations throughout the world because of its inspiring tone, responsive action and remarkable endurance. ALL Steinway pianos, grand and vertical alike, possess these same superior qualities —and that is why Steinway is the best possible piano for your home and the whole musical future of your family. STEINWAY & SONS 109 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK • CIRCLE 6-1100 11 Follow the Leader! BLACK & WHITE ~The Scotch with Character BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY 86.8 PROOF . THE FLEISCHMANN DISTILLING CORPORATION, N.Y. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS PROGRAM CONTINUED Carl Fischer Warsaw street scenes in 1936 ... A park with babies sleeping Publishes in the sun ... A streetcar ride through the center of the town . The Best in Contemporary Music Signs advertising American movies of 1936 vintage. The old Stare Myasto Square . Fukier’s old wine cellar, dating from 1610 . • MALCOLM ARNOLD Chopin’s monument . Various other monuments and palaces. • WILLIAM BERGSMA Krakow, St. Mary’s Church and the flower market below . The • NORMAN DELLO JOIO famous Wawel palace . Krakow University and the Copernicus • LUKAS FOSS monument . The Krakow ghetto, many of whose tragic inhabi­ • HOWARD HANSON tants died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz . Lowicz, with the • PETER MENNIN picturesque dress of its peasants ... A colorful procession . • DOUGLAS MOORE Peasants on big estates and a rich landlord on his estate. '■•«■I i Coal mining and zinc refining near Katowice in the south, the zinc plant “Giesche” was then owned by an American firm . Carl Fischer Gdynia, the new Polish port in the north, shipping lumber and coal 62 Cooper Squore, New York 3 BOSTON • CHICAGO • Dauas . Danzig (now Gdansk) with its ancient grain elevators and a Nazi parade, first sign here of trouble. Warsaw with army parades Music of All Publishers and Smigley Rydz, the last ruler before September 1939. The war begins. Part II—SIEGE 1939 This brief but remarkable film is the only motion picture record ne«! of any kind to be made of the Siege of Warsaw during September AIDA with TEBALDI 1939 by any foreign correspondent or photographer. Along with PROGRAM CONTINUED ON PAGE 1 3 ffrr I TfetìV I ffss Mono I ® ricordi I Stereo VISIT GALLERY BAR AT INTERMISSION music lovers love CGranOlarnier Liqueur a V orange Exquisite fragrance and delightful LjtOOl« taste...enjoyed wherever smart people ’Authentic meet. Grand Marnier is made exclu­ Russian sively with a Fine Champagne Cognac Food base. Product of France • 80 Proof NEXT TO CARNEGIE HALL 150 W. 57 ST • CO 5-0947 For Grand Marnier reap* booklet write: Dept. CA-3 open daily including Sunday CARILLON IMPORTERS LTD. • 7X0 FIFTH AVENUB, N. Y. C. • ■OLE U. S. AGENT 13 PROGRAM CONTINUED some 600 still pictures these have become the only complete photographic record of that period of history. Neither the footage nor Mr. Bryan’s narration has been changed since 1939. The pictures show his adventures in the besieged city. But mostly they are of people, old and young, and their bravery under fire. We see them in the old market place, in Mokotow and Praga, in Nowy and Stare Brudno and other suburbs. Part 111—1946 and 1948 The war is over . The grim ruins of Warsaw; of the old Market Place, Nowy Swiat, Jerusalem Street; the flattened ghetto; the new monument to the 40,000 Jews who died in the ghetto. Rebuilding starts; the palaces, the great bridge across the Vistula. A new elementary school—with children of 5 and 6 receiving BCG, anti­ tuberculosis vaccine from doctors and nurses sent to Poland by the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations. Part IP—Warsaw Rebuilt 1959 The skyline and the Vistula from a height of 500 feet, atop the new Palace of Culture. Busy traffic across the river . new street cars and buses . country roads . motorcycle traffic . the ruins of the 13th century palace at Checiny on the Krakow road . the Wawel Palace and the Barbakan (old fortress) ... St. Mary’s and the flower market 23 years after Part I. Nowy Huta, the new steel plant and city outside of Krakow . Wroclaw (Breslau) street scenes and hospitals . Szczecin (Stettin) with its modern port and shipbuilding yards . swimming in September on the Baltic . Gdansk with the amazing restoration of its historic great square, and finally a peasant wedding reception in September 1959. INTERMISSION PROGRAM CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 Born in America and nourished by American craftsmanship, The Baldwin Piano brings the music of the masters to you through the fingers of the great pianists of the world, including these outstanding American-born artists.... 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WORLD’S FASTEST JETLI NER/WORLD'S LARGEST AIRLINE MEMORY TRAINING for CONDUCTORS and INSTRUMENTALISTS Part V—The Search 1959 Post Graduate Study in the This entire reel depicts the search throughout Warsaw and I Techniques of Modern Music Poland, for the men, women and children whom Mr. Bryan photo­ PAUL EMERICH, 315 W. 57th St. graphed in the grim days of September 1939. He returned to Warsaw New York 19, N. Y. CO 5-0838 after 19 years to see if he could find one of these people still alive. He had no names or addresses, only their photographs. After many___ days of fruitless search, an old woman of 75 is found in Nowy con’ MUNCH? Brudno and through her, another friend, a Catholic priest, Father Wlodarczyk. Then by accident, ApoIonia the washwoman, waiting ngs in a bread line in 1939, aged 65 today. The Warsaw newspaper, the anj Evening Express, helped in the search and we see the editors, dis- rtist playing Mr. Bryan’s picture on their front page like a huge want ad. ause Kazimiera Mika, in 1939 a little girl of 12. photographed over her ierb dead sister’s body, appears as a woman of 32 with her streetcar- his to motorman husband and her two fine children. A Mrs. Ladziak, now ige- 50, is shown with her beautiful 23 year old daughter, married to an airforce pilot. We see their home life in the suburbs.