THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PROSPECTUS 35Th SEASON 1970-71 MUSIC ADVISER ZUBIN MEHTA

THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PROSPECTUS 35th SEASON 1970-71 MUSIC ADVISER ZUBIN MEHTA

"S THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Founded by Bronislaw Huberman Music Adviser - ZUBIN MEHTA

Tel Aviv, P.O.Box 11292 Telephone: 228102

PROSPECTUS 1970-71

SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS

The season begins on Saturday, October 3, 1970. Renewal of subscriptions starts Sunday, August 23, 1970, at the I.P.O. Office, Mann Auditorium, Dizengoff St. entrance. Hours: 10-1, 4-6 daily, Fridays: 10—1.

Your usual seat is reserved for you up to Friday 18.9.70.

TEL AVIV, SERIES 1-5 &

We take this opportunity of welcoming the other, you will note the reflection you to the IPO’s 1970-71 season, in of this in our programme. Emphasis which a selected list of conductors this year will be on Haydn, whose inex and soloists - with carefully-prepared haustible inventiveness is so marked and well-balanced programmes - pro in his great symphonies. The season mises our subscribers another reward will again include Vivaldi — this time ing series of concerts. This prospectus with one of his best choral works — outlines the season that awaits you. and another choral work will be by Faure, both performed for the first For this, our thirty-fifth year, we time at our concerts. We will also review with you the main lines of our have a first full performance of Ravel’s subscription policy, a policy that has “Daphnis and Chloe” with choir. enabled us to bring to you, our public, artists and programmes which would A word about our “Special Events”: be unavailable under any other system. several subscribers have asked why Our subscription series provides the artists such as Rubinstein, Bernstein opportunity of presenting not only and Heifetz do not appear within the great international artists, but also, framework of the subscription series. and of equal importance, young Israeli We, too, feel that it would be ideal if soloists and conductors who deserve they did. However, conflicts in itinera our support and who give us the ries, as well as the strain on the artists pleasure, through their appearance on of such intensive scheduling, preclude our series, of witnessing their progress this possibility. Some of these great and development. artists cannot offer us the- entire period of time necessary for twelve subscrip In the area of programmes, we have tion concerts. Therefore, when we are been careful to avoid making our able to bring them, even for shorter major consideration simply the attrac periods, we feel it exceedingly worth tion of as large a public as possible, while to present them on the only which would be the case were we to basis available to us, namely as sell tickets on a single event basis. “Special Events”. In this way, we do This would inevitably mean that only not favour one segment of our large music so standardized as to have vast subscription audience over another, but “popular” appeal could be offered. are still able to give all our subscribers We have aimed, instead, in our sub the opportunity of participating in scription series, to widen our musical these great music experiences. For horizons through the inclusion of these special concerts, however, we works either new or not as yet pre insist on giving our subscribers pre sented to our public — highlights of ference, both in substantial reductions this past season included Britten’s “War on ticket prices and in advance-sale Requiem” and Gluck’s “Orpheus” — priority before tickets are open to the along with works already known, general public. valued and loved, all providing memor Due to continually rising costs, and able evenings of music for our sub after consultation with the public scribers. And so we rely on our Music ■board of the orchestra, it was decided Adviser, Mr. Zubin Mehta, our to effect a modest increase in the guest artists and team of experts to prices of the subscription tickets — prescribe a progressive and balanced the first in three years. programme for our concert series. We are, as always, interested in the The programme for our coming season opinions of our public, and would like includes, we believe, enough of a more lively dialogue between our the “old” and the “new” to subscribers and ourselves. By sharing satisfy our subscribers’ wishes. Since views and ideas we hope it will be the general trend seems to be away possible to heighten the pleasure of from romantic music — a direction in our public and further the musical life which we, too, are slowly moving - of our country. and towards more contemporary music on the one hand and early works on THE MANAGEMENT 1970-71 SEASON SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS TEL AVIV

1 7 ZUBIN MEHTA PAUL PARAY PINCHAS ZUKERMAN (Violin) MISHA DICHTER (Piano) GILA YARON (Soprano) MORDECHAI BEN SHACHAR (Bar.) 2 8 GEORGE SINGER GEORG SOLTI GEZA ANDA (piano) RADU LUPU (Piano) 3 9 RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS ANTAL DORATI RAFFAELE ARIE (Bass) SHEILA ARMSTRONG (Soprano) BIRGIT FINNILA (Mezzo Soprano) 4 10 MOSHE ATZMON OKKO KAMU JEROME LOWENTHAL (Piano) CLAUDIO ARRAU (Piano) 5 11 KAREL ANCERL DANIEL BARENBOIM ZVI ZEITLIN (Violin) JACQUELINE DU PRE (Cello) 6 12 GARY BERTINI ZUBIN MEHTA YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) MENACHEM BREUER (Violin) SIMCHA HELED (Cello) ELIAHU THORNER (Oboe) MORDECHAI RECHTMAN (Bassoon)

Subject to change ARTISTS OF THE SEASON

CONDUCTORS: SOLOISTS:

ZUBIN MEHTA Violin PINCHAS ZUKERMAN GEORGE SINGER ZVI ZEITLIN YEHUDI MENUHIN RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS MENACHEM BREUER

MOSHE ATZMON Piano GEZA ANDA KAREL ANCERL JEROME LOWENTHAL MISHA DICHTER GARY BERTINI RADU LUPU CLAUDIO ARRAU PAUL PARAY Cello GEORG SOLTI JACQUELINE DU PRE SIMCHA HELED ANTAL DORATI Oboe OKKO KAMU ELIAHU THORNER

DANIEL BARENBOIM Bassoon MORDECHAI RECHTMAN

Vocalists SHEILA ARMSTRONG (Soprano) GILA YARON (Soprano) BIRGIT FINNILA (Mezzo Soprano) M. BEN SHACHAR (Baritone) RAFFAELE ARIE (Bass)

TEL-AVIV PHILHARMONIC CHOIR - Joseph Friedland, Director RINAT ISRAEL CHAMBER CHOIR - Gary Bertini, Director

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BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90

HAYDN “Symphonie Concertante’’ for Violin, Cello, Oboe, tbn nnnw nx»Y)3 DHÎ» Bassoon and Orchestra, Simcha Heled Menachem Breuer Op. 84

RESPIGHI “Pini di Roma” (Pine Trees of Rome) Symphonic Poem

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SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A Minor

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 in E Major

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MOZART MAHLER Piano Concerto Songs from in A Major K. 488 „Des Knaben Wunderhom” SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 DORATI in E Flat Major Symphony No. 1

VIVALDI “Gloria”

With The Tel Aviv Philharmonie Choir - Director — Joseph Friedland

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Gary Bertini SCHUBERT ’1’013 ’1X1 Karel Ancerl bl’six 3ixp Symphony No. 3 SETER in D Major Fantasia SCHOENBERG BRAHMS Violin Concerto Violin Concerto CESAR FRANCK RAVEL Symphony in D Minor "Daphnis and Chloe”

with "Rinat” Israel Chamber Choir Director - Gary Bertini

Yehudi Menuhin pmio ’110’ Zvi Zeitlin

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GINASTERA Piano Concerto GLINKA "Russian and Ludmila” PROKOFIEV Overture Symphony No. 5 BORODIN Aria from "Prince Igor”

GLINKA Aria from “Ivan Sussanin”

MOUSSORGSKY Aria from “Boris Godunov”

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