TWELFTH SEASON 1945-1946

PHILADELPHIA ALL STAR CONCERT SERIES

Presents ARTUR RUBINSTEIN in Recital ACADEMY OF MESIC

THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER II, 1945 8:30 o’clock

EMMA FELDMAN

Local Management PATRONESSES

1945-1946

Mrs. William G. Andes Mrs. Fredric R. Mann Mrs. Leonard Averett Miss Maud L. Marren Mrs. Alexander Biddle Maybelle B. Marston Mrs. Gideon Boericke Miss E. Gwen Martin Mrs. David Bortin Mrs. Maurice Molarsky Klara Kase Bowman Miss Mary Binney Montgomery Mrs. Paul T. Bradley Mrs. M. Moore Mrs. Marshall A. Coyne Mrs. Randal Morgan Mrs. M. Davis Mrs. Harry Beaumont Newland Mrs. Ambrose J. Egan Mrs. Boyd Nixon Mrs. Emlen Etting Mrs. Eugene Ormandy Mrs. Edmund C. Evans Mrs. A. J. Drexel Paul Mrs. Frank C. Evans Mrs. Clayton Platt, Jr. Mrs. Frank S. Evans Mrs. Robert W. Rea Mrs. Lewis Fisher Mrs. Robert F. Ridpath Mrs. Alfred H. Geary Mrs. Mary G. Roebling Mrs. John White Geary Mrs. Edgar Scott Mrs. Samuel Goodman, Jr. Mrs. Harry Shapiro Mrs. S. W. Hallowell Mrs. E. Raymond Snedaker Mrs. John Hammond Mme. Olga Samaroff Stokowski Mrs. Edith Harcum Mrs. Bernard Talimer Mrs. Milton Harding Mrs. M. Taylor Mrs. John S. C. Harvey Mrs. Willliam T. Tonner Mrs. Carl Hedner Mrs. Edw. O. Troth Mrs. Morton Howard Mrs. John L. Walther Mrs. William K. Huff Mrs. Pennock M. Way Mrs. Yarnall Jacobs Mrs. C. Newbold Welsh Mrs. Arthur W. Jones Mrs. M. Wenger Mrs. Walter L. Katzenstein Miss Ellen Winsor Mrs. Jacob Loeb Langsdorf Miss Frances A. Wister Mrs. August Lincoln Mrs. Alan D. Wood Mrs. William E. Lingelbach, Jr. Mrs. Samuel Woodward Mrs. John Bross Lloyd Miss Lydia R. Woolman Mrs. Harl McDonald Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist

3 ARTUR RUBINSTEIN World-Renowned Pianist ARTUR RUBINSTEIN

Program

I. Sonata, op. 57, F minor (Appassionata) ...... BEETHOVEN Allegro assai Andante con moto Finale

Carnival, 3...... SCHUMANN Préambule, Pierrot, Arlequin, Valse Noble, Eusebius, Florestan Coquette, Répliqué, Sphinxes, Papillons, Lettres Dansants^ lanna, Chopin, Estrella, Reconnaissance, Pantalon et Colombine, Valse Allemande, Paganini, Aveu, Promenade, Pause, Marche des Davidsbundler Contre les Philistins

PP term ¿òdeon

II. Ballade, G minor op. 22 Berceuse CHOPIN Polonaise, op. 53

Prelude, A minor | La Plus que Lente (Valse) / DEBUSSEY

Sonata in three movements from "Petrouchka"...... STRAVINSKY (Dedicated to and written tor Mr. Rubinstein) Russian Dance In Petrouchka's Room Russian Fair (played with out pause)

STEINWAY PIANO VICTOR RECORDS Exclusive Management: HUROK ATTRACTIONS, INC., 711 Fifth Ave. City Booking Direction: National Concert and Artists Corporation. with the Ballet Theatre and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo—with which group she arrived in America in 1933 as one of the famous trio of "baby Ballerinas"—left to start in the musi­ cal hit, "Follow the Girls."

Her two partners in trio, Tania Ria- bouchinska and Tamara Toumanova, were similarly lured away, Riabouch- inska to the new operetta "Polonaise," and Toumanova to screen stardom.

Vera Zorina, who danced second roles in the Hurok company, became a one-woman musical comedy vogue— "I Married an Angel," "Louisiana Pur­ chase," and upwards to Shakespeare's "The Tempest," in which she is cur­ rently appearing. Billy Rose lured Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin into "Seven Lively Arts"; Sono Osato, one of the most exotic dancers in Ballet Theatre, captivated Broadway with her comedy talents in "One Touch of Venus" and became a star in the current "On the Town."

Viola Essen, Alexandre Danilova, Frederic Franklin, Tamara Geva, Sonia Woicikowski, Ruthanna Boris, Mlada Mladova, Chris Volkoff, Joan McCrack­ en, Mary Ellen Moylan, Ruthanna Boris, Lubov Roudenko—the list of dancers who have soared to footlight heights from the ballet is almost end­ less. To modern choreographers must go much of the credit for the fine integra­ tion of dance, visual beauty and story which has replaced the old static for- mulct of the revue and musical comedy stage.

Agnes de Mille, brilliant young American choreographer ("Oklahoma" and "Bloomer Girl”); ("Hollywood Pinafore"); Jack Cole, Catherine Littlefield, William Dollar, David Lichine, Paul Haakon, all have served in the cause of blending ballet with musical comedy and achieving a perfect marriage of these two essen­ tially theatrical arts.

Looking backward it is quite possible to evaluate the Russian ballet's transi­ tion from the Diaghileffian era—when it first broke with classic tradition and offered dance works that embraced the arts of music, painting and chore­ ography—to 1945.

Quite simply, it has partaken of the nourishment of its new American home. The dynamism and drive of young American dancers—Nora Kaye, Lucia Chase, Mary Ellen Moylan, Janet Reed, Marc Platt, Nana Gollner, Jerome Rob­ bins, Paul Haakon, with their English contemporaries—Markova, Dolin, Hugh Lang and Antony Tudor, enhanced and sharpened the older Russian school, while choreographers infused it with the freshness and glowing vitality of the American character and back­ ground. RUSSIAN INN 1233 LOCUST STREET Luncheon — Dinner — Supper Visit Bar Russe Open Daily Except Monday