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Pierre Boule SALLE PLEYEL CENTRE ARTISTIQUE DE PARIS Administrateur général : Henri VIEILLARD-BARON FESTIVAL FESTIVAL D'AUTOMNE ESTIVAL A PARIS DE PARIS JEUDI 18 SEPTEMBRE 1975 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC DIRECTION: PIERRE BOULE/ La tournée européenne du New York Philharmonic a pu être réalisée grâce à undon d'IBM WORLD TRADE CORPORATION Le New York Philharmonic enregistre en exclusivité sur disques CBS Piano STEINWAY Représentant en France : Bureau International des Concerts et Conférences Ch. et C. KIESGEN, 252, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 PARIS Tél. 924-21-25 Document de communication du Festival d'Automne à Paris - tous droits réservés LE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ETSON PASSE Il y a quelques années le critique américain James Huneker put Le hombre des solistes de premier plan qui se sont produits avec écrire :« L'histoire du Philharmonique de New York est celle-là le New York Philharmonie n'est pas moins impressionnant :Isaye, même de la musique aux Etats-Unis ». Ce faisant il ne se contentait Bull, Gottschalk, Sarasate, Wieniawsky, Vieuxtemps, Casals, Thibaud, pas de résumer en une phrase l'activité ininterrompue de l'orchestre Busoni, AlmaGluck,Hofmann,Carreno,Joseffy,Feuermant4 depuis 1842 mais soulignait aussi le travail de pionnier qui fit de Schnabel, Cortot, Kreisler, Rachmaninov, Lilli Lehmann, Lhevin.ne, cet orchestre le chef de file de toute une tradition musicaleassocier Nordica, Horowitz,Heifetz,Casadesus,Rubinstein, Paderewsky, les ,oeuvres nouvelles à celles qui sont déjà familières au public. Schumann-Heink, Flagstadt, Tourd, Novaes, Milstein, Hess, Stern, Tebaldi,Cliburn,Anderson,aistrakh,Farrel,Szigeti,Serkin, Le Philharmonique de New York fut fondé en tantque coopérative Schwartzkopf,Piatigorsky,Menuhin,Lotte Lehmann,Melchior, à une époque où un Washington Irving quittait les U.S.A.pour Francescatti, Guilels, Richter, Sutherland, Nilsson, Rostropovitch... devenir diplomate à Madrid, où Charles Dickens faisait en Amérique sa première tournée de « conférences », où Longfellow, Fenimore Le New York Philharmonie (et le New York Symphony avec lequel Cooper et Walt Witman écrivaient leurs .oeuvres les plus célèbres. il fusionna en 1928) fut également le premier à joueren Amérique Le téléphone, l'automobile, l'avion, le phonographe, la radioet la un grand nombre d'oeuvres du répertoire, parmi lesquelles on pourrait télévision étaient encore envisagés comme des miracles. New York rappeler les Huitième (1844) et Neuvième (1846) Symphonies de ne comptait que 412.710 habitants... Beethoven, le Romeo et Juliette (1876) puis les Quatrième (1890) et Sixième (1894) Symphonies de Tchaïkovsky, la Quatrième de Le Philharmonie poursuivit son effort en tant que coopérative durant Brahms (1886), Mort et Transfiguration de Richard Strauss (1892), quelque soixante-dix ans, date à laquelle Gustav Mahleren devint le Concerto pour violon de Sibelius (1906, les Première, Deuxième, directeur musical (1909) :jusqu'alors c'étaient les instrumentistes Quatrième et Sixième Symphonies de Mahler (1909, 1908, 1904et eux-mêmes qui fournissaient l'argent nécessaire à l'organisation des (11994374), enfin, de Hindemith, la Symphonie « Mathis le Peintre » concerts. Le New York Philharmonie était né au moment propice, alorsque Plus importantes encore paraîtront des premières mondialesd'ceuvres l'« orchestre symphonique », tel que nous leconcevons de nos jours, telles que la Symphonie du Nouveau Monde de Dvorak (1893), le en était encore à une phase embryonnaire, où Beethoven, Schubert 3e Concerto pour piano de Rachmaninov (1909), le Concertoen fa et Weber étaient encore considérés comme des compositeurs« mo- de Gershwin (1925), les Métamorphosessur des thèmes de Weber dernes »,où Berlioz,Schumann, Wagner etVerdiétaientdes de Hindemith (1944) ou la Deuxième Symphonie de CharlesIves « contemporains ». Brahms, Tehaïkovsky et Dvorak étaientencore (1951). Les années récentes ontvu se multiplier les créations de en culottes courtes. compositeurs américains, tels que Copland, Barber, William Schu- man, Leonard Bernstein, Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss. C'est sur ce décor historique qu'il faut apprécierle fait que le Pour le 125' anniversaire de sa fondation, la Sociétécommanda des Philharmonique de New York devint le premier orchestrepermanent oeuvres nouvelles à dix-huit compositeursMilton Babbitt, Richard- créé aux Etats-Unis, après seulement sixdevanciers en Europe Rodney Bennett, Luciano Berio,ElliottCarter, Aaron Copland, en Norvège, à Leipzig, Londres, Paris, Liverpool et Vienne. Les Roberto Gerhardt, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris,Leon Kirchner, autres orchestres permanents d'Amériquene naquirent qu'après la Fredric IVIyrov, Nicolas Nabokov, Walter Piston, WilliamSchuman, Guerre de Sécession lorsque lepays entra dans une période de RogerSessions,Rodion Chedrine, KarlheinzStockhausen, Tons croissance industrielle et économique rapide.Furent alors créés, en Takemitsu et Virgil Thomson. 1878, l'Orchestre Symphonique de New York(qui devait se fondre avec son aîné cinquante ans après, en 1928), deuxans plus tard Le Philharmonique de New York avait donnéson premier concert l'Orchestre Symphonique de Saint- Louis et le Boston Symphony, le 7 décembre 1842 dans lessalles Apollon situées en bas de en 1881. Dix ans encore et ce sera la fondation del'Orchestre Broadway. Trois chefs s'en partageaient ladirection :Ureli Corelli de Chicago puis, au cours des deuxdécennies suivantes, de ceux Hill, fondateur et premier président dela Société, H. C. Timm et de Cincinnati, Philadelphie, Minneapoliset San Francisco. L'Or- George Loder. Durant toute la premièredécennie de son existence, chestre de Cleveland est le plus jeune,ayant été fondé à la fin la Philharmonie offrit ainsila place de chef à plusieurs artistes, de la Première Guerre mondiale,en 1918. 11est vrai que des simultanément, et ceci jusqu'àce que Theodore Eisfeld en devint ensembles plus ou moins éphémèresavaient été créés dès 1809 à le premier chef d'orchestre régulier,en 1852. Baltimore, en 1810 à Bostonet en 1821 à Philadelphie. Mais aucun ne s'était maintenu, alors qu'une Société Philharmoniquede New Sans même tenir compte de l'instabilitépolitique qui agita les pays York avait été mise sur pied dès 1800,reconstituée vingt ans plus germaniques au milieu du XIX' siècle(instabilité qui amena nombre tard et put réapparaîtreencore avec la formation de la New York de musiciens de talent à émigreren Amérique), plusieurs orchestres Philharmonie Society, en 1842. allemands firent de longs séjoursaux U.S.A. Parmi ceux-ci, l'Or- chestrede Germanie donna vingt Au cours de la première saison, concertsà New York età les souscripteurs de la New York Brooklyn au cours d'unesaison de cinq semaines. Bienque ces Philharmonie Society eurent àpayer dix dollars pour trois places manifestations aient été des fiascos financiers, à chacun des trois concerts donnés. nées ensuite (à Washington celles qui furent don- Petit à petit le nombre deces ou en Nouvelle-Angleterre et tout par- concerts en souscription vaaugmenter. A la veille de la Guerre de ticulièrement à Boston) s'attirèrentune vaste audience. Ainsi l'in- Sécession ilsétaient de cinq et au fluence de cet orchestre fut-elle de ce siècle cours de la première décennie grande et, au cours de ses six années ilétait passé à dix-huit. LorsqueMahler devint, en d'existence,il donna des concerts danspratiquement toutes les 1909, directeur musical duPhilharmonie, le nombre des grandes villes des U.S.A. Son atteignit concerts animateur, Karl Bergmann, allait de- cinquante-quatre et la saison duravingt-troissemaines. venir, par la suite, le premier chefd'orchestre de quelque importance Pendant la dépression économique desannées 30 la saison ne durait ayantlaresponsabilité du New York Philharmonie, placequ'il pas moins de vingt-huit semaines et le nombre deconcerts touchait occupa plus de dix ans, jusqu'en 1875. Aucours de cette décennie la centaine. Aujourd'hui, environdeux cents concerts sont donnés il acquit une notoriété définitivepar ses interprétations de la musique au cours des cinquante-deux semaines de l'année. Le NewYork d'avant-garde de l'époque :Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner. Philharmonie fut le premier orchestre américainà être en activité absolument toute l'année. Leopold Damrosch, qui avait été l'assistant de Lisztà Weimar, fonda l'Oratorio Society en 1873 et le New York Symphony, déjà Nombreux sont les compositeurs de premier plan qui vinrentdiriger cité, en 1878. Auparavant, il avait été engagécomme chef du Phil- leurs ,oeuvres à la tête du New York Philharmonie: citons Anton harmonie pour la saison 1876-1877. Lui succéda un Américain né Rubinstein, Victor Herbert, Richard Strauss,Saint-Saëns, d'Indy, en AllemagneThéodor Thomas qui, dès 1864, avait rassemblé un Arthur Honegger, Ravel, Milhaud, Roy Harris, Enesco, Villa-Lobos, orchestre qui, se produisant à New York, avait constitué une concur- Respighi, Rachmaninov, Bartok, Bernstein, Prokofief, Carlos Chavez, rence des plus dynamiques à la Société Philharmonique. La consé- Stravinsky, Hindemith, Aaron Copland et Lukas Foss. Tchaïkovsky quence en avait été l'amélioration du niveau de chacun des deux dirigea l'orchestre lors des cérémonies d'ouverture du Carnegie Hall, orchestres qui s'agrandirent et engagèrent de meilleurs instrumen- en 1891. tistes afin de pouvoir aborder des programmes plus varies et d en Document de communication du Festival d'Automne à Paris - tous droits réservés affiner les exécutions. En 1877 Thomas prenait donc la tête de son première tournée européenne. C'est sous la férule de Toscanini qu'en rival
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