CARNEGIE HALL/78th Season
Thursday evening, January 15, 1970 at 8:30
S. HUROK
presents ARTUR RUBINSTEIN
with
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ALFRED WALLENSTEIN, Conducting
PROGRAM
Concerto in A Minor, Opus 54, for Piano and Orchestra Robert Schumann Allegro affetuoso Intermezzo—Andantino grazioso Allegro vivace
Grande Fantaisie on Polish Airs Frederic Chopin
INTERMISSION
Concerto in A Minor, Opus 16, for Piano and Orchestra Edward Grieg Allegro Adagio Allegro moderato molto e marcato *********
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PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Few musicians in history ever held such a times but never to the kind of ecstatic acclaim commanding position in the artistic world as he enjoyed in Europe and South America. Then does Artur Rubinstein. For decades, around the more than thirty years ago S. Hurok persuaded world, Mr. Rubinstein’s immense and loyal foll Mr. Rubinstein to return after more than a de owing, not only among audiences but among cade of absence. The love affair between him critics and his fellow musicians, has poured and his American audiences began then and has forth to hear him wherever and whenever he grown warmer with each passing year. plays. This season’s three concerts in Carnegie An American citizen, he is, as are few men Hall were sold out months in advance, and Paris, in our time, a true citizen of the world. He now London, Tokyo, Warsaw, Rome and Moscow divides his time, when not performing, among react in the same way. his houses in Paris and the Mediterranean coast The Polish-born pianist first came to the U.S. of Spain and an apartment in New York. A man in 1906 as a prodigious teen-ager. During the of great cultivation, wit and charm, he is belov next twenty years he appeared here several ed by his host of friends on every continent. Carnegie Hall Corporation International Festival of Visiting Orchestras
Thursday LONDON Berlioz...... Corsair Overture January 22 SYMPHONY Beethoven...... Piano Concerto No. 4 1970 ANDRE PREVIN Beethoven...... Symphony No. 7 8:30 P.M. Conducting Soloist: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY, piano
Friday LONDON Josephs...... Variations on a Theme January 23 SYMPHONY of Beethoven (World Premiere) 1970 ANDRE PREVIN Beethoven...... Piano Concerto No. 3 8-30P.M. Conducting Vaughan Williams...... Symphony No. 4 Soloist: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY, piano
Saturday LONDON Beethoven...... Prometheus Overture January 24 SYMPHONY Beethoven...... Piano Concerto No. 5 1970 ANDRE PREVIN ("Emperor") 8:30 P.M. Conducting Walton...... Symphony No. 1 Soloist: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY, piano
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall William Steinberg, Music Director
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERIES remaining concerts: Saturday, February 7, 1970: CLAUDIO ABBADO conducting. Symphony No. 3 (Prokofieff); Two Nocturnes: Fêtes, Nuages (Debussy); Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2 (Ravel).
Saturday, April 4, 1970: WILLIAM STEINBERG conducting. Symphony No. 4 ''Italian” (Mendelssohn); Symphony No. 4 (Mahler). Soloist: BENITA VALENTE, soprano
Tickets: $7.50, $7.00, $6.00, $4.50, $3.50
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VISITING ORCHESTRAS
Saturday, February 28, 1970: COLIN DAV IS conducting. Overture to "Idomeneo” (Mozart); Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467 (Mozart); Symphony No. 1 (Elgar). Soloist: INGRID HAEBLER, piano.
Tickets: $7.00, $6.00, $5.00, $4.00, $3.00 ALL CONCERTS AT 8:30 P.M. Auspices: The Carnegie Hall Corporation
10 CARNEGIE HALL CALENDAR
THE MAIN HALL
Wednesday, January 14, at 8:30. New Monday, January 19, at 8:30. American Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Henry Lewis, Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, conductor. Marilyn Horne, soprano. Jo conductor. Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute. anne Bruno, soprano. The Camerata Sing ers, Abraham Kaplan, director. Tuesday, January 20, at 8:30. Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano. Martin Isepp, Thursday, January 15, at 8:30. Artur piano. Rubinstein, piano, with orchestra conduct ed by Alfred Wallenstein. Wednesday, January 21, at 8:00. Amer ican Opera Society. "La Donna del Lago" Friday, January 16, at 8:30. Regine, by Rossini. French popular singer. Thursday, January 22, at 8:30. London Saturday, January 17, at 8:30. Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Andre Previn, con Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov, ductor. Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano. Works conductor. Raisa Bobrineva, soprano. Val of Berlioz, Beethoven (Int. Festival of ery Klimov, violin. Visiting Orchestras)
Sunday, January 18, at 3:00. American Friday, January 23, at 8:30. London Sym Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, phony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conduct conductor. Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute. or. Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano. Works of Works of Haydn, Mozart, Khachaturian, Josephs, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams. Rimsky-Korsakov. Saturday, January 24, at 8:30. London Sunday, January 18, at 8:30. Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, con Philharmonic Orchestra, Kiril Kondrashin, ductor. Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano. Works conductor. Van Cliburn, piano. of Beethoven, Walton.
THE RECITAL HALL
Sunday, January 11, at 8:30. Paul Zukof- Wednesday, January 14, at 8:30. Rosina sky String Trio and Gilbert Kalish, piano. Cavicchioli, mezzo-soprano. Elio Battaglia, 2nd Event in the series, "The Continuing baritone. Erik Werba, piano. Avant Garde". Monday, January 19, at 8:30. Donald Monday, January 12, at 8:30. "Evolution Weilerstein, violin. Susan Halligan, piano. of the Lied" featuring Janice Harsanyi, soprano. 2nd Event in the series, "Ideas Tuesday, January 20, at 8:30. Sandra Dar from Interlochen". ling, soprano.
Tuesday, January 13, at 8:30. Mikulas Wednesday, January 21, at 8:30. Zaidee Grosz, violin. Parkinson, piano.
13 THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION presents Pittsburgh Wednesday Evenings at 8:30 Symphony Orchestra JANUARY 28, 1970 "Variations and Fugue on a Theme WILLIAM STEINBERG, Music Director by Mozart” Max Reger "Bluebeard's Castle" Bartdk with EVELYN LEAR, soprano, and ARNOLD VOKETAITIS, bass
APRIL 15, 1970 "Missa Solemnis" Beethoven with MARTINA ARROYO, soprano LILI CHOOKASIAN, contralto RICHARD LEWIS, ténor THOMAS PAUL, bass and RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CHOIR
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