Troy Chromatic Concerts 110 Seasons of Classical Music Excellence 1894-2007 1ST SEASON - 1894-1895 Raoul Pugno, piano, & Maude MacCarthy, violin Henry E. Krehbiel, lecturer, with Thomas Impett, tenor Marcella Sembrich, soprano Edward A. MacDowell, piano Bendix String Quartet & Augusta Cottlow, piano Mr. & Mrs. Max Heinrich 10TH SEASON - 1903-1904 Kneisel Quartet Jacques Thibaud, cello 2ND SEASON - 1895-1896 Lillian Nordica, soprano Louis C. Elson Ernestine Schumann-Heink, mezzo soprano Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, piano Arbos String Quartet & Alfred Reisenauer, piano Plunket Greene, bass-baritone 11TH SEASON - 1904-1905 Kneisel Quartet Kneisel Quartet & Augusta Cottlow, piano 3RD SEASON - 1896-1897 Eugen d'Albert, piano Corrine Moore-Lawson Johanna Gadski, soprano Albert Lockwood, piano Louise Homer, contralto, & Emilio de Gogorza, baritone Kneisel Quartet 12TH SEASON - 1905-1906 Plunket Greene, bass-baritone Harold Bauer, piano 4TH SEASON - 1897-1898 Johanna Gadski, soprano Georg Henschel, baritone, & Mrs. Georg Henschel, Marie Nichols, violin, & Elsa Ruegger, cello soprano Herbert Witherspoon, bass Henri Marteau, violin 13TH SEASON - 1906-1907 David Bispham, baritone Ernestine Schumann-Heink, mezzo soprano Kneisel Quartet Josef Lhevinne, piano 5TH SEASON - 1898-1899 Alexandre Petschnikoff, violin, & Rudolf Ganz, piano In a Persian Garden Victor Harris, conductor George Hamlin, tenor David Bispham, baritone 14TH SEASON - 1907-1908 Emil Sauer, piano Susan Metcalfe, soprano Kneisel Quartet Emilio de Gogorza, baritone 6TH SEASON - 1899-1900 Josef Hofmann, piano Longy Club Servian Folk Cycle Victor Harris, conductor Alexandre Petschnikoff, violin 1908-1909 NO CONCERT Rafael Joseffy, piano 15TH SEASON- 1909-1910 Marie Brema, mezzo soprano, & Leo Schulz, cello Tilly Koenan, contralto 7TH SEASON - 1900-1901 Flonzaley Quartet Ernst von Dohnanyi, piano, & Fritz Kreisler, violin Josef Lhevinne, piano Ernestine Schumann-Heink, mezzo soprano Pasquale Amato, baritone, & Alma Gluck, soprano Kneisel Quartet 16TH SEASON - 1910-1911 Georg Henschel, baritone, & Mrs Georg Henschel, Alma Gluck, soprano soprano John McCormack, tenor, & Henrietta Bach, violin 8TH SEASON - 1901-1902 Barrère Ensemble Leonora Jackson, vioin, & Henry J. Fellows, tenor Yolanda Mèrö, piano Gregory Hast, tenor, & Katherine Fisk, violin 17TH SEASON - 1911-1912 Edward Zeldenrust, piano Flonzaley Quartet Lilian Nordica, soprano Kathleen Parlow, violin 9TH SEASON - 1902-1903 Alessandro Bonci, tenor Suzanne Adams, soprano, & David Bispham, violin Elena Gerhardt, mezzo soprano ©2006 Troy Chromatic Concerts Inc. – www.troychromaticconcerts.org 18TH SEASON - 1912-1913 26TH SEASON - 1922-1923 Flonzaley Quartet New York Symphony Orchestra Walter Damrosch, Margarete Matzenauer, mezzo soprano conductor, with Lucien Schmit, cello Herbert Witherspoon, bass, & Anna Case, soprano Merle Alcock, mezzo soprano, with Dame Myra Hess, Max Pauer, piano piano 19TH SEASON - 1913-1914 Erica Morini, violin Josef Hofmann, piano Frieda Hempel, soprano Alma Gluck, soprano Extra Concerts: Julia Culp, mezzo soprano The Impresario William Wade Hinshaw, producer, with Margulies Trio Percy Hemus, baritone 1914-1915 NO CONCERTS Ignace Jan Paderewski, piano 27TH SEASON - 1923-1924 1915-1916 NO CONCERTS New York Symphony Orchestra Walter Damrosch, 20TH SEASON - 1916-1917 conductor, with George Barrère flute Elena Gerhardt, mezzo soprano Sigrid Onegin, mezzo soprano Fritz Kreisler, violin Richard Crooks, tenor, & John Powell, piano Ossip Gabrilowitsch, piano, & Clara Clemens, contralto Lucrezia Bori, soprano Oscar Seagle, baritone, & Guiomar Novaes, piano Extra Concert: 21ST SEASON - 1917-1918 Cosi Fan Tutte William Wade Hinshaw, producer Sophie Braslau, mezzo soprano, & May Peterson, 28TH SEASON - 1924-1925 soprano Boston Symphony Serge Koussevitzky, conductor Mabel Garrison, soprano, & Ethel Leginska, piano Harold Bauer, piano, Bronislaw Huberman, violin, & Giovanni Martinelli, tenor, & Marvin Maazel, piano Lionel Tertis, viola Jacques Thibaud, cello Felix Salmond, cello ND 22 SEASON - 1918-1919 Mieczyslaw Munz, piano, & John Charles Thomas, Little Symphony George Barrère, conductor, with Lucy baritone Gates, soprano Dusolina Giannini, soprano Josef Hofmann, piano 29TH SEASON - 1925-1926 Clarence Whitehall, bass-baritone, & Winifred Byrd, Hulda Lashanska, soprano piano Alexander Brailowsky, piano Sophie Braslau, mezzo soprano Russian Symphonic Choir Basile Kibalchich, RD 23 SEASON - 1919-1920 conductor, with Dimitri Creona, tenor Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor, with Albert Spaulding, violin, & Maggie Teyte, soprano Tito Schipa, tenor, & Jose Echaniz, piano Louis Graveure, tenor 30TH SEASON - 1926-1927 Russian Symphony Modeste Altschuler, conductor, Roland Hayes, tenor, & William Lawrence, piano with Emma Roberts, mezzo contralto Rosa Ponselle, soprano, & Stuart Ross, piano TH 24 SEASON - 1920-1921 Hans Kindler, cello, Mischa Levitzki, piano, & Sascha Detroit Symphony Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Jacobsen, violin with Ilya Schkolnick, violin Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor Florence Easton, soprano 31ST SEASON - 1927-1928 Mischa Levitski, piano English Singers Marguerite D'Alvarez, mezzo soprano Albert Spaulding, violin, & Nikolai Orloff, piano TH 25 SEASON - 1921-1922 Cincinnati Orchestra Fritz Reiner, conductor Paul Kochanski, violin, & Carolina Lazzari, mezzo Rosa Ponselle, soprano soprano Extra Concert: Guy Maier & Lee Pattison, duo piano Ignace Jan Paderewski, piano New York Symphony Orchestra Walter Damrosch, 32ND SEASON - 1928-1929 conductor, with George Barrère, flute Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor Mario Chamlee, tenor Elizabeth Rethberg, soprano Guy Maier & Lee Pattison, duo piano Richard Crooks, tenor, & Gina Pinerra, soprano Extra Concert: Jascha Heifetz, violin ©2006 Troy Chromatic Concerts Inc. – www.troychromaticconcerts.org 33RD SEASON - 1929-1930 41ST SEASON - 1937-1938 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Jose Iturbi, conductor conductor Sigrid Onegin, mezzo soprano Gina Cigna, soprano Vladimir Horowitz, piano Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson, duo piano Barrère Little Symphony Louis Graveure, conductor Georges Enesco, violin Extra Concert: 42ND SEASON - 1938-1939 Fritz Kreisler, violin Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Jose Iturbi, 34TH SEASON - 1930-1931 conductor Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus Serge Jaroff, Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor conductor Gertrude Pitzinger, contralto Jose Iturbi, piano Eugene List, piano Dusolina Giannini, soprano 43RD SEASON - 1939-1940 Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor Trapp Family Choir 35TH SEASON - 1931-1932 National Symphony Orchestra Hans Kindler, conductor Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus Serge Jaroff, Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor director Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson, duo piano Barrère Little Symphony George Barrère, conductor, 44TH SEASON - 1940-1941 with Nelson Eddy, baritone Yehudi Menuhin, violin Felix Salmond & Charles Naegele, piano Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor Muriel Dickson, soprano 36TH SEASON - 1932-1933 Paul Robeson, bass Cleveland Orchestra Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor 45TH SEASON - 1941-1942 Nelson Eddy, baritone, Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson, Helen Traubel, soprano duo piano Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor Lotte Lehmann, soprano Josef Hofmann, piano Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano Richard Crooks, tenor 37TH SEASON - 1933-1934 46TH SEASON - 1942-1943 Detroit Symphony Orchestra Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Zino Francescatti, violin conductor Bruna Castagna, mezzo soprano Charles Naegele, piano, & Efrem Zimbalist, violin Pittsburgh Symphony Fritz Reiner, conductor Nelson Eddy, bariotne Salvatore Baccaloni Opera Company Grete Stuekgold, soprano, & Gregor Piatigorsky, cello 47TH SEASON - 1943-1944 38TH SEASON - 1934-1935 Eleanor Steber, soprano Kathryn Meisle, contralto, & Paul Althouse, tenor Rudolf Serkin, piano Grete Stuekgold, soprano Pittsburgh Symphony Fritz Reiner, conductor Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor Patricia Travers, violin, & Lansing Hatfield, baritone Dame Myra Hess, piano 48TH SEASON - 1944-1945 39TH SEASON - 1935-1936 Zinka Milanov, soprano, & Kurt Baum, tenor La Argentina (Spanish dance) William Kapell, piano Ruth Slenczynska, piano Marcel Hubert, cello, & Anna Kaskas, mezzo soprano Cleveland Orchestra Artur Rodzinski, conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Fritz Reiner, conductor Vienna Choir Boys 49TH SEASON - 1945-1946 40TH SEASON - 1936-1937 Artur Rubinstein, piano National Symphony Orchestra Hans Kindler, conductor National Symphony Orchestra Hans Kindler, conductor Josef Hofmann, piano William Primrose, viola Marian Anderson, contralto Jennie Tourel, mezzo soprano Nathan Milstein, violin 50TH SEASON - 1946-1947 Jussi Bjoerling, tenor National Symphony Orchestra Hans Kindler, conductor Cleveland Orchestra George Szell, conductor Vera Appleton & Michael Field, duo piano ©2006 Troy Chromatic Concerts Inc. – www.troychromaticconcerts.org 51ST SEASON - 1947-1948 58TH SEASON - 1954-1955 A Series: Frances Yeend, soprano Maryla Jonas, piano Michael Rabin, violin Leonard Warren, baritone Cleveland Orchestra George Szell, conductor Cleveland Orchestra George Szell, conductor Witold Malcuzynski, piano Nadine Conner, soprano 59TH SEASON - 1955-1956 B Series: Jean Casadesus, piano Blanche Thebom, mezzo soprano Leonard Rose, cello Robert Casadesus, piano Cleveland Orchestra George Szell,