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April 24-25-27 LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Conductor FELICIA MONTEALEGRE, MARTIAL SING- HER, ADELE ADDISON, LEONTYNE PRICE, CAROL SMITH, DAVID LLOYD, LORENZO ALVARY.WESTMINSTER CHOIR “Jeanne D’Arc au Bucher”—Honegger 7 CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM —SEASON 1 957-1 958 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 1957—One Hundred Sixteenth Season—1958 Principal Conductors-. DIMITRI MITROPOULOS, LEONARD BERNSTEIN 5795th Concert 5796th Concert Thursday Evening, April 17, 1958, at 8:45 o’clock Friday Afternoon, April 18, 1958, at 2:30 o’clock LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Conductor ARTUR RUBINSTEIN, Pianist Borishansky ...................................................................... Music for Orchestra (Premiere — Winner of the 1958 George Gershwin Memorial Award) PROGRAM CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 ar Piano at this Concert is a STEINWAY Because of the unsurpassed beauty of its tone and responsive accelerated action ARTUR RUBINSTEIN uses the Steinway Piano exclusively, both in concert and at home. 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Eve., April 21 at 8:30—Contemporary Chamber Ensemble 20 East 54th Street, NYC, PL 3-7186 Tues. Eve., April 22 at 8:30—N. Seaman, Concert Open from 9 AM to 6 PM Fri. Eve., April 25 at 8:30—"Talent Hunt" sponsored by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Thursday till 9 PM Sat. Eve., April 26 at 5:30—N. Seaman, Twilight Concert ALL EUROPE New flight non-stop to Paris departs 4 PM daily from New York. Excellent connections to all Europe. Every accommo­ dation every day. Call your Travel Agent or Air France: OLympia 6-6000. WORLD’S LARGEST AIRLINE URANIA — POPULAR SCIENCE AIR®FRANCE HI-FI TEST RFCORD — Vol. 2 NOW YOU CAN TEST YOUR HI-FI SYSTEM WITH MUSIC PROGRAM CONTINUED "Another Popular Science-Urania workout for hi-fi rigs, which will probably cause some audio fans to purr contentedly while the rest pull their sets apart in a frenzy. Well- produced, superbly recorded and pressed, this disk supplies everything from filtered musical tones over a wide instrumental range to orchestral excerpts that will make all but the finest sound gear show its faults nakedly. Lucid notes explain the platter's Mr. Rubinstein plays the Steinway Piano use in testing Hi-Fi with what it's supposed to reproduce: Music." Record UPS-2 ‘Billboard, Dec. 16, 1957 Managing Director, BRUNO Z1RATO Assistant, GEORGE E. JUDD, Jr. U URANIA RECORDS THE STEINWAY is the official piano of the New York Philharmonic COLUMBIA RECORDS 'ft. A“’"" RESALE Of’ TICKETS FOR PHILHARMONIC PENSION FUND It is requested that subscribers who are unable to use their tickets kindly return them to the Philharmonic-Symphony offices, 113 W. 57th Street, or call .Lx«“4””"'”” COlumbus 5-4480 to advise of their availability for resale for benefit of the Society’s Pension Fund. All tickets received will be acknowledged. 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