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IV/U-TSP Pete# /(pox R?p/w,Jk ¿bi# JoEP- 5tolsp- Weppep fPOEP- (/ÛÛ55EM5 ¿/SH sysey E/OH- Pomopy //obppy £¿#1.0 &w PsPO- Joseph /foa/sy //¿SPY /ÉUX Jyhocp ¿fasTPO- zJEEP- Eo/v/wto# Joz/wp II ¿s/p- 5/70 PPOLO pzp m JpEPW// Joehb/jh £>epe / H/XEP /?77E ///?PPS SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS October 9-10 No Soloist October 16-17 Ray Lev, Pianist October 23-24 Rosa Tentoni, Soprano October 30-31 Isaac Stern, Violinist November 6-7 Percy Grainger, Pianist November 27-28 Gregor Piatigorsky, ’Cellist December 11-12 William Hain, Tenor December 18-19 Claire Coci, Organist January 1-2 No Soloist January 8-9 Argentinita, Pilar Lopez and Their Spanish Dance Ensemble January 15'16 Ruth Posselt, Violinist January 22-23 Sascha Gorodnitzki, Pianist January 29-30 No Soloist February 5-6 Artur Rubinstein, Pianist February 26-27 Arnaldo Estrella, Pianist March 5-6 Bidu Sayao, Soprano March 12-13 Luboshutz and Nemenoff, Duo Pianists March 26-27 Orpheus Club of Cincinnati April 2-3 Claudio Arrau, Pianist April 16-17 No Soloist AFTERNOONS AT 2:15 EVENINGS AT 8:30 BALLET THEATRE December 4—8:30 o’clock December 5—8:30 o’clock December 5—2:15 o’clock December 6—3:30 o’clock YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS October 20 December 8 January 12 February 23 March 30 TUESDAYS AT 3:00 O’CLOCK COLLEGE SYMPHONIC CONCERTS November 1 December 20 January 24 February 28 SUNDAYS AT 3:00 O'CLOCK OUT OF TOWN ENGAGEMENTS Louisville, Ky., October 27 Toledo, Ohio, March 19 Louisville, Ky., January 19 Columbus, Ohio, April 6 Oxford, Ohio, March 10 Athens, Ohio, April 7 Delaware, Ohio, March 18 Huntington, W. Va., April 8 Louisville, Ky., April 13 402 MUSIC HALL CI N CI N N AT I FORTY-EIGHTH SEASON CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EUGENE GOOSSENS MUSICAL DIRECTOR FOURTEENTH PAIR SYMPHONY CONCERTS CONDUCTED BY EUGENE GOOSSENS SOLOIST ARTUR RUBINSTEIN PIANIST THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER Oh say! can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? O thus be it ever, when free men shall stand Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation! Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, “In God is our trust!” And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ANALYTICAL NOTES BY JAMES G. HELLER FRIDAY AFTERNOON SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 5 FEBRUARY 6 403 FOURTEENTH PAIR Friday Afternoon Saturday Evening February 5, 1943 February 6, 1943 at 2:15 o’clock at 8:30 o’clock PROGRAM EUGENE GOOSSENS, Musical Director The Star Spangled Banner United Nations National Anthem: No. 14, Poland TANSMAN Symphony No. 5 in D-minor I. Moderato II. Intermezzo III. Scherzo IV. Finale (Conducted by the composer) KHATCHATURIAN Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ARTUR RUBINSTEIN INTERMISSION HARL McDONALD Fanfare for Poland TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 3, “The Polish” I. Moderato assai (Tempo di marcia funebre)—Allegro Brillante II. Andante elegiaco III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco (Tempo di Polacca) Artur Rubinstein Plays the Steinway If necessary to leave before end of program, please do so during an interval between numbers 405 Notes on the Program By JAMES G. HELLER TANSMAN Symphony No. 5 in D-minor Program notes on Alexander Tansman Symphony No. 5 in D-minor (from the National Symphony Orchestra program notes of February 3, 1943, concert). Mr. Tansman is among the more recent of eminent European musicians who have come to the United States and who are now exerting their influ­ ence to make our musical life richer, fuller and more varied. He was, how­ ever, no stranger to these shores when he arrived here in 1941. His music was comparatively well known, his use of jazz elements in serious composi­ tion had excited considerable interest, and he had previously made concert appearances in this country, as pianist and conductor, as far back as 1927. His originality and poetic nature, admirably attuned to the times in which he lives, have given him a place of deserved prominence in today’s musical world. One of his greatest honors came to him on October 30, 1941, when he received the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge medal for distinguished services to chamber music. On that day he played for a Washington audience in the Library of Congress the first performance of his fourth piano sonata. The city of Lodz in Poland is Mr. Talisman’s birthplace. Here it was that he first studied piano and composition, later receiving instruction in Warsaw. As a young composer he attracted attention almost immediately. In 1919 he had a truly remarkable experience—that of winning two prizes in the same competition ! He entered works under two different pseudonyms and had the satisfaction of gaining both the first and second awards. 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Like his immortal compatriot, Chopin, Mr. Tansman has evinced interest in the national spirit of his native land, but also like Chopin he has developed into far more than an exclusively national composer. His scores reveal a highly individualistic personality and an imagination that transcends, without ignoring, the bounds or limitations of nationalism. He expresses his thoughts in a modern language, but his messages are readily communicable and transmit a generous amount of musical beauty. His melodies are broadly assertive, his harmonies are bold and appropriate to the theme they support, his rhythms are positive and constructive, and his formalism is gratifyingly elastic. Irving Schwerke has written: “In him can be found a strong mixture of poetry which is the heritage of his race, that gracious tenderness which will recog­ nize no exaggeration or frivolity, and that slow sadness . with a strong crisp sense of dynamic movement which is his own.” Mr. Tansman’s new symphony, receiving its initial performances in Baltimore and Washington on February 2 and 3 respectively, was composed in California during the winter of 1942. It is the first important symphonic work that he has written in this country. There is no program attached to the score, and the music is conceived abstractly. There is, however, an emo­ tional content which is revealed through all the elements comprising “abstract music.” The work is classical in form, with special emphasis placed on The works to be played at the concerts and the books about them will be found in the Fine Arts Department of the Public Library of Cincinnati. 408 oments o/ Ql'lusic these reine again and again in your own home, on Brilliant Interpretations of ARTUR RUBINSTEIN TSCHAIKOWSKY — CONCERTO No. 1, IN B FLAT MINOR, Op. 23. With the London Symphony Orches­ tra, John Barbirolli, Conductor. Album DM-180 ............................... $4.50* GRIEG — CONCERTO IN A MINOR. Op. 16. With the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Con­ ductor. Album DM-900 ............................... $3.50* BRAHMS — INTERMEZZI AND RHAPSODIES. Album M-893 .$4.50* SCHUBERT — TRIO No. 1, IN B FLAT MAJOR, Op. 99. With Jascha Heifetz, Violin­ ist and Emanuel Feuermann, ’Cellist. 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