Carneqie Hall NEW YORK \^ JANUARY 1975 ^ Carnegie Hall January 1975 Schedule Thursday, January 16, at 8:00 Saturday. January 25, at 2:30 of Events JANET BAKER, Mezzo-soprano SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Charlotte Bergen, Conductor Friday, January 17, at 8:00 Saturday, January 4, at 8:00 Charles Treger, Violin THREE GUITARS NEW YORK JAZZ REPERTORY COMPANY All Beethoven program Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel Saturday, January 18, at 8:00 Saturday. January 25, at 8:00 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KEN BOOTHE, Friday, January 10, at 8:00 Colin Davis, Conductor Jamaican singer PRAGUE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Soloists: Janet Baker, Richard Cassilly Sunday, January 26, at 3:00 Michel Debost, Flute Works by Mozart, Mahler (Das Lied von der Works by Haydn, Mozart, Janacek, Dvorak Erde) BARBARA COOK Monday, January 27, at 8:00 Sunday, January 19, at 3:00,8:00 Saturday, January 11, at 8:00 MASKED DANCE OF BENGAL: CHHAU ARTHUR MacKENZIE, Piano AN EVENING WITH JOHN LUCIEN Works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Tuesday, January 28, at 8:00 Special Guests: Stanley Turrentine, George James Scott, Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, Samuel DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Benson Barber Aldo Ceccato, Conductor CORO NACIONAL DOMENICANO Soloists: Janice Yoes, Elsie Inselman, Henry Sunday. January 12, at 3:00 Grossman, Ara Berberian AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Monday, January 20, at 8:00 Janos Sebestyen, Organ Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Conductor MAURIZIO POLLINI, Piano Wayne State University Symphonic Choir Fourth Symphonies of Beethoven and Bruckner Tuesday, January 21, at 8:00 Works by Janacek (Slavonic Mass) and Dvorak JAMES DICK, Piano (International Festival of Visiting Orchestras) Monday, January 13, at 8:00 Works by Vivaldi-Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Wednesday, January 29, at 8:00 AMALIA RODRIGUES, Portuguese Singer Arno Babajanian, Scriabin, Ginastera DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Aldo Ceccato, Conductor Tuesday, January 14, at 8:00 Wednesday, January 22, at 8:00 ALBERT SCHWEITZER CENTENNIAL ISRAEL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Lorin Hollander, Piano Works by Bach, Strauss, Shostakovich CONCERT Gary Bertini, Conductor (International Festival of Visiting Orchestras) American Symphony Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Richard Westenburg, Conductor Works by Mordecai Seter (First N.Y. perform- Thursday, January 30, at 8:00 Virgil Fox, Organ; Eugene Istomin, Piano ance of Variations). 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Smith, Operations Administrator Deccan, Bijapur; circa 1665. Richard A. Mead, Head, Development Office Courtesy of Asia House Gallery Stewart J. Warkow, House Manager of The Asia Society. Roger Villeneuve, Associate House Manager Ioana Satescu, Booking Manager Gilda Barlas Weissberger, Associate Booking Manager Nathan Posnick, Box Office Treasurer © 1974 by Publishers Enterprises Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part of any Judith Arnold, Head, Programming Office contents herein is prohibited without written per- Gottlieb, Publicity mission. Subscription rates for each theatre: U.S.A. Richard Head, Office and possessions-$ 15.00 per year; Canada-$18.00; Wilson R. Utter, Building Superintendent Europe and elsewhere-$20.00. This magazine printed in the U.S.A. Hess, Segall, Popkin, Guterman, Pelz & Steiner, Counsel UJWJWfflX-Ji VIBHISHANA JOINS RAMA'S MONKEY AND BEAR ARM^ Punjab Hills, Guler; circa 1725-1731 Courtesy of Mr. George P. Bickforc RAMAYANA By JANAKI PATRIK In recent years American audi- beginning of the Christian era—con- and brother Lakshman. ences have had many chances to be- tinue to serve as a major source of come familiar with a great Indian inspiration to eastern artists? Why One day Sita sees an enthralling epic, the Ramayana. Kathakali class- does the common man in India and golden deer, and she asks Rama to ical dance dramas from Kerala, other eastern countries still love catch it for her. He follows the deer Bharata Natyam classical dances characters from the Ramayana with deep into the forest, and when the deer from Madras, court dances from deep personal devotion? And why calls out for Lakshman in Rama's Bali, Indian classical singing and the does the Ramayana fascinate a voice, Lakshman also joins the chase. Indonesian shadow puppet theatre growing number of westerners? Left alone, Sita gives food to a are but a few of the eastern art Outlining the major characters and wandering holy man, who then turns forms which have presented epi- action of the epic will begin to into the ten-headed demon Ravana sodes from the Ramayana to Ameri- answer these questions. and carries Sita away to his kingdom can audiences. We have even heard On the eve of his coronation, on Lanka (Ceylon). Meanwhile, the the Indonesian Ketjak—Ramayana Rama, prince of the small north- golden deer assumes its real demon monkey chant—used as background eastern kingdom Ayodhya, is depri- form, Rama and Lakshman realize music in part or the Italian film ved of his kingdom by the machina- that they have been deceived by evil, maker Fellini's V ricon. tions of his stepmother and con- and they return to their forest Why does the ana—most of demned to fourteen years of exile in hermitage to find Sita gone. Rama which appears t work of a the forest. He departs with two and Lakshman travel far south, 4 single poet living prior to the faithful companions, his wife Sita enlisting the aid of a monkey king, his Carnegie Hall Saturday Evening, January 18, 1975, at 8:00 1974-1975 SEASON V—/ NEW YORK The Carnegie Hall Corporation presents the NINETY-FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 Boston Symphony Orchestra SEIJI OZAWA, Music Director COLIN DAVIS, Principal Guest Conductor COLIN DAVIS Conductor JANET BAKER Contralto RICHARD CASSILLY Tenor MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 Allegro moderato Andante Minuet Finale: allegro con spirito INTERMISSION MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the Earth] for Tenor, Contralto and Orchestra Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The drinking song of earth's sorrow) Der Einsame im Herbst (The lonely one in autumn) Von der Jugend (Of youth) Von der Schonheit (Of beauty) Der Trunkene im Fruhling (The drunken one in springtime) Der Abschied (The farewell) JANET BAKER and RICHARD CASSILLY The Boston Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON and RCA RECORDS . Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 /by Five of the six movements in Das Lied von der 1 Tenor solo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Erde are settings of individual poems. For his DAS TRINKLIED VOM JAMMER DER finale Mahler combined two under an omnibus ERDE subtitle of his own devising, with an intervening Born: January 27, 1756, Salzburg; died: orchestral interlude. The original sources are as The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow December 5, 1791, Vienna follows: Nos. 1,3,4 and 5 are from poems by Li-Tai-Po (702-763); No. 2 is from a poem by See how it gleams, with golden enticement, The date on the manuscript of this Tschang-Tsi (c. 800); No. 6a is from a poem by But drink not yet, I'll sing you my song! composition is not legible, but the Mozart Mong-Kao-Yen (eighth century); No.