L. Bernstein Conducts NY. City Symphony
SMITH, LEONARD
L. Bernstein Conducts NY. City Symphony The New York City Symphony Orchestra' Promises Something Unusual in Music By LEONARD SMITH Those New York City Symphony Orchestra advertisements that...
...And it* new music director, during the five years in which he has conducted every major orchestra in the country, has entrenched himself as one of the country's top maestri...
...Another New York premiere will be the playing of David Diamond's Second Symphony, and the orchestra and Mr...
...There will be the Schubert Second and the Tschaikowski Fourth...
...Shaw's own "Chorale" will be heard on one of the 12 scheduled Monday night concerts, and the 12 "Symphonies at 6" in the series that will end on April 1, 1946...
...There will be a performance of the "Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis," by the British modern Vaughan Williams, and the first New York playing of Aaron Copland's "Danxon Cubano...
...Certainly the New York City Symphony Orchestra, though extremely young in career, has established a high record for excellence in performance...
...Scheduled, too, are Schubert's extremely rare "Octet," and Hinde-smith's "Concert for String* and Brass...
...Bernstein will bring major orchestra recognition, lone overdue, to Charles Ives, acclaimed as the "father of modern American music...
...EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AMMOUMCiO FOR VICTORY LOAN DRIVE Irving Lesser, General Chairman of the Greater New York Area for the War Activities Committee of th* Motion Picture Industry, today announced the appointment of his Executive Committee for the Victory Loan Dnv...
...Piston's "Concerto for Orchestra," and Chaves* great Mexican composition, "Simfonia India...
...Copland's "Quiet City" is also abated for a hearing...
...Only one world premiere is scheduled, tentatively, and there will be several other "firsts," hut these, for the most part, will be firsts in New York, or in America, or for a major orchestra, of compositions already proved worthy of rehearings...
...In the series of concerts starting on Monday, October 8, stress will be on the modern without being experimental...
...Hairy Brandt, Max Cohen, Oscar Doob, Wilbur England, Si Fabian, Maleolm Kingsberg, Harry Mandel, _C...
...The cafe*, restaurant* *nJ night club* will for the most w? attach Bible Week mee««*'2 their menus during the DeriaJ ? celebrUion...
...Bernstein will do Stravinsky's inspired "Symphony of Psalms," a work rarely heard in New York, and which calls Tor two pianos and a chorus and omits violins...
...There will be an abundance of works for Chorus and Orchestra, because Mr...
...He will conduct the Shostakovich First Symphony...
...Carl Erbe, Public Relations Counsel for the Allied Food and Entertainment Industries of New York, viii serve as Honorary Vice-Chairman in his industry, in connection with plans for the commemoration of the 1945 Bible Week...
...City Symphony The New York City Symphony Orchestra' Promises Something Unusual in Music By LEONARD SMITH Those New York City Symphony Orchestra advertisements that promise "exciting music, old and new, superbly performed under a stimulating young conductor," give an accurate picture of what I .enimril Bernstein is planning as the new music director of the orchestra...
...A meeting of this Executive Committee is expected to be called in the next few .days, according to Mr...
...Bernstein also plans to play, and conduct from the piano, Ravel's "Concerto" and Bach's "Fifth Brandenberg Concerto.' Truly, it all adds up to "exciting music, old and new...
...Bernstein launched his brilliant career as a conductor at the Berkshire Festival Ave years ago...
...Mozart's "Prague Symphony," and the rarely performed third (sirenea) of Debussys Nocturnes...
...the "Faust Symphony" of Liszt ami the Brahms Second Symphony...
...It reads: "At prices within the reach of all...
...Without attempting to appraise them by the order of their listing, or to give the complete list of numbers to be played, here are some of the "exciting" compositions the young maestro-composer is preparing to offer: Randall Thompson's Second Symphony, with which Mr...
...C. Moakowitz, 8am Rmxler, Fred Schwartz and William White...
...It is now possible to subscribe to 12 Monday evening concerts at 20 percent below the box-office pricey for the individual tickets, while single tickets for the very popular "Symphonies at 6" are priced from 90 cents to 1.80...
...Oct 15-21...
...Bernstein feels that such compositions deserve wider hearing, especially in view of the fact that the New York City Center of Music and Drama, home of the orchestra, has access to Robert Shaw's excellent Chorus...
...Ives' "Lincoln the Great Commoner," a chorus and orchestra selection, will be included...
...CARL ERBE HONORARY VICE-CHAIRMAN FOR CAft INDUSTRY Cafes, restaurant* and night clubs will cooperate in the ob-serv nice of National Bible Week this year, with the Laymen's National Committee, sponsors of the event...
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...It will consist of Messrs...
...There is another sentence in those aforementioned advertisements about the New York City Symphony Orchestra...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 41
