Fritz Reiner - Performance Diary 1956 - 1960

    
FRITZ REINER
Concert Diary 1957 - 1959


 
This diary is very much work in progress, and aims to detail all of Fritz Reiner’s concert and opera performances through his career.
So far it includes the concerts given by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during the 1957 – 1959 season

Sources:

Pages from the Chicago Tribune which can be accessed using www.newspapers.com

1956

5 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Mendelssohn: Overture, The Hebrides
Mozart: Symphony No. 32
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Borowski: The Mirror
Tchaikovsky: 1812, Overture

6 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Mendelssohn: Overture, The Hebrides
Mozart: Symphony No. 32
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Borowski: The Mirror
Tchaikovsky: 1812, Overture

10 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

12 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein
Beethoven: Overture, The Creatures of Prometheus
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Suite
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Grieg: Piano Concerto

13 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein
Beethoven: Overture, The Creatures of Prometheus
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Suite
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Grieg: Piano Concerto

14 January 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rubinstein
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnole
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Polka and Russian Dance from The Age of Gold
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

23 February 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Nabucco, Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

24 February 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Nabucco, Overture
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

28 February 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Schumann: Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring’

1 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jascha Heifetz
Respighi: Suite, The Birds
Milhaud: Symphony No. 7
Brahms: Violin Concerto

2 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jascha Heifetz
Respighi: Suite, The Birds
Milhaud: Symphony No. 7
Brahms: Violin Concerto

8 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Victoria de los Angeles
Heiden: Euphorion
Beethoven: Porgi amor & Dove Sono from Le nozze di Figaro
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts
Turina: Canto a Sevilla
Albeniz: El Puerto and Triana from Iberia (orch. Arbos)

9 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Victoria de los Angeles
Heiden: Euphorion
Beethoven: Porgi amor & Dove Sono from Le nozze di Figaro
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts
Turina: Canto a Sevilla
Albeniz: El Puerto and Triana from Iberia (orch. Arbos)

13 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andres Segovia
Verdi: Nabucco, Overture
Respighi: The Birds, Suite
Ponce: Guitar Concerto, Concerto of the South
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andres Segovia
Richard Strauss:  Suite from Der Burger als Edelmann
Ponce: Guitar Concerto, Concerto of the South
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’

16 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andres Segovia
Richard Strauss:  Suite from Der Burger als Edelmann
Ponce: Guitar Concerto, Concerto of the South
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, ‘Prague’

22 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Gregor Piatigorsky
Von Einem: Capriccio
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

23 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Gregor Piatigorsky
Von Einem: Capriccio
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

27 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wilhelm Backhaus
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus,  
Richard Strauss:  Suite from Der Burger als Edelmann
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

29 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Northwestern University Choral Union
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

30 March 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Northwestern University Choral Union
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

2 April 1956
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Nabucco, Overture
Richard Strauss:  Suite from Der Burger als Edelmann
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

5 April 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ray Still, Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Philip Farkas
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Wind Instruments
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

6 April 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ray Still, Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Philip Farkas
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Wind Instruments
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

12 April 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Inge Borkh, Frances Yeend, Martha Lipton, Paul Schöffler, Julius Patzak, Chorus from the Lyric Opera Chicago
Richard Strauss:  Der Burger als Edelmann, Overture
Richard Strauss: Elektra, concert performance

13 April 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Inge Borkh, Frances Yeend, Martha Lipton, Paul Schöffler, Julius Patzak, Chorus from the Lyric Opera Chicago
Richard Strauss:  Der Burger als Edelmann, Overture
Richard Strauss: Elektra, concert performance

4 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss:  Symphonia Domestica
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

5 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss:  Symphonia Domestica
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

6 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Francis Akos
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’

9 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’

11 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Magda Laszlo
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Bach: Cantata No. 210, ‘Wedding’ (excerpts)
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Richard Strauss: Lieder (Freundliche Vision, Morgen, Zeuignung)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien

12 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Magda Laszlo
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Bach: Cantata No. 210, ‘Wedding’ (excerpts)
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Richard Strauss: Lieder (Freundliche Vision, Morgen, Zeuignung)
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien

15 October 1956
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’

18 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berl Senofsky
Turner: Encounter
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

19 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berl Senofsky
Turner: Encounter
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

23 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica

25 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Debussy: Iberia
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

26 October 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Debussy: Iberia
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

1 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Inge Borkh, Paul Schöffler
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture
Wagner: Dich teure Halle from Tannhäuser
Wagner: Sachs Monolog from Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Senta’s Ballad from The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Duet from Act 2 of The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie

2 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Inge Borkh, Paul Schöffler
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Overture
Wagner: Dich teure Halle from Tannhäuser
Wagner: Sachs Monolog from Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Senta’s Ballad from The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: Duet from Act 2 of The Flying Dutchman
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie

8 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

9 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’

10 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Sharrow, Joseph Vito
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, ‘Haffner’
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Ravel: Mother Goose, Suite
Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for harp and orchestra
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

13 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Sharrow
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Octet for Strings
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto
Ravel: Mother Goose, Suite
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

15 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

16 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

22 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Debussy: Iberia from Images
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture

23 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Debussy: Iberia from Images
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Barber: Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture

27 November 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Weber: Abu Hassan, Overture
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2
Mozart: Posthorn Serenade

29 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Weber; Wie nahte mir die Schlummer from Der Freischütz
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Octet for Strings
Wolf: Five Lieder (Sung in Spring, In the Early Morning, Sleeping Christchild, Anacreon’s Grave, Elfin Song)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

30 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Weber; Wie nahte mir die Schlummer from Der Freischütz
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Octet for Strings
Wolf: Five Lieder (Sung in Spring, In the Early Morning, Sleeping Christchild, Anacreon’s Grave, Elfin Song)
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’

3 December 1956
Pabst Theater, Milwaukee
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Debussy: Iberia
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

6 December 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Burleske for piano and orchestra
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

7 December 1956
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Burleske for piano and orchestra
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

11 December 1956
Chicago, Civic Opera Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Debussy: Iberia
Ravel: Pavane pur une infante défunte
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Goldmark: Violin Concerto

13 December 1956
Chicago, Civic Opera Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Arnold: Symphony No. 2
Goldmark: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

14 December 1956
Chicago, Civic Opera Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Arnold: Symphony No. 2
Goldmark: Violin Concerto
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

1957

12 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung

14 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler

15 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Maler

18 February 1957
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Egmont, Overture
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Infanta
Debussy: Iberia

21 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Ganz: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy, ‘Laughter….Yet Love
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)
Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9

22 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Ganz: Overture to an Unwritten Comedy, ‘Laughter….Yet Love
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)
Bartók: Divertimento for String Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9

26 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Hanson: Elegy to the Memory of Serge Koussevitzky
Haydn: Symphony No. 103
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)

28 February 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
John Welcher, Janos Starker
Hanson: Elegy to the Memory of Serge Koussevitzky
Haydn: Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’
Brahms: Double Concerto

7 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Myra Hess, Dorothy Linden Krieg
Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

8 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Myra Hess, Dorothy Linden Krieg
Handel: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

9 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Haydn: Symphony No. 103, ‘Drum Roll’
Weber: Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden
Tchaikovsky: Marche Miniature from Suite No. 1
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Infanta
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

12 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
John Welcher, Janos Starker
Mozart: Overture to the Magic Flute
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Brahms: Double Concerto

14 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Berlioz: Overture, Beatrice and Benedict
Debussy: Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

15 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Berlioz: Overture, Beatrice and Benedict
Debussy: Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

18 March 1957
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Berlioz: Overture, Beatrice and Benedict
Bartok: Divertimento for Strings
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden
Tchaikovsky: Marche Miniature from Suite No. 1

21 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Weber: Overture, Der Freischütz
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Mozart: Divertimento No. 11, K. 231
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

22 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Weber: Overture, Der Freischütz
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Mozart: Divertimento No. 11, K. 231
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

23 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Victor Altay
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, Suite
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Bartok: Divertimento for Strings
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 12, 13, 19 & 21

26 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Weber: Overture, Der Freischütz
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Johann Strauss II: Emperor Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Blue Danube, Waltz
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky March
Josef Strauss: Village Swallows

28 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Goldmark: In Springtime, Overture
Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

29 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Goldmark: In Springtime, Overture
Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

30 March 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Oscar Shumsky, Alec Templeton
Berlioz: Overture, Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Schumann: Piano Concerto

1 April 1957
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Programme included
Goldmark: Violin Concerto

4 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Overture to The Sicilian Vespers
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’

5 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Overture to The Sicilian Vespers
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathetique’

6 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Johann Strauss II: Overture to The Gypsy Baron
Johann Strauss II: Morning Papers
Johann Strauss II: Annen Polka
Johann Strauss II: Emperor Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Pizzicato Polka
Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube Waltz
Josef Strauss: Village Swallows
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky Polka
Johann Strauss I: Mein Lebenslauf Waltz
Johann Strauss I: Radetzky March

9 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Verdi: Overture to The Sicilian Vespers
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Debussy: Nuages et Fêtes from Nocturnes
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Richard Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

11 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riegger: Dance Rhythms
Stravinsky: Suite from Petrushka
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 April 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riegger: Dance Rhythms
Stravinsky: Suite from Petrushka
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

17 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in  E flat major (orch. Stock)
Debussy: La mer
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Finlandia

18 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (orch. Stock)
Debussy: La mer
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Finlandia

22 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (orch. Stock)
Berlioz: Queen Mab Scherzo from Romeo and Juliet
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Finlandia

24 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

25 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

31 October 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
Eppert: Speed, Third Movement from Symphony of the City
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

1 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
Eppert: Speed, Third Movement from Symphony of the City
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

2 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

4 November 1957
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Programme not yet found

6 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

7 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

12 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Firkusny
Bach: Six Part Recercar from The Musical Offering (arr. Webern)
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, ‘London’
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1
Casella: Suite No. 1 from La donna serpente
Richard Strauss:  Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

14 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Entremont
Bach: Six Part Recercar from The Musical Offering (arr. Webern)
Tcherepnin: Divertimento
Franck: Symphonic Variations
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Albeniz: Navarra from Iberia, piano suite (orch. Arbos)

15 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Philippe Entremont
Bach: Six Part Recercar from The Musical Offering (arr. Webern)
Tcherepnin: Divertimento
Franck: Symphonic Variations
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Albeniz: Navarra from Iberia, piano suite (orch. Arbos)

21 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Fuchs
Schumann: Manfred, Overture
Hindemith: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

22 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Fuchs
Schumann: Manfred, Overture
Hindemith: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

23 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ray Still
Bach: Fugue in G minor (trans. Caillet)
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Mozart: Symphony No. 41. ‘Jupiter’
Verdi: Prelude to Act 3 of La Traviata
Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Rossini: Overture to William Tell

26 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Fuchs
Handel: Overture in D major (arr. Wullner)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

28 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Bach: Fugue in G minor (trans. Caillet)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, ‘London’

29 November 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Istomin
Bach: Fugue in G minor (trans. Caillet)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, ‘London’

5 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Hindemith: Cello Concerto
Mussorgsky: Prelude to Act 1 of Khovanshchina
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

6 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Janos Starker
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Hindemith: Cello Concerto
Mussorgsky: Prelude to Act 1 of Khovanshchina
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

10 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zino Francescatti
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

12 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zino Francescatti
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Violin Concerto

13 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zino Francescatti
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Violin Concerto

16 December 1957
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tossy Spivakovsky
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

19 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Louis Kentner
Mozart: Overture to The Impresario
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

20 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Louis Kentner
Mozart: Overture to The Impresario
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, ‘Great’

26 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Russell Oberlin, David Lloyd, Donald Gramm, Apollo Musical Club
Handel: Messiah

27 December 1957
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Russell Oberlin, David Lloyd, Donald Gramm, Apollo Musical Club
Handel: Messiah
 
1958

6 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emil Gilels
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

7 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emil Gilels
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

11 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Bach: Piano Concerto in F minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

13 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Mendelssohn: Overture, Ruy Blas
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Mozart: A Musical Joke
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss

14 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Mendelssohn: Overture, Ruy Blas
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

20 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Mozart: Symphony No. 36. ‘Linz’
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

21 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Mozart: Symphony No. 36. ‘Linz’
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

25 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

27 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Roberta Peters
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Aria, Mia Speranza Adorata, K. 416
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Richard Strauss: Four Songs, ‘Wiegenlied’, ‘Sauesle, Liebe Myrte’, “Standchen”, “Amor”
Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

28 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Roberta Peters
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Aria, Mia Speranza Adorata, K. 416
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Richard Strauss: Four Songs, ‘Wiegenlied’, ‘Sauesle, Liebe Myrte’, “Standchen”, “Amor”
Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

2 March 1958
Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

3 March 1958
Toledo, Toledo Art Museum
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

4 March 1958
Columbus OH, Veteran’s Memorial Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

7 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

8 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

10 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

11 March 1958
New York, Carnegie Hall
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

20 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

21 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

22 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tossy Spivakovsky
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

25 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

27 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zadel Skolovsky
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

28 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zadel Skolovsky
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

3 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

4 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

8 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

10 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

11 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

14 April 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

17 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Firkusny
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

18 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Firkusny
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

19 April 1958
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

24 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Mysterious Mountain
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

25 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Mysterious Mountain
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

1 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

3 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Julian Olevsky
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

5 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wilma Spence, Mildred Miller
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Wagner: Elsa’s Dream from Lohengrin
Wagner: Dich, teure Halle from Tannhäuser
Bartók: Suite No. 1 for Orchestra
Richard Strauss:  Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier

6 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Johann Strauss II: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss II: Morgenblätter, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Annen Polka
Johann Strauss: Emperor Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Pizzicato Polka
Johann Strauss II: Blue Danube Waltz
Josef Strauss: Dorfschwalbe, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Im Krapfenwald'l Polka
Josef Strauss: Lebenslauf, Waltz
Johann Strauss I: Radetsky March

6 September 1958
Luzern, Kunsthaus
Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester
Rudolf Serkin
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

6 October 1958
Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve
Bartók: Suite No. 1

8 October 1958
Cleveland, Music Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

9 October 1958
Syracuse NY, Loew’s State Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

10 October 1958
Rochester, Auditorium Theatre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

12 October 1958
Burlington, Memorial Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

14 October 1958
Boston, Symphony Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

15 October 1958
New York, Carnegie Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 3

16 October 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

18 October 1958
New Brunswick, Rutgers Gymnasium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

19 October 1958
Washington DC, Constitution Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Stravinsky, The Fairy’s Kiss
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

23 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Regina Resnik, Jon Vickers, Jerome Hines, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

24 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Regina Resnik, Jon Vickers, Jerome Hines, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

28 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Alla Marcia from Antar
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

30 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Silken Ladder
Oldberg: Paolo e Francesca, Dramatic Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

31 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Silken Ladder
Oldberg: Paolo e Francesca, Dramatic Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

3 November 1958
Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Tipo
J.C. Bach: Sinfonia for Double Orchestra in E flat major
Bartók: Two Roumanian Dances (arr. Weiner)
Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

7 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Tipo
J.C. Bach: Sinfonia for Double Orchestra in E flat major
Bartók: Two Roumanian Dances (arr. Weiner)
Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

8 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mihaly Virizlay
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes

14 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mihaly Virizlay
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes

20 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ania Dorfmann
Rossini: Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Piston: Symphony No. 6

21 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ania Dorfmann
Rossini: Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Piston: Symphony No. 6

25 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

27 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

28 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

1 December 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

4 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Lisa della Casa
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

5 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Lisa della Casa
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

9 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Bartok: Hungarian Sketches
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

11 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Borodin: Polovtsian March from Prince Igor

12 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Borodin: Polovtsian March from Prince Igor

15 December 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Martzy
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Bartok: Hungarian Sketches
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes

18 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

26 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis*
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Honegger: Christmas Cantata*

27 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis*
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Honegger: Christmas Cantata*

8 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Stravinsky: Divertimento from “The Fairy’s Kiss’
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

16 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Stravinsky: Divertimento from “The Fairy’s Kiss’
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

18 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Bartók: Suite No. 1, Op. 3

19 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Bartók: Suite No. 1, Op. 3

24 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Kabalevsky: Overture, Colas Breugnon
Liszt: Totentanz
Bartók: Suite for Orchestra No. 1

26 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walter Hendl*
Henryk Szeryng
Mussorgsky: A Night on a Bare Mountain
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole*

27 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walter Hendl*
Henryk Szeryng
Mussorgsky: A Night on a Bare Mountain
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole*

5 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ravel: La valse
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata

6 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ravel: La valse
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata

10 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Tchaikovsky: Marche Miniature No. 1 from Suite No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

12 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘The Clock’
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

éé13 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘The Clock’
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

19 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture, Le Carnaval Romain
Debussy: Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

20 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture, Le Carnaval Romain
Debussy: Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

23 March 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

26 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Milton Preves
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

27 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Milton Preves
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

2 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

3 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

4 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walfrid Kujala, Adolf Herseth, Clark Brody, Edward Druzinsky, Victor Aitay
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in A minor
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
McBride: Swing Stuff for clarinet
Debussy: Two Dances for Harp
Sibelius: Violin Concerto

6 April 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

9 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Janigro
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

10 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Janigro
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

14 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

16 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George London
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Die Frist ist um…Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund from Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Prelude Act 3, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale, Die Meistersinger
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Siegfried’s Death Music and Rhine Joruney from Götterdämmerung

17 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George London
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Die Frist ist um and Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund from Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Prelude Act 3, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale, Die Meistersinger
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Siegfried’s Death Music and Rhine Joruney from Götterdämmerung

23 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Stader, Russell Oberlin, John McCollum, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Children’s Choir of the First Unitarian Church
Handel: Judas Maccabeus

24 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Stader, Russell Oberlin, John McCollum, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Children’s Choir of the First Unitarian Church
Handel: Judas Maccabeus

30 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

1 May 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette

16 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette

19 October 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Berlioz: Three Excerpts from Romeo and Juliette
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

22 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

23 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

27 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

29 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra
Brahms: Double Concerto
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

30 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra
Brahms: Double Concerto
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

5 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maureen Forrester, Richard Lewis
Chou Wen Chung: Landscapes
Bloch: Cortege Funebre
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

6 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maureen Forrester, Richard Lewis
Chou Wen Chung: Landscapes
Bloch: Cortege Funebre
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

10 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Double Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Stravinsky: Choral Variations on Bach’s Von Himmel hoch
Rorem: Design for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

13 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Stravinsky: Choral Variations on Bach’s Von Himmel hoch
Rorem: Design for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

26 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brenda Forbes Shepard
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Mendelssohn: Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

27 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brenda Forbes Shepard
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Mendelssohn: Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Thomson)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

4 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Virgil Thomson)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

8 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Pennario
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Virgil Thomson)
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

10 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Pennario
Stravinsky: Agon
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

14 December 1959
Toledo, Museum of Art
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 December 1959
Columbus OH, Veterans’ Memorial Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Kodaly: Peacock Variations

17 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Edward Druzinsky
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, excerpts
Richard Strauss:  Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

18 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Edward Druzinsky
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, excerpts
Richard Strauss:  Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser














    























FRITZ REINER
Concert Diary 1958 - 1959


 
This diary is very much work in progress, and aims to detail all of Fritz Reiner’s concert and opera performances through his career.
So far it includes the concerts given by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during the 1958 – 1959 season

Sources:

Pages from the Chicago Tribune which can be accessed using www.newspapers.com

 
 
 
1958

6 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emil Gilels
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

7 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Emil Gilels
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

11 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Bach: Piano Concerto in F minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

13 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Mendelssohn: Overture, Ruy Blas
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Mozart: A Musical Joke
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss

14 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Mendelssohn: Overture, Ruy Blas
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

20 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Mozart: Symphony No. 36. ‘Linz’
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

21 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Mozart: Symphony No. 36. ‘Linz’
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

25 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Christa Ludwig, Richard Lewis
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

27 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Roberta Peters
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Aria, Mia Speranza Adorata, K. 416
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Richard Strauss: Four Songs, ‘Wiegenlied’, ‘Sauesle, Liebe Myrte’, “Standchen”, “Amor”
Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

28 February 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Roberta Peters
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Aria, Mia Speranza Adorata, K. 416
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Richard Strauss: Four Songs, ‘Wiegenlied’, ‘Sauesle, Liebe Myrte’, “Standchen”, “Amor”
Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

2 March 1958
Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

3 March 1958
Toledo, Toledo Art Museum
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

4 March 1958
Columbus OH, Veteran’s Memorial Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, “Linz”
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

7 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

8 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

10 March 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

11 March 1958
New York, Carnegie Hall
Philadelphia Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
Mozart: Symphony No. 36, ‘Linz’
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

20 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

21 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

22 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tossy Spivakovsky
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

25 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda, Janos Starker
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

27 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zadel Skolovsky
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

28 March 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Zadel Skolovsky
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

3 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

4 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

8 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonie Rysanek, Regina Resnik, David Lloyd, Giorgio Tozzi, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Verdi: Messa da Requiem

10 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

11 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Vitya Vronsky, Victor Babin
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

14 April 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Breve
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)
Wagner: Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

17 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Firkusny
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)

18 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Firkusny
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Dvořák: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

19 April 1958
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Auber: Overture to Masaniello
Granados: Intermezzo from Goyescas
Falla: Three Dances from The Three Cornered Hat
Albeniz: Iberia, excerpts (orch. Arbos)
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi

24 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Mysterious Mountain
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

25 April 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Mysterious Mountain
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

1 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Act 3 Prelude, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale to Act 3 from Die Meistersinger

3 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Julian Olevsky
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

5 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wilma Spence, Mildred Miller
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Wagner: Elsa’s Dream from Lohengrin
Wagner: Dich, teure Halle from Tannhäuser
Bartók: Suite No. 1 for Orchestra
Richard Strauss:  Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier

6 July 1958
Ravinia Park, Pavilion
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Johann Strauss II: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss II: Morgenblätter, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Annen Polka
Johann Strauss: Emperor Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Pizzicato Polka
Johann Strauss II: Blue Danube Waltz
Josef Strauss: Dorfschwalbe, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Im Krapfenwald'l Polka
Josef Strauss: Lebenslauf, Waltz
Johann Strauss I: Radetsky March

6 September 1958
Luzern, Kunsthaus
Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester
Rudolf Serkin
Wagner: Overture to Rienzi
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

6 October 1958
Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve
Bartók: Suite No. 1

8 October 1958
Cleveland, Music Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

9 October 1958
Syracuse NY, Loew’s State Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

10 October 1958
Rochester, Auditorium Theatre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

12 October 1958
Burlington, Memorial Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

14 October 1958
Boston, Symphony Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

15 October 1958
New York, Carnegie Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Le Corsaire, Overture
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 3

16 October 1958
Philadelphia, Academy of Music
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

18 October 1958
New Brunswick, Rutgers Gymnasium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Bartók: Suite No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

19 October 1958
Washington DC, Constitution Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore No. 3, Overture
Stravinsky, The Fairy’s Kiss
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Wagner: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

23 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Regina Resnik, Jon Vickers, Jerome Hines, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

24 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Regina Resnik, Jon Vickers, Jerome Hines, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’

28 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Alla Marcia from Antar
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

30 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Silken Ladder
Oldberg: Paolo e Francesca, Dramatic Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

31 October 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Rossini: Overture to The Silken Ladder
Oldberg: Paolo e Francesca, Dramatic Overture
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

3 November 1958
Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

6 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Tipo
J.C. Bach: Sinfonia for Double Orchestra in E flat major
Bartók: Two Roumanian Dances (arr. Weiner)
Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

7 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Tipo
J.C. Bach: Sinfonia for Double Orchestra in E flat major
Bartók: Two Roumanian Dances (arr. Weiner)
Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

8 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

13 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mihaly Virizlay
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes

14 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mihaly Virizlay
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes

20 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ania Dorfmann
Rossini: Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Piston: Symphony No. 6

21 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Ania Dorfmann
Rossini: Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Piston: Symphony No. 6

25 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

27 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

28 November 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches
Alexei Haieff: Symphony No. 2
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

1 December 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nathan Milstein
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’
Robert Russell Bennett: Eight Etudes
Beethoven: Violin Concerto

4 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Lisa della Casa
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

5 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Lisa della Casa
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

9 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Berlioz: Overture, Le Corsaire
Bartok: Hungarian Sketches
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Falla: Interlude and Dance from La vida breve

11 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Borodin: Polovtsian March from Prince Igor

12 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Casadesus
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Borodin: Polovtsian March from Prince Igor

15 December 1958
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Johanna Martzy
Weber: Overture to Euryanthe
Bartok: Hungarian Sketches
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes

18 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

19 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

23 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

26 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis*
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Honegger: Christmas Cantata*

27 December 1958
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Margaret Hillis*
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Stravinsky: Divertimento from ‘The Fairy’s Kiss’
Honegger: Christmas Cantata*

8 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

9 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Stravinsky: Divertimento from “The Fairy’s Kiss’
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

16 January 1959
Los Angeles, Philharmonic Auditorium
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Stravinsky: Divertimento from “The Fairy’s Kiss’
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

18 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Bartók: Suite No. 1, Op. 3

19 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Bartók: Suite No. 1, Op. 3

24 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Kabalevsky: Overture, Colas Breugnon
Liszt: Totentanz
Bartók: Suite for Orchestra No. 1

26 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walter Hendl*
Henryk Szeryng
Mussorgsky: A Night on a Bare Mountain
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole*

27 February 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walter Hendl*
Henryk Szeryng
Mussorgsky: A Night on a Bare Mountain
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole*

5 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ravel: La valse
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata

6 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Ravel: La valse
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata

10 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalind Elias, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky cantata
Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer
Tchaikovsky: Marche Miniature No. 1 from Suite No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Marche slave

12 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘The Clock’
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

éé13 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 101, ‘The Clock’
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

19 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture, Le Carnaval Romain
Debussy: Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

20 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Andre Tchaikowsky
Berlioz: Overture, Le Carnaval Romain
Debussy: Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

23 March 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

26 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Milton Preves
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

27 March 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Milton Preves
Weber: Overture to Oberon
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica’

2 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

3 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

4 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Walfrid Kujala, Adolf Herseth, Clark Brody, Edward Druzinsky, Victor Aitay
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in A minor
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
McBride: Swing Stuff for clarinet
Debussy: Two Dances for Harp
Sibelius: Violin Concerto

6 April 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

9 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Janigro
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

10 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Janigro
Beethoven: Overture to Fidelio
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote

14 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Schumann: Overture to Genoveva
Weiner: Hungarian Folk Dances Suite, Op. 18
Haydn: Symphony No. 100, ‘Military’
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

16 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George London
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Die Frist ist um…Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund from Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Prelude Act 3, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale, Die Meistersinger
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Siegfried’s Death Music and Rhine Joruney from Götterdämmerung

17 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
George London
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Die Frist ist um and Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund from Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Prelude Act 3, Dance of the Apprentices and Finale, Die Meistersinger
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyrie
Wagner: Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre
Wagner: Siegfried’s Death Music and Rhine Joruney from Götterdämmerung

23 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Stader, Russell Oberlin, John McCollum, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Children’s Choir of the First Unitarian Church
Handel: Judas Maccabeus

24 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maria Stader, Russell Oberlin, John McCollum, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Children’s Choir of the First Unitarian Church
Handel: Judas Maccabeus

30 April 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

1 May 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Coriolan, Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

15 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette

16 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler, Kenneth Smith, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette

19 October 1959
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Berlioz: Three Excerpts from Romeo and Juliette
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

22 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

23 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Respighi: The Pines of Rome

27 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, Florence Kopleff, Charles Bressler
Stravinsky: Mavra
Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

29 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra
Brahms: Double Concerto
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

30 October 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Orchestra
Brahms: Double Concerto
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

5 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maureen Forrester, Richard Lewis
Chou Wen Chung: Landscapes
Bloch: Cortege Funebre
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

6 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Maureen Forrester, Richard Lewis
Chou Wen Chung: Landscapes
Bloch: Cortege Funebre
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

10 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Double Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

12 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Stravinsky: Choral Variations on Bach’s Von Himmel hoch
Rorem: Design for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

13 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Stravinsky: Choral Variations on Bach’s Von Himmel hoch
Rorem: Design for Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

26 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brenda Forbes Shepard
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Mendelssohn: Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

27 November 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brenda Forbes Shepard
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
Mendelssohn: Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

3 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Thomson)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

4 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Geza Anda
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Virgil Thomson)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

8 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Pennario
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Brahms: Eight Chorale Preludes (orch. Virgil Thomson)
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

10 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Pennario
Stravinsky: Agon
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

14 December 1959
Toledo, Museum of Art
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Brahms: Symphony No. 1

15 December 1959
Columbus OH, Veterans’ Memorial Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Kodaly: Peacock Variations

17 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Edward Druzinsky
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, excerpts
Richard Strauss:  Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

18 December 1959
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Clark Brody, Leonard Sharrow, Edward Druzinsky
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, excerpts
Richard Strauss:  Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

1960

28 January 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Fuchs
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Brahms: Violin Concerto

29 January 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Fuchs
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Brahms: Violin Concerto

4 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Berlioz: Three Orchestral Excerpys from The Damnation of Faust

5 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Berlioz: Three Orchestral Excerpys from The Damnation of Faust

9 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Byron Janis
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2
Kodály: Peacock Variations

11 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Henryk Szeryng
Debussy: La mer
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ (conducted by Walter Hendl)

12 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Henryk Szeryng
Debussy: La mer
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’

15 February 1960
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Henryk Szeryng
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinsjed’
Widniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2
Kodaly: Peacock Variations

18 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalyn Tureck
Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite

19 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalyn Tureck
Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite

23 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rosalyn Tureck
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2

25 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Richard Strauss: Interlude from Intermezzo, ‘Dreaming by the Firelight’
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1

26 February 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Serkin
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Richard Strauss: Interlude from Intermezzo, ‘Dreaming by the Firelight’
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1

10 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, ‘The Peacock’
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

11 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, ‘The Peacock’
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

12 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, ‘The Peacock’
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

13 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, ‘The Peacock’
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

17 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Rudolf Serkin
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

18 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Rudolf Serkin
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

19 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Rudolf Serkin
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

20 March 1960
New York, Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Rudolf Serkin
Stravinsky: Divertimento, The Fairy’s Kiss
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

24 March 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller, Ray Still, Leonard Sharrow
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Donato: Sinfonietta No. 2
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante
Satie: Two Gymnopedies (arr. Debussy)
Ravel: La valse

25 March 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller, Ray Still, Leonard Sharrow
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Donato: Sinfonietta No. 2
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante
Satie: Two Gymnopedies (arr. Debussy)
Ravel: La valse

28 March 1960
Milwaukee, Pabst Theater
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Pennario
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Debussy: La mer
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

31 March 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Romance for violin in F major
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Johann Strauss II: Roses from the South
Johann Strauss II: Vienna Life
Johann Strauss II: Treasure Waltz from The Gypsy Baron

1 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Romance for violin in F major
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Johann Strauss II: Roses from the South
Johann Strauss II: Vienna Life
Johann Strauss II: Treasure Waltz from The Gypsy Baron

3 April 1960
East Lansing, University Auditorium,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: La valse
Kodaly: Peacock Variations

4 April 1960
Ann Arbor, Hill Auditorium
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz: Overture, Benvenuto Cellini
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: La valse
Kodaly: Peacock Variations

7 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Van Cliburn
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

8 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Van Cliburn
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

9 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sidney Harth, Frank Miller, Ray Still, Leonard Sharrow
Suppé: Overture, The Beautiful Galatea
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Haydn: Sinfonia concertante
Johann Strauss II: Artist’s Life, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Vienna Life, Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Roses from the South, Waltz

12 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Van Cliburn
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Schumann: Piano Concerto

14 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frank Miller
Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Dohnanyi: Suite in F sharp major, Op. 19

15 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frank Miller
Wagner: Prelude and Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Dohnanyi: Suite in F sharp major, Op. 19

21 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, William Warfield, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Brahms: A German Requiem

22 April 1960
Chicago, Orchestra Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Adele Addison, William Warfield, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Brahms: A German Requiem